Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-05-15
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Forest City Creamery.

While waiting for a train al the L mon
Station in Portland few days ago. We
stepped into the building Of the Forest City
Creamery on the street corner just opposite
from the station. where trenty minutes
we're spen; in a most interesting way AZ
first thought il must seem little odd that the
making Of butter, which is purely an ayr
cultural operation is carried 90 in large
city rhere 80 much business is done
which 10 Just the opposite from the quiet
psr.aits Of the farm. and where the passing
Of railway train. all day and also much Of tie
Night give. an idea Of active business and com
mefeiaI pursuits -idely different from grazing
sas. the poetic duties Of the dairy maid But
such are the methods. appliances and De-
mands Of modern farming anI the distribu-
ton Of farm products, that the business Of
butter making can be better carried % at
such centre than in the midst Of purely az
ricultarai communities. snd it Is the neeessi
~ for the employ msnt Of these modern appii-
.nces in agricultural operations which make
ereameries a: such points a success as they
always have been.
This creamery occupies a very neatly
painted building. ~ BY 100 feet two stories
high, with the main entrance on Congress
street neat and convenient Office
occupie. the room frst entered, and
from this one passes excessively into the
working room, churBing room, receiving and
handling room and engine room, the last oc-
eupying the rear end Of the creamery build
ing From a eshat hasty examination,
which was sufficient however To give pretty
close il rapid inspection Of building and APP
pliances. W. found all apparatus and machin
cry to be- Of the best and most approved mod
rrn patterns. Among these fixtures are
ten horse power steam engine, cream
tempering vat Of the Vermont Farm
Machine Company make, DE Laval cream
separator. Blanchard churn Rice power but
ter worker together with prints for butter,
tubs, eaBs and cream bottles of the most ap-
proved kinds. On the wet side Of the build
Ing IL a large refrigerator having capacit!
Of about ten tons of ice. the quantity nov
being used being from four to FIVE tons a
week. Sebago Lake water is introduced all
over the building, and the large wats tanks
into which the cans of milk are placed are
disposed in convenient places about the DIFF
ferent rooms
Milk and cream for this creamery re-
ceived over the Maine Central. the farthes'
points being fryeburg on the +. and o. III
vision, and Freeport on tie main system
The creamery is now receiving rs cans of
two gallons each day, for which % ete.
can is pad, delivered at the factory. Be
side. the localities just named milk is re-
ceived from New Gloucester, Danyille, Var
mouth Cumberland and intermediate points.
The milk that is sent to the factory is sepa
rated az soon as received. the sweet cream
being put into bottles for city customer
the cream that is received by rail being i'm
mediately made into butter. These glass
bottles used for cream for city customers
are of three sizes, half-pints, piots
and quarts, each having an adjustable
and metallic cover which goes
on with Il clasp, and which is come cted with
the bottle so that 1t it impossible for it to be-
easily kept clean, and it is impossible for
thu IN TO become foul through PARTICLES of
cream adhering to the corners where they
cannot be we'll clesnsed AS in the case with