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Show H VALUABLE DEVICES FOR B THE MILK PLANT - BBJ Many operators of milk plants) will BBK In tho opinion of specialists of tho BBK Department of Agriculture find it BBK profitable to Install a recording thor- BBB momoter and an automatic apparatus BBK for (ontrol'iug tho temperature, dur- BBK Ing pasteurization. When pastcurlz- BBK atlon Is Incompletely donu, lack of BBK proper temperature control Is fro- BBK fluently found to bo tho cause. Ado- BBK quato control of tho tempernturo by BBK j means of hand valves Is difficult and BBK often Impossible . On tho other hand BBK' J tboio uro many automatic devices HH; ' which accomplish this with great nc ' curacy. Their cost is commonly less HH than $150 and allowing n maximum HH! depreciation of 20 per cent and In- HHV- torcst this makes the dally overhead HKBi j expense for tho regulator about 11 HBBT cents or less than the valuo of a BBB man's timo for ono hour. As a mat- BBB ' tor of fact, without automatic con- BBK trol, a man has to spend tho greater H j.nrt of his time nt tho steam valve H if tho tomporaturo Is to bo kept with- H In tho proper limits. Tho amount of B steam required to opornto tho auto- B matte dovlco is loss than that which BB would othorwiso bo wasted, Hj Frequent variations In tomporaturo RBH' which It Is almost imposslblo to pre- BBB' J vent with hand valves, may not only BBB' ( injure tho cream lino but produco, ns BBB' ; woll, unsatisfactory results, from tho BBB bacteriological and chemical stand- I points. For this reason somo of tho . larger cities now require tho dealers BBB tu imt intempcraturo regulators and H-; 4 thoro Is reason to bellovo that others H 1 will follow their oxamplo In tho near BBri'i .... future. Tiiw KVHlH TBBBlBk Tho retorJlnB thermometer Is do HHL Blrablo ag a moans self protection, ns It provides a record of tho tempernturo temper-nturo of tho milk during tho wholo day's run and thus enables tho super-ntendent super-ntendent to keep a rollablo check on tho operator at times when ho, himself, him-self, Is not able to bo present. In case of any difficulty with customors or health officers tho record provides very valuoblo and convincing evidence. evi-dence. At tho present timo neither tho recording thermometer nor automatic auto-matic temporaturo regulator is In as gonoral uso as It should bo. |