The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-02
GETTING MILK IN
 A SCIENTIFIC WAY
Hartford Courant, Sept. 1.)


 | A quartet from this city took a run
 up to the Thompson Grant farm in Enfield, Tuesday afternoon, the object being to learn how the ex-State Comp- 1 troller manages to keep herd varying
 from 130 to 150 head on a farm of 130
 acres without going outside for anything. I but grain. The farm lies in a single l plat extending from the highway in l a gentle incline to the east, every inch
 of which looked to be returning four fold for the care given it. The prime object is the production of milk, a | plump thousand quarts being, made | daily. sss7 The herd consists chiefly of high
 grade Holsteins and Jerseys. The ami 1 nnalS were all, or nearly all, dehorned. | What especially interested the party was the milking-machines and their work. Half a dozen of these were in l use, one man attending three of them 1 The cows give no signs of dislfking them, continuing their feeding or cud- chewing while the milk. flows through the tube into the milk can It re- ! quires about an hour and a half to complete the work, including the time of a ''stripper'' who follows to see that none of the fluid is left. This man
 gathers a little from nearly every COW, the amount varying from a gill to oc- casionally perhaps three pints. When
 the work is completed the apparatus l is subjected to a treatment of hot and cold water so that the tubes and para phernalia are always clean and free from the possibility of germs. The power for working the machines comes from a, small engine located in @ room adjoining the stable. Close to that is
 the milk room supplied with fine cool water from two springs fifty rods or more away. The milk is strained, mixed and cooled before it is placed ] in the big tanks of water to remain until the teams come for it. It will interest novices to know that the qua1- ity of milk from different cows varies
 greatly in richness The proper aver age of butter fat required is gotten by mixing all the output together. It requires eight men and the fore
 man and four pairs of horses to carry on'' the farm, and they don't have to | hunt for work at that. The cattle are staIl-fed entirely. Each ''tie- up'' has it's allotted time for exercise in the yard-an hour or so according to the ers''-get time in pasture. Four big si1os, one holding two hundred tons of use, the summer feed being-apart from the grain-entirely fodder grasses and the like A workman was sowing
 one field to oats for late fall feed, to be mingled with other quick-growing grasses and field corn. Just now the
 principal green food. aside from an oc-
 casional dash of clover, is a mixture of wel1-forwarded corn-considerable of it having wel1-matured ears-and nearly fulIy-grown milIet. A team load of each stood near the cutting while two handled the corn. The re- suit is a fine, .paIatab1e mess, relished by the cattle and. quickly eaten, af- fording them more time for milk-ma,k- ing
 i They eat about ten tons of grain a month While this is not. an exces- siVe amount for so large a herd, it and, feeding entirely in the stables naturally gives~a sort of intensiveness to the ami malls life and quite likely tends to shorten it's period of usefulness as a producer.
 Nothi1ge is produced on the farm for market outside of the milk. Sixty of the leo acres are growing corn for izing g the fertiIizing product of the big stable of cows and the horses on= the land naturally gives most satisfactory returns. Foreman Whitaker estirnat-- ed that eight acres would be sufficient
 to fill the 200-ton silo.
 None of the refuse from MT Grants distillery is fed to the stock except to dry animals turned out to fatten and sell, although the product iszsa ~gQ9d. sa1il1SAnrodR1AEs as