. Agriculture of Maine. ... annual report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture. Agriculture -- Maine. 124 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. to be the preferable oue,) the daity expense of fuel would be much less, all risk of explosions or other accident from steam wholly avoided, as .well as the loud and very disagreeable noise caused by the steam as it is driven into the water of the outer vats. The factory of Mr. Spencer Allen, near Rome, is supplied with Ralph's Patent Vats. There were three of them which I saw in operation when there the past summer. Their capacities were sev- erally six
. Agriculture of Maine. ... annual report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture. Agriculture -- Maine. 124 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. to be the preferable oue,) the daity expense of fuel would be much less, all risk of explosions or other accident from steam wholly avoided, as .well as the loud and very disagreeable noise caused by the steam as it is driven into the water of the outer vats. The factory of Mr. Spencer Allen, near Rome, is supplied with Ralph's Patent Vats. There were three of them which I saw in operation when there the past summer. Their capacities were sev- erally six hundred gallons, five hundred and forty gallons, and four hundred gallons, which served to make up the milk of four hun- dred and ninety-six cows. Only one of these had the hot water tank attachment, which was found to suffice for all three. My observation of the working of these vats led me to coincide fully with the opinion expressed by Mr. Allen of their superiority over the vats heated by For a detailed description of tliese Vats, see report for 1862, pages 9d1-100. The presses at these establishments are of the simplest char- acter, and consist in nothing but a stout iron screw, with the proper wood work attached for holding it in position, and a plat- form on which the hoop holding the curd rests when put in press. Several of these presses are frequently connected together by framing the uprights of each press to. stout beams, or squaro pieces of timber running nearly the whole length of the press room. The screws when turned up pass through the upper beam and are turned down on the cheese with an iron lever, from time to time,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Maine. Board of Agriculture; Maine State Pomological Society. Annual report. Augusta
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