The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-22
City in the Land Has
a B. tier System
of Dairying.
IMMENSE BUSINESS
In HANDLING MILK
Vast Sum Of Money Invested.
Stringent Laws and Patriotic
Dairynen Insure Pure Milk
supply-situation Favor
able-No Long Hauls
Required.
NJ FRANK s. wooEsoS,
Industrial Editor.

"
Industrial Editor.
Something like 5000 gallons Of milk
will be drunk in Richmond to-day. and
this is Sunday. too. Tomorrow, when
the mlkshakes will be the favorite
beverage at the soft drink fountains;
when the milk toddies and .flips" Will
pass over the $50 high counters in
the city in almost endless procession:
when all of the ice cream saloons
will be in full blast all day, the prob
ability is that days consumption
of the tactical product cf the mother
COW will run UP to largely more than
10000 gallons.
Not one out of thousand OF the
good women who will this morning
receive from the dairy wagon her pint
or quart of pure milk; not one out OF
1000 Of the consumers of to-mcrrows
..shakesl' at the fountains; not one
out OF 10000 of the ice cream ftends
who will crowd the marble-topped
tables, and probably not single one
of the guzzlers who Will to-morrow
lovingly and longingly watch the
white-aproned artist as he gracefully
transfers the foaming milk teddy from
/ the long tin shaker to the spotless
elongated glass will pause to think
of what an enormous thing the bust
ness of supplying to thirsty Richmond
this quantity OF milk really Is,
interesting tucIS Huh fiSuse''
IT is also quite likely that conf
oaratfVely few OF them care very much
lust so they continue to get all that
is coming to them, but all the same
some OF the interesting facts and fls
ures gathered about the immensity oil
the dairy business in and around RICH
,nond will prove interesting to thoss
who believe Richmond is the creates,
place in the world TO live in.
surely II is just that If the purest
and hest milk TO be had anywhere IN
tue land makes a particular city the
best of places in which tc spend one IF
LAYS on earth.
70 have been gathered by careful per
sonal investi cation. not inspection.
IL Won please. of the diaries IN ana
about Richmond during the past week.
Here are some of the surprising. not
TO say startling, things they snow.
The service of 1910 first-class coM.s
are required to keep Richmona su
piled with pure milk inese COVE s, a..
scattered over more than 100 OAR
farms and in private city and suburban
lots. nine-tenths of them being located
within circle of about SIN Wiiss
around the city. but little MIX. con-
parntively speaking, coming IN by TAI.
from a distance. The cows from which
the milk supply comes are worth In
-
money value of the bulls and OF the
calves required on the dairy farms
will increase this valuation OF the
necessary herds: to fully 100000
Mig Money Is Invested.
The COW barns. the horses a no
wagons, the dairy machlnery.} me laiaii
imnlements and all of the parapher-
MALTA necessary to conduct the llhse,
class dairy farms that arc to be fout1d
on these hundred aud more places that
supply Richmond With milk Woule iooi
mn not less than sl,00o.o00, and ms
is really an underestimate. as " .puts
tha eouipment of each at less than
e,o ooa and there are numbers of
tham equipped at cost Of twice ana
+hraa times $4,000. In fact, there IS
nrohahlv not dairy farm within the
territory mentioned that could De
enuipped were 1t destroyed az ies'
than $4,000 +1,a
This does not include. OF course. inc
value of the land, whicn Safies
900 - s5oO per acre. and any che d
sar see at a. glance that many MN
araas of acres Of land are requl1eu
~ Mold so many dairies and 70 lees
| and Craze so many cattle NoI uv ".
Tits estimate include the cost OF, wv, Wv,
| buildings and grounds and liIsl-e -.
m to-date equipment OF me tMo W,
.ity dairies. which are the dlstrloutoi :
,,sn.thirds of the milk used IN
Richmond. I would not like TO guess
az the money invested in those est Ia,
lishments, but it is big sum, -, ih
reader can thus see that vas. NC
of money is invested in the mix al.u
dairy business Of this great Guy
liz more than the buyeFs VI ny. ~ at,,s,
ana quart bottles would eNer Ing '7 - 3
''' parry Cows Come High.
ono may think that have
arestjmnted the value of the COW > 4
on the dairy farms tnat Su.ro ~, .3ts
richmond 1 have only 70 say
in nv two DAYS travels anlons 80,
fnrms I saw, COWS that ost the owners
1a'i IN soo5 very many that cost
s1so ana down 10 s75 and 500. neNer
saw a single one that would not DIlnt,
~ the beef market fully WHAT
bar cost as mixer. and i never SO
!. single one that could De
should she suddenly kick the pu.Mg.
for less than $40 TO $50 ane So -. .'', ~,
80. ararage of sI5 per head for w
~ ~, 'hundred fine mixers saw - !
"a, An exaggeration- In TINS eohhs
nv, II nav he said that. dairy Sch. 70
.,,ceadingly scarce and hlsh, ih'7
da,rvmen may be partly 70 . o '4s',o
this because for the past ss ~ =.
YEARS or at least up 10 thFIo -
ago they have been In the ~" -.
,.san;nr only fresh cows. ana as soo..
na sbo,,ld go dry turn ter oNsf
to the butcher, ony iso t w another
~ enual or greater cost ~
! COW fresh to the patti ,.aa t.t.,
THIS suicidal policy has rsdneea ~.
| number of milch cows, aha W,.n'. d,
mast year lairymcn apelh 1Hea,f,,,ss
| have haa to send asen = INK u,
/ states as Tar North as toe fa'iis e rs
line ana S lar West a elhs9 lil SO tss,
of mich COWS and many #t s.N, s,.,e
/ hronght here at a cost OF ITEM Ma II
~ s,an ner head, Two dairSmeh ve.a
last weak attending Cow, SAFES " 4
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