Arrangement of Cheese Factories 333 
takes in arrangement are less liable to be made. 
The governing principle should be that the milk, in 
its transformation from milk to cheese, should pass 
in one direction from the weighing can toward the 
curing room. The outlines given, Figs. 60 and 
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Fig. 61. Plan of cheese factory improperly arranged. 
61, show factories properly and improperly arranged. 
In Fig. 60, the milk taken in at’ A passes into the 
vats at B, from thence to the curd ‘sink C, and the 
press D, and finally to the curing room E, con- 
stantly in one direction and with a minimum of hand 
labor. Whereas, in Fig. 61, following the same let- 
ters, the milk or curd travels from one end of the 
room to the other and back again. While cheese 
factories, as a rule, are used only during the warm 
months of the year, and perhaps for that reason 
