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CHAPTER XXVII 



THE FARM MILK HOUSE 



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Any farmer with ten or more cows used for purposes of 

 cream or milk production can ill afford to be without some clean 

 and convenient place in which to separate the milk and keep the 

 cream. The separator must be housed, preferably in a place 

 free from dust and away from odors. The cream-cooling tank 

 which occasionally is found in the yard by the pump, protected 

 from sun and dust by old boards or a door, would last longer 

 and preserve the cream better if inside a building. To keep the 

 cream cool in summer and to prevent it from freezing in winter 

 are both important. If we add to these concrete advantages the 

 further fact that far more pleasure and satisfaction can be got 

 from work when performed in a more definite and sanitary way, 

 we have ample reason to encourage the construction of modest 

 dairy buildings. The cost will vary with the requirements, from 

 about seventy-five dollars up, but the interest on the investment 

 may be many times made during the year through saving milk 

 or cream which otherwise would be damaged or even spoiled. 



REQUIREMENTS 



Plan " A " for Ten to Twenty Cows. — Where a separator is 

 turned by hand, milk fed out while fresh and cream sold from 

 two to three times a week, a building need be only 10 by 10 feet 

 in size and provided inside with a separator on a deep founda- 

 tion with a well insulated tank for holding the cream in cold 

 water and a small table on which to work. If it is desired with 

 this to have a small gasoline engine the building should be made 

 about two feet longer, or 10 by 12 feet, as shown in plan " A." 

 It is preferable that the engine be kept in an adjoining room. 



The cost of the material for this house will be approximately 

 $90 and the labor, if done by a carpenter, about $50, or a total 

 of about $140. 



Plan " B " for Fifteen to Thirty Cows. — Whenever twenty 



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