DAIKY FAEMS. ^5 



the winter, when the cultivated grasses are grown for 

 feeding dairy cows. The highest temperature of the 

 summer rarely reaches eighty degrees, and then only for 

 a few hours in the middle of the day, while the nights 

 are always cool; the lowest temperature of winter is from 

 ten above to eight degrees below zero, and this occurs only 

 very rarely at night and during a few hours, for at 

 noon following the warm sun will melt the snow and ice 

 formed in the night, and make the air agreeably warm. 

 Snow rarely lies on the ground more than three or four 

 days, and an exceptional fall of snow may be three or 

 four inches deep, and will begin to melt off as soon as 

 the clouds clear away. Everything invites the dairyman 

 to this pleasant and healthful locality. Cheap land, rich 

 soil, natural herbage, a most favorable climate, and a 

 central position as regards all the large cities and towns, 

 and the cotton fields, in the Southern States, to which the 

 supply of butter and cheese is brought from the Northern 

 markets. Florida, with its large floating winter popu- 

 lation, is twenty-four hours only from the region, and 

 affords a most profitable market for fine butter, an 

 article unknown in the Southern cities, excepting as a 

 few pioneer dairymen in the mountain country are be- 

 ginning to supply the active demand for it, and the 

 market is practically unlimited. 



A few words of encouragement might also be given to 

 the family dairy, w^iere one cow is kept for the domestic 

 supply of milk and butter. In such a case the farm may 

 be a plot of one acre or more in the suburbs of a large 

 city, or town, or village ; and the pleasure and profit 

 of having such a small dairy farm tempts thousands of 

 people from the close streets of a city to the broader and 

 sweeter lanes of the suburban vicinity. This work is 

 intended to meet the wants and desires of this large class 

 of dairies, and to encourage more of them, by showing 

 how the work is to be managed, and also how a cow may 



