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CLEAN MILK 



rectly into the receiving tanks of the cooler or separator in the millc 

 room below, thus avoiding unnecessary handling. 



. The milk room should not be connected with the outer air by 

 a door or open window, but must be ventilated so as to exclude 

 dust and only be connected with the other rooms. It contains the 

 appliances for cooling and bottling milk we have already noticed, 

 and also a separator, cream cooler and cream bottle filler (Figs. 39 

 and 40), if cream is to be made. 



The bottle room adjoins the milk room, in which the clean 

 bottles are kept after being sterilized. One end of the sterilizer 



Fig. 40. 



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Cream Bottle Filler. 



projects into this room from the wash room. The wash room con- 

 tains the sterilizer, the bottle washing outfit, and a Babcock tester. 

 The cold storage room is of great convenience where large quanti- 

 ties of milk are handled and may be arranged with natural ice, or 

 by means of ammonia compression and an artificial refrigerating 

 and ice-making plant. The lavatory and laundry are for the use 

 of the employees in the dairy, the former with a shower bath, set 

 basin and dressing room, and the latter to wash the clothes used by 

 the employees. In the shipping room are the cases for holding 

 the bottles, and the floor platform for loading the wagons should 

 be on a level with them. Where there is machinery, as for a re- 



