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206&#93; ^o6] MiX water : and, in case it be supplied by a running stream, it will be re- quisite to make one side of such trousjh somewhat lower, that ihe ■waler may mn over, and thus be carried out of the house. Tee ftoor of the building should be con- structed v':lli stones ne.'.tly laid ; and, if thti^e be easi'y attainable, the shelves, delineated in the eleva- tion above given, should be hewn out ot'' the same materials : other- vise, they may consist of wooden planks. If the milk-liouse be situat- •ed near a large town, where ice could be vended during the sum- mer. Dr. Anderson is of opi- nion, it would be very beneficial to the owner, to ere6t an ice-house contiguous to this dair}', as rcpre- •sented at the letter C, in the up- permost cut above given. He re- commends i' to be surrounded by a double wall on three sides, ^'ith a passage or area intervening, as in the dairy, 'yhe receptacle for the ice ought to l;e formed of upright posts, Jir.ed with wattled- y/ork of ■""wands, or with close rail-work, but so as to leave a walk two feet and a half wide every way ; round which a gutter should be made to carry off such water ns may drain ■from the ice. This is, in his opi- .nlon, the cheapest method of build- ing an ice-house, in any situation ; and is far ])referable to the usual "mode of making vaults, which are ■ not only more li.ibJe to be damp, snd become mouldy, but are also far more expensive, and by no ■ means so wt H calculated to pre- ■ serve a gentle coolness, and an equal tem.perature, at every season. ■ The apartment, marked with •the letter D, is designed as a repo- sitory for the utensils of the dairy, in v.'hich they may be cleaned and MIL arranged., For this purpose, it will be advisable to place shelves round the walls, together with tables, and snc'i otlier articles aent is a fire-place, on which a cauldron, proportioned to the slzc of the dair)', ought to be fixed ; m order that there may be a continual supply of warm or hot water. Snch is the outline of Dr. An- derson's ingenious plan, whiclr appears to be well calculated tc7 enable attentive dairy -men, to' keep their milk of an equal tem- perature at all seasons, while they may, at the same time, carry oif the necessary operations with little trouble or expence. — Those of our readers, who wish to become mors intimately acquainted v/ith the wliole economy of the milk-house, will not without instruction peruse Dr. Anderson's Practical /iV-' marhs on the Manasement of the Dairy, which were originally pub- lished in the 5th vol. of the Lidtcrs end Papers of the Bath Society ; but which have been considerably enlarged in the 3d vol. of the new series of his valuable miscellany, entitled Recreations in Agriculture,- &c. MILK-THISTLE, or Ladies' Thistle, Cariuns mctrianns, L. an indigenous plant, growing onr ditch-hanks, road-sides, the bor- ders of corn-fields, and on rubbish :, it flowers in the month of August. Tiiough