Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-08-17
WHITE CITY CHIPS.
Some Interesting Exhibits Seen
by q Wanderer.
4 CONTEST OF FAMOUS MICH COWS,

Vho FINAL Summary Expected to Show
Valuable Results-statue of Germania
Carved from Solid Chocolate In the
Agricultural Building.
WORLDS FAIR, Aug. 10. - Especially
Everybody knows by this time, for of
rourse everybody who is anybody has read
Darwin, Spencer, Haeckel g. Co., that
natural selection secures the sur
vival of the fttest. 1t has also Sc
cured the survival of the fghtist, and
l find n thousand evidences of it
In rambling through the exhibits of live
animals and fossils. And not only of the
dghtist but Of the runnist. And being
myself most inclined 10 the latter class I
am delighted at the conclusive evidence
find here that in the run of ages the rum
ners have stood "A better chance than the
lighters The bones show it and the live
animals clinch the proof. The poet of
science has told us,
How stag with neck that was longer by
half
Than the rest Of his tribe (uow try not to
laugh,
BY stretching and stretching became giraffe,
Which nobody can deny
Well, at this exposition Won can trace
the whole process from the nomad to the
philosopher, from the palaeopteryx to the
condor, and from the wild Siberian crab
TO golden hued apples so luscious and
tempting that they make me feel Ikea boy
again-that is, as il l wanted to grab a
few and run. The fruit exhibition de-
monsGates the whole long history of the
apple and what is of much more practical
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cline of soils in various parts of the United
States, in their capacity to produce apples,
reached its worst dozen years ago and
that new varieties are now showing that
the old apple districts may be made bet
ter than they ever were The greatest diff
| hculty seems to be in extending the
growth southwark. So far as the exhibit
shows the apple is not produced in the
far south any better than it was fifty
I years ago, but the advance in peaches and
strawberries is truly wonderful
One would scarcely expect to get inter
ested in dogs while looking through the
agricultural and live animal exhibits, but
there is to be a grand dog show here be-
fore the fair ends and the different races
of men on the ground show certain
similitude with their canine companions
which is both curious and amusing Be
tween the husky" Of the far north, which
is simply domesticated wolf, and the in
telligent, soft-eyed and silky haired span
iel the difference is really quite as great
rs between their owners. And it is all in
cultivation and natural selection. No
doubt there was time, o, ever SO many
million years ago, when the dog was rather
a slow and dull creature and the rabbit
anything but q sprinter. But through
thousands of generations the swiftest
dogs caught the most rabbits and the
swiftest rabbits got away from the most
dogs, whereby and wherefore the slow
rabbits were eaten and the slow dogs died
from the want of something to eat, and so
only the swiftest left posterity.
But this speculation has gone far
enough. What l came into this depart
ment particularly to see was the famous
mixers whose rivalry is exciting all the
farmers who follow the daily reports.
They would not let me in early enough to
see the first milking, which is all done
and the cream and butter extracted in the
cool of the morning and before any visit
itors arrive. At noon and evening one
can get glimpse of the milking by appli-
cation to the proper official-perhaps.
These cows are called by such darling
names as Eloise, JEANNE, Gertrude and
Mile and really a man must have letter
OF Introduction to get near them.
There is no poetry about it. The milk
Ing is done by stalwart men and they do
not skim off the cream, they take it out
with an extractor" And they take it
all, too. The milk residue is almost sky
blue. The churns are about the size Of an
ordinary brewery vat, are run by dyna-
mo and make almost as much noise as
small steamboat. Every particle of food
IS weighed and recorded, all the milk is
tested by chemist and the weight of but
ter is recorded. And by the way, the but
ter is so thoroughly 'eXtracted' that the
residue fluid sold as buttermilk is really
little more than whey. The final summary
is expected to show valuable results in de
Gliding the best kind Of food At present
the Jerseys are considerably ahead of the
Guernseys and others in the yield of but
ter.
The butter workers are making consid-
cradle progress in the art. The Illinois
exhibitors have butter-faced panel with
I. welcome to mankind on 1t of which the
lettering Is remarkably fine and those of
Nebraska have the material nodded in
many beautiful limitations ofvines, leaves,
fruits and flowers. In this line, however,
the greatest curiosity in the Agricultural
building Is the great statue of Germania,
with a solid base below and over it dome
supported by six pillars and surmounted
by she imperial crown Of Germany-all
this and other figures in solid chocolate.
This is in the German exhibit.
The height Of this structure is thirty
eight feet and there is slight wooden
frame within Of course, but $4,000 pounds
OF chocolate are in it, 1t is in the style of
temple or chapel Of the Renaissance.
The statue. was carved separately out of q
solid block OF 1900 pounds Of chocolate
and the pedestal is decorated with reliefs
OF the three emperors of the present dy-
nasty, Cocoa butter was used to give the
proper finish and in warm weather the
whole thing has to be vanished over fire.
quently but 1t is a. strange and beautiful
creation. 1t sweetens fellow just to look
at 1t. It Is 80 far a work of pure art that
it does not have, the effect produced by the