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not necessarily an expensive building. But we must have 
an abundance of water. We have seen springs that were 
valuable, but the best thing usually available is a good well. 
If you have not this at least don’t go into the butter dairy 
business. Select a site for dairy building which has good 
natural drainage, and as most farmers need the waste water 
for stock watering purposes either in Summer or Winter or 
both, let the drainage be towards the cattle yard. Erect a 
building say 16x24 with stone foundation walls. Eight 
foot posts will be high enough. Cover the sides with good 
drop siding and the roof with good shingles, leaving ample 
openings for windows and doors. If well built no further 
expense on wall and roof is necessary. Floor one-half this 
building with good cement, from which water will readily 
flow into a good drain. Cover the remaining part with 
good wood floor draining towards the cemented part. At 
the cemented end erect an elevated tank large enough for - 
supplying all needs in the dairy room as well as the stock 
in the yard. Locate the well just outside (or inside) con¬ 
venient to supply this tank with water by a force pump run 
by a cheap horse-power. Locate the horse-pOwer at the 
other end of building and outside, the shafting to run churn 
and pump being over head and just inside or outside the 
building, according to the notion of the builder. The wood 
floor makes an appropriate place for churn, butter-worker 
and stove. The cemented floor will accommodate the small 
water tanks or milk coolers. No better cream can be pro¬ 
duced than with the common setter standing in a pool of 
cold water, If the setter is used let these stand in small 
pools of proper size with covers for protection against flies 
or dust in Summer and against freezing in Winter, these 
pools being supplied by the larger and elevated tank before 
described. If any of the patent labor-saving devices for 
cream raising are used (and some of these are really labor- 
saving) they can be supplied with water in the same way, 
the water going to the stock yard. A cheap pipe for this 
purpose which can be laid under ground with a constant 
descent is a 4x4 scantling with a channel sawed in one side 
and covered with a band. 
With these fixtures the daily routine of work in Sum¬ 
mer would.be about as follows : At milking time in morn¬ 
ing a horse with good .spirit and hood-winked would be 
