MODERN DAIRYING 



knowledge, a most wretched product, unpala- 

 table, unwholesome, easily passing into a con- 

 dition of offensive rancidity. 



While it has been economically of large 

 significance, adding great wealth to the nation 

 and playing no inconsiderable part in the 

 prosperity of the United States, the creamery 

 may be said to be most important of all in its 

 freeing of the wives and daughters of the old- 

 time American farmers. I doubt if any activ- 

 ity which has sprung into life in the period 

 of the New Earth can be mentioned which 

 has had a more beneficent influence upon the 

 women of the farm than the establishment of 

 the creamery. 



The first creamery in the United States 

 appears to have been the one established in 

 Orange county, New York, in 1861. Slowly 

 the plan expanded, as the farmers saw the 

 superiority of this method over the old one. 

 It was then the custom to send the whole 

 milk to the creamery, but in 1875 the farmers 

 began skimming the cream themselves and 

 delivering it, in place of the whole milk. From 

 this the step to the mechanical separation of 

 cream from milk was natural. The magnitude 



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