Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-07-03
ALEX, GAZETTE& & VIRGINIA ADVERTISER

4 Co. OPERATIVE DAlRY.-A writer III the
Albany Cultvator makes some good points
upon this subject. which we copy for the ad-
vantage of our own farmers
From every point of view the Institution is
Success and both cheese aud butter can De
manufactured under the same root ton OF
cheese, and 100 or 500 pounds of butter can be
nroJucei in twenty-tour hours all OF winch Will
lind ready market at any large town or city
The business cannot be overdone, tor cheese
and butter are staple artlccs-essentlals 10
every tamy-and there is little danger OF pro,
lucing too much tor our western frontier VIII
consume vast quantities. aud as yet can pre-
lucc but little. owing to the scarcity OF Ia
borerS.
The best way to start butter or cheese fac
toYy is to call a meeting Of the farmers IN any
,iven district and obtain some man who has
had practical experience, who knows the busl-
ness fully, and can give good instruction upon
the location, the size Of the building, the uten
siis rcouired, &C., TO speak to them on the sub
iet. His expenses should be paid and also
his time, and the money will be well Invested
Then let the farmers form stock company,
appoint president aud directors and subscribe
Tor ,he stock aud when the buildings are
erected and the necdiul machinery procured
the farmers wives and daughters will rejoice
in a respite from heavy toll, and will look for
ward to the summer without groanlng over the
thought OF being worked to death.
Did the labor of the dairy fall upon mcn-
were they compelled to skim milk and wash
hundred pans or more every morning ana nlght,
70 work and salt the butter, aud put 1t down
5u,tcr factories would have been built by the
hundreds long ere this. For men usually avail
themselves OF all labor saving machlnery.-
They know the toll OF moving, reaplng, -
threshi!,g. &c., and when they can buy or hire
the machines they do it but they do not COM
prehend the daily work of the dairy many
Of them imagine it is mere play to stand and
skim milk and make butter IN Il cool, shady,
rI,a<ant room, never thinking of the endless
routine OF work demanded OF the housekeeper
the maid of all work-and how her overtax-
cd muscles aud nerves swell, throb and ache
under al these occupations.
AMONG THE Big TREES TRACE Greenwood
in a letter from California to the New I Ork
Tunes says: We had a day of pure enjoyment
in the woods. We drove for five or six miles
up the beautiful! canyon Of the San Lorenzo,
shadowcd, winding, mountain road such as we
Gud nowhere but ON this coast, and plcnlccd
among the big trees These are gigantic red
woods, not quite equal to those Of Calaveras or
Maripos,, bu. wait few hundred years and
yoll will Sec The largest, named for Fremont,
is two hundred and ten feet in hight, and elgh-
teen feet in diameter. In the hollow trunk OF
another he had his quarters for awhile. \ man
can ride into this OH horseback and stable the
horse. | was told that a devoted vile once
spent here several mouths with her husband,
lunbcrman, and kept couple Of boardcrs |
felt for her | know what it is to live IN
trunk. By the way, u young fellow passenger
on the stage told us several astonishing stories
about some big trees near Nisaa. One, he
said, parted into three about sixteen feet from
The ground, ard atthe point of separation there
was Il hollow, which hollow was always filled
with WATERWAYS in fact little lake, thirty
iect wide and seventeen feet deep So you
could boat or bathe i'll it, if you wished to, or
bob for eels He described the monstrous hoi-
low trunk of a fallen tree, into which he rode
on horseback, and alter trying in vain to reach
the concave ceiling with his cane galloped on
for IL distance, and then rode calmy y out through
"A knot -hoe-a providental opening for the
young man. But have found that the only
safe way in this country is to doubt nothing
that you hear. have an impression that |
shall some time come upon that trune tree,
with its remarkable water privileges; perhaps
lind it utilized into a railroad tank or baptis-
terry | half expect to ride into the same
trunk prospectcd 10y my young tclow-travcler
and to cmerge ut the same knot hole.