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manufacturing concern, besides tbe newly erected batlis, andsome other smaller matters to attend to, many difficulties stoodin the way of his engaging with a dairy ; especially as he had re-solved, not only to have the milk given entire, but also to havethe cowhouse, cows, and milk kept in a more cleanly state than by theusual mode.
These objects have been at last attained ; and the system isnow carried on with ease and advantage; and the citizens, duringwinter, have genuine new milk at sixpence a Scotch pint, orthreepence a quart.
The cowhouse is fitted up upon a new construction. The cat-tle stand in rows, twelve in a row across the house, head andhead, and tail and tail, alternately.
There is a passage behind for cleaning, and one in front forfeeding.
There is a wire grating hung as a window sash in front of eachcow, which lifts up when giving the soft food and cleaning thecribs, and is put down when they get hay, &c.
The contrivance for washing the cribs, collecting the urine,ventilating the house, &c. &c. gives peculiar advantages to theestablishment, which may be summed up in the following items.
The health of the cattle.
The preservation of the timbers.
The diminished danger from fire, there being no hay-loft a-bove the cattle.
The preservation of the provender. And
'The flavour of the milk.
The heat is regulated by thermometers. A circulation of aircan be produced, so as to keep the cattle comfortable in the hot-test weather, by which their health is promoted. The venti-lation also prevents the timbers from rotting ; makes the cows eattheir fodder better, as their breath is allowed to escape, insteadof being thrown back upon the food, as is the case when theirheads are placed opposite a wall.
It is well known that milk easily takes a taste from any othersubstance ; of course, if the cowhouse is filled with bad air, themilk, while passing from the teat to the pail, and during tire timeit may stand in the house, will be impregnated with the foul at-mosphere.
Mr Harley has made many experiments in feeding and prepar-ing the food : and by the mode he now follows, the cattle fattenand milk better, than by the ordinary process ; and the milk hasno taste from turnips or other vegetables.
The arrangement for milking insures the cows to be clean milk-ed, and also prevents fraud-, and the mode of locking up the milkand at same time of admitting air, prevents adulteration by the re-tailer. The cows are not farmed out to milkmen as in London -
The average stock, for some time back, has been 120 mil*