A Model Dairy Farm

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 87, 23 February 1888, Page 3

A Model Dairy Farm

The Central Board of Health in j Tietoria has received an interesting * XLJf&ort from Mr John Taylor, market inspector, relative to the dairy farm ■of Mr J- S. Morgan, near Epping, in that colony. The report read as folr« lOWB1 OWB : — " There are 300 cows',- milked and the milk is sent to Melbourne twice a day. The cows "graze over 6000 acres of leasehold lands, on whiefcy are very extensive buildings, with lofts or storage of bran* and chaff, a Tangye boiler and engine, which is used for cutting chaff, crushing oats, peas and mangoldeg and a circular •aw for cutting wood. . ;. An iron tramway has been constructed for convey' ing the food fofc;the cows, "from the mixing rooms; tarthe cowsheds with turntables to . branch- off to the different milking sheds; three of them containing sixty-eight stalls -with feed box to them. Each of the milking sheds are aid with brick set with cement and pitched with stone in the centre, with suitabledrains constructed. All the manure is carefully swept up daily, and carted. away & suitable distance into a paddock. The greater part of the large receiving cattle yards are pitched with stone,, and constantly scraped, the manure being carted away. There is an eighteen stall stable in first class condition, and two large tanks, holding about 60,000 gallons of water supplied from the iron rooffing of the establishment. The dairy and cheesemaking rooms, and tin-can washing places are well and suitably constructed; every can is cleansed out with a jet of steam passed up through a bench where the men turn them and they are rinsed out with cold water, j There are 28 men employed with the milking, 20 additional at present harvesting. The bedrooms for the men are in clean condition. The pigstyes, have cemented floors, with a good fall to the main drain, which is also cemented, to the paddock. The men's dining-room and kiichen adjoining are scrupulously clean. The whole of the establishment is a credit to the proprietor. I feel much credit in the holding it up as a model dairy farm one that should be copied by many."