Connecticut western news., 1901-09-05
THE BORDEN CREAMERY.
At Canaan, Conn.,, Is In Operation But the Plant Is Not Completed.

HE bUhDEN UREA M Eht.
 At Canaan, Conn.,, Is In Operation,
 But the Plant Is Not Completed.
 THR NEWS of August 29 stated that the Borden creamery in this village w.s not completed but was doing business, and by Sept. lst everything would be in convenient working order snd ready to receive all the milk the farmers wish to sell.
 The plant is not yet completed but is Tn working order. The ice house is not finished; store houss will soon be eommenced; work was commenced on the ice pond Tuesday of this week; the grading is not yet completed around the creamery; only the frame is raised for the barn, and there are numerous odd jobs to do or to finish before the plant is complete both inside and out side. Nevertheless ths Borden com pany are receiving and shipping all the milk offered them. The closing of the Stevens creamery in this village last Saturday, and the 0. N. E. Railroa1 creamery at Whiting river on the same day, gave the Bordens some new custom CTS. and last Sunday the company re- ceived. bottled and shipped nearly 100 cans of milk. It is expected that the number of cans will gradually increase to the amount promised the company if they would locate creamery here.
 The readers of the NKws will be in- terested in description of the plant. The editor preferred to have some official of the company write compre- hensive description of the creamery. He urged Superintendent Laidlow to write it, but MT Laidlow could not spare the time-yet he kindly conducted the editor through the creamery and ex- plained the different processes the milk passes through from the time 1t enters the receiving room until it is loaded into the cars ready for shipment The editor is not an expert, like o. Psrke Greene, in writing up" industries. but the following rambling description is better than none.
 The plant is situated south east of the junction of the 0. N. E. railway and the Berkshire Division of the "Consoli- dated" road. The land consists of about eight acres. and the entrance and exhit for teams to the-premises is from East Main Street. A curved siding about 1000 feet in length, extends from the Consolidated" road to the north side of the creamery buildings. The store house will be located directly opposite the creamery and on the north side of the siding. The dimen- sions of the buildings are: Office l6xl2 feet. one story high; receiving room 28x12, one story high; boiler house, 40xl6, one story high; butter milk room 40x25, II stories high; main bot tling room 75x40. II stories high; ice house 36x80, 3 storles high. The boiler house, butter milk room and main bottling room have flag stone floors, and the platform between these rooms and the siding is supported by a wall and is covered with flag stones. The coal house is about 30x24, and the store house will be 60x24. The ice pond will be constructed near the south west corner of the ice house. Drains lead from the creamery to the Black berry river; and well has been con- structed near the river and the water is pumped from this we'll to the creamery. All the buildings are painted white, and viewed from South Elm street reminds one of the famous White Elephant" depot that once adorned the west shore of the Hudson river near Ooeymans.
 The milk enters the receiving room in 40 quart cans, is inspected and then turned into the separator or strainer which has meshes of 100 wires per inch. The milk is weighed in this separator. The cans are immediately cleaned by steam or hot water and passed out by another door to the farmers wagon. From the seperstor the milk passes bs gravity pipe to a tank in the butter milk room and is then pumped into tank on the upper floor and then con- veyed by gravity pipe to the bottlins machine in the main bottling room. After being bottled the milk is packed in crushed ice in boxes or crates holding a dozen bottles, and is then placed in the refrigerator cars ready for shipment.
 The ice crushing machine is similar in principle. if not in construction. to an ore crusher. It is quite interesting to watch the process of washing the bottles in large tanks of hot water and cleaning the inside of the bottles with revolving brush. The process of sterilizing the bottles by placing them in large metal tanks on wheels, and sublecting them to a steam bath for hours is also interesting.