Making Butter by Electricity.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2036, 25 July 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Making Butter by Electricity.

If the announcement rande by a French contemporary lcmuins ttuo in prftdio?, butter ohurn-makua will, pfrhnps, hive to turn their attention to the contitruction of other thingn — perhaps dynanio-eleetriu m;ic)iirics of very low electro motive force. Aocnrdmu to a patent taken out by Mr. A. 0. Tichenor, milk la introduced into a \ easel ol special foim, wid into it aro placed a pair of electrodes, n:id a current thtm pspsed through the milk. Butter iv formed in little balln on one of the electrode*, and it is Kaid ihat to extract the butter from forty- live liorfl" uf nnlk the current from ft dynamo-eloctro lunching is equivalent to that of about forty Diniulla, lor from three to five minutes is all that nrequirod. With tuu-h a enrrent the balls of butter aro suiliciontly voluininons to detach themselves from the electrode and float to th« surface of the milk. Tho batter tluw obtained has to bo worKed in a bir^tte, or something of the kind, ho as to woik t'no pinall pieces into a compict ma^^. The patent also mention? the electric manufacture of cheese and of removing the bad tnate ol buttor that has turned ranoid. Wo do not know how far thn indications of the patent specification have been verilied. — Engineer.