The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-01
Current Facts.

Inc depression IN scotch agriculture
is so great that, in one recent number
of paper published in the north,
torty-seven country mansions, with
245,O00 acres of shootings attached.
were advertised to let.
One woman will get barrel of flour
and if it does not work we'll the first
time it is tried, it is condemned and
returned; there is no question about
the bread maker or her yeast. Anoth-
or housekeeper takes the same barrel
of flour and finds it tirst-class flour all
the way down, simply because she
Knows how to make bread and how to
treat different kinds of flour.
The supposition that dark-colored
eggs are richer than those that are
light-colored, is only popular notion.
The shell gives very little indication of
the quality of an egg. Dark yolks are
sometimes preferred, owing to the
deeper color, but very often the light
she'll egg will contain darker yolks
than those that are dark-colored on the
shell, and something depends also upon
the feed.
A theory that oaks are more liable
than other trees to be struck by
lightning has lately been put forward
in England, the reason given being
that oaks contain iron. The answer
is, first, that these trees do not contain
iron; and, secondly, that if they did, it
would be more likely to preserve them
from destruction by thundcrbolts than
to harm them, as they would then
conduct off the electric current quietly.
The legitimate profits arising from
the manufacturers of pure, and what is
called high priced butter, is distributed
over all the land, among good farmers,
and goes to upbuild one of the most
important industries of this or any
other land; while the enormous profits
arising from the sale of bogus butter.
sold under the flag of pure butter, goes
to make a few millionaires. who will
not hesitate when they need to, to dog
the footsteps of congressman to pre-
vent the nation from bringing their
swindles to an end.
The Danish law for regulating the
manufacture and sale of bogus buffers
requires that all packages in which
limitations are packed for market shall
have an eliptical form like lattened
O to distinguish them from genuine
butter packages. This is a sensible
and practical idea and we commend it
to those who are working to secure
needed state or national legislation on
the subject.
While speaking of coffee the following
statement by Susan Hale, in Good
Housekeeping, may be worth quoting:
Coffee with cream is delicious, and the
lovely color it takes on as the thick
yellow substance drops down into it is
a JOY forever; but it is, alas! indigesti-
bic. believe that many of the people
who have decided that they cannot
take coffee would find themselves nour-
ished and strengthened without injury
by equal parts of well-made strong
coffee and hot boiled MILK
The sum of $500, 900 comprehends
the value of the Percheron horses that
have been imported from the best
breeding districts of France by Mr.. NJ.
W. Durham, of "Oaklawn Farm"
Wayne" Ill. The numbers imported
and collected at this establishment dur
ing the past two years aggregate 1000
head, nearly all recorded with pe6i-
grees in the Percheron Stud Book of
Franco: From it great numbers have
been distributed to all parts Of the
United States and British possessions,
contributing largely to the prosperity
of the agricultural industries of those
countries.
The extensive scale on which the
Western cattle companies conduct
business is illustrated by a project of
the Standard Cattle Company at Ames,
Neb. About 5000 acres of land,
including thirteen improved farms,
has been purchased, on which the
company will erect feeding barns,
elevator cribs, meal-house, offices etc.
The main building, or feeding barn,
will be 682x2O4 feet, and will contain
5000 stalls, where each steer will stand
alone and united. The elevator will
be of 10000 bushels capacity, with
cribs attached to hold sc, 600 bushels of
corn in the ear. The works will be
run by sixty-horse power engine.
The establishment will turn out 5000
to 10000 beeves per annum.