The Republican journal., 1900-02-15

lionaires with fad for flower growing.
Mr.. Marmaduke Tilden, branch of the
same stock as the late Samuel J. Tilden
and an 1nveterate golf player, grows the
finest Maid and American Beauty roses
in the country. His sales average SIS
900 year.
By the side of Mr.. Tilden's are the
greenhouses of Mr.. c. A. Work. He
supplies large quantity of flowers to
Madison and the surrounding country an
average Of $1,000 year.
Near by is Mr.. T. j. Slaughter's fine
plant. His cultivation of flowers was at
first fad, but he made great success
and has shipped large consignments to
New York for some years, averaging SIS
600 year.
One of the finest greenhouses in the
country is that established few years
ago by Henry Hentz, Jr., popular young
millionaire. He has nine greenhouses,
each 175 feet long by twenty feet, built at
cost of $4,000 His packing house is
like some great fortress, with its walls
two feet thick. He sends out an average
of S25, 600 worth of flowers a year. Mr..
Hentz has taken up horticulture as a
business occupation.
| Mrs. r. B. Holmes, wife of the Wall
Street broker, raises American Beauties.
She has greenhouse in Madison and
sends to market about 81, 600 worth of
flowers annually.
| One of the finest Westchester estates is
Briar Cliff farm, the property of Walter
| w. Law, former partner of Mr.. William
j. Sloane.
| This farm was established two years
ago. 1t lies between Tarrytown and Sing
| Sing, and from its northern to it's southern
boundary covers four miles, traversed by
macadamized roads.
The property was laid out under the
advice of Mr.. Olmstead, the landscape
gardener of Central park.
| That portion that overlooks the river
approaches the boundaries of Scarborough.
and the estates of Mrs. Eliot F. Shepard.
| William Rockefeller, H. Walter Webb, V,
Everett Macy, James Speyer and the home
grounds of the owner.
| 1t is one of the most perfect farms in
this country. On the estate are school
house, church and golf course. There
are post Office, "a telegraph and long
distance telephone.
The greenhouses at Briar Cliff farm
cover several acres. The chrysanthemums
and roses attain great perfection and 40
varieties of carnations are in bloom at one
time.
The COW stable and dairy cost fortune.
Each COW is sponged several times day
and is always combed before milking.
The attendants wear sterilized suits of
white duck, which are boiled Immediately
after each milking. The farm maintains
well-equipped laboratory in charge of
veterinary chemist.
The dairy is fifty feet square, with a
| Of cfo h., :.
tiled throughout. 1t has a reception room
of hard wood from which the differen
rooms are reached through doors of glass
where may be viewed tie whole process of
dairying.
In one room the cream is being skim
med, in another is the milk bottling, in
another the churning. In the basement
is the shipping department, the sterilizing
and the pasteurizing.
The farm is stocked with 600 Jersey
cows, few Normandies imported from
France, and several famous bulls. Two
thousand quarts of milk day, 300 quarts
of cream and 500 pounds of butter a week
are shipped to the Briar Cliff dairy agen-
cies in New York City, Dobbs Ferry, larry
town and Yonkers.
Mr.. Law ships more than $40, 900 worth
of milk year. The produce on his farm
averages $50, 600 annually.
Briar Cliff farm has been photographed
by the government for display at the
Paris exposition.
One of the most wonderful country
places in the United States was Mountain
side farm, founded by the late Theodore
A. Havemeyer at Mahwah, n. j.
1t was Mr.. Havemeyer who set fashion
in COWS. He elected that the Jersey must
go and decided that the Guernsey should
be the fashionable COW. This was signal
triumph of tweedcdum and tweedledee.
The place comprised 3, 900 acres of mead
ow, pasture and woodland, and hundreds
of thousands of dollars were spent on it.
| The fence cost $50. 600.
Various European governments sent
representatives to report the methods used
at this farm and for years it was the mec-
ca for scientific farmers.
For twenty years the herd of cows was
bred for an abundance of milk. Their rec
ords were kept. Unusual methods were in
vogue. Each COW had, if experiment
proved she needed different quality and
quantity of food.
1t was rumored that the horns of the
prize COW at the Havemeyer farm were
tipped with gold, but that statement can
not be verified. These COWS produced one
year 6, 250 pounds of milk each. 1t sold
at IA cents a quart, the cream at Is cents
Eggs at Mountainside brought 80 cents a
dozen and butter Is cents pound.
Since Mr.. Havemeyers death the farm
has been sold
Ex-Governor Levi P. Morton's farm,
''E!lerslie," at the Rhinecliff is one of the
most famous IN the world.
The income from produce at Ellerslie
farm is about $50, 200 year. There is a
profit on the sale Of fine stock The
barn on the estate is said to be the largest
and best equipped in the world. 1t cost
$3.50, 200.
1t is lighted by electricity and each COW
is fastened by chain to her tail. In case
Of fire-the first big barn at Ellerslie was
burned-by turn of crank at the en-
trance of the stable every COW can be
freed.
1t is conceded at Ellerslie that COW
must have light. The Ellerslie barn is
lighted SO that the finest print can be read
on cloudy day. There are 1900 cubic
feet of air for each cow-each passenger
IN New York elevated train has less than
100.
The COWS are taken out two hours every
day unless it rains.
They are never alone. Five attendants
are ahont nv 6av and ono hy