THE TRAVELLING DAIRIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1047, 13 April 1882, Page 2

THE TRAVELLING DAIRIES.

A description of the travelling daily built for the Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland by Mr George Patterson, of York, has been given by Canon Bagot in the "Irish Farmers' Gazette/' \rho ip very sanguine of jts 'usefulness, The dairy, he says, is very portable, one horse being sufficient to take it by road, and it can also bo loaded on rail by removing the wheels. When the dairy is set down for work the wheels are removed, the aides expand and open out Bimiliarly to a street coffee van, and the spectators stand or sit on platforme 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 ap, pliances suitable for a ten-cow dairy,'' At the end there is a press,which contajnß lagged cisterns for hot and cpld water, which can be drawn off in the dairy. A portable boiler supplies the hot water. In hot weather a light oanvass oovering is faatened over the roof, leaving an air space of about 5 inches,, By keeping this coveriug saturated with water (by a syringe) a moderate temperaturo is kept up in the diary even in. very warm) weaIher. The staff consists of a lecturer and superintendent, a dairymaid, and a dairy attendant. The Society's termß- for hire of dairy and staff are. as follows:—Seven pounds per week andtransit expenses of dairy and staff, Hirer must also Bupply eight gallqns of cream fqr each ohurjrjng, but reoeives baok the'butter" and the buttermilk. _ As a rule, there are generally two ohurnings each day, The lecturer gives instruotionprevious to throughout the whole operation from the commencement of churning to the butterbeing made up in London market. No water is used to wash the •butter. The buttermilk is taken out with butterworkers, and the salting does not exceed loz. to seven pounds. Improved packages and mode of packing are exhibited. 'Prizesaie'givenbythe Royal Agricultural Society in eaoh. djstriot to dairymaids Who, having attended a,t least three leoturea aod chumirigs at the daisy, pass the best yivavoce examination held by the society's lecturer at the oon'clußion of the visit of the dairy, In some plates as many as aineteento twenty; presented themselves for examination, and the general answering .was very good indeed, Id addition to a money prize, the society issues a handsome illuminated" 'certificate. The total cost of the 1 dairy. -iiioludiDg fittings, was ■••■