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is  created  with  most  desirable  results.”  Now  the  question 
arises  whether  this  is  not  a very  unnecessary  complication  to 
arrive  at  the  desired  result.  If  the  ventilator  in  the  ceiling  and 
roof  acts  properly,  a sufficient  number  of  air-gratings  above  the 
floor  of  the  building  at  both  ends,  which  could  be  regulated 
according  to  the  direction  of  the  wind,  would  secure  a circulation 
of  air  quite  as  well  as  the  somewhat  costly  arrangement  which 
was  exhibited.  The  amount  of  cold  air  is  regulated  by  a simple 
hit-and-miss  ventilator,  which  extends  the  whole  length  of  the 
ceiling,  and  which  is  actuated  by  a lever-handle.  The  floors 
are  paved  with  blue  and  red  tiles,  which  Mr.  Bradford  states 
should  be  12  inches  square,  carefully  set  in  cement,  and  laid  on 
concrete.  They  were  actually  one-half  the  size,  and  the  joints 
were  very  imperfectly  filled,  so  that  moisture  would  remain  and 
evil  be  caused.  The  floors  have  a fall  of  one  in  forty  towards 
an  open  earthenware  channel.  The  cubical  contents  of  this 
room  is  1152  ft.  ; dimensions,  16  ft.  long,  8 ft.  wide,  and  9 ft. 
high- 
The  working-room,  which  is  in  the  centre,  has  a similar 
ventilation,  is  larger,  1600  cubic  ft.,  16  ft.  long  by  10  ft.  wide, 
and  10  ft.  high. 
The  milk  is  carried  into  the  milk-setting  room,  where  it  is 
sieved  and  placed  in  the  shallow  block-tin  pans,  of  which  there 
are  24,  six  standing  on  each  of  the  four  patent  revolving  disc 
milk-pan  stands  which  are  ranged  round  the  room.  The  special 
advantage  of  this  arrangement  is  that  the  pans  can  be  revolved 
and  the  milk  skimmed  without  any  disturbance,  as  the  hand 
holding  the  skimmer  remains  perfectly  still.  In  the  working- 
room  is  a Patent  Diaphragm  Churn,  having  a removable  dasher, 
the  butter  being  easily  gathered,  and  the  churn  cleansed  and 
scalded  without  difficulty.  The  great  merit  claimed  for  this 
comparatively  new  form  of  dasher  is  that  the  alternate  angles  of 
its  divisions  cause  the  granules  to  be  aggregated  without 
bruising  or  injuring  the  butter.  I saw  the  butter  removed  from 
the  churns  and  worked,  and  it  certainly  appeared  excellently 
made.  After  being  washed,  the  butter  is  removed  to  the  “ Albany  ” 
Butter- worker,  to  which  the  Judges  awarded  a silver  medal,  and 
which  is  illustrated  and  described  with  the  other  silver  medal 
awards.  Suffice  it  here  to  say  that  it  did  its  work  efficiently,  and, 
being  reversible,  makes  a useful  table  on  which  the  butter  could 
be  made  up  if  desirable.  In  the  corner  of  the  room  is  a trough, 
made  of  pitch  pine,  of  sufficient  capacity,  supplied  with  hot  and 
cold  water,  and  arranged  so  that,  besides  serving  for  ordinary 
washing-up  and  scalding  purposes,  it  is  available  for  inserting 
pans  therein  for  raising  or  lowering  the  temperature  of  the 
