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which was a few years before the first creamery was 

 organized in the United States, the idea of a combined 

 churn and worker came into existence. It is said that 

 Macnish 1 was one of the first in this country to study and 

 patent butter-workers within churns. * The large combined 

 machines, as now known, came on the market about 1893. 

 Cornish, Curtis, and Green built the first combined 

 machine, which was known as the National Combined 



FIG. 44. Power churns. From left to right the small churns are: 

 Perfection Jr., Minnetonna, Home Creamery. The large churns: 

 Perfection, left, and Simplex, right. 



Churn and Butter Worker. The Victor churn was 

 placed on the market about 1896. The Simplex Combined 

 Churn and Butter Worker was designed by the D. H. 

 Burrell & Co. 2 in 1898. The Disbrow was first used about 

 the year 1903. The Perfection churn was invented about 

 1908. Fig. 44 shows a few of the power churns. The 



1 Macnish, James, Letter to author by R. F. Macnish, 

 who is a grandson of James Macnish, 1917. 



2 Burrell, D. H., Letter to. author, 1917. 



