The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-09-24
SWILL MILK ON LONG ISLAND
vrr MORE or THE sUN's INrEsH0AIL
ING COMMITTEES REPORT.
xrh.,c. Farmers Get Feed-Dsadiy Grain Pits
rhe FHect OF The sun's Exposures-The
. p.rp,cious Grains sTrade-Brooklyn's Sub
.,., pairies PeddIers OF Poor Miik.

.,.,.u uairies- PeddIers OF Poor Miik.
] Acoored map Of Long Island, designed to |
,,hibn the localities where swil milk is pro- |
duced would be light pink at the eastern end.
ard gradually deepen In color until Brooklyn. |
at tho western end. would be a vivid red. The
land on the island is more level and sandy than
On the other dairy districts. and more general
farm produce is cultivated; hence Long Island
farmers at a distance from tho city equal TO that
n, the Orange county farmers. send very little
pilk This makes the demand for cheap feed
suhstitutes lese general, except where the dis
tanee ia so small that the farmers can carry
the milk 10 the city. The area OF land required
4, maintain a COW in good condition at the east
enI NJ tho island is about two acres. This area
decraaaes toward the west and six feet by three
a enough for COW in Brooklyn. ON the farms
starch feed is u substitute for natures pro-
vision. and brewers grains are used to adul-
terate il. In the BROOKLYN suburbs grains Is the
feed and swill the mixture. The cheap feed on
tho Erie and Harlem roads consists OF sprouts
and grains. The sprouts are the grains that
send out shoots during the heating process at
the browcrics much us potatoes sprout In cell
lars. This il generally conceded to be healthy
feeI because the sprouts are siited out before
the grain is chemically treated. and contain no
thing unnatural. The action of this feed is not
noticeable as In the case OF grains that
operate like medicine on tho animals.
On Long Island Duryea's starch factory at
Glen Cove and the Kings County Manufactur-
Ing Company at Hunters Point, have intro
du,ed II new thing called starch feed. These
factories have a process for extracting tho
starch from corn, which leaves residuum re-
sembling wet corn meal. This sours rapidly
and turns from orange yellow To brown ana
black when exposed TO the air. 1t il claimed
that this is healthy feed. and it has been ap
proved by Prot Doromu- as grains have been
by Prof Chandl 3. though both gentlemen
doubtless meant the fresh article. not the putrid
stun that reaches the COWS.
The smell Of "a grain Ut Is unwholcsome, and
the gases in II are very dangerous. Cases of
sickness caused 10y going into these pits have
frequently occurred, and in some instances
death has ensued. either in the pit. or after
seyere illness following removal from the pit.
The grains are shipped from Hunters Point.
and the demand for them is shown by the num-
ber Of wagons loaded with them that so down
Thrty-fourth stree; daily The farmers near
tho railroad stations club together and order
car load. usually from Gemps 4 KINNEY Of
Third avenue. When the car Is run on sid ng
the farmers wagons surroundit. and the grains
are divided. One farmer gets on poi the load
and marks with his shovel. first "A line through
ihe centre. and subsegu 'ntly minor suhdiyi-
t,,.tI ttnra ~ att,pV 10
e., ,.,'r'basara TN .,n,.h wagon cots i,s
ir n W.. n,.r 40 ross,hie rhis ia dsiv sipht
=, a. = - ~ o,a,,i,n. % ~ '
,.rnins ~ w"i',h nearly 60 mounds 10 the
hu.L "A smnI % n6o ,nun,is rnakr a cnr lnnd TIn
ra7 ~ i ,h Jrius ,i, on ~" ro@d reduces The
,',,,,.a,.hat M ion hnsb eis =. r., s,,nnos"1
80 40 iooI ,rin, H. IN, os, i,r.tn IN ma
Ern ,nI u,rI,,n rnnis Th" SANE niantity on
T., 'i' VIZ ~, - :, i u ~ H., :. ~ ~ r., -,S re
~ tr la s YsiIi i1.'.sH ,,, WI i & h1 ~ nenb car
y, 'pI m ~ 10 M g. T., 56 " Ma MINNIE hu, ~"
a. liini ~, n V' M ny Wy w, IN h , Il p,,,,a @ ,l
sf p,s1 NJ wa f. hnr.. r 7a husels
inH@nnu @ ,'nl ll,lis M'u'. =, ~ -, - " 'ri'., ,,S
II wers 50 narSeI ON thr i"," ntre se'ts h
w w. an a,n1 a,'"nS s '.'ns ,.
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ip NM, dhMI VIZ nn thc nikmrn
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unsW 'ne ir' ftn.gu
s,r W., ~ In. ii frnui. Hv Til St,S
w. "Ap2I1 MO- ~ ~ ~ '' i i,.oN Nui,h pnri an
10, - IL u M.Tn,rtls visitaI a n,tn'is.r
nj me I"i ries in order 10 asc.rt,,in their cond-
~ - ,t ~ s',r,. -, s,,,,,,i.s ~ fr,.sh n, Ink tr
nonsn1 "i,u W Us we n0t g. niirrt. A..
tbfsin - T'ur SrS IT,. TOOL intn soms il.rstinn
sho o.,e anj fr5 of the cows and tested with the
thernom"ter md lactom.ter mi lid moi uss the
croa,mon'et.r III" T0nri l'ns TuF Sun : prom
ositi"n ~ li,ens nc III. milk wagons under con