The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-07
BUTTER.

BUTTER.
OLLYs cheeks grew pink Pollys eyes spa1ed and
a merry song burst from Ponys lips keeping time to
the churn dasher vigorously up by pair
OF plump hands This Polly's churnng the
ros OF yellow butter had been paed and coaxed into the
best possible shape ard market Polly going
to have the butter buy pretty things
she took great pride in her rich favored rolls
Deacon Brown said the taste Poly's butter
minded him Of the sweet-scented hay where he
played when he was a boy.
The Biggest Creamery In the World.
But this was Polly doesn't
make butter more because butter-maxing kept
pace with the times and improved machinery
place OF the fashioned dasher churn with
lass behind it, Polly's ehurning picturesque
and pretty but exceedingly tiresome, the
none the less interesting Minneapolis has the largest
creamery in the world; lives up name too by
doing tremendous business. shipped it
that great patch Of between the Canadian
town of Cresco, Iowa, and between miles
away in Wisconsin to the Missouri river beyond
kotas.
Butter-making days begins at the cows
of course Indeed, the the only
process upon which methods have not set
their stamp sorry good substitute
has been milk they early
milk the cows before breakfast Then comes the first
hint of modern methods. Each dairyman ma
chine for separating the from the milk Immediately
In minute clear g1o-
bues like tiny balloons of which enclosed
long somebody discovered mi
was allowed to stand the fat being lighter than other ee
ments Of the milk would bringing
of the milky matter forming
key to separation by machine.
The milk has to be certain temperature always when
goes into the separator Then dasher which makes
haps 2oo revolutions minute whirls lively
spout carries it off, another lower down. taking off the
skim milk
The sweet, skim fed curly-headed calves
there is The S placed in holding
from eight gallons o creamery.
So large plant must strict attention to details,
tangles the various business
relations In order to be perfectly fair all the
is weighed and record kept this
covers
and sent to the laboratory to be tested.
The Portal to Butterland.
The churn is really the portal to
noticeable Of all the interesting things
the faint, tantalizing When this
has been shifted appreciated takes
pleased Of the fat shiny sitting just
inside the door waiting to epted c1ean
butter tubs the ten great
ing down the center of the in hched by
couples finally attendants
in snowy suits First the is enptied
into huge, rectangular wooden box vat,
high the floor contains eight sets Of fne
wire approved fashion
Butternakers find that aeratng' cream, nfusing
with compressed air greatly improves it's quality In
large tank is sunk into purpose
After being strained the tank the lid
forced into it which makes the cream
boil bubble up white mist Cream room,
is the attractive of the department. might
mean anything delightful It is situated directly over the
churn for convenience, and the
it in curious fashion It is actually shot up.
the aeratng tank is fastened down. opened
in leading above the admits gale
cream simply must go up or something will burst
The Dainty Cream Room.
The cream room is twin of the ehurn room. has
similar white walls clean floor, and that
scrub brushes and sort of clean powder
though regulation housekeeper is lacking Twenty
storage tanks rectangular wooden, with
colored, ranged in two the
churns; only instead of marching they
opposite each other like hostile holds
500 gallons. From the elevator the flows richly
through tin canals into the tanks Close by copper
like great coffee boiler; this paseurzer It is
heated by steam and contains two which revove
and keep the cream from lettering long enough
be
it and have right to So rapidly cream move
that 500 gallons through It in hour
must be cooled, the result would
instead OF butter The cooler garden fence with
tin pipes instead of rails and at the
circuates through the pipes. The
from the pasteurzer to the cooler having
the enent treatment insisted upon China The foreign