News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-04-22
THE CREAM SEPARATOR.
Its Remarkable and Constantly lnCreas-
ing Sale.

The advertisement of The De Laval Com.
paDy in this weeks issue gives a very int err
esting and imposing array of the prominent
users of the De Laval machines and certainly
constitutes a splendid testimonil to those
machines, which were the first to be introduc
ed and which their eDterprisng makers have
ever kept well in the van in this important in
dustry
The most remarkable development in dairy.
ing in recent years, if not in all it's history,
has been the centrifugal cream separator.
The application of mechanical force to the
separation of cream has worked several evo-
lutions within the past twenty years in this
branch of agriculture, each of the greatest
Importance both to purchaser and consumer.
After ten years of experiment by different
persons DR.. De Laval of Sweden perfected the
first practical separator in 1879, the intro
duction of which followed in America about
1898. The first machines were of power types
for factory or creamery use, intended for sep
aration Of the milk gathered together at the
factory. This worked an evolution in the
system then obtained of raising the cream
in cans or pans on the farm and delivering
the cream only to the factory. The new
method of centrifugal separation saved on an
average as much as % per cent of the butter
fat which went to waste in the old way.
Some five years later the first hand machine
was perfected and introduced by the De Laval
Company, but was limited in capacity and
rather heavy and tiresome of operation. Still
the advantages OF the separator were so great
that it attained quite large sale in diaries
where cream or butter was sold privately and
there was more profit in this than turning it
over to the factory for cooperate produc.
tion.
In 1890 Baron Won Bechtolsheim, Ger
man, worked another evolution in the sepa-
rator by putting system of discs or closely
fitting cones into the separating bowl, which
gave to bowl of any given size very much
greater capacity than before, and at less
speed, at the same time enabling even more
complete separation than the earlier machines
This invention too came into the hands of the
De Laval Company and was perfected by
them.
With the help OF the so-called "disc" con-
struction and still further improvements,
mostly by Americans, the sale of cream sepa-
rators has enormously increased throughout
every country In the world in which daiTying
is practiced and to-day centrifugal separation
OF cream is almost universal, The sale Of De
Laval machines alone is said 60 approach
500 900, while great many have been sold
by other concerns, which by interpolation of
earlier patents have been enabled to take up
the manufacture of modified types of the sep
arator. 10 illustration of what the De Laval
Company is doing over 1900 men are en-
ployed in their American and European fac
tories ana 1t is said as many more are engag
ed in the production of parts and supplies for
their machines.
Another evolution is now taking place in
mat the fGrmer is going back to the home
separation of his cream and delivery of the
cream to the factory, just as was the case
with him when the separator was first intro
duced. Many advantages are found in this
system. The cost of hauling to the factory is
much less by reason of the bulk of cream be-
ing only about one-sixth that of the milk,
while at most seasons delivery need not be
made but every other day, or twice week in
stead OF every day as with milk. Then, the
skim-milk is had Immediately after separa-
ton when still warm and sweet and in its best
condition for feeding, while much of it's value
is lost in the condition that it comes back
from the factory. This new evolution of prac-
tice is as yet mainly confined to the Western
states where distances from the factory are
greater, but is gradually working its way in
to Vermont, Michigan, Ohio and other East
ern states and the tendency is no doubt
strongly in this direction everywhere.
Naturally, such q state of affairs means an
enormous demand forsmall or farm machines
The DeLaval shops at Poughkeepsie have
been working day and night with double
shifts of men for over two years, with con-
slant increase of plant, and still the demand
exceeds the supply while the half dozen small
er competitors OF the De Laval Company are
likewise said to be having all they can do to
meet the demand for machines. In illustra.