The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-03-27
THE FOODLAVN DAIRY
a Fine Lot of stOck-A Busy Force
of Men-And How Milk is Pro
duced.


a GAZETTE reporter having a desire
to see where the wagons bearing the
imprint of the Woodlawn Dairy came
from and how the milk is supplied to
load them, took a drive Saturday
morning with Mr.. B. F. Dillingham;
to the dairy headquarters at Punahou
and, after half hours casual examin-
alton of the premises, button-holed the
manager, Mr.. John Grace, and pro-
eeeded to interview him in reference
to the resources and methods of the
establishment, and elected state
ment of facts and figures which are
here given for the Information of MI
who may be interested directly or in
directly in the enterprise.
Tie number of cows MIXED twice
every day is 215. -Four wagons are
sent out soon after midnight and noon
each day TO serve some 600 regular Gus
TONERS and 10 fill casual orders as well.
About 100 gallons per day is the usual
quantity dispatched for distribution
through the streets and lanes of Homo
iuAu. IAc Iusthtlt.' huNNNSlf AlStu-
ates to the extent of 80 gallons, as
some days there are special calls for
considerable extra, other days these
demands are few and again they are
almost nil. The same milk, however,
is not brought into town twice.
Whatever quantity Is undisposed OF
from the wagons is taken back to the
dairy. But it is not dumped III with
next milking; it is not thrown into
the gutter; nor is it given to the
calves, as it would be rather too eX-
pensive an article of calf nutriment.
1t is taken to the creamer centrifugal
and separator, where it is whirled
round IN the neat little machine
driven by steam power and making
1000 revolutions per minute. The
machine works in an airy room with
tiled floor, and from it is evolved the
cream from which the celebrated ice
cream men, Horn and Hart, obtain
their supplies. The skinned milk
from the creamer and Sc larator is fed
to calves and sold to order of Loves
bakery and housekeepers desiring it
for baking purposes. From the cir
eumstance of the dairy utilizing
in this manner its surplus milk,
some ill-disposed persons, so our re-
porter was Informed, have diligently
circulated a scandal to the effect that
the dairymen sold only skinned milk.
The cream is taken to the butter house
which stands further up the slope and
considerably higher than the barn
level and away from all the odors of
the barn or its surroundings. 1t is
stored in an ice chest whence it is
taken, from time to time, as above
stated, to the ice cream men, and what
is left after they are supplied is churned
into butter. What is called working
the buttern after chuTning, a process
usually performed by hand, is here
gone through in a more scientific
manner. 1t goes into a centrifugal
precisely like 4 sugar mill centrifugal
where the working' is effected with
much greater speed and in a more
thorough fashion than could be eX-
pected from hand work. This CEN
trifugal is a recent addition to the
dairy apparatus, having been obtained
by Mr. Dillingham; in his recent tour
in England.
The barn has $50 feeding stalls in
two rows, the cattle when stalled
standing UiS q Uis, with the railroad
track for delivering fodder at the cribs,
as elsewhere stated, running between.
1t is in contemplation to extend the
stall accommodation for seYenty-five
or eighty more head. The cows are
tied up for grub and milking at
o'clock, morning and evening.
To run the dairy, about twenty-four
horses are constantly employed, and
complement, including manager, driv-
ers, book-keeper, mixers and farm
hands, of twenty-three men. The
workmen who have the handling of
the milk are regular trained dairy
men, all of European or American
birth or descent. The mixers are eX-
perts in their department, one man
milking as many as forty cows twice a
day. Every man about the dairy
buildings is busy as a bee, and
there is not much chance of real
izing King Alfred's division of
time-eight hours for sleep, eight
hours for meals and recreation and
eight hours for business-as they are
on duty early and late, and seven days
in the week at that. The mixers,
after the milking is done, are enga ged
in washing cans, running the creamer
or attending the sorghum cutter and
otherwise superintending the prepara-
ton of feed. The wagon drivers, de-
livering milk in all sorts of weather,
storm or shine, with unfailing regu-
larity, and jumping up and down frem
their wagons about two hundred times
every trip, the tour lasting from six to
seven hours, are under pretty severe
strain of muscle and endurance and
certainly have all the experience that
men need want in the art of trough
ing IT,"
The whole ranch carries about 700
head of stock including calves. The
stock comprises Holsteiils, Jerseys,
Durhams and Ayrshires The Jerseys
number nearly one hundred. Among
the Holsteins are some that were inn
ported direct from Germany by Judge
McGully, and cost, landed here, six
hundred dollars a head, and some
others bought of Smith, Powell &
Lamb, Lakeside Farm, Syracuse, Y.
Y, at cost, including freight, Of four
hundred and fifty dollars a head. The
Mill cavf ont bv tho dairy 1--aoron, -