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from an orphans' home or from Hester Street, and 

 are sent here to be trained as farmers and as useful, 

 independent men. 



"The course in dairying starts with stable manage- 

 ment. The written examination has, as its first ques- 

 tion: 'Why a stable?' and then the whys and where- 

 fores of stable management have to be written out in 

 full. When this course is mastered, the milk room 

 education is taken up, a primary course which would 

 be of great advantage to seven out of ten dairymen 

 in the whole country. In a booklet issued by the Wood- 

 bine Dairy is told how the animals are kept in clean, 

 ventilated, light stables. A veterinary certificate shows 

 the cows are free from disease. The milking is done 

 by young men of clean habits. The cows' milk, after 

 being weighed, is removed to the milk room and 

 strained, when it is conducted to the cooler. It is 

 there immediately bottled and put into the refrigerator. 

 The milk is analyzed twice a month. Needless, to 

 say, all pails, strainers and utensils are thoroughly 

 sterilized. 



"Mr. Joseph W. Pincus, whose fine bearing and 

 handsome face make him a general favorite with visi- 

 tors, and seem to fit him for a fashionable drawing- 

 room rather than for a farm, took us one day on a 

 tour of inspection of his dairy, which he has made a 

 model for all the country. He pointed out eighteen 

 pedigreed cows with the whimsical remark that he 

 would be at a loss for names for any addition 'to the 

 herd, as he had already exhausted the names of all 

 his sweethearts!" 



The school commencements always took place early 

 in the spring, as the graduates and often the under- 



