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THE DATLY EXAMINER, CILARLOTTETOWN, DECEMBER 15, 1897

co FARM DAIRY.

pescription of a Home Creamery Where Fauecy Butter Is Made.

Yn nearly all cases where there is a qeamery in the neighborhood it pays frm people to sé nd their milk or gram to it fo be worked up. Still @ere are cases W here a well equipped game dairy is thé thing to be desired. Where private customers can be obtain-

g@who will give a first rate price for

fancy butter it will pay farm people to

pike extra pains with the butter. They tava control of the quality of the milk god cream, and every facility is in their ova hands.

Mr. Jared Van Wagenen, Jr., furnish- @ to The Rural New Yorker the de- eription and iilustrations of such a godel family butter making dairy. We pake some ©.iracts from the pleasant

Mr. Van Wagencen says:

Generally I think the preforable loca- tien for the farm dairy room will be within or attached to the rear of the dwelling house.

Itwas after a good deal of thought tat our own dairy room was Iccated in the house instead of the barn, and on + @ tewhole we have never regretted the _# éision. But wherever located it is of 8 prime necessity that it be constructed “B wasto be affected as little as may be

q outside temperature—i. e., it should cool in summer and easily warmed $i winter, and the same methods in *B building will secure both results. This )} pes that it should have at least one §@ better, (wo dead air spaces in the + galls, separated by boards and building fre. It should have no more windows ‘}ricors than needed, and the windows

dmuld be protected by shutters or heavy ‘Gattins. The inside would better be of

foiling staff, either Georgia pine or any

bod painted some light cream color. @etioor should be of cement or well sygee matched pine or odk. The cement is the most expensive, but if a sat- tory job is done will be best. Ce- at floors, however, are often poor on it of cracks and depressions due Wpixk of skill in making. /§ Valess economy compels, even a small foom should be supplied with a engine. Its advantages are so y. especially that of having steam Mating water and disinfecting all é is. Of course the engine should . Mtitioned off to avoid dirt and and, above all, the heat from the eet in summer. ‘Pleckary and butter worker should tar each other and placed as seems convenient. Near the churn should iwashing sink, supplied if possible Stunning spring water. It should war the churn, so that the water tasily be taken to wash the butter. Mar as possible to the butter worker i be the table on which to wrap it Duiter. A marble slab is the or- itthing fora fancy dairy, but a Wooden table serves the purpose = Ps Guite as well. Over the wash- eet tek pure water and live steam beon tap. Water can be heated by turning a jet of steam into @ the disagreeable noise thus pro- tan be avoided by having « ‘‘suc- tie” enabling one to draw a stream “fer nearly to the boiling tempera- Without much noise.

THE MANAGER.

Much Pay Should a Creamery Saper- intendent Receive? -.. Geamery Journal sent letters of 7 a large number of creamery 7m 8 asking how much pay they Bl whether they thought they re "*0ugh meney for their services. ' MeWers showed in almost every ! the Mapiger received no ade- Te ™ pensation for the large round 4s teuuired of him. A creamery : “annot be successful unless he kis Whole time to the factory, and ‘annot do unless he has salary to support him and his family ae TT aud have something left Oe, ter he must neglect the cream- eS et his family go half fed and

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Creamery Journal says on this _ 08 One or two other impor- Ponts: Mbject is ot great importance, ~ Students of the co-operative ‘ “carried on ia this country at <n that it is a dangerous

Waich many a creamery has

a vettion is, Is it possible to con- og maine involving the manufac- ™Y, $60,000 worth of a delicate ble product properly and

toe O88 year after year at am ex- % ision and management a 875 to $360 a year? Would any

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, fonducting a business of 4 Magnitude in any line intrust nt of it toan employee so for his geryices? Is it yea-

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Fonable to expect a Larmer who nas Dis own farm to look after (as most of them have) to devote his best energies and thought to the management of a cream- ery, assuming all of the responsibilities of the office year after year, for the mis- erable pittance of $75 per annum?

A prominent New York buyer and exporter tells us that while in Chicago recently he sent out 22 telegrams to co- operative creamery managers, making them an offer of from one-fourth to one- half cent per pound more than they were getting for their product and re- questing an answer by wire. He re- ceived in the course of two days two replies, one by letter and the other by telegraph. He wanted to contract for a

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sponsible house back of him, and au- thority to pay a price that would glad- ly be snapped up by any good business man, he felt confident that he could quickly do the business.

Why did the secretaries not reply? Why were they and why are they in nine cases out of ten indifferent to any kind of a business proposition which in- volves their personal responsibility?

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SCHEME TO SWELL DIVIDENDS.

Device Employed by Some Gas Companies and How to Thwart It.

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churn, so this cow hus been fairly prof- itab We have six others that have gol ove 400 pounds. | highest { testing COW reaches 7.6, but her limit ( in milk is I8 pounds per day. The best 2- Vi ar-old heifer gave 6,223 pounds of 5.2 per cent milk, or an average of over one pound of butter per day. These rec-

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Our herd of 28 to 80 cows and heifers have averaged one pound of butter each per day for the past year.

We keep a set df records so complete that any cow or heifer can be traced back to her calfhood, and not only her milk vield is accounted for, but any pe- culiarity she may have is recorded for our own benefit and also for those who may have her in charge in the future. —Buff Jersey in Hoard’s Dairyman.

Qilaivinnainnineindniry,

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Scientific school, where he made a special study of the chemistry of illuminating gases, he quickly found a position with one of the older gas companies in a city which shall be nameless. He remained two years and then resigned. He had been reared in the Methodist faith, and he con- fided to a friend that he could not retain his position without doing violence to his protesting conscience.

“It is a good thing for corporations that they have no souls,’’ he said when chat- ting about his experiences, ‘‘as they are relieved of all fear of future punishment. The eighth commandment is apparently unknown to the general manager of the company with which I was associated. Did you ever have gas bills rendered for amounts seemingly out of all proportion to the quantity of gas you thought you had burned?”’

Every member of the group nodded a vigorous affirmative.

‘**Possibly your meters are defective,’’ he observed, ‘‘but in the district served by my former employers there was always a ‘kick’ comirg from the consumers, and yet the meters were absolutely accurate in their operation. Every month the com- pany collected from 10 to 15 per cent more than it was honestly entitled to, which Was a tidy little profit on the side. How was it managed? Easily enough. Every night shortly after midnight the pressure in the mains was raised encrmously. Un- der this increased pressure the gas was forced through the meters end compressed in the various pipes in the building of the consumer. Naturally the meters accurate- ly registered all the gas thus forced through them. Later the pressure was reduced be- low the normal, and there was a return flow through the pipes, but as the meters would not back register the gas flowed through them from the house to the mains without producing any alteration in the figures. Sticking to this system of pump- ing, the compeny succeeded in getting a showing at the end of the month that was largely in its favor.”’

‘““Was there no way in which the con- sumer could protect himself?’’ inquired one curious member of the circle of listen- ers. “Certainly, but as he knew nothing of the method by which he was being swin- dled the simple checkmating scheme never occurred to him. The prudent man who carefully turned off his gas at the meter every night when he was through with it paid only for what he got. The ‘milking’ of the meters was then impossible."

And every one who heard how it tas done made a mental resolution to use the meter shut off thenceforward, even while consoling himself that the Chicago com- panies are above resorting to any pcity fraud of this character.—Chicage Tin.cs- Herald.

Jerseys In Texas.

I wish to give your readers some per- formances of Texas and Springside Jer- seys. First let me say to those who have tame grass pastures and hay that the Jersey cow im Texas has to make her record without either of these. She has wild grass pasture in summer (pro- viding it is not dried up, as it now is) and oat hay or crab grass hay in win- ter, with shocked sorghum in some cases. We have ensilage, bat in the three seasons I have been here only this year has the quality been what it should be, But forall the above against her the Jersey of Texas has not much to be ashamed of. Our champion cow of past

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Stage ‘tragedies, '

One of the dramatic little stories of Mr. F. Frankfort Moore, the London novelist, turns on the actual stabbing of a Juliet by a jealous Romeo during a performance in a German court theater. Such tragic incidents have not infre- quently occurred in the annals ef opera and playhouse. In our own city’s chief lyr: theater last season we had what seemed the lively comedy of an actor something leading up to his sudden death, when the unfortunate Castle- mary, as Sir Tristan Mickleford, was pursued ty the crowd of Rick» cndfair folk in ‘‘Martha’’ There are at least a dozen well attested suicides that have becn consummated by Inckless actors o1 Singers under cover of the tragic move- ment of their part. A more recent ex- ample eccurred at the theater in Arad, Hungary, when a well known leading na inher of the company, Koloman Pal- la, put a real and loaded revolver to his

forehead in concluding the last act of the night's drama. We fell dead, amid am immense demonstration of applause trom a crowded house quite unaware of the reality of the actor’s emotion and gestures. Ile was a man of excellent family and bright in professional pros- pects, disappointed in love, morbid, aud, as he grimly wrete to a friend, “determined to end his days as an actor eught to do—to the satisfaction of his public.’’—Harper’s Weekly.

Halfpenny Dinners.

Near to Whitechapel churék, London. is a shop where a dinner can be pro- cured for a halfpenny. The “‘halfpenny dimner’’ is not served upin the shape of a cut from the joint and two vegeta- bies. It is a big brown “‘pie,’’ very juicy and very hot. The absence of beefsteak is evident when you bite the pie, but you find inside a good sprin- kling of onions, carrots and sheep’s liver, with a plentiful supply of gravy.~ Be- tween the hours of 12 and 2 the poor aud hungry from all parts of the east end flock to this shop. There are shoe- blacks, penny toy men, costers and clerks ‘‘out of collar. ’’—Londom Stand- ard.

The Nerves,

Piercing the flesh with even the finest needie hurts, because the nerves are so thickly matted just under the skin that not even the finest point can be intro- duced without wounding one or mare.

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IN THE LONG AGO.

When the St, Louis Spaniards Marched

Against the Michigan English.

A Spanish army came to Chicago in the long ago. The minor details of it and the finer statecraft reasons of it are hidden in the catacombs of the Escu- rial along with tons of other docnu- ments that will mever see the light again. But we know that those men of war marched over the Illinois prairies, and that they were sent to increase the dominions of their sovereigns,

By the treaty of Paris, signed in 1763, France ceded to Spain all of that vast territory known as Louisiana, which stretched from the mouth of the Missis- sippi to the Canadian line. In 1781 Great Britain was at war with the United States, Spain, Holland and France. St. Louis was a Spanish town, and English officers attacked it at the Indians. They were de- feated with little trouble and retreated.

In revenge the Spanish commander at St. Louis, which his people called **San Luis de Ilinois,’’ planned a raid against the. British post of St. Joseph. It was a fort or eutpost, located at a point two miles from the present city of Benton Harbor, Mich., and 60 miles northwest of Chicago, across the lake. The force begam its leng, difficult and dangerous journey on Jan. 2, 1781. They ‘estimated the distance at 220 leagues, or 660 miles, and subsequent surveys have proved that they were re- markably good guessers. It was officer- ed by Captain Eugenio Purre, command- ing, and Lieutenant Carlos Tayon. The interpreter was Luis Chevalier. Chiefs Electurno and Nequigen led the 60 In- dians of the Fox and Pottawatomie tribes. There were 65 Spanish volun- teers, in all 130 men, selected with special reference to their ability to with- stand the arduous journey.

They marched up the Mississippi riv- er to the mouth of the Illinois and thence along the track of the French explorers and voyagers. The route took them up the Illinoig river past Fort Creve Coeur (Peoria) to old Fort St. Louis (Starved Rock). Here they plant- ed the blood stained banner of Aragon and Castile. A century before from that rocky eminence La Salle had unfurled the fleur-de-lis of France. Subsequently the British flag had waved over it. Now Old Glory waves there in peace and beauty.

Purre’s force toiled in snow and ice to the junction of the Kankakee and Desplaincs rivers. They followed the Dc: piaines to a point west of what is now South Chicago and came to the lake at its southern edge. They found it a desolate region of swamps and sand dunes. Theace they marched to their destination. ;

The small garrison of St. Joseph fled to Detroit at the news of their approach, and all of the stores fell into the hands of the invaders. They proclaimed the sovereignty of Spain over this section and divided the stores. After resting some days they began their return march over the fermer route. They reached St. Louis in safety after a midwinter march of nearly 1,400 miles through a hostile country. They had few casualties and gathered much plunder. — Chicago Chronich.

Atlantic Currents,

It is am interesting fact in the records of scientific progress that the United States navy has for a long time past been dropping bottles overboard in the Atlantic ocean at the Azores, in deep water along the coast of Spain and from the Madeira and the Canaries south- ward along the coast of Africa. The fact that all these bottles that have been recovered have been found on the coast of South America, on the Antil- les, and some of them as far west as the mouth of the Rio Grande, suggests the inference that every buoyant object which has been dropped into the ocean during the present geological epoch by prehisteric or historic Spaniards, Por- tuguese ar Africans has found its way to America and been stranded some- where between the tenth parallel south and the thirtieth parallel north. In the northern part of the Atlantic ocean the currents run the other way, and the mails hawe been delivered from Ameri- ca to Europe. In the Pacific ocean the daily mails delivered on the west coast of America from Mount St. Elias south- ward have proceeded from about the twentieth parallel north, in the vicini- ty of the Malay peninsula and archipel- ago, thence have waveled through the China sea and the .j..panese sea to pick up matters desigueu i. the western hemisphere,

Eureka Gas,

The name of Hur ku pas is given toa new illuminant, expected to rival acety- lene. This gas, as described in Inven- tion and originated by M. Hector de Favi of Montetfizscone, Italy, is obtained as follows: Lime as pure as possible is employed as a base, colophony and cal- tium carbide being added—1,000 parts a#f the mixture ready for use consisting of 900 of quicklime, 50 of colophony and 50 of calcium carbide—and there is said to be no liability of explosion by mixing with air. No heating of water and no special burner is needed. One thousand parts of the mixture give 60 liters of gas ata pressure of 35 milli- meters of water, and the photometric intensity of the flame is stated to be 92.4 candle hours, while the same amount of calcium carbide employed singly would give only 18 candle hours. Thus, it is asserted, the new gas is 50 per cent cheaper than acetylene, or that at equal cost it wil] give half as much nore light

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We are in the Dairy Supply business to stay, notwith- standing the unfair competition of an official whose travelling expenses are paid out of the public frnds. We pay our own. and will compete with any o* the Quebec houses thus repre- sented for quality of workmanship in cheese vats. cream vats, either single or duplex, portable or stationary, temper- ing or receiving vats, and all other Dairy Supplies in stock er to crder at short notice.

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Separator oil that will insure safe running at extreme speed than any other on the market.

Butter Boxes for storing and shipping butter in.

Dairy planis will ran without an expert engineer on hand.

Boilers that will save fuel over any other has been imported so far. Xngines that do not require to be driven to extreme speed te obtaiu enough pow-r, All work warranted for une year.

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