The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-02
By w. B. Nortl1rop..
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Queen Alexandra is n practical dairy
maid. One of her greatest delights is
making butter And 1T is fine butter,
(. too; much better than you would ca
pect a queen to make. Those who have
eaten it say it's real good'-and they
are not INDUCING ir a polite fiction sim
ply because the Queen manufactured it,
and they are afraid to say otherwise.
At Sandringhain, the Queens favorite
home in England, is a most successful
dairy farm, which pays its own expenses
and produces butter that has no peer
anywhere else in the world.
All the butter produced at this dairy
farm IS made under the Queens own
supervision. She engages all the dairy
maids, and attends to all the details of
the farm, from purchasing the COWS to
putting new handles on the churns.
Works With a Purpose.
When the Queen is not in the rccep-
ton rooms OF Sandringham Castle re-
ceiving distinguished guests, ten chances
to one you will find her in the dairy
farm She Is not like the queen In tho
nursery rhyme: She does not sit UP all
day and eat bread and honey"
That WAS well enough for a mcinaeval
4 queen. In these days things have
changed. Queen Alexandra Is one of
the busiest women in England to-day
She is thoroughly practical, and never
puts her hand to anything useless, or
merely amusing.
All her work is with purpose. BY
establishing the dairy farm at Sandring-
ham she has given employment TO hun
dreds of country girls who have learned
q valuable trade in the Queens dairy.
The Queen, being a native of Denmark,
i has introduced in the Sandringham
dairy farms Danish methods of making
ibutter. Some of the forcwomen are
Imported from Denmark, and when
4 the Queen herself is not present they in
struct the English dairy maids how to
maize butter after the Danish methods.
Quite a Big Output.
From fiftyJto one hundred pounds of
butter are made a day at the Sandrng-
ham dairies, and as this butter is mar
keted at about fifty cents a pound. the
takings Of the business vary between
s26 and $50 day-not n bad showing
for country farm.
The Queens Dairy is one of the pref
test spots imaginable. All the little
cottages are built after the Queens own
designs. The interiors of the houses are
lined with hand-painted tiles which were
brought from India by the King lii 1876.
The floors are of cement. and the dairy
y is. fitted with all the most scientific ap-
planes of modern times. The shelves
IN the dairy houses support pretty mod
els done in marble of prize" animals,
bred on the Sandringham estate, which
is one of the finest private farms In the
whole of England.
Queen Also Farmer.
Very frequently. visitors to Sandrlng-
ham are shown over the dairy farm by
the Queen herself. who takes great de-
light in exhibi+tng all. the working ma
chinery of the place. Each guest is
= provided with a little pat OF butter
made in the Queons Own Dairy house
a small detached building--and on this
little cake of butter will be stamped the
royal crest.
After a visit to the dairy, tea is
served In a pretty little summer house
which the Queen has dubbed THE Fol
1y'-for some occult reason known only
to herself.
But making butter is not the Queens