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" THE WHITE FARM.” 
AlTROl’RI ATE NAME FOIt A MIRK DAIRY 
“ Clean as a Whistle.” 
[EDITORIAL CORKESI’ONDENCE.] 
The White Farm is the appropriate 
name of a milk dairy located near Blau- 
velt, N. Y. It is owned by Mr. S. R. 
Bradley, of Nyack, N. Y., and the milk 
is sold in that town. M r. Bradley is a suc¬ 
cessful retired business man with a good 
dairy idea in his head. That idea is that 
he will produce an absolutely pure sam¬ 
ple of milk, and handle it in the cleanest 
and neatest possible manner. 
The manager at the White Farm is Mr. 
A. McKellar, a Scotchman who came to 
this country 18 years ago straight from 
the land of oatmeal and Ayrshire cat¬ 
tle. They are not doing much with Ayr¬ 
shire cattle at the White Farm, however, 
except a few that were bought to fill 
some stalls until suitable Guernseys 
could be secured. Mr. McKellar thinks 
there are no cattle like the Guernseys 
for supplying milk for a first-class fam¬ 
ily trade. They give a good flow of rich 
milk high in color and suitable in every 
way. 
Jerseys and Guernseys. —“ But so do 
the Jerseys for that matter.” 
1 know it,” said Mr. McKellar, “ but 
the Guernsey has good qualities that the 
Jersey does not possess. She is quiet 
and gentle—not a mere bunch of nerves. 
I can go out at night into the stable and 
pass up and down, yet the Guernseys 
will lie there chewing their cuds, barely 
winking at me. Jerseys, under similar 
circumstances, would jump up and lash 
about, and not fully quiet down for an 
hour.” 
The cattle at the White Farm are 
mostly large, well-built cows. There 
are a few imported animals, and the herd 
contains the blood of some of the best 
Guernseys in the country. Careful rec¬ 
ords are kept, and it is planned to breed 
and maintain a practical dairy of superior 
cows. The bull at the head of the herd 
is an excellent one, and the young stock 
are beauties. 
A Comfortable Barn. —At present, 
things are all torn up at the White 
Farm, for they are building and finish¬ 
ing. “It seems as though we would 
never get through building,” said Mr. 
Bradley. But when they do finish, the 
arrangements will be just about perfect. 
The main cattle barn contains stalls for 
50 cows. It is 107 feet long by 41 wide, 
11 feet high at the sides with 15-foot 
posts in the center. The cows stand 
facing the center, each one occupying a 
wide, roomy stall with her own manger, 
salt-box and water-tank. There is a 
wide alley in the center, while back of 
the cows are iron grates covering manure 
gutters with a wide walk between the 
gutters and the wall. The cows were 
bedded with planer shavings, and seemed 
as clean and comfortable as could be. 
A Cow-Cleaning Room. —“ They must 
be brushed and cleaned every day,” said 
Mr. McKellar, “ and here is where it is 
done.” He led the way into a neat room 
opening from the stable. The room was 
well lighted, and finished with North 
Carolina pine. The floor was concreted 
and sloped to a drain in the center. At 
one side, were rings for fastening three 
cows. The cattle are brought into this 
clean, neat room every day for brushing 
and carding. If they are dirty or stained 
by manure, they can be washed by 
means of a hose which carries a constant 
supply of water. This room opens into 
the barn yard, and in Winter, the plan 
is to turn the cows out for exercise and 
take them through this room for a 
cleaning before they are put back in 
their stalls. This plan of having the 
brushing and cleaning done away from 
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the stable in a room by itself strikes me 
as a first-class plan where one is striving 
to produce absolutely clean milk. Where 
the cows are cleaned in the stable, there 
will always be more or less dust and 
hair floating about them. 
Tub Silos ; Barn Building. —At one 
end of the cattle barn, stand two tub 
silos, each 10 feet in diameter and 20 
feet high. Such a silo holds about 110 
tons of ensilage. There are, also, two 
square silos on the farm, and Mr. McKel¬ 
lar says that they have demonstrated 
that the tub silo is superior from every 
possible point of view. The pressure in 
a square silo will often cause damage by 
bulging out the sides of the barn. I have 
seen several barns bulged out in this 
wajq for they were never made to with¬ 
stand any such pressure from within. 
There is less waste in the tub silo, and 
from every point of view, it gives better 
satisfaction. 
Mr. Bradley has planned an ingenious 
device for getting the ensilage out of 
the silos. A big curved sheet-iron box 
is arranged to fit into the door of the 
silo. The lower part is in the form of a 
funnel which opens directly over the 
feeding box. The ensilage may be thrown 
out of the silo into the iron box so that 
it will drop directly into the feed box, 
without any loss or scatterings. 
When we see this new barn at the 
White Farm, we realize how r the develop¬ 
ment of the silo has changed the construc¬ 
tion of dairy barns. Formerly it was 
necessary to provide for each cow 800 
cubic feet of storage room for hay. For 
a herd of 50 cows, this meant a great 
roomy barn with the space needed to 
store the cow’s dinner costing more than 
the space needed for the cow herself. 
In old hay-dairying times, the cow 
was fed 15 to 20 pounds of hay per day. 
Now she gets only four or five pounds— 
a ton of hay giving dry food for two 
cows for nearly seven months. A cubic 
foot of ensilage gives one cow a day’s 
ration of roughage. Thus it is that the 
modern dairy barn is a long, low build¬ 
ing with a higher shed at one end for the 
silos, and at the other a comparatively 
small building with hay above and grain 
below. The cost of the building is cut 
down by half, and so is the labor re¬ 
quired in feeding the stock. 
Feeding the Grain. —Hanging on the 
iron bar in front of each manger I noticed 
little square blocks of wood, each bear¬ 
ing a brass number. Thej r show the 
pounds of grain that each cow is to 
have. One cow fresh in milk had the 
figure 5 hung over her manger; that 
meant five pounds of grain. By her 
side, was a cow that had been giving 
milk for several months. Over her 
manger was a 2 which meant two pounds 
at a feed. Others had only one pound at 
a time—the amount of grain being regu¬ 
lated by the milk yield. The numbers 
are moved about as the cows shrink, and 
give the feeder exact information. Just 
now the cows are at pasture, and have, 
in addition, green corn. Peas and oats 
were cut and fed to them in July. In 
Winter, the usual daily ration is five 
pounds of hay, 40 pounds of ensilage 
and from two to 10 pounds of grain. The 
only grain fed is the H-0 dairy feed, 
which is bought in car-load lots, and 
has given good satisfaction. The basis 
of this feed is the refuse in the prepara¬ 
tion of oatmeal for human consumption. 
With this refuse, are mixed corn meal, 
linseed meal, cotton-seed meal, etc., so 
as to make it a complete ration. 
Great Need of Water. —Water is 
brought to each stall into small covered 
tanks designed by Mr. Bradley himself. 
The cow can lift the cover with her nose, 
and sip the water as she pleases. In 
Winter, all through the night and day, 
one can hear these little covers as they 
fall back after the cow has taken her 
drink. Left to herself, the average cow 
drinks but little at a time and, as she 
needs from 80 to 100 pounds during 24 
hours, it is easy to see what an advant¬ 
age it is to have the water constantly 
before her. There is a large wooden 
tank in the outside yard. Through the 
bottom of this, runs a large sheet-iron 
tube fitted with a grate, a door and a 
smoke pipe. In cold weather, a fire of 
light wood or corn cobs is kept in this 
tube so that the chill is taken off the 
water. 
“We must use either fuel in the tank 
or feed in the cow to take the chill off,” 
said Mr. McKellar, “ and we know that 
corn cobs are much cheaper than corn 
meal for this purpose.” 
Handling the Milk. —Sanitary milk¬ 
ing pails are used. These are entirely 
covered. The stream of milk is thrown 
directly upon a round strainer of fine 
wire placed in the top cover of the pail. 
This prevents the entrance of any coarse 
dirt. Each cow’s milk is weighed twice 
a day, so that accurate records may be 
kept. This weighing is done on a spring 
balance with the finger set back to the 
exact weight of the pail. It is quick 
work for the milker to hang his pail of 
milk on the hook, note the weight and 
put it down in pencil on the sheet which 
is tacked on the wall. 
After weighing, the milk is strained 
through two thicknesses of cloth into 
cans. Mr. Bradley has devised a new 
aerator which will blow absolutely pure 
air into these cans at a powerful pres¬ 
sure. This machine is not yet in opera¬ 
tion. At present, the cans, after the 
milk is strained into them, are put in 
cold water. While cooling, the milk is 
gently stirred with a dipper. There can 
be no doubt about the value of aeration 
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