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condition; tin ola and partly worn off, but clean and in fairly good condi- 

 tion. 



The receiving platform is a shelf made of pine matched boards in the 

 corner of the room, wood floor quire old, but fairly clean; can old; tin 

 worked off, but clean on the inside; valve clean; scales fair. Around 

 the wall to a height of four feet is a wood wainscoting; wood work is in 

 good condition, freshly painted red. On two sides of the room, directly 

 over this wainscoting runs a narrow platform to walk on. This plat- 

 form is thoroughly scrubbed and in excellent condition. Skim milk tank 

 of galvanized iron; sets on floor near the separator. Milk is pumped;from. 

 this tank td a washer in the side cf the room and from there to the out- 

 side where is is received by the patrons. Everything about this 

 skim milk tar.k is clean and in good condition. Churn room is 

 in cellar of the dwelling house; the walls are plastered and freshly 

 Avhitened, ceiling in excellent condition; wood floor on cinder founda- 

 tion, clean and in good condition, square box churn in fairly good condi- 

 tion. Engine in good condition and in this room. 



The cream room is a separator room built in the center of the churn 

 room; the walls made of matched pine boards, ceiling matched pine 

 boards all freshly painted and in excellent condition. Wood floor inclined 

 enough to keep the water constanily running to the drain in the center of 

 the floor. This room has one-half window which affords fair light; the 

 wood floor is on cement: foundation. The cream vat is 20 inches from the 

 floor: wood work fair; tin fail ; refrigerator in the end of this cream room, 

 made of pine matched boards, wood floor; air space in wall; this in end 

 of room is freshly painted, wood work dry and in excellent condition. 



The boiler and engine are in a separate building in the rear of the 

 dwelling house; the boiler is bricked up and in good condition; engine 

 is in fairly good condition. 



Water obtained from drilled well 76 1 feet deep; temperature 52 de- 

 .grees. 



Condition of milk fair, average test 4 per cent. Everything about 



