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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



Sept. 14, 1827. 



Another remedy still more simple, and which we i proportion of watery substance in them, than if | stone per quarter, and supposing five quarters for 



are assured is elTectual in common cases, if seas- 1 lliey had received the benefit of the strippings } the carcase and fat, the wiiole weight would be 



onably applied, is as follows. Make about a pint! Much of the London milk istlierefore first diluted (but 1,200 lbs. and would be to milk, only in the 

 of ley either with hot embers thrown into a suffi- < in the udder by watery food ; then creamed there proportion of one to four, although produced at an 

 cient quantity of water, or by dissolvinn; therein i by leaving the strippings ; and, finally, more or , e.\penso of three to one.f 



about an ounce of pot-ash, or pearl-ash .and turn it [ loss diluted by the milkman. " IMr Curwen further supposes the produce of 



down the throat of the ox or cow affected. A "In Mr Curwon's report to the Board of Agri- ' each acre of wheat to be 24 Winchester bushels 

 proportionably less quantity will aiisv.cr for a culture, of the measures he pursued for supplying at GO lbs. per busliol. The actual nourishment 

 sheep. This is said to give immediate relief by the poor of Workington with milk in 1805 and ' derived from one bushel will be 37 lbs. of first 

 neutralizing the fixed air [carbonic acid gas] in i subsequent ycais, he states that compared with Hour, 14 of two inferior sorts, '^.J lbs. of bran, al- 

 'the stomach of the animal, and thus causing the J ol^jlf. species of food, milk is not only the most lowing half a pound for waste, making in the whole 

 swelling and other dangerous symptoms of the nuxritiou 



complaint to subside. 



s, but the cheapest article of subsistence 1224 lbs. of flour per acre; so that it would re- 

 that can bo produced for the support of man. He .quire four acres to give the weight of grain equal 

 compares its price with tliat of bread, and with I to the wciglit of milk afforded by a single cow in 

 the average cost of butcher's moat. At the time i nine months : which cow may bo supported on 

 he wrote (1807) bread was selling at tlirce pence ' considerably less than one acre. The result will 

 per pound ; milk tliereforo at two pence [4-1 cts.] be tliat more land is required for one pound of 



ON MILK. 



(Conlinueil from page Si.) 



" The consumption of miU; in London is suppos 



ed to be in theratioof 60 quarts per annumtoeach ' per quart, wine measure, (the price he sold at,) or flour, than for six pounds of milk ; while the sus 



inhabitant, or about 70 millions of quarts in the one penny per pound, was exactly one tliird of the tenancc to be derived from one poundof flour can- 



vear. This gives one sixth of a quart, on an ave- ! price of br»nd. Compared with butcher's meat it ' not be considered as equal to two or three pounds 



age, to each individual per day. It is provided, i was one sixth ; and as a beverage and substitute of milk." 



n the first instance, by the London Cow Farmer, 1 for malt liquor, he conceived it to be one fourth ; r. ,, /T. ^ '■ T^, '■, Tt i 



, ,, , ,, n .1 1 r ^ 1 1 -1 ■ • , , . 1 T ., , L I Dcalh of Mr Canmnsr — The last London paper? 



.vho sells to the milk-man the produce of as manv I while It was certainly better adapted to the labor- I ''., „. .. ~ . ,,. ,. ., , ,, .. 



.,, ^ r 1- » ,n, , .. ' ' .1 ., ,■ ^ • , • r , announce the anlictive intelligence ot the death ot 



cows as will suthce tor his custom. The latter ' er than any other liquor, from its being of a slow- , , n- , . tt ,-. ,< ^ r. • m- -^ 



J . , » 11 ji . .1 • . 11 • .1 i T ■ „» ,-> ■■.■.■ 1 the Right Hon. George Canning, Prime Minister 



undertakes to niilU llie cows at their stalls in the ; er digestion. Mr Curwen continued his supply to " r, ^ 



city, and pays for the daily quantity contracted for ! Workington until he had succeeded in his object 

 at the present rateof one shilling [about 22 cents] of convincing the neighboring farmers, (his ten- 

 ths common gallon of overflowing ale measure. — antry) that their individual interests went hand in 

 The feeder thus receives just three pence [5icts] j hand with that of the public : that in delivering 

 a quart for the pure milk, (if such it may indeed I raw milk in the town at two pence a quart, their 

 be called) and the milkman, after diluting it with profits were ample ; and that whilst those who 

 a. large portion of warm water, sells it to his cus- 1 embarked in the trade should have the good sense 



tomers at four pence [7J- cents] a quart, inferior I to be satisfied with a price which gave milk a. ■.,,.■ •,, , i. -i »• 



r. 1 • I ■. r. 1, ^1 . .- .,, ' r ,1 • , . ,- i-c excited by his illness in every place where the ti 



measure; trom which it follows that the milk-man preference over all the other necessaries of life,! ,. , , • j . u j -u j 



, 1 r .1 1 ,■ n ■ ' .1 1 1 1, • ■ . ■ ■<. dings have been received, cannot be described. — 



receives nearly as much tor the delivery of the the demand would continue and increase; but if ,„, " r i • i n • * j . t) 



.,T i- I < I .1 /- 1 ' r . 1 r 1 ■ , , ,,. , Ihe news of his death was conimiinicatea to rar 



milk from house to house, as the cow farmer does unfortunately for themselves and the public, the 



for supplying it. Thus, an individual, with nooth- j dealers should combine, and succeed in advancing 

 or capital than £100, which he gives for a ^'Milk . the price of milk, the infallible consequence would 

 IVatIi" who muy easily deliver 70 quarts in a day, be, that the demand would as rapidly decrease as 

 has the means of getting 15 or 16 shillings a day, it had advanced, and milk would again become an 

 for the occupation of seven or eight !iours;in going article of luxury. 



twice to the dairy stalls in the suburbs of thecity, "Mr Curwen ascertained that at the time he 

 milking six or seven cows, and deliveiing their wrote, in 1807, tlic town of Kendal, in Westniore- 

 produce to his customers. Where pure milk is re- Irnd, was the most abundantly supplied with milk 

 quired, those small feeders, who both produce and of any town in the kingdom. It appeared that the 

 sell, will supply the article for five pence [3 cents] daily sale to a population of 7,500 was equal to a 

 the quart, at their own residence, without the la- pint for each person (three times the proportion of 

 bor of delivery. the London consumption.) The happy efiects of 



" We have stated the milk to bo delivered pure milk are strongly exemplified in the remarka- 

 by the C0w farmer to the milkman ; and we be- hie instances of longevity to bo met with in Ken- 

 lieve it is no way adulterated or diluted by mixture dal, and not less so in the great disproportion of 

 of any other matter. But the high price obtained deaths of children under seven years of age, con- 

 fer cream in London by the cow farmer, from con- trastod with other towns of equal population, 

 fectioncrs and opulent I'amilies, is known to cause "The last consideration under thishead is the 

 a great reduction in th« richness of a portion of necessary result of the principle established by 



of England — a loss deeply deplored not only by 

 the British nation, but by the civilised world. He 

 died on the 8lh of August, in the 57th year of his 

 age. His disorder was lumbago, which became 

 inflammatory, and termijiafed in mortification. A 

 London paper says " MrCanniiig's health has been 

 on the decline since the severe cold he took at the 

 funeral of the Duke of York. The intense interest 



is in ten hours after it took place." No foreign 

 event has occurred for many years, which appear.'^ 

 to have excited greater sensation in the United 

 States. Those who might not approve of all his 

 measures as a politician, cannet but do homage tn 

 the splendor of his talents ; and the uprightness of 

 his intentions was generally allowed by those who 

 thought themselves in duty bound to place them- 

 selves in the ranks of his opponents — Lord Godc- 

 rich was appointed by his Majesty's command to 

 form a new Cabinet, and assurances were given 

 that the government would be conducted on the 

 same principles as_ heretofore. 



The N. Y. Statesman has the following remarks : 

 "We have to announce the unexpected and much 

 lamented death of Mr Canning, the First Minisier 

 of England, and, as we believe, the First Man in 

 Europe, and, if not the Jtrst, one of the greatest 

 statesmen in the world. The mournful aspect of 



can be drawn from the udder. The richest part 

 nfthc contents of this natural milk vessel having 

 risen to the top, must always be drawn out the 

 last. 



" It is a common practice with tiio cow farmers 



who was a republican in heart, would not be as- 

 sumed for the loss of his Royal Master, or that of 

 all the kings who sit on earthly thrones. 



We consider the death of Mr Canning, a loss to 

 the world. Gradually and steadily he was infus- 

 ing into the monarchical governments of Europe, 

 the liberal sentiments and free principles for which 



.-.,,,,. 1 r. • /r » 1 ■ », i- 11 ■ I,, /^ ■ , , -,7 "„•,■„ , , ; our columns, feeble as the tribute may appear to 



the milk delivered. It is effected in the following , Mr Curwen, that " mt/^ affords ihe larscst supphi ,, ,., n ,, , .„„ „,, „i.a..-„„ „»„,„„„„„ 



. . ,, , .1 , f.i -11 1 I ,. . . , ,. ., , . .. ^^ ^ , {/■ the memory of the d. ^ceased plebewn statesman, 



manner. It is well known that of the milkdrawn o/OTC<ua« /;-oni </ie /cas< consumphon o//oo£/;" in ...u_ ,,i: ;„ i,„„'f „.„,,u .,„t i,„ -,=._ 



from any cow at one lime, that part which comes j other words, that the same quantity of agricultu- 

 ofl' first is always thinner than what is afterwards ral produce converted into milk, will afford a lar- 

 obtained ; and the richness continues gradually to I ger proportion of human sustenance than in any 

 increase progressively to the very last drop that other shape. 



" The experience of Mr Curwen induced him to 

 believe that the food necessary for a cow in full 

 milk did not exceed in price one third of what is 



necessary in feeding for the butcher ; but allow- being ihe lespcclive numliprs of cubic inches in each mcasui-c 

 ing the difference in the quantity of food to be Milk is most commonly sold by wine measure. The wine pini 

 to retain a sufiicientquantity of these ^-tast drops" j less than here supposed, a milch cow giving daily of milk weighs exactly a pound avoiidupois. The ale pint aboui 

 (which are called " stripjiin^s," perhaps a quart in during the space of nine months th.at she is now | I Ih. 3oz. 



the udder of as many cows as will enable them to ' usually in milk, the quantity of 10 wine quarts,! t The stone weight of butchers' meat is only 8 Ib.s.; that of all 

 meet the demand for cream, and they thus obtain ' would produce 7,200 quarts,or 5,400 pounds weight | c'her dry snhsiances is 1 1 lbs. avoirdupois. Thus, 12 poundsor 

 as much cream, at Hs. a quart, from cows fed in ; of milk.* Were the same animal fattened to 30 k"l"»"s of milk are produced at the same expense as J pound ol 



the manner which has been mentioned. The oth- j ■ I beef, and afford consideralJc more sustenance, and that of a 



or parts of the milk have obviously a much larger ' ^be wine measure is to ale measure as 231 to 2S::. 'I'hcse more beneficial quality. 



