ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 193 



Creamery. 



The location of a creamery should be such as to insure good drainage. 

 The ground surrounding it should be seeded and the road graveled that so 

 far as possible dust may be prevented from blowing into the building. 

 Cleanliness at a creamery should prevail without and within, not alone 

 because neatness is essential to the production of the highest grade of 

 butter, but also because of its effect upon the patrons. Every creamery 

 should be a nucleus for high standards in dairying. The creamery opera- 

 tor cannot expect his patrons to bring clean milk properly cooled and cared 

 for if the creamery is in a neglected condition, as it would be evident that 

 under such circumstances all care on their part would be lost. 



Every creamery, cheese factory, dairy, or milk depot should have the 

 floor, and the walls to the height of at least three feet, of some imper- 

 vious material. Cement makes the best and cheapest floor when properly 

 laid. Faulty cement work can only be remedied by replacing with another 

 floor. 



To carry off more readly the water, the floor should pitch to the gut- 

 ter. The distance to the gutter should not be more than twelve feet; if 

 it is greater the water will not be carried off rapidly enough. The gutter 

 should pitch to the sewer which should be well trapped and constructed 

 of glazed sewer tile for a distance of at least two hundred feet from the 

 building. At the end of the glazed tile a silt basin should be built of brick, 

 stone, or cement, and ten or twelve inch porous tile laid from this into 

 some well drained ground. From the large tile small laterals should be 

 laid; the number and length needed will depend upon the amount of water 

 to be disposed of and the character of the ground in which the system is 

 laid. If the system is put in and found to be inadequate it can easily be 

 extended by putting in more laterals or making them longer. 



If the ground is naturally wet the system can be made much more 

 efficient by laying the tile among these to drain the ground, never getting 

 closer than ten feet to the porous tile carrying the sewage. Much of the 

 solid material in the sewage may be prevented from getting into the por- 

 ous tile by frequently cleaning the silt basin. 



When no siphon is used between the silt basin and the porous tile 

 there is a slow continuous flow of water into the tile which would seep 



