The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-22
RICHMOND DRINKS.
MILK THAT IS milk.

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East Tennessee In search of needed
mixers. Virginia is making a good
thing raising beef cattle both for
home consumption and for export.
There is a fine opening In Virginia
FOR the raiser OF dairy cattle, but that
~ another story. S
Milk II Cheap in f,ichmond.
However, the dairymen are chang.
ing their methods somewhat. They
have quit selling their dry cows to
the butcher, and they are beginning
to save their COW calves from the dis.
sectlng knife of the carver of veal.
on over halt the dairy farms around
herds OF COW calves that are in time
to become the mixers on those farms.
Yes. dairy cattle are very high and
hard to get That is true, and 1t is
also true that pretty much every
thing else required on the dairy farm
Is high as compared with the figures
of a few years ago. AS Is we'll known,
ell things pertaining to good living
have been greatly advanced in cost
within the past few years. The dairy
man has suffered along these lines
like other people. One Of them has
shown me the figures as compared
with seven years ago. In that time
labor has advanced 100 per cent, feed
125 per cent, cattle 80 per cent, and
yet II is fact that the dairynen
have advanced the price OF milk to
Richmond consumers less than 20 per
cent. And IN the meantime, OF their
own yolition and under the stress OF
stringent law, and in some cases
IL IA ayCaedin0iy iTr1.
Eating methods of executing that law.
they have been spending big money
j to Improve the quality OF the miik
and TO insure It's absolute purity. MIX
cannot be said to be too high In Rich
tmond.
Public aud Private Inspection.
4 The laws, both state and municipal.
30 far as the milk supply OF Richmona
Is concerned are exceedingly strlnGen'.
No dairyman can find a market IN ' ne
civ unless his cattle. his barns, his
machinery. his hired help and every
thing pertaining to the business NEE,
ali The sanitary requirements. strlct
i,,anection insures the coming up 20
the requirements. and then. TOO, .ne
4uo big city diaries. which buy tne
rnilk from the large majority OF thess
dairy farms, have very strlns 20
OF their own and private ms p e.,.o :.
that is perhaps more palticuia .sa
+bat Of the Health Department OF ,he
eit,, government. and equally az m
.eiiipent about 1t, and SO II the GARY All;
1arr,ar wanted to palm off on the miih
ar,,ters 81 this favored city an IN
1arior quality of milk or an uhclea :,
article he could not do II and 90 wei
afterwards. But he has no such oes 81
ana has never had. He Is IN tue
ross for the money that rs IN ~ an.
he knows full well that IN .h nv ~
tns,nass as in every other trace. .l'e
.'.s... r,,,,st survive. and the dairyman
sharn competition as anynooy
else. ,,ur
sure that no city in the Uniteo
e.a.as AZ served with better mix
tban Richmond, and but rev wl.n -
r,,re R,chmond's natuIai $3.50 =,
ss 70 milk insures this the Gl'.es -
po..on, New YORK, Phiianeipn..a !,
tuaore and washington get the me- W
timo'e .hs,r milk supply from dis
.nes parties that are from my 70
.an ives distant supply these ciues'
IA w. milk is hauled by rail the ais-
s.ss named. Then II Is nauieo ~
49,. "a the city diaries and then or.
,-,hutea throughout the cities 20 t"e
consumers ,,o,o,d she has.
&c have already shown, more IA s;,,a
s.drsa dairy farms within rap,us
NUM- ~ eight miles. They are 10.
" an rood roads The big cry
sas. handle three fourths OF tne'.
s,,s+ zach dairy farm is suppNeo
.,.s annie facilities and machlnefs
VI W, tying and cooling. Eacn 1arn,
n.s its strictly sanitary barns anu
lii houses. The COW IS n'ilh .. a.
rnrdinp to the strict SANITARY
,r;red by the State and city ia"s an'
Nv the demands of the cry u. .,s, ,,1r, .
the milk goes throush saiIon
and cooling process 10 'hs 80. ,aa 4 !.
80 ,,hich cans are Immediately ioau
ID An the wagons and rusheo owe,
roads 10 the city dairy, anu
-,.;th,, from forty minutes TO an noul
49,, .,a time the milk comes from Inc
COW II is in the dairy gong lnIou mus. .
snn,her s,raining and cooling proses .
and being bottled to be del'N ~ 80
the cold storage rooms W 49, :.
s s,, eirnnle process as 1t applies to the
sn;-,, GARNER. known as "whoiesaief,
the man who sells his produc'
TO the big city dairy.
The Rctnilcr's Way.
Jdentically the same proceeai !, ;:
cbaracterize the work OF the retaile,
that is, the dairy farmer VINO sem
his product direct 10 .he 80 ,s..,i,,.
cycept that he does his own po..ane
and own wagon delivering to consum
ers and his own collecting, "a ana .. ne sn !;
held accountable to the STATE an.
CITY authorities as are the who'esaler'
and the city dairyman.
There are around Richmond eighty
two dairy farms that sell by wnoiesal'
To the city dairies. There are thirteet
s.;rv farmers who arc retailers. Ther'
ave five "retailers" who sell only u
washington Ward (Manchester. an tn'
,tnns ~ railway that furnish Rfchmont
hotels, restaurants, ice cream saloons
etc. simply with cream, Thus 6hirv i f, WI
be seen that it takes no aalrs l ailh
OF one size and another to keep Rich
mond supplied with milk and cream
What pity it is that there are no
40 more to keep Richmond suppne'
with butter, and even cheese and thu
keep a couple of million dollars 0
good money at home every year tina