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Report on the Implements 
into butter, which, as milk flows into the centrifuge, passes 
away continuously through ducts provided for that purpose in 
the floor of the inner cream chamber. 
A greater or less agitation follows on setting the cage more 
or less eccentrically with the milk drum, and creams of different 
character or density are dealt with in this way. 
It was arranged that this machine should be tried on 
Wednesday, June 26, at o P.M., with 20 gallons of milk. The 
Judges attended at the annexe to the Working Dairy, and after 
carefully weighing the milk, and taking samples, the machine 
was started, only to run a few minutes, when it was found that 
in putting together tlie machine after cleaning (it had pre- 
viously been working satisfactorily) something had been omitted, 
and consequently the trial had to be abandoned. Later in the 
afternoon the Judges again attended, and were honoured by the 
presence of the Royal Princesses and other distinguished visi- 
tors. Two hundred pounds of milk were weighed out and all 
put together, and carefully mixed in a can and samples taken, 
I should state that the inventor wished to reduce the milk to 
60°, but time would not permit, and the milk used for the trial 
was 05°. 
h. m. I h. ID. 
The machine was started at . o 23 Butter came at . . .5 33J 
Skim milk came at . . 5 30 Finished at . . . , 5 47 
Commenced churning at . 5 32|- I 
On completion — 
Weight of skim milk was . , , 1S3J lbs. 
„ butter and butter milk was , lOrf- „ 
„ butter made up . . . 7 „ 
Dr. Voelcker certified as follows : — 
c,7 • \ Butter-fat .... 0-30 ,, 
Shm3IUk . j SoMg (total) . . . lOll " 
The butter was lumpy rather than granular, somewhat soft 
and pale-coloured, and would not have passed muster with the 
butter made by Miss Maidment in the Dairy, though it tasted 
better than a great deal of the butter sold throughout the country. 
The Judges awarded a Silver Medal to this ingenious machine, 
as an example of adcdnce in a new but highly important field. 
They are not prepared to say that it was demonstrated that the 
Centrifugal Butter Extractor is yet a complete practical success, 
but they feel they would have done injustice, not only to the in- 
ventor, but to the members of the Society, had they failed to draw 
attention to this machine in the most emphatic way they could. 
200 lbs. 
