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Show PUKE MILK AND FRESH BUTTER May Be Had in City as Well as on the Farm. (Correspondence I. M. C.) Perfection in butter production will be obtained In the creamery that will be a leading' feature of the dairy section sec-tion at the World's Fair. The creaThery will be ISO feet long and twenty feet wide, and the walls will be of glass. Visitors may see every process to which the milk is treated form the time of its receipt until it is transformed into butter or cheese. The dairy section at the World's Fair will occupy 30,000 square feet in the palace of agriculture. The model creamery, which will daily use 5,000 pounds of milk, will be against the west wall, near the southern end of the building. It will be equipped with the latest butter and cheese making apparatus ap-paratus and will be in operation every day of the exposition. The glass walls will permit visitors to see every process, proc-ess, but all entrances are guarded and the section is so screened that flies will find it as difficult to effect an entrance as visitors will. All of the machinery used in the model creamery will be operated op-erated by either electricity or compressed com-pressed air. and only the latest and best approved methods will be employed. em-ployed. Connected with the model creamery will be a model dairy lunch room. Here the visitor may test the efficiency of the creamery for himself. Milk and cream, absolutely pure, and butter and cheese, sweet and fresh, may be bought. Nothing will be sold in this lunchery save the output of the model creamery, with the exception of bread. The visitor may get a bowl of milk and bread. Or he may order "half and half" or full cream if he desires. Buttermilk But-termilk will also be on the menu card, as will "sehmier kase" and cream cheese and al products of the creamery. Cleanliness will be the watchword. The milk and cream will be sold in bottles and when poured into glass or bowl there will be found no sediment. In connection with the model creaf-ery creaf-ery there will be shown a sanitary milk plant. This also will be in daily operation, opera-tion, and it wall be practically demonstrated demon-strated that pure milk may be furnished fur-nished in the large cities as well as it can on the farm. Here will be shown by practical test the best methods of shipping milk, the best cans, the proper prop-er way to receive and handle it. In the event that the milk should be soured, or nearly so. when it is received, re-ceived, the value of the milk, as milk, is gone, but the butter fat is as valuable valu-able as ever, and this milk will be used for butter making. The pasteurizing of milk will he shown in this exhibit. The milk is run through a series of machines and is subjected to a heat of 160 degrees, and immediately is run through a cooler and restored to a proper temperature. This heat destroys any germs that may be in the milk, but in no way impairs its nutrition. It imparts to the milk a nutty tate that -is soon relished. The heat of 160 degrees does not boil the milk: It would require a heat 10 degrees stronger to do that. After the milk is pasteurized it will remain sweet for twenty-four hours longer than without this treatment. In the old dairy section the latest dairy and creamery appliances and machinery ma-chinery will be exhibited by the leading lead-ing manufacturers of the world. Indeed, In-deed, all of the machinery in the model creamery and s-anitary milk plant are exhibits. A number of immense refrigerated show cases will be' provided for the states and foreign countries that participate par-ticipate in the dairy exhibits. These show cases are ninety-one feet long and thirty-five feet wide. The sides are plate glass and the sections are eight feet square. In the show cases the products of the dairy and creamery will be displayed more attractively than was ever attempted at any other exposition. Iowa, for example, will show in her section a life sized statue of John Stewart, who founded the first creamery in that state. The statue is carved from pure, firm, golden butter. There will be other butter sculpture and fruits and flowers artistically fashioned fash-ioned in butter. A separate refrigerating plant w-ill be maintained for these cases, the interiors in-teriors of which are immense store rooms where supplies may be kept indefinitely. in-definitely. Any desired temperature necessary for the preservation of butter and cheese may be maintained. A zero temperature can be. maintained if desired, de-sired, in any of the cases for any length of time. The operations of the dairy and creamery will at all times be under the personal supervision of Mr. E. Suden-dorf, Suden-dorf, superintendent of the dairy exhibits ex-hibits for the exposition. At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Exposi-tion the importance of the dairy industry indus-try will be shown in the excellence of the exhibits. The vast Importance of the industry has been, in a measure, overlooked. It is not generally known that the products of the dairy for one year in the United States is of greater value than the output'of all the anthracite anthra-cite and bituminous coal mines combined. com-bined. But the census reports establish estab-lish this fact. Indeed, the value of the dairy is greater than all of the minerals mined in the United States if iron be excepted. The dairy products for a year easily outrank in value wheat or cotton. The last census report shows that the year's dairy products were valued at $472,276,783, while the wheat crop brought $369,945,320, and the value of the cotton manufactures was $323,-5S2.171. $323,-5S2.171. W. C. M'CARTHY. |