Churn that works and salts its own butter, a great invention for the dairy
"We are in a butter factory of the town of Delhi - the busy county-seat of Delaware County, New York State. Delhi is in the center of Delaware County and draws its milk supply from a large and rich agricultural district.
Products and Industries. The cream is placed in this huge cylinder and churned on the same theory that our grandparents used when they churned with a wooden dash or plunger in a barrel. That was known as a dash-churn and was worked by hand. Although there were unnumerable contrivances invented and registered at the Patent Office, it was many years before a better churn than the plain deal box with inside contrivances was introduced. The necessary concussions of the particles of cream upon each other in this machine is made when it is revolved rapidly by mechanical devices.
The average yield of butter is 1 lb. to 22-25 lbs. of milk. The average milk yield of the cows of the United States is many thousand pounds. A great stimulus to the production of butter, and an important factor in the improvement of its quality, was the establishment of butter factories, or creameries as they are called. They have been in successful operation now for about twenty-five years and are scattered throughout the States. In these factories it is possible to make up the butter from a large number of cows, owned by many patrons, under the supervision of a single man, with the greatest skill and the most approved machinery. The direct effect is to make work easier for the farmer, to economize labor in general, to minimize the cost of production and to produce butter of unifformly high quality."
