The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-14

and these are set In a huge tank of Ice
water and left to cool. BY this time the
wagons have come back from the city
after the daily delivery and the empty
cans are taken out and placed In a long
row. Into them is poured boiling
water which is afterwards poured out.
when they are wiped clean and dry and
made ready for the supply of new milk.
The wagons Of one dairy alone, near st.
Paul, carry every: day over 250 gallons
of milk and cream to customers in the
city OF course all of this is not delivered
in one or two-quart lots. There is one
hotel that takes forty gallons per day.
and the same WAGONS supply several
smaller hotels. Some 900 gallons OF
milk and cream are consumed by st. Paul
every day of the year,,+though much OF
1t comes from distance, and during the
g. A. r. encampment In 1891 the mi'kmen
could not supply the demand by many
hundreds of gallons. So closely Is the
supply gagged today there is just enough
milk to supply the everyday demand,
and hardly gallon more And yet hum
dreds of diaries surround, the city on all
sides.
GENERALLY. SUCCESSFUL.
There are st. Paul dairy farmers who
started in a few years ago with three
day own fine herds of forty or fifty cows,
and three or four wagons, and a fire
house and barn. And there are others
who started with big herd and money
in the bank. and who have made dismal
failures. Some will tell you that dairy1lg
is business to make money, and 9th rs
that 1t is a good business to leave alone.
Yet all agree that there is need for more
diaries. and room for all to increase their
trade.
The life of the dairy farmer Is by no
means hard one In most cases he
owns fine house with all modern con-
veniences. The street cars run almost to
his door, and it does not cost him more
time or money to go to town to do his
shopping than 1t does the clerk living In
the suburbs For instance, it only takes
those dairy farmers living along the river
bluff and on the Lexington hills twenty
minutes to reach Seven corner 8 from their
homes. They enjoy the conveniences of
the city without being subject to the
noise and dust and sickness of it, and
their children come in to the high school
every day. For the smaller children there
are graded schools near at hand, taught
by a teacher of the public schools. In
fact, there is nothing that the city man
has that Is not held out to the dairy farm
er. But If he wishes he can make him
self entirely independent of the city. He
can grow everything he eats upon his
own place, and raise chickens and pigs
and sheep. All he needs to purchase Is
coffee and tea and sugar.
The late riser who hears the milk wag
ons rafting past under his window sell
dom realizes that many of those wagons
started for the city long before the gray
dawn came into the east, and that after
pushing through the morning. niStS for
miles along the hard roads, at last came
in sight of the citysin time to see the sun
climb UP over the housetops that all day
they will rattle over the paved streets,
and that not until the sun begins to sink
in the west will they again be returning
home along the country roads, with the
tired horses finding their own way, and
the drivers lounging back upon the empty
cans, the days work Of supplying city
with milk accomplished
Robertson Howard Jr.