CHAP. III. 



CREAM SEPARATORS. 



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in a butter-dairy is the Centrifugal Cream Separator, which has been 

 developed in an extraordinary manner since 1877, in which year we 

 saw the germ or initial idea, in its embryo state, at the Hamburg 

 International Dairy Show. The machine is pretty near perfection, and 

 there are many sorts and sizes of it. It will get more cream out of the 

 milk than can be got by any other means, and it is simple enough to be 

 placed in the hands of anyone possessing the rudiments of mechanical 

 knowledge. 



In fig. 55 is seen the Dairy Supply Company's steam- or oil-power 



Fig. 55. Steam- or Oil-power Laval 

 Separator. 



Fig. 55a. Hand-power 

 Laval Separator. 



Laval Separator, the capacity of which is to separate the cream from 

 135 gallons of milk per hour, and fig. 55a shows one of their hand-power 

 separators. The "Baby" is a smaller machine, and there are power 

 machines varying in capacity up to 440 gallons per hour. 



The well-known " Alexandra " separator, of which a sectional illustra- 

 tion was given in our fourteenth edition, has been displaced by a neat 

 and compact machine named the "Lister," manufactured by Messrs. 

 Lister & Co. of Dursley. Old types give place to new ones amongst 

 separators, as amongst most other mundane productions, and this may 



