The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-12-05
DAIRY GO.
ENTERTAlNS
THE DOCTORS
Pleasant Evening
atthe C~on1pany's
Headquarter

The invitation of the Fairmopt Dairy
company to the members of the Ma.
rion County Medical s.cety and Post
Graduate School to 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 company's new and model dairy
on Barney street at nine o'clock lase
evening after the adjournment Of the
meeting Of the Medical Society.
The process Of pasteunzing milk Is
sometimes confused with another pro-
cess of pasteurizing with which the
members of the medical profession are
more familiar, such as the treatment
for n%ynrophobla and other diseases by
successive imoculattens with atten-
uated virus of gradually increasing
strengths, but this process bears no
relation whatever to the process OF
~pasteurizing milk and other liquids.
except that the two entirely different
processes w:re discovered by a French
scientist by the name of Pasteur. The
latter process for preventing or cheek.
ing fermentation in fluids consists Of
exposing the fluid to a temperature Of
about $40 degrees F. thus destroying
the vitality Of any and all germs that
the fluid may contain. 1t was tails
process that the medical men were
invited to witness last night and its
practical demonstration was a com.
plete success, and a revelation Of
many of them who had not seen the
process before.
When the crowd mad gathered Man
ager Reubensaat assisted by Mr.. p.
IN. Cunningham and other proprletsrs
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 a series
of sttam heated discs where the nigh
temperature OF from $40 b f5o 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 It is passed on
to a 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 It ia 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 ere invited to partake of
luncheon at 10 O'Clock and a long ia.
Bile in tie main oom OF the building
was found well supplied with sand
wtcnes, cheese, 'oltves and other whole.
some eatables which were made mora
palataDle by The pnre milk that was
to be found on every hand and the de.
lightful coffee supplied by Mrs. Rob.
EFT T. Cunningham and Mrs. S. #.
Nuzum.
The visitors spent a 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 assured
reality.
The gentlemen comprising the Fair.
mont Dairy Company are: John Her.
shaw. Robt. T. Cunningham, R. B. Par.
IRISH, DR.. c. o. Henry. w. T. McWhor.
TER. Marshall Ashcrnft and c. 8. Riggs,
most of whom were present last night
TO welcome their visitors.
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