Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-13
FRENCH FARMERS FAVOR ITS
USE.
IT IS SUPERIOR FOR CATTLE
Experiments Show That II Is
Good for Horses and Hogs Also
Eighty Per Cent Treaele a Fair
Proportion-Much Bad MIX In
Berlin,

feeding great deal OF molasses to
their cattle, .Aey are authorized to
Introduce free in mixed food as much
as 50 per cent, of treacle, The price of
tho sweotouing varies according 10 tho
price of alcohol, the greater part OF the
treaclo going to the distillery, The
farmer can utilize treacle or molasses
in three manners, il can either be
given direct or dissolved in water, In
tho preparation OF forage materials
ON the farm; or can be purchased com
Imerciaily prepared, The molasses
sold to agriculturists varies In price;
tho more sugar II contains the dearer
ii Is, TreaClo Is not convenient to han.
die Homesteads with plenty of warm
water, or n good supply of steam, OK.
pericuce no diiliculty in this respect;
but in the case of small farms, II Is
| quito a different thing,
On largo farms the treacle can be
| given To inferior stock, as illustrated
lhy NJ Guttman OF Ruheschane, In Ger
many, as well as by other persons In
Nancy, The former is n great nd.
vocato of feeding cattle with troacle,
and has practiced tho plan on vast
scale for ten years ON his own farm,
feeding 600 oxen and 500 horses
regularly ON molasses, His belief In
| the treaclo food strengthens every
year In the production OF energy It
surpassos every other kind OF food.
Nothing gives ANIMALS an appetite for
green forage more than treaclo, M,
Guttlnann gives thirteen pounds OF
molassos to oxen of u weight of 500 10
GOO k,los and makes no distinction
whether the ANIMALS are at work or
undergoing fattoning, In 1909 he
tauened 900 oxen FOR tho Moscow
market, which operation took three
months. The hay and straw are cut
and submitted To pressure of three
atmoSpheres. from tho engine of the
thrashng machine Part of the
molasses Is prepared separately, the
rest is placed in the animals racks,
Oxen In course of being tattoned got
their forage In the form OF six re.
pasts, each portion being wetted with
molasses; and they never toucn their
bran or oil cakes until treacle has
been mixed win them, Working
horses and oxen receive the treacle on
rut straw and chat Pigs receive two
To two and ono-half pounds, horses
four and one-half pounds daily NJ.
Guttmann stores his treacle In
| trench the bottom OF which liz tho
natural soil, the sides being of wood
tho trench Ii capable OF holding 1000
to $500 hundrodwoights of the cut and
prepared food. No difference Is made
in mixing the oil CAKE and bran.
Another gentleman, M Jyorsz, who
/ has since someume been feeding his
horses on the treace diet observes
that by so doing he has driven away
their liability to collie, while he IL
able to gain sll In the feeding OF
each Of his norses.
| ~ 49,, --
France supplies England with a.
600 600 francs worth of fresh fruits
annually plums amount to n
and cherries to 70 per cent, Were
French sellers only united, much more
could be sent by them. The united
strawberry growers OF the vancluse
sent fifteen tons Of fresh berries to the
London market In 1897 and 30 tons
three years later. According TO M.
Jean Perier, French consul IN England,
tho results (whether fruit, eggs,
poultry, butter, cheese, etc.) would be
still more gratifying II only producers
IN France made up their mind TO
march hand In hand. Though French
butter commands first place In the
markets, II cannot surpass that OF
rivals on the whole, Denmark es-
peCially. AS already remarked,
absence Of unity on the part Of agrl-
cultural and commercial France Is
truly lamentable.
Three sorts OF milk are sold In the
German capital; the first contains 81
OF fat, the second 1.5, and the third is
cfeamess. Sccond-class milk is that
which as been partly skinned, and
mixed: 1t sells at TO cents quart,
the same MS buttermilK. Norman and
Flemish cattle In France yield milk
whose cream richness is 3.5 per cent,
in northern Germany that richness
varies from 2,9 TO 81 per cents.
Adulterated milk never has a smaller
percentage Of fat than 81. Two
samples OF milk are taken by the Ber-
lin perfect Of police, and analysis
being made by pr Bishor. Out OF
22533 samples OF milk taken in 1900.
only g03 were suspected OF being
| fraudulent
Since 1901 milk In Berlin has been
: subjected to new control. tho
police themselves, carrying out the
minute work OF inspection In private
clothes. April /, 1901, l.249 different
samples Of milk were taken: SIS of
these were adultefated. As soon as
the defaulters saw tho police mp.
preaching they Immediately enriched
the milk with cream to the extent OF
lis per cent! The result shows that
from one-quarter TO one-third of the
milk sold In Berlin Is falsifed.
Strange to say, since women have