TRAVELLING DAIRIES.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2493, 3 April 1882, Page 3

TRAVELLING DAIRIES.

A description of the travelling dairy built for the Boyal Agricultural Society of Ireland by Mr George Patterson, of York, has been given by Canon Bagot in the " Irish Farmers' Gazette," who is very sanguine of its usefulness. The dairy, he says, is very portable, one horse being sufficient to take it by road, and it oan also be loaded on rail by removing tho wheels. When the dsiry is set down for work the wheals areromoved, the sides expand and open out similarly to a street coffee van, and tho spectators stand or sit on platforms erocted along each side, thus being able to see all the operations carried on within the dairy. The dairy itself ia 12ft. by 10ft. and contains all the appliances suitable for a ten-oow dairy. At the end there is a press, which oontaius lagged cisterns for hot and cold water, which oan be drawn off in the dairy. A portable boiler supplies the hot water. In hot weather a light canvaos ooverirg is fastened over the roof, leaving an air space of about Sin. By keeping this covering saturated with water (by a syringe) a moderate temperature ib kept up in the dairy even in very warm weather. The staff consists of a lecturer and superintendent, a dairymaid, and a dairy attendant. The society's terms for hire of dairy and staff are as follows : Soven pounds per week and transit expenses of the dairy and staff. Hirer mußt also supply eight gallons of oream for eaoh churning, but receives baok the butter and the buttermilk. As a rule, there are generally two churnings each d>iy. The leoturer gives instruction previous to and throughout the whole operation from the commencement of churning to the butter being made up for London market. No water is used to wash tho butter. The butter-milk is taken out with butttrwovkers, and tho salting does not exceed loz. to seven pounds. Improved packages and mode of packing are exhibited. Prizes are given by the Boyal Agricultural Society in eaoh district to dairymaids who, having attended at least three lectures and churnings at the dairy, pass the best viva ooe examination held by the society's lecturer at the conclusion of the visit of the dairy. In some places as many as nineteen and twenty presented themselves for examination, and the general answoring was very good indeed. In addition to a money prizs, the eooiety issueß a handsome illuminated certificate. Tho total coat of the dairy, including fittings, was 1 £l3O.