STRATFORD DAIRY SCHOOL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 74, 10 August 1901, Page 2

STRATFORD DAIRY SCHOOL.

Ui* to the present time 56 students (managers and first BS3istants) bavo eutered the Dairy School. Much useful instruction has been I given, attheugh. the plant at the dis--1 posal o? Mr. Kinaella is not quite »s i efficient ss would be the c?se in a tbor- ] ougbly equipped Dairy School. TheJiiSTintorß have dividing the work between them. Mr. Kioselb has exercised a geaeral supervision of all the woik; Mr, Cuddie takes the separator, starter and pasteurising , branches; Mr Shirley the butter-tflak-iog; Mr Singleton the testing. Oely a small supply of milk has been available at the Stratford Fac- ; tory, but cream from Midhirst has [ arrived every other day, which has . assured a sufficient supply to keep the i woik going. 1 ! The speciil plant at present baing J used at the school is a Lister Garber L . Tester, an Anderson Facile Tester ; « i Lister Vertical Pasteuriser; Distrow • I combined churn and butter-worker, ' and a noiseless heater. An Anderson | Power Butter Printer has also been ' UFed and it will probably be taken over t by the Stratford Dairy Company whtn -' the school close o . ', A new feature in the instruction has • been tho use of the Wincorsin Ferl mentation Ourd Te=it, for detecting bad ■> milk. 'f j A gA>d Starter has been set going, 3 , and great attention is given to this g branch of the work by the students. "j Mr. Singleton has gone thoroughly i \ int© the milk testing branch. BVfore jj coming to the colony he studied under e the well-k. own Dr. Babcock in America. t ' On Tuesday there was a goad mustier [I > f students in the schoolhouse. Mr. e Kin-ells lectured oi "Temperature in • Bu'tfli -making" and other dairying ° ! snbjec*s; Mr Cuddin on ''Oream jj Ripeojng," and Mr. Singleton 'an ni " resting." d i These d n'ry classess are held Mainly d , with tl e object of gathering the fnce' tory m nagirs tose'her, and by csrefnl i instriict'o ito brieg" about a greater unifo mity in the product, and 6t the managers and assist nts for all-round wo-k,— Settter.