milkery

A place where animals are milked.

But a cow confined on ship-board, in the stable of a private citizen, or in the narrow stenchy stalls of the milkeries which supply cities, does not live a natural life, and can not by any possibility give natural, healthful milk; […]

Now contrast this with the untidy manner in which many farmers allow their milkers to milk the cows—hair unbrushed, full of husks and straws, perhaps, just as they come from loading hay or threshing grain; […] When we think of the condition of the hands and clothes of those who “go to the milkery” without washing, or change of raiment, or brushing the hair, we can not wonder that poor milk and butter are so common, even if there was no other reason for it.

A place where milk is stored and it or dairy products are processed or sold.

The milk is cooled to a temperature of 5 degs. C. as soon as it is drawn, and must be kept cool until it is delivered at the milkery in Copenhagen, no milk being accepted if its temperature is over 10 degs.

The proprietors of the neighbourhood have a milkery in the town four miles away; part is sold as milk—2d. a litre retail, 1¼d. wholesale—part is made into butter, and if there is skim-milk unsold it comes back for the pigs.