TRIAL OF A CREAM SEPARATION.

Otago Witness, Issue 2556, 11 March 1903, Page 7

TRIAL OF A CREAM SEPARATION.

A trial of the Crown R 25 Cream Separator, for which the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company are the agents, took place on Thursday morning at the Toieri and Peninsula Company's factory under the supervision of Mr Carl A. Andersson, who represents the manufacturers. The separator is one of large capacity, being constructed^ to treat 510 gallons of milk per hour. The' makers claim that it is just as efficient, if not more so, jhan other makes, and at the same time is much simpler in point of construction, having. only 10 inner parts. This enables it to be cleaned with much' less labour and trouble than- a machine of a more complicated nature. A number of these machines are in use in the North Island, especially in the Wanganui distriot, while they have also been installed in the Central Factory In Christchurcn. tnd in

Timaru, "Oarn'aru, and Inveroargill factories. "The inventor of the separator' was a- "Swede named Olaf- Oleen,, andVa company nowknown as the Svenska Centrifug Aktie Bolaget -was formed to,. put it on. the market in , ; AB9B, sincej which: jtima, it is olaimedvihat 60,000 separators have been 1 sold and installed' in dairy .factories all over the world. The "^company's works are at Sodertelje, about 24 mile 3 from Stockholm, and they employ about 300 men, who turn out > from , 70 to 80 machines per day. ~ Mr Alex. Burns, who is in charge of the machinery depart-ment-of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, will be pleased to show the machine to anyone desiring to inspect the same. At the trial - which took place yesterday .mornjng a number of gentlemen preseriirwho are interested in the dairybusiness expressed themselves thoroughly satisfied with the working of the machine." During the last four years— that is, since the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company took up the agency— sales of the , hand power " Crown " separators have been steadily increasing in number, until to-day , they are in very general use in Otago, and at times the agents havo found a' difficulty .in keeping up supplies of the favourite sizes. 'Tho trial referred to above was of one of their^steam power machines, whioh deals with. 510 gallons of milk per .hour.