The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-25

cOmpidlneu InaJ the Interstate COLI
merce commission has not enough pow
er, and Mr. Copper is allying himself
with the popular insistence that it be
given enough power.
Not Enough Babies Born.
Is Wisconsin to follow in the steps
of France? Where is Sheboygan
which Mr.. Blackstock has long ex-
plotted as the city of churches, chairs
and children? 1t appears in distribut-
ing the common school fund Income to
the counties, that whereas there was
an increase of 10000 children of school
age a to 20) last year and should have
been an increase this year of 10000,
there was really only 6,24S children
increase this year. But | take it, the
discrepancy is temporary and not
significant. Fortunately there are be-
tween these interesting ages 75S,317
young people-they are enough to de-
velOpe all sorts of useful timber for
a great commonwealth. The rate Of
appOrtionment for each person of
school age this year is $1.S47 against
$2.236 last year. The reason the
school age fund income is less than
last is principally because the legis-
lature last winter reduced the rate of
taxation for this purpose from 1 to 40
mill There will be raised this year
under the TO Of mill law, 81, O27 900.
The revenues from interest, fines, and
the sale of state lands for the year
aggregated $173,392 These two
sums, with the 100000 from the rail
road taxes, made the 81, 4OO,612.77 APP
pOrtiOned.
HEass~ Oleo Still Hopeful.
met young man who travels for
Morris & Co., stockyards men of Chi
cago, on the train. He had package
of butterine made by a rival firm
which he noted was of very fine quail
ty. He said he was taking it to his
firm for the chemists to tear to pieces
in order to ascertain what particularly
good qualities it had. He invited me
to visit the plant and said everything
was as neat as in gentleman's
Kitchen
The idea has long been that butter
could be distinguished from Oleo by
cutting with a knife. Real butter
would leave traces Of oil. Another
supposed test was to drop into a hot
frying pan; butter would sputter and
cleo not But this young man says his
butterine would meet both tests. Up
to July 1, 1902, colored oleomargarine
was taxed but 2 cents per pound. In
the manner that butter is loaded in
refrigerators. the output would amount
to 6,031 cars of 10000 pounds each,
or 100000 tubs of fifty pounds.
During the fiscal year ending July
1, 1903, the first year under the new
law, these same oleomargarine makers
produced 21211,244 pounds Of oleo-
margarine, of which 6S,490S00 were
uncolored and 2,72O,444 colored, the
former paying "A cent tax and the lat
ter 10 cents. In car lots the prOduc-
ton for the last fiscal year was equal
to $3.50 car loads of 10000 pounds
each. This was a decrease of 2,4S1
carloads or a per cent.
Ex-Governor Hoard's paper thus re-
joices:
What does this mean to the dairy
public?
1T would require $50 average sized
creameries to produce in year the but
ter necessary to take the place Of the
100000 pounds of olemargarine
which the 10 cent tax law displaced.
This butter at an average of 20 cents
per pound would bring the dairymen
of this country $11 ,O20, 1856"
He then adds that by the increased
price for butter there was over &c.
100000 more profit to be figured in,
and decrease in oleo output is marked
as time goes on.
Do You Raise Chickens?
There will be big poultry show at
Watertown in January, with cash
prizes of over 5000 hung up. and six
cups worth $40. Judge F. H. Shella-
barger of West Liberty, Ia, is to be
the judge of the birds, and Inc fanciers
speak of him with the admiration that
lawyers take the name of Kent or
Eldon on their lips or physicians speak
of Sem or Mckinney. The prospectus
says:
January 10th. will be record
breaking crowd, and we predict some
long prices will be paid for stock on
that day. On Friday evening, Jan.
18th, we ho,d our annual banquet and
we want all exhibitors to be present.
The American standard of perfection
will govern. First premium birds
must score 90 points and will be
awarded blue badge, second premium
birds must score SO points, third pre-
MUM birds must score So points,
There are hundreds of varieties of
fowls and each has its admirers. Take
the varieties of ducks for instance:
Pekin, white; Ayelsbury, white, Rouen.
colored; cayuga, black; Call, gray,
white; East Indian, black. crested,
white: Indian Runner, Muscovey,
colored, white. Geese: Toulouse,
gray; Embden. white; African. gray:
Chinese. brown and white; Wild or