Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-26
FARM AND GARDEN.
TIE PRopUCrION OF MILK.

THE PRODUCTION OE MILAs
The New England Milk Association met
at Boston and fixed the price of milk for
the six months from April at 40 cents q
can, trile less than five cents quart, de-
ivered in Boston.-Net0 England Farmer.
The writer happens to know that Massa-
chusetts has no limestone land, like that of
Davidson county, Tenn, for the produc-
ton Of blue grass and other grasses; and It
ID no exaggeration to say that 8 quart of
milk that viii cost the producer four cents
in Massachusetts,, can be DUPLICATED in the
vicinity of Nashville for three cents. Every
one in the least interested in the health
and prosperity of the inhabitants in this
city should give attention to the question of
an abundant supply Of pure and cheap
milk.
In the first place, every one should know
that seven parts in eight Of milk as ii comes
from natures fountain is water, and the
purest water that man, woman or child can
drink. Any impure earthly salts in the
water 30 largely taken into her system by
the COW, escape by the kidneys-not by the
udder.
Suppose one child drinks in water or cof-
fee lime-salts directly from a spring. and
another drinks water from the same spring
but In the shape OF butter milk; and the
COW has slaked her thirst from water in a
branch just below the spring. The last
named child gets water from the spring in
milk with all the salts in the cows urine
taken out; but the first named gets water
with 10 inconsiderable share of these earthly
salts left in the water drank by the COW.
Milk is provision as a specially, made
not by man, but infinite wisdom, for the
offspring of all the mammaHa. Milk is in
10 way the continuance of mans wit or
science. 1t is the teacher Of science and
Of wisdom. Thirty years ago Mr.. T. c.
Peters, of Genesee county, n. z, bought
q small car load ofmilk daily of the farm
ers near him at one cent a quart, which
he sent % miles by rail to Buffalo,
and sold at two cents quart.
Farmers found this milk production to pay
rather better than raising wheat in one of
the best wheat-growing count:es in the
Union. 1t is something to know how to
live comfortably in good health, at the min
imum expense, and to raise children with
out the crooked legs, that so many show
on the streets Of Nashville, produced by
vicious nurse-lsbor. To purchase pure
milk at FIVE cents quart Gas should now
be done in this city,) is the same as buy
ing the first quality of beefsteak at five
cents pound. Why so? Because quart
OF milk weighing two pounds has the same
amount Of solids, Gall nutritive) as one
pound Of meat-free from bones. Bous-
singault "a reliable chemist and farmer
found a pounds of water in 100 pounds
OF muscle, or lean meat. This leaves
only % per cent. of solids. In
200 pounds of milk taken from different
diaries, there will be found an average of
rs pounds of rich dry curds, butter and
sugar-just natures material for making
healthy, pure blood in babes and in adults.
1t is an instructive fact that the grass
which, in the shape of beef cattle, would
bring the farmers of Herkimer county Two
million dollars, or less (varTng of course
with the price Of beef,) actually sold last
year for four and halt million, in the form
Of concentrated milk, consumed mostly in
England. With good veal at ten cents a
pound, what is its equivalent TO the pro-
Queer in milk by the quart? About p cents.
A city family could pay the farmer five
ceute quart for milk and gain something in
the way of economy rather than let calf
have the milk and eat the flesh of the calf
at ten cents a pound. In patriarchal times,
when children, their mothers and fathers,
lived largely on milk, q man was in the
prime Of life when five hundred years old.
Job say: "Hast thou poured me out as milk,
and curdled me like cheese?"
Homer was probably the first European
that wrote first-rate poetry. He makes
Ulysses and his companions find in the
cave of the Cyclops Polyphemus stores
thus described:
s'The bending shelves with loads Of cheeses prest
The folded hocks, each separate from the rest"
Theproductiye industry which gave man
nd milk, butter and cheese, preceded the
inst historic age by unknown centuries.