Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-14
HOW PARIS IS SUPPLIED WITH MILK

| Milk producers and sellers in California
may learn what is of advantage to them
| from an outline of the milk supply and
trade of Paris, as described by the editor
of the Journal of the Royal Agricultural
| Society of England, from which we con-
dense the method of doing business, as
observed and recorded by the editor of the
journal. The milk trade of Paris is esti-
mated to be $50, 900 quarts daily Two
methods are in vogue in Paris, namely, the
sale of milk by large dairy farmers direct
to the rich consumer; and the ordinary
wholesale milk trade, which involves col
lection and preparation by the merchant,
sale to dealers and the distribution to ordi-
nary consumers. The process of large
producer near Paris is cited. The dairy
farmer occupies $50 acres of arabic land,
cultivated on the French system of rota-
ton, winter corn, spring corn, artificial
grasses and beet-roots, with portion of the
land to lucerne, which continues for sew
eral years and takes the course permanent
grass land. He keeps 60 cows, more or
less, buying them soon after calving and
selling them when they begin to run dry,
or feeding them ON beetroot pulp and bran
-beet-root husbandry being connected
with the milk business.
| The distinctive feature of the business is
in the distribution of the milk to the con-
sumers The milk as it is drawn from the
COW is cooled down TO 50 degrees by i'm
mersing the cans in cold water, and then
it is transferred to small vessels OF tin or
porcelain, which are Immediately sealed by
means of piece of lead passed through
the staple, in front of the hasp, the lead
then being pressed flat by pair of pincers
carrying the seal of the dairy, and the yes
sci cannot be opened without destroying
this impression. Purchasers thus have the
assurance of receiving the milk as it leaves
the farm, the consumers in Paris being
willing to pay for the guarantee of quality
the price of some of the leading diaries
| being 20 confines per liter, or 40 or 80
confines for the half-liter, delivered at the
house Ia liter is Il pints, Sd per quart, or
more than half crown per gallon, double
the price, says the editor, paid for milk at
the West End in London). Some pro-
ducers charge little less for milk deliv-
cred in tin cans than if sent in porcelain,
and some little higher furnished to sub
scribers, the empty vessels being given up
when full ones are delivered.
| The cleansing of vessels required by
this system of delivery enhances the price
of the milk received Some dairynen
have machine for cleansing these vessels
so that it is done cheaply and thoroughly.
THE EARTHQUAKE IN SWITZERLAND. =
The earthquake in Switzerland on the
morning of June 2Sth was felt at Geneva,
Nyon, Role, Crons, Coppet and in the
country between Ferney and the foot of
the Jura The oscillation lasted about
three seconds, and was preceded at Nyon
| by subterranean noises. The movement
was from below upward and from east to
west Where the shock was more violent
several persons were thrown from their
beds and many windows broken. In
Geneva many people were awakened from
their sleep. At Crons, a second, though
much slighter, shock was felt three-quar-
tiers of an hour after the first. 1t is probable
that the movements may have been more
marked in the mountains than in the valley
of the Leman and the Rhone.
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