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seventy-fiA'e to one hundred different makes of cream 

 separators used in the United States. There are about 

 five companies m. tliis country tiiat manufacture sepa- 

 rators sufRcientiy large for creamery use. Among the 

 first companies to manufacture cream separators in 

 America, other than the above mentioned concerns, were 

 tire Empire Cream Separator Companjr of Bloomfield, 

 New Jersey, and Davis 

 and Rankin, of Chicago, 

 Illinois. 



In Continental Europe 

 and the British Isles, the 

 first separators to be man- 

 ufacturerl, other than the 

 ones already mentioned, 

 were the Balance ^ sep- 

 arator made by the Carls- 

 shops in Nendsburg, Ger- 

 many ; Melotte separator 

 of Brussels, Belgium ; The 

 Flensburger' made by the 

 Flensburger Iron Works 

 in Germany ; Ludloffs ' 

 separator made bj' F. Lud- 

 loff and Sons of Berlin, 

 Germany ; Gerauschlose 

 separator built by Laidlow and Company in Glasgow; 

 Victoria ^ separator made by Watson, Laidlow, and 

 Company in Glasgow ; Prinzess separator, also made 

 by Watson, Laifllow, and Company in Glasgow ; West- 

 falia 1 separator made by Ramsuhl and Schmidt in 

 Oeldt ; Acheiters ^ separator manufactured by Friedrich 

 1 Kirehner, W., Milch Wirtschaft, p. 182, 1898. 



I'lo. 22. — The first Sharpies tubular 

 hand separator. 



