Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-01
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operate.
The commission that has charge of
this bookkeeping reform is the gov
ernor, secretary of state and the state
treasurer. The two experts report to
them; and II the three indorse the plan,
It is certified to the departments and
becomes compulsory. The experts be-
gan July 1. The law authorizing the
work limits 1t to six months, but it is
doubtful IL the work is then finished.
When II Is. each dollar, coming and
going. whether for university, from
polish peddler, or to the feeble-minded
at Chippewa Falls, will have c string
on It from the state treasury.
VIII See for Himself.
Governor Scofield is engaged in max
ing a round of the state institutions
under the board of control. This is an
excellent idea, some governors not hav-
Ing ever seen some Of the most impor-
tant institutions, engines Of the ~tate's
activity. Governor Scofield Is on rec
ord as saying these homes. asylums.
etc.. We're never in better condition.
and it is time that the board of con-
troll has done much reform work, espe-
cially in the line of personnel
Ready for the Census.
The work Of getting into shape for
taking the Fms is being done. The
rules shut out the appointment of
town supervisors, town clerks. asses.
sors, and members of common councils
as enufneratOrs with the effect of max
ing il difficult to find a suitable person
in some small communities.
The scheme Of paying census emu
merators ~ interesting. A minimum
rate OF 2 cents for each living inhabi-
tant. 2 cents for each death. Is
cents for each farm, and 20 cents for
each establishment of productive in
dustry is given.
$a,O0o.oOO Worth of New ships.
The lake shipping industry is some
thing a large part of Wisconsin knows
little about. It's importance is sug.
gested in a recent contract for five inn
mense steel freighters for the Carnegie
Oliver interests. The steamers will
be duplicates and will be 474 feet over
all in length. There will be fifteen
matches for each ship, with all appli-
ance for rapid handling of cargo and
the working of the boat. The total
cost of each ship will be 1885,, 900, max.
ing the total just a little less than ST.
100000.
Oid-Fashioned Way Better.
The agricultural school is exposing
the futility of a hydraulic cream sep
arator which some Wisconsin farm
ers are buying. The school reports
that the scheme of running milk and
water in together and drawing off the
skim-milk does not work well. At five
farms where these new" dilution
methods of cream separating were
used the skim-milk tested O.66 to 100
per cent. fat. AT forty farms where
milk was set in shallow pans the aver
age test of the skim-milk was O.39 per
cent fat, and at thirty farms where
deep setting of tie milk in cold water
was practiced the average test of the
skim-milk was 0.3 per cent fat.
IF the present conditions were to
continue" said a prominent Superior
lumberman recently, II shall expect
that all of the head of the lake lumber
mills will have outlived their useful
ness within seven or eight years" This
statement is creating some comment
OH the part of Superior papers, which
point out that woodworking establish,
ments and industries to do the finer
of manufacture must be estab-
lished. Weyerhaeuser and other big
lumbermen there have been buying in
other places than the Chippewa and
Mississippi. He now has an option on
a plant and property near Tower,
Mimi, and the Weyerhaeuser people
have bought 1000 millions of timber
land in Washington.
Cutting in the western country will
begin to be more general within a year
Dr. two it is expected, and this will
tend to tighten the cut here. In fact,
one lumberman said that he expected
that there would not be more than
two winters more of heavy cutting in
and around Douglas county.
Wisconsin has now 5000
les and cheese factories and the total
returns from cows of all kinds this
year will reach nearly or quite $50, OO0,-
300. The creameries will urn out prob
ably S14,G00.000 worth of butter, and
the cheese factories S7.000,000 worth
of cheese. Cheese buyers say that
southern Wisconsin cheese is better
than that made in northern Illinois.
and the cheese made in central WIS.,
cousin is still better in flavor and tex
ture than that made in the southern
portion of the state.
ORLANDO BURNETT.