a central churning-dairy and a ring of creaming-stations, each of the latter with I
a number of milk-suppliers. During the decade. 18.70—80 this system was m é j
employed, in central Sweden especially. Among those that were most active m I
the establishment and promotion of these dairies, E. A. Lidholm of Nâdhammai I
is specially deserving of mention. As a rule, the butter produced by these*
chuming-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 ■
question have been of great importance for dairying, as they gathered round I
them large numbers of milk-suppliers, whom they induced to make efforts tol
increase the production of milk.
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G. de Laval.
With the eighties, dairy-farming began a new phase of existence, in «mse-l
quence of the introduction of machine-creaming when G. de Laval p l « J
his separator on the market. This invention enabled the dairies to treat co»|
siderably larger quantities of milk, and they soon began to purchase ¡ auppli®!
from much wider areas than before. The delivery of cream came togan ® J
the unskimmed milk being sent, instead, direct to the dairies. The churnOT®
dairies had played their part, for the present at least, and were either clo |
or converted into separator-dairies receiving direct supplies of milk. i h e . . ■
ber of dairies increased rapidly, and Dairy Companies (Sw. u p p k o p s m e j e r w j
ibolagsraejerier) were established in every part of the country. The production
of butter increased very considerably year by year, and Sweden took a
Bace in the list of the principal butter-exporting countries. > But the competition
between the dairies became too great; in their endeavour to obtain
¡as much milk as possible, th ey neglected. to maintain their demand for high
! quality, and winked at rather serious deficiencies in this respect — the purity
fend freshness of the milk often being seriously at fault — and this, of course,
fected injuriously on the /quality of the butter. Another essential error was that
[quite a large number of inexperienced persons — who, in addition, were in
Ipant of the necessary capital — began to establish dairies. The Dairy Compa-
Imports and Exports of Butter.
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Exports. Imports.