The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-05
IA FARMERS. JOIN HANDS IN
 NEW PROJECT.
Half Of Birmingham's Daily
 Demand To Be InitiaIs0ut-
 put Of Organization, 5000
 Gallons Being Handled BRESTER AND LILIES ARE GIVEN CREDIT FOR PLAN Product Will Be Subjected To
 All Safeguard Possible To-
 Prevent Contamination Or Spread Of Unhealthy Supply

Spread Of Unhealthy Supply
 More than hundred Jefferson county farmers have decided to save SIX hours q day and to discard a hundred wagons and teams by join ing forces and having the former time taken up and hauling expense turned over to compact organiza- ton of a few men they will hire.
 The plan has involved the invest ment of S130,000 and is the fulfill ment of a dream of s. w. Brewster and ]. l.. Lilies. dream that it has taken more than a year to work out, but which will come true September ], when the biggest jointly owned dairy south of St. Louis opens for business.
 The northwest corner of Seventh avenue and Twenty eighth street in Birmingham was bought, lot 100 by 200 feet, and on it has been erect ed two-story brick dairy building 12S feet long and 90 feet wide, with concrete floors and partitions. Back of that, a smaller building with a boiler plant in one part and com plete ice-making plant in the other. Barber Has Supervision.
 w. II. Barber, formerly with the United States dairy division of the department of agriculture, has been put in charge Mir. Barber planned the building and has superintended it's erection and the installation of equipment costing S100,000.
 The most striking feature of the plant is that the milk, from the time it is delivered on the platform by the collecting truck, is not exposed again to air until the retail cus- toner opens the bottle.
 Of the total cost the farmers put m Gn0 O00 They sold cent bonds to raise the rest. In the asso@ citation the farmers, all of them dairymeE, 114 in number, decided that it would be best to have trucks collect the milk from the producing 6airies, handle it through a modern plant. and have other trucks deliver the output. This will be done Tn pI eference to the old method of haV- ing each dairyinan pay the heavy cost of individual equipment and
 Birmingham today is consuming nearly l2,000 gallons daily The dairymen of the Jefferson Dairy company will handle half of this at the start, for 5000 gallons daily are represented by the IA member handle 10000 gallons day.
 Men Who Planned Dairy.
 $. W. Brewster, who was chosen
 
 ated a big dairy in Jefferson county for q long time and is considered one of the most thoroughly VerSed dairy merchants of the state. J. l.. Lilies is the farm demonstration agent of Jefferson county Together they worked up interest in the idea and led the way toward putting it over. It is not purely q cooperative ar fair, so the word cooperative was left out of the name, because, under Alabama law, the use Of the word would have excluded the handling of milk of non members. The plan of organization was broader than that. based on business methods, and the plant will handle any good milk that meets health regulations.
 At the rear of the plant there is a platform and leading into the building a narrow door. As soon as the collecting trucks place can of milk on the platform and it IS taken to the door it will be opened and inspected by an expert. It he passes it, it will 80 into the build ing, where another dairy expert will make a second test, after which it will be poured into receiving ana chilling vat with capacity of l,OOO gallons. There are two of these tenn porary cooling Vats of similar ca pacity.
 The next step will send the milk to a nick el- plated and nickel-lined heater, a grouped mass of sanitarily joined pipes, where the milk Will De given temperature of l45 degrees Fahrenheit and held al that tempera- ture for thirty minutes and the tenn perature will be reduced to 40 de- grees Fahrenheit from there gong to the filling room and bottled. once in the bottles the milk will go Into cases and the cases on conveyors, will pass out the side of the building IigffhutiuS trucks Tor uS- livery to cusomers.
 The customer will get all the cream the cows put Tn the milk there wil be no cream separation ana apportioned replacement to me meet ,,,iu iI ouirements All the milk sold Will of course, have that quantity of put ter fat the law requires and Just as much more as the cows naturally add.
 To Make Butter.
 Milk handled in excess of the re- tail milk demaud will be made into butter, the butter churns having d capacity of 700 pounds dally. It Is estimated that 400 pounds or cottage cheese will be made each day ana 2000 gallons of buttermilli handled. Special provision is being made TOT the handling of certified raw milk for those who prefer it. All rooms of the plant are equipped with com bination scaldlng water anu jets for cleaning the mechanism liA tures and rooms All cans in Whlch raw milk is brought in will be SUD jected after emptying, to super heated steam for cleansing and ster- filing, and will be returned to the supply trucks dry.
 Wash rooms and shower baths for the workers are provided and all en- ployes will be subject to repeated lh- spection. Screens and fans or hlsh power are being installed to Keep flies out of the buildings.
 TO PREACH AT ADVENT CHURCH
 In the absence of the rector, the Rev. Middleton s. Barnwell, of the Church of the Advent, the vestry has obtained Leland Rankin, one of the most eminent psychologists and Bible rt,,d nn1S in inc cnuntrN nd who had