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from which elevation it flows into a funnel and conducting tube through? 

 the wall into the collecting tank for the Star cooler (2) and cream, 

 cooler (3). From this collecting tank a tube also supplies the separa- 

 tor (4), see Fig. 83. The raised platform shown in Fig. 81 was a_ 

 mistake, as it should have been lowered so far as would permit a man 

 standing on it to pour the milk into the strainer shown. It is much 

 too high, and the platform — instead of requiring a ladder — would have 

 only required a few steps leading up to it. The tank under the plat- 

 form was intended to hold cracked ice, on which water was to be 

 sprayed for supplying the ice water section of the Star cooler in sum- 

 mer '. But this was found unnecessary, as a cask could be placed on. 

 the floor containing a coil of pipe to cool the water as described on 

 p. 116. The numbers (5 and 6) in the milk room are supposed to 

 represent the bottle filling apparatus for milk and cream shown in 

 plate. The bottles, when filled, are kept over night in a series of 

 tanks, one over the other (7), as water is had from a neighboring 

 spring at a temperature of 46 deg. F. to fill the tanks. The bottles, 

 are shipped on ice in galvanized iron cases. The empty bottles 

 are delivered on the elevated piazza platform, in front of the wash 

 room, and the bottles and all the milk utensils are washed, put in 

 the sterilizer and taken out through the other door in the milk room 

 when it is desired to use them. The milk room is only connected 

 (with one door) with the shipping room and is ventilated by a system 

 similar to that recommended for barns. The floors of all the rooms in 

 the milk house are of cement, and the walls of cement-plaster, covered 

 with many coats of white enamel paint. The cement-plaster is laid on 

 wooden laths and the construction of the building is of wood. It is 

 steam heated in the lavatory and wash room. The climate is very 

 mild hereabouts and rarely gets much below freezing. 



Sketches of the barn and milk house owned by W. H. Paulhamus 

 Esq., are reproduced here with the hope that they may prove of prac- 

 tical Value to those intending to handle clean milk on a considerable 

 scale for profit. 



The barn (jig. 84) is built of wood and eeiled within with 

 smooth, matched boards (shiplap) painted with cold water white 

 paint. The space between the outer and inner boarding of the walls 

 is filled in with sawdust. The inside of the barn is eleven feet high 



