THE KINGDOM OP THE COW 7 



manor bom, but only slowly does he come to love 

 the cow. 



Of course, to a certain extent, markets are a 

 determinative factor in the distribution of the 

 dairy industry. However, the years tend to level 

 advantages in this regard. Markets are a matter 

 of time and accessibility rather than of distance 

 and freight rates. Better transportation, together 

 with a little sound dairy bacteriology, have greatly 

 extended the zone of market milk production. 

 Fast express service and refrigerator cars have 

 made it seem very simple to carry milk in flrst- 

 class condition for many hundred miles. A short 

 stretch of muddy country road is a greater handi- 

 cap than a hundred times as far of gleaming steel 

 rails. Both New York and Boston draw their milk 

 supply from at least six different states. Possibili- 

 ties like these are upsetting our old ideas of market 

 advantages. This was not always so. Orange 

 County once deemed that it had a natural monop- 

 oly of the New York City milk trade, and not 

 so long ago "up state" butter went west to Chica- 

 go. Men were glad to believe that there was a 

 mystical something in the air or the water or the 

 grass that would forever bar the cow from the 

 Mississippi Valley. Any hope of this kind has 

 proved but "a vain thing for safety," for the cow 

 has constantly found her way into farther places. 

 Nearby markets are no more necessary for milk 

 than for small-fruits and perishable vegetables. 



