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SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF DAIRYING. 



ing the amount of cream to be obtained from an equal flow of 

 milk. 1 



66. The Balance Separators. The discoverer and first patentee 

 of this separator, which was made known at the beginning of 1888, 

 was a Dane, whose nom de plume was Musician. In February, 1888, 



a similar separator 

 under the name of the 

 Nil son separator was 

 made by the firm of 

 Mot & Co. of Paris, 

 and in the same month 

 a balance separator 

 supplied by the Carl 

 Peter Co. was used on 

 the estate of Emken 

 Dorf in Holstein. The 

 construction of the 

 balance separators has 

 undergone, up to the 

 present time, a number 

 of changes, but they 

 have been compara- 

 tively little tried in 

 practice. The Carl 

 Peter Co., which lias 

 acquired the patent, 

 makes these separators 

 of six different sizes, 

 three for machine use, 



with drums made of hardened steel, and three for hand use, with 



drums made of hard hammered copper (fig. 44). 



67. The Separators in Use at Present in Germany. The separ- 

 ators at present in use in Germany are of seven types those of 

 Lefeldt, De Laval, Burmeister and Wain, Alpha separators, Victoria 

 separators, Balance separators, and Dr. O. Brown's separators. The 

 first six types include several large separators of different sizes for 



1 Messrs. Watson, Laidlaw & Co. point out, on the other hand, that in their machine the 

 proportionate yield of cream is altered by increasing or diminishing the supply of milk, which 

 can be done without stopping the machine. They claim that this method of obtaining thick 

 or thin cream is advantageous, as it obviates the necessity for having any special arrangement 

 in the drum for this purpose. English Editors. 



Fig. 44. Section of the Balance Separator. 



