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vided with wire screens and movable shutters, by which 

 dust and flies can be guarded against, and the sunlight 

 tempered. All animal and vegetable odors should be far 

 removed, for, as every one knows, milk is very sensitive 

 to the slightest taint or olfensiveness in the atmosphere. 



Nothing less sweet than clover fields or orchards should 

 be near, and the current of the spring or brook should 

 be swift enough to prevent any harm from standing water. 

 At one end of the building should be plenty of space for 

 a table, a churn, and all the utensils and appliances for 

 milk and for butter-making. It would be best if this 

 were separated from the main room by a partition. 



In places where the advantage of water is lacking, the 

 next best arrangement for milk is a clean, dry, well- 

 ventilated cellar, with screened windows, whitewashed 

 walls, a brick, stone, or cement floor, and easy steps lead- 

 ing clown to it. A dumb-waiter might easily be intro- 

 duced, and prove a great saving of time and muscle in 

 carrying the milk and the pails, pans, et cetera, up 

 and down. Of course a milk-cellar should be used for 

 its legitimate purpose alone, fruits, vegetables, and all 

 other cellar stores being kept in a strictly separate room. 



Next to a suitable dairy-room, the first step in the 

 direction of good butter-making is to give the cows good 

 care. No one has any moral right, and ought not to 

 have any legal right, to possess cows or any other living 

 creatures, unless he can treat them well. We need no 

 wider insight into the meanness of a man's real nature, 

 than to see his cows and horses and dogs wince at his 

 approach ! 



A good farmer is good to his cows ; and well-treatod 

 cows yield far richer and more abundant milk than the 

 poor, half-fed, worried animals, to whom milking-time is 

 more or less of a terror. 



Cows should have in summer abundant pasturage, pure 

 water, and plenty of shade, with no nagging from dogs 



