. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. July 6, 1901] ®he gsvecfccv citxiy gipovteman 11 THE FARM. Dairying in Switzerland. My observation of the dairy business in Switzerland showed it to be rather a dif- ferent proposition from what it is here, says P. M. Sharpies in the New York Produce Ee»iew. The pastures are stood on edge rather than laid flat, as is the cus- tom in America. One edge of this pasture will be bounded by an eternal snow field and the other edge, but a. comparatively short distance below, will be in the middle of the harvest field. One part of a man's herd will be drinking ice wate
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. July 6, 1901] ®he gsvecfccv citxiy gipovteman 11 THE FARM. Dairying in Switzerland. My observation of the dairy business in Switzerland showed it to be rather a dif- ferent proposition from what it is here, says P. M. Sharpies in the New York Produce Ee»iew. The pastures are stood on edge rather than laid flat, as is the cus- tom in America. One edge of this pasture will be bounded by an eternal snow field and the other edge, but a. comparatively short distance below, will be in the middle of the harvest field. One part of a man's herd will be drinking ice water ten feet from the edge of a glacier, while the other part will be munching fine, green pasture two hundred yards away. The Swiss cow is probably well known to all-a beautiful and gently, fawn-col- ored animal, looking something similar to a Jersey cow7. These cows do not go down to the foot of the mountain every day, but remain high up in the pasture lands all seasons, stone huts with stone roofs being crowded on to some spot more level than others, where cowb are kept at night. The milk to. the bottom in a wooden pail or carried strapped to the back of the milk man. The cheese and butter are made in a small way by each individual. The satisfaction I had aiid the meeting an-old-friend feeling which came over me can be understood on ray coming occasionally to some inaccessible cow-house with a glacier fora refrigerator and a Sharpies separator for handling the milk. In some of the lower^ less rugged mountain regions there are butter factor- ies where large quantities of milk are bought to be made into butter.: It is most interesting in some villages located in a widp, fertile valley, to watch the cows come home from the mountain foothills at night. They need no driver, but when the proper time comes the lead- ers start off for the village, and all the other cows, sometimes hundreds in num- ber, follow them to the village. Each cow knows its own home and will walk
Size: 1599px × 1563px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjecthorses, bookyear1882
