A Wonderful Invention.

Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 144, 19 November 1895, Page 2

A Wonderful Invention.

The invention by a Swede of a machine which manufactures butter from milk in the incredible space of one minute’s time would seem to foreshadow a revolution in the dairying trade. The commercial value of the invention has yet to be tested by experts. The busy brains of inventors have for some time been set upon the problem of whether butter cannot be produced more rapidly than by the oldfashioned method. As a matter of fact, butter can be produced with the ordinary churn within the space of twenty minutes. Electricity has been pressed into the service, and at the Melborne Centennial Exhibition a machine was exhibited which produced butter with great rapidity. The objections which have been taken to these rapid systems are that butter so made does not possess keeping flavor, and aroma given by the properly matured cream are wanting from it. It has yet to be seen whether the new invention overcomes these faults. A further question arises as to its financial advantages. But for the present, and pending detailed information, it is sufficient to note the invention from its scientific aspect, as a welcome addition to the labor-saving appliances of the century. A machine of the same kind as that referred to in the cable message has been at work in England for some time past, and is probably the invention referred to. If so, it would seem to have met approval after practical and fairly long trial. Some account of it is given in the'Mid-Sussex Times from which we obtain interesting information. Its name is the Dairy Machine Radiator, and it was obtained from the Radiator Company, Limited, of Stockholm. It was purchased by Mr Faure Walker, of Highley Manor, in Balcombe, and proved very successful. The description given of if is as follows :—ln appearance the radiator nearly resembles the usual centrifugal milk machines, with the difference that it possesses larger receiving vessels for butter, skim milk, cooling water ; it is, indeed, a perfecting machine. Immediately the milk is taken from the cows it can be placed in the machine and butter made at the rate of about 1501 b an hour. How different this to the old-fashioned way ! When the milk leaves the tank to be pumped up through the machine it is seen no more until the butter is made. The new milk is centrifugated in the skimming chamber, then separated cream mounts into the churning chamber, and is cooled and churned. All is done continuously, and it takes about a minute and three-quarters from the moment the new milk enters the machine until the butter comes out, together with the buttermilk.