The morning times., 1896-09-06

New York Sept 4.-Away over back OF
what they call in New Jersey the first
mountain" there lies a broad and peace
full valley, whose curving silver streak is
the upper Passaic, not yet harnessed to the
Paterson mill wheels The hill to the
southeast shuts OUT the broad pialn OF sea-
board Jersey with It's gridiruning streets
Of towns and its net work of railroad tracks.
To the north the valley of the Ramapo is
marked by blue hill sentinels, and away to
the west the green and rolling country
stretches for miles, unmarried by elbow
ing factories and intruding ehimneys. Here
in the most beautiful OF rural surroundings,
an enterprisiDg farmer is furnishing an OBJ
;ect lesson in agricultural finance which
a political campaign seems likely to be
waged over the price of wheat and oats.
Mr. Stephen Francisco, the owner and
manager of the famous Fairfield dairy,
has found out how to make farming pay.
Perchcd high ON the hills with sunny
southwestern exposure, are the Fairfield
buildings, the old homestead We'll hidden by
green trees, and two enorm GUS barns, long,
high and imposing. Across the well-built
country road and very near it, asif inviting
the inspection, from which it certainly need
not shrink, stands a bea autiful little build
ing, with huge columns OF rusticated stone,
and an irregular pitch roof, a building
which at first glance would seem rural
library, built for his native town by some
grateful millionaire. This pretty build
ing Is the dairy.
Looking at it more closely, o ne sees that
disconnected with each Of the two enormous
barns by two or three wires strung high
above the fields and roads. Toward evening
one may see milk cans in groups of four
rolling down over these wires from the
big barns on the hills to the dairy by the
road for all the world like the wires thatin
a big city dry goods store carrying the Gus
tou,ers' money to the cashiers desk
When the milk cans reach the upper story
of the dairy, by this air line route, they are
in thrice enptied into the receiving tank,
and Sc mt back to the barns. From the re.
ceiyiug tank the milk trickles down into the
bnttliDg room on the floor below, over a
peculiar coil of horizontal pipes through
which cold spring water is constantly flow
ing The water inside the pipes keep them
cool The milk, trickliDg down over the
outside OF the pipes in thin. broad sheet,
ayeritable whitecataract. is not nlycooled,
but thoroughly aerated, losing all animal
oior which may have clnng to it in spite
of all precautions atthe barns. Thus within
five minutes from its leaving the cow, the
milk is aired and cooled to fifty degrees.
1t is bottled by an ingenious device, which
fills eight quart bottles at once, the bottles
are packed In boxes and kept cool until
they reach the customers door.
Milk thus bottled retails from 8 to 10
cents a quart. Land in the upper Pas
sale Valley is worth rather more than
$IOO per acre. Farmers living away up
country on land worth only few dollars
an acre, get 2 cents a quart or So.
wholesale, at the creamery or cheese fac
tory. Even allowing for all the ex-
penses of carriage and retailing, it is easy
to see in this difference between prices
where the money has come from to put
up enormous barns and to build a dairy
house like a bijou library, at a cost Of
many thousands of dollars.
When the bottles are returned from
customers they are not only washed and
scalded in the usual way, but are sub
jected to bath in superheated steam.
The milk cans receive the same treat
ment. being lifted. after a thorough