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CREAMERY BUTTER MAKING 



The chief objection to the gravity plan is that it neces- 

 sitates the climbing- of high steps, which makes going 

 from one floor to the other difficult and tiresome. Yet, 

 not many years ago, such steps were preferable to the un- 



Fig. 39.— Floor plan of combined gathered cream and whole milk creamery. 



sanitary milk pumps then in use for elevating the milk 

 into the separators. With the vanishing of the old un- 



