268 ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW- YORK 



The butter is put into the machine as soon as it is churned, and 

 pressed against the knives. When the presser is withdrawn, as 

 the butter stands on a very narrow base, it falls down towards 

 the presser, and a different surface is presented to both the presser 

 and the knives. The mass of butter revolves in the worker like 

 rolling over a four-square stick of timber; and the salt can be 

 worked in at the same time of working oui the buttermilk, most 

 thoroughly and evenly; and, if it is desirable to wash the butter, 

 (which practice we do not approve,) a stream of water may be 

 kept pouring on the butter during the process of working, which 

 will all flow readily into the vessel which receives the buttermilk. 



Tke excellence and advantages of this worker, over all others 

 in our knowledge are, that it works all that is put into the worker 

 at once, very evenly. One part cannot remain unworked, while 

 another portion is worked over, several times. It works very 

 rapidly. The machine is warranted to work, with ease to the 

 operator, one hundred pounds of butter, in the most thorough 

 and neat manner, in fifteen minutes. It works butter on princi- 

 ples strictly philosophical. The mass is gashed, and then the 

 buttermilk flows into these gashes, and when they are closed by 

 pressing the buttermilk escapes. A female of ordinary strength; 

 who is accustomed to spend from two to three hours in working a 

 given amount of butter with a ladle, taxing all her energies, can 

 work and salt that butter with one of these workers, with nine- 

 tenths less fatigue, and in less than ten minutes. We know it to 

 be a great labor-saving machine; and a complete remedy for a 

 female's lame hands, lame arms and shoulders, which have been 

 made so by working butter. 



This machine was patented by E. J. Dickey, Hopewell Cotton 

 works, Chester county, Penn., where they have come into general 

 use. There are three sizes of workers. No. 1 is worth |6.00; 

 No. 2 $8.00; and No. 3 §10.00. No. 1 worker is calculated for 

 working from three to ten pounds at once. ; No. 2 from eight to 

 twenty pounds, and No. 3 from twelve to twenty-five pounds. 

 Among the thousand and one machines which are worthless, this 

 one is a great labor-saving machine. 



