. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. LONDON COW SHEDS. 345 the same system was pui'sued witli her; indeed, the same system is carried out still, ou an extended scale, but not so much to be sold to city milkmen as to those dairy-farmers who make the supply of milk to city salesmen a speciality. In former times o-i-eat numbers of Dutch cattle have been imported to till the metropolitan dairies, but they are so inherently liable to pleuro-pneu- monia the practice has been almost discon- tinued, and now those dairies a
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. LONDON COW SHEDS. 345 the same system was pui'sued witli her; indeed, the same system is carried out still, ou an extended scale, but not so much to be sold to city milkmen as to those dairy-farmers who make the supply of milk to city salesmen a speciality. In former times o-i-eat numbers of Dutch cattle have been imported to till the metropolitan dairies, but they are so inherently liable to pleuro-pneu- monia the practice has been almost discon- tinued, and now those dairies are filled, many of lated to promote the development of a latent malady; and it is equally necessary to avoid such fitting's as are likely to perpetuate a disease, once it has taken possession of the premises. The old- fashioned wocxlen stalls, racks, and feeding'-troug-hs would retain the germs of a contagious disease for a long time, in a manner which almost placed disinfecting processes at defiance; the germs would get into the poi-es, or interstices, or joints, or worm-holes of the woodwork, and. Fig. —Interior of Improved London Cow-shed. them, with high-qiiality Shorthorns, and among them other British breeds. The Dutch cows, having for generations been specially cultivated for that end, are extraordinary milkers, but their liability to disease detracts greatly from their value, and they do not so well as British cows bear transplant- ing to the close confinement of a London cow-shed —it induces the disease which too commonly is latent in the system. It is oljvious that with cattle wdio are pre- disposed to disease it is highly expedient to use every precaution against it, when they are placed within the iufiuonce of conditions which are calcu- there they would defiantly stick, only to com- municate the disease again and again. Hence it has become the practice to use iron and earthen- ware fittings, wdiieh afford but scant lodgment for contagion, and admit of bein
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