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IMPROVED CHEESE FACTORY. 
Have you not printed (and if yon have, 
will you not republish ?), or can you not 
print, a plan of an approved cheese factory 
that will be a guide to us in building ? Any 
suggestions, whether by engraving or de¬ 
scription, will be gratefully received in this 
neighborhood, where we are talking of budd¬ 
ing au associated dairy,— C. T. C., East Ten¬ 
nessee. 
We republish a perspective and plan of an 
improved cheese factory at Sanborn, N. Y. 
It is neat and tasteful externally, and is con¬ 
veniently arranged in the manufacturing 
department, as will be seen by reference to 
the plan and description thereof accom¬ 
panying. The drop in the floor where the 
sink runs on rails is regarded an improve¬ 
ment over the old factories, and is adopted 
by those establishments that have introduced 
the slnite. In some cases the drop is two 
and a half to three feet lower than the main 
floor. This building is 3fi feet wide by 75 
feet long and three stories high above the 
basement. The manufacturing department 
is in the basement and the curing rooms 
above. On the first floor above the base¬ 
ment a living-room, bedroom, pantry, <fec., 
are finished off as apartments for the manu¬ 
facturer. The budding, including beater, 
vats, presses, &c., cost $ti.OOO. There Is room 
for four vats. 
The description of the ground plan or 
manufacturing department is as follows : 
A, platform for receiving the milk, half 
outside the building and four feet above the 
basement floor; B, Millar vat and heater ; 
C, tire-room; D, D, D, D, Millar vats, 000 
gallons; E, whey spout, level with basement 
floor ; F, F, F, fifteen presses; G, drop below 
tho main floor ; H, conduit for slop-water, 
floor descending each way 30 inches from 
main floor; i, cellar for family use; J, cis¬ 
tern ; K, main floor, 22 by 50 feet; L, sink on 
castors; M, M, M, doors; W, W, W, win- 
(lows. 
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CONVENIENT ASH HORSE. 
Francis Granger, an Ohio correspondent 
of the Rural New-Yorker, sends a de¬ 
scription of a brick ash house he lias built. 
It is 6 by 8 feet on the ground, 0 feet high, 
and tho outside walls are 1 inches thick. 
The interior is divided into an ash bin 3 feet 
1 inch by 4 feet 4 inches, and a leach ad¬ 
joining, 2 feet by 4 feet 4 inches. Tho bal¬ 
ance of tho room is occupied as an entrance 
to the ash bin and for a lye basin. 11, is upon 
a stone foundation over the whole bottom. 
One foot thick, a basin being left (as referred 
to above) for the lye to run into from the 
leach, it beiug plastered with water lime 
as high as the leach. It holds three p&ilftfuJ. 
Four cross pieces are framed into the plates, 
in which are 50 hooks. It is lathed and 
plastered—ceiling and sides. The division 
walls are 3 feet 0 inches high, Including a 2 
by 4 pine scantling, framed together and 
laid on the top, extending into the outer 
walls. Our correspondent says :—“ The con¬ 
venience of having ashes and leach together 
and all under cover from storms has induced 
several to adopt my plan. 1 l'eared at tlrsfc 
that the lyo might eat out the water lime, 
but no damage is perceptible yet. Eleven 
hundred hriek and about one-eighth of a cord 
of stone were used." 
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Patent Roofing. —A correspondent, F. D. 
Parma LEE, who has for twenty-five years 
been a close observer of the utility and dura¬ 
bility of patent roofing, is obliged to say that 
he “ never yet saw one that was good for 
anything." Two years ago he tried a new 
patent roofing for which it was Claimed “it 
would not crack, would not easily take tire 
and was more durable than other kind- 1 , 
See. &c. At the end of one year it li>< ked 
badly* “another barrel of the compound 
humbug rooting tar was P«t on the roof and 
it looks badly now and is good foi nothing. 
VOIi. XXIX. No. 13. 1 
WHOLE No. 1361. 1 
NEW YORK, AND ROCHESTER N. Y„ MARCH 28, 1874. 
I PRICE SIX CENTS. 
1 $3.50 PER YEAR. 
