The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-24

AAOUSNAUs VI nOIeAs ma heStnu-
rants Illegally Using OIeOmar-
garine-Success on the Farm De-
ponds Entirely on Personal In
dustry-Farmers Who Are Send
ing Away Too Much Mill Feed.
One Of the brightest and most progress
sive dairy farmers in the state of Maine
is Hon. R. w. Ellis, of Emden. At the
recent meeting of the state dairy confer
ence he made one of his characteristic
talks. He is a thoroughly practical farm
er. In speaking of the farmers boy, he
frankly said:
He didn't blame the boy for leaving
the farm unless his father was making
more than a poor sort of a living. He
recognized the fact that there is good
blood in the farmers boys, but that they
want a show for something more than
eternal hard work and no fun. The boy
who Is on a farm wants to be sure first
that the farm is paying. and that there's
something for him as he goes along, a
good team, money in his pocket, a
chance to hold his head up when he Is
with other young fellows of the same
age. In short, Mr.. Ellis evidently was a
boy himself once. It was long time
ago, but he still remembers how he felt
then.
''And don't tell your boys" he said,
that farming is the noblest of the pro-
LESSONS, and the one vocation a man
should follow. 1 raised UP four boys
and never said such a thing to one Of
them, and yet they are willing to stay
on the farm. Make them see that there's
something for them and they'll stay
with YOU
And then there was something spark
lingly refreshing in the way he disposed
of the farmers who are always saying,
1--WE can't make money on a farm. Farm
ing has played out" He said that only
one class of farmers talked that way
the fellows who hang about the country
grocery stores, the men who are any
where but on their farms-the men who
fail to make money because they fail to
work. For that class, and he admitted
that Maine had some of them left, he
seemed to have a very hearty contempt.
1t costs % average of only 12S cents
per pound to make butter in the best
creameries of Minnesota That makes
the gold medal kind of butter, too
Bacteria grow best away from the
light. In fact light checks the growth
of most species, and the direct rays of
the sun kill with but few eXceptionsj
all forms of bacteria, and even spores,
and kill them rapidly. Sunlight is our
great natural germicide. There is then
a scientific basis for the housewife 5
placing her pans and other dairy uten-
sils in the sun. She has been calling in
the suns aid to add to the effectiveness
of her cleansing. The cheese and but
ter maker as we'll might, in like man
ner, make use of this important adjunct
to cleanliness. 1t is IN the dark places
that bacteria flourish best; and to this
fact may be ascribed much of the I'M
healthiness of poorly lighted stables, eel
lars and the like. OF course we have
also to consider, in many of these cases,
dampness and filth as well. Sunlight
dispels the one and shows up the other.
American farmers are paying freight on
cheap grain and millfeeds sent all the
way to European dairymen. When will
American farmers learn that exports
should be condensed? One way to con-
dense is to take 500 worth of grain and
chemically convert it into $50 worth Of
butter plus $50 worth of other products,
and send that $500 worth of exports over
the ocean for about one-quarter the
freight charges on the bulkier, coarser
product. We have not begun to touch
the possibilities of our agricultural sup
plies for the worlds markets. The COW
is a great laboratory and the intelligent
farmer and dairyman is the true alchem-
ist.
the greatest problems with which dairy
men have to contend. This applies to
milk produced for factory use as we'll as
where it is sold to consumers in the city
There is only one process that will thor
oughly rid milk of doors and place it in
condition to cause its keeping qualities to
be of the best, and this is by aerat.on
Talk is cheap, it is said, but it's great
stuff to influence legislation. Talk the 10
cent tax on colored oleomargarine when
ever you get an opportunity,
A $1C,0 OOo milk trust has been formed
IN Chicago, with Mr.. Joseph Letter at its
head. Failing to successfully corner the
wheat of the world he proposes to try
cornering the milk of one CITY. and as
the job is much smaller he will probably
succeed. 1t IS given out cold that the
first step of the trust will be to reduce
the retail price of milk until every small
dealer is driven out of business, then, of
course, it will be supreme as a price
maker, both to producer and consumer.
This trust, like all others, lays claim to
shining virtues-it is to concern itself
chiefly in the supplying of pure milk
will keep water out of it il not out of
the stock
another thing. the markets through