The Republican

A CREAM BROODER.

Simple Device Which Has Given Satisfactory Results.

The following note is contributed to the Rural New-Yorker by Mr. A. G. Chapman, and may afford a useful suggestion, though it seems to us that one might far better get a ripening vat, the best device being emphatically the cheapest in dairying.

It is a good deal of trouble to keep cream at a proper temperature in winter. If the whole milk-room is kept warm, it costs a good deal for fuel, as no fire is needed where the creamer is used. If the cream has to go behind the stove in the living room, it is much in the way, and may absorb some of the odors from the cooking vegetables. It makes a good deal of hard lugging for some one; so I concluded to make a small room on the principle of the brooder.

Make a box wide and high enough to hold a cream pail and long enough to hold all the cream pails you have. Make a cover that can be laid on and will be tight. Cut a hole a foot square in the bottom and line the edges with tin. Stop this up by nailing a piece of sheet iron over it on the outside. Nail on some legs so as to raise it up from the floor high enough to put a lamp under it. If in a room where wind will blow, get a box without a cover and put a door in the side and set the big box on it. Put your lamp inside and shut the door. Make a slat rack and place inside to set the pails on to keep them up from the bottom of the box so that the air can pass under them. Any ordinary lamp can be used, but a tin one with a good sized burner and a sheet iron chimney is best. By regulating the flame, one can get just the degree of heat needed. A little practice and a thermometer are all that are needed to get excellent results.