. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. TOWN MUAk SUrPLY IN AMERICA. 425 favourite size. This is much used for delivt luibrokeu to families aud hotels; it has a \v<. ,^^^i^i4^^- Fig 221. stopper, while all the others have tin covers. The can on the left of the figure represents the form usual for pedlars' delivery waggons, with hook for the dipper. This, being less subject to rough usage than the railroad cans, has not the extra iron-bound bottom. The milk remains in the railway cans in which it starts from the dairy iiu
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. TOWN MUAk SUrPLY IN AMERICA. 425 favourite size. This is much used for delivt luibrokeu to families aud hotels; it has a \v<. ,^^^i^i4^^- Fig 221. stopper, while all the others have tin covers. The can on the left of the figure represents the form usual for pedlars' delivery waggons, with hook for the dipper. This, being less subject to rough usage than the railroad cans, has not the extra iron-bound bottom. The milk remains in the railway cans in which it starts from the dairy iiutil it reaches the retailer or some distributing depot; then it is transferred to a cooler, and ultimately to the delivery cans, which contain from 10 to 20 gallons, being a very common size. These cans have large bowl-shaped mouths, with covers, and are very generally conveyed over the routes in open vehicles, the milk delivered to the consumers by re- moving the cover at each sale and dipjiing from the can with a long-handled quart measure. There is thus constant expo- sure to contamination, especially in wet or dusty weather. A waggon cooler and delivery can invented bv Frank K. Ward, proprietor of "The Alderney Dairy" of the City of Washington, is a great improvement upon the fittings in general use. The engraving shows the cooler complete upon the bench which supports it in the waggon; under the bench the measures are so arranged as to keep their places pro- tected from dust and yet be readily slijiped out for use. The cooler consists of a double-walled ease of heavy plate tin, with non-conduct- ing air-spaces which extend up around the necks of the enclosed cans. Three cans are inseparably incased in the cooler, two large and one smaller, these being of single thickness; tight covers close these cans. In rear of the small can is an opening into the general interior of the cooler, through which it is tilled with water and ice, broken ice and salt, or other re
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