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BRITISH DAIRYING. 



pans or closed ones, or by the aid of a separator, which last is 



best of all ! 



There are separators to be driven by steam engines, water, 



wind, or horses, separators 

 for hand-power, and sepa- 

 rators which are called 

 turbines driven by steam 

 without an engine. 



It is superfluous, in this 

 first decade of the twen- 

 tieth century, to dilate on 

 the advantages which are 

 secured by the use of 

 separators, for they are 

 known by everybody 

 financially interested in 

 dairying, and many who 

 are not. The skimming 

 capability of these mar- 

 vellous machines has been 

 greatly increased since the 

 first edition of this small 

 book was published, and 

 the prices at which they 

 are now being sold are 

 well within the reach of 

 those whose dairy farming 

 is on a very modest scale. 

 " Laval " machines for 

 FIG. 29. " ALFA-LAVAL " STEAM " hand " run from a capa- 



IURBINE SEPARATOR: UP TO 440 



GALLONS PER HOUR. city of \\ gallons of milk 



per hour, and a price of -7 ios., to 135 gallons, and 10^30. 

 "Power" machines run up to 450 gallons, and to ^87 los. 



The cream, once obtained, can be dealt with at once in the 

 way which recent science has disclosed as the best, and the 

 skim-milk may be put to the best possible use whilst it is still 

 actually fresh from the udder of the cow that is to say, within 



