Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-08-18
WHITE CITY CHIPS,
Some Interesting Exhibits Seen
by a Wanderer.
A CONTEST OF FAMOUS MILCHOOWs.

A CONTEST OF FAMOUS MICH COWS.
The Final Summary Expected to Show
Valuable Resnlts-Statuc of Germania
Carved from Solid Chocolate in the
Agricultural Building.
WORLDS FAIR, Aug. 10. - [Speciall-
Everybody knows by this time. for of
course everybody who is anybody has read
Darwin, Spencer, Haeckel & Co., that
natural selection secures the sur
vival of the tittest. 1t has also Sc
cured the survival of the fghtist, and
I find a thousand evidences of it
in rambling through the exhibits of live
animals and fossils. And not only of the
hghtist but of the runnist. And being
myself most inclined to the latter class I
am delighted at the conclusive evidenced
find here that in the run of ages the run
ners have stood a better chance than the
fighters. The bones show it and the live
animals clinch the proof. The poet of
science has told US,
how a stag with q neck that was longer by
half
Than the rest Of his tribe NOV try NOT IL
laugh,
By stretching and stretching became a giraffe,
Which nobody can deny"
Well, at this exposition YOU 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 bow
again-that is, as if l wanted to grab a
few and run. The fruit exhibition de.
monstrates the whole long history Of the
apple and what is of much more practical
Importance it proves that the alleged de-
n of soils in various parts of the United
States, in their capacity to produce apples,
reached its worst a dozen years @ and
that new varieties are now showing that
the old apple districts may he made bet.
ter than they ever We're. The greatest diff
tculty 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
years ago, but the advance in peaches and
strawberries is truly wonderful.
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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 a certain
similitude with their canine companions
which is both curious and amusing. Be-
tween the "husky" of the far north, which
is simply a domesticated wolf, and the in
telligent, soft-eyed and silky haired span
iel the difference is really quite as great
as between their owners. And it is all in
cultivation and natural selection. No
doubt there was a time, 0, ever so many
million years ago, when the dog was rather
a slow and dull creature and the rabbit
anything but a Splinter. 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 / 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 moor and evening one
can get a glimpse of the milking by appli-
cation to the proper oficial-perhaps.
These COWS are called by such darling
names as Eloise, JEANNE, Gertrude and
Mile and really a man must have a letter
of introduction to get near them.
There is no poetry about it. The milk
inO ia done nv foly-ar IT. n or1 <l,~l
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 a dyna-
mo and make almost as much noise as a
small steamboat. Every particle of food
is weighed and recorded, all the milk is
tested by a 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
G~uernseys and others in the yield of but
ter.
The butter workers are making consid-
cradle progress in the art. The Illinois
exhibitors have a butter-faced panel with
= welcome to mankind on it of which the
lettering is remarkably fine and those of
Nebraska nave 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 q solid base below and over it a dome
supported by six pillars and surmounted
by the 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 a slight wooden
frame within of course, but 10000 pounds
of chocolate are in it. 1t is in the style of
q temple or chapel of the Renaissance.
The statue was carved separately out of a
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
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