The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-01-22
DAIRYING MADE EASY.

OF dairy products and machinery are be-
ing made in connection with the annual
meeting of the Vermont Dairymen's
Association here, suggests the progress
that has been made in that department
OF agriculture within the past few dec
AIDES, and still is making. Old methods
are fast disappearing in the revolutions
OF machinery, which have reached the
art of butter making.
Once the farm house was built with
special reference to the milk room and
and its capacity for milk setting with its
scores of tin pans. The temperature of
the room and everything connected with
the industry became care and a study.
The work was done by the housewife
and dairymaid until it came to churning.
when stronger hands were invited to the
churn dasher or crank. Everything was
done by manual labor, and it now seems
| by the hardest way. improvements
were made in the construction of churns.
some being better than others, but none
OF them gave exemption from the hard
est sort of work. improvements were
made in milk setting, bureaus and vari-
GUS designs of implements being substi-
tuted for the ordinary milk pan and milk
shelf; still, while better article of man
ufacture was the result, the volume of
labor and care was not materially dimin-
ished. 1t was all work, work, in which
the women of the household were in
volved without any let up.
| To-day steam or other power with me-
chanical motor and machinery does the
work, from the milking of the COW to
the perfection of the butter First in
the revolution came the cream separator.
which has been in use for a number Of
years. This has also been followed by
another machine quite recently, which
also does the churning at the same Oper-
alton. All there is of it, the milk is con-
Quoted from the tank by tube to the
butter extractor and the skinned
milk flows out from one spout and the
butter with the buttermilk from another.
There are two Of these machines work
ing at the rink, but both substantially
the same. One receives it motion from
steam engine, and connected with the
other is a rotary steam motor which
makes the machine complete within
itself. They are of Swedish origin.
They can be used as cream separators
separately, or as both separatOrs and
butter extractors. 1t is claimed for
them that they will separate the cream
from about 200O pounds of milk per
hour, or extract butter from 1900 pounds
of milk in the same time. There are also
two sizes of the De Laval Baby separ-
atOrs, one on exhibition. These are
worked by hand, having capacities of
from $50 to $50 pounds.
1t is claimed for the machine process
that the butter is uniform in every par
ticular and is of the very best quality.
But all other things being equal, it would
seem that there is much labor and ex-
pense TO be saved by the new method.
The world during the last half century
has received its greatest propulsion from
invention and machinery in every de-
partment of human effort. The farmer
has been benefited no less in the use of
labor-saving machinery. But we will not
attempt to dilate upon the beneficial
changes that have taken place. Every
one will see them at a glance. 1t has
come to be that about everything III the
dairyihg line is done more or less by
machinery, from securing the hay and
fodder for the animals, to the end, except
the milking of the COW, and it may be
that some cOntrivance for this purpose
may be invented.
| If there is no saving of labor and ex-
pense in the introduction of machinery
for butter making, the producers will
find it out This is a practical question
and can only be decided by experiment
and experience. But to an outsider it
would seem that labor saving machinery
is to work the same revolution in this
department of labor as in others. The
milk room and dairy implements are dis
pensed with, also much of the house
help. More than this, creamery-made
butter is sure of the readiest sales and at
| al. g
a consideration in these DAYS of Oleomar-
garine. 1t is the best that is wanted and
the best will find q market; oleOmarga-
rine or none of the stuff.
We can say that we are astonished and
happily surprised with the exhibition
made of butter making machinery at the
rink. Older people never would have
dreamed that butter was to follow the
milking, perhaps in fifteen minutes, and
the best of butter at that. And then the
other exhibits at the rink are well worth
a visit. The butter and cheese on eXhi-
bitl0n proves the progress that has been
made in dairying. The new and various
designs for butter packages and holdings
are unique. Aud in this connection we
cannot refrain from speaking of the Yer
mont Machine Company 5 exhibit O{ but
ter bureaus and implements, also of the
IcOmpanys maple sugar evapOrator.
Something of an improvement in the
latter, we should say, over old potash
Kettle" hung upon a pole, with green
wood cut for boiling. Who can say the
world is not moving? None but those
who are too blind to see OF are too deaf
70 hear. And above all things, farming,
which was once thought 10 be the occu-
patton of completest drudgery, is being
made more attractive and pleasant each
year by the introduction of labor saving
machinery.-MesSenger