Archive image from page 247 of The dairyman's manual a. The dairyman's manual : a practical treatise on the dairy, including the selection of the farm dairymansmanualp88stew Year: 1888 4 THE DAIRYMAN'S MANUAL. der and may then be used for many useful purposes, or. be added to the garden compost heap. Where the cellar cannot be used on account of the wetness of the soil, an above-ground cellar must be pro- vided. This may be partly sunk in the ground, but if there is any danger of water soaking into it, it should bo wholly above the ground. It becomes then, properly, a milk-house, and the de
Archive image from page 247 of The dairyman's manual a. The dairyman's manual : a practical treatise on the dairy, including the selection of the farm dairymansmanualp88stew Year: 1888 4 THE DAIRYMAN'S MANUAL. der and may then be used for many useful purposes, or. be added to the garden compost heap. Where the cellar cannot be used on account of the wetness of the soil, an above-ground cellar must be pro- vided. This may be partly sunk in the ground, but if there is any danger of water soaking into it, it should bo wholly above the ground. It becomes then, properly, a milk-house, and the description of such a house will be as follows: Milk-houses may be constructed of wood, of stone, or of brick. If well constructed, one kind may be made as useful as another. For some purposes a frame house is the best, retaining an even temperature better than any other. Air passes through brick and plaster with much greater facility than is generally supposed. In a test once made the air, forced by a wind pressure of only three pounds on a square foot, passed through a brick wall plastered inside with such ease that, when collected by a funnel one foot square and discharged through a email orifice, it was sufficient to extinguish
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