Penn State Farmer Volume 1-3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...that wash and sterilize the bottles in units of a dozen. Mechanical conveyors move the bottles from the intake door to the washing machine, carry them up to the bottling room, where they are filled and capped by the dozen at one stroke of recently developed machines. The conveyor runs them into the mechanically cooled refrigerators. to stand until delivered to the driver, who scatters these bottles around to the householder's door ready for breakfast. The milking machine is a new aspirant for public attention. Many are using it with success. Others are studying and debating whether or not they should introduce it. The feed and litter carrier. the gasoline engines and separators have changed the appearance of the ordinary barn. Today the dairymen's problem is one of the application of business principles, i. e.: exact knowledge of cost of production with its accompanying reduction in cost, of concentration and organization. Recognizing this, the dairy show will have a model dairy herd at work and instructors to show just how the daily cost of milk production is being determined. The manufacturers of all classes of machinery referred to above will be on hand. It is reported that at the last dairy show sales of from $20,000.00 to $40,000.00 were made during the period of the dairy show to visitors. which explains the reason why the supply men can afford to make exhibits and suggests the value of this opportunity to the prospective buyer to'come and see under one roof the newest and latest devices, so arranged that he may compare the different makes in a short time. A national dairy exposition is not complete without the show of products. The National Creamery Buttermakers' Association will have charge of the creamery butter exhibit....