302 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



plishment of this work consists of a circular tank or cylinder 

 of from one hundred to one hundred and fifty quarts 

 capacity. In this is placed a close-covered tin vessel, so 

 made that it gradually contracts from the base to the top, 

 that it may always keep right side up. In fact, it resembles 

 very much the contracted top of a milk can. This tin 

 vessel is filled with ice. Above the can and hanging from 

 the ceiling is a tin pail with a slightly flanging top, and 

 large enough to easily hold a strainer pail of milk. Near 

 the outer circle of the bottom of this pail is a single — or it 

 may be double — row of perforations. As the milk falls 

 upon the vessel filled with ice in the milk tank, its animal 

 heat and odors are at once given off, and after a few 

 minutes the milk becomes as cold as if it had stood for 

 several hours. The entire peddling rig should be kept neat, 

 clean and attractive, for in this case appearances tell. Strive 

 also to have your route as concentrated as possible, as a 

 mill saved in the expense of disposing of a quart of milk 

 makes a fine aggregate on a hundred quarts at the end of a 

 year. Nothing will help you so early to get a convenient 

 and concentrated route as having the reputation of selling a 

 clean article. 



The inevitable tendency of milk and dairy farming is 

 toward a concentration of efforts, or, in another meaning, to 

 an intensive agriculture. If there is a demand for more 

 than your existing quantity of milk, and you are anxious to 

 supply the demand, try first to get the requisite feed 

 required for another cow from your present acres instead of 

 buying more land. Keep your existing land better enriched 

 and in better tilth, and you will be enabled to keep another 

 cow. 



I have upon my farm a bone mill, in which I have annually 

 made for the past eight years four tons of ground bone. I 

 do this with a six-horse-power boiler, a steaming tank of 

 fifteen hundred pounds capacity, and a grinding machine. 

 I pay fifteen dollars a ton for the raw bones, and it costs me 

 seven dollars a ton to fit them for the land, or a total of 

 twenty-two dollars for an article absolutely pure. I apply 

 some ten hundred of this to an acre at the time of seeding. 

 I have now been all over my tillable land with this, and it 



