Farm echoes . would be something new for madame, in her cityhome a hundred miles away, to ask by telephone for somany pounds of butter, or so manyquarts of milk from any cow shemight be pleased to select, andhave it on her table within a fewminutes. Visionary as this mayseem, substitute a few hours fora few minutes, and my fictionbecomes a fact, for a telephone con-nects my farm with the WesternUnion Telegraph office in the vil-lage, and orders from distant cities,for any of the products of my dairycan thus be immediately executed—by rails, however, not by cream is not chur
Farm echoes . would be something new for madame, in her cityhome a hundred miles away, to ask by telephone for somany pounds of butter, or so manyquarts of milk from any cow shemight be pleased to select, andhave it on her table within a fewminutes. Visionary as this mayseem, substitute a few hours fora few minutes, and my fictionbecomes a fact, for a telephone con-nects my farm with the WesternUnion Telegraph office in the vil-lage, and orders from distant cities,for any of the products of my dairycan thus be immediately executed—by rails, however, not by cream is not churned until it has been strainedthrough holes smaller than an ordinary-sized pin wouldmake. Owing to its richness and solidity, it is necessaryto force it through. This is done by a pump withdouble plungers, the strainer can, at the bottom ofwhich the strainers are attached, being first placed onanother can. The butter is thus made all of one con-sistency. To avoid the unnecessary handling of the butter, it is. CBEAM STRAINER. FARM ECHOES. 95 worked upon an ingeniously contrived turn-table, bywhich it is carried, by cog wheels, under a revolving^cone-shaped, and grooved presser, which makes deepchannels down which the buttermilk escapes to the edge
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