Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-12-01
OF INTEREST TO DA1RYMEN.
Tests at the BrattleborO Jelly Conn
pany's Building with n Remarkably
Satisfactory Sepnrntor.

Tests at the BrattIeborO Jelly Conn
pany's Building with Il Remarkably
Satisfactory Separator.
The last census gave some startling fig
ures-none perhaps more so than those
showing the magnitude of the dairy indus
try in this country. This can perhaps be
better shown by means of simple COM
| parison. The gold product of the country
reaches S31, 900, 600 annually. that of silver
about $4,000, 600, of wool So, 0OO, 600
and that of pig iron, less than So, 600 600
! These combined amount to S215, 00O, 000
which is less than one-fourth the value of
the products of our diaries, which is $780,
100000. These figures mean more than a
verbal description can show.
A wonderful stimulus has been given
this business in the last decade, notably
through the great improvement of the but
ter cow, and the greater improvement of
apparatus for handling the milk to produce
best results. 1t is only about ten years
since the first mechanical separation of
cream from milk was attempted in this
country. Since it has been proved sue
cess, it has largely suppanted the use of
the gravity system in factories and cream
cries.
A very large number of dairymen, who,
for one cause OF another, are not patrons
of a creamery, have demanded a machine
fitted for their needs-one which should be
simple, efficient, durable and cheap Sew
eral machines have been devised which
which have had some measure of success,
all doubtless being far ahead of the gravity
system, but in some of the above points
notably in simplicity and cheapness, these
separators have fallen far short of the ideal
machine. The new Columbia separator
was shown to many interested people last
Thursday and Friday by its inventor, Mr..
j. j. BerIigan of Avon, n Y, at the Brat
tleboro Jelly company's building. A good
number of tests, with whole and skinned
milk, and with milk supposed TO be prac
tically free from butter fat, resulted in
a skim milk entirely free from any percept-
ibe trace of butter fat as shown by the
Babcock test, and the amount and quality
of cream produced were very satisfactory,
especially from milk from one of the most
approved and most widely used of the pat
ented gravity systems. The milk for this
test was taken from the bottom of the
cans, and hence the part poorest in butter
fat, and the amount of cream found and
removed, formed a striking and valuable
object lesson.
The new separator appears to be the
and the wear must be very slight The
cleansing is far easier and quicker than
that of the average machine. Again It's
low price places it within the reach Of
many who have never felt able to own tn,
older and more costly machines. Another
problem has been solved by the appearance
of the Columbia Most of the machines
suitable for the dairy have been run 10y
| hand, which has never been entirely salts
9 factory. Besides the labor and time in
s volved, the motion is not steady enough Il
produce the best results, but with the Co
( lumbia separator driven by an Acme kero
sene engine, such as was shown at the Val
ley fair, the motion is entirely uniform
= Many of the users of hand machines ar
now using power, and this seems to be jus
f the thing for them also.
The cost of the entire Columbia outfit
separator, engine, boiler, belts extras, etc.
=. is only a little above the cost of the forme
hand machines of the same capacity, an,
5 the cost of operation does not exceed tw
to three cents per hour for dairy of 10 L
|; 80 cows The uses to which light powe
II may be applied besides churning, are aI
Il preciated by every owner of a one-hors
o tread power, while the use of the eXhaus
steam for warming drinking water for tn
e cattle, as well as for dairy and other pur
poses, and the use of live steam for cook
h ing feed, steaming dairy utensils, etc, vii
c be found of great value.
The BrAttleboro Jelly company hav
y. taken the agency for these outfits, and fo
the present purpose to show the machin
4. in operation every Saturday. from l to
!. p. NJ, and will separate milk brou hit fo
-, that purpose by any farmer. This wi
; give interested parties a chance to test tn
merits of the machine.