McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-05-14
Industrial Brevities.

fair crop of fruit. Peach buds were
killed by the severe cold in all pOr-
tions of the state, except in the south
central, where the promise for full
crop is encouraging. Pears and cher
ries promise an average yield, except
in the extreme northern counties, where
they were damaged considerably
during the winter. Blackberries and
raspberries suffered from freezing, and
will not make an average crop. The
harder varieties of grape promise an
abundant yield in all sections, while
strawberries will make about half
crop. The prospect for a fruit crop is
much more encouraging than was an
ticipated. Persons living in isolated
regions in the territory are fond of
stating that there are no insects to
trouble fruit. or the trees and vines
that produce it. They seek to convey
the impression that there is something
in the localities where they live that is
untavorable to insects. This, how
ever, is not the case. 1t is only ques-
ton of time when insects, high taxes,
and paupers will be as common there
as in other places.
Henry Woodford, farrier, was pros
ecuted the other day in London by
the Society for the Prevention of Cru
city to Animals for having burnt the
mouth of a horse for .'lampas," which
is an inflammation of the roof of the
mouth caused by teething or disor-
dered stomach. A witness stated that
he saw the horse held by switch on
the nose, whilst WOodford was smear
ing the roof of the mouth with hot
iron. There was Il quantity of smoke,
and frizzling noise arising from the
burning of the flesh, and the animal
was moving its head backward and
forward as if in great pain. The
magistrate dismissed the charge, as
the "evidence showed that veterinary
surgeons were divided in opinion as to
the treatment for lampas.
Mr. A. G. Tichenor, says a London
paper, has lately patented process by
which a current is passed through
milk contained in vessel of special
form, and butter is formed in little
balls on one or the electrodes. 1t is
said that to extract the butter from
forty-tive litres of milk, the current
from dynamO-electric machine
equivalent to that of about forty Dan
Tell cells. for from three to five min
utes is all that is required. With such
a current the balls of butter are sutfi-
emily voluminous to detach them
selves from the electrode and float to
the surface of the milk but the butter
thus obtained has still to be churned,
so as to work the small pieces into a
compact mass.
In filming three butchers, a short
time ago, for selling blown mutton,
Justice Massey, of Brooklyn, maze
the following sensible remarks: ''It
seems 30 me that butcher who sells
diseased met is as guilty as an apoth-
ecarv who sells poison. The fact that
the Druggist WAS ignorant of the ma
ture of the goods he sold would be no
excuse, and if he knowingly sold pois- |
on because it cost him less than the |
drug asked for he would be guilty of
q great crime. The same is true of |
these butchers | think they should |
not be allowed to sell If they don't |
know diseased meat. and should be |
severely dealt with if they knowingly |
sell it."
II is often Il mystery why built |
and carefully-managed houses, espe-
cially in the country, burn down. An
of unsupported causes was |
found by the Sanitary Science club of |
Boston on one of its visits of inspec-
ton to the houses of the members.
The cellar had been lathed and plas-
tered, and the wood was allowed to
touch the hot-air pipes of the furnace
in four out of the six places where the
pipes passed through. The aim
seemed 10 be to make rs tight joint !
as possible. A very hot fire could
hardly have failed to char the laths.
An Endlish paper says: Lord South
esk's choice herd of polled cattle was
sold off at Kinnaird last Wednesday.
Fair prices were realized, but only
four were sold for the American mar
ket, which were purchased by Lord
Airlie's factcr for Mr.. LyuIph Oglivy's
,arm in Colorado. Several lots were
bought by Lord Aberdeen and Lord
Strathmore for their respective herds
The breakup OF the Kinnard farm and
is greatly regretted by
Iii classes in Forfarshire.
Prof. Sheldon says the daily school
near Cork has had the effect of per-
;eptibly raising the average of butter
IN the south OF Ireland. A number of
Young women have been we'll drilled
n the principles of butter-makIng in
that valuable institution, aud these in
turn have carried the reform into the
localities in which they live. The spir-
it of emulation is extending, and the
people are beginning to take pride in
their dairy work.
Reports received from fifty of the
one hundred cattle ranges on the
Cherokee strip, the great cattle belt of
The west, show that the results Of the
severe storms of the winter have not
been so disastrous rs were anticipated.
and a loss of less than II per cent. of
through cattle have died thus far.
With the wintered cattle it has not
been so serious, the death rate among
hem being below ) per cent.
The business of associated butter