. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. EXCELSIOR COOLIKG VAT. THE DAIRY. 235 Certain regulations and restrictions as to tlie feeding of the cows and the quality of the milkwill be necessary to secure fair treatment of the dairyman, but these will be easily made asexperience proves them to be necessary. The first consideration would be the building and its arrangement, the next the furnish-ing of the creamery, and lastly the method of operation. The arrangement of the buildingwill necess
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. EXCELSIOR COOLIKG VAT. THE DAIRY. 235 Certain regulations and restrictions as to tlie feeding of the cows and the quality of the milkwill be necessary to secure fair treatment of the dairyman, but these will be easily made asexperience proves them to be necessary. The first consideration would be the building and its arrangement, the next the furnish-ing of the creamery, and lastly the method of operation. The arrangement of the buildingwill necessarily depend upon the system of setting the milk, and this will depend upon thesupply of water and ice. Ice is an absolute necessity for modern dairying and for eitherdeep or shallow setting. The deep setting requires the least room, for a pail holding 20quarts will occupy only nine inches of horizontal space. For 100 cows 50 cans only willbe required, because with cold setting the whole of the cream is raised in 12 hours, and twosettings only will be required at once; 50 cans will hold 1,000 quarts, which may he expected. RECTANGULAK FACTOKY OHDEN. to yield 100 quarts of cream, and in the best of the season 75 to 100 pounds of butter. These50 cans will need but a space of 100 by 50 inches, or four refrigerators, each having a floorspace of about 50 by 25 inches.
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