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may be wheeled from one room to the other without 

 obstruction. Ice house and storage should be close 

 by. 



The cost of putting up and fitting an establishment 

 of this kind can hardly be closely estimated for gen- 

 eral direction, as they will change for every locality ; 

 the principal items of expense may, however, figure 

 under the following : 



Steam boiler ... $300 00 



Babcock fat tester 15 00 



Milk heater 45 00 



Milk cooler 45 00 



Cream separator. . . . , 225 00 



Two bottle cleaning machines ' 28 00 



Filling apparatus 40 00 



Sterilizer . 300 00 



Bacteria incubator . :.!(> 00 



Table and platform -scales . ... 50 00 



Bottles and rubber caps . . . . 250 00 



Thermometer and other glass instruments. 24 00 



Mixing vats . ... 80 00 



Smaller utsenils 35 00 



Packing cases, labels, printing, advertising . 100 00 



Steam and water pipe brass, work 125 00 



There is no absolute necessity for a steam engine, 

 because the cream separator, which is the only ma- 

 chine used requiring power, can be bought with steam 

 turbine, an arrangement which, for our purposes, 

 must be recommended. 



The price which the dairyman is to receive for nor- 

 mal milk will be regulated, in some degree, by the 



