The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-12-31
Farm, Garden and Household,
Milk Rooms for Summer,

TINS year. A few, mere and there have
learned to make good butter in winter,
which brings a lair price, and some farm
ers keep two lots OF COWS, thus keeping
up the butter supply all the year round
but these are exceptional cases.
Most OF the butter consumed in the
whole year Is made between the months
OF March and December A great interest
mas been manifested within a few years
past IN discovering the best methods tor
keeping milk while the cream is rising
and the best course to be pursued in the
handling Of the cream and butter. from
the time the milk enters the milk room
till the butter leaves for market Many
different plans have been adopted and re-
commended tor cooling milk il order to
have the cream remain sweet and sound
turing the extreme hot weather OF mid
summer, and during the ~ultry dog-days
OF August A Shrewd old farmer of our
acquaintance used to say the time TO build
sleds is in summer, and that wagons should
he built in winter According TO his rule,
milk rooms for summer use should be built
and furnished in winter
Bearing this in mind, we can perhaps
give our readers nothing more appropriate
at this time than some plans for keeping
milk sweet in hot weather
PLANS FOR COOLING MILK.
The first was suggested by our cores
pondent q F Nutting. of Randolph. Vt
The idea is claimed BY him as original
andconsists in running the pipe Of an aque-
duct down into deep, cold we'll of water
and passing il several times across the
bottom Of the well, using perhaps thirty
feet or more of pipe under water and then
..l1.yyiUC 5r llp AGAIN 10 a VAT in the milk
roon fnto vhicH the milk j. placed in
mons r,. r-,,s a. most 4,.eira}l,
l,
MS ~ d4l2V V.44'H ~ IiAN 0eeli Put ~ piAt-
'eal l0e lar ntlghuor OF his having a
IalIv u -l COWS. and mas worked to
4tat.r,7 A-rh.s strp.tr, J. constan nj and +hn
.,-,t. +. , -,rt ,tN.,.., f,,t HAN, .,,l
,ery cold d ,aree-eiobth i1ch pipe is suffi-
.eieutIv large to convey aifthe water need
ed fol- cooling the mink in the milk room.
The suppIv is regulated bv a stop cock in
lae ASCENDING pne In the vat. next TO
where tg, water aDter- the cream pail is
kept and also "a lar tor table butter or
other articles which It is desirable to keep
an 81 low temperature OF course this is
practicable only where there is spring
water which may be conveyed, by pipe,
through a cold deep Well either already
aug or III prospect.
Mr. /. b Arnold. i'm reply to a CORES
pondent Of the y y Tribune, gives a plan
for building milk room above ground
and for cooling the milk bv the use of ice
where cola water /. NOT within easy con.
trol
The INQUIRER. Mr. Adam, wished to dis
peDse with ice altooatbpr and Asked tha
following 9uestior,E
Wonfa :, ,i,f1l.,.on.o ,,,,f,- ,eto. ,,,,. ,,,,ao.
r an lcehou~e be oo TEN gnonab & for or mix il9 nnd
butter that i. one built top Of ground with
double walls, say Il foot space, Tiled with saw
t0SJ and dust overhead, with double door,
MI Arnold replied rs follows
The plan proposed viii work well, and much
better than cellar or any underground room
~ o1- A.. a, l9e 'aMdnst VIII Keep bright and
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