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becomes more or less difficult, and the quality of butter is 
harder to control. 
Reasons for Introducing Farm Separators.—It requires an 
investment of about $100 to purchase a hand separator. 
Fie. 77.—The Omega hand separator. 
Most of the butter made from hand-separator cream is of poor 
quality. Still, in the face of this, separators have rapidly -iu 
creased. It may be concluded that there must be some good 
reasons why farmers are continuing to invest in farm separators. 
There are undoubtedly many reasons why farmers prefer hand 
