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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14
Thinking About Health.

A Belgian physician declares that
early badness is frequently caused by
the excessive eating of meat. He as.
serts that he has often checked cases
of falling hair by combining with local
treatment diet of milk, eggs and
fruit.
There has been started in Maiden,
Mass, a goat farm for the production
of goats milk. The promoters expect
that there will be a large demand for
the milk, especially for the dietary
treatment of sick babies. ~~
In 1850 the consumption of distilled
spirits brandy and whisky-in the
United States averaged about two
and one-quarter gallons for each per.
son, while to-day the average is about
one and one-third gallons. In 1850
the consumption of beer was a gallon
and = half for each individuals: now
it is LA gallons. IL "a S3 st355s 4.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14
FatteninQ Hous.


In regard to fattening pigs. l am
aware that the young hog is the
hog in demand now, and the great
object is to sell the pigs even before
they are hogs; when they are shoats,
less than year old. 1 have never
pursued that method. I never like to
sell hog until he weighs 400 pounds
and over. know that our professors
tell US that it takes more corn to
make a pound of pork on a hog over
800 pounds in weight than before.
Pigs, in this respect, are a great
deal like children. I used to walk the
floor with our little "kids" night after
night; lots of trouble. They got
past it. They don't require half the
care they did when they were little
fellows. When you get pigs to about
six months old they take less care
and require little attention. They
about take care of themselves. l have
my pigs come along in May, after we
are sure of good weather. Then |
let them run in the pasture the whole
summer, and they grow to be long,
lank, big boned and big muscled fell
lows. No fat on them yet. The fol-
lowing September we commence fat
tening them. In February they weigh
400 pounds. A few years ago such
hogs were at a discount. 1t was all
English bacon, English bacon" I
told them then that before long they
woud be wanting fat hogs. 1t wasn't
long: OF course, you must get them
off at the right time, at the regular
season.-John Cowine.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14
CHICAGO Milk Trade.

A report of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture says that
Chicago uses daily 169,465 gallons of
milk. There are 1929 firms engaged
in selling milk. Over $4,000 quarts Of
bottled milk come into the city each
day, but only two companies fill all
OF their bottles in the country. There
are 30 dairy herds inside the city lin.
its, which have an aggregate of 42O
COWS. There are 1880 COWS kept pri-
vately. These city cows produce daily
$500 gallons of milk There are 1000
GARY farms outside of Chicago that
send milk to the city, and most of the
milk goes in over 16 railroads. The
railroad charge is from 8 to % cents
per can. The largest haul is 142 miles,
but most of the milk comes from
territory within 100 miles of the city.
This milk producing territory includes
Southern Wisconsin,, Northern Illinois
and Northern Indiana. There is no
uniform charge among the railroads
for hauling milk, but each road has a
tariff of it's own.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14
Lumpy Jaw.

A communication from the Indiana
station says: This disease more often
affects cattle than other animals. II
is due to a fungus sometimes called
the ray fungus or actinomycosis. The
fungus occurs upon grass and other
vegetation and it is only when it be
comes introduced into the tissues thai
it causes trouble. The disease comes
from eating and outside sources anC
is not contagious in the usual sense
Of the word Several animals may be
come affected while on the same pas
ture, but this is due to all being ex
posed alike. Some years the number
of cases is greater than others, owing
to the greater development of this
fungus. The disease affects the jaw
more often than other parts, due t.
the fact that the tissues are some
times broken in the act of cheWins
and thus permitting Infection. Any
part of the body may be attacked.
The disease is comparatively easy
to treat. A drachm of iodide of pot
ash is given twice a day, for two
weeks to twenty days. For cattle
weighing twelve hundred pounds or
more the dose is somewhat increased
and lessened for calves. If pus be
present in the lump it should be let
out by incision. In a few refractory
cases a second period of treatmenl
may be required after resting for ter
days. About eighty per cent of rrecov
cries may be expected. Affected ami
mails should be kept away from the
healthy and off the pasture field. II
the case of mich COWS the milk should
not be used. This state does not pay
for such animals when it is found
necessary to destroy them.-A. W.
Biting, Veterinarian
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

Cut 2. Interior of Pigeon House.
four-light window. Each section of
the poultryhouse has a six-light win
dow on the south side. All the win
dows slide and are covered with wire
netting on the outside.
The partitions between the sections
are made of inch boards running to
the roof. All inside doors are of
wire netting and are hung with spring
hinges, SO as to be self-closing to pre-
vent the possible escape of the birds
Each pen has one of these doors, and
likewise each end OF the building.
Both inside and outside doors should
be kept securely locked.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14
A MATTER OF HABIT.
Aceentuated by Sunday Stops at Way.
p, 5t&~sl> D.,~.>.f..

Accumulated by Sunday Stops at Way.
@ia&s side Rumortums. +
Il was visiting the famous Green
wood cemetery in: Brooklyn last
week. said a returned vacationist,
when I happened to witness in the
cemetery an incident that was emf
nently New York-ese.
'There arrived at the cemetery the
funeral procession of the guard of a
Brooklyn elevated train, who had been
killed in an accident. Six of the dead
mans companion guards on the Brook
lyn l. acted as pallbearers. They we're
all crowded into one carriage, and by
the time the procession reached the
cemetery two or three of them. after
numerous hasty stops at rumoriums
along the route, were pretty much to
the bad. When the hearse came to a
malt at the grave the pallbearers
scrambled not very steadily out of
their carriage. There was a benign
and WOODY grin on the features of one
OF them as the rear doors of the
hearse were opened by the under
taker. He winked around at the other
pallbearers made funnel of his
hands, and in horse, husky voice
he gave that well-known call of the I
conductor when the train has reached
the end of the route:
All out-both gates!
The incongruity of the crack, tc
speak In that mild way didn't strike
any OF the others. On the contrary
tney all grlnned approvingly at the
cut-up. Washington Post.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

Cut. 1. Pigeon House and Fly.
rear, with the yard (called the "fy').
The house is 40 feet long, IL feet wide
and feet high to peak of roof. Along
the north side passageway three feet
wide runs the full length. This is
shown in our second illustration. The
rest of the space is divided by four
partitions into five pens of equal size.
The pens are separated from the
passageway by wire netting reaching
from the floor to the roof, with a door
into each pen. If the pigeon raiser
has but one house he should either
use one of these compartments as a
room for storing feed and other sup
plies, picking squads, etc., or add ten
feet to the length of the building for
such purposes.
Each gable near the peak has a
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14
Side Shows at Fairs

Within a few years the most obiec-
tionable features of the side shows at
state and county fairs have been elm
mated. 1t was not so long ago that
some Of these shows were so Indecent
as to draw upon the fair managers
strong condemnation and energetic
protests. From year to year we have
noted a steady Improvement, till, in
most cases the really Objectionable
features have disappeared. The prin.
cipal criticism now made is that these
shows are mostly worthless. . They
neither instruct nor entertain. The
crowd Is assured that inside the tent
It VIII hear the real Georgia min.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14
he Future.


Not where long passed ages sleen.
Seek we Eden's golden trees.
IN the future, folded Deep
Are it's mystic harmonies.
All before us lies the way,
give the past unto the wind:
All before us is the day,
Night and darkness are behind
Eden with it's angels bold,
Love and flowers and coolest sea.
Is not ancient story told,
But a glowing prophecy.
In the spirits perfect air,
In the passions tame and kind.
Innocence from selfish care
The real Eden we shall find.
1t is coming, it shall come.
10 the patient and the striving,
10 the quiet heart at home,
thinking wise and faithful living.
When all error is worked out,
From the heart and from the life.
When the Sensuous is laid low
Through the Spirits holy strife;
When the Soul to Sin hath died,
M, true and beautiful and sound;
Then all earth is sanctifed,
Up springs Paradise around
Then shall come the Eden days,
Guardian watch from Seraph-eyes.
Angels on the slanting rays,
Voices from the opening skies.
From this spirit land, afar.
All disturbing force shall flee;
Stir nor toll nor hopes shall mar
Its immortal unity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14
Poor Birds at Hiuh Prices,

Recently man that knows told the
writer that it is the practice of some
poultry raisers to sell much stock not
of their own raising. This is not a
fair method of dealing, though it can
not be checked by law. Thus one man
has a good establishment and has
built up an enViable reputation. He
raises some hundreds of fine birds a
year, being careful to have them of
good stock and highly bred. But he
receives orders not for hundreds but
for thousands of birds. He should de-
cline to fill the orders for his stock
after his supply is exhausted, but he
does not. He sends his wagons out
into the country to pick up everything
he can find of the breeds he is
handling. He purchases the fowls at
say SO cents each. He resells them at
several dollars each, for his customers
are willing to pay a good price for
first-class stock. How many of the
customers of this man would accept
the stock sent to them if they knew
it was gathered from the farms at ran
dom?
On the average farm no particular
care is taken to keep the poultry stock
absolutely pure. Generally pure breds
and grades run together. The result
of their crossing is not always easily
discernible by people not experts in
the judging of fowls. A few feathers
off color or few points missing on
the comb would not be noticed. Hence
the ease with which such stock is
sold.
The poultryman that does this kind
of business is quite sure to be found
out in the end, and his fine reputation
and trade will disappear together.
More than one man has come to this
end in the, poultry business. The
breeding of pure blood fowls should
be surrounded with every safeguard
to insure their. freedom from out:
crosses. Moreover the trusting buyer
naturally supposes that his purchases
have been bred and reared under ideal
conditions, that they, have been ex-
posed to neither lice. nor, disease.
Birds collected from everywhere are
likely to bring both lice and disease.
The above mentioned practice can
hardly be too severely condemned. It
is getting money under false pre-
lenses. Every honest dealer. should
do what he can tc make this practice
impossible. :.E:: n: III .''@ 5 4
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14
Washington Dairying.

The number of creameries In the
state of Washington in 1901 was 249,
az increase of IS over the preceding
year. The amount of butter manu-
featured was 4,8S6,S28 pounds, an in
crease over the preceding year OF
l,150,141 pounds. Last year the num-
Der of creameries was 345, and the
manufactured butter product amount
ed to 5,883,251 pounds, an increase
Of SSS, 423 pounds over the preceding
year. The report of the State Dairy
Commission shows that the average
wages paid buttermakers is $66.66 per
month and the average wages paid
assistants was $40 per month. The
average value of each creamery plant
is estimated at $500.
There are IL cheese factories in the
state and their product last year was
1,l28,735 pounds, an increase of 22,802
pounds over the preceding year. The
average value of the cheese factories
is $1,000. The local creameries and
cheese factories are not by any means
supplying the state, even with the
help of the farm diaries. Millions of
pounds of butter and cheese have to be
imported to make up the deficiency.
A part of the butter made in Wash
lngton is shipped to Alaska, where
the price is very good. During some
years the amount shipped reaches
nearly a million pounds.
The law relative to inspection is
poorly enforced on account of lack of
appropriation. Preservatives in milk
are used to some extent: but the users
when discovered are prosecuted and
tined. Formalin is the most common
preservative used as it can with diff
Guilty be detected after the milk be-
gins to sour
The average price of butter for ten
months during 1902 was four cents
per pound higher on the Seattle mar
ket than on the Elgin market. There
are $4,000 mich COWS in the state.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14
CoIleqe and Station Notes.

w. l.. Carlisle, professor of Animal
Husbandry in the University of Wis
consin, has resigned to accept the po-
sition of agriculturist at the Colorado
station.
The appropriation by the Florida
legislature for agricultural buildings
at the University Of Florida has been
declared unconstitutional in the way
In which it was passed, and the cree
ton of the buildings will have to be
delayed till after other session of the
legislature. Co-education at the uni
versity has been abolished.
F. r. Marshall, assistant in animal
tusbandry at the Iowa Station has
resigned. The vacancy has identified
BY the appointment of w. J. Ruther-
ford, Of Guelph, Canada.
Prof. H. j. Waters, dean and direc-
tor of the Missouri college and station,
has been appointed superintendent of
agriculture for the Missouri exhibit at
the st. Louis Exposition, and has been
granted a leave of absence to take
Up the work. F. B. Mumford has been
appointed acting dean and director in
his absence.
The forestry school at Cornell Uni
versity has been discontinued.
H. c. Price, recently horticulturist
at the Iowa Agricultural College, has
been elected dean of the Ohio Agri-
cultural College.
At it's recent session the legislature
of the state Of Pennsylvania appro-
priated for the agricultural college a
total of $250,805.55.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

strels." The crowd enters, expecting
to hear some, good singing. The whole
thing proves to be farce, as any one
amongsthe audience could sing asswell
as the people on. the platform. So It
is with the Indian war dance. II One
aborigine pounds a drum, while an
other limps around singing "How, how,
howl" But people don't object; they
expect that sort of thing at the fair.
AS the side show cannot be eliminated
it should be improved. It can be made
both entertaining and instructive.
Demand for Condensed Milk.
It is doubtless true that the de-
mand for condensed milk is on the
increase. A good many families that
once used cows milk now use con-
densed milk. Recently the writer Wis
tied a friend living in a small Michi-
gan town, and was surprised to see
condensed milk on the table. Cows
milk was also on the table, but the
family used mostly the condensed
milk. Taking all things into consid-
GRAFTON they regarded the condensed
article as cheap as the other, though
prices for the latter were ve-y reas-
enable.
There are several reasons why
large number of people prefer the
condensed milk. In the first place,
they assume that it has been heated
to point that kills all germ life
which probably is not true. In the
second place, they believe that the
milk from which this condensed ar
ticle was made is cleaner than the
milk generally Northumberland this is
certainly true. The public has with
IN a few years heard great deal
about the filthy conditions in which
many of our dairy herds live and
produce milk, and they are fleeing
from such milk. 1t is also quite gen.
orally known that the condensing
factories are very exacting in the mat
ter OF the milk they use. A trip
among the suppliers of milk for con-
densing factories shows whitewashed
stables, welllighted and well-ventilat-
gu, barnyards well-drained and clean
ly kept; milk cans perfectly clean and
bright, and cement cooling watts in
which is running cold water. The
milk inspectors do not hesitate to or
der the methods that will give clean
milk where BORDERING" is necessary.
We have known the milk of farmers
refused because they would not put
in a ventilator. For such reasons the
companies that make condensed milk
lind the demand for their goods con-
stantly increasing. The census of
1890 showed an annual production of
37,926,821 pounds of condensed milk;
the census Of 1900 showed an annual
production of 1SG,921,7S7 pounds, an
increase of nearly 500 per cent.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14
Oleo in Denmark.

Danish farmers and dairymen con.
sumo large quantities Of oleo mar
garine, selling the butter it displaces.
Reports show that the consumption of
this article last year was about 49,
$1,000 pounds, most of which was
made in Denmark. In fact only about
100000 pounds was imported. None
Of the product is exported, the Danes
being very careful that none goes
abroad to hurt the reputation of their
butter.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

The three French professors who
think that they can cross the Atlantic
in a. balloon from the Canaries to
Trinidad, British West Indies, are In
no wise to be compared with the three
wise men of Gotham who went to sea
in a bowl. T.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14
Sesame Oil and Marianne.

It is declared that whe1 less than
ten per cent of margarine is mixed
with butter it is impossible to detect
its presence. Several foreign govern
ments have therefore passed laws
compelling the manufacturers of mar
garine to mix with their product a
very small quantity of sesame oil,
which can be readily detected on an
alysis, but which does not affect the
flavor of the margarine. So far Ger
many, Austria and Belgium have
made this rule. Now the French min
lister of agriculture has introduced a
bill into the national assembly max
ing the use of sesame oil compulsory
The bill provides in addition that
henceforth no oleomargarine can be
imported into that country that does
not have some sort of ingredient in it
that will make it's character easy Of
detection.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

King Edward sent a gold pin lately
ito a shoemaker in Brooklyn who made
ia pair of boots for him when he was
i'm this country in 1860. And yet they
say princes have short memories.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

Now that the Servians have taken
ITO shooting and throwing bricks at
King Peter, he probably will revise
This view about the desirability of get
ting rid Of unpopular rulers by the as
sassination route.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

When it comes to using an electric
whip on a balky horse it really seems
as though human beings were making
ian unfair use of their scientific SUI
periority.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

While there were some very excel
Pathological Society, most of the mem.
bers are willing the society should be
judged by it's fruits
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14
Peas for HOES.

Peas have for a long time been
known to be most excellent food for
hogs. The great drawback is that
good yields Of peas are hard to OBJ
tain, as to seed. It takes skillful han
ding Of the pea crop to- get yield
Of rs bushels per acre, We think, how
ever, that peas could easily be grown
for pig pasturage if the lots were
small. The pigs could be turned in
when the pea pods we're well filled
and they would do the harvesting. We
would like to have the experiences of
our readers in this matter. =.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

At it's launching the new cruiser
Maryland slid off the ways and sat
down in a mud bank the moment it
touched the water. Evidently the
maryland is fully qualified for naval
honors.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

= Confectioners now sell educational
chocolates, in cakes marked off into
squares, each showing letter of the
alphabet. 1t is easy to believe that
children will prefer them to the old.
fashioned building blocks.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

, Lillian: Bell wrote in her wishes for
her baby: MAY the public pass her
by in utter ignorance and never know
of the existence of my little maid"
But the baby has been introduced to
the public before she is three weeks
old. =
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14
A Pigeon House.

The pigeon house should be built OIL
q well-drained site. The following sug-
gestions as to construction are made
by government bulletin: No house
should be built for more than $50
pairs, nor should more than SO pairs
be kept in each section. In our first
illustration we show a house that is
very serviceable. This shows a gen.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

If China will promise not to let
Great Britain have any more terri
tory Russia will agree not to take any
more territory than it has already de-
cided to take.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

Prof. Langley is becoming almost
as good loser as Sir Thomas, yet
no one has thought of giving him a
banquet or clubbing him a jolly good
fellow.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

Canada is steadily drawing immi-
grafton from the United States. By
the time annexation is ripe the Amer
lean farmers will be in possession OF
the better part of the dominion.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

One of the London dailies is print
ing a"special edition for women. A
newspaper divorce is one of the posi-
Utilities of the future.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

Prof. Stagg Of Chicago states that
during the past ten years the great
newspapers have been steadily i'm
proving spite of the lack of a
Pulitzer school of Journalism.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

DR.. Wiley says the time is coming
when the human race will have Meth
er hair nor teeth. What will second
childhood be like then?
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

An Italian naval officer could not
withstand the attacks of newspaper.
What kind of defense would he make
in war?
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

A New Jersey man, II years old,
married woman of 80 lust for a
joke and still refuses to admit that
the joke is on him.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

Following the heavy floods of water
in stocks mildew has appeared in
New Jersey corporations, and the
years crop is seriously affected.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-14

Nobody is taking any particular in
terest in the strike of the gold miners
in Colorado. 1t is the coal strike that
affects the public.