CERIN RN TTR RR EET REE A THE PICTURE OF EU Government - We often hear of the model dairies of Europe, co-operative dairies into | which a speck of dirt is never allowed | to lodge, of Danish butter that is in truth a dream and brings a fabulous | price, of eggs guaranteed fresh and | country-like, and other reports of the] way they things the fine old | farms of Europe until one begins to | think that one can not be more than half living in this country. But how much of this sort of thing will bear investigation and close analysis? The Dairy Division of the United Sates Department of Agriculture is a progressive and useful institution and has done several things to destroy prevailing fallacies and incidentally establish the fact that American meth. ods as a whole, in at least some phases of agriculture, are as far if not farther advanced than those of any other coun. try. Not the least interesting of such in. formation gathered was that collected by the late Henry E. Alvord, for many wears the chief of the Dairy Division, in a tour of the countries of Europe on do paid to cleanin ing to il | ria tid of new bl 1 from Creat ritain, the | Channel Is! i he N ] ] mark o turesqu re are many pic- fu eds of mil » countries but they do y stated, with the adapt. not compare, For instance,) ed American Investigation Them Below the American Standard. GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL. hi do not hes apy tives can give SQUE DAIRIES ROPE. Shows sessensnnnene eddie. efit nnaneennan® FRENTE RRR RRR SRNR RRRAN EER ran conditions do exist abroad—where the cow is taken in as a member of the, family—as they do in no place in the| United States, but they are the excep tion. Stables which In summer are converted into conservatories and! rooms for weaving and cheese curing | are the unusual and show places, The construction of cow stables generally in the dairy countries of the Old World 3 of a substantial nature, with little] regard paid to light and ventilation, | ple room for improvement in our coun. try, the only foreign country from which the United States can possibly learn anything i8 Denmark. There the best creameries are models of cleanli- ness, good order, and systematic man- agement, But all these detalls are ac complished only through a lavish ex penditure of labor which would appal an American creamery manager, It is not an uncommon thing for six or eight persons to be constantly em- ployed for six or eight hours a day, turning out a quantity of butter which is ordinarily made in this country by a man and a boy who have all the work finished dally at 3 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Major Alvord found it impossible to draw any comparisons between the methods of cheese-making and the re. sults in this country and those abroad. It i8 believed that the American fac tory system, common to the United States and Canada, is superior to any. thing elsewhere. In variety and fancy cheese this continent can not yet at. COMBINED DWELLING AND COW STAD of arrangement or ease | While n h attention is | gE COW it ap parently more from an appreciation of the value of the manure than from an | effort to have sanitary conditions in| the dairy Foreigners Provide Good Feed, There is one thing where Europeans may be ahs They seem to be l ing of cattle conveniences in cleaning stables, is ted cattle f wars that ily reason the na- is practice is the i ae Holla nd Chees 4 Market American Cow Stables Upto Average In the stabling and general « dairy cows no foreign country ¢& in » ral practice, any metho conditions better than our own the average conditions ti country are una what they should be AT of und htodly I tha ys MODEL COOPERATIVE FRENCH CREAMERY farmer and dairyman are making aa rapid strides forward as can be found anywhere, Major Alvord found comparatively few piaces in Holland and Switzerland where there Is such close relationship between the dairy cows and families as the occupancy of connecting apart ments, so often described In poetie fancy by European travelers. 080 In {are a few | establishments, such | found i dome | driven through the streets and milked at re : y in feeding ani erica than any carelessn mals of # where el nthe ¥ id The ng feature of Eu.} rope i he h LN and the value of « tter of dairs nent, the United by no other cout mark and parts of Great Br about as well. most Care « tha 4) ntry a ough tain big cities of Europe tl well-conducted milk de Are usually in our small ities, while In localities dalry animals are re tomers’ doors Mileh managed in the same way ev | best streets of Paris and of Rome Paris probably has the poorest mi! service of any of the large cities ing the Exposition at Paris In July, 1900 a ped ial show « veriahable dairy products was held as an annex to that exposition Paris Milk Exhibit Very Poor, While the French producers had every opportunity of exhibiting their goods In the best possible shape, the only samples of natural milk and cream, absolutely free from chemical preservatives and uncooked, which were sweet and palatable after noen of the exhibition day, were from the dairies In New York and New Jersey, then eighteen days from the cow! The American products had been preserved solely by cleanliness and cold. Major Alvord made the statement on his re turn from Europe that no milk-supply company in Europe could duplicate this performance, In butter-making, while there is am. cus COWES Art en in the ive ¥i LE IN DENMARK tempt to comj In order to about makin clalt in « } to the locality where they Making Dairy Work Po Americans fir v in } the “fairs” and “markets” where uct id to the hi; ly the wives wrs and pea ydred in t el cet gelling The ches and Kilmarnd ¢L mari cht. H ies ori ular. ] 1 y te MIT aT in ters of 5 by the hur leg In connection ith the of dairy products Major Alvord's that while too 84 oh etl ce— Wholesome Cider Viacgar, In an ordinary cheap restaurant safest t} ing to do If yon wish to use some vinegar on your food is to try a: get half a lemon. Then you will know lining ou are not eating out the y Ah wu : ¥( f a 1st quantities of “pure a 4 r Vi p : 1 Of Aa] The rea i atl ne Hered Is negar is a good condiment tcan n be & h chen al vi it ta from one to three years to make properly. The cider fir ess of a! ed into acet : is of artificially hastening #8, but the it can Dur. | cider | ot first | Carry ! on areduced to about twelve The ordinary big green usually quite large scale, cucumber pickles are free from cider vinegar. The only way to make them edible is to soak the pickles in strong brine, to extract the acid, then to soak them In water to get out the brine, and finally pickle them In real vinegar, Pure vinegar can be made as well from other fruits as from apples. Grapes, plums, and other fruits which contain a considerable proportion of gugar, which is converted into alcohol and then into acetic acid, make good vinegar, The Department of Agriculture has in press a short bulletin on vinegars, which can be had upon application to members of Congress, It is known as Farmers’ Bulletin No. 233 and is com piled from the work of the various agricultural experiment stations on this subject Thoroughbred Mileh Goals. Among the various European mileh goats the Spanish goat is sald to be foremost in the quantity and quality of milk given. 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