IMPROVEMENT OF A DAIRY 



CHAPTER V. 



THE statement is made advisedly that 

 there is hardly a dairy in the land 

 whose efficiency in producing clean 

 milk cannot be raised to a standard as high 

 as any which, with reasonableness, is applied 

 to the production of any other commercial 

 product. Some places are beyond redemp- 

 tion short of a new establishment, but in the 

 main dairy farms, whether those of the home 

 farmer class, with a herd of a dozen or a 

 score of cows, or those of an aggregation of 

 farms under one manager, boasting of a 

 thousand cattle, are capable of great im- 

 provement, and this improvement with sim- 

 ple and rather inexpensive means. A typical 

 case of what has been accomplished is here 

 set forth. The dairy, consisting of twenty 

 cows, was owned by the farmer, and all the 

 work done by himself and his wife. It was a 

 very small establishment, but it represented 

 a type of dairy that is probably more numer- 

 ous than any other, is too frequently and 



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