Ml fth i‘ 
value of the product. Thoso alone aro cogent 
roBaons for the success of the system. Small 
as well as large dairies are gainers by the use of 
the most approved implements; in fact, to keep 
pace with the demand for a high-class article 
their a sc becomes a matter of necessity. 
It is said that “ paper is mode iu the engine 
that is on the careful preparation of the 
stock and pulp depends the quality of the 
product; so may it be affirmed that butter is 
made in the pan, as on the neat, cleanly and 
successful treatment of the milk while the 
cream is rising, will the quality of the butter he 
decided. 
The " Champiou ” milk-pan, made by Willard 
A Hammond, Randolph, N. Y., is deserving of 
taking high rank as a simple, effective and not 
costly apparatus that has stood the test of prac¬ 
tical work, and receive I the official approval of 
judges capable of discriminating between the 
praotio ible and impracticable. 
The chief features of this pan consist in the 
arrangement of four single pans within one 
large water pan divided into four compartments. 
The circulation of water may be controlled so as 
to move freely about one, or all of the pans at 
the convenience of the operator. These pans 
are firmly set in a wooden frame, and the char¬ 
acter of the materials employed iu their con¬ 
struction, and the o ustruotion itself leave 
nothing to he improved upon. The device for 
the management of the water is ingenious, and 
secures au equable temperature, while the con¬ 
struction of the pans permits of deep or shallow 
setting. 
Space forbids an extended mention, hut what 
has been said sufficiently indicates the value of 
the “ Champion,” and those who take a pride 
in thoroughness in the dairy can secure details 
by writiug to the firm above mentioned for 
completer information. 
PLAN FOR A CIDER MILL, 
GEO. B. BOOMER. 
Cider making, like most other industries, is 
rapidly changing. Instead of the small mills 
scattered about the country for the convenience 
of farmers, wo now find them built ou a larger 
scale, located within easy reach of the great lines ( 
of transportation, and owned by energetic busi¬ 
ness men who ship the u juico,” ub fast as made 
to dealers in the large cities; or manufacture it 
into refined cider, jelly, and vinegar on the 
premises. 
That this system must eventually crowd out 
tho small mills, seems quite as reasonable as 
that the cheese factory should gain the ascen¬ 
dency it has in that branch of farm business. 
The plan herein submitted comprises a mill 
capable of making a car-load of eider in a day, 
that it may he sent to its destination before fer¬ 
mentation takes place. 
In the ground plan, Fig. 3. A, is the press 
room, 28 by 36 feet, and 12 feet high. The 
boilor room on tho side is 10 by 20 feet, and con¬ 
tains the six horse-power boiler. B. The engine 
E, is connected by belt with the line shaft in the 
second story. The power press P, including 
douhli platform, requires a space 8 by 19 feet, 
leaving 6 feet between it and the side of the 
building occupied by the railroad trade, T, upon 
which runs a oar to carry off tho refuse pomace. 
The grator G, is placed 7 foot from the press, 
and about. 8 feet above the floor. A shute con¬ 
nects it with the apple hopper which occupies a 
space 14 feet square ou the fioor directly above. 
M. M. is an iron track )4 by 3 feet suspended 
from the joists above, and extending from either 
side of the grater, around to, and joining over 
the middle of each cheese. 
Two tubs, each 30 feet in diameter, and 30 
feet deep, aro suspended from _______ 
this track. Tho grater is pro¬ 
vided with a tilting shute, and 
the whole arranged so that 
while ono tub is being filled, 
the other iB run to the press, 
dumped, and returned to its 
place ready to receive the _____ 
pomaco when its mate is filled. - ^ 
The weight of the tub when < 5 ° I 
filled ib made to tilt the shute, 
thus accurately weighing the 
pomace for each layer. 
No apples are stored in the — 
building, but in the bins, O. - s - 
O. outside. Those bins aro 12 
feet long, 3 feet 2 inches wide> 
and 4 feet 2 inches high, 
each holding just 100 bushels, 
or two bushels per inch in 
depth. Two rows of these are 
placed ono foot apart. The 
belt carrier runs between 
them, beneath the floor, to , 
carry tho apples into the mill, /_ 
and discharge them into the / _ 
hopper on the upper floor. / 
A wagon road extends - 
around the outer ends of 
the bins. As each customer arrives, he is 
directed to a bin, unloads his apples, levels them, 
and by marks in the corners, reads the depth of 
apples in inches, which doubled, gives the num¬ 
ber of bushels. If the hoards forming the par- 
per bushel of 50 pounds. From 7 to 10 pressings 
are made in 10 hours, not inolnding the dinner 
hour which maybe partially utilized in pressing. 
The cost of ereoting a mill of this kind will 
not vary much from the following figures : 
Figure 1. 
titions of bins are sawed just 10 inches wide it will 
facilitate the measurement. 
Tho cellar 25 by 33 feet contains six tauks of 
3000 gallons capaoity each, and the second floor 
two of tho same size. A tank is also sunk four 
feet below the collar bottom, from which a power 
pump, with fifty feet of inch hose, throws the 
cider to any part of the building. 
The line shaft two inches in diameter making 
250 revolutions per minute, is looated 8 feet 
above the upper floor and 16 feet from the rear 
of the mill. It is sometimes economy to rent 
Building, including apple Dins. $.t00 
Engine and Boiler... 
Press, with cloths, rocks &c. o2o 
Orator. «> 
Elevator.-. 
Shafting, belts, pullics, &o. ™ 
Tauks. 800 
Pomaco tuhs, and elevated track.. 100 
Porn ace truck and track.. 
Putnp, IIoso, ho . "0 
pleting a sixty foot (40 horse) for the same 
market. 
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A. P. Dickev the pioneer of fanning-mill 
manufacture, has just completed one of the 
largost warehouse fan mills ever made in this 
country. It has a five-foot hurdle, and can 
clean five hundred bushels per hour. Mr. West 
Wilson, Traer, Iowa, the purchaser, proposes 
to use it in his warehouses. 
Horr, Warner & Co., of Wellington, Ohio, 
are the most extensive butter makers in the 
world, using the milk of 9,000 cows the present 
year. During the season of 1877, they used 
17 No. 9 Blauohard Churns, made in this city, 
in their creameries, and churned over 400,000 
pounds of butter, and in one churn over 39,000 
pounds. They endorse the Blanchard Factory 
Churn as the best 
they have used or 
seen in operation. 
vimii 
~Z1 The Cortland 
wagon is deserv¬ 
edly popular. 
WHAT THEY ~SAY OF IT. 
FIFTH WEEK. 
Editor Rural The “ Cricket oek was 
received all right. Are well pleased with it, and 
thank you for so nice a premium. J. b. b. 
Miller’s Station, April G, 1STS. 
cider to any part of the building. iptft .... thank you for so nice a premium. j. b. 
The line shaft two inches in diameter making To a cidor-makor of the old school this may Miller’s Station, April 6,1S7S. 
250 revolutions per minute, is looated 8 feet seem like a large outlay; and compared with the - ~ 
above the upper floor and 16 feet from the rear old nut mill, and wooden screw it is: so is the We received the clock all right, and are much 
of the mill. It is sometimes economy to rent mowing machine compared with tho scythe; tho pleased with it. It keeps excelJon ■ time an< is a 
oower in the neighborhood of a cider mill, in reaper with the oradlo; or, the modern separator handsome ornament. TV e thank you <>i it 
1 Watervllle, N. Y., April 1, ’78. a 
I have had my “ Cricket ” for over a week and 
I am very much pleased with it. It is just what 
I wanted, and it keeps good time. .t r. b. 
Tllsonburg, Ont„ March 23,1ST3. 
I herewith send subscription and inclosnre 
for “ Cricket Clock.” My brother received his 
clock last Saturday and thinks it splendid, so my 
little girl must have a “ Cricket” too. t. m. 
Porter’s Mills, Wls., March 2 S, ’TS. 
Wk have received several premiums from the 
Rural and from other pai>ers—but never before 
one that was worth as much as it was set forth 
to be worth. The “ Cricket" is worth more. 
Paterson, N. .T. a- s - p - 
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Figure 2. 
which case it is safe to transmit it 1000 yards 
with a wire rope % of an inch diameter. 
In operating this mill but two men are re¬ 
quired. They commence in the morniDg by lay¬ 
ing the first oheese, which takes from 20 to 30 
minutes. While that is pressing they lay the 
second, and havo nearly an hour to spare, during 
which one elevatoB apples, while the other looks 
after the press, cider Ac. 
A cheese contains ten layers of 8 to 10 bushels 
each. It requires f< m sixty to ninety minutes 
to press it. The vi.-M t-hould be four gallons 
with the flail; but people who make money nse 
them, and it will generally be found that those 
who are alive to modern improvements are the 
men who succeed. 
The United States Wind Engine and Pump 
Co., have sent to the Paris Exposition a twelve 
foot Halladay Standard Wind Mill fiuished off 
in the American colors. This Company have 
just shipped to Cuba a forty foot (18 horse) 
mill for grinding sugar cane and are now com- 
Figure 3. 
The Cricket Clock is quite different from any 
other I have ever seen. It combines, as you say, 
the clock and watch—is a pretty ornament, and 
best of all, keeps almost perfect time. I have 
never bad a clock or watch to keep better. 
Youngstown, Ohio. j. b. c. 
“ Cricket ” received. Very well pleased. As 
we did not need it, I talked of selling it, hut my 
daughter said that if I talked that way she 
would hide it, which, by the way. would be rather 
hard to do, if it was kept wound, as it is very 
noisy for so S’oall a fellow, Mrs. C. M. R. 
March 2S, 1ST*. 
We are all delighted with the “ Cricket.” I 
wound it up when I got it home, and set it by 
the side of mv clock, and the latter quit running 
right off. I reckon it got insulted at the little 
“ Kicket ” as my little Willie and Kate call it. 
The children are perfectly carried away with it. 
My wife joins me in many 
thanks to you for the 
“ Cricket.” w. t. t. 
Salisbury, N. C., March 30. 
This morning the “Cricket” 
came in all right. I have set 
it a-going and it goes nicely. 
I am very much pleased with 
it. It looks much better than 
I expected, and makes quite 
an ornament for my sitting- 
room shelf. My family are 
very much pleased with it. 
Alex. Me W. 
Thornton’s Ferry, N. H. 
The “Cricket” came by 
express in due time, and I am 
very much pleased with it. 
It is a handsome little clock, 
and then it keeps such cor¬ 
rect time, that it is at once a 
great favorite in my school¬ 
room. I also think a great 
deal of the Rural, and believe 
it to be one of the best—of 
the very best of its kind pub¬ 
lished. l. s. 
Pattenburg, N. J., April 1. 
