The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1895-06-28
How Butter is Made.

Mr.. Beatty tells of visit to the Alba
ny Creamery, which is OF interest TO our
readers, showing as it does the process
of making butter.
have just been through 4 creamery
at Albany, and, as many of your readers
probably never saw one IN operation l
will tell you about it:
The milk is collected from farmers all
over a territory 20 miles across, or at
least 10 miles in some directions from
the creamery, and is brought in the
morning by the producers, beginning to
arrive usually by 7, and by it is rolling
in, seven or eight wegons at time. 1t
comes in all quantities, from | gallon ls
lbs } to 1900 pounds at load. Each
patron has number and this is on the
book with his name, and alsosop the jar
that receives the samples to be tested.
From :he weighing can it falls into
large vat made of tin, and this is jacxet-
ed with wood, and cold water circulates
around the milk all the time. As soon
as enough milk arrives tie separator is
started and the milk is pumped into
little tank above the separator, to ia!
through pipe into this machine, and in
the twinkling of an eye the cream and
milk is separated, the milk goes back to
a vat for the patrons and the cream runs
over large cooling trough into the
cream vat in another room. The separa-
tor is q beatty and takes about 10 min
utes 10 get started, as it runs at such q
high speed that everything would be torn
up il an attempt was made to start or
stop It suddenly. The bowl turns at the
rate OF COCO revolutions per minutes To
many, that gives but little ides as to the
! speed, but compare that with the speed
OF train. A car wheel is about feet
in diameter, or feet around. Six thous-
and turns would carry it about l'6 miles
per minute. Pretty lively isn't it,
Onre each day the big chura is set 10
volving and the butter is churned. A
small steam engine does the work { run
ming all the machinery, including the
butter "workers," that travels in circle
and does better work and q great deal
faster than our mothers used TO do. The
churn has capacity OF 600 lbs. Of butter
at chulniug, but 200 or 800 is as much
as they make q. q time now.
i All the arrangements are made TO save
work as much as possible. The cream
seems to run by gravity from the sepsra-
tor to vats and from vsts 10 ehurn
Every thing ean be kept clean and al.
most at any temperature by water pump.
cd direct from the deep well on the prem
ises aud is used freely
Some Of the butter-milk is sold for
summer drink now and the remainder ia
used for feeding. This part OF the pro
duet belongs. With the butter. to the
creamery company, Il is enough to
make one sick 10 think Of the many
many places in the fa5ored state, where
all the conditions are so favorable for
tut:er production and yet no ereameries.
1t is useless and worse than useless for
the wives Of farmers TO try - MAKE
good butter, as it ID nowsdAys TO spin
and weave our clothing az in grand
mothers days.
/ As to the business OF pgepara. on in
creame:ies, Mr.. I.ooney. manager and
secretary, tells me that even as lo@ Al
butter is now, the milk makes IS to 6;
cents per 100 pounds. +. J. SeeleY is th'
expert butter maker.