LONDON DAIRY SHOW.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 December 1924, Page 10

LONDON DAIRY SHOW.

NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITS

NO AWARDS FOR BUTTER, AND - CHEESE. DAIRY MACHINERY. ■ LONDON, October 24: ; New Zealand is not well represented at the Condon Dairy Show tnis year, and the only exhibit to receive a merit Oird is that of. th e New Zealand Liic-n alid Meat racking Company. This is in the-class-for colonial bacon —four siues. 'h'here are eight entries. First prize is xaiien by Messrs. Gunns, Ltd., of loronto, Canada., second prize by the same iirm, and the. New ■ Zealand Company is ■ .highly commended:” Other exhibiting firms winch do not receive an award, are the Farineis’. Co-operative Bacon Factory, of,Natal, South Avfrica, which has* three, .exhibits, and the Ballina Cooperative Refrigerating and Produce Company, of Ballina, New South Wales. •' In the Colonial Ciieddar (coloured or i.ncoloured) cheese class, there are twenty entries. The New Zealand competitors are the Featlierston Company, Barry’s Bay, Edendale, Cam, Awarna, Belvedere, and T. L. Joll companies. None of these, however, receive an award. First prize and Hansen Trophy n o to I. Sprott, Eastern Dairy School, Kingston, Ontario, Canada ; and second ,u - ize and Reserve Hansen Trophy to H. MTntosh, Lanark, and Drummond Cheese Factory, Lanark, Ontario,. Canada. Third prize is 'awarded to the iyinburn Cheese Factory, Ontario; the Meadows Cheese factory, East Griquaiand, South Africa, is “very highly commended,” and an exhibit of the name factory also receives a commendation.-

The colonial butter is a very large class, there l being 79 entries in the salted section —one box containing not less than 561 b. Entries from Australian ractoiies are a long way in the majority* but Canada has four entries, while New Zealand has only two. The winner is the South American Farmers’ Cooperative Union. Milan, South Australia, which obtains 93 points out of n possible 100, made up as follows : Flavour 53 (possible 55), texture 15 (9q) olour 10 (10), salting 10 (10), packing r > (T>-

Second prize goes to tne tsega Cooperative Cieamery Company, New South Wales, with 92 points. The company obtains 52 for flavour, but the same points as the first prize winner under other headings. Third prize is awarded to the Queensland Farmers’ Co-operative Company, Boonali, with 91 points out of a possible 100. Fifteen other Australian. Companies and one Canadian company receive various grades of commendation.

Masterton Co-operative Dairy Co receives a total of 88 points, made up as follows: Flavour 49 (possible 55) texture 14 (20), colour 10 (10), salting l() . v, packing 5 (5). Karainea Cooperative Dairy Company received 81 points, made up as follows: Flavour 45 (10), salting 9 (10), packing 4 (5). , 4 here a’e no New Zealand entries in c-’c Un«alted Class. The first prize.in ' •.us section, which has 66 entries, H Vanbncca Dairy Company, ’ New Vth Wales. 1 A NEW ZEALAND SEPARATOR. i A new separator drive, the Weani, irhieJi comes from New Zealand, is entered by the Associated Manufacturers Co. (London), Ltd. This attachment, for any make of separator, is specially designed to enable it to be direct driven by. an internal combustion engine. The driven pulley, which carries the engine driving belt, is placed in. a cradle loosely mounted on the spindle of the main separator. gear, which drives through an outside back-geared pinion. V friction clutch, operated by a small hand wheel, enables the pulley to take up the drive (gradually. The special feature of the attachment. however, is! the fact that it is swlf-adjlisting and does not transmit to V' G separator howl the fluctuations in (lie driving force. Since the cradle is loosely mounted, the pulley rests in the lowest position; but directly the power the driving pinion tends to Nimh up the main gear. The result is that the pulley and pinion virtually n foating position giving an easy drive. A LIQUID LEVEL ALARM. Air. T. Grayson, Derby, is showing

a. device designed to give notice when tne iui lk flowing from a cooler into u {churn reaches the desired level. This jis known as the “Reminda” liquid j alarm indicator, and it is operated by |an adjustable float. On rising to the pre-arranged level, this makes electrical j contact with a bell, which can be fixed jin the cowshed or. elsetvhere, and so {obviate the necessity for constant attendance in the cooling room. I . REFRIGERATING MACHINE. | With a capacity of 100 gallons per l hour, the “Perfect Sabroe” refrigerating machine will cool milk to 20 degrees' C. This is shown by Perfect Hairy Machines, Ltd., London. The outfit works on the carbon-dioxide system, and comprises _a vertical compressor, evaporator, sprinkling condenser and centrifugal brine pump. The milk is cooled over a double capillary cooler for Irnne and water, arid it is claimed that line plant is safe arid simple in operation.

BUTTLE FILLER AND CAPPER. The bottle filling and capping outfit entered by Messrs. A. Graham and Co. I.td., London, is a double unit. The filler, on the left, is equipped with neck Ulmg or quantity valves, and fills the bottles in crates, which are raised into position from tlie runway bv means or a hand wheel.

hen full, the bottles, in the crate are slid under the capping machine’ Here, again, the crate is raised bv turning the hand wheel. This outfit, ° f pe o"!! d . b - v , one person, has a capacity of 3600 bottles per hour. J BOTTLING AND CAPPING MACHINE.

„ A ' l to «ater for tlie requirements of those who are selling moaerate quantities of bottled milk is made by Messrs. Vipan and Headley, of Abbey uate, Leicester. Their entry i s the VVyvern” combined refrigerator, bottle 11 er > and capper. The refrigerator can ue suspended from wall brackets over the stand which carried the bottling equipment. The milk flows from the cooler into a tray, into the bottom of which are placed two filler valves these are automatically sprin "-closed when out of action. Immediately below each valve is a bottle carrier, which !S controlled by a hand lever The two carriers have a vertical movement, and alternate action when the lever is moved In this way it is possible to aise first, say, the left hand bottle into engagement with its filler valve. Alien it is full the lever is again used owenng the full bottle and mising the uordy one into the filling position, -hile one bottle is being filled the vll one is moved to the disc inserter ulace a^°mat^ 1 a . ,1 y P«ts the cap into Pla«!. Thus filling and capping are nacle a continuous operation, and th« •aps are not touched by hand. (HU RTHXG A GAINST UNMIXFD MILK. ' ‘ A cream equaliser, designed b v Sir S'dnev -'ocock, is the entry from the Bam Outfit Co., Ltd.. London. This mreiates on the hour-glass principle. W hen milk is poured out from such a esse! it is obvious that is rushes from mie chamber to the other and thus be',:yes thoroughly <mixed. Tn this'wav '• is claimed that the danger of supplying unmixed milk, deficient in fat is obviated. ’ A TEST FOR BUTTER-FAT. A method of testing tlie butter-fat content of milk, the “Hoyherg,” is the subject of one entry from Messrs. Sutherland. Thomson ami Co.. London. In this method, neither oent.vi- 1 fugal force, acids,- nor boiling water are employed.