Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-08-23
TIE DAIRY.
DAIRY ROOM.

al lllAS CCAcCA Va e"o s
ton should be paid to extreme cleanliness
about the dairy room and all its appunrteAn-
ances, tor during this heated term noxiot1s
odors; and other contan,inations are genera
ted most readily, and do the most mischief.
In this connection Willis r. Hazard, in
Butter and Butter-making, is not a Jot TOO
e~xacting in insisting that everything must
be removed that will impart impure 1odors
or faint the atmosphere. of the dairy room,
and thus injure the butter. The shoes OF
the dairyman should be removed when COM
ing from thetbarnyard, and exchanged out
side the spring house door for another pair
kept there tor. the purpose. Otherwise IT
would be impossible to prevent carrying in
sufficient fifth to faint the atmosphere and
communicate it to the milk. po, s'7a5gss iii
Another ource of injury to the taste OF
butter is the imperceptible odor from kcro-
stente lamps, which have often to be used in
the dairy house. Tliis can be obyiated by
having the lamps set iilsockcts, and a pipe,
leading outside, placed over the top Of the
chimney, which will carry off the odors.. Oh
a box containing the lamp and reflectors
can be so constructed either built in the
wall with glass front on the inside Of the
house and opened only from the outside OF
arranged in the window. 1t should project
on the outside SO as to be readily reached
from the outside and should have a pipe
for the exit of the smoke. 1t is most inpor-
tant'to have pure air, and that the milk
room be clean, cool, dry, airy and well ven
tilated.%H The temperature should range
about 60 to G5 degrees never higher than
the latter and not lower than 81 degrees, as
creams separates best in atcool place. Milk
set and kept ut a temperature Of 40 degrees,
will not sour, and the cream will become
bitter before it is fit to skim. If the milk is
set to rise in a hot room ut a Temperature of
70 to Y degrees, it, will very 0 0 become
sour and thick, will not yield so much cream
and will make soft, oily butter, which will
soon become rancid. The dairy should front
the. north, and be shaded by trees, so as TO
admit the light and air, as light is necessary
to develop. color in cream, but exclude the
sunshine and the heat. sEyergreens. are the
best for this, as they cool tie atmosphere in
summer and warm il, in winter. y E.r,, {,f..
In many Of the Western States where the
ground is not 50 rolling and billy as in some
regions more favored with springs, a spring
house can be made near well, will be very
convenient and nearer the house than the
spring, might happen to be. The ground
may be excayated about four feet, by some
IL feet square, and a solid stone. wall, two
feet thick and four feet high laid in cement.
HE floor inside is laid in cement Mt the bot
tom offtfle excavation, slightly inclining to
one cornerIosforo complete drainage and
washing The wall is built4up full width.
tour feet, and then All offset.of rs inches is
made TO the rear, or outside, where. the wall
rs carried up two teeti higher, butsonlyi six
lhches thick, to form the foundation of the
frame superstnneture; o this isobuilt a bal
loon frame with eight. feet posts, boarded
outside andiin,. and the wall made as tight
possible Upon the ledge created by the
onsee, III narrow wall, about four inches
iligh and wide, is made on the front edge OF
u'fs ieage' by which, being well tplastered
Will the cement, 4 gutter or vat is tnade
some four inches, deep, and of course 80
''ches Write, with u slight descent to the
corner opposite to that where the water is
introduced. Into this vat the freshUmilk is,
eel, while warm, and cold water conducted
'oi'1fom the weh.9The milk cools rapidly