Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-08-25
TIE MILKY WAY.
DISTRIBUTION OF THE cows PROD.
UCT AMONG THE NATIONS,

Those who have lived near n dairy IN this
,r any other American town will not require
4 description Of what it is to be awakened at
i:3O or u III. by the milk carts starting on
their rounds To turn over, mutter few
rursory remarks wishing the cart were at
Jericho and to endeavcr to settle ones self to
sleep for another couple OF hours is too com
mon to require any further remark. But it \
is not with tho disturbed sleeper that We have |
to do here, but with the hundred and one |
manners in which the break fast tables of
many different nations are supplied with that
!uii 50 often miscalled milk.
In these United States one system prevails.
The product Of the COW, in many places
mixed with something else, is delivered by
means Of larse, low spring wagons drawn by
one Or more horses. In these wagons arc
cans, four or five in q row, and in these cans
is the milk. The practice is to start out early
quantitythat each customer requires, such a
measure is deposited outside the door in "a
can left for that purpose. In the evening n
second round is made to serve those who re-
lure a second supply.
10 England the mlkman plays a most i'm
portant part in the daily drama of life. The
milk arriving at one of the large railway
stations is duly received and carted away by
the dairy proprietors to their dcpots. Here
1t is purchased by the individual milkmen,
who have rounds Of their own to serve. BY
whom the quantity of the article is increased,
or whether by the judicious admixture of
water, flour, sugar or other ingredients, is
point which has never been quite thoroughly
lecided Now it is a dairyman who is cited
to appear before the magistrates for selling
milk below the proper Standard then it is a
milkman who is fined for delivering an i'm
pure article.
| But the milkman himself is, as has been
said before, an important personage. He is
clad in ordinary manly garments. On his
shoulders he bears yoke, from the ends of
which are suspended, by means of straps,
cans With curious half running, half
walking gait, he goes from one door to an
other, depositing the cans on the pavement
with peculiar clatter, mt the same time
ringing the area bell and calling out in truly
musical tones: "M-i-l-llk-oo" The cook
never takes long answering this summons,
and while she presents her jug for the guam
tity she requires, she makes inquiries as to
the latest bit of intelligence that is going
about and then communicates the newest
item of gossip that has come to her knowl-
edge Thus the breakfast tables are furnished
with material for mind and body matter, and
many little fragments of personal history
leak out in this way.
But the vender of milk has not this reputa-
ton alone On the other side of the channel.
In Belgium, where the sex even is different
q like character is borne Here the milk
women wear short skirts u clean white apron
and cap and small shawl crossed over the
shoulders. The milk is kept in cans of brass
polished almost like mirrors. The cans arc
sometimes tall and sometimes broad anc
circular, and are carried il carts drawn by
dogs. This is perhaps the only countr,
where ono can purchase, knowingly, milk OF
different degrees of purity. The price varIe.
as to whether one wishes to buy it-skimmed
J with little water added, with good dea
Or exactly rs it left the COW. Coffee being
national drink, and as poor laboring mal
J wond as soon think of trying to live on ali
as to do without it, milk in some form is al
! absolute necessity. To meet this want tn,
} tactical food is offered in different FORMS ant
is purchased in the nearest approach to purt,
! as the funds of the buyer will permit.
1t is not in Belgium alone that dogs ar
used for drawing milk carts. On the Rhn
they are to be found performing the san,
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