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ENGLISH DAIRY FACTORIES. 



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cheese-factory for the use of his tenantry ; but they declined it because, 

 being close to a railway, they were enabled to devote their energies to 

 the milk-trade, which, in the form it has since assumed, was then a com- 

 paratively new thing. In 1884, the present Lord Vernon, who treads 

 so well in his father's steps in agricultural reforms, erected a combined 

 butter- and cheese -factory for the benefit of his tenantry, and others 

 around, who had discovered that such an institution was needed not 

 only for the manufacture of butter and cheese, one or both, as the case 

 might be, but also to accommodate the vicissitudes of the milk-trade, 





Fig. 74 Steam-Power Factory Churn, the " Anglo-Hibernia." 



in which competition had by that time become very keen and general. 

 The factory on Lord Vernon's estate at Sudbury, in Derbyshire, has had 

 already a long career of gratifying success, and the Sudbury butter com- 

 mands a high price, far above the average for fresh butter. As we have 

 said before, however, butter-factories are very differently conducted from 

 what they were at first, for the centrifugal cream-separator has com- 

 pletely displaced the ice-water system of setting milk to cream, and 

 indeed all other systems too. We have previously spoken of separators 

 (p. 261), and have given illustrations of hand and power machines ; in 

 Fig. 73 we give a woodcut of a machine for steam or water power 

 a double or twin machine, indeed, capable of separating 150 gallons 



