The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-26
A Model Dairy.

Probably the most rigidly managed
dairy in the United States is the Echo
Dairy, near Litchfield, Conn, and which
is owned by Mr.. F. R. Starr. Mr.. Starr
is retired merchant, whose health was
impaired by close attention to business,
and who bought small piece of land,
containing sixty acres, principally with
a view to make quiet home, but who,
becoming infatuated with a genteel
country life, has continued to add to his
original purchase till his present farm
contains about 400 acres. This whole
farm is now managed for the support
and maintenance of a dairy consisting of
about fifty head of pure Jersey COWS and
their increase. The exhibition Of Jersey
stock from this farm attracted great at
tention and interest at the Centennial.
The bull Litchfeld' won the first prize
as Jersey bull, and also the prize of
$3.50 offered by the American Jersey
Club, From this dairy there was also
exhibited at the Centennial four COWS,
four bull calves, and four heifer calves,
all of which received marked attention,
and many of them awards The dairy
is managed on the principle that what
ever is worth doing at all is worth doing
well, and absolute exemption from
everything that can faint the butter
made, either in smell or taste, from the
food of the COW till it is made into rolls
and delivered to the purchaser, is
scrupulously avoided.
The COWS are stabbed summer and win
ter, day and night. Their feed is Sc
leCted and prepared with the utmost care,
and given at stated times, and in stated
quantities. They have exercise in the
oDen air daily, and stand in stalls that
secure to each cow not less than 900
cubic feet of air space. The stalls are
not only kept clean of manure and other
filth but are swept and sanded daily, and
the cows curried and brushed with as
much care as is generally bestowed upon
the best-cared-forr race horses. They are
fed regularly during each day with diff
ferent varieties of food, and every night
d lunch of roots is served out to them by
night Waterman, who is never allowed
to leave his post any more than is
Waterman in our large banks. The milk.
ing is done by men who are required to
keep themselves scrupulously clean, and
as an extra precaution in this particular
there is Mushroom near the stalls
where every man, before milking, is re-
quired to repair and wash face and hands
and change clothes.
Along the stalls at convenient places
are hung spring scales, upon which the
weight of each cows milk at every milk
ing must be ascertained, and this weight
is set down upon slate at the time and
then reported in writing to the person
who has charge of the milk-room, and
each day report is filed away stating
the exact amount of milk given by each
and all the COWS in the dairy. The milk
pals are made in such way as to secure
three strainings of all the milk as it is
poured from them into the pans or cans
for the cream to rise.
The milkroom is kept at the same
temperature mic and day, winter and
summer, and re milk is SKINNED
when it has be- ting just thirtysiX
hours, The Gre before it is churned
is all filtered or strained so as to secure
perfect sameness or homogeneousness,
thus making the butter to come with
perfect evenness and at the same time.
The cream when put into the churn must
have a temperature of SO deg, and
comes regularly in summer and winter,
or in all kinds of weather, in forty min
utes. The churn is worked by horse
power at certain regulated speed.
When the butter is taken from the
churn it first goes into butter-worker,
and, while being worked little to get
the first run of buttermilk out, the Salts
worked in. 1t then stands in the salt
two hours, and is again worked under
the supervision of an experienced butter
maker, who takes extra care to see tn at
it is worked just enough and not too
much. 1t is then put up into half pound
prints or rolls and stamped. 1t is
shipped to special agents in New York,
Boston and Brooklyn, and TO fill a few
regular orders of private families. The
product of the dairy is uniform in
quantity and quality the year round, and
each agent takes the same amount each
week, at a given price for the entire year.
This is a higher price than is paid for
any other butter made in the United
States. Each half-pound print is, to pre-
pare it for shipment, wrapped in a
separate napkin and placed in separate
paper box, made in form and size to hold