and its adaptahilihj to English Dairy Districts. 
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entire season. The Fairfield factory of Hirk County, and the 
Willow Grove, of Oneida County, send out cheese favourably 
known in the English market. They have for several years 
received top prices from English shippers. 
The Fairfield factory is located 8 miles from Little Falls, 
the largest country cheese-market in America. This factory 
receives the milk of 1000 cows. The manufacturing depart- 
ment and curing-rooms are under one roof. The establishment 
is 148 feet long by 38 feet wide, 3 stories high. The second 
and third stories are the curing-rooms. The manufacturing- 
room is on the lower floor, and is 40 feet by 28 feet ; press-room 
adjoining 35 feet by 31 feet. The boiler of 5 horse power stands 
in a separate building, and cost 450 dollars.* 
The manufacturing-room is provided with double vats used 
for cheese-making. These vats are each 16 feet long, 3 feet 
4 inches wide, and 18 inches deep, and each holds 600 gallons. 
I may remark here that this size is convenient for working the 
curds, &c., and are of the size and shape commonly used at the 
factories. They are double, the inner one of tin, encased with 
a wooden vat, leaving space of about 2 to 3 inches at the sides 
and bottom between the vats, where heat is applied, either steam 
or hot water. 
The Willow Grove is in Oneida County, New York. The 
dry-house upon high stone piers. It is lOO ft. by 30 ft. ; two 
stories. The manufacturing department is in a separate building, 
being 30 ft. by 28 ft., with press-room adjoining, 26 ft. by 14 ft. 
This factory has capacity for 1000 cows. 
The Whitesboro factory (Wights), 4 miles from the city of 
Utica, Oneida County, was erected for 600 cows. Dry-house 
104 ft. by 30 ft. ; two stories. 
Directly opposite stands the manufacturing department, 26 ft. 
by 50 It., which includes press-room, where the cheese-presses 
stand in two long rows. 
I send enclosed rough draught of factory, where the manu- 
factory is on the lower storey, curing-rooms in 2nd and 3rd 
stories, cheese to be elevated from press-room through openings 
in floor above by machinery. It may help to give you a better 
idea of our factories.! 
3. CW of Buildings. — This of course will vary in different 
localities, and must be regulated according to taste in architec- 
* About 90Z. 
t These plans have already been published in 'The Farmer,' March 17, 1869, 
and iu 'The Country Gentleman's Magazine,' vol. vii., No. 10, pp. •'162 and 353, 
April, 1869. It is, therefore, unnecessary to reproduce them here, especially as 
they do not seem adapted to the requirements of the English clima'e, and to our 
appliances for regulating temperature. Two other plans are given on pp. 196 & 197. 
