The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-06-23
.DAIRYAND POULTRY
INTERESTING cHAPTERs~F FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How s1ocsssfal Farmer Operate This
DspartIasnt OF the Farm-A Few
Hiinritse, = 10 the Care Of Live Stock
and Poultry.

Hinte - TO b Care Of Live Stock
: Poultry.
Dairy Notes. p.
The health authorities Of Chicago are
making war on the use of formalin in
milk, and doing it successfully. A large
oumber7 of milkmen are pleased at the
.dlrection+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 a milkman because
his milk sours under adverse circum-
stances. When ordinary milk keeps
for several days in hot weather it Is a
pretty good sign that there is some
thing in 1t that should not be there.
eOf course we recognize the fact that
here and there are dairies so perfectly
managed that their milk will keep for
several days under proper degrees of
GOLD. But most milk is not Of that
Sind. It is far better for people to
.1Have some SOUL milk on their hands
eonce in awhile than to have all the
time milk that is drugged.
I It Is difficult for us to understand
WHY Joseph- H. Wilkins should be par
doned out Of prison before he had
completed his term of imprisonment,
more than any other prisoner. He was
sen to prison because he had repeat
eddy removed revenue stamps from
oleomargarine packages. contrary to
the revenue laws. The press dis
patches from Washington report that
he raj %pardoned a few days before his
sentence expired so that he might not
lose his citizenship. Why should we
want to preserve the citizenship of a
nan that despises the duties of citizen
ship? Men that have the interests OF
the farmers at heart will certainly be-
lieve that tho 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
al in the courts for about three
years.
Prosecutions under the food laws are
moi always decided on their merits.
This is illustrated by the case anent
process butter that was tried at Jack
son, 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 1t
butter. The state Of Michigan began
prosecutions on q case that came be-
fore a police Justice at Jackson. The
state brought the best chemists, who
asserted that they had examined the
butter and analyzed it and found it
process butter. This testimony was
backed up by the highest chemists In
the last. But other chemists testified
on the side of Armour & Co. that they
were suspicious of the reliability Of the
other chemists, as they did not know
that their processes were reliable, not
having used those processes them
selves. The finding of the police JUS
tice was mo cause Of action" II all
the testimony of. noted chemists Is to
be set aside in that way. what are the
chances for the enforcement Of the
law?.
Some of the Chicago papers are TAX
ing up the agitation to compel the au-
4horities to raise the standard Of milk
from : to 1 per cent Some OF the
newspapssS have articles 30 headed.
that one would, suppose the city Of
fcials to. be opposed to all reform in
the question Of milk supply. They
blame tho oflcials because they say
that 5 per cent Is high enough. The
omcials are right. and the daily papers
by the stand they appear to have taken
show how little they know about the
facts In the use Were the standard
raised to 1 per cent the, people Of Chi
cago would get very thirsty for milk.
There are multitudes of cows. prob
ably q majority of those supplying
milk to Chicago, that give less than
4 per cent milk. Then, too. cows vary
greatly between any. two milkings,
this variation being sometimes . full
one per cent. Thus q COW that gives
4 per cent milk at n milking may
give only 8 per cent at the next, this
condition depending on numerous. cir-
cumstances. The purchaser that gets
8 per cent Of cream in his milk has
no reason to complain ut his treat
ment.. In most Of our states the STAN
dard ID 8 per cent. and in u most,
progressive cheesemaking states the
regulate for cheesemaktng 10 3 per
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