Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-09-16

strikes a chill into you. Then looking
around, you see you are in a room thirty
| five feet by twenty-three feet. the sides
of which aud the floor are all of blue,
white, and yellow tiles. Above, the
ceiling is Of pine. The low temperature
comes from 400 tons of ice stored above
it, and the cold air by its own epecfic
/ gravity descends into the room. Ranged
against the walls are huge coolers fed
with the water which trickles from the
ice above. In these coolers the milk is
placed in long tin recaptacles something
IN shape Ike icc-cream freezers.
These cans have a depth of twenty.
Two inches, and will hold sixteen quarts
of milk. Here the milk remains until
he cream rises, when it is taken off by
means Of funnel-shaped dipper. The
cream is kept in similar vessels at the
ordinary temperature. The churn is
barrel form, worked by steam, aud will
hold forty gallons. The paddles revolve
fifty times a minute, and butter comes"
in a quarter of an hour. The pendu-
lum churn is only used when the exact
butter making qualities of a single COW
are to be determined. For working the
butter a fiat table is employed, son
which a wooden roller is worked. The
butter is made into pats, and finds eager
purchasers throughout the year, for it
is indeed Ia creme de la creme, and &c
cordingly brings a very good price. In
forwarding this butter to New York
special care IS taken to keep it pure and
unteinted, and for this purpose it IS
placed in boxes in trays with ice. The
quantity of butter made in the last week
Of July was 358 pounds. The Wanted
power of elbow grease, the use of bad
smelling soaps and of gritty sand, are all
discounted by steam. It is steam at
high pressure which cleanses the pans,
aud by its force and heat makes every
thing absolutely sweet and clean. The
winter dairy-room is built precisely
like the summer one, all tile-incasel
and heated by steam.
Contiguous TO the stables, but sep
arated from them, are the nurseries.
where the calves are tended, and rs
there IS made an ocean of skinned milk,
this goes to the pigs, large stock of
which is always kept.
In The consideration of n dairy-farm
of this character, which IS now some
two years old, taking into account the
large amount of capital spent, the prac-
teal question arises, "Does it pay %
The answer given, most positively, Is,
"that it does" The profit does not
arise solely from the price paid for the
principal product, the butter, but from
the sale OF the stock. From the Have
meyer farm come the very choicest
breeds of Jerseys, which, sought for nj
over the country, command very nigh
figures. The larger establishment, then
perfect in every respect, where MANY
| hundreds Of thousands OF dollars have
been spent III obtaining the finest bull
aud cows, or il constructing the stables
and dairies, is to be considered rs II
purely business venture, the profit q
which IS a fair interest on money intei-
llgently invested
Nothing can be more wonderful than
the succ IS which has been obtained ia
creating, as it were, those animals whic 4
are allied upon to produce certain II.
suits. As this highest typeof an animel
can only be brought abolt by the stric.-
est attention to the wants of tue
creature, such dairy-farms as has been
described must all have the advantages
which money and brains can provide.