NEW BUTTER CHURN.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 323, 9 October 1908, Page 5

NEW BUTTER CHURN.

iiqaTNOVEL BUTTER COMES IN ONE MINUTE, ' Mr.' L.- JJ: ;Nattrass,' of 39 Webb Street, Wellington, has patented a cheap churn that " brings " the butter sometimes in one minute, 'and always, it is claimed, in less than firo minutes. And it has other virtues: if your arms are strong, you can set it to bring the butter quickly, or if you are a frail, little dairymaid, whose arms are " more pretty than powerful, you can set it to come morei*'slowly; -but' with .greater ease. It will churn a pound ; at a time, or a ton,, according to sire; and it churns it well. "-In appe«rance it is merely an oblong box, stood upon end, with a plunger in it. You pour in the cream, shut down the cover, and work the plunger up; and down, very much as'you would pump, water. . As the/plunger is forced down,' the cream oozes through little boles in tho foot of tho plunger, and when it is lifted again the cream returns in tho same manner. The method gets a fine close contact of tho butter-fat, and only a few plunges have to be taken beforo the grip of:the butter.is felt: tho suddenness of the result is startling. The foot of tho plunger is removable, and it is supplied in triplicate with various sizes of holes. The smaller the holes are, the harder the work, but the faster the butter-comes, v Those dairy farmers and .owners of a family cow who know what, it is' to strive hour after hour in a futile effort to make tho butter come may take fresh heart in tho light of the new method.. ;The Nattrass churn is said to have a soul above temperature; warm water or cold water, hot summer day or frost, it is all the same to tho plunger, which, it is claimed, brings: the butter every time. Mr. Nattrass, who gave an exhibition of the churn at work yesterday, claims that it gets an unusually high proportion of butter out of the cream— a point' which, touches the interesting question of overrun, so near to the farmers' poo-' kets. Mr. Nattrass is now instj£ing in a northern dairy a churn capable ofTiiaking 601b. of butter" at a time, this dairy farmer having ordered tho churn as a result of a paragraph ho read concorning.it in The Dominion recently. ■ • •