The Forrest City times., 1892-02-12
TO BE cosmsu1
QUEEN VICTORIA.
A Description of the Dairy and Poultry
 Yard of the Empress of India

The dairy is of stone. erected. as the inscription of the frieze tells us. in the twenty-lirst year of Vicforia's reign. II is attached to the dwelling-house of the dairy-woman. or rather the dwell- in@-house is attached to 1t. The day was oppressiyely warm. and the transit ton from the ouier air into it's cool dim precincts WAS most grateful
 The room is thirty-seven feet long by twenty three wide. It is lined throughout floor. walls. and high roof with tiles in cool tones; bas-reliefs on some of these tiles represent the seasons and kindred subjects. Medal lion husts of the royal family are in- serted in the walls. The dairy was built before the marriage of the Prince of Wales. and of those vino have mar ried into the royal family the only medallion is that of the late Emperor Frederick On small brackets at one end stand marble busts of Victoria and Albert. By way of added decoration. bits of precious old china are ranged on shelves in shallow recesses. Under the tables the floor is sunk q few inches. and this cavity is kept filled with water. while q pretty fountain in the centre of the room IS constantly playing. The reeeptacles for milk are of white china trimmed with gilt and the cream. to the eye. was delect- able.
 The butter. of which numerous pats lay upon the cool marble was truly golden. though not more so than have seen in New England kitchens. The dairy-woman. who was Scotch. said 1t was the huttercups which the cows ate that gave to 1t it's golden hue.
 Do you think so?" I said. "Certainly. was the reply. Butter is always yellow after buttercups come. Andf' = triumphantly that's why | they are called buttercups, because they make the butter yeilowf"
 l In an enclosure hard by the dairy were feeding Myrrh. Dewdrop. and Totsie. and the rest of the herd of high ] bred Jerseys.
 Across the way from the dairy stands the aviary. long low pavilion, in the upper story of which the poultry. keeper, who is a woman. lives. With in it's handsome well-kept precincts are pencilled and black Hamburgs Dorkings. game fowl. and Plymoutt Rocks. Plymouth Rocks in roval aviaryi Shade of George ILL They are excellent layers. the p0ultry-woman told me. The royal table is supplied with fresh eggs from the ayiary, but mol the royal kitchen.
 One solitary golden pheasant-gor. geous creaturei-had his house and run to himself. his mate having died. There were only two varieties of doves in the pretty dovecot, the ring and carrier doves
 A superb white peacock. who wa, preening his feathers. and in the oper ation spreading wide his tail in com, plete circle. was let out that I migh see him in all his glory. He at once started off in pursuit of rival. witt whom he would fight to the death if no prevented.
 Broods of small white turkeys no many days from the shell were stunning themselves on the green lawn, secured by wire nettings from the depreciation of the iackdaw. which. notwithstandin. the fact that he is great frequente of the church. is an arrant thief ans chicken-killer. Here, at Windsor, h, is housed royalty in open spaces of tn masonry near the summit of the grea round tower. left for that purpose b, the architect.
 An artificial lake with small island shaded by weeping-willow. serves a a swimming-p for the ducks. I'm ayiary stands in a sunny dell. an, never had fowls a more charmin; roosting-place. The woman unlocked door to show what she said she dis not show to every one. but you hay, come so far viz. the rooms fitted ul for the Queen when she drives arouns to see her poultry. There are two O these rooms. carpeted and cozil, furnished. In glass cases against ths walls are stuffed fowl-pheasants. Sea bright bantams. a pigeon once tossed into her carriage as a token of good will when she was in Ireland. curious Japanese pair. and even fluffy whit, duckiing-fayorites or gifts.
 1 sat down and fingered here for little time. In doing SO I seemed [, come near the home life of the goos Queen whose domestic virtues have $. endeared her to her people. Mrs Francis 4. Humphrey, m Harper' BGzdr.