The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-09-02

Creaueraes that raw.
Editors Neridian; have just visited two OF
the best paying "Creameriss" Of Delaware
county, Penn, one of which supplies the cele-
brsted Darlington tier" to b found on the
table OF the White House, and patrontsed by the
social and political aristocracy Of Washington
and Philadelphia.
As the subject Of creamery has recently been
agitated In Tallahassee, q description OF these
two, that supply the apprehension OF the Morrill,
(who are able to have their bread buttered on
bo<A sides,) may not be out of place.
Delaware county. 70 begin with, 10 the richest
grazing section have ever visited. Tho coun'
try 10 rolling and rugged. and the hills are 30
high and steep that Leon county would DO con-
adhered level In comparison. In ten mile drive
this morning, don't suppose there were six con-
secutive minutes when was not going up or
down A thousand cattle ARE literally upon a
thousand hills and:mos of them are all the time
in clover" In fact the fields of red and white
clover are on every hand, presenting rich, lux
uriant growth, and filing the air with fragrance.
The region Is well fenced, well cultivated. and
we'll stocked and many of the barns are larger
and finer than the.residences OF those who own
them.
1t is hill country, :beautful for situation, and
perfectly developed
The first creamery I visited was running full
last, and as entered 1t felt that Ihad at last
found the land flowing with milk and honey"
The latter is obtained also from the clover.
This establishment uses several thousand
quarts of the tactical fluid per day, and runs six
steel separation" which revolve at the rate OF
$500 revolutions per minute, aud two revolving
churns as big as hogsheads, which turn out from
six to eight hundred pounds of golden butter
per day. The amount of cheese and "snear-
case produced weekly may also be reckoned by
the ton. While by far the larger portion of the
milk from which the cream has been abstracted'
flows through a four inch pipe into reservoir
from which it is pumped by steam power to an
immense field half mile distant, where several
hundred pigs Stake their tn irst at this perpetual
fountain.
The whole process is characteristic of the 10Th
| century. No waste of material, no loss of time,
quick profits, and steam and ice the chief agents
| employed.
| No "setting" or skimming of the milk are
necessary 1t is ready to be made into butter
and cheese the moment it leaves the COW, and
the sooner the better
Centrifugal force will do in a moment what
gravitation and specific gravity require hours to
accomplish. The same forces that hold the
earth and planets in their orbits, are employed to
seperate the cream, and to butter the bread
of political aristocracy and social democracy
| THE metropolis takes the cream, and pork
o-polis takes the skim-milk that is left
Strange to say, the whole institution is pre-
sided over by a" coored brother who is as fat
as he is polite, and though he has but one eye he
| can see more with it than most of his Southern
| cousins can with two.
He showed me through the establishment, and
explained everything thoroughly, taking great
pride in evincing the superiority of his method
over that employed down south"
He had half dozen white folks under him,
who seemed to regard this fat, one-eyed African
as the "boss of butterdom.
The milk is received morning and evening
from the farmers, and weighed and tested The
price paid for it, is according to its quality 1t is
| placed in large tanks which resemble huge bath
tubs, and from these it flows through half-inch
pipes 10 the six seperators which are revolv-
ing with fearful rapidity, all of them being in a
row and connected with a single shaft, which
in turn is connected with a 10 horse power en-
CINE.
The six separator" look like six upright
nrna ahnnt fnnr feet high. They are
really hollow steel globes flatened at the poles,
and placed upon upright steel axles. Motion is
communicated from the foot OF the axle. The
milk flows into the top Of the globe at its centre
| and the instant it strikes the bottom of the rap
idly revolving disc, it assumes spherical shape,
and its particles are carried upward in the inverse
ratio of their specific gravity. The pure cream
being the lightest is forced out of small cut in
the top Of the steel disc, and flows thence through
a tin tube, into u So gallon tank, whence it is
drawn into three or four dozen large pals and
set in troughs of cold water.
The milk from which the cream has been
thoroughly distracted is thrown 10y the centrifu-
| gal force) from a small hole in the side of the
steel disc, and is caught by pan placed just be-
| low the one that catches the cream. From this
| pan it flows into two reservoirs five feet wide
and fifteen feet long One of these is heated 10
100 degrees by steam, and the milk is slowly
cooked" TO smear-case or cottage cheese"
The other is connected with an outside tank
where the surplus is pumped away to the pigs
In the adjoining room is the engine and the
two great drums or churns, which are revolved
and agitated by machinery. Lower down is the
refrigerator-room, which made me shiver as 1
entered it. Here two men were putting up the
butter in pound packages. This retas at 80 and
40 cents per pound
The same process found going on this morn
ing at the main Darlington" Creamery, situated
FIVE miles from here Four men were putting
up the halfpound municipalities in the refrgera-
tor room, and when the successive layers of
buter-balls, with the horn of plenty stamped
upon them, filled the box, it was placed in re-
ceptacle filled with cracked ice. This butter