The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-11-06
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department OF the FHrm-A Few
Hints as 20 the Care OF Live stock
and Poultry.


Dairy Notes.
The health authorities of Chicago are |
.daking war on the use OF formalin in
milk and doing it successfully. A large
number of milkmen are pleased at the
direction affairs have taken, as they
did not want to use the preservatives,
but were forced into it by competition
People that buy milk should not be too
ready to discard milkman because
his milk sours under adverse circum-
stances. When ordinary milk keeps
for several days in hot weather it is
pretty good sign that there is some
thing in it that should not be there.
VI course we recognize the fact that
here and there are diaries so perfectly
managed that their milk will keep for
several days under proper degrees oil
cold. But most milk is not Of that
kind. 1t is far better for people to
| have some sour milk on their hands
once in awhile than to have all the
time milk that is drugged.
/ 1t is difficult fer Us to understand
why Joseph H. Wilkins should be par
doned out of prison before he had
completed his term CT Imprisonment,
more than any other prisoner. He was
sent to prison because he had repeat
edly removed revenue stamps from
oleomargarine packages, contrary to
the revenue laws. The press dis
patches from Washington report that
he was pardoned few days before his
sentence expired so that he might not
lose his citizenship. Why should we
want to preserse the citizenship of
man that despises the duties of citizen
ship? Men that have the interests OF
the farmer. at heart will certainly be-
lieve that the act was in response to
the influence of the great oleomar-
garine manufacturers, who fought so
hard to keep Mr.. Wilkins out of prison
that they succeeded in keeping his
case in the courts for about three
years.
Prosecutions under the food laws are
not always decided on their merits.
This is illustrated by the case anent
process butter that was tried at jack
sen, Mich. The laws OF the state Of
Michigan provide that all process but
ter must be labeled process butter.
Armour & Co. have been shipping proc
ess butter into that state, labelling ii
butter. The state OF Michigan began
prosecutions on a case that came be-
fore a police justice at Jackson. The
l state brought the best chemists, who
asserted that they had examined tht
butter and analyZed ii and found Il
process butter. This testimony wa:
E backed up by the highest chemists il
t the last But other chemists testified
1 on the side Of Armour & Co. that they
2 were suspicious of the reliability of tbs
other chemists, as they did not know
that their processes were reliable, mo-
having used those processes them
selves. The finding Of the police JUS
: tice was mo cause Of action" If al
the testimony of noted chemists is Il
be set aside in that way, what are the
, chances for the enforcement Of The
r law7
Some Of the Chicago papers are tax
, ing up the agitation to compel the au
thorities TO raise the standard of mill
: from to 4 per cent Some OF tbs
, newspapers have articles SO headed
that one would suppose the city Of
: ficials to be opposed to all reform il
I the question of milk supply Thel
T blame the officials because they sal
9 that 9 per cent is high enough. TIT
: officials are right, and the daily paper
y by the stand they appear TO have takeI
1 show how little they know about tn
facts in the case. Were the standarS
Z raised TO A per cent the people of Chi
e eago would get very thirsty for milk
u There are multitudes of COWS, prob
J ably a majority of those supplying
d milk to Chicago. that give less thai
A per cent milk. Then. too, cows var.
u greatly between any two milkings
this variation being sometimes fuI
u one per cent Thus COW that give
e 4 per cent milk at one milking ma.
i give only 5 per cent at the next, thi
q condition depending on numerous cir
e eumstanees. The purchaser that get
n 8 per cent Of cream in his milk ha
d no reason to complain at his treat
5. ment In most of our states the stan
u dard is 3 per cent, and in our mos
d, progressive cheesemaking states th
It requisite for eheesemaking is 8 pc
e ger cent milk. The fact is that muc
d. OF the milk being sod is nearer
than per cent.
Poultry Notes.