A GIGANTIC MODEL DAIRY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 115, 17 May 1877, Page 4

A GIGANTIC MODEL DAIRY.

(London Court Courier.)

The food supply of the metropolis has long engrossed a large share of public attention, and upon the purity of the articles supplied depends iv a great measure the health and happiness of its inhabitants. Some ten years' since (he design was introduced of supplying tbe dwellers of this great city with milk and other dairy produce, whicb, for general excellence, could not be surpassed. Like most good works, these laudable efforts were at first, in a great measure, abortive; but by dint of perseverance and good management, the Aylesbury Dairy Company has assumed an importance far exceeding the most sanguine expectations of its originators, and may fairly be designated one of the most useful and prosperous corporations now in operation. To give some idea of tbe gigantic nature of the business so successfully developed by this company, we may state that they daily supply some 5000 families with milk, which is guaranteed, so far as human care and judgment can ensure it, to be not only of the purest description, but obtained from perfectly healthy sources. Upwards of 25.000 gallons of milk are dealt with every week, being the produce of nearly fifty farms in some of the best of our dairy counties. To carry on this enormous trade the company have, in addition to their town premises in St. Petersburgh place, Bayswater, a large factory at Swindon, aqd a dairy at Bourton, where all tbe surplus milk is converted into cheese. With suoh admirable sources of supply it is not a matter of surprise that the business has rapidly extended, aud that so successful a commercial result has been achieved. The Aylesbury Dairy Company can take into their Swindon factory 8000 gallons of milk daily, which they hold, as it were, in reserve. In the summer time, when the fashionable world is seeking recreation io garden parties, and when strawberries and cream and other such like seasonable delicacies are in request, then the company are in a position to meet any sudden demand. They possess every modern appliance suitable for the dairy, and have the power of setting 1500 gallons of milk in 800 square feet of milk pans — the product ot which in 10 hours time would bs a large quantity of cream. The cream is daily sent to London, and after tbe orders are executed the surplus is made into butter, tbe excellence of which is euch tbat the demand exceeds the supply.