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Fig. 873.— Bench for Running Milk from Cans. 



and is provided with an air tube in the 

 center to cool the milk. A glass tube 

 is fixed in the side for measuring the 

 depth of the cream. 



In connection with these cans is 



Fig. 875. — Weldon's Cream-raising Apparatus. 



Fig. 876. — Weighing Can. 

 foot wide, the sides about 3 inches high. 



Fig. 874. — Cooley's Creamer. 



shown the Utica cream- 

 strainer, Fig. 866, in 

 which the cream is 

 forced gently 

 through perforations 

 at the point of the 

 cone-shaped tin, by 

 means of a peculiar- 

 ly shaped wooden 

 knob, turned with a 

 crank. 



More's Pyramidal 

 Strainer is said to be 

 the best of its kind 

 yet invented in this, 

 country. (Figs. 871 

 and 872.) The milk' 

 falls in this strainer 

 upon the sloping sides of the pyramid, 

 and the sediment is constantly carried 

 to the base, leaving a clean surface through 

 which the milk rapidly passes. Fig. 872 

 shows the strainer in parts. 



A contrivance for running milk from 

 cans, which constitutes a part of Mr. Cool- 

 ey's system, is shown in Fig. 873. It can 

 be made of pine boards, the bench about a 



