ssp % SIhe ^farm. itt j y:..' . Immense Lou of Bottor. An lofft bulletin says: In studying ■v the question of how to mslce the dairy most profitable, two problems are pre sented for solution. The first of these problems is, how to produce the great ; , est amount of butter fat at the least cost; the second, how to save all the fat produced and market it in the form of high-priced product Both of these problems are being studied, not only on thousands of dairy farms, but at many experiment stations. During the past nine months we hare been devoting especial attention to a study of the low of fat in the buttermilk in chnrning, with the hope of ascertaining the causes of the loss, whether it can be avoided, and if so the conditions necessary to secure the best results. This report gives the results of the work we have done so far in this line. If the value of the butter fat annually lost in the butter milk in the creameries and dairies of the state of % Iowa alone could be ac curately ascertained the figures would reach such astounding proportions as to be almost incredible to those who have not investigated the matter. Dur 5 ing the past summer we have tested a great many samples of buttermilk from creameries and private dairiea In only one sample did we find the x amount of fat as low as two-tenths of 1 per cent, while in a number of cases we found the fat in the butter milk to be above 4 per cent, and one :; sample tested as high as 7 3-10 per cent The loss on the farm and in , private dairies is much higher than, in the creameries, but we have found as 4^ high as 214 per cent of fat in butter milk from creameries; but this we be ; lieve to be exceptional. It is quite common, however, to find as muoh as one-half of 1 per cent of fat in the buttermilk from creameries; and if the amount of fat lost was carefully determined by daily tests it would be Is Yellow Jasmin# Bossy Poisonous? Mr*. C. L. Rio* of Ramsey, La., writes to American Be* Journal aa follows: I have seen the several arti cles in the Bee Journal and Gleanings, about the poisonous yellow Jasmine honey of the south, and thought 1 would give our experience with It In 1883 we cut out comb from our hives, which was filled with pollen (or bee bread), with a few cells of honey in terspersed. Five of our ehildren ate freely of this “bee-bread,” as it is called by old bee-keepers. In a short while they became so weak that they could not stand, and complained of blindnesa In alarm we sent for a physician, who pronounced it an over dose of yellow jasmine We were be ginners in those days, and had only one atory to our hives, and squeezed the honey. Mow we use twoand three stories, and extract, and so' we never get the pollen and honey mixed. At the time onr children were poisoned, other members of the family ate of the honey alone, and were not in the least affected. We now use extracted honey without fear of the result. Is it not possible that all cases of honey-poisoning could be traced to the pollen? I know many old bee-keepera advise eating the “bee-bread” with the ■bee-honey,” conaequently some are made sick, especially by honey taken from tho tree at the famous bee-tree cutting picnics. The yellow jasmine grows plentifully around us, yet we never have had any sickness, as the result of eating extracted honey. The flowers open in the very early spring, before the orange, and I should think the honey would be used in rearing brood. Dr. Brown says, in Gleanings, that it kills the bees; but why does it not kill all? I rather think the disease mentioned in Gleanings, is bee-paral ysis, for it is not the whole apiary that becomes affected—only a few colonies, wherein will be found a quantity of sealed honey from last year's harvest. With due respect to the experience of others. I submit the foregoing, hoping to see the subjeot sifted to the utmost limit. Dairy WMm. National Stockman says: It won’t pay to lot the cowa fall off In their yield for want of grain feed; the corn meal and cottonaeed meal may be reduced somewhat, but bran, middlings and linseed meal must be fed as usual. Cows going to pasture in good eon* dition are all ready to increase their milk, but if they are in poor order they must use a lot of apnng pasture to make flesh. The rule should be never allow the cows to go hungry. t The full fed cow is the paying one. It pays to seed a field especially for pasture if it can be .spared from the rotation; a mixture of grasses is better than the old stand-bys, timothy and red clover. In seeding for pasture don’t sow grain with the grass to “protect it;’’ you might as well put a lot of big piga with the little ones to protect them. There is nothing equal to atop dress ing of fine manure to give grass seed a start, and the more manure the sooner the grass will be ready for grazing and the better the feed. Give the young grass rleh soil and it Won’t need protection from the sun. Sometimes a loss is made by turning out the cows too soon; the way to tell is not to judge altogether by the size of the field, but by the forwardness of the grass and the kind of weather we are having. If a pound of butter sells for only 26 cents wholesale, and a bushel of wheat only sells for 68 cents, which pays the better to produce? A good cow will make enough pounds of butter to count up against many acres of wheat; and the butter crop is the surer of the two. The butter does not take any of the farm’s fertility when it is sold, but the wheat doea We have to feed the wheat as well as the cows, but the latter convert a good per cent of their feed into wheat feed. Ia it not a fact that on some farms THE ILLUSTRATION IS OF A FLORIDA PINE-APPLE FIELD.—FROM FARMERS’ REVIEW. &5' round that the creamery that U not suffering a loss of sev eral dollars a day from this cause alone is the exception, while in some creameries, where large quan tities of cream are handled, the value of the fat lost in the buttermilk would pay for several extra men and then f le»ve a very comfortable profit. We have before us the report of one day’s w work in a creamery in this state. The *■’ amount of milk received was 10,403 pounds. In running this milk through If1 the separator a total of 4.3 pounds of fat were lost in the skim milk, but in churning the cream the next day twenty-nine pounds of fat were lost in the buttermilk. Considering this fat worth 30 cents per pound, which ' was about its value at that time, the loss in the buttermilk for one day would-be $5.80. Some creameries re ceive many times the amount of mm* or cream mentioned above, and in them the lose, at the same rate, would . reach figures that would render the owners most decidedly uncomfortable. From the investigations we have made we venture the assertion that some of the larger creameries lose from $15 to $30 daily during the season of greatest milk flow, from suffering fat to pasa off in the skim milk and buttermilk. * We know that theee figures are atart ling, but we believe thatcareful invee p tigation would show them to be close to the truth. The important question " is, can this loss be avoided? From our etudy of the question during the pest nine months we are inclined to believe that if it can not be avoided it can be greatly reduced. During January and February, 1803, Mr. F. A. Leigh ton made study of the conditions neoes nary to the most thorough churning. Be found that the temperature of the cream at the time of churning, the amount of cream in the churn and the condition of the cream as regards ripe ness, seemed to be the controlling fac tors in thorough churning, and on sev eral different occasions he succeeded in churning with practically no loss of i. fat in the, buttermilk. .The main diffi culty seemed to be in securing the ;; same conditions each day. It was, of h-' oonitre, an easy matter to secure the same temperature each day, and to place the same amount of cream in the churn; but the difficulty lay in deter §,> mining when the cream v ms in proper condition as regards ripe less— Farmers Review. Kplsootle Abortion In Cows From thp evidence which hu re cently been brought to the no tice of the society, it is con sidered desirable to recommend to the special attention of stock owners, in whose herds abortion has appeared, the system of preventive treatment, which is described in the following quotation from the article on abortion in the Society’s Journal. The plan which Prof. Nocard recommends to be used in cow sheds and premises in which epizootic abortion occurs year by year is the following; 1. Every week the places in which cows are kept must be well cleansed, and especially the part behind the cows, and then disinfected by a strong solution of sulphate of copper (blue vitriol), or a solution of carbolic acid, one to fifty of water. 8. The under part of the tail, the anus, vulva, and parts below of all the cows must be sponged daily with the following lotion, which is a strong poison: Rain water or distilled water. .8 gallons Corrosive sublimate.^ drachms Hydrochloric sold.^ ounces During the first season of this treat ment only a moderate amount of im provement is to be expected, but after the next season abortion will cease en tirely. It would very much assist the Society in their Inquiry if members of the Society whose herds have been affected by abortion would inform the secretary at once if they propose to adopt this system of treatment in their herds; and, afterwards, if they would send him particulars of the results of the treatment When the owner de sires it arrangements will be made fora veterinary surgeon to visit the farm at the coat of the society, and to advise as to the preparation and ap plication of the solution. It appears that in some districts no precautions are taken to destroy the foetus after abortion. This should be done with out delay in every case by burning or burial hi quicklime. The latter should be freely scattered over the ground contaminated with the discharge. I would say to all: Use tout gentlest voice at home. Watch it day by day as a pearl of great price, for it will be worth more to you in days to oome than the beet pearl bid in tbe sea. A kind voice is Joy, like a lars's song, to a hearth at home It is a light that sings at well as shines.—Elihu BurritL the dairy pay* for growing the wheat, but the owner of the farm believes that the wheat is the better money crop? The butter comes in in small sums, but the wheat money in a lump; the lump makes the' man feel big, but the small sums keep him out of debt. 'Wheat is a good crop to grow on a dairy farm; it is a good crop to seed to grass with, it supplies bedding to the cows, and if the price of wheat is low the cows will eat it and turn it into butter, which will make the wheat net a good price. Wheat in the cow is all right, but a cow in the wheat is all wrong; this is the time of the year to put the fenoes in good order. Liability of Cbeamert Stockhold ers.—A case of some general interest has recently been before two courts in Indiana, and the circumstances are that when a local creamery was built quite a number of business men in Huntington subscribed money to the enterprise, as they alleged, only for the purpose of helping the matter along, ■ each one giving *50 or *100. After the creamery association failed an effort was made to make them liable pro rata to the amount each paid. The defen dants contended that they were not stockholders in the sense that thev would be thus liable. The Jury on the trial of the case in Circuit court found against them and Julge Dailey sus tained the verdict. They appealed, the Appellate court reversing the case.—Ex. _ A (Mm* far the Bu|eu. A report from St Paul says: State Dairy Commissioner Anderson has or dered all the filled cheeses seised in the commission of the city shipped back to Chicago; and instructed the commis sion men to produce the certificates from the railroad companies that they had been shipped. The commission men are glad to do this rather than have the cheeses destroyed, throwing all the loss upon them These filled cheeses have an outer crust of the real article ana the interior is filled with lard and cottonseed oil. It looks well for a short time, but in a couple of weeks it turns green and is filled with bacteria.—Farmer’s Beview. Thbrr are lots of people who mix their religion with business, but forget to stir it up welL As a result the business Invaria bly rises to the top. REPUBLICAN DOCTRINE. AD VALOREM DUTIES. fbl( Substitution for Specific Duties, ■ •**P Back Into Barbarism; a Law Im ptMtlblo to Honestly Enforoa; Aban doned by all Other Nations of the Earth, but Now Dressed Up by South ern Theorists, The most startling feature in the Wilson bill is the change made almost entire in the senate, from specific to ad valorem duties. The house bill started the change, the senate committee com posed of three southern members have extended it over 90 per ceut of the whole list uuuer me mcKiniey act every duty was, where possible, levied on the yard, pound or quanity. This avoids under valuations, bears equally upon all and is the only rational method. Mr. Wil son claimed the committee had been induced to take this step so as to show exactly how much the importer was contributing1 to the general tax. Does It give salt less or more savor to know that the duty of 8c per 100 pounds, which the importer pays, equals 80 per cent of the selling price of home pro ducts? If the duty be found too high on any article it may be reduced, but the rate should be one which would be fair to all, easily estimated and not a weapon for fraud. The German shoddy goods maker can swear down bis prices so as to flood our markets with the “cheap and nasty1' goods as they have done elsewhere. Adulterations are cheaper than honest goods and will be bought in at so much less that we will get the itch outside and dyspepsia within from their use. These ad valorem duties are con demned by the almost unanimous ver dict of those whose opinions are en titled to respectful consideration. The judgment of every secretary of the treasury investigating the subject from Hamilton to Manning is invoked, in re futation of the democratic position. It is unnecessary to quote from the un varying testimony of secretary of the treasury, from our customs inspectors, and from our consuls abroad, who all have close and daily experience in the practical workings of this subject It will be sufficient to quote from Mr. Cleveland’s secretary of the treasury,. Manning, under date of December 7, 1885, as follows: “It is desirable that in revising and' reducing rates of duty they should be made specific instead of ad valorem, so1 far as the nature of the merchandise will admit Theoretically considered, ad valorem are preferable to specific duties; but in practice, under such rates as me have had and must, continue to have for years to come, the former are the too easy source of deception and inequality at the custom house. Congress has it in its power to change from time to time, as may be advisable, specific rates so as to meet any perma nent change in valuea ” Secretary Manning summed, up the whole matter as follows: “One hears it often said that if our ad valorem rates did not exceed 25 per cent or 30 per cent undervaluations and: temptations to undervaluations would disappear; but the records of the de partment for 1817, 1840 and 1857 do not uphold that conclusion. Whatever suc cessful contrivances are in operation today to evade the revenue by false in voices, or by undervaluations, or by any other means, under an ad valorem^ system, will not cease even if the ad valorem rates shall have been largely reduced. They are incontestibly; they are even notoriously inherent, in. that system.” In view of this overwhelming testi mony, it is purile to contend in favor of the superiority of ad valorem over spe cific rates, Against the opinions of the mere theorists of today, I interpose the substantial judgment of practical busi ness men, experienced officials and the practice of the most enlightened nations on the globe. In all continental.na tions except the Netherlands ad va lorem tariffs have been substantially discarded. France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Sweden and Norway,. Russia, Switzerland, Belgium; Portu gal and Spain, as the result of long ex perience with both systems,, have set tled down to the collection of tbeir cus tom revenues almost wholly to a spe cific basis It is more than folly, there fore, to attempt to foist upon, this coun try a system condemned: by- a century of our own history and the- experience of the leading Curopeam nations A SCENE IN THE HOUSE GALLEBIE8. A Democratic Speaker Threatens. to Clear Them Out Beeaose They Know a Good Thing When They Bear It. Mr. Burrows, from Michigan, made a notable tariff speech in the house on January 9th last,. In his> closing re marks ho quoted trom, “Bradstreet” a statement there are, “in New England 65.200 unemployed and 154,000 depend ent; New York and New Jersey, 223, 250 unemployed and 563,750 dependent; Pennsylvania, 151,500 unemployed and 449.200 dependent; Central Western states, 227,340 unemployed and 443, 310 dependent; Northwestern states, 64,900 unemployed and 4,700 depend ent; Southern states, 43,065 unemployed and unemployed and 122,650 depend ent; making a frightful aggregate of 801,685 people unemployed and 1,956. 710 dependent. Yet the half has not been told. The record of this year’s industrial and in dividual suffering resulting from pro posed legislation will never be made UP- It- exceeds the possibilities of human calculation. I implore you to abandon this sui cidal policy. Have you not pursued it far enough to become convinced of its disastrous consequences? It is no longer an experiment—it has become a public crime. You have it within your power to instantly relieve this appalling situ ation. You have only to substitute for the pending measure a joint resolution declaratory of your purpose to main tain existing laws in full force andoffect during the continuance of this admin istration, ,and business activity would instantly take the place of business de pression. It would arrest the slaugh ter of our flocks, open our mines, relight the fires of our furnaces, unchain the wheels of our industries, start every spindle and loom; while whistles and factory bells would call the tramping starving millions back from enforced idleness to profitable employment and the American republic would leap with a bound to its accustomed place in the van of industrial nations [Prolonged applause on the floor and.in the galler The Chairman—The chair begs to re mind our visiting friends In the galler* in that such demonstrations are not allowable under the rule** and a repe tition of them will warrant the chair in having the galleries cleared. [Re newed applause.] The serrgeeant-at* arms will be directed to remove visitors from the galleries unless they cease their demonstrations. A Member—They vote, Mr. Chair naan. [Laughter.] They will vote and their vote* will be counted. i Work, Mot Brag. Working1, not bragging, should bo the business of the campaign. Instead of assuming that the democrats are al ready defeated, go on with the hard work needed to beat them. Tell tho voters wbat the democratic lead era have done to deserve defeat, as by giv ing the rapacious Sugar trust 950)000,1 000 of taxes. Organize in every pre cinct, prevent ballot box stuffing and. get out the full vote. These are the* methods that lead to victory, not boast ing about sweeping the state from, end to end because rome discontentedi dem ocrats in the Fourth judicial district, slapped the first candidate—for a non political office—who came along and. relieved themselves of their wrath, thereby on the blunders of their party leaders in Washington.—Chicago Trib une. Star-Eyed Goddess Speaks. With overwhelming changes of party* majorities going on ail about us—in. the face of such a popular rebuke to. the incapacity of leaders as no politic cians ever received before in the his tory of the country—it is worse than, folly, it is a crime, for Democrats who. yet retain some self-respect and to whom the people have been wont to* look for unselfish counsel, to bate their breath and hold their tongue. The feathers of the ostrich are fair to see,. but his methods of self-prptection are ridiculous. They are not. to be initia ted by democrats. The tariff bill which is- about to pass the senate is abomin able. Practically, it will yield the con sumer little, if any, relief. It presents the democratic party in the character of both a fool, and a fraud, crippling the cause- without a shadow of com pensation. The administration should, in. some way—there are many ways— disentangle- itself. The house should throw it out by a single vote The committee of conference should prompt ly report itself unable to agree. The ways and means committee should as promptly bring in a measure involving revenue only—a simple tariff scale raising 950,000,000 on fifty single items —no- schedules- and no classifications with their misleading subterfuges and confusing incidents—and, if this be re jected—as it. doubtless would be—ad journ congress and go to the country, placing the responsibility where it be longs, pledging the party to stand by its guns-and to fight its battle apon the line of principle and honor until the people shall decide, conclusively and for all time,- whether we are to live un der. a. free trade system or under a protective-system..—Louisville Courier Journal.. Who-Deceives-the- laboring People? Here I place beside each other a statement of perhaps the greatest Democratic economist living and the statement of Grover Cleveland, uttered about the same- date upon the same subject. CLEVELAND,. HHK DEMAGOGUE. At any rate the aonsumer has found *, life harder since this reform (i. e., the McKinley tariff) than before, and if there is a workingman anywhere who has had his-wages, increased by virtue of its operation, he has not yet made himself known.—Speech at Providence, B.. L,. April 2, 1893. ATKIX8OX,.THK.1SVE3TI0ATOB. „ There has never been a period In the! history- of this or any other country when, the general rate of wages was-as - high, as it is today, nor a period when i the workmen, in. the strict sense of the word,, has so fully secured to his awn. use-and enjoyment such a steadily and. progressively increasing proportion of a constantly inareasing product.—May. Forum, 1892. Added to.the fcuregoing is the further - statement of Mr. Atkinson: There has been during the twenty seven years since 1965, subject to .the temporary variations and fluctuations, a, steady advance is the rates of wages, a steady reduction in the cost of labor, per* unit of production and a corre sponding reduction in the price of goods of almost every kind to the consumer. . —May Forum, 1892. The-following is an extract from,the summary of the report of the bureau of statistics, at labor, written and.issued by a democrat under a democratic Uow ernor,. August 22, 1892: “It appears that there was a netJm crease in wages of $6,377,925.09 in. the year 1891, as compared with the amount paid in 1890, and a net increase in production of $31,315,130.68, in. the year 1891 over that of 189a A. simple analysis of this table further demon strates the interesting fact that of tho sixty-seven industries covered 7X per cent of them showed an increase-either* of'the- wages or produce, or both,, and that there were no less than 80,.717 in stances of individual increase-of wagne during the same year/’ Quran CoiutloB* There seems to be s spirit of inmtl gation which is growing diitj.H to the ultimate results of the late rule adopted by the democratic house of representatives, which provides for the counting of a quorum. Underlying thia principle is the fact that the ma jority are responsible for the aetion of the body, and therefore thia method of force is brought into use. If it be true and its application is essentially neces sary in the government of the house of representatives, would it not be well to. substitute the same rule in the govern.*, ment of some of ouratates, by which a very small majority are allowed to be the governing power, notably in the state of Mississippi, which, with a not ing population of 271,000 at the presi dential election of 1892 cast but 52,809 votes The aggregate white vote of the state is 120,600. The aggregate colored vote of the state is 150,400. Here 17 per cent, or less than one-fifth of the voting population of the state, controls the entire business and wel fare of the people. Would H not be wise on the part of the people ol Mis sissippi to raise the question of a quo rum and adopt, if possible, the demo cratic method that no business oould be transacted until a visible quorum were present at the polls? CmlesHta, VtaMtftr w£loh was recently crown, •d by the French academy I. “* •eteed of unusual merit ^2Lkh,P?*’ sentence of which the folto£i« ?* * translation: ‘‘It was midnight ** ? ®an who lay in ambush l£2£» ,A their eonrersation; but suddSu*0 dense dark cloud passed L • the moon, and prer“ted hli"£>» hearinsr more" Here Is an«Sh« phrase, written to full earnests ' master of French criticism: *l\** one of those duels <» -ki.v "*• tb,t,.r,M,t.oth.r. i inn french journal upon a dramatu s S°rike ftehf Uh Judl“’• tal°“* is like the froth on good champagne fte7r,,0f the scalpeUnto it, for if you do, there will remain naught but a pinch of ashes at the bottom of the alembic.” Another 1 French journal; hs speaking of thl T9Ul^^rU,n ^^PortVde olared: -This U the handiwork of * »«•» rSufferedTram Catarrh For more than a dozen years. I concluded try-Hood's Shrsapnrllla. T. Hare taken OTer bottlea-and I'amnowperfcctlyfrcafrom Hood’s 1 1%%%%%% parilla tarrh. 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