CHAPTER VIII 



THE FARM SEPARATOR 



Use of farm separators widespread. When sep- 

 arators were first introduced they were built for 

 factory purposes. They were large machines 

 capable of separating the cream from two or 

 three thousand pounds of milk per hour. The 



cost and the incon- 

 venience of gather- 

 ing the milk at the 

 "whole milk" 

 creameries were in 

 very many cases so 

 great that most of 

 them have been 

 forced to abandon 

 their power sepa- 

 rators. At the pres- 

 ent time we find 

 very few creameries 

 still receiving whole 

 milk. Instead, small 

 separators have 

 such decided advan- 



Fig. 23. A farm separator. 



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