The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-09-24

breweries OF buying fresh grains all the year
round. has to a great, extent done away with
the, use Of pits among the farmers. on the island.
produce. But the milk that reaches Brooklyn
from the farmers is a small percentage oi the
total supply. The railroad brings only l25OOO
quarts daily. and that s not half Of the puan,
,ty used very large pereen,aee IL deyetSd ~ ,Sd
suburbs" Farmers wagons are abundant on
every road leading TO the city, and many Of
them come In loaded with milk, and go back
loaded with grains. with the empty. milk cans
on top. These are dairymcn who have farms
whore the cows can go out for an airing after
eating grains, and at certain seasons, find
The next grade OF mllkmen are those who
own their own cows and have them stabbed
usually marked Orange county milk. They
own from twenty to ilfty cows each and pay
sSSHfs su Per TeF s 2r snbg s" nS
yields, costs these dairy farmers about eighty
cents pei, week for each cow. This amount is
Hill. but the food H. the same. The cows are
fed from troughs which accommodate double
rows Of animals. and the hot swill is turned on
three or four times day. keeping the cows in
ebrated. The stables are cleaned Mt intervals
because the manure Is wanted for fertilizine
purposes but Il is seldom done more than once
"A month. and the cows have no bedding. They
never gct out after they once enter these dat
proportion would be greater II the dairymen
had not become expert in detecting the AZ
In time. The centre Of this trade IS Blssvillc.
There 's another class OF duirirs which arc
doing n dangerous work in BROOKLYN. These
10 not Keep wagons rs n rule. hut their milk ia
sold 10y men. women. and children from door to
door. Atnny time I'm the suburbs may be seen
wagons with hogsheAds fastened on them Ike
street sprinklers. They attract attention Ivy
their peculiar smell. These contain distllcry
swil They supply small dniries. Men and
women carrying on whccinarruws hgrreliuls
| OF the same stun have regular routes from the
| hrewerics to smaller daries. This swill Is
mixed with kitchen garbage collected IN the
same way, and 1t forms tho feed Qf some Of the
| cows whose milk II bought for the use of 81 k
| Infants. A specimen Of this Kind OF dairy can
hc found 10y taking Court street ear to the cur-
| ncr OF Smith street. There is u clump Of sham
| tics. where nm inquirer will probably cncouu-
ter a hostile demonstration. There are more
! ol these sheds near Marcy avenue and Floyd
| street. Fine specimens can bc seen from the
| car windows at East New York They are old
| tin roofs sprcnd over frame shells These set.
| Elements have from iltiy to one hundred cows
each. They are only specimens Of what forms
an irregular belt ton miles long, on the eastern
edge of Brooklyn. The produe ts OF these place :
are confined to Brooklyn. One woman. who
| owns a dairy about twrlvn feet squnre in va.
| cant lot near Elst New York. said that she used
| to sell milk in New York hut was afraid io do so
| now. She has n route in Brooklyn. She has
| forty quarts daily
Thr quantity of swill milk produced In Brook
lyu IL not known; Int the lnrg, II swil stable al
| BhSsNlllr has 500 cows now. and there are a
| great many that have from ten Ia thirty. Til,
| Hhoring men who rke out their incomes hy
| keeping on or two cows, fed on swill collected
by their children. are hundreds in number.