Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1907 — PURDUE UNIVERSITY DAIRY SCHOOL. [ARTICLE]

PURDUE UNIVERSITY DAIRY SCHOOL.

The Short Course in Dairying and Creamery Buttermaking at Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., will start January 20, ’OB. The course will extend over eight weeks and will oovet instruction in Farm Dairying, Creamery Buttermaking, the Manufacture of Ice Cream, Cheese and Condensed Milk. This work is intended to acquaint the student with the knowledge of produoing, economically, milk that is clean and Banitary, of making butter in accordance with up-to-date methods of oreamery and farm buttermaking, of manufacturing cheese and ice cream, of the manipulation of the Babcock test to obtain reliable results, of testing butter for moisture, and of managing the oreamery in a way satisfactory to both the faotory and the patron. About one-third of eaoh day is devoted to olassroom work and leotnres, while the remainder of the time is spent in the dairy and oreamery laboratories and in the test room. The student is surrounded as nearly as possible with those conditions which will confront him in Indiana. . The University does not guarantee to famish positions to those who have taken this coarse. However, the demand, for firet-olass men who have training by far exceeds the supply, a «faot which enables ns to assist most, if. not all bright, earnest students in pouring satisfactory positions.