Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-22

crop is encouraging Pears and cher.
|Sries promise an average yield, except
I'M thee extreme orthern com ties, 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 q half
crop The prospect for q fruit crop is
much moro encouraging than was an
ticipated. Persons living in isolated
regions in the territory are fond 81
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
iuntayorable to insects. This, how.
ever, is not the case. II 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
5ecuted the other day in London BY
the Society for the Prevention of Cru
city to Animals for having burnt the
nlonth Of q horse for .slampas.' which
~ an inflammati ton Of the roof Of the
mouth caused by teething or disor-
dered stomach. A witness stated that
he saw the horse held by a, switch on
the nose, whilst Woodford was smear
ing the roof of the mouth with IL hot
iron. There was a quantity of smoke,
and THRILLING 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. c. Tichenor, says London
paper, has lately patented a process by
which a current is passed through
milk contained in a vessel of special
form, and butter is formed in little
balls on one OF the electrodes. 1t is
said that to extract the butter from
forty-tiye litres of milk, the current
from a dynamo-electric machine
equivalent to that of about forty DAN
lell cells. for from three to five min
utes is all that is required With such
a current the balls Of butter are sut1i.
emily yoluminous 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 fining three butchers, a short
time ago, for selling blown mutton,
Justice Massey, of Brooklyn, MADE
the following sensible remarks: sit
seems 70 me that a butcher who sells
diseased met is as guilty as an apoth-
ecary 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
a great crime. The same is true of
these butchers. I think they should
not be allowed to sell If they dom t
know diseased meat. and should be
severely dealt with if they knowingly
sell it,
II is often mystery why well-built
and carefully-managed houses, espe-
cially in the country, burn down. An
illustration 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 throu gh. The aim
seemed TO be to make as tight a 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 ut Kinnaird last Wednesday.
Fair prices were realized, but only
four were sold for the American mar
ket, which were purchased by Lord
Airlie's factor for Mr.. Lyulph Oglivy's
farm in Colorado. Several lots were
bought by Lord Aberdeen and Lord
Strathmore for their respective herds.
The breakup OF the Kinnard farm aud
establishment is greatly regretted by
ali classes in Forfarshire. '".> q
Prof. Sheldon says tho daily school
near Cork has had the effect of per-
ceptibly raising the average Of butter
in the south of Ireland. A number of
young women have been well drilled
in the principles of butter-maklng in
that valuable institution, and 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. -. 4
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 as 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
them being below 3 per cent. s..:..I.
The business of associated butter
by the cream gathering sys-
tenn, is rapidly extending in Connecti-
CUT. Severa, new enterprises of the
kind are being organized, and others
still are being talked up. The South
ington creamery reports the average
net earnings per COW, for the year 1884,
to have been 1854, the gross process be-
ing $40 per cow, short of $15 per COW
for expenses. It'll Y
The farmers of the interior of
West Virginia are truly afflicted. A
heavy loss Of stock by the great search
t. of food and the extreme cold is now
followed bv ravages by wolves. which