. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. 440 DAIRY FAR MING. lu the Southern States where springs are not apartment, and a small ventilating flue in owe availalile for spring-house dairies, milk-rooms or corner. It makes a very eonvenient and satisfae- cellars are sometimes constructed alongside the tory arrangement for managing the milk of a few well, from which a su])])ly of cold air may be cows, from which butter is made. obtained, ami sometimes as independent apart- ments. The Ai/ierifiDi gave the foHow
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. 440 DAIRY FAR MING. lu the Southern States where springs are not apartment, and a small ventilating flue in owe availalile for spring-house dairies, milk-rooms or corner. It makes a very eonvenient and satisfae- cellars are sometimes constructed alongside the tory arrangement for managing the milk of a few well, from which a su])])ly of cold air may be cows, from which butter is made. obtained, ami sometimes as independent apart- ments. The Ai/ierifiDi gave the foHowing description of a private dairy of this class, seen in North Carolina in 1S(!S :— "It was built in connection with a very pleasant and comfortable although an old inun- sion. Tiie entrance to the cellar was from the porch which ran around the house, and adjoin- ing the rear or kitchen door. A handsome shade-tree and a grape-vine jirotected the en- trance, which had lattice-work on three sides, with a door, also partly of lattice-work, in the front. A few. steps led down into a very cool apart- ment about (5 feet below tlir ground, well lighted from a glazed cupula in the roof, and built of brick, and white- washed. From a trap-door at one side a stairway led to a lower cellar, which was the milk-room. The upper apart- ment was used as a store-room for kitchen utensils, churn, and other similar articles. The lower cellar, when the hatchway was open, was well lighted. It was also of brick, and cleanly whitewashed. The lloor was of brick, not cemented together. Shelves ran ai'ound this cellar at a convenient height, on which were kept milk, cream, butter, and other things jjroper to a milk- room. Although it is now five yeai"s since we saw this cellar, its coolness, perfect cleanliness, and sweetness was so impressive that the remembrance of it is still perfectly distinct. The cellar was about 10 feet square, and in all about 14 feet deep. The lower apartment was ce
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