The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-04-19
One Of the Reasons Why
Seattle Children
Are Healthy

1900 bottles of Mnplewood MIX
leave tho Pure MIX Dairy on West.
lake Avenue North every day TO car.
ry health and viEor TO Thousands OF
Seattle citizens. Thirty delivery
trucks are busy bringing the fresh
product from nearby farms. and de-
llvcring II after Its preparation In the
Dairy 10 private homon. hotels and
restaurants
The Pure MIX Dairy II . part OF
Scatiie'H buain@ns history. for II has
bern supplying milk and cream In
this city for n-ariy twenty years. In
1900 Mrs. Andrews started delivering
IN. certified milk from tho famous
Maplcwood Farm. which In stiil the
homo farm OF IN. Pure MIX Dairy.
Since that time the Dairy has been
incorporated and grown into one OF
tho largest and most sanitary milk
plants Of the Northwest.
II you watch the cans OF milk M
they arrive at the receiving room Of
the Pure MIX Dairy. this 10 wha; you
will nee every morning;
Tho cana arc Transferred from the
trucks TO an electric elevator which
takes them TO a platform on the sec
ond floor. where they arc weighed
and combined with the contents OF
other cans. This Is called standards
Ing. and In one OF the most importan,
steps In getting a uniform milk prod
net on. reason why Mapirwood
Mix can always be depended upon IL
that u never varies In It's amount, of
butter fat. II offrrs an honest quality
Of milk nj ali times.
From tho ntandardirinw room, the
milk passes into containing tanks &c
await pastrurfxation. Tho Simplex
Pastruriring Machine. one OF the
newest and eomplc,ers on the mar.
kst. In installed In tho plant Of the
Pure Milk Dairy. Great aluminium
pipes. one within another, keep the
milk In circulation while u IL being
heated. The Z ram between the inner
and outer rfes keeps the milk at a
temperature OF lee degrees fahr-n
h-it a perfect pas;rurixation In ~
cured by allowing tho milk TO remain
under this degree of heat for thirty
minutes.
A Simplex Cooler. on tire same
principle an tho Heater. then re.
crives the milk The coils consist oi
thrvs pipes. two OF which contain
water and the third brine. Crcuiaf.
Ing around these pipes. the milk Ia
cooled TO n temperature OF sos,
dewrc~s Fahrcnheit
Now the milk h fcruad sufs Q
holder. which In Q tank holding one
thousand gallons OF milk at one
ttmn- Tho milk II ready 10 b. bottled,
and flows Mt once 10 tho botfiing d.
paFtrn1nt on tho first floor.
Part Of the milk IN retained for
through the same process Of pas'cur'
lxation. heating and cooling. a. has
been dcscribcd- Two moro Maplewood
products are secured from ths
rkimmod milk which flows into a
separate vat after s~paration-cui.
turrsi butterrniik and cot;ag. checwe
Tho skinmed milk also is pas,eur.
ized before being made mp into cheese
and butt~rrnilk.
Many pas-ers-by on westiake Ave-
nuc stop to watch the big automatic
bottiing machine at work in tho win
down Tho bottles are filled with
MIX. capped with sanitary caps
sprinkied with . cleansing shower
and conveyed awly-aii by the action
Of . single machine with but one
man operating H.
Other interesting features Of ths
plant are an Ice crusher which cuts
tho cakes OF Ice and deposits II In
the wagons below. thus eliminating
much labor IN handling. tho tcstine
room. where the important tests for
butter fat are made by expert tech,
niclans: the bottiowashing rooms
where elaborate machines are in