The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-06-16

county, but his stock traces back TO
English and Mohawk Dutch.
The Facts About Salt.
Every now and then the Agricultural
school gets out a bulletin fer the benefit
of the farmers. No. "A has to do with
dairy salt, by Professor Woll, for it is
coming to be understood that inferior
salt may explain the mystery of bad
butter. For instance, when even per
cent. of magnesium sulphate is present,
it gives bitter taste. Many interest
ing things appear in the bulletin.
Primitive races live largely on meat
diet and crave little or no salt beyond
what is already present in their food,
but to civilized man, living on q mixed
and generally highly varied diet, the
supply of salt to the food is as essential
as is water or the food itself During
the Paraguayan war, 1s6i-7O, it was OBJ
served that the men who had been with
out salt for three months when wound
ed, however slightly, died, as their
wounds would not heal. The United
States uses about forty-eight pounds
per capita. The American output is
$5,O00,000 a year; we rank second to
Great Britain.
during 1896 the state of New York
producing the largest quantities, with
Michigan Ohio and Kansas following
in the order given. Salt is obtained
by three distinct methods: one, by evap-
Grafton Of the water of the ocean,
which contains about 2.5 per cent. salt;
two, from brine by evaporating the
water by means Of solar or artificial
heat, and three, by mining rock salt.
About 80 per cent of the domestic salt
produced is manufactured from brine,
brought from deep wells, there being
only four companies that mine rock salt,
viz, one in Louisiana, two in Kan
sas and one in New York. Of the 154
establishments in the United States
fifty-four were in Michigan; thirty mine
in New York, tWenty-four in California,
ten in Kansas, etc. The Agricultural
school analysed eighty-one samples,
fifty-five of them such as our Wiscon-
sin farmers are using in their butter,
and the others foreign dairy salts for
comparison.
The leading brands Of dairy salt in
general contain SO to over SO per cent.
Of pure sodium Chord, 5 to Is per cent.
calcium sulfate, L to 5 per cent. calci-
Urn chlorid trace to 2 per cent. mag
nesium Chord, none to g per cent.
moisture and none to below i per cent
Of insoluble impurities. By inference
Diamond Crystal Worcester and Gene
see salts are most highly approved and
American salts average higher than
foreign
Carter Harrison at Bicycle Meet.
If the GAINESVILLE Cycling club con-
tinues the hustle they have adopted for
the state meet and national circuit
races, the event will certainly do the
club much credit. Several gold med
ais for the various amateur state cham
pionships have been offered by some Of
Janesville's citizens. Sanger, Johnson
and McDuffee have entered, and there
is a possibility of having Bald and
Gardner upon the track. Considering
the fact that after a three days meet
of the national circuit at st. Louis, and
as the next date in the circuit is at
GAINESVILLE, there is no doubt but that
the number of professional riders at
the Wisconsin division meet will be
large. Chicago Cycling clubs are con-
sidering proposition Of sending
score or more of members to attend the
meet
The one fare rate on the railroads
will bring lots of people from cities
who desire a short outing. There will
also be upon the programme of amuse-
ments base ball and golf games, SWIM
ming and rowing contests, a balloon
ascension and horseless carriage race.
July II, 13 and Ia. An invita- lion has
been extended to Hon. Carter H. Har-
rison to attend on the opening day He
says he mo doubt will accept and will
be glad to attend"
Educating Our Girls.
The northwest should have a first rank
woman's college and the seeds no doubt
lie in the Milwaukee-Downer college,
whose new home in Milwaukee is chris
tened today. There are two buildings,
a class and administrative hall named
for William P. Merrill and residence
hall named for the late E. D. Holton.
These constructions represent $4,000,
and with such donors as the Plankin-
tons, Charles T. Pfister F. G. Bigelow
and others interested, money should be
forthcoming in years to come. The
brewing families may be heard from.
Vassar college was built on Matthew
Vassars fortune, earned in that line of
Industry. W0I6SIGy COl0S0, ny Tie
way, was the benefaction of a man
the waywardness Of whose earlier years
he sought to condone by repentance
and 'giving his goods to noble uses
when he was old.
Observation-Disclosures college is the
blending Q895) Of two venerable insti-
tutions. The former was chartered in
1851, and the latter began work in Fox
Lake in 1855. Vassar was fifteen years
behind. The new buildings will accom-
modate 100 teachers and students,
headed by President Ellen c.. Sabin,
Dane county woman who is winning
laurels as an educational leader. All
success to the educational project.
Milwaukee college has already num-
bered Frances Willard as a student and
Mrs. Kate Epson Clark and Mrs. James
Tweedy of New York, women writer's,
are graduates.
On Saturday last the young women
gave LAS You Like It," on Sunday DR..