The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-02
I'm THE DAIRY BUILDING.
Novel Features In Machinery and
the Finished Product

One of the best exhibits in the build
ing is that of Cornish, Green & Co., of
st. Paul, who have in actual opera
ton all of the machinery used in a
fully equipped dairy. Every phase of
dairying is shown in it's practical,
working. There is the milk elevator,
Weigher, watts separatoFs and combine.
alton churp and butter worker with a
capacity of 900 pounds and Bunzel pros
cess of cream ripening, showing the in
termediate process from milk to butter
in its entirety. Besides this and per-.
haps more attractive to the visitor is a
working model Of the most improved
Minnesota dairy. The building is
there, perfect in every detail, and a
miniature stationary engine whirls. a
driving wheel, which, by means of
belts and pulleys, supplies power to the
whole plant. AS in the larger display
! the model is complete and with the
| operation of its miniature machinery
! illustrates the entire dairying process
| from the time the milk can leave the
/ farmers wagon until it comes from the
worker in the choicest butter. The
| construction and placing of this model
alone cost $500.
| Another feature of this exhibit
which is in charge of F. d. Culver, Of
this city, is painting of an ideal
Jersey COW belonging to ex-Gov.
| Hoard, of Wisconsin, and is said to be
| worth 81 600.
The Crescent Creamery display of
| butter is without an equal in the his
tory of the agricultural society. Last
year the company occupied but eight
cases and this year 1t takes fourteen
\ to accommodate it's exhibit. Here is to
be seen butter in all of it's commercial
| conditions I'm addition to some beat
tifully wrought designs which are both
| artistic and unique. In glass case is
| a pillar of the yellow substance, on
each side of which is a different de-
! sign, one of which is a Grand Army
| badge, another an American eagle, on
| third interlocked flags and on anoth-
er scene taken from the pioneer days
| of Minnesota life About the base of
| the column are representations of flow
ers, trees and animals perfectly exc
| cuted Underneath the case is an ice
/ box which serves to keep the butter in
| solid form.
| In addition to the above the various
| methods of packing butter are shown,
| together with a. new receptacle for the
| preservation of individual milk. where
| it is necessary to feed infants or in
| valids on the milk of a single cow.
| In the cheese department there are
| twenty-eight entries in the factory
cheese class, five in dairy cheese, two
| III Iuu cream SW1SS, tWO III UIlCh
cheese and one in Gouas. making
display of unusual merit in competi-
ton, besides which there Is special
exhibit by w. L. Chappell, of Fergus
Falls, consisting of full cream cheddar,
Young American, Sage, Pineapple and
Edam, In bricks and rolls. This dis
play was made by special request by
Mr. Chappell and constitutes in itself
feature well worth seeing, particular
ly as it represents a strictly home in
dustry.
The De Lavar Separator company, Of
Elgin, Ill. has on exhibition the latest
separator on the market called the
Alpha, which is in operation by steam
and hand power and shows the process
of skimming the milk the moment it is
taken from the cow, doing away with
the old time method of waiting for the
churn and butter worker with capac-
ity of 400 pounds, and q SKINNED milk
weigher with smaller churns whose
capacities are from forty Tto sixty
pounds, complete this exhibit, which
is in charge of c. W. Schnare.
+. b. Fargo & Co., of st.
Paul and Lake Mills, Wis, also ex-
hibit the Alpha separator and full
line of creamery machinery, including
a 400-pound churn and butter worker,
automatic weigher. hand and steam
churns and an improved milk sheet
for use in diaries. The display is in
charge Of C. K. Fink, of this city, who
with the services of several assistants
has hts machinery in constant opera