COWS IN BACK YARDS
OVER 3000 IN LIVERPOOL. HIGH QUALITY OF MILK. Liverpool has confined within its boundaries more than 3560 dairy cows housed in 276 cowsheds or shippons, and so earns the distinction of having a greater popu- . lation of dairy cows than any city in the United Kingdom or America. The shippons are hidden in the alleys and byways of the densely-populated districts. More than 75 per cent, of these sturdy beasts—and it is strangely true that they are sturdy—never see the fields or the light of day except through skylights and glazed windows. The cows’ average spell of unnatural confinement lasts about ten months, but sometimes they live in the shippons for three years and more. Liverpool gets more than one-quarter of its milk sup-. < ply, amounting to 10,600 gallons daily, from the patient back-yard beasts. A visitor toured the streets within "a mile of the town hall recently and visited '.y a number of the best-known cowkeepers, and had an opportunity of inspecting their stock. Many them never taste grass again after entering the city, but , a number of cowkeepers make a practjce of cutting the city parks and golf courses free of charge and. taking the 1 produce to their shippons. There was one shed containing 30 beasts in a yard behind a tiny dairy shop in a cobbled street with rows tff houses on either side. Behind the yard doors were small compact outhouses containing the most up-to-date, and spotlessly clean ap- ’ pliances for bottling, bottle washing, refrigeration and sterilising of bottles and cans. In the shippons the cows enjoy some of the most modem ventilation and watering systems. More than 80 per cent, of the city cowkeepers are producing milk which is claimed to be infinitely better than the Grade A standard. The medical officer of health for Liverpool, Dr. W. M. Frazer, reports a great improvement in recent years in the dean | production of the city milk, and states that tests of the bacterial content leave ha very impression
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1932, Page 3
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