The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-04-15
GREAT ENTERPRISE.
The WOOdlaWn Dairy and
Stock Company, Nuu-
anu Valley.
How Honolulu is Sup
piled with Milk
and Butter.
First-Class Stock, Perfect
Equipments and AbsO-
lutte Cleanliness.

A representative of the PACIFIC CONNER
CIAL ADVERTISER on Monday last accepted
an invitation from Mr.. B. F. Dillingham;,
President of the WoodIawn Dairy and Stock
Company, to visit their establishment in
Nuuanu Valley, and inspect the herd and
appliances for carrying on the business Of
stock-raising, and supplying milk and but
ter to their customers in Honolulu.
As preliminary to the trip to the dairy
our representative was shown over Mr.. Dill
lingham's beautiful residence, 'Woodlawn,'
a. Punahou, about a mile and half from
town, where the dairy was originally started.
Here there is about $50 acres controlled by
the company. including land in Manoa Val
ley; and on this pasturage there is a herd of
about $50 head of cattle, including Short
horns, Durhams, Devons, Ayreshires, HOl-
stems and Jerseys. Mr.. Graham, the man
ager, lives on the premises.
VALUE OF ALFALFA AS \ FODDER PLANT.
Passing through range of box stalls i'll
the rear of the DWELLING and stopping for a
moment to admire Butcher, sturdy young
jack imported by Miles Bros, aad now
owned by the Enterprise Ranch Company,
we stepped into paddock, in which were
some very nice cattle quietly eating succu
lent alfalfa. grown in a field near by. The
field, it may be mentioned, has an area of
about one and three-quarterS acre. The
alfalfa was sown on it about year ago, and
being we'll watered, it has grown so thriftily
as to furnish enough fodder for ten head of
cattle5 keeping them in good condition. 1t
is mown over once in six weeks and freely
irrigated.
FINE LIVE STOCK.
Among the stock in the paddock was
pretty Jersey, cow brought to the islands in
1882. She gives sufficient milk, when at her
best, to make nine pounds of butter per
week without any special feed but
alfalfa. Another large and handsome COW
was thoroughbred Holstein, named Sophie,
and with her was a year old graded Holstein
bull, larger than many two-year-olds. This
stock, together with many others, old and
young, are remarkably gentle, and in splen-
did condition. They are not mentioned as
being especially superior to the rest of the
Woodlawn herd, but simply as being good
specimens of their class. The grounds
near at hand are divided into a number of
paddocks, coveredlwith good turf, we'll shaded
and watered from the large artesian wells on
the place.
In another paddock, Fanny, q Nutwcod
mare, was quietly grazing and jealousy
guarding her young horse colt, sired by
Langford Junior. Nutwood is a famous
trotter, and was recently sold on the Coast
for 900 and taken East. Fanny is a
beautiful animal, and a great pet. Snow
Flake, another fine mare. now in foal by the
blooded stallion Boswell, came to the fence
tc see us as we drove off in light buggy,
drawn by an Ethan Allen mare.
THE WOODLAND DAIRY.
Visitors to the Pail, at the head of Nuu-
anu Valley, always notice the range of
stables on the right of the road going up,
at an elevation of about 700 feet above the
sea, and upon inquiry are told that they are
the property of the Woodlawn Dairy and
Stock Company, who here own nearly $50
acres of fine valley and side-hill land. This
locality is what was long known as the
woods plantation where Mr.. John
Wood carried on for number of years the
cultivation of sugar cane and the manufac-
ture of sugar. Mr.. Dillingham; purchased
the property from Mr.. Wood, and shortly
after the Woodlawn Company was incorpor-
ated, and now the establishment is run on
an extensive scale, with Mr.. Graham as
manager. This will be understood from
the fact that the dairy has grown in the
past five years from a beginning of ten COWS,
with an output of 600 quarts a month, to
$50 cows in milk, with an output of 80, 900
quarts per month. Adjoining the old Wood
residence there has been erected a sub
stantial and convenient dwelling, which is
under the care of Mrs. Grace, the wife of the
sub-manager, John Grace, who constructed
the new buildings, stables, ETC., and now
superintends that branch of the ranch
THE RANGE OF STABLES
Are five in nu mber, adjoining each other
and are alike in every particular, so that a
description of one will suffice for all. The
plan is that of long platform or floor, wide
enough to permit of the COWS standing
across it, and having down its center a shall
low trough for carrying off all moistures
and droppings. framework is built along
one side of this flooring, in which, at short
intervals, are fixed upright bars, piyoted at
the lower end, and arranged so that when a
COW puts her head through the space be-
tween it and the next fixed upright the
movable bar can be pushed into perpcn-
dicular position and locked by wooden
catch. The animal cannot therefore back
out until released by the raising of the
| latch To induce the creature to put her
self in the desired position, feed box is
fixed on the further side of the bars, and
each one of these boxes being separated
from those on either side by wooden wings,
and filed with an abundance of rich bovine
food, the animals not only submit willingly
to the gentle but effectual restraint imposed