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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02

water within the crcamer. The gatherer
skins it or, puts it In spaced can and sets
1t down in his accounts Then all the skim
milk is left at home to be fed to the pigs and
chickens.
BY the use of the dreamer system and send
ing away the cream to be churned, o fourth
OF the farm wife's labor is saved. More is
got from the cows all around than under the
old way, Much more indeed. The butter
milk is barreled and sold from the creamery
at about Is of cent gallon, or it can be
better kept at homo and hogs fattened omit
When the butter comes into its granular
form, the buttermilk is run Off into the drain
to the cstern. Through hose attached TO
an elevated tank, brine is let into the churns
and the butter is thoroughly washed There
is thus but little lifting from beginning to
end 1t is all done by gravity so far as pos
sible. When well rinsed the butter is trans
ferred to the worker. This is a roller instead
of the lever worker so commonly used. IL
does not tear the grain and makes the butter
firm. After being thoroughly worked, the
butter stands in trays for several hours and
is again rewoked, getting out all the butter
milk and water that can possibly be eX-
tracted. This twice working is considered
imperative if the superior tirmneSS and stay
ing" or keeping qualities of the butter are to
be maintained.
Butter color is used, though surely it would
not he needed if the cream was from Jersey
cows properly fed Avoid all humbug, and
if you can't avoid it, avoid it us much as you
can.
The butter is put into one-pound prints
stamped with the name Of the creamery.
This work is done very rapidly by means OF
the foot-power print, which gauges the exact
weight and does the work III an instant.
For dairy of fifty COWS, a creamery out.
fit can be bought for $50 that will answer
the purpose.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02
Cement Floors,

an regard to cement floors for stables, we
have one that has been in use seven or eight
years. and it is in good shape yet and with
but little wear, and about three years ago we
put in another III new barn and that re-
mains good. | have reference to their use
for cows | have never used them for horses
Tic way we made ours is as follows: We first
build wall of common mortar and stone
lcngthwiSc of the stable and even with the
front side of the manager, and within two
inches rs high rs we want the floor when
completed Then we measure back from the
front side of the manger the width OF the
Manager and platform for the COWS to stand
on. Then we stretch line through and set a
row of tagging stone by this line to form the
drop or manure gutter. These stones should
be from one and half to two or three inches
thick and from ten inches upward III width.
Set them up edgcwise and ms high rs the floor
is wanted, then pave i'll between the tagging
and the wall first built with common field
stones and sand or loan, using a straight
edge from the wall to the flags, and notch out
two inches from the end that is used on the
flags to prevent the paving stones from com
ing within two inches of the top OF the flags
SO as to have that thickness for the cement.
Then pave the strip through behind the cows,
making the drop of the desired depth. We
do not make gutter, but leave a strip about
four feet wide behind the cows for the ma
nure and walk back of that.
Care should be taken in paving to have
the stones all set down level-not to have
points projecting up, to make thin places In
the cement After paving, make thin
grouting, using four parts of sharp sand and
one of good water lime cement, Mix it well
in a box and turn it all over the floor, letting
it run and i'll all creviceS. Then make your
mortar 10y using three parts sand TO one Of
cement, and spread it on about two inches
thicl, even with the top of the tagging where
the cows stand.
"ThiS Should be done in warm weather, 50
that the cement will harden quickly. The
floor should not be used until it is thoroughly
dry and hard The benefits Of a cement floor
are: II does not rot ont, and it retains all the
liquid manure which can be saved by using
some ahsorbents, and there is no harbor un-
darncath for rats and mice 1t is very durn-
bic, and not very expensive when farmers do
the work themselves. There is nothing about
it that cannot he done by any ordinary farm
er. '-lIusbandman.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
INTERESTING SKETCH OF A c.
OPERATIVE CREAMERY.

A Crop of Widows and school Marms.
Pictures of Building, Ground Plan
and Second Floor of Successful
CIcsmery-Farmers Pulling Together.
The tendency of the new butter and cheese
darying is now to collect the cream or milk
all into one central factory, and there work
it W. The substitution of the old-faShioned
dasher churn in the single farmhouse for the
large central factory to which the cream Is
sent to be worked up is only a question of
time The hand churn will follow the hand
loom
The large butter factories are carried on in
two ways. First there is the proprietary
plan. In this the owner Of the factory
simply buys the cream of the farmers at so
much per quart, hauls it to his factory and
makes it into butter, which he sells Mt the
highest price he can get. Next is the CO
operative plan. In this system the farmers
elect their officers The officers construct the
factory and equip it out of the capital stock,
hire butter maker and superintendent, and
manufacture the cream or milk furnished by
the patrons. After paying expenses the
balance left is each month divided among the
patrons according to the amount of cream
furnished. In this way the farmers get all
tine money that can possibly be made out Of
the business The expenses are kept down to
the lowest limit, no fancy profit is paid to a
manufacturer or middleman,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02
FOOD FRAUDS,
The Shameru use of Alum in Cheap Eah-
Ing Powder.

Many food frauds, such as chicory coffee
or watered milk, although they are swindie
in commercial sense, are often tolerated
because they do not particularly effect the
health of the consumer: but when an article
like baking powder, that enters largely into
the food of every family, and is relied upon
for the healthful preparation of almost every
meal, is so made rs to carry highly injurious,
if not rankly :posououS, elements into the
bread TO the imminen danger of the entire
community, it is the duty of the press to de-
nounce the practice in the most emphatic
terms.
Among recent important discoveries by the
food analysis is that by Prof Mott, the l, ).
Government Chemist of large amounts OF
lime aud alum in the cheap baking powders.
These are, one the most dangerous, and the
other the most useless, adulterants yet found
in the low grade inferior baking powders.
1t is a startling fact that Of over one hundred
different brands Of baking powder SO far AN
alyzed comprising all those sold in this vi
cinity, not one of them, with the single ex
ceprion of the Royal Baking Powder, was
found free from both lime and alum. The
chief service of lime is to add weight. 1t is
true that lime, when subjected TO heat gives
off certain amount of Carhonic acid gas,
hut quick lime is left-a causlic so powerful
that il is used by tanners to eat the hair
from hides Of animals, and IN disscctlng
room. to more quickly rot the flesh from the
bones of dead subjects. A small quantity Of
dry lime on the tongue or in the eye pro
duces painful effects: how much more serious
must these effects be upon the delicate mem
braaces of the stomach, intestines and kid
ncys, more particularly of infants and child
rem, and especially when the hme Is taken
into The sysrcm day after dry, and with al.
most every meal This is said by physicians
to be one of the chief causes Of indigestion,
dyspepsia, and those painful diseases Of the
kidneys now so prevalent. Instances Of the
most serious affection, OF the latter organs
from drinAing lime waters found III some
sections of the west are noted in every med
zeal journal.
Adulteration with lime is quite as much to
be dreaded rs with alum, which has hereto
fore received the most emphatic condemna
ton from every food analyst, physician and
che nist for the reason that, while alum is
probably partially dissolved and passed off
in the heat of baking, it is impossible to des
troy or change the nature of the lime in any
degree, so that the entire amount in the bak-
ing powder passes, with all its injurious prop
critics, into the stomach. When we state that
the chemists have found twelve per cent. or
one eighth of the entire weight of some sam
pies of baking powder analysed. to be lime,
the wickedness of the adulteration will be
fully apparent
Pure baking powders are one of the chief
aids to the cook in preparing perfect and
wholesome food While those are to be oh
tanned of wcll-established reputation, like
the Royal, of whose purity there has never
been and cannot be question, it is proper
to avoid all others.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02
The Free Press says:

More stringent means must be adopted to
prevent the further spread Of diprheria in
this city. While up to within the last day
or two there has been but one or two cases
lingering al, NJ it seems that the dreaded di-
Sease has taken a new hold on the populace.
While it has not assumed the form of an cpl
demic. the authorities should remember thai
winter is fast approaching, the season when
this disease is most obdurate and malignant.
The board of education has acted wisely IN
refusing to open the schools until diphtheria
had disappeared and it is sincerely hoped
by the parents of the city that the board will
wisely cling to this determination and not
open schools next week, nor the week after
uuesss it is perfectly safe to do so.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02

The Southern CultiVator gives the follow
ing formula for "A famous fertilizer in the cot
ton states;
The materials of Furmans compost are
barnyard manure, cotton seed, acid phosphate
and kainit. The proportions are thirty bushels
each Of the first two 400 pounds Of phosphate
and POO pounds of kainit. These may either
be intimately mixed ut first, or put in alter
nato layers Of cotton seed. phosphate and
kainit, and manure, and 80 on. The whole
to 10 well moistened and the mixing, In the
latter case, effected by cutting down the mass
clear through from top 10 bottom You could
add to heap from time to time, using al
ways the same proportions, but ii is usual to
make up all of IA given heap at one time. II
the heap is made in pens, as it should be-, with
perpendicular sides and at least four feet
high. and the compost covered on top with
layer of rich earth six inches thick, there is
no necessity for n roof; rain, unlcSs, very ex-
c.sSsivc, viii not moro than keep the mass rs
moist Us it should he. The compost should
be put up at least three weeks before it is to
be applied; it is usually done six to eight
weeks in advance.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02
WINDSOR CREAMERY BUILDING

A description of one of the best paying of
these cooperative creameries will interest
our readers. One thing is certain: If farmers
will hang together, will use their wits, work
like brothers into each others hands, and
will keep their pluck and courage up, they
are bound to come out on top.
The Windsor creamery is in Connecticut.
1t paid from the start 1t was begun with a
capital of $1,000, divided into SIS shares,
This paid for buildings and outfit. 1t took a
good many farmers to raise 5000 among
them, but that made all the more stock
holders, and gavo more people u chance.
Start the creamery as near market as pos
sible 20 make the least expense for transpor-
tatiOn.
The Windsor creamery building was set
into hillside The site is in n dry sand bank,
but only few feet beyond tie buttermili
cistern, and several feet below the basement
floor of the creamery, runs ncvcr-tmllnS
brook which has steep fall, thus atforlins
absolutely perfect drainage, an all-lmportant
matter. The buttcrmili cisteIn is 50 arranged
that it can be- flushed ont into the brook in
the most thorough manner; thus 1t can never
become Il source of contamination by foul
olors getting back into the creamery through
the buttermik waste pipe. This Pipe is four
inch iron, 80 that its joints cannot be dis
located bv frost. \ never failing spring
about twenty rods distant runs into 1000
gallon cistern, the water being pumped 10y
the engine from the cistern into the tank on
the second floor, from which it is drawn into
the tcmpcring watts, churn, sinks, ot2., as re
quirrd The building is GOX2l feet in size.
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Part of the upper story can be finished
of for tenement rooms if desired. As the
milk is received at the door, seen to the left
in Fix l. 1t i, sent upstairs on the elevator and
is poured through the cream receiyer into
the cream temparinS watts below. Here tho
cream i, kept at 81 degrees, and frequently
stirred To let in the air and get 1t thoroughly
ri,enp-l. The cream Is drawn through troughS
into the Davis swing churns The outfit
costs SGT5. and is as follows: One G-horse
power engine and boiler, two 2OOgallon cream
tempcring watts, two No. 9swing churns, eight
2O-galOn cream gathering cans, one butter
sailing scale, two dairy pals, two thernome-
ters, one gallon dpper, two butter ladies
one self -gauging foot lever printer, six
No. . butter carriers, one No. improved
Eureka butter worker, shafting and pullcys
Each patron is also supplied with creamer
so that the cream il all raised under like con
ditions y good idea of the building Is given
in Flo. |, which shows the front elevation
The double door opens into the Office; the
further door is where the cream is received
and butter taken out The pump is TO the
buttermilk cistern. Tcan- can back up 10 it
and have the milk pumped into barrels. The
smaller building Is the icchouSe.
Only three persOrs contested with the
creamery receive regular pay: The butter
maker, SIS l-r month; cream gathcrcr, who
furnishes his own team, $50 per day; and
the secretary and treasurer, who for the
nominal sum of 81. - per month keeps all the
books, and is all interested ami efficient gen
eral assistant
The factory takes TIE milk from 10 cows
now and l. gradually increasing the number.
The cream Is raised III creamers at the farm
houses. The milk is strained into cans -
! s,on a. drawn from the udirr. the cover L.
W: uu ani the >an submerged u vucv ia the
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02

was expedient, more polite, better, tina. one
man-Jesus-shou loss his life than the
whole people come under the Roman anger.
He was Sadducee, naughty, self-willed and
despo,ic He was in Office for eighteen years,
with possibly some Of the changes then OK
curing, for five and twenty high priests are
reported in the century before Jerusalem fell.
Sunday School World.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02
A Crop of widows and schooImarms.

\ Cleveland grain house sent out n circular
20 one of its customC inquiring the amount
IF old crops on hand 81 that neighborhood.
The answer they got was a. fellows: AN
we've got in this nrighborEood Is three
widlcrs, two schoolmar ms, patch Of wheat,
the hog cholera, too much rain, about fifty
acres Of 'taters, and "A darn fool who married
a cross-eyed gal because she owns eighty
sheep and mule, which the same Is me, and
no more at present
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02

Those who believe that nature will work
off cough or cold should understand that
this is done at the expense OF the constitu-
ton. Each time this weakens the system,
and we all know that the termination of
this dangerous practice is a consumptive's
grave. Don't take the chanches, when a
fifty cent bottle of Dr. Bigelow's Positive
Cure will safely and promptly cure any re
cent cough, cold or throat or lung trouble.
Buy the dollar bottle of DR.. BigeIOw's POSI-
tive Cure. Sold by +, Y. Griggs.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02

The best on earth can truly be said of
Griggs Glycerine Salve, which is sure
cure for cuts bruises, scalds, burns, wounds,
and all other sores. Will positively cure
piles, letter and all skin eruptions. Try
this wonder healer Satisfaction guaranteed
or money refunded Only 20 cents. For
sale by +. y. Griggs. ..-..
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02

Credit is due the German women and ply.
sicians for first using Red Clover blossoms as
a medicine. Best res ults are obtained when
combined with other medicinal roots and
herbs. as in Dr. Jones Red Clover Tonic,
which is the best known remedy for all blood
diseases, stomach and liver troubles, PIN
Piles, costiveness, bad breath, piles, ague and
malarial diseases indigestion, loss ofappetite,
low spirits, hea iache, and all diseases of the
kidneys. Price so cents of +. u Griggs.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02

A farmer near Sycamore claims TO have
ten-acre lot of unbrOken prairie. He says
prairie chickens swarm there. He mentions
nothing Of buffalo or Indians, hence We con
clude that that spot of original soil has teen
partially reclaimed from barbarism.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02

A fellow in Bureau county, lately, stole a
part of a steam engine. and took it ''clean
away" Another chap pretended to be an off
Ger aud rugged himself up as detective, fol
lowed the thief, captured him, settled for $50
and skipped. Now the grand jury are trying
to indict some onei
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02
Planting Walnut and wild Cherry Trees.

Professor j. L. Budd tells MS, in The
Iowa Register, how TO start the seeds Of
these shy growers 1t is safer to plant in
early spring. With the shuCks on, spread
walnuts or butternuts on the ground in thin
layers at gathering time, and cover with six
or eight inches Of forest leaves. If where the
leaves ure liable TO blow Off, fastcn them by
spacing rails or sticks over them. Plant
where wanted as soon as ground is fit 10 work
in spring. Wash the pulp from pits OF black
cherry when gathered and dry on boards in
the shade for two or three days, with frequent
stirring. Then mix with four times the bulk
Of sand and pack in shallow covered box or
boxes. Bury the boxes just below the sur
face on dry ground, and if the surfac" is COW
cred with snow before severe froez.H- Ot tho
soil rake away the snow until the f.u,. has
extended deep enough to freeze all s".it
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02

Fall blowing invariably makes better corn
crops
The Crescent Is the most popular straw
berry in the south.
Always gather your own tomato seeds. sc
lC-.ting the earliest and smootheet specimens
from the variety sL!,h you may prefer.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02

Inside thore IS no plastering to absorb
steam, odorS, etc, but tho brick work is
simply thoroughly whitowasEed. The floor
of the basement or iirst-story consists of
bricks on edge firmly pressed into the dry
sand, then thoroughly cemented, and finished
Off with generous coating Of Portland
cement The floor has a decided slant for
ward and to the various cutters for convey
ing the waste to the sewer, which enters
directly into the running brook. As the floor
is imperyiOus to water all contamination
from this source is reduced TO the minimum
The ceilings are tightly sheathed with pine,
shellackei so rs to be impervious to moisture
also The sink and steam jet for washing
cans is in the boiler room, so that the steam
md olor from this work cannot get into the
manufacturing room. Every possible safo-
guard is thus taken against contamination
from any source whatever, a most important
matter, and one that is often overlooked.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02

Diptheria has broken out with increased
violence, in Streator. The board Of health,
of that city have adopted measures to obtain
full reports of the number Of deaths daily,
so as to make an ineligible monthly report
thereof The schools were again closed last
week in consequence of the increase Of con
Iagion
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02
Out of a War Charrer's HnnE.

The marquis Of Lorne, known to almost
every body, OF course, as one Of the SONS in
law of the British queen, dips his private
pen into an ink bottle made out of hoof of
Lord Gives Crimean charger. Montreal
Star
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02

L. Y. tRI6dE, Druggist, bookseller and Sta
Il. ton err Ottawa III Second store In NsttRsort
Block south side Of Court House Square.
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nR. w NJ. SiITbbN RID, Member Of tn,
- Royal College OF 'terinary Surgeons, hnLhnd
Fellow Of the LondOs .cterlnsry Medical Association
.so Veterinary Ed or Dsntor's SpirtI ~ N, !u'i
can be COP suited his office Lafayette 81. sugs
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-02

Al EUSSII, German Druggist ana Apothe
vi. cary (Shucsale and retail Main street, Jtta
wa III. Importer Of Drugs. Chemicals, French Cogn
NC Brandies, Wines, &C.
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hIt. n. w. wE;I5, (Deutcher 'Oetur,) lat
~ Physician and Surgeon 10 the 81 Louis Femsh
Hospital. Once Stiefes Clothing store corner
Main and La Sale strovts. iiesdence on soath buf
al Mrs Genss arF
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mr.. Il. NJ. MoA ItTHUR, OTTAWA, H.
- One, In the Opera House Block. Opst from ;
O'Clock A. y. to 6 O'Clock p. N. Reidcnce oh B"uts
street, south OF Illinois Avenue. jan2lb
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II NJ. GODFREY, NJ. H., X c. 3
IL. Edinburg Once, In ArmOurs new bulldog. o.
Madison street. Residence II Wo)@ter St asgllT
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mr.. q. MILLER, the well known 0cuis
and Aurlst OTTAWA. III. Once, over LynCh's dry
goods store, Main street.
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7 w. BREW EIi, Attorney snd Couusclorg
u. Law, and Notary Public. Rooms 5, - 10, bperf
House Block, ottawa, H.
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" GRlGCi-', Attorney md COnnF'lor nj Law
-. once in Lyn,h's block, Main street ottawa. Ill
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- u. l.INCOLE, Attorney at Law. ono
u. 0srf No 10 IN sale street, scs, side IF %
court unuse ottawa H. luiyJIs
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~ G. TItEN AIRY, Attorney at lsy. One
1. with l.. W. Brewer, Rooms ). "a ~, Opera lious
Block Ottawa H.. iuuj
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hR. Oh \ RIIT SA - DIGRS', suCcrss,-
~ 20 Dr. AIclnda Auten. Ohics Opera llous' Block
Ottawa, IN. seplS
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IOHN Is. RICE. Attorney nj Law, Reddlckt
y Block, city of ottawa. Will practice law IN Ia
sale and adjoining counties, and in the Appels;'
and Supreme Courts. bep.D- yr'
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County SUPERINTENDENT Of Public Schools
G., B. STOCKDALE

VIII hold examinations At his oce Ia the Court Hons,
on the second and fourth SaturnsJs Of each nonu
ontil further notice iauls
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II Nj. II.NSCOM, NJ. H.,
Utcr IourE To I. Ohicc and Residence,
Always III office during office hours. i. q. BLOCH
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~ MclbOJrCi \ 1 IL, Attorney AZ Law, OtAHL
D.Ill OfNc, In ,ir,lnr,'. Rluck dcrl-t