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DE LAVAL 
CREAM 
SEPARATORS 
Always in the Lead 
From the invention by DE LAVAL of the first practical cream separator in 
1878 the DE LAVAL machines have been always in the lead. 
The first ‘‘ hollow ”’ bowl cream separator; the first factory cream separa- 
tor ; all of the several first styles of hand separators; the first steam turbine 
separator ; the first “disc”’ bowl separator, and the first “split-wing” or dis- 
tributing tubular shaft separator—were each and all DE LAVAL inventions, each 
marking periods of advancing evolution in the usefulness of the cream separator. 
So too were the first “tubular” shaped bowl separator; the first bottom feed 
separator; the first vertical “blade” bowl separator; the first interior cone con- 
struction bowl separator, and numberless other types of construction, each and 
all DE LAVAL inventions, though found so impractical or comparatively 
inferior, from one reason or another, that they were never put into com- 
mercial use in the DE LAVAL machines. 
Every would-be competing cream separator on the market today merely 
utilizes some patent expired or abandoned DE LAVAL construction, and if any 
one of them should make pretense of denying it the patent evidence may be 
easily produced showing the falsity or evasion of such denial. 
The new 1908 DE LAVAL cream separators mark another great evolution 
in cream separator construction, being new and remodelled in practically every 
detail, and place a still wider margin of superiority between the DE LAVAL 
and even the best of imitating separators. 
The DE LAVAL main factories in the United States and Sweden are the 
largest and finest of their kind and have ranked for ten years among the model 
shops of the world; their equipment is the best that mechanical science and money 
canmake it; the twenty smaller DE LAVAL factories, assembling, and repair 
shops, in as many different countries, are relatively as superior; the DE LAVAL 
inventors and experimental engineers are the best of the men who have shown 
practical separator genius in every country, and a large staff of them is kept con- 
stantly at the betterment of the DE LAVAL machines, while the shop employes 
generally are the most competent and best paid in their various classes. 
THE GREAT OBJECT EVER KEPT BEFORE EVERY MEMBER 
OF THE DE LAVAL PRODUCTIVE ORGANIZATION IS THE 
MAKING OF THE BEST CREAM SEPARATOR POSSIBLE AND 
EVER THE MAKING OF IT BETTER THIS YEAR THAN LAST 
YEAR. 
These are the reasons why the DE LAVAI. machines began in the lead and 
have kept it from 1878 to 1908, excelling all attempted imitation and competi- 
tion in even greater degree today than at any past time. 
The new 1908 DE LAVAL catalogue—affording an education in separator 
knowledge—is to be had for the asking. 
The De Laval Separator Co. 
4 173-177 William Street 
Chicago General Offices; Montreal 
42 E. Madison Street. 
1213 &1215 Filbert St. 74 Cortlandt Street 14 & 16 Princess Street 
Philadelphia Winnipeg 
Drumm & Sacramento Sts. NEW YORK. 107 First Street. 
San Francisco Portland, Oreg. 
MAGAZINE May, 1908 
Spring Pastures 
ie maintaining the milk flow of a dairy 
herd there are two crucial seasons; 
the first in the fall when pastures are 
short and lacking in nutrition, and the 
second in spring when the transition is 
made from the dry winter feed to the fresh 
pastures. The first is easily tided over 
when one has abundance of succulent 
fodder corn, but the spring change is less 
easily managed, for the season is not far 
enough advanced to make a green crop 
possible. A full ration of silage is perhaps 
the best solution, but if ithas been fed through- 
out the winter even that will not maintain 
the full flow. 
Few people appreciate root crops at their 
full value and very little attention has been 
paid to them, mainly because the labor 
of harvesting them is considered too heavy. 
However, those who have tried them would 
not be without a full supply at this season. 
There seems to be nothing which will fully 
take their place in tiding over the few weeks 
when cow nature seems to be pining for 
the green fields and the grass is not yet 
mature enough to furnish the best milk- 
producing ration. 
Too much haste in opening pastures to 
the stock results very disastrously. Before 
the soil has settled from the heaving of the 
frost and the sod is still soft, the trampling 
destroys so many roots that later in the 
season the pasture furnishes poor grazing 
and is permanently injured. If practicable 
pastures should be carefully rolled each spring 
before any stock is allowed therein. If 
rolling is out of the question, there is nothing 
to do but wait till the sod is firm or suffer 
the consequences. It will also pay well 
to run the smoothing harrow over the 
smooth pastures to distribute the last sea- 
son’s droppings, tear up the dead and 
matted grass and stimulate the fresh 
growth. This is also a good season to 
remove stones, stumps, and brush. A 
little dynamite is an invaluable helper on 
the larger and more refractory ones. In 
the hands of a person of ordinary intelli- 
gence and caution there is no danger 
attending its use, but it is best to leave 
the entire handling of it in the hands of 
one person. 
The first growth of grass has a tendency 
to cause various disorders of the digestive 
and milk-producing organs. Inflammation 
of the udder or “garget” is particularly 
common with cows in full flow of milk. 
The popular treatment is a little powdered 
saltpetre given in the grain feed occasion- 
ally. In small doses and used with judg- 
ment it is very effective but incautiously 
used it is a dangerous remedy. Teaspoon- 
ful doses used no oftener than required 
need cause no uneasiness. For the slight 
digestive troubles incident to the sudden 
change of feed the same sized dose of hypo- 
sulphite of soda, the common “hypo” of 
the amateur photographer, will be found 
of the greatest service. Giving stock the 
run of the pastures for only a part of the 
day at first is advocated by many but where 
there is not abundant help this will be 
