The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1908-01-30
a NEW DAIRY FOR OCALA

SuCn q business VIII be opened up
in Ocala on Saturday morning. Feb
ruary LIST, when Mr.. H. II. Whitworth
and Mr.. Walter Edwards will put on
a twO-hOrse wagon delivering pure
jersey milk and cream from the Hia-
watha Lake Dairy, to the public Of
Ocala.
On the Hiawatha Lake Stock Farm
is one Of the prettiest little herds of
pure bred jersey COWS. Of about forty
head. that the South can produce.
These cows are young, fat and healthy
and have had the best of care; fine
basturing, good feed. plenty of pure
clear water and are in tip top condi-
ton.
The proprietOrs have just built a
big modern milking barn for these
cows that will hold the entire herd at
one time. each cow being in a separ-
ate stall. They stand, row on each
side, with their heads to the center
on inclined platforms, back Of which
are cement cutters. The feed troughs
are on hinges and the leavings after
, the feed time are turned out into
another trough and washed down to
the end with a big hose as is also
the cement cutters.
The cows after taking their places
in the stalls are locked in by two
smooth bars, one on each side OF their
heads, operated from the end of the
inclined platform with a pull on a
lever Another pull of second lever
and the fed is placed in every box
from the feed bins overhead
AS the COWS are MIXED the milk is
passed through into the milk room in
the front of the building, a neat and
roomy apartment, ceiled and lighted
with glass windows. Here the milk
! is cooled with an improved cooler.
well supplied with ice and the portion
that is to be converted into cream is
run through the modern separator
and the milk and cream placed in the
bottles and sealed, thes bottles used
having been thoroughly sterilized be-
fOrehand.
Mr. Edwards with the big twO-horse
dairy wagon, which is a very hand
some thing and arranged in the best
manner for the business, the handi-
work of Mr.. Fred McAteer, of the
Ocala Wagon Works, starts for town
lwhere he will arrive about day-break
and his patrons will have for break
fast some of the sweetest, richest and
purest milk and cream that it is pos
sible to produce.
Mr.. Whitworth and Mr.. Edwards
are anxious for the public to visit
Hiawatha Lake Stock Farmt and es-
pecially the dairy and see for them
selves the methods of handling the
output. Visitors will be welcomed at
all times and the gentlemen will take
pleasure in showing them over the
place. Mr.. Whitworth went into the
dairy business somewhat by accident,
but since making the venture has done
be no lassitude since it has been
launched. He has been raising jersey
cows as well as Duroc-Jersey hogs
for his own use and for sale for sew
eral years and the milk supply has
been growing and was made into but
ter when the family could not handle
the output. When the Hunter Drug
Co. opened Mr.. Whitworth supplied
them with a good deal Of cream, and
lis still doing so, in a wholesale way,
but his herds rapid increase and the
praise he and the drugstore received
for the milk set him to thinking about
the retail dairy business with the
iabove results.
When Mr.. Whitworth began pre-
iparations in earnest for the dairy bus
mess he looked about for an assistant
;. and found Mr.. Edwards at Paris,
Tenn. Mr. Edwards came to Ocala
land was so we'll pleased with Ocala
and the Hiawatha Lake Stock Farm
that he sold out in Tennessee and
moved his family here and purchas-
led an interest in the herd.
In the meantime a large number of
pure jersey heifers were shipped down
from Tennessee. Mr.. Edwards has
had several years experience in the
dairy business and is especially well
equipped to takescharge Of it, Both
!, he and Mr.. Whitworth are tireless
to making the venture a success and
supplying the public with the very
best dairy products. Later on it is
their intention to increase the herd
and do a general state shipping bust
: ness. supplying the big hotels and