. The dairyman's manual; a practical treatise on the dairy. Dairying. 242 THE DAIRYMAID'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 be 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
. The dairyman's manual; a practical treatise on the dairy. Dairying. 242 THE DAIRYMAID'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 be 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. Fig. 36.—FRAME MILK-HOUSE. 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 Brnall orifice, it was sufficient to extinguish. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stewart, Henry. New York, Orange Judd
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