CITY MILK PLANTS! CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT. 35 



6, The milk plant should be modern in every way and should be 

 of good appearance from an architectural point of view. 



7. Up-to-date plants are usually constructed of bricks, concrete, 

 or hollow tile, finished on the inside with smooth cement, and on the 

 outside with stucco. 



3. Inside walls should have a smooth finish. Tile or enamel brick 

 are desirable for the bottling and pasteurizing rooms. 



9. Concrete floors are desirable in all milk plants. Tile floors in 

 the bottling rooms add to the appearance. 



10. Floors must be well drained and have proper connection with 

 the sewer. 



11. Economical arrangement of the plant is important. There 

 should be an outside loading and receiving platform. It is more 

 economical of labor and time to dump the milk into a tank on the 

 ground floor and then pump it rather than raise it by conveyers or 

 elevators. To unload the milk truck on the inside of the building is 

 an uneconomical arrangement. 



12. Where a large number of delivery wagons are to be loaded, 

 loading through 2 or more chutes direct from the storage room will 

 save time. Wagons should be loaded from an exterior platform, 

 and conveyors are more economical in the use of labor and time than 

 hand trucks. 



13. In unloading the delivery wagons a conveyer system often 

 saves time and labor. 



14. For convenience, economy, and sanitation the plant should be 

 divided into the following separate rooms: Receiving room, pas- 

 teurizing or handling room, bottling room, wash room, by-products 

 room, milk-storage room, salesroom, offices, laboratory, etc. 



15. Each room should be of ample size to accommodate the equip- 

 ment it contains, with sufficient space for the men to work and to 

 clean the equipment, but there should be no waste space. 



1G. The rooms in the plant should be so arranged as to necessitate 

 the minimum expenditure for machinery and labor, and so laid out 

 that the work can be accomplished with the fewest possible steps. 

 There should be a minimum of milk piping and pumps, for both 

 economical and sanitary reasons. 



17. Poorly arranged plants tend to increase the labor requirements. 



18. The plant should be sanitary in every way ; plenty of water and 

 steam should always be available; good ventilation and light are 

 essential. 



ADDITIONAL COPIES 



OF THIS PUBLICATION MAT BE PROCURED FROM 



THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS, 



GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



AT 



10 CENTS PER COPY 



V 



