TRAVELLING DAIRIES.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2827, 17 April 1882, Page 3

TRAVELLING DAIRIES.

A description of the travelling dairy built for the Eoyal 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 can also be loaded on rail by removing the wheels. When the dairy is set down for work the wheels are removed, the sides expand and open ont:similarly to a street coffee van, and the spectators stand or sit on platform erected along each side, thus being able to see all the operations

carried on within the • dairy. ? * The dairy itself is 12ft by 10ft and contains all the appliances suitable for a teri i cow dairy; At the endtthere is a; press, which contains lagged cisterns for hot and cold water, which can be drawn off in the dairy. A portable boiler’supplies the hot water, in lidf weather a light canvass covering 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 is 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 ’Seven pounds per week and transit expenses of the dairy add stuff. Hirer must also supply eight gallons of cream for each churning, but receives back the butter and buttermilK,

As a rule, there are generally two churnings each day. The lecturer gives instruction previous to and throughout the whole operation from the commencement of churning to the butter being made up for Loudon market, .No wader, is used to wash the butter. The buttermilk is taken out with butter-workers, and the salting does not exceed loz. to seven pouuds.; Improved packages and mode of packing are exhibited. Prizes are given by the .Royal Agricultural Society in each district to dairymaid? who! having attended at least three lectures and churnings at the dairy, pass-' the bes viva voce examination held by tho society’s lecturer at the conclusion of the visit of dairy. In some places as many as nineteen and twenty ’presented themselves for examination, and the general answering was very good indeed, in addition to a money prize, tho society issues '.a hand-, some illuminated certificate. Tho total cost sf the dairy, including fittings, was £l3O,