Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1874-05-07
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A .CAI,FoB,lA. nAfny.-The Californiaus,
who have a snRniar &enfus for doing things on
a large scale which IN other States are done by
retail, have managed to conduct even dairying
In this wav, and know how TO "erganirs" the
making of butter in q way which would sur
prise any Orange county farmer. Here, for In
stance-and to take the most successful and
complete of these experiments-is the rancho
of Mr.. Charles Webb Howard, on Which had
the curiosity to spend couple Of days. II con-
tains 5000 acres Of land well lifted for dairy
purposes. On this he has nine separate farms,
occupied by nine tenants engaged In making
butter. To rent the farms outright would
not do, because tenants wonld put up poor i'm
provements, and would need, even then, more
capital than tenant-farmers usually have. Mr..
Howard, therefore, contrived q scheme which
| seems to work satisfactorily to all concei ned,
and which seems 10 me extremely Ingenious
| He fences the farm, making proper sub divisions
of large fields; be opened springs, and leads
water through Iron pipes 10 the proper places,
and also to the dwelling milk-house and corral.
| He builds the necessary houses, which consist
of q substantial dwelling, twenty-eight by thir-
ty-two feet, q story and = half high, and con-
tanning nine rooms, all lathed and plastered;
thoroughly well arranged milk-house, twenty
five by fly feet, having milk room In the
| centre twenty five feet square, with churning
| room, store-room, wash-room, ETC., barn,
forty by fifty feet, 10 contain hay for the farm
horses also calf shed. corral or enclosure
for the cows, a well-arranged pig pen, and all
these buildings are put up in the best manner,
well painted and neat. The tenant receives
from the proprietor all this, the land, and cows
to stock it. He furnishes, on his part all the
daiiy utensils, the needed horses and wagons
the furniture for the house, the farm iinple-
meuts and the necessary labor. The tenant
page to the owner twenty-seveu dollars and
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take the best care of the stock aud Of all parts
of the farm, to make the necessary repairs, and
To raise for the owner annually one-hfth as
many calves as he keeps cows, the remainder
of the calves being killed and fed to the pigs
He agrees also 10 sell nothing but buttar and
hogs from the farm, the hogs being entirely the
tenants property.
Under this system li2O cows are now kept
Oh nine separate farms on this estate, the larg-
est number kept by one man being 225, aud the
smallest lis. Mr. Howard has been Tor years
= improving his herd he prefers short hcrns,
! aud he saves every year the calves from the
best mixers in all his herd the bulls also being
. from good milking strains. was told that the
: | average product of butter on the whole estate
is now 175 pounds to each COW many cows
give as high as 200 and even 300 pounds pei
annum. Men do the milking and also the but
ter making, though on one farm found a pref
. ty Swedish gil experimenting all the indoor
!, work with such skill and order In all the de
u partments that she possessed. so far Us / saw
II the model dairy on the eslae. Here, said Il
IS myself, Is now an instance OF the ability o
> women TO compete with men which would de
l. light Mrs. Stanton aud all WomsRs Right
p people here is the neaiest, the sweetest, TIN
y most complete dairy in the whole region; III
d best order, the most shining utensils, the mic
RS est butter room not only bntter but chess
~ also, made, which is not usual; and here is
T. rosy faced, white armed, smooth-haired, sens
bly, dressed, altogether admirable, aud, TO IN
eyes, beautiful Swedish lass presiding over ii al
ie commanding her men-servants, and keepin
~ every part of the business in order. Alas
o. Mrs. Stanton she has discovered better bus
~ ness than butter-makng She is going to ma
lr ry-sensibe girl that she is-and she Is nj
Oh going to marry dairy farmer either. | dout
~ If anybody in California will ever make as MD
tr butter as this pretty Swede certainly ever
hu other dairy saw seemed 10 me commonpla6
o. aud uninteesing alter I had seen hers.
ht don't doubt that the young man who has hs
the art to persuade her to love him ought to
hanged, because butter-makng is far more in
IN portant than marrying. Nevertheless, wi.
has him joy In advance, and, In humble defiance
10 Mrs. Stanton and her brilliant compartment
ew arms, hereby give it as my beieftbst the pref
1m Swede is a sensible girl-that To Use Gallo
he MIA yulgarisin, "her head is level"