Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-03-08
DAIRY DEPARTMENT.
DAIRY DISCOVERIES.

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the chief obstacles with which they have
had to contend in the manufacture and pres
e%ryation of butter and cheese a subject of
diligent study, and a speciality of my pro-,
fession Gas a rural architect) for q period OF
more than a quarter of a century. OF ne
cessity, my field Of study and experience
has been the zone. known as the "Dalry
Belt 'preverbial for the changeableness OF
its climate, so adverse to the successful
prosecution of the. dairy art The failure OF
all the experiments of its %votaries, as Well
as OF the efforts Of architects in supplying,
in this and other countries, an economical,
practical and efficient means of arresting the
effect of those frequently recurring changes,
and marked climatic extremes have been so.
numerous as to become the rule instead: OF
the exception. Being confronted by such
an array of discouragemcnts, in conjunction
with the established conviction in the minds
of even some of the most intelligent dairy
men that because it had not been done, it
must be impossible to devise a plan, within
their reach financially that will supply what
all acknowledged was so MUCH. needed, only
tended to intensity my determination to, eX-
pertinent until I4attained success.
Accordingly, l have persevered, though
making failure after failure and,atter avail
ing myself of all the elements and devices
most promising, until exhausted the stock
of the material world as found in a natural
condition on the face of the earth, resolved
to pierce the bowels of our common moth
er,-the Earth, and to see what | could find
there. / constructed air conduits. in the
earth, in which to circulate air until it had
acquired the low anda uniform. temperature
there existing, and other qualities noless
valuable. So satisfactory has, been the re-
suit Of the use Of the sub-earth air-duct in
securing the objects sought,--after an expe-
rience with it of nearly three years, and in
six States Of the Union,|I have abandoned
the use of both ice apd water as cooling and
regulating agents, both separately and in
conjunction with my new device. | have
found, after numerous tests, and in a great
variety of ways, that water and ice are not
only expensive and unreliable, but that both
are really. injurious in their effects on milk,
and on it's products, butter and cheese; and
that the lowest temperature desirable in the
manipulation OF milk, in their manufacture,
Is readily obtained in the. use Of, the duct
alone.
Imay say here, that experience has also
developed that the value of my discovery is
by no 4eans confined to its great potency
as a cooling device, but that it is equally ca
pable q, raising the temperature of cold air
circulated through it, and to q marvellous
degree (the extent of which | shall describe)
also of anhydrating air effectually Of
oughly ~airing,and ventillating an apartment,
of fixing any dust. notes or fungoid seeds
that air may contain; and, with all, of re-
moving malarial glassed, mixed or combin-
cd with the atmosphere. 1t is with reluc-
tance that | enumerate and claim so many
valuable characteristics of the sub-earth air.
duct, as it SAVIOR SO much of the style of the
empirical ,~cure-all .swindle.
knowing that a,history.of my operations
and achievements. in the use of my new
system, from its incipiency down to the
present time, will interest the many, I will
state that what | have done has been lone
in the Atlantic States, except that l have
built since August last, near Dyson, Ill, a
butter factory, called Rose, Hill Dairy, for IS
rael Boles, late of Marengo, H.; an improv-
ed milk-room III the cellar ot.a dwelling,
for Chas. w. Sylvester, near MaTengo, and
am, NOW engaged on plans for others in Hi
nlois aud in Wisconsin. The dairles which
r hoya huflt in the East were small. and the