This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...the interior register faces open on hinges, so that the ducts, plastered smooth on the inside and drained at the bottom, may be thoroughly washed out. Air is better let into the building through the window, all windows being screened with muslin screens, arranged so that the muslin may be taken out and either washed or renewed. The muslin clarifies the air coming through it and becomes astonishingly dusty in a short time. Ordinarily the dairy needs very little ventilation and is better without it when the milk is exposed. Before using the milk room, it should be filled with live steam, which not only acts as a sterilizer, but also precipitates the dust. The same sanitary methods of construction should be used in the dairy as suggested for the cow barn, and all projections and moldings should be eliminated; the walls and ceilings plastered in cement, and the floors made of concrete, never of wood. All the rooms should be heated, though not much heat is required in either the wash room or the milk room if the highpressure sterilizer is installed. The best type of radiation is the steam coil, which should always be placed on the walls and never on the ceiling, for in washing down the dairy rooms the water drips from the ceiling coils, which for this reason are objectionable. Chapter IV ADMINISTRATION IT seems better to continue here with the subject of administration while the details of the cow barn and dairy building are still fresh in mind; for in the making of clean milk it is the method of doing the work which really counts. Carelessness in this regard will very quickly offset the advantages of a well-equipped dairy barn, and, on the other hand, careful methods can produce excellent milk from inferior buildings and equipment. Even the...