126 THE JERSEY, ALDERNEY AND GUERNSEY COW 



Never allow the dairy to be used for any other pur- 

 pose than that for which it was originally intended: 

 nothing but milk, cream and butter should at any time 

 be permitted to be placed there. To use it as a pantry 

 or to keep beer in is to ensure tainted butter. The 

 rays of the sun should be carefully kept from falling on 

 any part of the cream, either in process of formation or 

 when skimmed off ready for churning. 



The dairy utensils consist of the churn, sized accord- 

 ing to the number of cattle and frequency of churning; 

 pans for holding the milk, containing from eight to 

 ten quarts, and as shallow as possible , a deep pan to 

 hold the cream during accumulation ; neat butter-prints, 

 of white wood ; ivory butter-slice ; fine linen cloths, to 

 cover the butter; a marble slab, to deposit the butter 

 on ; a small ladder, to lie across the milking-pans to 

 support the strainer; the strainer itself, consisting of a 

 sieve-hoop, about seven inches deep, with a band to fit 

 over it to keep the straining-cloth closely on ; milking- 

 cans, of strong block tin, as being more easily kept 

 sweet than wooden buckets; and good flat wicker 

 baskets to carry the butter. 



The milk-pans I recommend to be made of glass, 

 which is a non-conductor of lightning, and can be kept 

 sweet and clean by merely wiping with wash-leather, 

 while scalding will scarcely be sufficient for a porous 

 material The cream-pan should also be of glass. 



The most scrupulous cleanliness, in every partic- 

 ular, IS ABSOLUTELY INDISPENSABLE. 



