The Sidney herald., 1957-01-31
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on the morning of October 20
where we were divided into three
groups each, with two leader.
from the Kiwanis club.
Our first excursion was through
the county court house, where we
were shown the offices of the
county treasurer, sheriff, county
attorney, assessor, clerk of court
clerk and recorder, and the court
room where the court sessions are
held. The people in these offices
are responsible for the welfare
of the people of Richland county
In my tour of the court house
l realized some of my duties and
privileges as a citizen. l also re-
allied the importance of a county
government.
Upon reaching the Jail l real
lied what a wonderful thing our
freedom is. When / walked into
the Jail it appeared to me that
it would be very unpleasant to
live there. How awful 1t must
be to live in such dark and dis
NAL cells with no sunlight, fresh
air or any association with the
outside world.
Our next stop on the tour was
at the Sidney high school. / was
very enthused at the many rooms
which we visited. The band room
with its many interesting and
valuable instruments and the
chorus room intrigued me. How
anxious I am to become a men,
Der Of the Sidney Music Depart
ment next year. The chemistry
and biology laboratories were fill
ed with interesting specimens.
Several embryos Of animals were
preserved III bottles. 1 shall en-
joy biology, I'm sure, where 1
will have the chance of disecting
and studying the parts of ami
mails. The journalism room was
of interest to me because l read
each issue of the Spokesman and
was interested in how they made
it. We visited the Home Econom-
les room in which the girls of
SHS learn to cook, sew, and en-
terrain.
The next place we visited was
the Sugar Beet Factory where
we separated into groups
Of six children with a teacher
and a guide. In the factory they
us how the beets are
washed and put into a slicing
machine. These machines have
hree-cornered knives which cut
he beets into slices very much
ike shoestring potatoes. Then
hey fall into cylinders in which
water passes through. AS the wat
IT passes through it draws the
;ugar from the beets. The mix
ure is called diffusion juice.
Twelve to fifteen parts of it are
iugar and eighty-five to eighty
parts water. When all the
ugar has been taken from the
,eets, the beet pulp that is left
S used for stock feed. Then the
uice is purified and evaporated
o make beet sugar. When beet
ugar is highly refined it can
lot be distinguished from cane
From there we went to the
and Creamery. There
hey showed us how they pastur-
zed and homogenized the milk.
'astuerized milk is milk that has
cen heated to legal standards
efore it is bottled, for the pur-
ose of destroying any disease
erms present in the milk. HON.
genization is a method of break
lg up the fat globules so that
hey remain distributed through
ut the milk. Only pastuerized
lilk is homogenized. Milk is
.mogenized under a pressure OF
900 to 5000 pounds per square
lch, then the milk is forced thru
alves which break up the fat
into such fine particles
lat they remain in suspense in
lie milk. We visited the room In
hich they kept the meat for
The meat must hang
ON one week to ten days before
is cut and p~rocessed. They had
perks, and venison. On f,
III way out we received a treat.
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