MODERN DAIRYING 



tant labor-saving devices, among them an 

 automatic cow-milker, which aroused no slight 

 interest among the country folk. 



I do not know whether or not it was this 

 latter that turned his attention to the inven- 

 tion which brought him fame and money, but, 

 in any event, he became convinced that the 

 old way of allowing milk to stand until the 

 cream had risen was not the best way. So he 

 set about perfecting a device for the mechani- 

 cal separation of cream from milk. The inven- 

 tion was a simple one, the act itself so natural, 

 so to say, it was curious that no one had ever 

 hit upon such a thing before. Though simple, 

 it has yet proven one of the wonderful inven- 

 tions of the age, the de Laval separator. For 

 it was the great Swedish inventor whose 

 fame rests by no means on this device alone 

 who was so greatly admired as a lad by the 

 country folk, when he turned tinker among 

 their disabled household articles and kept the 

 community in repair. 



De Laval's invention is one of the most 

 important contributions made to the life of 

 the New Earth. Without it, modern dairying 

 could never have attained its present com- 



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