The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12

nothing to do with his successful dairy
operation. The home and improvement
account of the estate is kept separate
from the dairy and cattle-breeding de-
partment.
Mr.. Havemeyer has 400 Jersey cows
housed in stables 260 feet long The
first idea in the care of the stables is
cleanliness. The stalls are drained.
They are cleaned five times a day. A
WaterworkS system runs through the
stables, and in winter the spring water
used is never colder than so degrees.
An intimate relation exists between the
quantity of milk and the temperature
of the cows drinking water. The
stables are lighted by electricity,
though in the residence oil lamps are
USED, because Mrs. Havemeyer pre-
fers them to fncandescent burners.
over eacn stall is card showing the
name and pedigree of the occupant
The milk of each COW is weighed at
every milking and entered in blank
forms. The figures for each day are
transferred to the monthly and yearly
ledgers- A COW lives or dies on her
record II she is not UP to q high-set
standard, she is turned dry and sold for
beef. The average of the cows in the
Havemeyer stables is about 700 pounds
OF milk year That is, a COW Yields
$500 quarts in zoo days. If she cannot
Inc average milk production in New
York state last year was $500 pounds
a COW.
The milk is of uncommon richness.
and when sold is guaranteed to be pure
Mr.. davemeyer has a dairy station on
Sixth avenue, and has customers for
all the milk he has at IL cents quart.
other milkmen get to 10 cents.
The manager of the farm is John
He is a practical man, and began to
learn in the school of the Farmland
He is both an outdoor and an office
FARMER, chemist and a student. Mr.
Mayer follows farming with zeal and
insight. For % years he has conducted
nice experiments in feeding and breed
ing.
Mr.. Mayer is conducting cross
breeding experiment that has caused
much discussion among eastern breed
ers. He is Strengthening the vitality of
the Jersey, lowered by long inbreed-
ing and forcing, by crossing it with the
great healthy, woolly Symmetrical. the
Swiss cow that follows the snow line
up the Alps. Mr.. Havemeyer bought in
Switzerland Segg, a 2,0O0-pound prize
bull, and five cows, some of them
weighing LOO pounds. A similar ex-
pertinent is being conducted with the
y
Normandy milk cows.
The farm is the wonder of the coun-
tryside- Any fine Sunday it is visited |
by from ten to % farmers, some having !
driven from neighboring counties. They |
are all welcome. The experiments and |
feeding processes are explained by Mr.. |
Mayer, by the foreman, or by the |
stable hands, who are all intelligent |
men. Mr.. Havemeyer refuses to take
apprentices. Vacancies are filled from
a waiting list of men who want to
learn how to farm as Mr.. HavemeYer
does
1t is an edifying thing to see Mr..
Havemeyer, who is at his place a day
or two every week, getting into earnest
with farmer visitors over
The best ways of feeding solid food TO
calves or the proportions in which hay
and fodder should be fed along with
snsilage. Whatever good results Mr.
gets from his breeding ex-
1eriments can be shared by any dairy
armer with 20 cows. A cross-bred bull
hat has perhaps cost many thousands
If dollars to produce, can be gotten for
100 or thereabou by the ordinary
armer.
What Mr.. Havemeyer is doing is be-
ng done on less successful and more
ornamental way, perhaps. and on other
ines by other men of great fortunes in
he vicinity of the city