362 AMERICAN CATTLE. 



TO CONCLUDE THE SUBJECT, 



"We might multiply recorded experiments of the kind, showing, 

 beyond controversy, the economy of cooking cattle food, either 

 for fattening them into beef, or producing milk, during the winter 

 season. 



In the various public discussions which we have heard on the 

 subject, where experienced and practiced men have given their 

 opinions, the labor question appeared the main obstacle to its 

 more general adoption. The extra cost of preparing the proper 

 buildings and machinery, for cutting and cooking food, offers 

 another objection. This may be a valid one where only a tem- 

 porary pursuit of the business is intended; but as a permanent 

 occupation, the investment of the additional capital required to 

 make a complete and perfect arrangement, is of paramount 

 importance. Milk dairies are as necessary, and w r ill be of as 

 long continuance, as the production of any other food for man. 

 There is no reason, therefore, why the milk dairyman should hesi- 

 tate to establish the machinery, for the most profitable production 

 of the article, than the miller, or other manufacturer should 

 shrink from building a good mill, for fear that at a future time 

 he might change his business. The milk dairies about London, 

 and other large European cities, are as permanent in their pur- 

 suits, as any other which minister to the wants and necessities 

 of the population demanding their supplies. 



It is hardly within the province of this work to go into the 

 plans of building, necessary to carry out the various details to 

 which our suggestions may lead. Indeed, were we to submit 

 plans or diagrams of barns, stables, sheds, and feeding arrange- 

 ments, for stock cattle, stall-feeding, or milk dairies, the particular 

 locality of the various parties needing them might require dif- 

 ferent ones; perhaps no one of them, in all its details, would 

 answer the purpose demanded by the immediate circumstances 

 of the dairyman, or stall-feeder. Mr. Stewart's suggestions of 



