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by putting hay or grass in at the other end. When such 

 a labor-saving machine is constructed, and when pipes 

 are laid from country dairies directly to the city resi- 

 dences of families who prefer to be thus supplied with 

 milk, without the aid of railroads or milkmen, then there 

 will be a decided panic in the butter and milk markets. 

 It would be something new for madame, in her city 

 home a hundred miles away, to ask by telephone for so 

 many pounds of butter, or so many 

 quarts of milk from any cow she 

 might be pleased to select, and 

 have it on her table within a few 

 minutes. Visionary as this may 

 seem, substitute "a few hours" for 

 "a few minutes," and my fiction 

 becomes a fact, for a telephone con- 

 nects my farm with the Western 

 Union Telegraph office in the vil- 

 lage, and orders from distant cities, 

 for any of the products of my dairy 

 can thus be immediately executed 

 by rails, however, not by pipes. 

 The cream is not churned until it has been strained 

 through holes smaller than an ordinary-sized pin would 

 make. Owing to its richness and solidity, it is necessary 

 to force it through. This is done by a pump with 

 double "plungers," the strainer can, at the bottom of 

 which the strainers are attached, being first placed on 

 another can. The butter is thus made all of one con- 

 sistency. 

 To avoid the unnecessary handling of the butter, it is 



CBEAM STKAINEB. 



