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BULLETIN" 849, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Measurements from 5 modern, well-arranged plants that were built 

 after careful study as to size of rooms are shown in Table 5. These 

 plants were built in recent years and are giving satisfaction in regard 

 to arrangement of rooms and machinery. The figures given illus- 

 trate the size of rooms that give satisfaction in modern plants. 



It is important that the receiving room be of ample size. A small 

 receiving room soon, becomes crowded and " cluttered up " and is 

 difficult to keep clean and attractive. There should be room enough 

 to hold conveniently one or more truck loads of milk in cans and to 



Fig. 9. — Bottle-washing room. Note use of gravity conveyers. 



have plenty of room to handle the milk without crowding. It often 

 happens that several loads of milk may arrive within a short space 



Table 5. — Floor space in various rooms of 5 well-arranged! plants of 



various sizes. 



Quantity 



of 



bottled 



milk 



handled 



daily. 



Receiving 

 room. 



Bottle- 

 washing 

 room. . 



Pas- 

 teurizing 

 room. 



Bottling 

 room. 



Total 

 area for 

 receiving, 

 washing, 

 pasteuriz- 

 ing, and 

 bottling 

 rooms. 



Milk- 

 storage 

 room. 



Clean- 

 bottle 

 storage 

 room. 



' Gallons. 

 1,000 

 1,500 

 3,000 

 4,000 

 6,000 



Sq.ft. 

 400 



Sq.ft. 



600 



700 



1,050 



1,886 



1,908 



Sq.ft. 

 500 

 550 

 1,300 

 540 

 720 



Sq.ft. 

 300 

 375 

 1,200 

 700 

 720 



Sq.ft. 

 1,800 

 1,625 

 4,450 

 3,586 

 4,548 



Sq.ft. 



450 



550 



1,200 



1,426 



1,110 



Sq.ft. 

 400 



900 



460 



1,200 



750 

 540 

 720 



of time and unless there are storage tanks it will have to remain in 

 the cans in the receiving room until it can be dumped. 



