The Detroit times., 1913-03-27
HOUSEWIVES SEE
HOW CREAMERY
E HANDLES MILK
Greatly Interested in Inspection
of Immense Plant Of the
Detroit Company
IMPRESSED BY CARE
SHOWNFOR SANITATION
Practically All the Work of Pre-
pairing Products Done
BY Machinery

Members Of the Detroit Housewives
league accepted thu invitation Of OH
Gals OF the Detroit Creamery Co. Il
inspect their plant, Wednesday after
noon. Alfred Easter. general manager
Of the creamery. and Mrs. A. o. Dunk
president of the league. headed a pro
cession OF housewives through the
plant, and were shown everything
they wanted TO know about the hand
ling OF milk and the manufacture and
distribution OF ice cream. butter and
other products.
First they saw the machines which
make ice cream. Then they were led
through the marble storage rooms
where the ice cream is kept at tenn
perature OF from two to twelve de-
grees. They noted how much OF the
work is done by machinery and how
little handling OF the product by hu-
man hands is required.
Then they inspected the Walker
Gordon plant and were lecturec
on certified milk. They were car
ried to the third story. and were
shown how milk is treated be
fore IL is sent out TO customers
first run through the clarifier
where any possible impurities are re
moved: then through the pasteurizer
where 1t is heated to l40 degrees
next into the retarder, where II re-
mains at 140 degrees for half hour
then into the cooler, where II is grad
ually brought to low temperature BY
pipes cooled by city water In winter
by ice coils In summer and then &c
the automatic bottling machines
uyh( ~, nd <hAr
They saw how the filled cases wen,
rolling down an automatic chute to the
cold storage rooms on the first floor
where they are kept until the next
mornings delivery.
They inspected the machinery FOL
cleansing the milk cans by live steam
They saw the pumps which force five
different kinds and temperatures OF
water into the bottles. to clean them
and saw thousands OF bottles stacked
to dry before being filled.
They saw the cream separatore al
work, the skinned milk waiting to be
made into cheese. the cream waiting to
be run into the big churn. They were
shown the testing laboratory, where
samples are analysed from every farm
that supplies the creamery with milk.
IF the milk is found TO be at all dirty,
the farmer is warned; II It continues
dirty, his supply is shut out. II he falls
below 3.5 per cent Of butter fat. he
is told that he must improve; If the
next test shows that he has paid no
attention. his milk is excluded Tests
are made twice a month OF composite
samples. made up OF small quantities
from each days milking.
ffre- fotfsewives-saM WAGON
shops. where the company makes and
repairs its own wagon bodies; the tin
shop. where Ice cream tins and cans
are made; the cabinet shop. where
cold storage cabinets for Ice cream
are manufactured. They saw the big
engines that operate the machinery OF
the plant and the cOoling-machines
They saw how the company manufac-
lures rs tons of ice day I'm 300
pound cakes. and how It stores ice I'm
winter for summer use. when rs much
as ESQ tons are demanded In one day.
They were taken across the street
to see one Of the company's stables,
where so of its 200 horses are kept.
1t also operates $50 wagons and 10
automobile trucks. with more coming
for summer use. At the end OF the
trip, the ladies were given ice cream
and cake and iced milk The house
wives were much pleased by what
they saw especially by the care shown
for strict sanitation