The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-02-28
.NEH DAIRY PLANT
Just Put in at State Normal
and Industrial College
GOVERNOR, STATE OFFICIALS
And Many Prominent Dairy People
Witness Opening o OgeratiCns.

Governor Jennings and a number
of the State House officers attended
the formal opening of the new dairy
at the State Normal and Industrial
College sr colOred students on Tues
day.
The GR was bright and clear, and
betwee13tifty ard seventy-fve per-
sons and invited guests drove out
to the grounds during the afternoon.
The new dairy building just com
pleted oyerloOks the broad expanSe
Of WaknIla county to the Gulf.
In the creamery room at the south
east corner, the new and improved
"Separators" recently presented to
the Institution by the SharpeSs Com
pany, of Winchester, Pennsylvania,
and the National Company, OF Phlla-
delphia, were placed in position.
These machines are of the newest
pattern and together with their ac-
cessories nd appliances, aggregate a
value of 500 or $8O0-freely given
by the companies mentioned to the
most advanced Institution for colOred
people in the Gulf States.
But all their scientific appliances,
and up-t5- ate machines {n butter
making would be of little effect prac
tically, were it not for tle presence
of DR.. J. w. Hoffman, whf preSideS
over this department of tlE e instilu-
ton, and who (a!thOugh c6lored
man, is ore of the best acklt tOwledged
dairy experts of the corf fltry. He
formerly studied under ISecretary
Wilson, in WiScOnsin-atO tO at the
University of Michigan, fater wa
located at Tuskeegee, al d at the
State Industrial College !Of South
| Carolina.
The Governor and Stats officials
together with the prominknt dairy
men ofs Leon county, ineluding
Mes<r$. John p. Roberts, ". l. Va
fon, Miles ii. Johnson, id mes Vim.
so1. Bgrd,setc., listened WI h evident
i tiRssEsst aAgsslgsjd .szpla9asi2n. ton,
about ttsfIhg tn6@ b6stefsSit sItFatih
milk, ripening the cream u preparatory
to churning, working Il e butter
stamping, packing and Sh4 4ping, etc
Also the sterilizerS, lactOn fter>, bac
, ciIus-tubes, tunnels, filters nd weigh
r ing balances.
: a practical test was gi4 en- OF tn
: SharplesS Separator, by touring il
several gallons OF frt h milk
and at a speed of I 1000 rev
| Oluti0ns minute, he pur
l cream poured from Ose nozzle
t while the skim milk flCk wed from
e the other into a separate ieceptacle
Butter was m lde in q fl " minutes
by agitating the cream III Rne OF tn
: improved churns, and ta,tI III approx
ingiy by the dairymen4 and tn
e ladies' present.
e Ice cream of a deIicatd and deli
= cious flavor, was then sserved i
S dainty dishes to the 4 pests, an
/ cake, coffee and cream foii iOwed.
e Professor Fucker, the eSident Q
the institution, to whose Snergy an
: enterprise all these imI rOvement
are due, then took the Ga avenor o
brief tour of inspectif I'm throug
the buildings, showing thf girls de
partment, boys departi inent, m
y chine shops, the new pqultry var
n for chicks, brooders, and incubatOr
d the truck garden, experimental plot
s. in wheat, ETC., from various sem
tropical countries of the World.
Professor Clark took. a phOtt
graphic group of GOverndr Jenning
and State officers as they left IL
dairy to enter their carriages.
In the evening, by SPECIAL reques
Prof. Clark also gave his secOn
=. Stereepticon Lecture to b5th deDar
OF ments of the institution. The illu
Ill trations included 125 new pictur'
y of the present war in China, tt
&c Philippines, and the beautiful trop
Or cal scenery of the IslandSof CeylO
IT, This entertainment was nucE appr
e. ciated by the pupils aud teacher
ne and fttingly concluded tie exercis
I of a day that marks a 6ew era
agricultural and dairy pterests
Middle Florida. g. w. G.
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