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iii. rural husbandry.
a central churning-dairy and a ring of creaming-stations, each of the latter with
a number of milk-suppliers. During the decade 1870 — 80 this system was much
employed, in central Sweden especially. Among those that were most active in
the establishment and promotion of these dairies, H. A. Lidholm of Nådhammar
is specially deserving of mention. As a rule, the butter produced by these
churning-dairies was hardly of first-rate quality, but at that period people had
not the same pretentions in that respect that they now have. The dairies in
question have been of great importance for dairying, as they gathered round
them large numbers of milk-suppliers, whom they induced to make efforts to
increase the production of milk.
G. de Laval.
With the eighties, dairy-farming began a new phase of existence, in
consequence of the introduction of machine-creaming when G. de Laval placed
his separator on the market. This invention enabled the dairies to treat
considerably larger quantities of milk, and they soon began to purchase supplies
from much wider areas than before. The delivery of cream came to an end,
the unskimmed milk being sent, instead, direct to the dairies. The
churning-dairies had played their part, for the present at least, and were either closed
or converted into separator-dairies receiving direct supplies of milk. The
number of dairies increased rapidly, and Dairy Companies (Sw. uppköpsmejerier,
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