The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18
We Leave it to the Reader to Saw
"WHO JUCCLES,"
AND
Who "BobS up with one Lie After Another"

The truth is that Engineer Downey
was never present when the u. S. was
running, with one or two exceptions,
when his department was unable to get
sufficient steam to run so much as a
Babcock tester until very late in the
forenoon The work in the Model
Dairy was done before he got around
in the morning
Now read what Mr. Van Alstyne,
superintendent of the Model Dairy,
over his own signature, says in refer
ence to power in September when the
DeLaval was running:
eve found the power insufficient
and were obliged to put cutoff in the
pipe leading upstairs to prevent the
herdsmen drawing on our steam at
times when we needed it for the dairy
work, and as the weather became
colder the latter part of September,
this trouble increased to such an ex-
tent that one day, with both burners
lighted, we found our steam entirely
out, so that we intended making a
change before your machine was put
in, and we were delayed a week in or
der to get the consent of the proper
authorities. We then used soft coal
which did not give satisfaction, be-
cause it filled up the fues of the boil
er, and we changed to coke, which
has been eminently satisfactory.
Remember this was when the De-
Laval Separator was running and be-
fore the U. S. was put in They
could not get steam enough to run the
DeLaval.
This voluntary" (?) statement says
further "that the U. S. had an ex-
pert to run it. " He was in no sense
an expert, had never worked in
creamery or dairy or attended Dairy
School or Experiment Station. The
DeLaval did have experts to run
theirs. Both operators were graduates
| and rank partisans of the DeLaval,
and were angry because we objected
to having unfair and prejudiced oper-
ators run the U. S.
The DeLaval Co. advertise that
our Gold Medal was awarded on "com-
bined exhibit of separators, Babcock
! Testers, Davis Swing Churns, and
other apparatus The official record
reads: "Gold Medal on U. S. Separ-
ator, Babcock Tester Davis Swing
/ Churn. - 1t does not read on "com-
bined exhibit" and does not use the
word exhibit in any way. The
reader will notice the DeLaval Co.
adds the words combined exhibit
and land other apparatus, " of course,
to mislead in their endeavor to break
the force of their defeat.
We had i'll our booth nine separators,
two Babcock testers, and a model of
: the Davis Swing Churn, but no full
| sized churn. Our booth was 10 feet
long by 10 feet deep.
| We applied for larger space but were
informed that the building was limited
in size and we must be content with
| what was assigned us. We had the
smallest space of any exhibit of separ-
ators The DeLaval Co. IS booth was
35 feet long by 10 feet deep and con-
tanned sixteen separators therefore if
our Gold Medal was on the exhibit it
| is equally true the DeLaval's was on
| their exhibit, and as our exhibit was
less than half as large as theirs, will
the intelligent reader believe the De-
| Laval statements that with less than
half the space and about half the
amount of goods, our award was on
display?
The work in the Model Dairy was
not finished until long after the Gold
Medals were awarded by the judges.
If the awards had been given on the
| result OF the work III the Model Dairy
the United States would have had
the only Gold Medal, and the De-
Laval an award of second merit
only, a Silver Medal as it came out
second on the work there.
The DeLaval Co. advertise "that
more fat was lost in churning (by the
U. s. than saved in separating "
The records show that:
Average test of the buttermilk
from the United States was 100
Average test of the buttermilk
from the DeLaval was .121
The DeLaval was badly beaten again
in this line. The U. S. proved to be
superior in every way
The reader must not forget that the
DeLaval Co. have been advertising for
over year that the DeLaval Separ-
ator was awarded a Grand Prize at
Paris, but now admits in their state
ments that this award was to the
"Societe Anoyme Separator" which
company exhibited at Paris a butter
extractor called radiator, and did
not exhibit cream separator
Refer TO the Official Records