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A " Clean Milk " Centre. 



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improvement in methods of production can be attained with 

 the minimum disturbance of existing buildings. 



In this case an existing double cowhouse had a lean-to cart 

 shed adjoining, of which use was made to obtain the necessary 

 dairy accommodation. The sketch plan shows how by the 

 sacrifice of two stalls in the cow^shed, a men's washing and 

 overall room has been provided with direct external access. 

 Here also the milk is weighed before it is poured into the re- 

 ceiver (marked A on the plan) which conveys it to the cooler 

 in the adjoining but isolated cooling room. 



Fig. 3.— Beansbeaf Farm : (a) Old Barn converted into Cowshed ; 

 (&) New Dairy. 



The dairy has been formed by cutting off one bay of the old 

 cart shed and dividing it into two portions. Nearest the cow^- 

 shed but quite cut off from it, is placed the cooling and clean 

 utensil room with ample light and direct external access. Ad- 

 joining is the sterilizing room, only 11 ft. by 10 ft., containing 

 the boiler, sink, sterilizer and churn stand. Perhaps a slight 

 improvement might have been made by isolating the boiler, 

 giving access to it from the cartshed and thus minimising risk 

 of dust and making the sterilizing room more convenient for 

 working purposes, but the scheme as it stands is extremely 

 simple and workable and has been carried out with the low^est 

 expenditure in building costs. 



Some 40 cows are kept, necessitating the employment of four 

 milkers and one cleaner, and the instructive thing about this 

 farm is the fact that the essential alterations for the proper 

 and scientific produclion of Grade A milk, affecting such a large 

 herd, could be made with so little disturbance to existin^r 



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