THE MODEL DAIRY AT THE GLASGOW EXHIBITION.

Tuapeka Times, Issue 1491, 19 September 1888, Page 5

THE MODEL DAIRY AT THE GLASGOW EXHIBITION.

In a report on the Glasgow Exhibition in the " Mark Lane Express," it is stated that the Model Working Dairy combines moie positive value and interest than almost any other exhibit. It is accommodated in a separate building 70 feet long by 40 feot wide. The dairy is fitted with the principal kinds of machinery employed for such work in this kingdom and on the Continent. An engine of a somewhat strong character and other machines are in position. To the visitor the mechanism, appears splendid, and obviously points out how simple, after a little study, becomes the art of buttermaking on the principles now being illustrated by the De Laval separators, as shown by the London Dairy Company. The most striking features are immediate saparation of the cream from the milk, thus obtaining the use of the milk and cream from 24 to 36 hours sooner than by the usual process, and consequently giving products, especially in regard to skim milk, of unusual freshness and excellent quality, as anyone, can assert by taking a tumbler of the skim milk in the verandah of the dairy. It tastes rich, and by uaing a separator, a muoh larger percentage of butter is obtained than the most efficient hand-skimming can effect. In addition to the De Laval's patent steam turbine separator, there are machines from the Continent, the Delaiteuße, of French invention, being, for instance, a centrifugal butter drier, which will relieve butter of every vestige of butter milk or other moisture without pressure or injury to the grain. Danish and Swedish systems differ very much from the Scotch and English, inasmuch as the cream used by them contain much more milk. About 100 gallons are supplied every day, and the cream taken by different forms of separators. The separators used abroad are set to throw 20 per cent, into the cream can, while those upon the English market throw only 10 per cent., thus making a much thicker cream, contaning a muoh higher percentage of butter fat. By the London Dairy Company, as well as by ladies from Liverpool and Manchester, from Munster, in Ireland, and by practical dairy workers in Ayrshire, Scotland, the dairy is conducted, and several Danish and Swedish ladies have also appeared, the whole of them in national dress. The dairy is the largest which has been provided in an exhibition, and is muoh admired by the agricultural visitors.