The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-02-05

taken. The farm contains 700
acres. six hundred OF which are
used for forage crops. Has 3 large
two. story barns with Easements,
and three 1000 ton silos; feeds corn
ensilage with some hay every day;
buys about half hay used. Feeds
about 9 lbs. of hay per COW per
day, also feeds bran, corn meal,
beet pulp and brewers sprouts.
Bran 4 h., corn meal d lbs., beet
pulp 2 lbs, sprouts 2 lbs; varies
quantity given to different COWS.
The heaviest feeder is not always
best mixer, but is fitted for butch
err sooner. Feeds about 2 ounces
of salt per day. Employs 80 milk
ers, who milk from 16 to Is cows
apiece. One man cares for 80 COWS,
not having any milking TO do. By
means of cutters and dumps the
stables are cleaned every few hours
and the contents hauled out to the
fields.
Cement troughs built in front of
cows serve as a receptacle for water
as we'll as feed, being cleansed from
one before using for other. Milks
COWS about two years, second year
they give less milk, growing fatter,
and are sold for beef. Buys all
sorts and kinds of cows, regarding
health and size in purchasing; they
are first put in quarantine barn and
tested before being placed with the
herd and the milk examined and
re examined. Gives the cows exer-
else in yard about an hour each
morning in good weather. Mixers
have a lavatory room in the barn
and are required to wash and dress
before each milking and submit to
inspection. They milk in tin pals
with fine screen or sieve covering
through which the milk passes.
Milk is carried to dairy building by
a system of tramways in large cans
as fast as MIXED, is filtered through
absorbent cotton and then passed
over cooling pipes filled with cool,
then cold a2d icy water respec-
lively, reducing from 1907 to about
800 in about 15 minutes after milk
ing and is then bottled. Afternoon
milk is certified milk. Morning
milk is nursery milk. Receives II
cents per quart for certified and s
for nursery milk.
Average per COW Nov. 18th, 81
quarts per day; averages s quarts
per day for 800 days. Has 80 horse
power ice plant turning out Is tons
of ice per day. The bottles are
washed, cleaned and sterilized by
machinery. Has shipped certified
milk in these bottles to Europe
without its souring. Uses purest
water and feed. No patent or pre-
pared feed, or bulls, screenings,
refuse from distilleries or starch
factories used. Cows are curried
and groomed every afternoon and
recleaned before each milking. He
feeds about 1900 tons of grain each
year. Each day over 1000 bottles
are filled; in four seconds eight bot
ties are filled; after filling they are
packed II in a box and covered
with cracked ice. Mr.. Francisco
has good shipping facilities and re-
ceives a good price for his milk.
but he deserves all he receives. His
land is not what a Cecil county
farmer would select, only for good
roads and railroads. Part of his
farm is rough and hard to cultivate,
a part is rather low, yet with all,
he produces wonderful crops of silo
corn, rye and hay, filling his three
silos of 1000 tons each, and cutting
over half the hay used in the dairy
and for horses.
Do we learn the same lesson here
as at Mr.. Dietrich's small large
farm We might say no and yes.
No, because it is on much larger
scale, and yes, because similar
spirit IS behind them both, making
the land grow large crops, return
ing all raised to the soil and having
animals to manufacture the pro-
duce into marketable products.
Either farm less and do it better, or
cooperate and farm on large scale.
1t is well enough that new kinds of
animals and crops are introduced
from other countries, these broaden
our agricultural field and quicken
our activities. But the main part
of the permanent progress in farm
ing is to come in the improving of
the old and established industries.
So far as we can see there will al
ways be demand for milk, butter,
broad fruit. VEGETABLES and eggs.