The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-14
YORK'S GOOD MILK.
AMOUNT REQUIRED AND WHERE IT
rs OaTIIEED.
NJ veuid Heea . MIG Pend 70 Hold tho Supply
feF q Single Days Use-work or the BuSinE
AGents-Csre or lIlIk In T~ransit-naIries In
the City - Dangers from tuberculosis.

AHehth-Core OF bhik Vi ronhtt-htAtFhe -
the City Dangers from tuberculosis.
Among the pleasing thoughts with which tho
summer boarder diverts himself during his
vacation on some remote farm no other seems
quite 30 well founded in reality as the ono that
the milk he drinks there on the farm-milk
from the pans that stand in rows down In the
spring and In tho trough through which the
spring water runs INCREASINGLY - is milk,
sure enough. He saw It taken from the COW
that stood with her head in n rack and switched
hor tail across tho neck Of man or maid who
squeezed and pulled the tcats. lie saw the
milk strained into tho pans and tho pans
placed where the flowing water would cool
them. There was no adultcration or dilution
about that milk, and the reader will perhaps
smack his lips as he remembers how pleasant
It was to feel sorry for his friends cooped up in
the city, with only restaurant or corner gro
Gerry milk to drink, while he was drinking milk
that was milk.
Nevertheless, one has only to follow the milk
supply Of the city from its sources to tho con-
sumner to learn that the pleasure Of drinking
the back country milk was due solely tn the
Imagination Of the drinkcr. and further that
the chances OF getting milk infected with deadly
germs are very much greater on the farm than
in what the farmer is pleased to speak of as
tho groceries of tho great and wicked CITY,"
An interesting story. from whatever point 1t
Is viewed, is that OF New York's milk supply.
It's quantity, for instance, is something not
readily realized, for in n single day more than
10000 cows must yield their product, and II
all the milk pals could be brought together
they would fill n pond two feet deep covering
any regular block between Fifth and Sixth ave-
nues and Washington square and the Park.
That would make II very fine pond for the sail
ing OF a model yacht, or 1t would float n score
of shoal-draught Mississippi River steamboats,.
To be precise, tho pond would BIO 7S6 feet long
by 200 wide and Q feet deep. And to this
product If milk must be added 10000 quarts
of cream and 5000 quarts Of condensed milk,
representing $4,000 and 1880 quarts Of ordi-
nary milk, quite enough to raise the pond and
release any Of the steamers that might happen
TO have an unusually deep keel.
And then there is the process Of gathering
and marketing all this milk. A half n million
acres or moro of land are required for the pas
turaee of tho $780, 900 cows, and besides that the
hay on 100000 acres Of meadow must be cut
to supply them during the months when they
cannot run in the lots. Then there is the land
that at the same time must be devoted to rails
ing grain for feed-some tons of thousands Of
acres more. A farm of eighty acres will keep
scarcely ten cows, but, even at that rate, more
than $1,000 farms of eighty acres each are
needed to support these COWS; more than a mill
lion acres of land is 80 occupied. For every
eighty-acre patch there is at least one mar with
his wife and during tbe harvest season be
must employ help. 1t takes q great army Of
sturdy men and women to look after the cattle.
To this army must be added the agents of the
wholesale dealers, who go scouting up and
down the thirteen railroads that every night
bring milk by the trainload to the city. The
scouts haunt the highways near the railways
and liz in wait for the farmer and the farmer,s
wife esneciallv the wife They remind her NJ
tho nod vorr sba had m do when sha mada
butter of tho milk and how sbe would have
nathan churninp NOR working of butter. nor the
setting of milk for tho cream tn rise nor the
.t;mn,,ne of tbe cram NOR tho wasbinp NJ tho
mans ~ the milk abould be sold tn the New
York buvers. And the farm wife mods her
head In assent. To tho farmer the scout saws
that milk sold alta cent and three ouarters cash
IN hand Ia n lot more proftable than cheese Mt
eigbt CENTS n nopnd or butter at the Wholesale
prices. and. any way. cheese sells for less than
eight more months than 1t brings eight and q
half. The farmer knows that is SO. but il he
has a fine grade of cattle-pure bloods-and if
he feeds them grain the year round, with plenty
of good pasture in summer and plenty of hay
with a little ensilage in winter. and If his cow
stable is so clean that his neiEhbors would not
object to dancing a ouadrille there after the
daily scrubbing. the chances are that the scout
will start in with an offer of two cents and
iump to two and a half the moment the old
farmer snorts at the first offer. and thereafter
may go I'm by auarter-ccnt steps to three or
more. There is ono great firm in New York
that buys the product of 0 1000 COWS every
day and pays three aud a half cents q quart for
all Il can get, but the cow owner has to admit
a. c., insnoc,ora ,ybsnever tbev want to
Inc LILLE Ah'poSIoi' ~ "
como to the stable, ana the stable mas 10 DO
cleaner and sweeter than some pArlors IL that
non,nonr "a IN continue buving uilk there IN
company 40 ~ =. ~. -.
the WHOLE the price OF MIX 10 inc iarmer
ranges from ono cent and three-quarters to
- n,d onaouortor oents n Quart vorving
W. anu a~ Itch 49, ,uaIitr
A glance at a map of the territory from which
+ba citv draws its milk ia very interesting.
Th.t Tonn Island Westcbester' and Orange
county-notably Orange county-contribute to
AZ svnnly ;a , fact of common knowledpe
tho euppi5 ia' VI N
1t is not 30 long since orange was a tar-away