The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-12-05
DAIRY go.
.ENT'ERTA AIMS
The DOCTORS
Pleasant Evening
at tthe Co111pany's
Headquarters

The invitation Of the Fairmopt Dairy
company to the members of the Ma.
tion County Medical s,ciety and Post
Graduate School 10 visit It's plant and
witness the process OF pasteurizing
milk was very literally responded to
and about fifty physicians and other
friends Of the company gathered ct
the companyfs new and model dairy
on Barney street at nine O'Clock last
evening after the adjournment If the
meeting Of the Medical Society.
The process Of pasteur5zing milk is
sometimes confused with another pro-
cess of pasteurlzlng with which the
members OF the medical profession are
more familiar. such as the treatment
for nyprophobia and other diseases by
successive innoculattens with atten-
uated virus of gradually increasing
strengths, but this process bears no
relation whatever to tae process OF
!pasteurizing milk and other liquids.
Except that the two entirely different
processes WIRE discovered by a French
scientist by the name of Pasteur. The
latter process for preventing or check
Ing fermentation in f!u!ds consists Of
Exposing the fluid to a temperature OF
about 140 degrees F. thus destroying
the vitality of any and all germs that
the fluid may contain. It was tlis
process that the medical men were
invited to witness last night and its
practical demonstration was CON-
plete success. and a revelation Of
many of them who had not seen the
process before.
When the crowd mad gathered Man.
ager Reubensaal. assisted by Mr.. p.
n. Cunningham and other prophets RS
Of the plant explained each process
and the uses Of the various machines
from the time the milk Is placed in
the weighing machine until it reaches
tie bottllng machine and is carried
away to the cold storage room ready
for the consumer.
The milk is passed through series
jof sttam heated discs where the nigh
temperature Of from 14O to $50 de.
grees is reached by which process the
germs are killed, and then the milk Is
gradually cooled by passing to anoth.
er set of discs OF the temperature of
city water, from here 1t is passed on
to third set filled with brine and re-
duced to a temperature of 40 degrees
just before the milk is bottled The
entire process is mechanical and no
chemicals whatever are used, neither
does human hands touch the product
from the time the milk Is received into
the mixing tub until 1t is placed in cold
storage.
The process requires about twenty
minutes and 1000 gallons can be han.
died in a day by the plant with its
present capacity.
After the plant was gone over the
guests were invited to >partake Of
luncheop at 10 o'clock and long ia.
bic in the main room OF the building
was fodnd well supplied with sand
wicnes, cheese, olives and other whole.
some eatables which were made mora
palatabFe by the pure milk that was
to be found on every hand and the de.
1tghtfuI coffee supplied by Mrs. Rob.
EFT T. Cunningham and Mrs. S. r.
Nnzum.
The visitors spent pleasant even.
ing and all spoke in highest praise Of
the work OF the enterprising gentle.
men who had made pure milk in Fair.
mont not only possible but an assure
reality.
The gentlemen comprising the Fair.
mont Dairy Company are: John Hen.
shaw, Robt. T. Cunningham, R. B. Par.
rfsh, DR.. G. o. Henry. w. T. McWhor-
ter Marshall Ashcraft and G. s. Riggs.
most of whom were present last night
to welcome their visitors.