1907.] Circular to Makers of Milk Churns. 



41 



Messrs. Walker-Tisdale and Theodore Robinson have fur- 

 nished the Board with the following note on this subject* : — 



In many dairies, particularly in large 

 Quick Method of ones, where the sale of clotted or Devon- 

 Making Devonshire shire cream is considerable, a quick 

 Cream. method of producing this article is 



erhployed. 



Instead of the preliminary setting up of the milk in pans for 

 twelve or twenty-four hours, as the case ma}^ be, in order to 

 allow the cream to rise, the milk is passed through a separator. 

 The separator is regulated to take off thick cream, and this cream 

 is then run gently on to the surface of some separated milk 

 contained in tinned or enamelled iron pans. Scalding is then 

 carried out in the usual manner, not less than half an hour being 

 occupied by the heating process. The pans are then rapidly 

 cooled, and the cream obtained in a thick clotted condition. 

 Where there is a separator this is a very good way to make 

 clotted cream, especially in summer, when it may always be 

 obtained sweet. In hot weather, if the milk has to stand 

 for several hours for the cream to rise, there is a danger of sour- 

 ing taking place. 



In a circular letter dated February 27th, 1907, the Board of 

 Agriculture and Fisheries direct the attention of makers of 



churns for the carriage of milk by rail 

 Circular to Makers to the fact that the Metropolitan Borough 

 of Milk Churns. Councils Association, in a report which was 



forwarded to the Board on June iqth last, 

 recommended that the use of sealed cans lor the transit of milk 

 should be enforced by Statute, and that at a Conference held 

 between the Public Health Committee of Wandsworth and 

 dairymen and keepers of nhlkshops in that borough on July 17th 

 last, il w.is resolved : "That the Board of Agriculture be urged 

 to take steps to ensure the carriage of milk in sealed churns.'" 

 I > < > 1 1 1 the report and the resolution have received the support of 

 numerous Metropolitan Borough Councils. Two of the principal 

 Dairy runners' Associations have also for several years recom- 

 mended their members to send milk by rail, in sealed churns, 

 to prevent pilfering. 



* See /<'//;v/<f/, vol. p. 2IO, July, 1906, " Devonshire ( ream and Soft CheeSfr- 



making." 



