. The dairyman's manual. A practical treatise on the dairy .. . rt, Long Island, when it was under the chargeoi Mr, Wm. Crozier, is shown at figure 44. It is madeto revolve upon pivots fitted in the floor and ceiling, andsaves many steps in the work of skimming and replacingthe filled pans. For a family dairy where one cow is kept it is seldompossible to have a separate milk-house, and a cupboard orrefrigerator must be used as the receptacle. An excel- THE CARE OF MILK. 853 lent closet, devised by the author and found very useful,is shown at figure 45, It is enclosed by wire gauze toexclude fl
. The dairyman's manual. A practical treatise on the dairy .. . rt, Long Island, when it was under the chargeoi Mr, Wm. Crozier, is shown at figure 44. It is madeto revolve upon pivots fitted in the floor and ceiling, andsaves many steps in the work of skimming and replacingthe filled pans. For a family dairy where one cow is kept it is seldompossible to have a separate milk-house, and a cupboard orrefrigerator must be used as the receptacle. An excel- THE CARE OF MILK. 853 lent closet, devised by the author and found very useful,is shown at figure 45, It is enclosed by wire gauze toexclude flies and admit air, and is provided inside withrevolving shelves (figure 46) by which the milk may beput in and taken out most conveniently. The cream jaris kept under the shelves. A closet of this kind willhold five tiers of two, three, or four pans each, theshelves being six or eight inches apart. The wire gauzecovering permits perfect ventilation. A closet or refrigerator for the use of ice, and prac-tically deep setting on a small scale, is shown at figure. Fig. 47.—HBFBIGEHATOR OLOSET. 47, and needs no further description than to note thatthe water from the melting ice is either carried off fromthe ice tray by a pipe, or drips upon the pails and runsoff through a pipe in the bottom. This closet is linedwith sheet tin or zinc. The tin pans in common use for setting milk have oneobjectionable feature; this is, the seam around the bot-tom in which sour milk will be concesiled, unless greatcircumspection is used. The pressed pan, of which fig-ure 48 gives a section, has no such hiding place for the 254 THE daiktmans manual. sour milk, which acts upon the fresh milk in the samemanner as rennet, and will often curdle it in a few hoursand before the cream has been able to rise to the pressed pans are therefore much easier to clean andmuch safer in use. It is also an improvement on thepans to have supports on the bottom at least half an inchthick, to raise the bottom
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