Judge — November 19, 1927 — page 18: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page titled "SEPARATING THE CREAM" contains two comic panels about dairy processing, likely from early 20th-century Judge magazine. The **top panel** shows a dairy facility where children and dogs interact around large milk containers and industrial separating equipment—apparently satirizing the scale or chaos of commercial milk production. The **bottom panel** depicts an elegant dinner scene where well-dressed adults are dining, suggesting the refined end product of dairy processing. The cartoon's humor appears to contrast the messy, chaotic production process (with children and animals) against the sophisticated consumption of dairy products by the wealthy. This likely satirizes how industrial food production hides its unglamorous reality from consumers, or critiques class divisions in access to refined dairy products. Without a visible date, the specific historical context remains unclear.