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them clean and if so how do you like your job? Or have you special 

 arrangements in your creamery \Yhereby you can raise these vats so 

 you can wash them underneath? 



Did you ever see the ceiling and walls of creameries bespattered with 

 grease especially in the neighborhood of separator jacks and drive belts 

 of same? If so did you ever investigate the real cause of it? We know 

 it should not be so, and should be washed off as soon as visible, but 

 is this an every day job? Would you like to wash the ceilings and 

 walls of your creamery every day? Let us investigate the real cause 

 of it. 1 have in our creamery three separators, the jacks or intermi- 

 diates, are placed near the wall of the creamery. These jacks are made 

 with an oil chamber between two bushings or boxes, and the oil from 

 these chambers feed these bushings and as the oil naturally goes through, 

 especially when bushings are worn somewhat, it goes through quite 

 fast, and when it gets througli it is caught on one side by the rope 

 pully and is distributed in the creamery. On the other side it is caught 

 in a hollow pully with a hole in the belt's surface of the pully through 

 which It is distributed on the drive belt and from there to the ceiling 

 of the building. 



If time would permit I could cite you to a number more of the 

 objectionable features in the present creamery machinery, but the most 

 being along the same lines as before mentioned and all go to make an 

 unsanitary creamery. 



However, I do not wish it to be understood that I want to belittle 

 the progress that has been made by our manufctures, for it certainly 

 has been great, but as there is room for improvements in most all indus- 

 tries, we cannot expect to have ours perfect, and as an assistance to 

 such progress of perfection we have such organizations like the one 

 assembled here, where we are meeting to learn somthing and nothing 

 else. If where perfect we would have no need of coming here. I have 

 troubles and I want to learn how to overcome them. I have told you 

 what they are. How are they to be overcome? And to answer my 

 own questions, I wish I had all the machinery that are generally kept 

 in a creamery on the platform here, and then had all the pattern 

 makers of these machines with me, I feel that I could do the subject 

 more justice than I can by mere description. I could then tell them my 

 troubles and let them do the improving, but since that it not at hand 

 let me say, give me creamery machinery that is simply constructed with 

 all parts where dirt is apt to accumulate either covered or easy accessa- 

 ble with waste or brush. Have all the vats so that they can be cleaned 

 underneath as well as on the sides and with oil catching devices on all 

 machinery so it can be carried away to such place intended and the 

 trouble of greasy walls, ceilings and buttermakers are greatly overcome. 



In conclusion, let me say to you manufacturers, let your designers 

 or patternmakers attend our meetings and let them learn exactly what 

 is wanted and I am sure great progress will be the result. 



'Phe Chairman : We have abooit ten minutes if yon wish to 

 ask Mr. Oltrogge any questions. Somebody start a discussion. 



