BUSCK’S PATENT COMBINED MILKSTRAINER, COOLER AND ÆRATOR.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1179, 5 October 1894, Page 6

BUSCK’S PATENT COMBINED MILKSTRAINER, COOLER AND ÆRATOR.

One of the most useful of recent inventions designed in the interests of our dairying community is that of Mr August Busck, which has been patented under the name above mentioned. Mr Busck is a dairy expert of considerable repute, and gained bis practical knowledge of butter-making in his native Denmark, which is admittedLy the most successful dairying country in Europe—a position acquired after long years of patient and persistent perseverance in adopting the best scientific appliances and methods in the manufacture of butter. With all these appliances and methods Mr Busck is thoroughly conversant, and the result of his experience and inventive faculty 1

is the apparatus, a sketch of which has been placed at cur disposal for the benefit of our readers. The references sufficiently explain the general appearance and construction of the cooler. The materials used in the construction of the cooler wero all of the best quality, and the workmanship is a credit to the makers, viz., Messrs Taylor and Oakley, Christchurch, and Messrs Ballinger Bros., Wellington. The cooling surface measures 18inx 18in, and the whole apparatus is compact and neat in appearance, and can either be suspended or placed on supports according to local requirements or preference. The water connection is easily fixed, the only point requiring attention being that the water outlet is placed not higher than the tank from which the water is drawn. Where sufficient force is procurable either by pumping or otherwise, the position of cooler will, of course, be immaterial. Immediately each cow is milked the milk should be poured into the strainer, over which should be placed a clean butter cloth. But great care must be taken to see that the cooling, &c., is done in a place free from dust and bad smells, as nothing is so easily tainted as milk. The remarkable development of the dairy industry of New Zealand within the last few years marks an epoch in the history of the Colony. With our undoubted natural advantages as a pastoral country, and the enormous outlet for butter and cheese in European markets, it behoves all those interested in the success of this large and increasing industry to produce an article which shall be second to none in the estimation of the Home consumer. This distinction can only be attained by our people using the latest scientific appliances, amongst which an important position is claimed by Mr Busck for his Combined Strainer, Cooler, and Abator. Scientific men and dairy experts are agreed that unless the “ animal odour,’ with which all milk is impregnated, is dispelled immediately after the milk is drawn from the cow by cooling and aerating, butter and cheese of an indifferent flavour will be the result, with a corresponding decrease in their value.

As showing the national importance

attached to the cooling and aerating o milk, it is well to notice that one of thi compulsory clauses (No. 11) in the “ Dair Industry Bill ” introduced this session tr the Hon the Minister of Agriculture, pro vides that “ Every person supplying milk t< a dairy, factory or creamery, shall pass th< milk over a cooler, &c.” The fallowing extract from suggested by laws for dairy factories or creameries con tained in Mr Sawers’ (the Government chiei dairy expert) pamphlet entitled “Cheese and Butter Factories * shows the importance this well-known expert attaches to the sub* ject “All milk intended for the factcrj or creamery shall be first, and immediately after milking, strained, to remove all filth and other impurities, and passed over an approved cooler for the purpose of aeration/’ Mr Busck also claims that the products of milk which has been passed over his cooler and aerator are much improved in equality, the fishy flavour of large quantities of butter, of which Home buyers grumble, being entirely due to the want of proper milk aeration. Milk which has been cooled and aerated will keep sweet a much longer time than milk not so treated, and it is much safer for family use. The extremely moderate price at which this cooler can be purchased places it within reach of the poorest dairy farmer, and this fact will ne doubt greath increase its sale. Mr Busck has appointed the following firms as his sole agents in their respective districts:—Southland, J» G. Wai’d Farmers’ Association of New Zealand, Invercargill ; Otago, W. E. Reynolds and Go., Dunedin; Canterbury and Westland, E. Steeds and Co., Christchurch; Marlborough and Nelson, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Blenheim ; Wellington and Taranaki, A. E. Gannaway, Queen’s Chambers, Wellington.