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ready to be drawn either into the vacuum-pan or cooling-pails. 
These pails are 8 inches in diameter bv 22 inches long, with 
iron bails, and are set in the vats containing cold flowing spring 
water. The vats are placed in the basement as before de- 
scribed. 
The paLls are filled bv attaching a rubber hose to the bottom 
of the heating-tank, where there is a faucet with a tube going 
through the jacket to the milk. The operator then carries the 
hose from one pail to the other, and they are thus filled rapidly. 
Fig. 14 represents a cross section of the basement and second 
floor of the factorv, with heatinj-tanks and cooling-vats, showing 
the manner in which the milk is drawn into tbe pails. 
Fig. 1-4. — Cross Section of the Basement and Second Floor of the Middle- 
town Milk-Condensing Factory, showing the manner of draining the milk 
from the heating-tanks into the cold-water vats. 
The cooling-vats, four in number, are each 21 feet long by 
4 feet wide, made of 3-inch pine plank, and separated into 
three divisions. Here the milk sets from eight to twelve hours, 
