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The
Dairy Supply Company was the place to go for all your
Dairy needs. With branches at 1 Grassmarket, Edinburgh (just off
the Cowgate), as well as in London and Cork they sold all the equipment
necessary for running an efficient and productive Dairy. Among
the items on sale were:
“Laval
Scalders, Laval Cream Coolers, Champion Churns, Alpha Churns,
Butter Workers, Butter Dryers, Dr Gerbers Butyrometer, Standard
Fat Finders, Milk Sterilizing Apparatus, Railway Milk Cans,
Thermometers, Lactometers, Dairy Shop Fittings and all Dairy
Requisites.”
Some
common dairy utensils are described in the "Standard Cyclopedia
of Modern Agriculture", published in 1914:
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Luggy
(Milking Pail). Originally milking pails were made of
oaken staves bound together by iron hoops. In most cases the diameter
at the mouth was a little greater than at the bottom and one of
the staves was continued to from a strong upright handle. Tinned
metal is the material now used, and a greater variety of shape
has been introduced, though for utility none is superior to the
original form. The luggy holds from 2 ½ to 3 gallons. |
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Skimmer.
A slightly concave disk of tin fitted with a handle and used for
hand skimming milk. In some cases the skimmer is perforated to allow
the thinner milk to run through. |
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Scotch
Hands. These are used for forming the butter into bricks
and otherwise manipulating it. The best quality is made from well
seasoned sycamore, and has one face ribbed or finely fluted. The
various patterns printed on butter bricks are made with the sharp
edge of the Scotch Hands. |
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Settling
pan (Milk plate, Shallow pan or Boyne). The best quality
settling pans are made from blocked tin or enameled metal. With
a common capacity of about 4 gallons, a settling pan is about 6
inches deep with steeply sloping sides, the diameter at the top
being greater than that at the bottom. When milk is placed in the
settling pan the large surface area exposed allows the milk to
cool quickly, enabling the cream to rise rapidly. Settling pans
were extensively used where hand skimming was practiced. |
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How
we made the advert We
picked up and looked at all the old dairy tools and talked about what
they were used for. Someone knocked the scotch hands together and
made
a noise. From this we thought about the different noises that each
object would make. We then had the idea of making a song from these
noises and having the objects jumping around in time with it
Laura
(9) took pictures of skimmers
Fraser (11) took picture of settling pan
Callum (7) took picture & recorded the sound of Scotch hands
Valerie (12) recorded the sound of skimmers
Steven (10) recorded sound of luggie being bashed
Some
of us drew pictures of the different tools and thought about making
a cartoon.
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To
start with we scanned in our drawings, coloured them up on the computer
and moved them about to make a cartoon. The drawings were very small
and we couldn't make out what they were supposed to be, so instead we
put in digital photographs. We feel that this works much better. |
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recording the sounds of a settling pan. |
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is what the advert looked like when it had drawings in it |
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