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MANAGEMENT OF DAIRY CATTLE. 
lower shelves being 2 feet 3 inches wide, the interval or 
passage between is only 1 foot 6 inches. On each tier of 
shelves is a shallow wooden cistern lined withuhin sheet-lead, 
having a rim at the edges 3 inches high. These cisterns 
incline downwards slightly towards the window, and contain 
water to the depth of 3 inches. At the end nearest the 
kitchen each tier of cisterns is supplied with two taps, one 
for cold water in summer, the other with hot for winter use. 
At the end next the north window is a plug or hollow tube, 
with holes perforated at such an elevation as to take the 
water before it flows over the cistern. 
During the summer the door towards the kitchen is 
closed, and an additional door is fixed against it, with an 
interval between w r ell packed with straw ; a curtain of stout 
calico hangs before the trellis window, which is dipped in 
salt-w r ater, and kept wet during the whole day by cold 
water spurted over it from a gutta-percha tube. On the 
milk being brought in it is emptied into bowls. Some time 
after these bowls (of which a description is given in a former 
part of this) have been placed on the cistern, the cold-water 
taps are turned till the w 7 ater rises through the perforated 
tube, and flows through a waste pipe into the sewer. The 
taps are then closed, so as to allow a slight trickling of 
water, which continues through the day. By these means 
I reduce the temperature, as compared with that outside the 
window, by 20°. I am thus enabled to allow the milk to 
stand till the cream has risen, and keep the skimmed milk 
sweet, for w 7 hich l obtain Id. per quart. 
Having heard complaints during very hot weather of 
skimmed milk, which had left my dairy perfectly sweet, 
being affected so as to curdle in cooking on being carried 
into the village, I caused covers of thick calico (the best of 
our fabrics for retaining moisture) to be made ; these are 
dipped in salt-water and then drawn over the whole of the 
tin milk cans : the contrivance is quite successful, and is in 
great favour with the consumers. I have not heard a single 
complaint since I adopted it. 
(To be continued .) 
