. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. 2 so DAIRY FAinilXfi but m 'How and salvy betweon tlic tbumli ami finger. In Fig-. Ill we g-ive a griiuiid-plan of llio Brailsfoi-d cheese-factory, near Derby, which is one of the best in the country, so far as con- venience of arrangement and excellence of con- struction are concerned. It is large enough to make cheese from the milk of 700 to 800 cows. In Fig. 112 is given a view of the interior of this cin-k's liy training fanners to stricter commercial ideas with regard to the busi
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. 2 so DAIRY FAinilXfi but m 'How and salvy betweon tlic tbumli ami finger. In Fig-. Ill we g-ive a griiuiid-plan of llio Brailsfoi-d cheese-factory, near Derby, which is one of the best in the country, so far as con- venience of arrangement and excellence of con- struction are concerned. It is large enough to make cheese from the milk of 700 to 800 cows. In Fig. 112 is given a view of the interior of this cin-k's liy training fanners to stricter commercial ideas with regard to the business in which they are engaged. The average yield which dairy-cows return, or ought to return, to their owners, in order to ensure a profit in cheese-making, is no loTiger arrived at by hazy conjecture among those who send their milk to a factory; the fiscal equiva- lent of a gallon of milk has ceased to be a nelmlous entity; the fpinntitv of milk required to make a. FArrOIiT 'iNTKIlIdTtl. factory, s'.iowing the wcigliiiig-can and llie ]ii|K' from it which conveys the milk to the milk-vats, three of which are plainly and the fourth parlly seen; on the left are seen two of the lever-press(>s, which are now iu general use; in ]']nglish factories and farin-hous^'S alike. Tliongh it is improbable, owing to the rapid expansion of the milk-trade in this country, and to the facility with which cheese can be ])roduced in enormous quantities in America, that checse- factorips will bocnine numerons in Cireat Britain, their introduction lias done much good in ;- pound of cheese iu the diil'ercnt nioiitlis of the season is understood with tolerable accaracy; and this educational process has brought in its train a great deal of practical inipiiry into the most economical methods of feeding dairy-cows and of ]iroducing at a minimum cost a maximum quan- tity of milk. The commercial principle, in fact, is being developed in dairy-farming, slowly and fitfully, perhaps,
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