Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 48, No. XVIII, April, 1854Various
General
Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 48, No. XVIII, April, 1854
Various
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This building is one and a half stories high, with a broad, spreading roof
of 45° pitch; the ground plan is 10 feet between joists, and the posts 16
feet high. An ice-house is at one end, and a wood-shed at the opposite
end, of the same size. This building is supposed to be erected near the
milking-sheds of the farm, and in contiguity to the feeding-troughs of the
cows, or the piggery, and adapted to the convenience of feeding the whey
to whichever of these animals the dairyman may select, as both, or either
are required to consume it; and to which it may be conveyed in spouts from
the dairy-room.
[Illustration: GROUND PLAN.]
_Interior Arrangement._--The front door is protected by a light porch _a_,
entering by a door _b_, the main dairy-room. The cheese-presses _c_, _c_,
occupy the left end of the room, between which a passage leads through a
door _l_, into the wood-shed _h_, open on all sides, with its roof resting
on four posts set in the ground. The large cheese-table _d_ stands on
the opposite end, and is three feet wide. In the centre of the room is a
chimney _e_, with a whey and water boiler, and vats on each side. A flight
of stairs _f_, leading into the storage-room above, is in the rear. A
door _b_, on the extreme right, leads into the ice-house _g_. There are
four windows to the room--two on each side, front and rear. In the loft
are placed the shelves for storing the cheese, as soon as sufficiently
prepared on the temporary table below. This loft is thoroughly ventilated
by windows, and the heat of the sun upon it ripens the cheese rapidly
for market. A trapdoor, through the floors, over which is hung a tackle,
admits the cheese from below, or passes it down when prepared for market.
The cheese-house should, if possible, be placed on a sloping bank, when
it is designed to feed the whey to pigs; and even when it is fed to cows,
it is more convenient to pass it to them on a lower level than to carry
it out in buckets. It may, however, if on level ground, be discharged
into vats, in a cellar below, and pumped out as wanted. A cellar is
convenient--indeed, almost indispensable--under the cheese dairy; and
water should be so near as to be easily pumped or drawn into the vats and
kettles used in running up the curd, or for washing the utensils used in
the work. When the milk is kept over night for the next morning's curd,
temporary tables may be placed near the ice-room, to hold the pans or
tubs in which it may be set, and the ice used to temper the milk to the
proper degree for raising the cream. If the dairy be of such extent as to
require larger accommodations than the plan here suggested, a room or two
may be partitioned off from the main milk and pressing-room for washing
the vessels and other articles employed, and for setting the milk. Every
facility should be made for neatness in all the operations connected with
the work.
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