Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-05-25
THE cow TREE.

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THE cow TREE.
Sir Joseph Hooker, OF London,
publishes description of a tree
which has been discovered. called the
Cow tree" which gives milk when an
incision is made in the bark. Sever
al of the trees have been brought to
England. and they are being watched
with much curiosity. Nothing could
have been discovered that would
more effectually fill the bill, and fill
the want long felt. than the COW
tree, and we shall herald its introduc-
ton into this country with great joy.
The parties who are interested in the
propagation of the COW tree can send
lis two or three by express. We do
not want full sized COW trees, but
Just saplings, or calves. With few
such trees in the front yard. the citi =
zen can make up faces at the driver
of the milk wagon, and bid him de
fiance. Instead of going forth in the
morning armed with milk ticket
and a tin basin, man can take his
little hatchet and a pail and cut a
hole in the COW tree, sit down under
its outrageous shade and let nature
take its course. The farmer will have
no more kicking COWS to contend
with, but can let his cow tree milk it
self, while he sits down at the root of
his milk producer and smokes his
pipe or plays seven up with the hired
man. There will be no more hoist
ing there no tail to switch in his
face, and no more will the COW tree
get nervous at having its bag agitated
by the rough hand of the farmer,
and kick the milk pail over the fence
and kick the milk stool through the
granger. There will be no more fod-
der to throw down, no more bran
mashes to mix, and no calves to wean
as it is probable the cow tree will be
farrow forever, and not go believing
around trying to hook the butcher
who tries to take the calf away. The
cow tree will take work off the tired
farmer, and he can go to town to at
tend the lodge without hurrying up
the milking. as the girls can mind
the diary. 1t will be a mighty poor
girl that cannot milk a cow tree.
The improvements over the cow will
be numerous. BY building an ice
house near the cow tree one can have
ice cream, and by the aid of handy
jug milk punch can be made to the
queens fasts. Instead of driving the
cows up from the pasture at night,
and stopping them, and sitting
cramped up, milking with one hand
and fighting mosquitoes with the
other, the farmers daughter can have
double seat under the COW tree, and
take pail and lover and go out to
milk, and while the COW tree is Civ
ing down its blessings, the young
people can put in the time sparkling.
No family should be without the cow
tree, and we trust the day is not far
distant when the old-fashioned COW
will only be raised for beef, the calf
that is now more trouble than he is
worth, will not be tolerated at all,
and the COW tree Will grow in pro
fusion, always ready to fill patent
pail full of rich milk, and not hook
the daylights out of the mixer. In
the days that are coming there will
be no cow to tie up nights. no danger
of Il raid on the garden by the horned,
four footed tramp that unhinges
gates, and no COW bell TO keep a whole
neighborhood awake nights. We
take it for granted that the cow tree
will not wear bell, and that it
will not below mournfully and paw
the earth when the people are trying
to sleep. We hail the cow tree as a
brother, or sister, as the case may be,
and bid it welcome. Goodbye, old
brindle. You have been a faithful
servant, and have given milk when
you had to, but you have gone off
and got lost when most we needed
milk, and when you came back you
were not worth continental. You
never knew enough to come home
without having barefooted boy sent
after you. and you would eat leeks
when you knew we were going to
have company. and your milk was
bad Step aside, brindle, and give
the COW tree a chance Peck's Sun.
Nj. Ancelin, French experiment
alist and the discoverer of the system
of heating with crystalline acetate of
soda, has demonstrated the much
slower cooling of foot warmers con
tanning that substance than that of
the ordinary ones with water. Two
leading French lines of railway bave
this system in general use, and in
England the London and Northwest
ern Railway, which had last year
5000 of such warmers in service, has
this year 5000. Applications of the
system have also been made in Italy,
Spain and Portugal, and it is pointed
out that among other applications of
the same principle are the heaters for
beds, dishes, poultices, muffs AMI feed
ing bottles.
A writer in the Boston Transcript
thus relates tale of woe: THE young
lady came and tried to sell me man
uscript story. My teacher likes it,
she said, when repeated our usual
formula of no space, no money, DC
time and no anything to her. Teach
er an editor?' l inquired mildly. No
indeed was the answer, she's a per
son of refinement and education