The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-08

I Peach trees are often grown for fuel. and
| there are so many peaches IN some Sec
tons thai they are used for fattening pigs.
Almost any kind Of frui, that grows in tae
United States Is grosn IN the Argentine
Republic. Az Ia vegetables. / cav celery
stems as big around as a pint tin cup
and a yard IN leagth. / saw enough onions
TO scent the breath OF the continent, and
vans and sweet potatoes Of gigantic size.
Nearly everything n the fruit and vege-
tahla lines is cheap, delicious oranges cost
ing about cents apiece. Vegetables are
usually sod in piles. SO that you have TO
measure quantity as well as quality by the
eye, and the butchers sod their meat by
the chi nix or cut rather than weigat.
Argentine Chickens.
Chickens were sold By the piece. They
had all been dressed. the only feathers
left on them being those OF the tail These
tail feathers stuck out. showing what the
color of each chicken WAS before It was
plGcked. Why the tail feathers are not re-
moved I do not know. The same custom
prevails in China as to dogs, where a BIT
Of the dogs hair is always left on the
end OF the tail. even when the animal IS
cooked. But this is because the Chinese
consider the flesh OF black dogs the best
and most certain 10 put brave spirit into
the body Of the eater.
Chickens ara sold alive in Buenos Ayres
by huckstsrs, who carry them from house
to house in wicker crates swung over the
back OF g horse. There are no hueksier
wagons, and all peddiing is done by men
on horseback or on foot. Turkeys are
driven through the streets by Ite9dlers
You pick cut the turkey yoi want from
the flock. and the owner viii catch it for
You. Fish and vegetables are sold by men
who go through the city with baskets hung
10 the ends or poles on their shoulders, and
the milk pefidler on horseback is still 10 be
found in the suburbs OF Buenos Ayres He
has been driven from the main part Of the
city and his place taken by the dairy COM
paries. who now furnish good butter and
good milk IN almost every block, Until
within a very few years good butter was
not 10 De had in Bueuos Ayres. The eoun-
try had millions of COWS. but not a score
Of good butter makers. Farmers wno
owned 1850 COWS imported their butter
in tins from the United States or Europe
ana quantities came 70 Buenos Ayres from
New York III nrkna A few years ago
an enterpristng Argentine established a
large dairy outside the city. He brought
in butter makers frcEn Switzerland. and
row the city has as delicious butter as can
be found anywhere. The butter Is made
without salt 1 am told that sweet cream
is used. bat IL IS SO good that you can
eat butter Ike cheese. Ii IL sent TO Brazil
ard other countries, and even shipped 10
London.
The old style Of milk selling was by
,seddler who carried his milk from house
- house IN cans swung on the sides O.
horsn Each can was stopped with piece
Of wood, about which an old cloth was
wrapped 10 keep IL tight. This made the
milk 30 foul ana unsanitary that the gov
eminent objected 10 Il. Milkmen still drive
their cows from house to house In all towns
outside OF Buenos Ayres. They milk the
COWS for you while you wait, and there is
no possibility of your getting chalk and
water In place az the pure extract Of the
bovine. Each cow has It's calf with II. but
the calls mouth Is protected by a leather
muzzle, SO that. TantaIus-iike, IL is ever
within the sight and smell os the milk
without a chance 10 satisfy It's hunger or
thirst. FRANK G. CARPENTER