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Deerfoot Farm Centrifugal Dairy. 
to the quality, and is satisfactory to the consumer, that that 
dairyman whose butter, other things being equal, contains the 
most water is gaining an advantage, and an advantage of con- 
siderable importance. 
The butter is pressed by a machine into blocks, and stamped 
Tvith a monogram which marks the half-pound lump into two 
portions, so that the consumer can, by dividing, have neatly 
formed pats of a size proper for the table without injury to the 
appearance of the stamp. 
Wherever extra price is obtained, much attention must be 
given to the attractiveness of packages, and this plan has been 
found not only satisfactory to the consumer, but to remunerate 
as well the slight extra expense which follows its use. These 
pats, each wrapped in a small piece of wet linen and stowed into 
tin boxes of slight depth, are thus sent to market. 
System. — The system adopted is to make each employe re- 
sponsible for certain well-defined duties. Upon entering the 
-dairy-room, a framed placard is to be seen, thus : — 
DEERFOOT FARM, SOUTHBOROUGH, MASS. 
Daibt Depaetme>-t, Octobee, 18£0. 
Bdsement. — Mr. M , responsible for machines, shafting, tanks. Also 
entry, stairs, &c. 
Milk-room. — A. O'C , responsible for tank, windows, elevator, &c. 
Upper-floor piazza. — C. R , responsible for cans, milk pails, sinks, 
racks, windows, scales, brass, &c. 
Piffrigerators. — J. E. M , responsible for chum, shafting, cream pails, 
butter utensils, &c. 
J. E. M , Foreman. 
W. E. BURKE, 
General Manager. 
This placard indicates what in handling milk must never be 
overlooked, the necessity of absolute cleanliness, and the most 
scrupulous care exercised to prevent offensiveness in any form. 
In this respect Deerfoot Farm is indeed a model. The amount 
of water used is enormous. Hot steam is in constant requisi- 
tion for scalding almost every surface, and rubber wraps and 
scrubbing cloths are in use almost continually. 
The men employed are dressed in white overalls, and sacks 
and aprons. The tin is everywhere bright ; wherever brass 
appears it is in full polish ; the air is sweet, and no foul odours 
anywhere; and this is the case not onlv within the dairy build- 
ings and the cow stables, but everywhere around them. 
One man is employed on the machines in the centrifugal 
rooms ; he also cares for the skim-milk. Another man cares 
for the bottling, which includes the washing of the bottles and 
other minor duties. A third man has charge of the butter 
