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ments with the railroads to fit cars with racks for 

 the bottle boxes so that the freight may be kept 

 down to about the same price as for milk in cans. If such 

 creamery shipping stations were made the gateways for all 

 milk sent to the cities, the farmers could get their milk paid 

 by the test and they would not need to get up in the middle 

 of the night because with pasteurization or with freezing, or 

 with both combined, it would matter but little whether the 

 milk was shipped early or late, and the milk dealers would 

 have no surplus waste. In this bottling outfit there should 

 be the very latest and best bottle washers. I dllustrate the 

 "Ideal Turbine" in Fig. 103. It is sold by Creamery Package 

 Mfg. Co. (Chicago). It consists of a tank with two compart- 

 ments. Behind the one to the left H is a turbine bottle 

 brush A, and in the back of the other F is a bottle rack 

 in which the bottles are inverted over the 24 spray pipes E 

 through which cold or hot water or steam may be applied 

 by an automatic foot lever I. Cold water comes through C. 

 Steam through B and at X there is a steam jet. Smaller 

 tanks with a bottle washing brush rotated either by steam, 

 belt or foot power are also in the market. The latter is illus- 

 trated in Fig. 104. The operator stands on the opposite side of 

 the tank and revolves the crank with his foot. Tank holding 

 about seventy quart bottles and cleaner complete cost only 

 $10.00. 



Fig. 104. 



STERILIZING OVENS. 



While it may be possible to keep bottles clean with water, 

 there is hardly any reason why every farmer with ten or 



