Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-10-25
PRODUCT OF DIARIES.
Owners of Mich Cows in Unit.
ed States Prospecting.
BUT THEY REQUIRE MACHINERY.

BUT THEY REQUIRE MACHINERY.
Wisconsin OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Fires Die
Before a Wire s-creen-Badgers who
Carry Titles TO Europe The Knapp
Stout Concern-Lead Mining Picking Up
Other Wisconsin Topics.
Madison, Wis, Oct. 24.-It is only
within thirty years that Carrying as
we know il has been developed. 1t is
certainly n commanding industry now.
In 1898 the dairy products of the Unit.
ed States were $!00, 600, 900. There are
some 100000 mich cows in the Unit
ed S~tates-one for every five people;
an annual consumption of /, 750, 000, 600
gallons of milk; 1900 DOC, 900 pounds of
butter and 300, 000, 600 pounds OF
cheese; and 1899 prices of all dairying
products. especially butter, have been
considerably higher than for several
years past.
Our Wisconsin dairy milk farmers
are gradually equipping themselves
with separators, both for the purpose
OF securing cream and to purify the
milk. Any one who sees for the first
time the amount of impurities thrown
from even clean" milk by one of these
centrifugalmethod machines will be
surprised. When one farmer puts in
modern dairying machinery, the effect
is to force others to do so. The fact
Is, dairying has come to be a business.
The farmer Is a business man. The
COW, the cream separator, churn, sIt-
ter-worker, cans, coolers and other
utensils are his tools and machinery.
lit is said that dairying upon the Zines
of fifteen years ago is now a losing oe-
cupatiOn. Dairying upon the basis of
five N ten ear ago now does well
to make ends meet. Profitable dairy
Ing today must be up-to-date and be
kept so.
The future seems to be hopeful for
the milk producers. The European
markets for these American products
are only now being fairly opened up.
The exports, which are as yet small,
will within a few years amount to one
third of the total production, not only
affording a sufficient market, but in
surfing the maintenance of prices.
$4,000 Barrels OF Cranberries.
The approach Of Thanksgiving finds
cranberries higher, like most every-
thing else. 1t is not known generally
that Wisconsin cuts quite a figure in
this curious industry. Wood county
Is an important producing point. some
$4,000 barrels being the output this
year. The yield of the whole country
Is said to be 100000 barrels. New
England raises about half. and New
Jerseys marshes are prolific to the ex
tent of 10000 barrels. The west, all
told. puts out only about 10000 barrels.
No doubt other parts of Wisconsin
could make money along this line.
II Is the key TO success for a com
munity to ascertain what one thing it
a do. and then push hard on that
line. Look at Kalamazoo CELERY
Think of that county in western New
York that produces n large part of the
worlds peppermint supply.
There are some products that will
grow any where. 1t is tne town and
the Individual that persists and excels
that opens a source of profit. A Long
Island woman took it into her head to
raise mint Today the Waldorf-Astoria
and other big hotels pay her 81 and So
a day each for their supply to garnish
juleps and make lamb redolent, | sup
pose.
But TO rever to the luscious cranber-
ry. The Wisconsin association num-
berS some seventy growers. At their
last convention they made plans to ex-
hibit at Paris and to publish a paper,
the only publication of the kind in the
world. 1t seems that there are about
1900 growers in the United States
who cultivate three acres or more. And
there are enough varieties of vines and
berries to keep a man busy as a stu
dent for n life time. Pickers get 40
cents a box, and the retail price for
cranberries ranges from $3.50 to $3.50
a barrel.
The fellowship that binds together
people interested in the same line of
cultivation. especially If 1t be a limit
ed craft. like bee-growing, or cranber-
ny farming, or mushroom hunting is
attractive. Take the bee men and
women, for instance. They meet at
Madison for n convention once a year,
and have for a generation. They get
TO know each other and have their
Nestors, and jokers and saints; and
the social cad of the rally reminds one
Of a family reunion. Get a hobby and
get in touch with fellow hobby-riders.
II VIII SNttlen NE.
New Way of distinguishing Fires.
AT the Grand Rapids meet of cram
berry growers. A. G. Rennett advanced
a method of fighting fire "a curse of
marsh rs well as ~forest), based on Da-
vy's discovery in England 100 years
ago, that the flame from fire would
not pass through small PAGES. He
made a practical application of his dis
covery by the invention of the miners
safety lamp. This consisted of a cylin-
der of fine guaze wire enclosing the
flame of the lamp on all sides with
gauze wire over the top.
With this lamp the miners could
walk in safety through the most dan
gerous explosive gases in their mines.
MI. Rennett says: Or prairies and
marshes the onward march of the fire
is preceded by the tongue of the fire
WI ich acts as a leader, being In adj
vance of the suain fire. TO cut this
of aud divide the fire in sections is the
first object sought. With a roll of fine
wire screen, such as is used for win.
dow screens, 100 feet long and three
feet wide or more, provided with small
iron rods at each end, let two men pro.
eeed to smother it out as though the
screen was a blanket"
No flame will jump through it. The
screen could be used for a fence when
not otherwise needed. A screen be.
fore a fireplace shuts out heat as well
as flame.
Trying to Impress Europe.
A letter from Inverness, Scotland,
from a Minneapolis man, pokes some
fun at some of our Badger brothers
who were travelling hast summer in
the Old World. The letter notes that
IN the register of the Caledonian ho-
tel appears the signature of "Rt. Hon.
-, -. Wis.," the name of a
well-knowI gentleman, who has held
some modest by no means high, posi-
lions, in Wisconsin.
The Minneapolis critic notes that
not long before he read on n hotel
register in the east Hon. - former
state treasurer of Wisconsin" THAT
wasn't the Office, but it would be cruel
to identify the travelerl. The critic
then adds:
wisconsin is made up of an intel
ligent and sensible people. You had
better try and give a few of your
lions" a pointer to leave their title at
home"
There are two explanations. The
first is the fra vatarS Snurht IN imnrnSS