650 Eeport on the " JVorldng Dairy " at the Derby Show. 
scoops, care being taken not to allow the hands to come in 
contact with it, and placed on the butter-worker, which I now 
proceed to describe. 
The butter-workers shown at Derby were the " Embree," an 
American machine, and the " M M." 
The Embree butter-worker consists of a revolving circular 
table, sloping from the centre to the circumference, on which 
the butter is placed and pressed by a fluted roller actuated by 
hand. The expressed moisture passes by gravitation to a 
channel round the edge of the table and runs away by an 
opening provided for the purpose. The attendant keeps 
moving the butter with a couple of wooden "hands," or 
beaters, to the roller, which in a short time squeezes out all 
butter-milk and consolidates it till it is fit to make up. After it 
is taken from the workers it is consolidated into a large lump 
and weighed. It is then immediately made up into half-pound 
Fig. 10. — T7je Emhree Biitter-icorher. 
pats, or 1 lb. or 2 lb. lumps, as desired. Half a pound having 
been taken from the lump and carefully weighed, is placed on 
a round mould, which is pressed upon it once or twice to give 
it its ornamental stamp, and the edges are dexterously turned 
on the fluted edge of the board to give a finish to the whole. 
Being then placed in a small round basket, enveloped in muslin, 
it has a very dainty aspect, and a large quantity made at the 
Show was bought by visitors and carried away by them direct 
from the Dairy. 
The "MM" butter-worker is a hand-machine working on a 
similar principle, and intended for smaller dairies. Though 
exhibited at Derby, it was not used there, I believe ; but it is 
obvious to me that machines of this kind are destined to supersede 
the old barbarous methods of hand-working in all dairies where 
the finest class of butter is desired. 
