HINTS TO DAIRYMEN.

Otago Witness, Issue 1324, 14 April 1877, Page 18

HINTS TO DAIRYMEN.

A well-arranged dairy should' consist of separate rooms for the different operations jrequired to be v carriedon — the milk-room, the cheese-room, the churning-roomi an< i a room, detached if possible, containing a furnace-boiler, and other conveniences for easily and thoroughly cleansing the utensils used. Thorough 8 cleanliness and perfect . ventilation are essential to the successful carrying on of dairying pursuits. To more effectually secure these points, the dairy should be isolated, from all other buildings ; it should have a double roof with a space of- about a foot between the two, and a hermetical ceiling beneath all.j and the walls should be surrounded on all sides by a broad verandah. j The "floor should be paved with smooth glazed tiles, if procurable, or* in their,absence, with any kind of hard; and imporous stone. The windows of the milkroom should be large, and, provided with outside shelters covered with fine wire gauze, so that flie3 and, .insects may be kept out when the windows are open. With*gauze shutters,' glazed indeed necessary, though , they., offer this advantage, that in winter," time the tem--perature of the ; dairy .may be maintained, at a fair temperature. Enamelled iron or, j earthenware milk-pans are 'preferable to [ tin ones ; but in the case of earthenware, care should be taken that they, are not' lead-glazed, as the action of the' acid of the milk' on lead produces poisonl In churning, maintain the temperature at from 51 to 56 degrees Fahr. . From ex-, periments, it would seem that- at the former temperature • the best quality, while at the latter the greatest quantity,', of butter is obtained.

Quiet, rest, gentle and kind treatment, "'; are necessary to insure the heaviest secretions of pure and rich milk. Cows that, are kept excited and shy from ill-treat- J ment will never fully develope their milk-! ing qualities ;■ hence, the same, cow, inthe hands of two different persons, may; prove herself to the one a copious and to the other a scant milker., ' '