Dairy Barn and Dairy Herd - Collection of Dr. Forrest P. Baker

Dairy Barn and Dairy Herd - Collection of Dr. Forrest P. Baker

Buildings, Livestock

These undated photos are of the sanatorium's dairy barn and Holstein dairy herd.

An excerpt from the sanatorium's publication, Mountain Air dated December 1930, reads as follows: With the increase in patient capacity naturally comes an increase in the dairy herd. A gradual weeding-out process has taken place in the dairy herd and cows that were boarders have given way to cows of sufficiently high milk production to justify feeding them. The dairy herd is still not large enough to furnish all the milk that is needed in the sanatorium. We are trying to build up a registered Holstein herd and at this time there are six registered cows, the rest being grade Holsteins of high milk production. … The dairy barn is modern in every respect and is of sufficient size to take care of 24 milk cows. An electric milking machine has been installed and the milk goes from the cows through a cooling machine and from there into half-pint bottles which have first been sterilized in live steam. The milk is served in these bottles, soda straws being provided with which to drink the milk.

Mary Ayn Tullier of Talihina, Oklahoma from the collection of Dr. Forrest P. Baker

Copyright © 2010, Mary Ayn Tullier, All Rights Reserved.

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