Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-04-16
THE CREAM SEPARATOR.
Its Remarkable and Constantly In.
CreasirQ Sale

The advertisement of The De Laval
Company in this week : issue gives very
interesting and imposing array of the
prominent users of the DeLaval machines
and certainly constitutes splendid testi-
monial to these machines which were the
first to be introduced and which their en-
,terprisinG makers have ever kept well in
the van in this important industry.
The most remarkable development in
dairying III recent years. if not in all its
history, has been the centrifugal cream
separator. The application Of mechanical
force to the separation OF cream has work
ed several cVolutiJns 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 differ
ent persons DR.. De Laval of Sweden per-
fected the first practical separator in 1873.
the introduction of which followed in Am
erica about 1883. The first machines were
! of power types for factory or creamery
use. intended for separation of the milk
gathered together at the factory. This
worked an evolution in the system then
obtaining 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 aver
age as much as % per cent of the butter
fat which went to waste in the old way.
Some five years later the first hand ma
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De Laval Company. but was limited in
capacity and rather heavy and tiresome Of
operation. Still the advantages Of the
separator We're so great that it attained
Iquite Il large sale in diaries where cream
or butter was sold privately and there
was more profit in this than in turning it
over to the factory for cooperate produc-
/ ton.
| In 1890 Baron Won Bechtolsheim Ger
man, worked another evolution in the
separator by putting a system of discs or
| closely fitting cones into the separating
| bowl which gave to bowl of any given
size very much greater capacity than be-
| fore, and at less speed. at the same time
enabling even more complete separation
| than the earlier machines. This nven-
| ton, too. came into the hands of the De
| Laval Company and was perfected by
them.
With the helm of the so-called disc
construction and still further improve
ment, mostly by Americans, the sale Of
cream separatOrs has enormously increas-
| ed throughout every country in the world
in which dairying is practiced and to-day
centrifugal separation of cream is almost
universal The sale of DeI.aVal machines
alone is said To approach 5000 while
great many have been sold by other CON
Germs. which by the expiration OF earlier
patents have been enabled to take up the
manufacture Of modified types OF the sep
arator. In illustration Of what the De
Laval Company is doing over 5000 men
are employed in their American ana Eu-
ropean factories ana it is said as many
more are engaged in the production Of
parts and supplies for their machines
Another EVOLUTION is now taking place in
that the farmer 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 WIS
first introduced. MANY advantages ara
| found i'm this system. The cost of haul
ing to the factory is much less by reason
of the bulk of cream being only about
lono-siNth that Of the milk, while at most
seasons delivery need not he made hut
every other day or twice a week instead
OF every day as with the milk. Then, the
skim-milk is had Immediately after sep
laration when still warm and sweet and in
its best condition for feeding. while much
/ of its value is lost i'm the condition that il
comes back from the factory. This new
revolution OF practice is as vet mainly con-
| fined To the Western states where dis
stances from the factory are greater, hut
AS gradually working its way into Yer
mont, Michigan, Ohio and other Eastern
| States and tho tendency is no doubt
strongly i'm It's direction everywhere.
/ Naturally. such a state of affairs means
Ian enormous demand for small or farm
machines The De Laval Shops AT Pough
| keepsie have been working day and night
with double shifts of men for over TWO
Il years. with constant increase Of plant.
l In illustration of this great demand ii is
/ report ed that two concerns alOne-one in
I Kansas and one in Ncbraska-have each
\ contracted for at least 5000 De Leval ma
chimes during the present year after hav-
ing put ont almost as many before
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