Milk, cheese and butter, a practical handbook on their properties and the processes of their production . Fig. 62.—Cheddar Cheese Factokv—Grouvd Plan. Strain of the vehicles set against it, and this and the whole front wallfrom the ground upwards should be protected by pieces of wood,which when worn can be replaced, leaving the main fabric this platform the roadway should rise, so as to allow of compara-. mrwvwh Fig. 6;(.—Deliveuv Platform. tively low vehicles delivering their milk-cans with as little lifting aspossible ; and if the road in front can be of stone paving it will be
Milk, cheese and butter, a practical handbook on their properties and the processes of their production . Fig. 62.—Cheddar Cheese Factokv—Grouvd Plan. Strain of the vehicles set against it, and this and the whole front wallfrom the ground upwards should be protected by pieces of wood,which when worn can be replaced, leaving the main fabric this platform the roadway should rise, so as to allow of compara-. mrwvwh Fig. 6;(.—Deliveuv Platform. tively low vehicles delivering their milk-cans with as little lifting aspossible ; and if the road in front can be of stone paving it will be THE CIIKDDAR DAIKV 151 better, for, in tiirniiii^, the wheels make sad havoc of a macadamisedsurface, and create much mud in wet weather. A drain-well {e) (and 80,Fig. 62) is needed to receive the cleansing waters used on the platform,which after a delivery will be one of the dirtiest places on the \ barrier (/), with a leather cushion on its top bar, allows of the cansbeing tipped without bulging, and with trifling labour ; and a pairof iron-bound skids (r. Fig. 62) should be provided, to raise them acouple of inches from the floor, to give the lifters clear handling. Wehave seen all sorts of devices for milk delivery, but none which allowedof such expedition as this one. The milk receiver rests on a lower platform, with its edge attwo inches below the cushion top, so escaping any contact with
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