The Democratic advocate., 1877-11-24

WAKEnglp yAuEY CRRAngRy. CORES.
pondent ut Wakefield sends IS the following
descriptive letter Of a new Industry in this
county;
drop you few lines, whid may interest
some OF your readers, in regard to the i'm
proyement that has been made in our little
village recently. Nearly all ofhe enterprls.
ing farmers Of Wakefield Valley have formed
Dairy Association, under the tile of 'Ihe
Wakefield Valley Creamery The company
was at first formed for the purposr Of manu-
featuring butter and cheese, from the milk
produced by the members, but they have
decided IS buy milk from the surrounding
farmers and also along the line Of the railroad.
The factory Is situated in Wakefield, na three
story building forty-hve by twenty-five feet,
divided off on the first floor into four apart.
ments; first, the milk room, containing the
pools of water for cooling the milk; second,
the room for making the cheese, charming
butter, &C.; also theengine aud boiler rooms.
The water is supplied fiom well on the out
side of the building, thirteen feet deep and
ten feet in diameter, and is puriped into two
large pools by steam pump capable of
pumping iorty-five gallons ofwaterper minute,
driven by seven horse power boiler, which
also heats the building and drives the chuvn.
and heats all the water for washing purposes
throughout the whole building, The kind Of
ehurn used is a Philadelphia Revolving Chnrn,
and is large enough to churn from one hun.
dred and twenty-five TO one hundred and fifty
pounds Of butter at time. The coolers for
milk are twenty-five inches deep and eight
inches in diameter, and float in the pools
which are thirty inches deep. The milk is
skinned sweet and then conveyed to the
cheese vat, which holds six hundred gallons,
where it is converted into cheese curd, which
is then put into hoops the proper size Of a
cheese, and placed upon Fraser gang press
where ten cheese of fifty pounds each can be
pressed at one operation, and the power OF a
man is equal ~ seven tons pressure. The
milk is taken III at q window where a reeeiv-
ing can is mounted on a pair of platform
scales, ON the inside, holding sixty gallons,
where 1t is weighed and placed to the credit
of the customer. The second and third stor-
les are for the curing of the cheese, which
takes from thirty to forty days, before it is
ready for market. The factory is capable Of
handling six hundred gallons Of milk daily,
which would turn outoyer two hundredpounds
of butter and four hundred and fifty to FIVE
hundred pounds Of cheese.
BENEFITS or ArrRlrIoN OF MIND uPoN
hANns--CuNNluG VI Nht hNottIN AdIllhNu
College, we are not aware that there is lit
erary society in Westminster. There was a
reading circle, formerly, but even that has
ceased TO meet, we believe. Can't our young
men organize respectable lyceum for com
position, defamation, and debate. Lyceums
are practical schools of instruction in the art
Of public speaking, training young men not
only in the beautiful accomplishment of ora
tory, but also in the manner of conducting
public meetings and the proceedings oflegis-
latve bodies Nothing is more improving to
young men, and where the proceedings of
lyceums are public, no kind OF entertainment
is more attractive. The lyceum driUes its
members to study and facilitates the oral ex.
preston of opinion and sentiment. Is it bet
ter to drone away the long winter evenings in
aimless and idle chitchat, or to improve them
by reading and in intellectual contests with
each other? Reading makes the full man,
and oral practice the ready man. The lyceum
is the best means of mental improvement yet
discovered. The participants and the speeta.
tors are alike benefited. Some years ago, q
lyeeum which met in an upper room in a small
county town, had among its members minis
ters in embryo, poets, judges, lawyers, gov
ernors, members of Congress, foreign minis
ters, and mechanics who could occupy the
proudest positions upon the forum, even along
side of some Of the most popular orators OF
the day. The reading of good books, and the
drill of the lyceum developed those youths
into men of eminenoe who took proud rank
among their fellows, and made for themselves
names which are among the most distinguish.
ed and most honorable Of the citizens Of the
State. Young men know not their own pow
ers and capabilities until they have tried them
in earnest rivalry and emulation with others.
Every country village or convenient place of
meeting ought to have its Lyceum and its
Library. Libraries can be organized with
great facility by subscriptions payable in
books IouDg men. fry IL