The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-23
Dairying as a Diversion


has returned from Shelbyville, KY,
where he bought six little Jersey
calves and received three especially
selected yearling heifers, brought by
Mr. Spann from the British Island of
Jersey, sounds important and inter-
esting.
The second item, that he is COM
pleting a reinforced concrete silo, like
granite tower, near his two-thousand-
dollar barn, in which about twenty
aristocratic Jersey cows are MIXED,
sounds still more interesting and bust
ness-like, but the fact that he is in
creasing his herd so as to give Mr.
w. A. Sans more milk for Marietta
housekeepers, is the best news of all.
Every one driving out to Kennesaw
Mountain has noticed the ideal farm
facing it across the fine road. The
farm house, the barns, the outhouses
for calves and fierce Jersey bulls, the
silo and milking house can all be seen
from the road So can the beautiful
trees and shrubs and brooks of run
ming water, but to drive into the door
yard, leave your car under big oak
and see the dairy and Jerseys face
to face is another story
The best time to visit this model
dairy is about three o'clock in the
afternoon, when the milking begins
All the cows are then feeding from
two long troughs of galvanized iron
in the barn, which has a cement floor
strong wire dividing arrangements,
like stalls, for each COW, and faucets
from which clear water flows to flush
the barn floor. There is a deep we'll
somewhere with magic pump that
sends the water bubbling like a foun-
tain in the middle of the long drink
ing trough in the barnyard, and this
is kept thoroughly clean and fresh
water is turned into it when the cat
tie come up from the pastures to
drink.
The cows are all thoroughly cur
ried, brushed and rubbed, just as
horses are groomed, and this careful
toilet attention is bestowed a little
while before the milking.
The dairy is in the charge of Mr. J.
]. Crook who was at Biltmore, in
North Carolina, for seven years He
has in his care two very fine bulls,
Jap" and Fern" twenty-five mich
COWS, fifteen yearling heifers, and sew
eral six months old calves that are
perfect beauties and of unusual size
for their age
Among the six infants, with such
big appealing brown eyes, there is one
with coat of silky gloss and supe-
rior size that proves her to be a royal
princess of Jersey kline.
Most of the cows are young and of
a rich tan color. One of these is regis
tered Annals Dorothy-ta the last
name for pretty little daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Stephens, who is a
niece of Mr. Northcutt.
"Anna's Dorothy is a sister of the
famous Noble of Oakland" who was
recently sold at auction for $4,000.
Two very large grey cows are
named "Bluebell of Biltmore" and
May Morning"
Mr.. Northcutt estimates the milk
by weight and not by liquid measure,
and so few could understand what
pound of milk is that it is not worth
while to tell how many pounds Mr..
Crook and his helpers get from these
cows.
One called "Peachblossom" is aptly
named, because she has the sweetest
disposition in the entire herd. Rose"
is almost black and came from the
Isle of Jersey. "Canaula" and "Trixy"
are two fine cows. Two that were
reared on Kennesaw Farm have been
registered by Mr.. Northcutt as Mari
etta's Golden Fern" and Eminent's
Elberta"-because she was such a
peach" of a COW.
Mr.. Northcutt believes this farm,
under the shadow of Kennesaw Noun
tain, has restored his once shattered
health. The water comes from a we'll
blasted out of blue granite and lined
with cement to the top. He selects
the grain from which his meal is
ground at water mill in the country,
and eats thin "hoe-cakes" with butter
and milk. Of course, he eats other
things, but simple and wholesome
food, without salads and sauces, keeps
him in good health and spirits. There
is no finer tonic on earth than butter
milk. Mr.. Northcutt lives in town and
goes out almost daily in his automo-
bile, which is the finest contrivance
yet discovered for getting fresh air
into ones lungs. He intends to build
bungalow facing the mountain
where he may sojourn in torrid wealth
er, but that is so far only a castle in
the air
Marietta feasts on Kennesaw cream,
as fine as can be produced, and the
demand has always exceeded the sup
ply The more cows Mr. Northcutt
buys the greater benefactor he is to
his town, and it is pleasant to know
that this model dairy farm is really a