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by and shifting the butter with the Scotch hands as it passes from 

 under the roller. The moisture is carried to the edge of the 

 table by a combination of gravity and centrifugal force, and flows 

 through certain holes pierced at regular intervals at the edge of 

 the table inside the flange and finds its way thence to the dairy 

 drain. 



After the butter has been, in the judgment of the attendant, 

 sufficiently worked, it is weighed out into rough lumps of 24 oz. 

 apiece which are converted by means of the Scotch hands into 

 carefully shaped rolls and stamped with the particular design of 

 the dairy. This shows up plainly on the top of the rolls, thus 

 affording a ready means of identification to dealers and 

 customer alike. The finished rolls are carried away to a cold 

 chamber and placed, until such times as they are wanted, upon 

 smooth slabs of slate. 



To give an idea of the amount of work done at the Skelldale 

 Dairy a table is given showing the supply of milk dealt with 

 during the years 1892 to 1903 inclusive : — 



Year. 



Gallons 



Year. 



Gallons. 



Year. 



Gallons. 



Year. 



Gallons. 



1892 



i893 

 1894 



102,527 

 115,181 

 112,069 



1895 

 1896 

 1897 



121,069 



134,753 

 148,449 



1898 

 1899 

 1900 



167,653 

 185,410 

 223,110 



1901 

 1902 

 1903 



198,359 

 193,559 

 222,500 



In the last year (1903) the members were credited with 

 an average of yd. per gallon for milk delivered at the dairy 

 (taking milk at 10 lb. to the gallon) ; hence there is no reason 

 for surprise that the dairy has been much appreciated by its 

 members when it is known that under the old system they 

 would have received fully id. per gallon less. Moreover, the 

 presence of so well-equipped a dairy in their midst, governed 

 by themselves, has been the means of stimulating the farmers 

 to pay far greater attention than before, not only to dairying 

 but to the best methods of conducting their business. 



So much then for a large (perhaps the largest) co-operative 

 dairy doing an all-round trade in dairy produce. Some account 

 may now be given of another, mentioned earlier in this article, 

 as doing a trade exclusively in whole milk. 



