Annual Report of the Wisconsin Dairymen's Association Volume 26 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... that Mr. Kas-per's cheese has been very fine and the only difference that I can see since the sub-earth duct was put in, is in the curing of them. They seem to break down, or be mo-re juicy with this particular factory, and I believe it is the right thing. Now, his cheese are not moldy at all; they are just as bright as new dollars. I am highly pleased with his cheese, particularly since lie has put in this sub-earth duct. Many factorymen think they can accomplish the same thing by using a basement, but they make a mistake; they must have the ventilation. The air in a cellar is dead; while there is motion in the duct. Mr. Favill: It was my pleasure to see the very first sub-earth duct that Mr. Wilkinson put in. It was a new thing then--about twenty years ago--but he had to have a little fire to produce a current, a lamp or something of that sort, to carry the air out of the room so he could make room for more to come in. How do you manage about that, do you have a fire? Mr. Kasper: We have a good ventilation pipe leading out of the room. Ex-Gov. Hoard: Prof. Wilkinson constructed his room as nearly air-tight as possible, so that all the air that came in from the outside should come through the duct. Mr. Kasper: We have double doors and double windows, everything as tight as we can make it, so that the outside hot air shall not come in. Mr. Wilson: Air does not move in perpendicular currents naturally; it only moves horizontally. I want to find out what means you have used to get the perpendicular current from the duct down and the hot air out?-The Chairman: In the first place they have the force of the wind driving into the in-take some fifty-four feet high. It is the reverse on the out-go, so that the current takes it like the ordinary smoke...