Passaic City record., 1893-04-29

1926, 923 gallons per week.
or 61S, 1872 gallons per day. All this
milk is not used as it comes directly from
the COW. At least fifty per cent. of the
amount is sold as cream, cheese, butter,
ice cream, etc.
A half million COWS are constantly en-
ployed in satisfying the demands of the
metropolis. Could one get bird's-eye
view of the country within a radius of
125 miles he might see at about the sum
set hour men, women and boys fastening
toward barnyards or Enclosures where
wait the impatient kline eager to yield
up their stores of milk in exchange for
their evening meals. A little later, and
wagons laden with well filed cans begin
to clatter toward the nearest stations.
There the cans are tagged for the city
consignees. A brief space of silence en-
sues, which is followed by the roar of
engines.
The headlights CLEAN through the
darkness along the tracks that lead city
ward from Long and Staten Islands, from
Northern and Western New York, from
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecti-
cut. The milk trains are coming to
town, and Just about the time the great
printing machines of the Press are loll-
ing off their miles of com pleted papers,
the cars reach their des tination and de-
liver to thousands of eager walters the
supplies that soon will be distributed at
countless houses, stores and restaurants
all the way from the Battery to the limits
of the Annexed District.
A farm er living near Rhinecliff, Ny,
said to the writer the other day in re-
sponse to the query, "Docs the dairy
business pay2'
"Yes, emphatically yes. You can de-
pend on getting from good COW 45O
gallons of milk year, or an average OF
about five quarts per day. OF course the
supply is unequally distributed, for she
furnishes less in winter than spring and
early summer, and when drying up none
that is marketable. But year in and year
out all my mich stock are good for 400
gallons year each.
ssIt costs to feed them-pasturage,
grain and hay-s3O annually per head.
Ny milk is worth twelve cents per gal
lon at the depot, SO the revenue from
each COW is S54. OF course, I have to
employ help, but against this outlay |
offset the income from calves and the
sale or use of manure. Taking every
contingency tor loss or expense into con-
sideration, my cattle will net me an an
nual profit of SIS per head. That's about
the way it has run, anyhow, for the last
ten years. Pm not making account,
either of the milk or butter used at home,
and we don't stint ourselves or our help
in those items of food"
Assuming that $50 is fair estimate
it will readily be seen that to feed the
COWS tributary to the demands of New
York costs the snug sum OF $l5, 900,
600. But the profits are sure and steady
on dairy investments not only in the
neighborhood of the metropolis, but
throughout the entire Union. The
capital employed by the business in the
various States and Territories is over
S2,000,O 100000 and the number of
milch COWS is $500, 900, New York
State leading the bovine census with a
total of 1900, 900.
The services of a million horses and
100000 men are in constant demand,
while over 5000, ,000,0 900 is invested in
innumerable implements and articles OF
machinery. Seventy million acres of
land are required for pasturage, and it
is well nigh impossible to give approx
mate totals of the hay and grain con-
sumed. Any one who chooses may,
however, figure on the following basis,
which is fair one, and which is con
sidercd quite near he standard by New
York experts:
Support of COW year:
Pasturage. ge................... 81 to acre
aAy ............... lous
OaImeai. .........s......,.. UuSueiS
OalS ...........So Durneis
Corn. Dusneis
It may be added that the dairy in
terest employs more invested capita
than all our banks and stores combined
New York Press.