Dodge City times., 1879-12-06
FARM TOPICS.

Three miles to the southwest of our
borough, in the township of East Brad
ford, there has been erected during the
past summer an establishment which
will undoubtedly prove to be not only 4
money-making concern to its protector,
but n great convenience to all farmers
living in the surrounding neighborhood
and other parts easily accessible there
to. The building is now about COM
pleted, and has been christened by its
owner, Mr.. f. II. Holley of WolcGtts-
vile, Conn.,, 90 The Allerton Farm
Creamery. In length it is Ss l-2 feet,
width 20 feet, and height, not including
engine house and wood room, 20 feet
The outside is painted white, is entirely
without ornamentation of any kind, and
in general appearance seems to indicate
that it was erected for business alone,
On entering the various rooms into
which the building is divided, one ac-
quainted with the business can not but
be impressed with the improved char
acter of the apparatus employed, and
with the completeness with which all the
details for carrying on a first-class
butter and cheese manufactory and grist
mill are managed. In the engine-rOom,
the dimensions of. which are q by 16
feet, are 6-horse power engine and an
S-horse power boiler, and the motive
power thus furnished drives what shaft
ing is required, and provides the neces-
sary heat and steam. Fronting the
engine-hcuse is the wood and store
room, 20 by 16 feet, in which is a circu-
lar saw connected by betting to large
wheel, giving 5000 revolutions to the
saw per minute. Immediately to the
front of this room, on the outside of the
building, will be placed Fairbanks
scale, which will be convenient for pub
lie weighing, inasmuch as it will be To-
Gated within 10 feet of the road, and can
weigh six tons. The grist mill, which
adjoins the engine-house to the rear, has
the same dimensions as the latter, but is
not yet completed. Mr.. Holley intends
placing under the floor of this room a
hopper with capacity of $50 bushels,
to connect by series of buckets with a
French buhr stone, which will be located
in one corner of the mill, so that when
the hopper is filed no labor will be re-
quired save the tying up of the bag as it
fills with meal from the funnel. The
stone will be placed at convenient
height, and the labor attending the ar
ranging of the empty bags to be filled,
and the removal of full ones to the
wagons, will be almost too inconsiderable
to take into account. The room above
the mill is designed for the storage of
grain, and in this will also be placed a
large grindstone.
In the rear of the grist-mill room is
the creamery proper, "A 1-2 feet long,
30 feet wide, and - feet high. Here
there are three large Whitman & Bur-
rill refrigerators, each one having a Ca
pacitv of $50 gallons. These reservoirs
are divided into four compartments by
two hollow divisions of tin running their
entire length. Through these hollow
partitions runs cold water, which is con-
Quoted through an inch and quarter
pipe by natural flow from a spring on
the premises-frst, however, passing
through a refrigerator in the cellar of
the building, where 100 feet of galvan-
lied iron pipe are arranged, covered
with water and ice. BY this agency the
water passes through the milk refrig
orators at very low temperature, and
thus effects the result desired. The
quantity of water in these large milk
pans is regulated by three faucets, ar
ranged at different heights: while a
fourth one, at the bottom, is used to
draw off the skinned milk, which
passes down through funnel under the
floor, and is carried to the pig-pen, 200
feet distant. This same faucet is then
used to draw off the cream, which is
gently thrown to the front of the vessel
by means of two levers, which tip the
refrigerator slightly forward and
give greater force to the flow.
The lids of these vessels are
raised and lowered by means of