Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1891-06-25
A cITYs MILK SUPPLY.
A City Man Describes the Operation 0
NTf1Ixfng

A City Man Describes the Operation Of
Milking.
Az bright young man of the New York
Sun tells his readers how the COWS are
MIXED that supply the lacteal food of
New York. A country person would
know at once that city man wrote that
description Of milking He says silvery
haired woman gets up before dawn and
puts on calico wrapper by the flicker
ing light Of tallow candle. Now, it is
fact that tallow candles are scarcely
ever seen in the real country Of today.
Kerosene is triumphant. There are prob
ably more tallow candles used in New
York city itself of single night than
there are in the rural districts of the
whole state
Next our bright young man accom-
panies the silver haired woman to the
barn. He tells Us she says to her cows:
Come, boss. Now no country person
ever yet addressed COW as ''Come,
boss Country people talk that way in
novels, never outside of them Further
more. when the silver haired woman
gets nearly done milking she takes
small pail and strips from the cows
udder the rich latter part Of the milk,
which she consequently calls strip
pings. The young man says she calls
it "drippings. Why should she call it
drippingss II does not drip. but is
stripped. which word is descriptive Of
the process by which this last part of
the milk is drawn
With this correction we will let the
young man pass His account of how a
great city is supplied with milk is pic
turesque and in the main accurate, from
the country station where the milk is
taken in cans and loaded upon the milk
car, down to the wagons in which it is
carted around the city to consumers
From radius of $50 miles around New
York is drawn the milk supply Of the
metropolis Many farmers have aban-
d1ned grain and gone into dairy farm
ing because it pays better 1t would
pay much better than it does only for
the costly methods Of distribution where
by the city milkman and the railroads
get all the money nearly, while the
farmers share is mostly very small
The Suns young man should visit the
country again ana try to learn for him
self the fine art of milking He wouldn't
then say. Come, boss" any more. He
is better on figures than on the art of
milking We quote below some inter
esting statistics about the enormous
quantity of milk necessary to furnish the
city each day.
A New York milkman who has served
people in this city many years says that
the average amount Of milk taken by an
ordinary family is a quart. He has any
quantity Of two quart and four quart
customers. however They are families
the members of which are all fond of
milk for drinking purposes. His cham
pion customer is an old man. who lives
alone and drinks nine quarts Of milk a
day.
The greatest consumers of milk are
the big restaurants and hotels, such as
Smith & McNell's and the Astor House.
The former concern undoubtedly uses
more milk than any oSher place Of its
kind in the world 1t requires 1000
| quarts Of milk 4 day in winter and 2 400
4 quarts in summer. besides 2G0 quarts of
cream the year round The Astor
7 House leads the big hotels in the quanti-
! ty OF milk which it needs. But it doesn't
( get anywhere near as much as the big
Washington street restaurant. In sum
mer it takes 700 quarts day, and in
winter it gets along with 500 This.
order IN round numbers $4,000, 900
quarts of milk are used in New York
and Brooklyn in year It's value is es-
timated at $l2,O0O,0o0. The people Of
New York are exceptionally fond of milk
as a beverage They drink $50, 600 glasses
/ day To supply the whole demand
something like 800. 900 cows are required.
A Farmers' Co-Operative Creamery.
Let me tell you that the farmer can
take care of his own business as well as
anybody, and if company Of farmers
cannot make creamery pay, no in
dividual need try Here are my reasons
\ for so thinking.
+ We incorporated us Il creamery COM
pany May 20, 1890, and began operations
July Is We had a settlement Jan. 8,
1 1891, and found that we had dividend
Of 50 per cent on capital invested above
( all expenses You can see that this
company is far from failure. and it
was managed altogether by farmers in
4 experienced in the creamery business.
You may think that the farmers did not
pay enough for milk Here are the
Y prices
July and August, 1880. .........-............$O 10