The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-05-17
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Parma Few
Hints as to the Care OF Live Stock
and Poultry.
Dairy Notes.

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has been arranged, and they are so
perfect in their construction and ar
rangement that any kind Of tsmpera-
ture between 40 and 80 degrees can be
maintained indefinitely. The rooms
referred to are separated from the out
side walls by a passage four feet wide.
This proves a strong defense against
the influences of the outside atmos-
phere. Each room is separated from
the passage and the other rooms by
double walls and air spaces. This
makes it possible to keep the tempera-
ture under control within two de-
grees. Hot air 1ues from below n
cold air tlues from above enter each
chamber, the cold air 1ues connecting
with ammonia expansion coils and
lime tanks. These 1ucs are controlled
by hampers operated by compressed
air in connection with t~hermostats.
This arrangement regulates the tenn
perature automatically. and the man
ager can go to sleep in confidence that
he will not wake up in the morning
and find his experiments ruined by a
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perature Of his curing rooms. In these
rooms have recently been carried out
some experiments to ascertain If the
favor of cheese is greatly affected by
the temperature in which it is cured.
Four temperatures were tried-55, 6O,
65 and 70. The lowest temperatures
gave the best f~1avors, and the cheese
improved in flavor with age. These
rooms at Geneva are model ones, and
without doubt will greatly influence
the construction of future curing
rooms in our largest factories.
At the recent meeting of stockmen
in Fort Worth, Texas, a resolution was
passed requesting congress not to en-
act into law a bill to further tax oleo-
margarine. The vote was passed with
but three dissenting voices, though it
is perhaps worthy of note that only a
few delegates-possibly a hundred
were present at the time the vote was
taken. Since the National Live Stock
Association includes in its member
ship some dairymen's associations, the
vote of the majority was in the nature
of a blow from behind. The argument
used was that oleomargarine raised
the price of steers as well as cotton
seed oil. But the fact is that the in
creased value to steers is a matter of
cents rather than of dollars, and the
manufacture of bogus butter is bound
in the end to hurt the market for
steers more than it helps. When the
dairymen car manufacture butter and
sell it without competition with a
counterfeit they will devote their en-
ergies to producing butter. But dairy
men have been driven out of the bust
ness by the thousands in the past ten
years and many Of them have been
forced into steer raising. Had it not
been for oleomargarine there would be
thousands now producing butter that
are raising steers. The fewer dairy
men, the more steer raisers. The re-
suit is sure to be a rush into steer
raising till the breeders become so
numerous that the profits will be again
reduced to a narrow margin. The beef
producers are hurting themselves when
they deliver a blow at the dairy inter
ests.
Howard and Butler Not Pardoned.-
Reports from Washington show that
Howard and Butler will not be par
doned. They have too often violated
the internal revenue law relative to
oleomargarine. Attorney = General
Griggs, in advising the president not
to pardon the prisoners, said: at is
obvious that the business in which
wilkins vas engaged must have been
one of great profit, otherwise he could
not have afforded to make the very
large payments in compromise which
he did make or offered to make. That
he was ava of the fraudulent and
dishonorable nature of the business In
which he was persistently engaged, ap-
pears from his own statement, made
in a letter addressed to the commits
sioner Of internal revenue, Oct. 81,
1893. it is absolutely clear that for
such a persistent violator of the law
something more than a money penalty
was essential. The sentence of i'm
~prisonment imposed in this case was
peremptorily required by the circum-
) stances. Nor can I say that the sen
t tence was anything but moderate.
do not think that the sentences should
: be interfered with"
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