and dozens are offered in the 

 market. It seems, however, 

 as if the so-called "low down" 

 wagon, of which I illustrate 

 one in Fig. 115 is gaining 

 favor. 



The tendency of the cream 

 to rise in the milk cans 

 where the delivery is made 

 from a faucet in large cans 

 Fig - 115 - cannot be denied. But 



whether it is a question worth raising unless smooth asphalt 

 streets and very soft springs under the wagons are in evidence 

 may be doubted. 



In Germany where the delivery is nearly exclusively 

 from faucets, various devices have been used for preventing 

 the cream from rising. 

 Thus Thiel & Sohne (Ger- 

 many) made a wooden 

 floater and suspended sev- E 

 eral chains under this 

 which swing back and 

 forth and thus keep the 

 milk stirred. Others at- 

 tach a perforated tin 

 tube to the faucet (Fig. 

 116) and others again place a per- 

 forated cone w r hich is supposed to 

 let to the faucet milk from all the 

 different layers in the right propor- 

 tion. 



Koch & Co. (Germany) made a moveable apparatus for 

 the cans shown in Fig. 117. It consists of a tube B with six 

 horizontal plates reaching close to the wall of the can. In 

 the tube are spirally arranged slits. The plates prevent 

 cream from raising and when the faucet is opened a current 

 is started, as shown by the arrows. 



When in New Orleans (in 1898), I found large cans with 

 faucets used extensively and the milk inspector assured me 

 that he had repeatedly tested the matter and found that 

 there no raising of the cream took place during the deliv- 



Fig. 116. 



Fig. 117. 



