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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-24

covered with suggestions of old Santa
and his mission. the bright. happy
faces of the children, and the inter-
ested, contented faces of the parents,
made a picture which would doubtless
help answer the question so often asked
by older people, Why is it that nova
days you can't keep the children from
school? Why, when 1 was a boy they
had TO drive us to school,.
One feature of. the programme was
the Christmas Star" by 20 little tots,
each wearing a crown. One after an
other they stepped to the front and told
part of the sweet old story, then stood
to form a star while all sang Shine
Out Oh Blessed STAR The children
put heart and soul into their work
and as they fled out at the close each
carried small gift fashioned by the
restless little fingers for some dear one
at home.
Passing from the beginners room, a
tour through the building revealed
everywhere the same beauty and hap
piness. In many of the class rooms
the drawings on the boards were of
an unusually high order. On most of
the boards the Ginning bells, the guild
ing star the Christmas holly. and the
stocking -fringed mantel held sway,
but in one room, where the pupils had
been studying Snow Bound the
boards were given UP to illustrations of
the poem, all done by the pupils. The
boy with .nittened hands and cap
drawn low who "cut the solid white
ness through the old horse thrusting
his long head OUT the cock and his
''speckled harem." the old fireplace
with its apples suffering in a row.
and other word pictures of the poem
were changed to chalk-talks upon the
board
The programme of the united third
and fourth grades was decidedly must
cal, the piano and violin playing i'm
portant parts. The solos rendered by
two of the boys from the third grade
showed a quality of voice rare in boys
so young.
The Christmas thought was made
prominent in all the exercises, which
closed with many wishes for merry
Christmas on the part of the pupils
and the numerous patrons who had
come to share their happiness.
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Mems MumerS,

Mems Good Mufflers in medium and
dark shades % cents; stripes and plaids
cashmere muff1er, so cents, IS cents and
81. To give our customers the best
values ever offered, we sell a white silk
muffler at 30 cents; for weight STYLE
and finish, our black and white bro
caded silk mufflers at 81 are values sell
dom found. When you can decide on
nothing else FOR a Christmas present
for a gentleman and you wish to give
him something he will keep for years,
buy him one of our black, white, fancy
striped or figured muffiers at $3.50 or
81; they are beauties, and a muff1er is
a present gentlemen always receive
with pleasure.
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1858 Main st

water at 81 degrees F. is kept running
around until the next morning. The
cream is then (being slightly
acid) put INFO one of the Vermont
Farm Machine comDanvs improved
square box churns. that runs 40 revO-
lutions per minute; one-fOurth ounce OF
butter color is then added for every six
coolers Of cream. and the cream is
churned Cor two and one-half hours.
We don't care to churn any quicker.
The butter now is in a granulated form
about as large as wheat kernels. The
buttermilk is drawn off and the butter
thoroughly washed in the churn, then
taken out and spread on the butter
worker and sailed one ounce to the
pound, working just enough to get the
salt evenly through it. The butter is
now ready for packing into 5-pound,
10 pound. 20-pound. 30-pound or so
pound spruce tubs. or made into prints,
just as our customers order. No starter
is used.
In my opinion, the most important
requisite in making butter is cleanli-
ness, and the right care of the cream.
w H. CALDWELL.
East Freetown, N. Y.
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HOW PRIZE BUTTER Is MADE.
Winners at New York State Fair.

Winners at New York State Fair.
There was a close competition in the
dairy awards at the last New York
state fair. In order to learn something
about how prize butter is made, the
Rural New Yorker sent the follow
ing questions to the winners:
What breed of cows do you keep?
What were they fed? Was the cream
separated or not? Was a starter"
used? At what age was the cream
churned? VIII you give us an account
of what, in your opinion. were the most
important operations in making the
butter?
Some of their replies follow, and will
be interesting to Utah dairymen:
BUTTER THAT SCORED 100.
that sells above the highest market
price at all times, / realize that, when
butter is to travel nearly 200 miles and
then score 100 at the hands of an ex-
pert, very difficult task is before me.
and 1 do some things that are not
practicable to do every day. / per-
sonally scored the butter on exhibit
ton, after the judge had done his work,
and with one or two exceptions it was
butter that would have ranked Eek
ira" on any market.
/ selected five of the freshest cows
(not over four weeks in Iactation) and
for week before the butter was made,
fed them four pounds a day each of
wheat, bran and corn meal, equal parts;
they also ran in the best of pasture.
Aside from this. the method described
below was the same as we follow from
day TO day. 1t is obvious that it would
"a l.
fresh cows and not ALWAYS economical
to feed Just those two grains, when
others can be bought for less money
that will give us a better balanced
ration. more milk and fat, and fine
article of butter
My cows are part pure bred Jerseys;
some high grade Jerseys, and about
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Ouuirrh.

The six rooms on the middle floor of
the Oquirrh school held joint exercises.
They were very short and were like
this:
Recitation. 'The Week After Christ
mas" Florence Robinson of Room 8
THE Dolls Christmas ..-....-......
............-...~.C Children of Room 3
Chorus. composed of representatives
of each room. sing a song.
Recitation, Have You Ever Seen
Santa CLAUSE" Observation-Disclosures.
Lena Myers of Room 6
Song judith Anderson of Room 3
Chalk Talk. 80. Children of Room 3
Song by Chorus.
Recitation, "A Complaint ..........
........ Walter Jennings of Room Z
Doll Exercise. Children from Room 4
Song by Chorus.
To the music of the orchestra, the
scholars repaired to their rooms, where
exercises in physical culture finished
this afternoons entertainment.
The fourth grade, on the top floor,
had reading exercises. Stories that
were prepared for Christmas in previ-
Gus language lessons were read and
The exercises of the fifth grade are
here given:
Song, Song of Praise. School
Recitation, Christmas Ewes Snow
Fred Beckner. Richard Williams
Recitation, The Christmas Chimes,
..-............ ........ Nine Boys
Song, THE First Christmas zIorn''
Observation-Disclosures Semi Chorus
Exercise, The Three Kings
Song. Silent Night. .............S School
Reading, .Recellections of My
Christmas Tree" from Charles
Dickens. David Leyson
express their gratitude through the
press to the gentleman who so kindly
remembered them with tickets 10 the.
art exhibit
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of % pounds of butter. made from All
pounds of milk. This is a trifie over
six pounds to 100 pounds of milk. The
stable is cleaned every day, and
sprinkled with plaster to absorb odors.
No smoking is allowed at the stable or
dairy room. ri
Clean Jersey cows, brushed at each
milking, neat mixers. pure water, and
perfect cleanliness are essential for the
making of a high grade of butter The
creamery separator removes loads of
cow hair and filth that never should
have found it's way into the milk.
have my doubts about its removing
the flavor that the milk has taken from
this filth AUSTIN LEONARD.
Troy, Pa.
THE OLD DASH CHURN.'
The butter than won the prize at the
New York state fair was made in the
old way, with a stone churn and dash.
The milk was set in open pans, the
cream churned from milk set four days,
skinned twice a day, as We had calves
to feed. The cream was placed in the
churn each time when skinned, and no
addition of cream was made from one
morning, but was churned the next
morning. The cream was stirred each
time an addition was made.
In my opinion the most important
operation in making good butter is
cleanliness, and giving good attention
to the milk in every particular, from
the time it is taken from the COW until
the butter is churned, sailed and
worked | wash the milk clean from
the butter and salt it, allowing about
three ounces of, salt to pound of but
ter work in the salt, let stand for
about II hours, then work it until the
brine is mostly out, then pack The
only objection to the package shown
at the state fair was the flavor, and
that was because ii was new; it was
perfect in every other particular. l do
not color the butter, as the color is
perfect, made so by the cows. / keep
but two cows-grade Short-horn and
Ayrshire. The cream was not separ-
ated. The COWS were fed grass and
wheat bran. A starter was not Used.
The cream was about "a hours old
when churned. A great deal is said
about making butter. and some things
said unnecessarily; but I stood with
those that use creamery and separ
ator and a starter and make a
great talk about it, and even swell
into their coats and vests with great
pride; but l am only woman, and, of
course, old-fashioned-at least, make
butter that way, as l make it in
butter bowl and use a ladle But do
not fear to place it side by side with
anyone's else.
MRS. THOMAS COLES.
Fulton, N. Y.
JERSEYS WITH PASTURE.
The butter had on exhibition at the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-24

According to statistics. as studied by
the New England Farmer. the yield per
acre of farms in the United States fol-
lows in the ratio of the intelligence or
iliteracy of the farming population.
Making due allowance in soil fertility
and climatic conditions, this observa-
ton is correct. Under similar natural
conditions, the brainy, thinking and
reading farmers bring forth better re-
suits than the more ignorant classes.
You may form some idea of the gen.
eral condition of agriculture in a town
ship or county by ascertaining how
many of the farmers are readers of
agricultural papers and books. Brains
and blood will tell.
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Gloves.

This department is full IS bargains
for all. You would be very hard to
suit if you couldn't find just what you
wanted here.
The Jersey and Scotch knitted Gloves
for men and boys we have at 25c, soc
and 75c.
Mems good working Gloves. 25c. soc
and 75c.
Mems good lined working Gloves, soc,
75c, 81 and s1.50
Mems lined dress Gloves, soc, 75c, 81
and $3.50.
Mems extra value in Kid and Mocha,
lined and unlined, 81, s1.25, $3.50 and
$500.
Boys and Children's Gloves and Nit
tens we have in about all kinds of ma
terials. In fact, we try to keep every
thing for the young folks in this line
Gloves we have from Csc up, and nit
tens from 15c I'D.
Wristlets and Ear-Muffs in all grades
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Sweaters

Have become a necessity to nearly
every one. The prospector, miner,
hunter, fisherman. teamster; in fact.
every one who spends part of his time
out of doors. Yes, the school-boy must
have one or take a back seat when the
proud possessor of one makes his ap
pearance on the Fairgrounds. We have
the mems all wool ones at 81 in black,
blue and maroon; the $3.50 and 81 ones
are made from a very fine all wool
worsted; few in extra fine and extra
heavy worsted, S2.75 and $3.50. A boys
good. strong cotton sweater, all colors,
so cents; the boys all wool ones, 81.
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ONE PRICE.

half of the herd. the progeny of both
the above from a pure bred Guernsey
sire, which, to my mind, gives me the
typical dairy COW. The five were an
average of the above.
The nights milk is run over an aera-
tor, which reduces the temperature to
60 degrees; then placed on an ordinary
cellar bottom and the next morning
heated to IL degrees in hot water
bath, and run into a De Laval sep
arator, immediately after the morn
ing's milk has gone through at the nor
NAL temperature The cream. is run
so as to contain from 35 per cent to 40
per cent of butter fat and as it leaves
the separator, is passed over an AGRA
tor filed with ice water, which reduces
it below so degrees. After standing
couple OF hours in cool place. II is
placed in a John Boyd" vat and
starter added, made from skim milk
of the dav before. from a fresh COW.
This is churned the day following. or
about "a hours after separation, at
temperature between 56 and 5S degrees.
The butter is washed as soon as 1t
reaches the granular state, with water
as warm as will not cause the granuleS
to become massed together. l think
that too cold water has tendency, as
has too much washing, to injure the
flavor Usually it receives two wash
salt is added in the churn, then Spaded
in with fork, the churn revolved two
or three times. and then allowed to
stand for about an hour, when the
butter is put on the worker and slightly
worked, and packed Immediately. 1 use
the Glen City salt, made at Watkins,
N. Y
The perfect score as to flavor, 1 at
tribute to the freshness of the cows,
and their feed first, and the manner of
ripening second. In my experience, no
one thing has contributed so much to a
uniform article at all times and under
all conditions. and does as much in the
private dairy to reduce the making of
butter to an exact science" as the
John Boyd" vat and starter" These,
in brief, are the main points
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE.
Undertook. n. Y.
CLEAN JERSEY COWS"
Our cows ran in pasture and were
MIXED in the stable. At each milking,
each had feed of about three pounds
of wheat bran and middlings, mixed
We use a DeLaval separator, mix the
mornings and evenings cream the fol-
lowing morning, add starter, ripen at
a temperature of about SIS degrees. and
churn at so to 50 degrees when the first
mess of cream is AS hours old. We
weigh every mess of milk and every
from the churn. 1t is then sailed, enc
ounce of Worcester salt to the pound.
Our exhibit was taken from churning
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Winter Overcoats.

$3.50 to s25-yes, even at So. The
Overcoats will wear well and are styl-
ish cut. The Overcoats at S. are in
light and dark colors. The Overcoats
at 81 and $12 are of Black and Blue
Meltons or Kerseys and are Silk Sewed.
Any reasonable man will be satisfied
with the Overcoats we sell him-stylish
cutting characterizes them all. All are
tailored, not simply sewed up. To be
sure, the higher the price, the more
hand-work is put on the garment. and
the stuffs we use are honest cloths
and honest cloths are pretty scarce in
these days of shoddy.
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The franklin School.

The Franklin school this time had
programmes in eight different rooms.
The boards were profusely covered
with Christmas drawings and all of
the rooms were decorated, more or less,
with holly and evergreens, While some
had handsome trees.
Many of the teachers made the little
ones very happy by passing candy and
oranges to each child.
Several of the rooms made little pres
ents for their parents.
With Mr.. Fishers present of art ex-
hibit cards. the children had a very
happy Christmas time.
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The Ninth School.

AT the Ninth school the Christmas
exercises were held in the meeting
house annex and the programme, which
was quite interesting, was given en-
tirely by the first grade and beginners.
The room was appropriately decorated,
Christmas trees and evergreens being
profusely used, while many ported
plants were distributed about. There
was large attendance and the exer-
cises were listened to with marked
attention
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Handkerchief.

If you are wondering what to buy a
gentleman or a boy for Christmas, re-
member handkerchief are always ap-
preciated; in fact, men are always in
need of some. Who ever knew a man
to have plenty of handkerchief? H'he
1-3c ones are heInstitched and come
in plain white or fancy border; the
121ac ones are also plain white as we'll
as fancy border, but are of much bet
ter material. The all linen ones at 25c
are-well, you know what a good linen
handkerchief is. We also have them at
35c
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Mems Furnishing
Goods.

Every fad and fancy finds place here;
every article of staple merit is sure to
be here, Best in all points of real good
ness. and priced at the lowest notch
really reliable goods ever sold for.
The holiday goods are coming in plen-
tifully. First pick may mean some
thing, and we'll lay aside for you any
thing on which you make a deposit
Some of the umbrellas are perfect
poems of art. Come and have a peep
before the holiday rush starts.
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Crop deficiencies in European and
South American countries and in India
have made a heavy demand for the
breadstuffs of the United States
Europe has been and is making heavy
purchases of American wheat. Under
the natural working of the law of sup
ply and demand the price of wheat has
been bounding upward, and the prices
of other commodities have followed IN
sympathy. By this rise in prices IN
the past few weeks the values OF farm
products have been enhanced many
millions of dollars.
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Except past styles. find a place in our
stock Nothing proclaims seediness SO
much as a battered old hat that has
two claims to a vacation-being worn
out and out of style. The following
prices talk for themselves:
A mans good soft Hat for soc, 75c
and 81.
At 81, $3.50 and $3.50 we have a full
stock of Fedoras, G. A. r. and Rail-
road Hats.
Stiff Hats at 81. $3.50. $3.50 and $3.50.
Boys Hats and Caps at 25c. SOC
and 75c.
We also. have complete stock of
Stetson's and Knox Hats. You will
find our Hats are at least 25 per cent
cheaper than you can find elsewhere in
the city.
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Silk Handkerchief.

Mems initial silks we have at Csc, SOC
and 75c. The plain white and fancy
border ones at 25c are great bargains:
the soc ones are made of very heavy
silk, and the 75c ones make present
worth receiving.
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The sixth grade had this programme:
Song ..---.....--.....-.- School
Reading, First Xmas Tree in
America" written by Lille How
ell. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
......... Read by Laura Foresythe
Dialogue, THE Holiday Conven
Grace Fowler. Phoebe Marohn, Ada
Brown and Leone Burton.
Recitation, The Night After Xmas
.----.-.-....-..... Emmerette Root
Song ...-.--..-..--... Emily Allsworth
Recitation. Christ and the Little
ones ..-...-.........-. Emma Kay
Recitation .-...-.....-.. Lucetta Jones
Reading, "Bob's Christmas Dinner
.--.-----..--..--.. Eliza Nelson
Doll Exercises. Pupils of First Grade
Defamation, Try Again .......
-----..-......-.-.-. Parry Glanfield
Song -.-..-.-........... Emma Mcleod
Dialogue ..........--..........
Ike Alexander, Daniel Alexander
and Henry Kramer.
Recitation, "Annie's and Wilhe's
Prayer ................ Vera Burton
Guitar Solo -.......... Matte Jackson
Recitation ......-...-.-.- Shirley Jones
The exercises of the first grade were
held in the presence of quite a num-
Der of parents and friends of the pu-
pills. The recitations and songs by the
little ones showed careful training, and
were received b. the visitors with
much interest and more or less en-
thusiasm. One of the most pleasing
numbers on the programme was doll
drill by 16 little girls.
The beginners grade had a most in
teresting programme, consisting mostly
of songs, speeches and doll drills
A beautiful fir tree. loaded with
presents for the little ones, occupied
one corner of the room. The distribu-
ton of the mementoes that hung from
the branches of the tree was by no
means the least interesting part of the
programme. An unusually large num-
Der of visitors were present, among
whom was Superintendent Millspaugh.
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The Mems Suits

Handled here are Suits that any one
might well be proud of making. wheth-
er custom tailor or not. There's as
much care and attention given TO each
detail as in the. finest and highest-price
tailoring in the land, and there's no
Suit here that isn't worthy of the guar
antee of entire satisfaction that we give
with it. The popular line seems to be
at SIS: but, higher or lower, the goods
are right, the making's right and the
best value is given that the same
amount of money every secured. Look
at the line which is priced in accord
ance with your PURSES, So, $40, S12,
SIS, SIS, $40, $22 or s25. The last price
means that you're getting everything
that custom tailors give at double.
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The Lincoln School

The visitors at the Lincoln school
numbered 200. The various rooms were
artistically decorated with evergreens.
cranberries and popcorn, and beaute
full colored drawings. The following
were the programmes of the upper
three grades:
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Are united in our handsome house
coats, which are voted immense by all
who see them. They are the perfection
Of ease and relaxation. and are
temptation at the low price we are sell
ing them. The heavy fiannels in plain
and fancy colors, trimmed with braid,
"a, $3.50 and S. The plain solid colors
in tricots and Bedford cords are beau
ties. Have them in blue, brown and
wine colors, trimmed up and made in
the best style, and the prices, IS and
$3.50. A few bath robes at So, $3.50, s.,
Sc, 81 and IS.
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At Hamilton School.

In the Hamilton, the beginners united
TO render a Christmas programme.
consisting of songs, recitations and dia-
logues.
The sunny room, with its blackboards
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The Tenth School.

The Tenth school had a very good
programme. especially in the beginners
and first grade rooms. The beginners
Recitation, Hurry. Christmas, How
You Creep" -..--.--..... Stella Brady
Recitation, Hide and Seek ...e...
.--...t...--.-..-... Minnie Peterson
Recitation, Jingle Bells, Beware.
Observation-Disclosures. Ethel Busby
Recitation, "A Note to Santa
Song, Merry Christmas Bells" School
Recitation, The New Year" 800.
...-.--.-...-.... Leslie Hogan
Recitation, Five Fat Turkeys Are
We ..........-... Five Little Boys
Song, Shine Out. O Blessed Star
Third and fourth grades; rooms 4
Song, Trusting in God" ...... Room 5
Recitation, welcome Elmer Sibley
Recitation, Grandma s" Tina Lee
Recitation, Santa Claus ......
....-........... Minnie Simons
Xmas Greeting Bertha Crozier
a Dolls Visit .....-..........-.R Room >
Recitation, Xmas Stockings
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Alma Goss
Recitation, "A Visit to Saint Mich
olas" $500. Lindsey Champeneys
Racitation, Xmas Dolly ..........
Observation-Disclosures. Blanche Davis
Xmas Chimes -. Ethel Ringmood
Song. Jingle Bells ............ Room 5
5iecitation. 1.-The Old Oaks Christ
- mas Dream .---.......... Room
Song, Christmas Bells" Room 6
Kris Kringley'' .... May Keddington
Recitation. When Santa Claus
Comes ........-.'.-.... Elsie Parton