Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-01
MILK AND MILK CONSTRUCTION.

y NJ EOuraln, PROFESSOR IN the AgrI-
cultural College of Grignon, near Paris,
furnishes the London Times an inter
esting communication on the milk sup
ply of the great metropolis of France.
Milk is sent a considerable distance by
rail. NJ Lecomte has three diaries at
different places and probably some dis
lance apart. The consumption of milk
varies, and the excess left over las
often happens) is made into cheese, IN
stead of being fed to hogs as in this
country. We think it possible,
as it is desirable, to supply
the citizens of Nashville with
pure milk at half the price now
paidfor diluted article Combined
science and large experience have made
important improvements in producing,
keeping, twenty-four hours or more,
aud handling milk. We have not space
to 60 into details as we should like, and
the reader must accept the most sum
merized statement of what the writer
believes to be facts, or knows to be
such. A farmer says that his COW
Lilly" gave ten thousands pounds of
milk last year; this at two cents
pound or four cents a quart, would
bring the producer the handsome sum
of five hundred dollars. This COW has
given 1854 pounds in year, and g.
SIS in SIX months. When three years
and two months old she gave
one thousand pounds in January.
Lilly lost her life by being fed buck
wheat bran. A calf of this COW was
brought to milk before she was one
year old, and yielded a pound of good
butter a day before it was two years
old. The vital and chemical work
of digestion and milk secre-
ton is susceptible Of great va
riatiOns in the way Of both enlarge
ment and contraction. Every farmer
knows the truth of this statement; but
be does not know how far this work of
digestion, assimilation and milk form
alton may be carried in any female
system, 1t took six thousand pounds
of good hay to winter Lilly in the eli,
mate of Michigan, besides six pounds
of cornmeal day. With dry feed she
drank from 100 TO l2O pounds of water
day.
Farmers in France who produce milk
for Paris consumption receive Eve
pence English currency per gallon,
equal to Ten cents of our money. The
consumer pays about twice that sum,
or twenty cents a gallon. The man
agement of milk is described as fol,
lows by Prof, Pourain:
The mornings milk having to wait
twelve hours before being mixed with
that of the evening, is subjected to &
double operation.
l. 1t Is placed in cans in a bath of
hot water so as to raise the tempera-
ture up to about 206 degrees.
,. 1t Is cooled as rapidly as possible,
and keCt at low temperature until the
evening.
in the bath the water is kept at boil
ing point, and provided the volume of
hot water be seven or eight times that
of the milk TO be treated, and the num-
Der of cans at least dozen, the opera
ton goes on as fast as the cans are re-
moved and replaced, so that by the
time the last can is removed the one
that replaced the first one is ready,
and the work proceeds uninterruptedly;
the cans for the bath are especially
made to fit the holes, so that the hot
milk is poured into other cans, which
are removed Immediately and placed in
iron ofsterns, through which runs a
stream of cold water, and there they
are left until the evening milk arrives
This also is subjected to the same pro-
cess of cooling" and in about an
hour the temperature of the evening
milk is reduced to an equality with that
of the morning, and the two can be
safely mixed.