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dilution water is introduced at the bottom through a funnel or 

 otherwise. The whole apparatus is sold for about four times its 

 actual cost and farmers are misled by the term separator into 

 comparing the low (?) price of $10 to $20, with that of $65 for 

 the centrifugal separator. They have no more right to the name 

 of separator than a shot-gun can. To this class belongs also the 

 "Automatic" separator, which is a tube for distributing the water 

 at the bottom of a can. 



While most of these fakes are driven out of the market, there are 

 still advertised in many agricultural papers so-called "separators" 

 and "extractors," which consist of a peculiar shaped can inserted 

 in another of galvanized iron. I illustrate in Fig. 26 the cross- 

 sections of some of these cans and while they may not be called 

 frauds my readers will notice at a glance that a common round 

 can set in a barrel or in another round can with ice water will do 

 equally good work and be easier to clean, while the cost is only 

 one-third or one-fourth. 



(Fig. 26) 



