. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. 332 THE BOOK OF THE FARM SU3IMER. each cheem has only to fall one inch in that operation, or from the one shelf to the other, in a re- versed position. (2120.) It will be also observed lliat the fixed external frame is beat adapted for an extenslTe Fie. THE cheese-room, where the racks may be placed in rows extending the length of the room, leaving free passaee between the rows. The width of the passaees requires to be equa
. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. 332 THE BOOK OF THE FARM SU3IMER. each cheem has only to fall one inch in that operation, or from the one shelf to the other, in a re- versed position. (2120.) It will be also observed lliat the fixed external frame is beat adapted for an extenslTe Fie. THE cheese-room, where the racks may be placed in rows extending the length of the room, leaving free passaee between the rows. The width of the passaees requires to be equal to half the hieht of the shelf-frame, or .3 feet; a room, therefore, 20 feet wide would contain 4 rows of such raclis ; and if the leueih were equal to 10 diameters of the cheeses, or containing that number in ilie leneth. the room would contain in all 440 cheeses in the best piossible condition for their being prepared for market, havine free ventilation, and access for the dairy-maids to handle and wipe any cheese at any time. We have no experience of this cheese-rack in Scotland ; but, judging from its apparent capabilities, there is much reason to think that it might be employed with ex- cellent eflect in the extensive cheese-dairies of Ayrshire and Galloway. The price of a portable rack, as here figured, capable of holding 55 cheeses, is £4.—J. S.] 28. THE DOUBLE MOULD-BOARD PLOW. (0121.) [The double mould-board ploir, is an implement essentially requisite in the cnltivation of the turnip and potato crop. 'When duly constructed, it is highly efficient in the formation of the drills or ridgelcts for either of these crops, selling up at each turn the half of a ridgelet on each side, while the common plow, or onehorso plow so much employed for this purpose, sets up only a half ridgelet at each turn, doing, therefore, but half tlie work. In a variety of forms also, it is much employed in the earthing-up of the potato crop ; tor this purpose it is frequently made of wood,
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