Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-10-15
YUH POE THE M1LKMM


K&EN N tAe HcElG
Pour hundred and Hfgg q the best
knoEn men Of View YORK, Bnooksyn,
Jersey CITY and Newark, gathered u
Sssher at the Wes9 RoTty-sseo1d Esrest
ferry 1t o'eIoek yesterday mOrniDEs
says the View YORK Sgn-
They are men whoss faces are knOSL
70 every elass q citizen Ia these eities-
vhoss daily vista are welcomed ia
more thzn 50,OO0 families 10 tbis eItJ
alone, and Ia . pxopoTtionsss B0nhs5
iD De@z-by tOEps, and Jet IN the VhOis
JoS there wasn't . politician, sn oEses-
holder, . pogsesn&a, CO . Clergyman,
nos = IawysE, and only one dOe1oT.
He&siy AL were yoGng. bTfEbt-eJsG
fsIIowE, although here and there Vs-
eDs with gray hair. A baDd q nUst-
ez&ns wAs ia waiting u loln the eD1D-
pany. The msn were the drivers 81
miIk W&goDe 10 the employ of the bIz.
gess n1iIkseIIing company 10 the world.
They were taken, ~ . charters
train q zine cars, 70 the large bOLns
laesOsy q Gail Bogden's MilE CossdeD
siDz e1EnpaBy sDd the day Was speD'
Ia q m0s9 DIeas0raoIe and ibstraetiys
manner and Of all those in attendance
lt zo0ld be hard 70 find one who wa
not more than assured that eleaBiiBes<
il king at the farm.
The big eiTe1I4T barn upon AT. BOr-
dsD's place wa a point Of Interest.
This bayn Ia about 30 feet ia diameter,
and the driveway through the inside
cree be4Ween the rows Of COW stalls j.
! $50 feet In length. Mr.. Borden keep
300 cows upon the home farm, bat tbeiI
milk ls only small part Of that used
10 the factory. The rest comes from
farmers round about, who sign iron
cad agreements a. 10 how they shall
feed and keep their cows.
The dOctoF who was on the excursion
Is the veterinary surgeon who is at the
head 81 the corps Of inspectors who re
that the farmers live up 10 these con-
tracts. Besides the fun and the In
struetion the mIikmen get statistics to
digest. Twenty thousand cows milk
10 used daily at the ten or eleven fac
tories Of the company.
The most interesting process,
that Of evaporsting out the surplus
water without boiling the milk and
eoagulatIng its albumen was . constant
source Of wondermsnt TO the visitors.
The sweetened milk was pumped up 70
the floor above into closed tanks, also
Of heavy copper. Hers, heated by coils
u pipe Carrying live steam, II had the
water literally sucked out Of 1t by big
air pumps, which created a partial
vacuum above 1t. The eyapOrating pro-
cess took about one hour for each kettle
fol and the kettles held about 400
quarts Of milk each. After each pro-
cess was eompletcd all the copper
utensils were washed inside and out,
and In addition every portion Of their
surfaces, both on the outside and with
10 were polished with sand paper or
NASiI b@ppas
One factory does nothing but supply
cream. The skim milk h sold back TO
the farmers for 8 cents can 10 feed
the pigs. From $4,000 10 10000
worth Of sugar Ia used every month,
and 4OOOO, 900 10 IO,OOO, 900 Of the little
one pound eaBsO Of svseisDed condensed
milk are packed. Three thousand per-
sons are employed directly by the con'
paDy Japan aud China are the priD
clpal foreign buyers Of this product, /,
aud sInes the war bsgan IN CoTea this
demand has more than doubled. The
increased quantity IL supposed 10 10
needed foT the ise " the troops IN the
Held.