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 MODEL DESIGNS FOR FAli.M HOUSES. 31 741 close to one of which is a Siebe's pump, from a well or tank common to the whole dalrv. It will be observed, by the five steps at e, that the floor of this building is three feet below the common surface of the soil. The room marked f is the dairy scullery ; in which may be observed a boiler, two windows, two sinks close to one of which is a Siebe's pump, and five steps at the entrance door. In this room the dairy utensils are to be washed; and churning may be performed, if it should be a butter dairy; or cheeses pressed, if the object should be cheese-making. In both these rooms there should be traps to a common drain ; and from one of the sinks in each room a bell trap communicating with the pig's food tank, unless the piggery should be at such a distance as to render it more economical to convey the milk thither in wheelbarrow tubs. The two milk rooms, g g, are to the right and left of the lobby or drying-room ; and these are surrounded by siate or thin stone shelves two feet broad, with smaller shelves beneath them eighteen inches broad, indicated in the section, fig. 742. Each range of shelves has two small fc 742 ,. sinks, at the two corners next the lobby and scullery : one of these sinks is for waste milk for the pigs, and the other, which has a Siebe's pump close beside it, for waste water. It is to be observed that we mention Siebe's pump, because it goes into less bulk than any other ; and, indeed, when the handle is taken off, and an escutcheon put over the keyhole, no appearance whatever of a pump is discernible. These pumps are also worked in much less space than any other. In the centre of the floor of each of these milk-rooms is a small circular basin, and under the shelves in each is a trap to a di-ain. There are skylights dnrectly over the two circular basins, which are seen in the section fig. 742, at h h. These are covered with glass cases, which project and are open at the eaves ; and under these are other glass cases, i i, which are lifted out during sununer, but put in again during winter for the purpose of retaining heat : below these cases are wiie- cloth frames, which remain on always, in order to exclude the flies. There are three windows, * A *, in the side walls of these milk-rooms, with three frames, shown both in the plan, fig. 741, and in the section, fig. 742. The outer frames of these windows are filled in with wirecloth, and fixed ; the two inner frames with glass, each in two vertical divisions, hinged, so as to admit or exclude air at pleasure. There are double doors to each of the rooms, one of which is chiefly of wirecloth, and the other of wood, so that ventilation may be allowed to take place from or to the drynng-room, a, as may be required to warm or cool the milk-room. It wiU be observed that the milk-room is surrounded by double walls ; and by the section fig. 742 it wiU be seen that the whole is covered with a mound of earth, which necessarily produces the long tubular openings to the side- wall windows, A *, so favourable for producing currents of air during the warm season, and for tempering the frosty air during winter. Fig. 743 is a cross section,
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