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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR
RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers operate h
Department of the Parma Few
Hints as to the Care OF Live stock
and Poultry.
a Swiss Condenslng FACTORY.

Some interesting particulars are
given by Mr.. F. G. Harrison, bacteriol-
ogist to the Guelph Experiment Sta
ton, in a description published by him
Of the great condensed milk business
of Henri Nestle and Co., carried on by
them at Vevey, Switzerland, and else
where. The article says: The milk
supply is drawn from over ESQ villages,
but the firm does not buy from indi-
vidual farmers. When the peasants
wish to do business with the company
they form into a cooperative society,
and appoint one of their number as
manager. They then sign an agree
ment which binds them to feed certain
foods to their cattle, to keep their
sheds and utensils clean, and to do
many other things for the good of the
milk. The manager arranges the terms,
settles difficulties between the COM
munity and the company, and exercises
a general surveillance over his society.
The Nestle company have twenty-five
inspectors, each with a horse and rig,
whose duty is to drive continually from
village to village, seeing that all Is
right and in good order. The inspec-
tor is always drawn from a remote vii
lage, has no association with the viii
lagos he calls at, and is selected for
his vigilance and experience. The
company also have their own veter-
mary surgeons, whose duty is to ex-
anime all milking utensils, and see that
they are sc~rupulously clean, also that
the byres are clean, well ventilated, and
drained. The cows diet is confined to
hay and grass, and the inspector must
see that no forcing foods, like oil
cake, are used. Milk is transported in
cans to the factory, and is there care
fully weighed, sampled, and tested
every day, to ensure that all cream is
present.
The contents of all cans are then
turned into a huge vat, where the milk
remains until required for boiling. 1t
is then run into a copper boiler and
carefully scalded. Syrup cooked in an
other boiler to the right temperature
and consistency is added, and the two
are then mixed together. Next the
milk is pumped into the condensers,
and there condensed within a vacuum.
The condition of the contents is ascer-
tanned by means of a tube attachment,
which is rotated into the interior of the
chamber lear the bottom and drawn
out with a sample for examination.
Condensation completed, the hot fluid
is run out into cans. to cool. To give
an idea of the immense size of the
Nestle factories it is sufficient to say
that they daily handle 26, 900 gallons
of fresh milk, the production of $4,000
COWS.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05
Methods Of preserving Err..

Doubtless some of our readers are
interested in the question of preserv-
ing eggs. For such we publish the fol-
lowing from the London Rural World:
The method most commonly in use
is as follows: The eggs are placed in
a large vessel or tub, holding large
or small quantities, as the case may
be, and these are all piled up, one on
the top of the other. A preparation
composed Of a mixture of five, gallons
of water with one gallon of fine slaked
lime, to which about a gallon Of salt
has been added, is made, AMI
when the water has dissolved
as much lime as it can, it is
poured over the eggs until they
are entirely covered, keeping back any
lime that may be at the bottom which
has not been dissolved. The eggs may
be kept in this manner for a very long
period, but drawback to this sys-
tenn is that the shells of the eggs be-
come so brittle that they break with
the slightest touch. 1t is necessary to
keep adding a little lime from time to
time, otherwise the preparation will
lose its effect, and the eggs will not
be in a very good state when the time
ONE for them to be taken out. Whels
the eggs are wanted for use, they arr
taken out of the solution and wiped
dry, but they should be used as soo'
after as possible, as they do not keel
very long. 1t may here be said, and
this applies to all methods of preserg-
ing eggs, that it is absolutely essential
that the eggs shall be put down quite
fresh-if possible, the same day as laid
otherwise they will not preserve
nearly as well.
Another method adopted is hat OF
placing the eggs in salt. This keep,
the eggs in splendid condition, but
there is a slight taste given to them
but it is not by any means disagree
able. The salt absorbs a little mois-
ture from the interior of the egg, hence
the inside becomes rather loose, ana
as there is a rattle when shaken, II
gives one the idea that the egg is stale
Another method in common use IL
some parts Of the country is that o.
making a mixture of sulphur and lamp
black. The eggs are placed into a boz
with q small hole in one side, and the
mixture referred to is put upon 6
saucer and lit inside the box. Tbs
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05
NOTES ON SCIENCE.
CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOVERY
AND INVENTION.
Spirit Slate Writing How Mysterious
Sentences Are Prepared in Advance
Tricks in All Trades and Especially
Among Fakirs.


Spiritualistic slate writing, if clev-
erly done, always makes a marked inn
preston on a magician's audience, be-
cause it utterly battles their efforts to
detect the trick. They see a small cab
met suspended above the stage by
means of cords or ribbons. 1t has an
open front, and Is empty. The magi-
clan turns it around so that every
part Of it may be seen, and taps 1t in
side and out with his wand, to show
that it is hollow.
On a stand hear by he has a small
easel, a common school slate, a bottle
of India ink with a quill pen in 1t, and
a few sheets of ordinary white writing
paper. All these he passes around
among the audience for examination.
Then he fixes a sheet Of the paper to
the slate by mean of waters, places
the slate on the easel. and the easel
in the cabinet. together with the bot
tie of ink, the latter having the pen
still in 1t.
Having allowed the audience to see
the articles thus arranged in the cabi-
net, he throws a large silk handker-
chief over it. Mysterious sounds are
Immediately heard, and the cabinet
shakes as If some living thing had en-
tered it. When the sounds and the
shaking cease. he removes the hand
kerchief, showing an inscription writ
ten in bold black letters on the paper,
and the pen, not in the ink bottle, but
lying on the bottom of the cabinet.
He then removes the paper from the
slate and passes it around for exam
nation, when the writing is imme-
diately recognized as having been done
with India ink.
The explanation of the trick is sim
pie. The writing was done in advance
by the performer, the fluid used being
a solution of sulphuric acid of the pur-
est quality. To make the solution SO
drops of the concentrated acid are
added to n ounce of filtered water.
Writing done with this solution is in
visible until exposed to heat; when
SO exposed it comes out perfectly
black, looking exactly like dried India
ink.
The heat is applied by means of an
electric current running over wire with
which the slate is wound. The cords
by which the cabinet is suspended con
ceal copper wires, which conduct the
current to the slate. Black silk threads,
suitably attached, enable the perform
er to make the sounds in the cabinet,
to cause the cabinet to shake and to
jerk the pen out of the ink bottle.
Several sheets of pape are prepared
in advance, each with a different in
scription, the performer telling one in
scription from the other by secretly
marked pin pricks.
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eggs are by this a. entirely COW
cred over with a covering Of black;
and it is claimed for this system that
the eggs can be kept for any length
Of tins, and always be quite fresh and
sweet. Whether this is a good method
or not, can best be judged by the read
ers. Personally, we do not recommend
it, as the eggs being quite black would
not increase their market value-rather
the reverse.
There are other systems adopted in
various parts, but the ones that we
have given are the chief English ones.
There Is another by which it is claimed
eggs can be kept fresh for a long time,
and that is by dipping them into a
or parafine; but this is a tedious meth
cd, and one that involves much time
and labor.
The very best way of preserving eggs
is by freezing them, and this is the
only way, we think, by which eggs can
be kept quite fresh and good. OF course
there are very few poultry keepers who
are able to do this as very few possess
a freezing chamber, and are thus able
to freeze their eggs. For this reason
we have put 1t last. as to the ordinary
poultry keeper it Is quite useless.
Too much Importance cannot be at
tached to having the eggs perfectly,
fresh when they are put down, and I'M
less they are in this state they will
keep. No egg should be put
down that is more than twenty-four
hours old, and even less than this is
advisable.
AS to- whether fertile or infertile
eggs are the better for preserving, it is
a difficult matter to determine. We
think-and several experiments that
have been made go to prove it-that
the infertile one are the most suit
able.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05
The inventor is a distinguished VIC

linist and the device is Endorsed by
DR.. Laborde, a Paris physician, who
thinks so highly of it that he spoke
in its favor a few days ago before the
French Academy of Medicine. The sup
port consists of a semi-circle which
enfolds the lower part Of arm a little
above the elbow, and which is con-
nected with a belt that can be length
ened or shortened according to the size
of the arm. Its main usefulness lies
in the fact that it prevents muscular
fatigue, keeps the shoulder in a prop
er position and finally gives the arm
that power over the instrument which
it must have in oraer to produce the
best effects.
DR.. Laborde has thoroughly tested
it, and he maintains that young vio-
lin players who use it will learn more
quickly and more easily than those
who do not use it.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05

There is a funny old story about the
pansy which many children know, but
many, again do not. The pansy has
five petals and five sepals. In all pan
sizes two of the petals r of plain color
and three are gay with stripes and
spots of bright color. The two plain
petals have but one sepal between
them, while the two smallest, or the
gay, petals, have a sepal each, and the
n large petal has two sepals.
AS the story goes, the pansy repre-
sents a family-a mother, two daugh-
tiers and tive step-daughters. The
mother Is very cross and cruel to her
stepdaughters, obliges them both to
sit on one chair and wear homely
dresses, while her daughters have a
chair and very gay dresses indeed. But
why doesn't the father object to such
treatment of his daughters? The ques-
ton is, can you find the father? He is
at home. Oh, yes. But you will have
to tear the house down, taking out the
wife and children, to find him. He is
a little bit of a man, with a white
wrapper on and a night cap. But, poor
man, he is sick, and, if you look close
ly, you will find that he sits with his
hands on his knees, and a look of des-
pair on his face and his feet in a tub
of hot water.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05
THE AUTOMATIC VIOLIN.

direction may be desired. These de-
vices are connected with a lever,
which is controlled by a progressively
moving actuator, and the position of
which may be varied to suit the move
ment of the bow. On the neck Of the
instrument there are also two indie
pendent inger-bearing strips, in which
are movable rods.
Music of any kind, it is claimed, can
be played on this mechanical violin.
which, furthermore, is SO constructed
that 1t will last a long time and, If
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05
RArNED sNA1Ls AND roADs.

Saratoga, N. Y, and vicinity had an
experience the other night, the like Of
which even the oldest inhabitant can
not remember. 1t vas a precipitation
of small toads and snails, the vista
ton occurring principally between 8
and II o'clock. A rainstorm prevailed
during the most of the afternoon and
increased greatly after nightfall.
Shortly after 8 o'clock, what ap-
peared to be hailstones ratified to
earth, but on examination they proved
to be snails in their shells, many of
which were gathered by the astonished
people. The snails were almost i'm
mediately followed from the sky by
small toads, averaging from one-half to
three-quarters of an inch in length.
While the heaviest precipitation of
toads and snails was after 8 o'clock,
there are many who say that a num-
Der fell in the afternoon storm. From
what section the storm scooped w
the toads and snails that were dropped
on Saratoga soil no n seems tc
know.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05
properly used. win not readily get out
Of order.
AMER1cANs As INVESTORS.

The United States grants $4,000 pat
ents each year, or nearly as many as
all the rest Of the world. England
grants 5000 a year, France and Ger
many each about 1000, while Canada,
Australia, Austria, Italy and Russia
about half as many each. An interest
ing fact is that more patents are
granted in proportion to the applica-
lions than ever before in this history
of the Patent Office, showing that me-
chanical genius is not chasing as many
rainbows as formerly. American in
ventive genius is shown in all lines Of
invention, but succeeds especially in
machinery for manufacturing, trans
p%ortation and labor saving. Europe
and the Orient have begun to find
American industry very useful and
necessary to them.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05

DR.. l.. o. Howard, entomo1ogist of
the department of agriculture, has
just made public some startling state
ments of the property losses caused by
insects. He believes they aggregate
over $500, 900, 1000 a year. The Rocky
Mountain locust or western grasshop-
per in 1874, ate up $780, 900 900 worth
of growing crops. The chinch-bug
alone has eaten $500, 900, 900 worth of
corn and wheat in the western states
since 1850. AS for the mosquito, apart
from the losses believed to be due to
its pernicious activity in the spread of
yellow fever and malaria, it is an i'm
mense depreciation of real estate val
ues. A New Jersey newspaper re-
Gently estimated that it's extermina-
ton in that one state alone would add
to it's real estate valuation not less
than 800, 000, 900.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05

AS the steamer Sheffield was leaving
the river Scheldt one evening recently
the captain and passengers observed
the unusual phenomenon Tin these lati-
ltudes) of a large w~aterspout. The
steamer was a few miles off West
Capple, and from a heavy thunder
cloud lying due west of this point, and
computed to be about ten miles dis
tant, a dense black column was
formed, which appeared to fall by a
sinuous curse into the sea. At this
distance the surface of the sea-where
the waterspout touched its surface
was at ace surrounded by a smoke
like obscurity. Hundreds of tons of
water must have dropped heavily into
the sea. The black line of communi-
cation between the cloud and the sea
fell precipitately at first, then for
some distance appeared to encounter
a fresh current of air and was borne
along laterally, after which it dropped
into the sea The phenomenon contin.
,ued dashing up the surface of the sea
for about four minutes.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05

The miners of the town of Pas De
Calais have elected Mile. Lea Bourbon
as their queen of the coal carnival.
This young woman is in the coal trade
in the capacity of a sitter, and al
though her work is so grimy she has
a beautiful complexion, which, no
doubt, added to her good character,
gave her the necessary number of
votes, although the competition was
keen, her fe1low-candidates being
drawn from the cleaner walks of life.
The car which carried the queen and
her maids of honor was decorated with
flowers, picks, lanterns, etc. Mile.
Bourbon is only IL, and the coronation
in the center of the town made a very
beautiful tableau. To be coal queen en-
titles her to a small annuity from the
treasury Of the town, and with her
French thrift she will saw this for her
dot.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05

It is announced from Constantinople
that the Sultan has had to be bled.
For some time he has manifested a
somnolent tendency. Recently he slept
continuously for fifteen hours, and af-
ter awaking for about an hour he went
to sleep again. He was only reused
by his Arab body physician applying
ice to his temples. The physician then
intimated to the Sultan that his condi-
ton indicated excess of blood, and that
bleeding was necessary in order to OBJ
viate danger to the brain. After max
Ing the doctor swear on the Koran
that no injurious results need be APP
pretended, the Sultan let himself be
bled, and his quick-witted servitors
gathered the blood into tiny phials,
which can be sold to the faithful at
100 piastres each.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05
sheep in

| agree that when a pig gets an apple
containing a worm there is no danger
that the worm will cause any damage
to the future apple crop. But as an
insect destroyer the pig Is nowhere
with the sheep. The trouble with the
pig Is that it is too much like a man;
when it lies down and goes to sleep
it is .oblivious of all its surroundings.
1t sleeps just as soundly and shores
just as loud as its human cousin, and
when an apple drops it doesn't zeal it
or go for it until it's sleep is out. The
instinct of the worm teaches it to get
out of the apple as quickly as possible
after it drops. I have stood and
watched an apple after it struck the
ground, and seen the worm come hust-
ling out in a hurry and go for some Sc
cure place, and before the pig gets the
apple the worm is in some safe hiding
place. Not so with the sheep; they
never sleep so soundly but they will
hear an apple falling rods away, and
they are up and there before the worm
can get out, and that worm is travel
ing to the bourn whence no worm ever
comes back to curse the apple grower.
Yes, pigs are good, but sheep are a
hundred times better.-Rural New
Yorker.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05
AUTOMATIC VIOLIN is PERFECTED
IN THE EAST.

In this age of automatons it is not
surprising to find automatically oper-
ated musical instruments. Everyone
has heard the self-playing piano and
musical box, and soon everyone is
likely to hear an automatic stringed
instrument, very similar to a violin,
for a Massachusetts, inventor has just
devised an instrument of this kind.
The component parts of this novel
frame and pneumatic devices, by
means of which the bow is enabled
to travel over the strings in whatever
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05

Forty years ago President Lincoln
appointed John Jap jackson of Park
ersburg, w. Va, judge of the United
States circuit court and he still holds
the position. During all these years
he has never failed but once to hold
court at the appointed time. That was
when confederate troops under Gen.
Loring were in possession of Charles
town, where the sessions were held,
and the session assigned for that date
had to- be postponed.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05

In cold countries, where snow pre-
walls during a long winter, many of
the animals change the hue of their
coats to a white tint. The Arctic bear
and fox are white throughout the year.
The northern hare is brown in sum-
mer and white in winter. The weasel
is especially curious; it retains it's
brown coat until the first snow ap-
pears, and then whitens in a few
hours.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05
HELPS YInITN1srs.

Young people who are learning the
violin will be interested to know that
a device has just been invented which
is likely to prove Of much service to
them. 1t is in the form of a support
for the arm, and it is asserted that by
its mean the instrument can be al
ways held In an absolutely correct po-
sition.
The inventor is a DISTINGUISHED VIC
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05

DR.. Hans Blum, n of the biograph-
ers of Bismarck, has become mentally
deranged, owing to his losses through
the recent failure of the Leipziger
bank, and has been placed in an asy-
lum. He,is a son of Robert Blum, who
was executed in Vienna during the
revolution of 184S.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05

IN new cone on Mount Vesuvius,
formed during the late eruptions, has
been suddenly engulfed into the crater.
The mountain has now assumed its
old appearance.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05

The fire losses in the United States
in 1900 were $161, 000, 900, as against
$153, 000, 900 for 1899.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05

Harvey Johnson of Iowa says: When
our filters are of sufficient age to turn
out we usually put two and sometimes
three filters together in a pasture
where there is a good warm and dry
building and plenty of good grass.
Near where the sows feed is a small
enclosure with a low trough in it, and
by a little persuasion and some tempt
ing bits of food we expect to have
the pigs feeding nicely at three to four
weeks of age. The feed is increased
as their capacity for handling it is in
creased, but we are careful to under
feed rather than Notwithstanding no
more at any time than they will eat
clean. We allow them to run with the
dams till they wean them, unless we
wish to breed the sows again.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-12-05

To what extent does feed affect the
individuality of a COW? This is a
question that has yet to be answered,
so far as conclusive experiments are
concerned. 1t is doubtless true that
feed is constantly changing the charac-
teristics of animals, but we do not
know how rapidly the changes take
place, nor do we know just the effect
each food has. To a certain extent we
are feeding in the dark. The Maryland
experiment station has been feeding u
herd Of common cows for several years
and noting the effect of proper feed
ing on individuality. G. F. Doane,
who reports on the results, says: mo
very material results could be noticed
the first year from the extra feed and
care the herd received, but through
subsequent years there seems to be a
steady improvement. Judging from
the records of these cows, it is a Ques-
ton if the quality of a dairy COW does
not depend almost as much on the
feeding as on the breeding. 1t is also
a question If COWS that have a more or
less pronounced beef tendency, or, at
least, would not be called good ma
terial from which to build up a dairy
herd, cannot, with proper management,
be developed into profitable dairy
cows" This Is a view of the matter
that will not strike some of our inves-
tigators very favorably. 1t has against
t the generally accepted truth that we
lave now SO many good dairy COWS
that it will hardly pay to spend time,
feed and effort in an attempt to reverse
a tendency already strongly developed
in a direction opposite to that of milk
production.