JO ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMENS ASSOCIATION. 
hitched to the power, and the pump put to work. Water 
enough for the entire day would be pumped during the 
milking time. The churning could also be done at the 
same time or afterward as convenient. The horse-power 
would be available in the same manner at evening, and thus 
there would never be a lack of pure cool water to control 
temperature of milk or cream. The abundance of pure 
cold water thus supplied would contribute largely to the 
purity and sweetness of the entire dairy room. We have 
seen a few establishments built on the economical plan we 
have described, which were turning out just as good pro¬ 
duct as can be made and at the minimum of cost in labor 
and expenditure. 
This arrangement leaves no place for the use of ice, and 
indeed the cost of a good ice house would go far towards 
providing the whole thing. We have here made no provision 
for the keeping of butter for which of course special provision 
as in other cases would have to be made. 
If we summarize, the expense of outfit would stand 
about as follows: 
Cost of building and elevated tank not to exceed. $100 
“ “ force pump and say six feet pipe. 20 
“ “ power and necessary shafting. 60 
“ “ churn and attachments. 30 
“ “ butter worker. 10 
“ cooler and cans... 40 
Total..$260 
We have purposely omitted the cost of well and tower 
fixtures of pump as these are so variable. We have also 
omitted water heating arrangements. A common cook 
stove (useless for other purposes perhaps) with a large, 
square, galvanized iron boiler, and costing altogether less 
than ten dollars, has done very efficient work in such a place. 
A small feed-cooking steamer would be better. 
The estimates we have made we consider ample for a 
dairy of fifty cows and believe they would meet the needs 
of a still larger dairy. They amount to only about five dol¬ 
lars a cow all told. Something should be credited for the 
value of the waste water for stock. We have known more 
than one-third of this amount given for the royalty on a 
patent pan stove. We claim nothing for the beautiful in 
our plan, although it is not inconsistent with any amount 
of ornamentation which money and good taste could bring 
