Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . rove the quality of milk from his different cows, and(with quantity of milk-yield recorded) may fix their respective value asdairy animals. With perfect apparatus in careful hands, the accuracy of thetest is unquestioned, and it is of the highest scientific value. It should benoted that although
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . rove the quality of milk from his different cows, and(with quantity of milk-yield recorded) may fix their respective value asdairy animals. With perfect apparatus in careful hands, the accuracy of thetest is unquestioned, and it is of the highest scientific value. It should benoted that although clearly patentable, and offering an independence througha very small royalty, this priceless invention and boon to dairying was freelygiven to the public by Dr. Babcock. The advent of the twentieth century finds the dairy industry of the UnitedStates established upon a plane far above the simple and crude domestic three or four generations ago. The milch cow itself, upon which the wholebusiness rests, is more of a machine than a natural product. The animal hasbeen so bred and developed to a special purpose, that instead of the formershort milking period, almost limited to the pasture season, it yields a compar-atively even flow of milk during ten or eleven months in every twelve; and if. 254 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX CENTURY desired, the herd produces as much in winter as in summer. It is not unusualfor cows to give ten or twelve times their own weight of milk during a the quality has been so improved that the milk of many a good dairy cowwill produce as much butter in a week as could be made from three or four aver-age cows of the olden time. Instead of a few homely and inconvenient imple-ments for use in the laborious duties of the dairy, generally devolving uponthe women of the farm, perfected appliances skillfully .devised to accomplishtheir object and lighten labor are provided all along the way. The factorysystem of cooperative or concentrated manufa
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