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extends through the wall into an open lot, and worked by horse 

 power. 



Adjacent, but lower down the hill, is a well, and an open shed, 

 capable of being closed in winter, where the pails, churns, and 

 milk-]'ans are cleansed with hot water, by means of a boiler, set in 

 an arch ; the whole arrangement is superior as a model house for 

 a dairy, and from the appearance, the method of conducting the 

 dairy operations, was as neat and perfect, as the excellency of the 

 arrangements was complete. 



Capt. Robinson-s butter is sought for at his dairy house, and 

 taken for many of the packet sliips sailing from New-York. 



After your committee had inspected the dairy house, they were 

 invited to see the barn and stables where the cows are kept, and 

 sheltered during the winter. Capt. Robinson has adopted a plan 

 of stabling for his milch cows, which your committee would re- 

 spectfully recommend to dairy keepers, as a pattern ; first, he raises 

 a platform, not unlike a poop deck to a ship, from 6 to 12 inches 

 high, on the stable floor, running the whole length of the man- 

 ger, which is of a sufficient width, to enable the animal, when fas- 

 tened, to stand upon it and feed with ease, as well as lie down and 

 rest, but the width is so much contracted, that the urine and ex- 

 crement of the animal fall over on to the floor below, leaving the 

 surface of the platform clean and dry, which is a very desirable state 

 of things for the milker, as well as to ensure cleanliness in the 

 milk. 



On the grounds west of the mansion house, a meadow field is 

 located; the water of all the region about his farm, is more or 

 less clouded with the lime and clay ; to remedy this inconveni- 

 ence, Capt. Robinson first sunk a cellar 12 feet deep, amidst 

 springs of water; this cellar was 10 feet wide, and about 12 to 

 15 feet in length ; the bottom was laid with hydraulic cement and 

 flat stone, the walls were raised with mason work laid in cement. 

 This forms a large reservoir or cistern ; by adjustment, so much 

 of the walls are left open as to permit a flow of water freely into 

 this cistern, which fills itself to the brim ; over this is erected a 

 tight house, to exclude animals, and, in a great degree, the light 



