o02 y/ie Trials of Cream Separators at Doncaster. 
At tlie Nottingliam Show in 1888 there was no compe- 
tition for hand separators, but the Judges of Implements re- 
ported a decided advance to have been made in the machines 
sent for exhibition, they now being well within the power of 
a lad. 
Two machines, viz. the Danish (Burmeister & Wain's) 
hand separator, and a yet smaller size of the vertical " Laval " 
hand machine than had been shown before, and called the 
" Babv," were on view. They are both figured and described 
in this Journal, vol. xxv. (1889), pp. 98-9. The Danish 
machine separated 15 gallons of milk per hour, and the " Baby " 
12 gallons. 
Two fresh machines were exhibited at the Jubilee Show at 
Windsor in 1889, these being the "Star" hand separator 
(exhibited by the Aylesbury Dairy Co.) and the " Victoria " 
hand separator of Freeth and Pocock. These are figured and 
described in the Journal, vol. xxv. (1889), pp. 526-9. In the 
former the novelty was, that the driving gear was fixed to 
the top part of the frame of the machine. A sufficient trial 
could not be given to it at Windsor, and it was recommended 
for re-exhibition at Plymouth, though it did not, however, 
appear there. In a trial made at Windsor the " Star " machine 
left '15 per cent, of butter-fat in the skim-milk, and the 
" Victoria " •] 7 per cent. 
Lastly, at the Plymouth Meeting, in 1890, the Danish hand 
separator, now capable of separating 35 gallons per hour, was 
shown, and was provided with a cream regulator. At the Bath 
and West of England Society's Show at Eochester.the same year 
the '"Alexandra" hand separator of Lister & Co. was first 
shown. 
This account brings us down to the present year, when the 
following prizes were announced for competition at the Don- 
caster Show of 1891 : — 
Class II. Cream Separator (power machine). First prize, 30/. Second 
prize, 201. 
Class III. Cream Separator (liand machine). First prize, 20/. Second 
prize, 10/. 
The entries received for the respective classes were :— 
Class II. — O-eam Separators, {Power Machines), 
No. in 
Catalogue 
057 Freeth & Pocock, Wandsworth Road, London, S."\V. The 
" Victoria," price 40/. Skim Milk Elevator attached, 5/. extra. 
1032 R. A. Lister & Co., Dursley, Glos. The "Alexandra," No. 2, 
price 49/. 
