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butter or cheese or condensed milk at pleasure, advantage may 
be taken of any circumstance, and the milk can be properly 
disposed of not only without loss, but to the best advantage. 
There are other reasons for the construction of factories upon 
this plan, which 1 shall name hereafter under their appropriate 
headings. 
The factory plans presented in Figs. 11 to 13, are those of the 
MiDDLETOWN FACTORY, on the Erie Railway, about (jO miles 
from New York city. This establishment was erected, during 
the year 1870, at a cost of more than 50,000 dollars, and is 
probably the most convenient and best furnished in its internal 
fittings of any combined condensing factory in America. 
Fig. 11. — Plan of Basement of Middhioim Milk-Condensing Factory. 
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B. Cheese-Vat. 
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the ground. The height of the rooms is about 9 or 10 feet between 
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