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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-03-20
Slauchtcriny Along the Line.

Notwithstanding the numerous wrecks
of range slaughter plants that stand the
country over, as monuments TO men and
means embarked in the unsuccessful
enterprise Of slaughtering beef on the
ranges for the markets oA>the country,
still we always find men aud money
ready to undertake the establishment
of deserted plants. There is probably no
doubt that the idea Is feasi Bile. but there
has heretofore been a screw loose some
whore
The fault, it strikes US, has been that
plants have not been able to secure tho
amounts of cattle necessary for Hlaugh-
tering as required by the market, and
this was due TO the refusal Of rangemen
TO sell. from day to day, at the prices Of
the Chicago market minus freight. Can
this obstacle be overcome: That is the
question and in Montana it is TO he es-
sayed again, and even at the abandoned
plant Of our marquis, at Medora.
A special to The Butte Miner gives
the information that there was a son of
duke at the Richelieu hotel, Chicago,
last Saturday, who signed himself Mon
tague. London, England.
said he;
! am going to try and do what the
Marquis dc Mores tried and failed TO do,
that Is TO establish beef packing estab-
lishmcnts along the line of the transcon-
tinental railroads, including the Cana
dian Pacific, Great Northern, Northern
Pacific, Union and Southern Pacific.
! fully understand that the enormous
prestige and great wealth of Armour
and other meat packers viii be exertcd
against me- but | an thoroughly &C
quainted with the stock business and am
prepared to hide my time and run for
several years, if need be, at a loss
The mere force and weight of money
will do most things in this world, and as
| have that, coupled with practical ex-
perience, have the utmost confidence
IN the undertaking. Now that have
settled upon the plan feel no hesitancy
in speaking.
/ will 60 first to Medora, the town De
Mores built, and if there is anything left
that | can use l will buy it. By the md
die of May | expect 10 have eight estab-
lishmcnts in progress of erection. There
viii be one near Pasco, Wash, one at La
Grande, Ore, one each near Livingston,
Laurel Junction, Big Horn ton the river
Of the same nance; Blatchford, ou the
Powder river; Hoyt, on the Yellowstone,
all IN Montana, and at Medora, on the
Missouri.
expect to do all the business of the
west almost from the first, and also
some considerable foreign business. My
friends in England will of course attend
TO my foreign connections, and if all
goes we'll we will in course Of ten years
control the entire beef market of the
world The business will receive my
constant personal attention. - Stock
! Growers Journal.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-03-20
DAIRY AND CREAMERY.
STAND UP IN COURT AND ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS.

~ You Must Answer "Yes,- Then You
win Know why Your Neighbor Gots
Better Prices for Butter Than You Can
CornmsDd--Attend To Details.
Many n housewife wonders what
causes a peculiar taste to her butter, or
why it is that her neighbours butter
brings fancy price the year round
while her own is sacrificed at the fluctu-
ating market prices wish to ask this
puzzled butter maker u few questions,
and if she can answer any one in the af-
firnative she has at least one solution to
the bad taste of her butter:
DOES milk como from the barn coy
cred with spcclls Of filth and dirt.
dropped during milking, from the poor
~ bodied and unbrushcd cows2 If so
do you only strain through tho coarse
tin strainer? Do sour milk and sedi-
mcnt accumulate in the fine seams of
the milk pans or cans? Are your milk
vessels washed in doubtful water and
used without being scalded? Is your
milk room poorly ventilated? Is food
with strong doors, such as fish, vegeta-
bles and meat, placed in the same room
with the milk?
In order TO make good butter all these
details must be strictly attended to. If
they arc not it is impossible TO secure
sweet, finely favored butter, such as
many consumers are willing to pay an
extra price to obtain. Many farmer :
family would enjoy an increased income
if, instead Of producing an indifferent
grade of butter, selling it at the grocery
ut the market rates, they took the pains
to make fine quality which would
realize for them a better price. Orange
County Dairylnan.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-03-20
FARMERS, NETTING AL CABOT.
Cows and their Keeping Discussed tn
DDS OF Manufacturing Maple Sugar.


Prominent among tho successful dairy
men in the State is Mr., l.. c. Fisher, who
lives on hill farm and keeps about thirty
Jersey cows, which make $40 pounds of but
ter per COW, including heifers. Many of
the older cows will produce over 400 pounds
each.
lie sad in the meeting Wednesday :
Quite a number OF years ago | began TO at
tend agricultural meetings and fairs so as
10 get new ideas aud put them into prac-
tee. Eighteen or twenty years ago we had
tho Durham stock i'll this vicinity, but that
had TO drop out. Batter is the only thing
Il larLl.r can get any money out of. First
ioLlht ,lcr.rvs OF Ex- Governor Fairbanks
anl haNe blc! M herd mostly from them.
! iuNr VI3t rdiuiutd IA coed part OF my
land some four or five nos of tile. Glover will
star; u- soon a. the tile i, laid, and Timothy
viii grow - feet high. My farm
produce. moro than five times rs much as
b; formerly did Last year | made over j u
lo.n.s PER tow and expect to make more
every y,ur. | grain quite heavily; it takes
so much feed to sustain animal life and
any extra feed given n COW that is all right
makes extra milk up to her capacity ofassim-
ilating the food. The individuality OF the
COW should lie studied; no two are alike
My grain feed is corn meal, linseed meal
and bran. Have spoiled cows by feeding
cotton seed meal and have discarded it;
think green corn ensilage very poor, want 1t
10 mature or nearly so; ensilage helps diges-
lion, linseed meal is the hest and cheapest
grain ON the market. My skim milk pro
perly handled will pay for all the grain
bought for my farm animals.
Mr.. \, w. Foster considered the high
lands in that section not adaptel to raising
corn for the mill; could raise ensiIage or
fodder corn; wanted corn with ears for
feed. Mr.. NcAllster and Mr.. Barr spoke
of raising mutton sheep rs profitable.
Mr.. Fisher, in answer to n question,
said CO. was the right temperature for a
stable ventiate we'll Lack of ventilation
would produce tuberculosis.
Mr.. 5tone-Whut is the most profitable
age of cows? Mr.. Fisher: Butter fats in
crease from two years to maturity and de-
cline after 10 years old; should discard cows
after 10 years old, if tested milk proves I'M
satisfactory.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-03-20
HORSE GOSSIP.


II. *. White Of North Clarendon has sold
TO Nelson Brown and j. NJ. GOodnough Of
Pit,sford his yearling colt George b., sired
10y Roland, JOSS, record PTS, dam Marga-
net y. This colt will be two years old May
10. next. He is beautiful seal brown with
10 white, stands ID! hands high, weighs
1860 pounds and is perfect form. style
and action. MIR. White has FLY nine
months old, full sister to George b. The
dam is now in foal from Roland.
The faulty of some young men says the
Boston Courier when they get hold of II
good horse is well illustrated by the case of
an optimistic youugster in Vermont, who
V bile working for days wages driving a
truck team, has had the temerlty to refuse
$4,000 for his horse. The horse is small,
rather inferior looking, and Is not bred we'll
enough to warrant the expectations OF his
getting down to an extremely fast mark.
Very few OF the family from which lie
sprang have ever beaten 2:l0. In the
meantime, the young man who owns him
piods along, earning his small pttance
daily. when he might have sold his horse,
bought him IA good Vermont farm, and
raised more Us good or better than bis pres
cnt horse, and been independent for life
lie Will be u very lucky man if he ever gets
another offer OF $4,000 for his horse, and all
the time lie is running the risk of losing
! what to him would be n fortune. AS n Bos
| ton horseran who recently saw the horse
remarked, it is the greatest exhibition OF
courage and poor judgment combined that
lie ever heard Of, -
The above refers TO the horse Mac 2:2lI.
| Few men would ever do this and perha ps
there is n woman lin it. "
In describing a trip recently made to
Vermont by George II. Hicks and George
a. Graves of Boston, the Breeders Gazette
| pays some worthy compliments to some
| Vermont horses. Mr. Hicks has bought a
good many horses in all parts Of this State
and taken them to Boston, and it is fair to
presume made good profit.
Charley Wilkes, 2:2lf and Viking, 9:194,
are the latest horses whose owners have
| sgnitled an intention Vi starting in the
great stallion race to be trotted at the New
England Trotting Horse Breeders as.ocia-
ton next September
Axtell's service fee is $1,000, and his book
| Of 80 is fun; $50 600 year f. a good re-
turn even on an Investment Of $l05, 900, the
price paid by his present owners for Axteu
| These gentlemen have now announced that
they viii give $4,000 to the owners OF the
get Of AX'ell which shall first beat the
yearlng record, the same also to the owner
Of the get Of their horse which shall beat
the two and three ear-old. These magni-
!iccnt premiums are likely to result In all
tue good colts 10y Axtell being knocked out
by tho time they are four years old.
The bay gelding Company, record @ 10G,
by Kentucky Prince, out Of Harriette, by
Messenger Duroc, was sold Thursday il
New York for 500 to J. Myers
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-03-20
MAPLE SUGAR.

Mr.. Foster said have about $1,000 in
vested in sugar tools; boil in an evapora-
tor, uoo wooden buckets painted outside and
inside with covers fastened TO the metallic
.pouts: absolute cleanliness from beginning
to end do not strain any sap; gather often
ana holl soon rs gathered and sell early,
My sugar viii grain at 236 but for market
nut it at 23S' and for cakes 240', syrup
200.
Mir. Fisher said make syrup SO it will
weigh l3 pounds to the gallon. | furnish
the Quincy House in Boston, it crystaizes
some. but that is the best sweet i'll the world
MIR. fostcr-Ncrmont makes about 10, =
600, GOO pounds and our next census will say
we make more. | Use no axe to smooth the
bark in tapping; if the bark is cut it hurts
the tree more than the tapping bit does.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-03-20
Experiments in Cream Raising.


The Cornell University Experiment
station has made Il series Of experiments
in setting milk for cream raising by diff
ferent methods, the results of which, rs
summarized in Bulletin No. 90 Of that
citation, are rs follows: In eleven trials
where the milk was set in the Cooley
CrcaIncr with ice water at Il temperature
of n degs. the average per cent, Of fat
in the skim milk was %: in eleven trials
where milk was diluted with an equal
weight of cold water and set in the open
mir the average per cent. Of fat in the
Klfim milk was 1.3S; in six trials where
milk was diluted with 20 and so per
cent. Of cold water the average per cent.
of fat in the skim milk was 124: in ten
trials where milk was diluted with 10 TO
100 per cent. of its weight of hot wafer the
average per cent. of fat in the skim milk
was Ill; in two trials where milk was
IN deep cans without dilution, in run
ming water at 60 deEs. to 60 degs., the
average per cent. of fat in the skim milk
was SO; in two trials where milk was
set IN shallow cans, at GO dogs. and g.
dogs, the average per cent. of fat in the
skim milk was AZ; in one trial where
milk was set in shallow pans, and one
third OF Its weight Of water at 100 degs.
added, the per cent. Of fat in the skim
milk was .45.-SCience.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-02

a difficulty with which hotcl-kcepcrs,
houscholders and transient dodgers havo
had to contend has been tho ease and
readiness with which thieves could On.
tor unoccupicd rooms by tho forcing OF
q lock Or tho displacement of {. key.
There has recently been pat upon tho
market what is called the automatic
key escutchcon, which is mcchan-
ical continuance designed TO make tho
burglars lot y most unhappy one. Tho
object OF the escutciicon is to secure
ly hold tho key in tho door
when locked. thereby preventing it's
being shaken out or removed by a
skeleton key. The burglar who at
tompts to remove tho key from the
door that no may insert u skeleton key
from tho outside is bafiled by this con.
trivance, which, besides furnishing this
security, prevents the key from being
lost or mislaid, it remaining in tho
door whom not i'll use. The introduc.
ton OF the automatic csoutchoon will
DO sad blow TO tho cavesdropper, for
it closes tightly tho aperture. The es-
cutchoons arc made OF bronze and ia
PANIED iron, arc easily connected and
weigh no more than silver trade dol.
lar. -Brool,lyn Standard Union.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-02
THE ENGLISH PlT-MEN.
Work That hInkcs Young Mon Old Before
Tllrlr Time.

Work Tint Makes Young Mon Old Before
Thrir Time.
AT two o'clock the mon OF tho after
noon shift call for thoir lamps, six hun
dred of which. lighted. locked, and
numbered, stand ready round tho lamp
house walls. AS they troop up to tho
window. shouting their numbers, somo
idea may bo formed Of the main elc-
mcnt in the community Tho first
thing which strikes q stranger is that
Golfers have no youth. There arc
young boys with round, merry faces.
but thcro are no youths. They seem
to become mon suddenly. with deep
limos about the brow and mouth which
suggest tho idea of nervous overstrain.
Their voices. too. arc harsh and irrita-
bic. No doubt tho strained
look may be duo in part to
tho long hours OF work in q
dim, imperfect light; but the samo
appearance may be noted on tho faces
OF most Of the worlmcn in northern in
dustrial communities where payment is
by piece work. and not by weekly
wage. If tho collier loses his youth, he
Is not compensated by length of years
Very few old mon arc to be sccn among
them. They break up when still APP
parcntly vigorous. Perhaps this is fort
unato among u class which does not
save, and gives the weekly contribu-
btns which might provide an annuity
In tho old age to swell tho union funds.
But though voice and features show that
his work is telling upon him. tho collier
is far from admitting this to himself
Except in strike times. when it is nee
essary to appeal to public sympathy,
no wants no commiseration for his lot.
For the agricultural laborors round him
no has u bonndlcss contempt. AS q
member OF IN organized body, he has
% good many pleasures to which
thoy arc strangers. Work over, after
I'll excellent meal, ho strolls to his
club, there 10 play bagatcllc or bill
iards, bet on horse races, or hear tho
news. On Sunday he can so 20 tho hand
some church built by the coliiory
owner, or, IL he prefers it, spend an
agreeable morning in log racing or rab-
bit conrsing. These last are very popu-
lar amuscmcntE, Us they afford plenty
OF scope for bettinr and gambling, tho
curse or the North Country industrial
Moreover. there is u good
cricket ground. which Isl much patron
izca on Sundnr EVENING" Occasionally
/. hugo excursion is organized to sono
distant Watering place, where tEn men
and their wives sit OH the parade or en-
Joy tho novel pleasure Of sail Bus
mental Improvements Is difficult In =
where ail tho members re
OF one class. Spectator.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-02
"A MAHvELLou5 Showing.

Tho remarkable tabulation Of South
ern statistics fl rnishci by the Chatta-
nooga Trsdesman is worthy not only Of
careful study, bnt Of preservation Tor
reference. Every item contains pare
OF information. 1t is most marvellous
record.
What is tho lesson it teaches? What
lies bctwcen III limos? What il It's
voice? Listen! "Pcacc hath her vic.
tori' sssaol lcssr or owned than war"
It Is the voice OF the South which
answers ignorance. prnjudice and the
attack of her enemies, and it says:
''These arc the FIR it's OF wcil-royerned
States. OF ord ,rly communit cs. Thf v
ara the product' Of he law abid
ing and hard tailoring. No State in
which property is in ccu~o, in viii, II
life is put in jeopardy, in which
tunul5 and lisord " q reign, can prod, CO
results like these Then vcx mo not f"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-02
POPULAR IMAGE WORSHIP.
A Species or solr- D"votion as Old NJ tho
Human Race Itself.

Species OF Solr-Drvotion as Old na tho
Human IL ACC Itself.
Although tho worship of images is
forbidden in tho Docaloguo, vain and
pretty women tctU idolize tho counter
felt pros ntments of thoir fair faces and
dainty figures as reflected from their
looking-glasscs. AS far as ono can Judge
from history, tho Sex has always had u
weakness for this species of solf-devo-
ton. When Eve made her first appear
anco on tho worlds stage sho WAS, of
course, mirrorlcss; but probably her
womanly instinct soon led hcr to some
sheltered, shaded pool, whose stirless
surface flashed back her radiant lowell
ness, and gave her full assurance that
Adams admiration OF her charms was
not unmerit,d. 30 that as 1t may, it is
certain that her daughters were very
much i'll lOvo with their own reflections
couple Of thousand years before tho
commencement Of the Christian era. So
much SO, in fact, tina, tho Hebrew maids
and matrons managed to tako their
motal mirrors with them whom they
went into tho Wilderness, and would,
doubtless, have brought thom back to
Jerusalem, after tho captivity, had not
an ungallant architect named Bazalccl
seized them on tho road, put them in
the mclting-pot and mado n huge wash
basin out OF them for his tabernacle.
Modern archDologists, while scratch
ing among the Debris of ancient Egypt,
have found sunlrv rcflcctors composed
OF an alloy OF tin and copper, some OF
which, when tho rust Of three thousand
years was rubbed oil their disks.
proved to be decidedly better articles
than many OF tho cheap, quiclssilvered
face-distortcrs Of the present day.
Nothing lcss however than spheres Of
polished silver would servc Tho turn OF
the sumptuous DANES OF O.d Rome,
whom they wished to 500 themselves as
others saw them, ana even Christian
ladies' III Tho carly ages seem TO have
hccn much tempted Of Satan in tho
matter of mirrors, and to have practical
sclfidolatry on an expensive plan. st.
ChrySostom pitches into them, like n
Pilgrim Father, upon this delicate sub
joct.
Tho mad-Trrran!s, he apys In one OF his
sorni"us must br continually linpoF.unIng
Tive silyrrsmi;h ia know wic.ho. thc!rlady's
mirror be ready.
Since the announcement OF tho
"glacial period i'll tho history Of re-
t!cction-in other words. since looking
glasses camc ir-parsonll vanity has
been enabled to indulge itself alta moro
moderate cost than formerly, ana its
votaries have not let their opporsnni-
ties pass unimproved. Nor has this
image Worship boon confined cxclu-
sively to The ladies'. There arc and 81
ways have been thousands or malo cox
combs in tho world just rs ready to
adore their own images "a any pretty
girl ever was, ard that too without anv
such good excuse FOR idolatry as every
comoly woman secs when sho looks in
the glass. IN. Y. Ledger
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-02
TIE PirlLESS SAHARA.
A Young Soldier rcrishc. OF TIL irst Ariorn
Dekprrnto Struggle.

A Young Soldier rcrishcs OF Thu Ariorn
Desperate Struggle.
That part OF tho sandy and sultry
Sahara near Biskra has boon tho scene
OF tragedy which was caused by tho
want OF water. Some days ago young
soldier, named Frossard, was ent from
topogra phical station in Algeria to
lhskra for yictuals. Ilo was accom-
panied by a mounted Spahi and had
two mulcs Ry a strange inadycrtenco
the little carayan ran short OF wator
after it had been out iii the desert
short time. Frossard accordingly di-
Tcctod the Spahi 30 leave him his horse
and 10 take tho mules with him to
tho nearest oasis for n supply OF
tho necessary fluid. Tho Spahi jour
neycl through tho scorching sands
for 4 day and nj 5ht Heforn he came to
the Oasis Of Gartha, but when return
ing TO whe-o nc left Frossard no lost his
bearings. and had to 70 nAcif 10 tho oasis.
There small expedition WAS fitted
out By the local shoik. and after n long
search tho dead bodyof tho young soldier
was found half devourcd by hycnas
and jlc.ials. The carcass Of tho Spahia
horao was also discovered no: far away.
1t appears that thu soldier had killed
the horse with his sword and then drank
its blood. lie had likewise cut ont tho
animals lungs and put them aside, but
before he could use them as food he was
either surprised by the beasts OF tho
desert or sUccumbed to tho intense heat
coupled with the return of thirs. Pail
Mall Gazette.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-02
ERAiD!NG MACHINES.
Some OF the .I,rvrion, Work Vroducc,
BY T,.om.


BY Ti,cm.
1t is very curious to an outsider to
watch tho operations OF braiding ma
chine. In one f:.ctory there are some
ten different kinds OF machines kent in
operation The most curious OF all is q
machine whose special domain IS tho
so-callcd applique" work. 1t per-
forms threc tasks az one and the Same
time. When properly adjusted tiny
lsnife cuts out, according to tho pretty
design intended, the figures from tho
upper layer of cloth, while smultane-
ouslY tho machine Scws those figures on
to tho layer OF cloth underneath
upper layer being generally OF medium
thickness, whilo tho lower one is cloth
OF tho thickest. warmest and most ex-
pensivo kind, such as is suitable for
ladY's cloak.
The effect THIS obtained-artistic are
bcsqucs, beautifully curvins lines. form
ing an intricate yet pleasing pattern.
lying on tho cloth underneath, is worry
pretty indeed. Generally two cloths of
shades differing SO much as TO form a
ine contrast are chosen. Tho delicate
mechanism Of this machine is especial
~ HOetOc1NIc III Vic cutttils, ONL OF tho
upper layer Of cloth. For while the whole
process OF cutting it and sewing it or
tight Mt the Same time is dono SO quick
Is nndor tho handsof n sl;llful operator
that yard OF this "appliquo' work IL
madO within ivD minutes, the knife
must DO so nicely adjusted that it will
cut exactly through tho thickness OF
the upper clo.h and not tho hundredth
part of an inca deeper. Another ma
chine, which i, likewise the product OF
n very ingenious brain. IL the so-callcd
"three-spool" machine. Two threads OF
wors.cd and one thread otsilk cording arc
manipulated by this machine in such q
manner as to lay down the wors ted on
tho cloth and TO spin the silk right over
and all around it, Tho effect thus pro-
/ duced is that Of vorY thick silk braid,
tho whole being moro durable than silk
throughout, yet much loss expensive.
Tho beading machine, By means Of
which those most elegant ornaments on
a woman'a dress. those glistoning ara
bosques OF heading. are put on, il an
other triumph OF mechanical genius
| The same may DO said of tho fea thor
! edge machine, which docs tho so-callctl
sunbeam" and rainbow" work. ON
broidoring tho shades, which are gradu-
ally toned down: or tho connolly ma
| chine. which does the cording, and still
moro so of tho sOutacho machine, which
does tho Simplest and yet ono of the
most effective styles OF embroidery
| Ladies' Wear Review
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-02

On Gainsborough avenue, inst below
John Davis Opera House" on tho left
hand sido coming down, is as nasty n
trap as could be desired to til eva man
down. The gas pipo which connec is
Tho street lamp with :hc man is cx-
posed, and forms an angle with the
pavement. person incautiouslv walk
ing close to the bank there, or coming
along some dark night. will be mos apt
TO be thrown down and suffer tho brrai-
Ing OF limb, if not neck; then tho city
would nave to pay 4 thousand times tho
cost OF liking the pipe below the surface
Tor the damages and expenses of law
suit.