The progressive farmer., 1901-07-02
DAIRYING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF
EARTH.


Perhaps your readers would IKE
to hear something from this side OF
the globe for a variation. For some
three or four weeks after my letter
from California, there was little
time to write, or much time and little
to say. We were sailing. Six days
from San Francisco brought Homo
lulu up on the horizon, and twelve
days after leaving that tropical town
found US in Yokohoma, Japan.
While in Japan it seemed as though
there was too little time after bust
ness for looking around, and what
writing one did was needed to pre-
serve the record of our errand here.
In California several dairies we're
visited. One at Milbrae, owned by
Mr.. D. o. Mills, is engaged in sup
plying milk to San Francisco. 1t is
dozen miles out, but the milk is
sent by wagon twice a day. Here
were several hundred COWS. They
are stabbed in a barn radiating out
from central room on a semi circle.
The central room is the weigh room,
and one man weighs the milk as it
comes in from the different wings.
The milk is strained and drops down
into vat in an airy light room be-
low, being cooled and Brated before
it reaches the vat then it is put up
for shipment and the excess at every
milking is taken to nearby build
ing and run through a separator.
Butter is made of what cream is not
sold as such and the skim milk is
given to the calves and pigs. The
COWS are native grade Durham or
Shorthorns and full or grade Hol-
stein -Freisian. Males of the latter
breed predominant, though one or
two of the former are kept in service.
This was the only large herd seen by
your correspondent. We talked with
Mr.. Chas. D. Pierce, who recently
purchased the large Eshleman- Sher-
man herd of Holstein- -Friesian cattle
and removed them from Fresno to
his island farm up the bay.
Several small herds we're visited
and we saw one 5000 yearling de-
scendant of De Cole 2nd and Pauline
Paul at Fresno He is in the hands
of the live manager of the San JOa-
quin Ice Co This company did not
make an entire success of ice at first,
but three years ago started in the
creamery business and now both
lines are paying. The milk is now
gathered into skimming stations
similar to those we have advocated
for North Carolina, and the cream
only shipped to the factory.
At the time of our visit the prod
uct amounted to 2,7OO pounds of but
ter per day. There are fifteen or
twenty skimming stations in a Sec
t1on of the State where until recent
ly cattle were not kept, and to have
talked of a creamery business would
have marked one out for ridicule.
Irrigation and alfalfa are doing the
work of transformation.
In Japan one dairy of forty COWS
was visited near Yokohoma. This
is owned and operated by an Eng
lish gentleman. The stock is &C.
scended from herd once imported
from Lakiside, N. Y, the famous
Smiths Powell and Lamb herd for
the Japanese Government One
young bull was recently brought out
from the Eshleman-Sherman herd
mentioned above.
It has not been easy to find COWS
or dairies in Japan. 60, yes, there
are dairies just out little from the
city" or, "We take milk from
dairyman who lives just outside
little in the country" But where,
oh, where?
Time has been too precious to
spend much in making a directory
Of the suburbs of these Japanese sea-
ports. We have, however, hunted
up one or more small herds in each
part and spent little time in fruit
less search at Osaka and Kyoto. At
the latter place we found a guide
who could show temples galore and
porcelain works, where he no doubt
reaps commission on sales, but he
cume no nearer a dairy than: eyes,
there are dairies in Japan, but they
are out near Yokohoma and Yokyo.
Cannot feed COWS near Kyoto. Not