KOPUARANGA BUTTER FACTORY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4346, 16 February 1893, Page 2

KOPUARANGA BUTTER FACTORY.

[by a visitor,] This factory, erected jg rarapa Farmers' ciation, Mnelorton, was started shortly after the beginning of this year, but several difficulties arose and it was some weeks before they were fairly under way, and being lato in the season, the supply of milk ia small compared to what it will be next season. At present about 200 gallons are delivered daily except on Sunday, MrDumbleton, the manager, courteously invited the writer to sample the butter, he was then packing, afterwards goiog over the factory and explaining very fully the working of the plant, On the supplier arriving with his milk cans they are hoisted; to a platform on which stands the weighing machine together with a seventy-gallon vat where the milk is strained, weighed and rim into the receiver-a vessel capable of holding 800 gallons. This vat has a fiilse bottom and is fitted with Bteam pipes, whereby the milk can be heated to the temperature, required for the De Laval (Alpha) separator, which is rated to separate 320 gallons an hour, The cream vat will hold 300 gallons and is blbo supplied with heaters, but on account of the small quantity of milk, it is not used at present except to cool the cream in cans. The butter is made in a Davis Swing Churn, No 8, to which connections have been attached, with fa intermediate from the driving shaft. This churn will make 120 pounds at & timo, From the churn the butter goes to the worker, one that will work j up to eighty pounds, and supplied by a Dunedin firm, Near by there is the refrigerator, whero the butter can be kept cool in the hottest weather. There is also a refrigerator (mado by Mr Pickering, at Mastorton) for cooling tho cream, (an article which all dairy men in Masterton would do well to use before taking their milk into town), Tho butter made by Mr Dumbleton is of very fine quality and is bound to command the highest figure on whatever market it is placed. The factory, and every vessel in it are kept beautifully clean, which necessitates using plenty of water, both hot and cold. Tha motivo power ia supplied by a seven horse power boiler and an engine of six horse power, together with a rotary pump. These are situated at the rear of the main building, andwere erected (as well as the shaftings and connection) by Mr Burton, of Masterton. Mr Pickering supplied the tinwork, and fixed the steam connections. It is probable that next year, with a large supply of milk, tho main building will have to beenlarged.