A Lightning Butter Maker.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIV, Issue 3222, 12 September 1892, Page 2

A Lightning Butter Maker.

The following appeared in the Yea Chronicle, Victoria, bat had been copied from the Alexandra Standard of let July. Mr. P. Galvin is editor of the Yea journal. He was also instrumental in getting Mr. Evenden to go some 70 miles from Melbourne in order to give praocioal illustration of the working of bis machine. He would in suoh case prefer the report of other journalists and dairymen as to tbe merits or otherwise of the machine, in order that, being a personal friend of Mr. Evenden'e, there should not be the shade of objection on the ground of friendly bias. Hence, doubtless, his reason for quoting from another journal :-~ Considering that, at most, only a day's, and in many oases only half a day's, notice was given, there was a very good attendance of dairymen, farmers, and business people at the Shire Hall on Saturday afternoon to witness an exhibition by the patentee of Evenden's Lightning Butter Extractor. It is to tbe courtesy of Mr. Galvin, of the Yea Chronicle, that those present were indebted for the interesting exhibition that was given, and it was only under tbe pressure of that gentleman that Mr. Evenden consented, at great inconvenience to himself, to visit Alexandra. Mr. A. Dobson kindly provided a tin of cream for the purpose of teeting the machine, but the inventor had provided agaibat disappointment in this respect by obtaining some cream from the Molesworoh Creamery, which be brought with him. The machine or ohurn is a model of simplicity, and may best be desoribed as a revolving barrel standing over a circular basin. Atter giving a brief description of tne few parts of which it is composed, Mr. Evenden then enumerated the following advantages he claimed for his invention." [What these claims are have been previously set ■ out in this journal.] It is equally applicable for hot or cold cream. After explanation Mr. Evenden then gave a practical illustration of these advantages, • using the Molesworth cream first. It is scarcely necessary to add that working in the Shire Hall, he was naturally placed at a disadvantage in the matter of necessary utensils, but notwithstanding this the results were highly successful, and gave great satisfaction to those present, who were best able to judge of the merits of the invention. Tbe first lot of butter he made in less than lour minutes exclusive of washing and salting, and the seoond lot slightly under that time, the cream being of such a nature as to be readily convertible into butter. During the whole process the hands never touched the butter. A trial was then made of Mr. Dobson's cream, whioh was of a muoh lower temperature than the Molesworth commodity, and whioh, for the purpose of more thoroughly testing the invention, had had new milk mixed with it before being brought into the township. The time taken in converting this tub full into butter was about eight minutes, and when finally taken out it was pronounced to be of excellent quality and splendid color, and in both respeots far superior to the Molesworth butter. This, perhaps, is to be accounted for by the better pasturages of Mr. Dobson than those on whioh the Molesworth cattle had been feeding upon. A portion of tbe butter Mr. Dobson had placed in jars which were then sealed and the date of making written on, and these were placed in various cool storage cellars in the township, and are to remain there for different periods, when they will be opened and tested, which will afford a defioite proof of the keeping qualities of butter made by this process. Messrs. Wigbtman, Lade, Dobson, and others then tbanked Mr. Evenden for his kindness in affording the company an opportunity of witnessing the working of the maohine, and expressed the great satisfaction the trial had given them. We may mention that the machines are made in various sizes, capable of making 81bs and up to 401ba per oharge, tbe price varying from £6 for the smallest size to £100 for the largest. Mr. C. Pitsohner has been appointed local agent for the supply of certainly the best butter-maker that has yet been brougbt under our notice. — Kilmore Standard, July 1. Mr. E, H. Boddy writes as follows to the Alexandra Standard :—": — " I notice in your last issue a paragraph, wherein is Btated that the butter made from Mr. Dobson's cream was far superior in quality and color to that made from cream from Molesworth Creamery. This may be probably correct, Jbufc you are evidently ignorant of tbe following facts in regard to my cream. It was a mixed can 5 and half of it a week old, that is the first half was separated on the previous Monday, being Saturday and Sunday's milk; tbe otner half was separated on Wednesday, from Monday and Tuesday's milk; and the butter was made on Saturday. The oream, you will therefore see, was old, stale, fermented by being plaoed near tbe fire, and greatly knocked about by being oarried to Yea, Murrindindi, and back to Alexandra ;, while Mr. Dobson's oream was evidently freßh and ripe, and oarefully carted. I think the comparison, in tbe face of the faots, is

?i#» Djn u tanaunfllir - I feel confident that better batter than Molesworib batter cannot be produced in the colony, as Borne of my suppliers' records show that they round, of from 16f to 16} per cent Ab Mr ?>%* ° il6i 16 ° f . the Bta tement that ™£?T TT d r an Ale «ndra separator as agamst a De Laval, I think this is but a matter of opinion, and probably nothing more in it than the name." nOSDjn «