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much  as  possible  of  the  various  operations.  In  that  part  of  the 
building  which  represented  the  farm  dairy,  milk  was  set  in 
Swartz  vats,  deep  oval  cans,  skimmed  after  12  hours  for  the 
production  of  sweet  cream,  and  in  Bradford’s  shallow  pans  on 
revolving  disc-stands  for  ripe  cream.  Here  the  skimming  takes 
place  after  22  hours,  and  the  cream  is  kept  for  24  hours.  The 
skim-milk  was  cooled  by  passing  over  Lawrence’s  refrigerator. 
Three  churns  were  shown  in  work  — E.  Taylor’s  Eccentric, 
George  Hathaway’s  Prize  Churn,  and  the  American  Swing 
Churn,  sold  by  the  Aylesbury  Co.  A small  hardening  box 
wras  used,  and  the  Albany  Butter-worker,  and  Ahlborn’s  knead- 
ing boxes,  &c.  The  following  very  interesting  account  of  the 
produce  of  the  working  dairy,  kindly  supplied  by  Mr.  Jenkins, 
may  well  conclude  this  branch  of  my  subject : — 
“ A slight  sketch  of  the  work  done  in  the  Society’s  Dairy  may 
be  interesting,  as  an  illustration  both  of  possibilities  and  diffi- 
culties. It  was  intended  to  commence  work  with  about  200 
gallons  of  milk  on  Thursday,  July  12th,  and  the  contractor 
delivered  exactly  that  quantity  according  to  arrangement ; but, 
as  some  of  the  machinery  was  not  in  working  order,  it  was 
found  necessary  to  dispose  of  it  otherwise.  On  Friday,  216  gal- 
lons of  milk  were  received,  and  most  of  it  was  set  for  cream, 
either  in  shallow  pans  or  in  the  Swartz  deep  cans,  but  the 
separators  were  not  then  ready  to  work.  For  the  first  day  to 
which  the  public  had  access  to  the  Implement-yard,  400  gallons 
of  milk  had  been  ordered,  and  390  gallons  were  received.  By 
this  time  the  dairy  was  in  full  working  order,  and  everything 
went  well  thenceforth,  with  the  exceptions  to  be  mentioned 
presently. 
“ The  milk  received  from  July  14th  until  the  close  of  the  Show 
was  as  follows : — 
July  14th,  Saturday  
„ 16th,  Monday  
..  ..  403 
„ 17th,  Tuesday  
..  ..  373 
„ 18th,  Wednesday 
..  ..  467 
99 
„ 19th,  Thursday 
..  ..  409 
„ 20th,  Friday  
..  ..  399 
99 
Total 
..  ..  2441 
“To  this  must  be  added  a considerable  portion  of  the  milk 
received  on  Friday,  which  was  set  for  cream  as  already  stated  ; 
and  it  will  not  be  far  from  the  truth  if  the  dairy  is  debited  with 
a total  of  2600  gallons  of  milk. 
“It  was  intended  that  a complete,  record  should  be  kept  of  the 
yield  of  cream  and  butter  from  each  portion  of  milk  treated  in 
the  four  different  ways  illustrated  in  the  dairy  ; but,  unfor- 
