. Agriculture of Maine. ... annual report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture. Agriculture -- Maine. CO-OPERATIVE BUTTER MAKING. 93. NORTHAMPTON CRKAMEllY. Turner C«nter Creamery, (see page 94,) has a capacity of 1500 pounds of butter a da3'. Tlie building is 65x28 feet, well cov- ered and painted outside and sheathed throuo:hout on the inside. All the working rooms are on the main floor. The cold storage room has a capacity of forty to fifty tons of butter and is cooled from an ice chamber above. The room where the butter is worked and printed or packed is cooled to any tera|)e
. Agriculture of Maine. ... annual report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture. Agriculture -- Maine. CO-OPERATIVE BUTTER MAKING. 93. NORTHAMPTON CRKAMEllY. Turner C«nter Creamery, (see page 94,) has a capacity of 1500 pounds of butter a da3'. Tlie building is 65x28 feet, well cov- ered and painted outside and sheathed throuo:hout on the inside. All the working rooms are on the main floor. The cold storage room has a capacity of forty to fifty tons of butter and is cooled from an ice chamber above. The room where the butter is worked and printed or packed is cooled to any tera|)erature desired by an adjustable cold air draft from the ice chamber. The cream vats stand on an elevated floor so that the cream is spouted from the vats to the churns. The buttermilk is spouted from the through an underground conductor which leads down a slope to a tank some distance from the factory. The water from washing the huiter, with all other slops and waste water, flows into a sewer and away to the river. The cream receiving-room has its floor elevated to the heiglit of the wagons from which the gather- ing cans are taken, and from this floor the cream is conducted directly to the curing vats In the same room is a wash sink, sup- plied with water faucets and steam pipes for scalding, wh( re each cream gatherer after disciiarging his load, washes and scalds his cans, and where all boxes and trays as taken in from the trains are cleaned and scalded ready for use 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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