. The dairyman's manual. A practical treatise on the dairy .. . s a day;the second making fair beef, and the third being fairlygood beef cattle for local consumption. Each kind isa good milking cow and produces a heavy, well-flavoredand dense milk. The feeding of cows for this purpose is especiallyimportant, because as competition reduces the price ofmilk to the lowest point, the feeding must be bothcheap and productive. A study of the characters andkinds of foods, and the methods of growing the mostproductive feeding crops, is of great use in this respect,and a reference to preceding chapters
. The dairyman's manual. A practical treatise on the dairy .. . s a day;the second making fair beef, and the third being fairlygood beef cattle for local consumption. Each kind isa good milking cow and produces a heavy, well-flavoredand dense milk. The feeding of cows for this purpose is especiallyimportant, because as competition reduces the price ofmilk to the lowest point, the feeding must be bothcheap and productive. A study of the characters andkinds of foods, and the methods of growing the mostproductive feeding crops, is of great use in this respect,and a reference to preceding chapters in which thesesubjects are treated will be instructive. The practice oflarge milk dairymen who have long experience in thisbusiness near the city of New York, is given in the fol-lowing description of a milk-barn and business in whichaOO cows are kept. The farm is located about thirtymiles from the city of New York and the owner procures MILK DAIRYIJSG. 399 his cows from Ohio chiefly, where he can obtain goodgrade Shorthorns. These cows are kept in a barn of. which flgnre 96 was engraved from a drawing made bythe author on a visit to the farm. It is situated upon 400 THE dairymans manual. the side of a hill, iu an excavation of ?which the base-ment stable is placed. The basement is of stone, andnine feet high. The barn is twenty feet higli above thebasement, eighty feet long and twenty-eight feet yard is surrounded with a stone wall, and a manurepit is dug under the center of the building, large enoughto back a wagon into. No manure is kept in the yard,which is thus always clean and neat; but it is raked intoa wagon, which is backed into the pit to receive it everymorning, and carted away. Nothing is thus left to taintthe air around the stable, and to vitiate the purity of themilk. At the left of the yard, adjoining the stable, is aspring-house, in which the milk is rapidly cooled, andkept cool until the time for shipment. Behind thecpring-house, and immediately at on
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