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AM ERICAX AGE EC ULT U RIST. 
1 October, 
The Dairy at the Centennial. 
Much interest has been excited amongst dairy¬ 
men by the violent squabble, or dispute, which oc¬ 
curred in the committee appointed by the American 
Dairymen’s Association, 
to take charge of the dairy 
displays at the Centen¬ 
nial Exposition. A small 
minority, one person in 
fact, made itself very con¬ 
spicuous and demonstra¬ 
tive in opposition to the 
rest of the committee. 
The cause of the dispute 
seems to have been that a 
patented device for cool¬ 
ing dairy rooms, for which 
the party in question 
was the agent, was not put 
into the dairy factory at 
the Exposition at the ex¬ 
pense of the Association. 
This party, who is not a 
.dairyman, but a produce 
dealer, procured the wide 
publication of his griev¬ 
ances and charges against 
the committee and the 
model factory, and went so far as to counsel dairy¬ 
men not- to exhibit their products in the building 
erected for the purpose. Under the circumstances, 
this course was a very remarkable one, and un¬ 
fortunately had the effect of greatly curtailing the 
contributions of the dairymen to the dairy exhibits. 
however, seems to have passed away by the retire 
mentof the disappointed member of the committee, 
which is now left in harmony. The Canadian ex¬ 
hibitors, and other leading dairymen, among whom 
is the Hon. Harris Lewis, of New York, with the 
committee themselves, have declared the Model 
Factory to be well adapted for an exhibition, and 
to be well provided for the care of whatever dairy 
produce may be sent there for the display in Octo¬ 
ber. We earnestly join with the committee in 
urging dairymen to seize this opportunity of show¬ 
ing what they can do to the thousands of visitors 
passage is made the whole length of the building, 
from which the doors open into the various depart¬ 
ments, as shown. At the rear is an open court 
yard, and an open passage way, sheltered by a 
broad veranda, runs all around the wings. The 
construction gives abundant air and ventilation 
and perfect facilities for 
the utmost cleanliness and 
neatness. Tlie main build¬ 
ing is 116 by 28 feet, and 
the wings 56 by 30 feet 
each. The cheese-room, 
butter-room, and cream¬ 
ery, are each 30 by 28 feet, 
and the cheese make-room 
is 26 by 28 feet. The sec¬ 
ond floor contains store¬ 
rooms and living-rooms. 
Grated ventilators are in 
the floor and ceiling of all 
ways and 
store-room s .giving abund¬ 
ance of ventilation, which 
can he regulated by 
slides in the grates. The 
plans of the butter and 
cheese-rooms in the main 
building are readily un¬ 
derstood from the engrav¬ 
ings. The raised plat¬ 
forms admit of thorough ventilation, and in the 
butter-room a constant flow of cool air is procured 
from the ice chest. The model factory is not fur¬ 
nished with shatters, which would he needed for 
actual use, to shade the store-rooms from the sun’s 
heat, at least on the upper floor. The lower floor 
At the July exhibition of dairy products there were 
but seven boxes of cheese from New York, against 
600 from other places, of which Wisconsin and 
Canada sent over 200 each. Of course the loss, if 
any, in this ignoring of a brilliant opportunity, 
Which cannot soon be repeated, falls upon those 
dairymen who were misadvised and misguided by 
injudicious and spiteful counsels. The trouble, 
who will be at Philadelphia this month. It will be 
ever to be regretted if, having made a beginning by 
building a model factory, the dairymen should per¬ 
mit or oblige it to become a ridiculous failure by 
withholding their products, which alone can give 
the building an excuse for its existence there. 
Filled with dairy appliances and dairy products, 
the building would be an interesting attraction 
amongst many attractive exhibitions ; and what¬ 
ever gain is to occur through the exhibition, the 
whole will accrue to the dairymen of America. 
For the information of our readers interested in 
cheese factories and creameries, we have engraved 
an elevation and plans of the Centennial Dairy 
Factory, built bv Mr. Wm. Blending, of Hawleyton, 
Broome Co., N. Y. The building is shown at figure 
1, the main floor at figure 2, the upper floor at 
figure 3, tlie stage for the butter with ice-box and 
cooler at figure 4, and the section of cooler at 
figure 5. The building has a drive-way in the front, 
jn which are the platform and scales. An open 
is well sheltered by the broad veranda which sur¬ 
rounds the building, and there shutters might not 
be needed. The extra expense, however, would be 
small in comparison with the benefits that would 
be derived from them. The cost of the building is 
about 88,000, which, however, is large on account. 
of tlie difficulties of building in a city, but is not 
by any means excessive for a house of this size, and 
completeness and thoroughness of construction. 
