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^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 a<j m.ay be found necessary. Its en- trance should be from the south, where the. roof projefts ^bout two feet over the wall, as at f, which door commnnicates immediately with the milk-house, and may be occasionally opened in the sum- mer ; bat wiiich aloiife ought to be used during the winter, when the chief entrance B, should be con- stantly shut. At one end of this apartn>ent 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