Cream Separator

This tool is located at Cracker Barrel in Decatur.  It was used to separate cream from milk.  Generally the cream was made into butter and used to trade in town.  The skim milk was mixed with ground corn and fed to hogs.  The technical name for the mixture is slop.  In the days when a cream separator was used, fresh milk was not as common as it is now because of lack of refrigeration.