Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-01-02

"a 'nis special OBJECT. The origin o.
the Ayrshire breed is not exactl,
known. 1t seems to have arisen bv .
process OF selection made with a view
10 1.-THE production OF milk and hardness
OF constitution, without much regard
TO anything else. Very likely there
has been mixture of varions elements.
for we learn that there were importa.
tons OF Durham cattle by the Earl of
Marchmont in 1850, of Dutch cows
by Mr.. Dunlop, of Dunlop, about the
year l160. There has probably also
been an infusion of the Alderney, or
breed of the Channel Islands, for
Qualye, who wrote the Agricultural
Survey Of Jersey, stated that the Ayr
shire was cross between the Short
horns and the Attorney while Colonel
lie Contour informs us that General
Andrew Gordon, then Governor
of Jersey, about the end of the
last century, sent some of the best cat.
tie to Scotland. A veterinary book,
published at Glasgow in 1894, likewise
states that the Dunlop cows, which
were considered the best mixers, had
been produced by crossing the native
COWS with bulls brought from the Is
land of Attorney. The general re-
semblance of the Ayrshire and Alder
ney cattle has been noticed by Prof.
Low and Colonel lie Contour. Youatt,
however, seems to think that the Ayr
shire breed has originated from cross
of the Holderness witt, the Highlander,
the former giving the milk properties
and the latter the hardness of consti-
tuition and small size. The prevailing
color of the Ayrshires is red and white
in various mixtures sometimes they are
wholly red, but / believe never wholly
white, which Is rather curious, for in
the Short Horn, which is also red and
white in all proportions, pure white
animals are constantly occurring, as if
there were an innate tendency to that
color.
The Alden Fruit Preserving Process.
A Committee from the American In
stitute Farmers Club recently visited
an establishment in New Jersey where
the Alden Fruit Preserving Process is
made use of On large scale, and made
a very eulogistic report. 1t is proper
to say that on the Committee were men
in whose good judgement we have con-
fidence. The Committee close as fol-
lows
TO sum up, the advantages Of the
Alden process of preparing fruit so as
to keep in any climate and all seasons,
are: First, the fruit retains its natur.
al flavor. Second, the process is con-
Quoted quickly, and in the dark hence
the fruit cannot change color, because
it has been deprived of the water,
through which oxygen acts, before it
reaches the light and air. Third, 1t
may be prepared very cheaply and
in market it brings higher
rate than any of tie dried fruits it
enables travellers, or ships on long
voyages to take with them in a small
space fruirs and vegetables having all
the properties Of those fresh from the
garden. Fourth, being evaporated out
of the air, flies do not speck them, nor
does dust become Incorporated in the
pores. Fifth, by the nature of the pro-
cess, a part OF the starch of the fruit or
vegetable is converted into grape
sugar, hence the articles evaporated by
the Alden process require less sugar in
cooking than even the fresh materiel.
Sixth, the meshes CT the trays being
made of Irvine, no taste is impaired to
the fruit and, seventh, there being no
moist acid to act on either tin or wood
in which it may be packed, the Alden
fruits or vegetables are absolutely free
from any taste or smell of tin, or lead
poison, or anything except those tlavors
and acids natural to them