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Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 April 1913, Page 2

Dairytarining the world over «hv ;i great debt: to the inventor ol' the cream separator —])r, J)e I,nval. Hi died mi the .'ird uf Kebruary in this year. aged sixty-six. The late Dr. Carl (Jupstal Patrick De Laval wuk

in Ins sixty-sixth year. was a nativt of liclarne, Sweden, and alter a dis-

t i i)mll; s]ll'c 1 iinivcr.-si Ly career. received a temperarv appointment in the K !o4it ironworks. Here lie got his lirsl idea lor ;i j>eparator. An article in tiic .Milch Zeitung. regarding Leleldt's attempt ai a ceiibriInge. gave rise to an exchange of "pinion between .Dp Laval and tinin;i M.'iii'iT ol t!io ironworks. who. however. declared himself against the ideas whieh De Laval asserted. In order Id demonstrate tin 1 correctne.vs of his view. Do Laval undertook Minic expi -riiuents. and became more (•onhilenl that the construction of :i practical separator would bo of gi-oafc iin porta nee [or tli<> dairy industry, and thereby become an economical and paying enterprise!. Ho <!'<! nel succeed. lio'iverer, in convertiiH;' 11 h> manager i<> his view?:, and therefore gave up his situation, and turned liis steps Id Stockholm- 1877 - linnly resolved there to seek t< carry out his idea. A time of assiduous and nut iring work, disappointments. ; md oven anxiety followed, liul. Do Laval stubbornly continued his experiments. Finally. ' he .saw that he had succeeded -the 1 separator was ptnetically ready. Tt • consisted of a cylinder. In which milk j was run. and which was kept in ro- ' t.ition until the cream was separated 1 11 oni the milk. The machine was ' then stopped. the cover of the c.vlin- I; dor taken off. and the cream scooped t. nut, The separator was shown a working to several large estate own- 1; ers. one of whom said. "Tt is cer- a tainly.an interest-ill"; experiment, hut ' practically the invention i. s u -orth b nothing. On a large estate one o "•ould require sixteen to twenty t' such separators to skim the milk, and that would Tie too e.vponivse." sc