The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
How an iowa Dairyman Mnks.

How an iowa Dairymnn Milks.
The following from the DailW con-
tributed by an Iowa dairyman, shows
what absolute cleanliness means: at
is said that it is as hard to be clean as
it is to be good. Well, | think it is
not hard to be good. even for a dairy
nan, if he only does as he would be
done by, and just as easy to be clean.
This is my method of doing it: At
five o'clock l am in the COW stables.
The feed prepared the night before is
put into the feed boxes, which are
first cleared of all remnants of former
food; and, if sour, they are secured
out with warm water and broom.
While the cows are eating they are
thoroughly carded and brushed, as well
as any well-kept horse is, and all over
from head to switch. The udder is
sponged, if necessary, and wiped with
a clean towel, and not dungy rag.
The cutters are then cleaned out, and
and the stalls, common road broom
being used to finish after a broad
scraper which draws the manure
down to the trapdoors into the cellar.
The floor and the cutters are then
Uttered we'll with sawdust, when we
have no straw. For fifteen cows this
takes an hour. Then 90 to breakfast.
At half-paSt six the COWS are MIXED,
and each mixer has Overalls and an
apron made of striped ticking, with
which he can milk in his Sunday
clothes and slippers if he likes; and
any lady may 60 in with silk dress on
and not hurt it. AS the milk is drawn
it is strained at once in the deep pals
which stand on the platform and are
kept covered; the milk pals have
strainers, and double strainer is kept
in the deep cans, so the milk goes
through three strainers. But this is
not really necessary, as ! would cheer
fully drink a glass of milk direct from
the COW as | milk it. But out of con-
sideration for my customers who buy
my butter and milk | put the milk
through three strainers. AS soon as
the deep pals are full they are closed
and carried to the milkhouse and
handed to the person who sets the
milk in the pool or the creamery, or.
if it is put into shallow pans, strains
it at once. Now, there is nothing
hard to do about this. 1t is 50 easy
after having begun it and got into the
way of it that it would be hard to stop
it. And | don't see how it is easy to
be cleaner than we are in our dairy"
How to Transplant Trees from woods.
Many think it cheaper to take up
large trees from the woods and trans
plant them to their grounds or to the
roadside, than to buy nursery trees.
AS rule, such trees die; they fail
because proper precautions have not
been taken. In digging up the tree,
all the roots outside of circle a few
feet in diameter are cut off, and the
tree is reset with its full head of
branches. Whoever has seen trees in
the forest that were upturned by a
tornado must have been struck by the
manner in which the roots run very
near to the surface, and to great dis
lance. When the roots of these trees
are cut off at two or three feet from
the trunk. few or no fbrous or feeding
roots are left; and if the mass of tops
is left the expansion of the buds in
the spring Will not be responded to by
a supply of sap from the roots, and
death must follow. If such trees have
the tops completely removed, leaving
only bare pole, they will usually
grow when transplanted, The tree