The suburban citizen., 1900-02-03

'I am on the farm with fifty head
of cattle and deliver only pure milk
that will always bear inspection. F"
Such is the announcement made by
Mr.. o. A. Landon of the Baena Vista
Dairy, situated on the Suitland road,
near Suitlaad, Maryland, bat it con-
veys a very inadequate idea of the
extent of the business or how it is
conducted.
A trip to the farm would convince
anyone that it is possible to carry on
a model dairy, and it is the purpose
of this article to give those who can
not go in person a fair idea of what
that means.
Mr.. Lsndon began the dairy busi-
ness in 1880 and has been engaged in
it continuously ever since, hence it is
no wonder that he comes pretty close
to understanding how it should be
conducted. His stable is situated on
a side hill that affords splendid drain
age, and all the pasture land is high
and rolling. Great care is exercised
in keeping the stable absolutely clean,
both day and night, and the same care
is exercised in keeping the yard, where
the cattle run, in a neat and clean
condition. In fact, this vigilance is
carried to such an extent that the yard
is actually swept two or three times a
day, so that il looks to the casual OBJ
server as though it never saw COW.
But il anything in the world ought to
be kept clean it certainly is dairy,
and this fact has been one of the rul-
ing traits in Mr.. Landon's character
which accounts in measure for the
large business he has built up, he be-
ing at the present time at the head OF
one of the largest dairy plants in this
section of the country.
His milk house is one of the neatest
and most complete affairs of the kind
in this section. 1t stands by itself, a
hundred yards or so from the stable,
and is large enough to accommodate
the business for a number of years to
come. 1t has heavy cement floor in
which a large tank, built of solid
cement, is letinto the floor, the top
being flush with the surface, and it is
so arranged that we'll water can be
pumped into it through a long pipe
and let out through a drain pipe Of
often as necessary. By letting the
large milk casks into this tank of cold
water 1t keeps the milk at low and
even temperature until it is loaded and
taken to the city. 1t is certainly q
model milk house that other dairymen
could copy after it to great advantage
No dairyman about the city is more
careful in complying with all the
health regulations than Mr.. Landon
is, and he even goes further than the
regulstions require with the view of
turning out an absolutely pure nrti-
Gle.
A desirable feature about dairy
farm is clean and we'll drained yards
aud runs for the cattle, and in this re-
spect the Buena Vista Dairy farm is
par excellence. Muddy yards are un-
known about the place, aud it is i'm
possible to ever find the cattle stand
ing in a muddy or filthy yard. In or
der TO make such thing possible it
requires constant vigilance and un-
eeasing labor, but that is one Of the
things that makes Mr.. Landon and his
boys so jolly. They seem to enjoy
work when they know il will result in
good to their customers in the shape
Of a clean product. If people Rener
ally knew the difference, we mean the
actual difference, between a straight
dairyman like o. A. Landon and a
milk huckster who buys his milk, doc
tors it up to suit himself an then sells
it there would surely be very little
use for anyone except straight, pro.
ducing dairyman.
1t is pity more people do not have
an opportunity to 60 and see what a
dairy farms looks like, but this article
will serve to inform many people as "a
the actual conditions existing at the
Buens Vista Dairy farm which is wide