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pie room for Improvement In our coun
try, the only foreign country from
which the United States can possibly
learn anything is Denmark. There the
best creameries are models of cleanli
ness, good order, and systematic man
agement But all these details are ac
complished only through a lavish ex
penditure of labor which would appal
an American creamery manager. It is
not an uncommon thing for six or
persons to be constantly em-
large scale. The ordinary big green
cucumber pickles are usually quite
free from cider vinegar. The only way
to make them edible is to soak the
pickles in strong brine, to extract the
acid, then to soak them in water to
THE PICTURESQUE DAIRIES
OF EUROPE.
NO OTHER WAGONS APPROACH
get out the brine, and finally pickle
them In real vinegar.
Pure vinegar can be made as well
from other fruits ' '
In Perfect Adaptability Under all Conditions to
The Strong Old Hickory
Government Investigation Shows
Them Below the American Standard.
GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL.
from apples.
Grapes, plums, and other fruits which
contain a considerable proportion of
sugar, which is converted into alcohol
eight its® — ,, .
ployed for six or eight hours a day,
turning out a quantity of butter which
Is ordinarily made in this.country by
a man and a boy who have all the work
We often hear of the model dairies
of Europe, co-operative dairies into
which a speck of dirt Is never allowed
to lodge, of Danish butter that is in
truth a dream and brings a fabulous
price, of eggs guaranteed fresh and
country-like, and other reports of the
way they do things on the fine old
farms of Europe until one begins to
think that one can not bo more than
half living in this country. But how
much of this sort of thing will bear
investigation and close analysis?
The Dairy Division of the United
Sates Department of Agriculture is a
progressive and useful Institution and
has done several things to destroy
prevailing fallacies and incidentally
establish the fact that American meth-
ods as a whole, in at least some phases
of agriculture, are as far if not farther
advanced than those of any other coun
try.
Not the least interesting of such in-
formation gathered was that collected
by the late Henry E. Alvord, for many
years the chief of the Dairy Division,
in a tour of the countries of Europe
Thoroughbred Milch Goats.
Among the various European milch
goats the Spanish goat is said
to he foremost in the quantity and
quality of milk given. The accow r
panying illustration is from a photo*
thing elsewhere; In variety and fancy
cheese this continent can not yet at-
graph taken by Explorer David G. Fair-
child, of the Department of Agrlcul-
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SPANISH MILCH GOAT
tore, while be waa tonring Spain
making observations of the milch
goat Industry of that country
The remarkable size of udder of-this
goat la nothing abnormal among the
Spanish goats, but on the other-hand
la the general rule. Many, of these
goats giro eight quarts of milk a day.
AMEIVCAN CROWN
COMBINED DWELLING AND COW STABLE IN DENMARK-STABLE IN FRONT
convenience* of arrangement or ease tempt to compete with the Old World.
In cleaning. While much attention la In order to learn the bottom facts
paid to cleaning cow stables, it la ap- about making any of the famous spo-
patently more from an appreciation of claltles in cheese, It It neceeeary to go
the value of the manure than from an to the locality wher* they originate.
, Brief* From Everywhere,
• British Columbia la the only Brltleh
province In America which has pre-
eerved the old English cnitom which
obligee lodge, to wear wigs.
In Arisons Indian children may be
eeen catching ant* and eating them,
and In Mexico the honey ant la aagerly
sought after by the natives as an ar
ticle of food.
Nine-tenths of the people of Persia
are Mahometans.
SELLING MILK IN DENMARK
for the purpose of looking Into tho
, dairy Industry of the continent
Malor Alvord stated first upon hi*
return homo, that while tho United
States has never evolved a strictly
dairy cow of Its own, It has now noth
ing to gain through tho Importation
ot new blood from Great Britain, the
Channel lelandi, the Nctherlandi, Den
mark or France. There are many pic
turesque and useful breeds of milch
cattle In these countries but they do
hot compare, he stated, with tho adapt,
ed American breeds. For Instance,
prove* the
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tlvea can glvo for this practice la the
The Irish bogs, it la stated, could pro-
dace fifty million tons of pent a year
for one thousand years.
The steel in the modern bandsaw la
ot finer quality and will ytand rougher
usage than the far-famed Damascus
blade of the ancient*.
The physician In China collects no
fee, hot receive* n percentage ot the
money paid to tho apothecary.
Zorene, a new chemical compound,
will. It la said, double the life of metali
exposed to the air. such as bridges.
Sandwich
Well Drilling
leads oaa to feel that the conditions of
the Industry In the United States are
decidedly more satisfactory in almost
every particular.
Machines
Over 70 sizes and styles far drilling
either deep or shallow wells in any kind
of soil or rock. Mounted on wheels or
sills. With engines or hone powers.
Strong, simple and durable. Any me
chanic can operate them easily.
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WILLIAM BR08., Ithaca, N. Y..
Wholesome Cider Vinegar.
In an ordinary cheap restaurant the
safest thing to do If yon wish to use
some vinegar on your food la to try and
get half s lemon. Then yon will know
that yon are not eating out tha lining
of your stomach with caustic chemi
cal*. Vaet quantities of "pure elder
vinegar" are quite Innocent of the
meaning of applet and are distinctly
Injurious, being purchased by the re
tail dealer in b*rrel*,'at seven to ten
cents a gallon, which every apple grow
er know* 1* n prohibitive price for
cider vinegar. However, real ddor
vinegar la a good condiment. Theme,
ion it can not he cold for the prices at
which chemical vinegar la offered U
that it takes from on* to three year*
to make properly.
The elder first must go through the
process of alcoholization, and then be
changed Into acetlo acid. There are
methods of artificially hastening this
process, but tha product la not first
data, and It can only bo done on n
HAY PRESS
An adulterator of food In Germany
la liable to a term ot Imprisonment of
The Baler for speed. Bale* 13 to 18
too* a day. Has 40 Inch feed hole.
Adapted to bonk barn work. Stands up
to its work—no digging hole* for wheels.
Self-teed Attachment increases cap
acity, lessens labor, makes better bales
and does not increase draft.
A Laplander will sometimes travel
on skates on* hhndrsd and fifty miles
In s day.
Repeaters
once ordered them expelled from Eng
land and if they refused to depart by
the next wind they should bo hanged
without jelay.
A bee, carrying no harden, will fly
at tha rata of forty miles an hour.
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tit Alain Street, Sandwich, III
Miami Cheese
Market.
Carrying n load ot honey his speed is
reduced to about twelve mile*.
Fla*, Fir, Cyprses and Yellow Pina
* Write tor Caulon*.
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Chicago, 111.
Danish Prise
Winners.
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Cetelwoa Sore tow#
Brittany, In the north of France, haa
within Its borderi pretty, active little
black-and-white cattle with marked
dairy characteristics, producing often
an astounding quantity of, milk for
their size, but they are believed to ho
useful In tho United States only as
playthings.
A merlcanCow Stables Upto Average
In the stabling and general care ot
dairy cow* no foreign country shows,
In general practice, any methods or
conditions better than onr own. While
the average condition! throughout the
country are undoubtedly far from
wbat they should bo, the United States
stereotyped answer:—"My father did
ao."
The American farmer. Major Alvord
thought, haa undoubtedly a much more
. DDIf ID coo
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Watson-Stillman Co.,
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Intelligent knowledge of the principles
of feeding, but there Is probably more
carelessness and waste in feeding ani
mals ot all kinds In America than any
where else Is the world.
The moat astonishing feature ot Eu
rope in the care of milk on the farm la
the entire absence ot refrigeration In
Franca and the general Ignoring ot
the value ot cold In dairying. In the
matter of dairy appliances and equip
ment, the United States It surpassed
by no other country, although Den
mark and parts ot Great Britain stand
about as walL
cities of Europe there
Producers of Northern grown acclimated trees and the best
varieties for planting in Northern States.
In moat big c“j;; zl
are a few well-conducted mUk*d«Uvery
establishments, such as are usually
found In onr smallest etttea, while In
soma localities dairy animals are
driven through the streets and milked
at customers 1 doors. MUch cows are
managed In the same way even In the
beet streets ot Parle and of Roma
Parts probably haa the poorest milk
service ot any of the large citlea Dar
ing the Exposition at Paris in July,
1900, n special show of perishable dairy
products was held at an mwqt to that
exposition.
Paris Milk Exhibit Very Poor.
While t^e French producers had
every opportunity ot exhibiting their
goods la the beat possible shape, the
only saafplea ot natural milk and
cream, absolutely free from chemical
preservatives and uncooked, which
were sweet and palatable after noon
of the exhibition day, were from the
dairies In New York and New Jersey,
then eighteen days from the cowl The
American product* had been preserved
solely by cleanliness and cold. Major
Alvord made the statement on his re
turn from Europe that no mllk-snpply
company In Europe could duplicate this
performance.
Every Variety of Standard Fruit
Thoroughly tested Apples, Pears, Plums, Cherries and Trees
Ornamental, Small Fruit Plants, Shrubs,
Vines and Rosea.
A SPECIALTY' OF „
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Cut Flowers and Floral Designs. r Also Vegetable Plants
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Mail orders have prompt attention.
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iM/liat grew on an electric .plant p
(Slhe answered, rather teat H fear
currents E Sappose^iny dear c
MODEL CO-OPERATIVE FRENCH
CREAMERY
farmer and dairyman are making as
rapid strides forward as can be found
anywhere.
Major Alvord found comparatively
few places In Holland and Switzerland
where there is such close relationship
between the dairy cows ami families
as the occupancy of connecting apart*
ments, so often described In poetic
fancy by European travelers. These
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