Cream separator


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Cream separator

In the early part of the twentieth century, generally a hand-powered machine for separating cream from whole milk, but sometimes a simple container with provisions for draining away the milk after the cream had risen to the top.
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You have seen the same principle practically applied in the modern cream separator. Presently there was only a small super-heated core of gaseous matter remaining within a huge vacant interior left by the contraction of the cooling gases.
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We bought a cream separator at an auction and ran the milk through our separator.
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