Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-07-01
NEW COOP MILK
PLANT TO START
BUSINESS TODAY
Cooperative Organization to
Handle All Milk Produced
by Associated Diaries;
Model Plant Completed.

After a year and a half of or
ganization and construction work,
the Albuquerque Cooperative Dairy
will begin operations this morning
in its new plant on North Second
street The new dairy will at once
take over the entire output of the
Phillips, Bezemek, Blumenshine,
Bowers and Loudon and several
other diaries.
Roy Fitz, expert dairy construc-
ton man, who has been In charge
of the designing and construction
of the new plant, says that in re-
spect to modern equipment and
sanitary precautions the plant has
no superior In the United States.
Human hands do not touch the
milk at any time from its receipt
at the plant to its final bottling
and delivery to the consumer.
Milk received from the dairymen
is placed at once in the ice-cooled
holding room" where 1t Is held
for only a short time at tempera-
ture of A degrees before 1t is
taken to the receiving tank. From
the receiving tank the milk Is car
ried by sanitary pipes to the clari-
fier. where, as the machines name
indicates, the milk is cleaned Of
every trace of foreign matter.
After treatment in the clarifier,
part of the milk is piped off to the
pasteurizing machine, and the bal
ance goes directly to the cooling
and bottling machines.
Pasteurizcd Milk.
Milk which is to be pasteurtzed
is taken from the clarifier to the
pasteurizing machine, where 1t cir
culates through sanitary pipes SIM
liar to the water jacket in a boiler,
and is slowly heated by contact
with steam pipes to a temperature
OF 144 degrees. The milk is held at
this temperature for thirty minutes.
From the pasteurizer the milk goes
to the pasteurizing holding vat,
and is held at an even temperature
for another thirty minutes. The
pasteurizing process is not for the
purpose of destroying bacteria IN
spoiled milk, as many enormously
suppose, but is a treatment de-
signed to increase the keeping
quality of the milk where it is not
to be used at once.
After this pasteurizing treatment
the milk, both pasteurized and
natural, goes to the cooling and
aerating machines, where the milk
is cooled suddenly to a tempera-
tuEe of A degrees by contact with
pipes containing cold water am
\ hntYoos n4nlnH n Vi
aerated, the milk is bottled am
capped by special machine. the
entire process being automatic.
The new plant will have ca
pacity for the treatment and bot
Ting of 1000 gallons of milk daily
but at present the production will
probably be around 1000 gallons
The entire production can be treat
ed and bottled in two hours, while
four hours are spent in the clean
ing and sterilizlng of the equipment.
After every run of milk all the
pipes through which the milk runs
are dissembled and cleaned with
brushes. Again. just before each
run of milk, the pipes are sterilized
by steam. so that no bacteria can
find lodging anywhere.
Automatic Cream Freezer.
Besides the equipment for the
handling of the milk, the plant
boasts of an automatic ice-cream
freezer. one of thirty of its kind
in the country. The machine turns
out ice cream within three minutes
after the cream is placed into the
freezer. A hardening room is .lso
provided, in which Ice cream and
butter is kept after churning or
freezing. A zero temperature is
maintained.
The Albuquerque Cooperative
dairy owes its foundation largely
to the efforts of ]. L. Phillips. who
originated the idea, and was influ-
entail in the organization of the
dairy. Mr.. Christ, the president
of the company, was also active in
its organization. ]. L. Phillips Is
secretary and treasurer of the
company, Fred Mann is vice presi-
dent. The designing and construc-
ton of the plant has been under
Roy Fits, an expert In that line.
The new organization, which an
nounces that it will be strictly D
operative, will take the entire pro-
duction of the dairies which are1
stockholders in the plant, and will
take over their routes.