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Undue delays may cause the condensery serious inconvenience and 

 loss, and may result in the cancelling of important orders. 



Other Conditions. — The removal of the sewage of the factory 

 is important. It may be possible for the factory to connect with 

 the town or city sewer, in which case the problem is easily solved. 

 Where this is not possible, a site along a creek, river, pond or lake 

 may offer effective means to take care of the condensery sewage. 

 Where no such natural depository is available, the elevation of the 

 site should be sufficient to carry off the sewage far enough from 

 the factory to insure the plant against foul odors and unsanitary 

 conditions. In the absence of all of these avenues for the disposal 

 of the sewage, a properly laid-out system of septic tanks with effi- 

 cient filter beds may serve the purpose. 



Where possible, it is advisable to take advantage of hillsides, 

 affording natural means to arrange and operate the factory on the 

 gravity plan. , 



BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT 



Material of Construction. — Since the establishment of a milk 

 condensing factory involves the investment of considerable capital, 

 those willing to invest must have faith in the permanency of the 

 business. For a permanent business, a building substantially con- 

 structed is the most economical. Most of the factories belonging 

 to the most reputable concerns are built very substantially. How- 

 ever, there are in this country condensing factories in the construc- 

 tion of which cheapness was the governing factor. Many of these 

 cheap factories are the work of unscrupulous promoters, whose 

 ambition it is to convince men of wealth or farmnig communities 

 of the "enormous" profits possible in the manufacture of condensed 

 milk, and to induce them to invest large sums of money in the con- 

 densed milk industry. By skillful manipulation these promoters 

 frequently secure "fat rake-offs" on every purchase of machinery 

 and on every contract of labor, occasionally on every sale of the 

 product. Their victims pay exorbitant prices for a first class build- 

 ing and most up-to-date equipment, and often receive a shack barely 

 strong enough to stand up under its own weight, and equipment of 

 inadequate capacity. 



