The Washington herald., 1915-11-07
OYSTERS PLANT
IS A MODEL ONE
Milk Establishment Has Per-
feet Equipment for Supply
ing Big Local Trade.
HAD HUMBLE BEGINNING
Noy Occupies $1,000 Square Feet on
Three Floors and Is Complete
in Every Detail.

One of the improvements in Wash
ington during the past year is that OF
the establishment OF Geo. NJ Oyster.
known as the Chestnut Farms Dairy.
on Connecticut avenue northwest.
| Theyperfection OF the equipment for
supplying every part of the city with
milk and cream Of superior quality is
noteworthy.
A representative of The Herald has
just made an inspection of this model
plant.
Grows from Humble Beginning.
Seventeen or eighteen years ago.
from a cellar a little higher up the
avenue, five gallons a day was the daily
quota OF milk supplied by this dairy,
the daily output, of which is now
1000 gallons. From that little cellar
the Chestnut Farms Dairy has come to
occupy buildings with a frontage of
eighty-five feet on Connecticut avenue.
and extending almost to Sixteenth
about 1880 square, feet. and a total
on three floors of approximately 49,
900 square feet.
The original part of the present
handsome structure is the center por-
tion. Mr.. Oyster supplanted this with
three-story. thirty-five foot front
building. housing the big pastueriza-
tiOh piohi WHICH, as II can De seen from
the street, attracts the attention of
thousands of passers-by.
Every care has apparently been taken.
both as regards the building and its
| equipment, for the perfect production of
a pure cream and milk supply to thou
| sands OF Washington homes. The mod
ern idea Of refrigeration is carried out In
the salesrooms. This room of white tile
I is thirty-five feet by seventy-five feet,
three fa tod hx-o
motor, which drives a fan taking air
from above the building and forcing 1t
| through water. by which the air is
washed and forced through fiues at one
end and drawn out by fans at the other
end of the room. The temperature OF
this room runs from 90 to 10 degrees.
Four PRsteuriIing Watts.
On the top terrace there are two re-
ceiving watts for the milk. and on the sec
end terrace are four pasteurizing watts.
with a capacity of 800 gallons each.
From there the milk flows over a cooling
device that reduces il from a tempera-
ture Of rs degrees to one OF 3 degrees.
On the main floor are three filling and
Cupping machines that put out from
fOrty-five quarts to sixty half-pints each
minute. As the bottles are filled the au-
tomatically cupped. they are transferred
to cases and pass to the cooling rooms
They are delivered to the consumer at
a temperature OF iO-45 degrees.
The bottles that have been used are
washed and sterillzed under steam pres
sure. The storage room for these has a
capacity OF 12,CC0 bottles. The cold stor-
age rooms are kept at 20 degrees, an ice
factory turns out from ten to fifteen
tons daily. while there is in the rear OF
the main plant a refrigerator compressor
with n capacity of thirty tons daily. and
15O-hOrscpowcr boiler Here. TOO. is 3
small garage and machine shop, lockers
and shower baths Cor the men.
On the second floor there is a large
bookkeeping force, taking care of the
distribution through twelve automobiles
and fifty delivery wagons
4 weTl-ftted rest room for the twenty
four women of the establishment is a
particular hobby OF Mr.. Oysters, and
telephone exchange OF eight private lines
is part Of this office equipment.
On the third floor are the office and
laboratories of the chemists and bac-
teriologists, with Prof. l. c. Weld. form
erly of the Agricultural Department. in
charge. The milk supply is brought from
some $50 farms within a radius Of sixty
miles OF Washington. but some cream
comes from the famous farms of Thomas
]. Ryan, which are 10 miles away.