London Normal School - Spectrum Yearbook (London, Ontario Canada)

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19 From the wool supplied by the Red Cross, the girls knitted the following, children ' s and babies ' outfits; 12 suits, 9 sweaters, 10 panties, 8 baby sets, 2 sweaters, 2 • booties, and 1 bonnet. These will go through the Local Red Cross Branch to some needy children. The two courses taught us how to help others while, by our Red Cross knitting, we helped others. We feel these are concrete examples of how the students of 1944 are backing the war effort. Ruth Hall Elaine Hunter OUR VISIT TO SILVERWOOD ' S DAIRY On Thursday Dr. Hofferd made the announcement of a proposed visit to Silverwood ' s Dairy for Saturday morning. He reaffirmed the statement on Friday at Literary Society. We were to go in two groups - with the first two groups being the unlucky ones, having to be on deck at nine o ' clock. The other group were allowed the extra forty winks till half-past ten. We woke up in tho cold, gray dawn of Saturday and trudged up to the Dairy. As we stepped inside we saw the bottles being filled, capped and stored with amazing accuracy. Our guide took us further to see the washing process, the pasteurizing machines at work and how butter milk is made. The cleanliness of all these processes impressed us greatly. Each night all the machines with which the milk comes in contact are taken apart, washed, scalded and reassembled. In the building across the stroet we saw many more interesting things. We saw how milk was condensed and canned. From the condensing room we went out on the roof and viewed London. Then we descended the stairs and saw the results of Babcock test and the irradiating machine. The next part of our trip took us to the storage room where we shivered and shook at a temperature of 24 degrees below zero. We were each given an ice-cream bar with the compliments of Silverwood s Dairy. The making of ice-cream was also described. Our trip to Silverwood ' s Dairy proved to be not only delightful, but informative. I am sure we all have a much clearer conception of all the work which is entailed in the dairy industry. I am sure that the sight of the lowly milk bottle on the door step will now bring back many memories - pleasant, ah yes. NfyTtle Fader .