The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-29
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS,
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department OF the Farm--A Few
Hints AS to the Care of Live Stoc,,
und Poultry.
Dairy Notes.

Fresh French butter seems to be los
ing its place in tho English market
according to a report from Paris. In
1S7F the value of all butter exported
from France was about $40 900 900. In
1883 the amount had dropped to about
$l7,0OO,OO0, of which about $l4,0OO,O00
worth was salted butter. That left
about $3,0O0,000 worth as the value of
fresh butter exported. In the year 1898
tie entire value of fresh butter eX-
ported from France was only about
$1,500,0OV.
The board of health of Rochester,
N. Y, has taken up the investigation
or milk for bacteria. Perhaps the
board understands what it is trying
to do. but other people are still wait
ing for information. They have passed
rule making 100000 bacteria per
cubic centimeter the li1nit in salable
milk. SO far as we know the rule does
not name the bacteria, but includes all
alike, 1t is presumed that the desir-
able Terments are objected to as much
as those that are undesirable, SO far
as this rule goes. We do not care to
crltlclse till we know the whole intent
or this regulation. But at this dis
tance it seems like very doubtful
expedient A very dangerous milk
might contain only few thousand
bacteria, but they might be Of very
harmful sort. Would that kind of
milk pass the inspector? On the other
hand, it may be possible that a new
and valuable idea is being worked out
and that we are entering on an era OF
greater certainty as to the real COM
position and contents of the product
That is sold to us as pure milk.
Reports from the Minnesota State
Fair say that the scoring of butter was
made especially valuable to the cream
cry butter-makers this year. After
the butter had been judged and prizes
awarded the competing butter exhibit
ors were permitted to 60 into the eX-
hibit room and rescore the butter for
their own information and instruc-
tlon. Many of them availed them
selves of the privilege. 1t is doubtless
true that many of our butter exhibits
fall in their purpose for the reason
that those that are beaten in the COM
petition have no way of ascertaining
by actual comparison of the buffers
the standard to which each should
work. 1t is barely possible that some
expert judges of exhibition butter do
not like the idea, as it may expose
them to criticism. If a beaten eXhib-
ftOr does not have a chance to taste
all the buffers he has little ground on
which to impeach the correctness of
the judges, but as soon as he is per-
mitted with others to go over the
ground it is possible for him to make
vigorous objections if he thinks him
self aggrieyed. In most cases these
criticisms are unjust, but in the inter
est of advancement they should be ac-
cepted by the judges.
We wish to commend the good work |
that is being done by the Illinois Dairy
Union. 1t has been prosecuting the !
men, or some Of them, who have been |
selling oleomargarine for butter 1t |
finds legal difficulties that it is not easy |
to surmount. 1t has now started a |
movement to have all Illinois butter
sold under a trademark. Any in |
fringement of the trademark will be !
more easily prosecuted than the mere
violation Of the oleo laws The Dairy |
Union is now furnishing a protected
label, which reads as follows:
Contents of this package guaran-
teed pure butter. The Illinois Dairy
Union, which furnishes this label for |
use with pure butter only, will cheer .
fully pay $40 reward for Information |
leading to the detection of any person |
or firm using it with oleomargarine or
nished free to all retailers that handle !
pure butter made from unadulterated |
milk or cream, no matter from whom |
to afford them a convenient |
method for guaranteeing the purity of |
such goods, and thus distinguish be- !
tween pure butter and the enormous
quantities of the counterfeit article of |
a cheap character being fraudulently |
palmed off as butter. In the interest
of honest dealing and the purity of our
foods, we earnestly request that you
insist upon this guaranty with every
purchase of butter If doubtful of the |
purity of your butter, write to the un-
dersigned to send you mai]able box to
return sample in to test free.-Chas.
Y. Knight, Secretary, 1873 South Water
street, Chicago"
On Fattening Turkeys