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appliances. The Perfect Milking Pail, combining stool and 

 pail in one, is highly commended by all who have used it, 

 as insuring safety from accident, cleanliness while milking, 

 and the greatest possible protection from dust and foul air. 

 Several of the glass milk-cans so rapidly coming into use for 

 city delivery were in this collection, among them the Warren 

 Bottle, the Putnam Bottle, and the Crystal Jar. The 

 " Monitor," or " Pendulum," churn, excited general interest 

 from its odd shape and the novel way of hanging and operat- 

 ing it : upon examination it proved to be very cheap for so 

 good an implement, all tin, and therefore light, easily cleaned 

 and handled, and well-nigh perfect in action. It is espe- 

 cially adapted to use with thin cream from deep setting, and 

 to making butter by the granular method. Nesbitt's Butter 

 Presses are wholly of wood, well made, in few parts, simple, 

 easily cleaned, and operated by a lever. A pound or half- 

 pound lump of butter being accurately weighed, and given a 

 rough cylindrical form, one of these presses will instantly 

 make it into a round or square print, solid, well-shaped, with 

 or without a stamp upon the cake. For those making lump 

 or print butter, one of these handy little presses, which costs 

 only five dollars, would seem to be a very economical assist- 

 ant. Col. Weld also exhibited a much more complicated 

 and expensive press, Rapp's Patent, considerably used in 

 Pennsylvania, which fixes any desired stamp or design upon 

 five sides of a cubical pound lump at once. This is a valua- 

 ble machine for large producers of " gilt-edged " prints who 

 need to guard against imitation, but can never come into 

 general use. Several excellent butter-packages of different 

 sizes and kinds were shown by this company, including the 

 Bradley Boxes and Pails and the Koehler Tub, as well as 

 dairy glass-ware, and numerous small articles of use in han- 

 dling milk and butter. As a whole, it was a well-assorted 

 and interesting collection. 



William E. Lincoln of Warren, Mass., was present with 

 one of his Portable Scientific Creameries. This is a new 

 invention, for which much is claimed : it was shown for the 

 first time at the New-England Fair of 1879, and has yet to 

 make its reputation for practical economy. The Patent 

 Pneumatic Skimmer exhibited with this creamery was a de- 

 cided novelty. 



