The Forrest City times., 1905-08-11
MILK FROM WHALES.
X NEW FoUNDLAND SCIENTIST
 HAS AMPHIBIAN DAIRY.
Perfects Device for Milking Ha- Queer Cattle--Yield Five to Seven Hogsheads
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ern scientific methods in mans utiliza- tion of natural resources is forecast IF the brief announcement just received from the Balena whale fisheries of Port-au- -Basques. N. F.. to the effect that Prof. Muller has succeeded in do- mesticating herd of 50 sulphur bottom COW whales and has perfected an ap- paratus for milking the mammoth : cetaceans
 The yield of milk from a full-growDz z whale is from five to seven hogsheads a day. The milk Is fresh and sweet and peculiarly rich in nutritive and medici- nal qualities. It is much thicker and richer than the best Jersey milk and possesses a peculiarly pleasant and dis tinctive flavor which those who have tasted 1t pronounce superior to any known product of the lacteal variety Chemical analysis has shown that the milk or the sulphar- bottom whale is. rich in those same fats and proteids which give to codliver oil its value as a remedial food.
 Prof. Mullers experiments with whales. which have been carried on in I , years. have resulted in many remark able discoveries in the line of utilizing the different parts of the huge car casses which have hitherto gone to waste
 He has devised process for curing and preserving the tons of meat which has always been considered worse than Naiueiess. This meat, which compares favorably in texture and flavor with the average beef. will soon be put upon the market The company has assur- ances that il will find ready sale in the West Indian islands and other tropical countries which now depend for their meat supply on the South American jerked beef
 Prof. Muller has invented and pat ented process for making leather from the intestines. pleural sacks. heart coverings and other internal mem- branes of the whale which. when tanned and finished, Is of greater durability and liner texture than any known leather Besides its superior quality, the whale leather furnishes single pieces of much greater dimensions than 1t is possible
  is possible. according to the inventor to obtain from the intestines of full grown sulphur-bottom a strip of leath- CT nearly 300 feet in length and three and one-half feet in breadth. From the pleural lining piece of leather p feet in diameter can be obtained
 Processes for grinding the mammoth skeletons into bone meal for fertilizer and of converting the gristle and car tilage into glue and like products are among the minor inventions of the ex- pert. who has secluded himself for the past five years at the little fishing vil- lage and turned his attention to the study of whales.
 But by far the greatest triumph yet attained by the erudite professor lies in the domestication of the COW whales. Like all scientific men, Prof. Muller would rather conserve than destroy. The whales are still abundant in New foundland waters. but under the old sys. tenn of killing them for their oil and casting the earcasses adrift, it was a question of only few years at most when they would become so rare as to ! now be for the financial interest of whalers to capture the young whales and keep them alive. because of the promise of richer reward from the dairy products than can be realized in their destruction
 The problem of teaching them to per nit the operatives to milk them was more difficult one. An apparatus was devised to do the work, but when an effort was made to try IL there was trouble at once. IL was necessary to drive the whales up on the flats at low water tn do the milking and 1t has been this part of the work which has ab- sorbed the attention of the professor for more than a year
 Patience in the face of all discourage ments with determination to succeed finally conquered The first captives learned gradually to go of their own ac- cord to the milking ground The herd has been increased a few whales at a time until it now numbers 30 and it requires the services of a stan of 50 men to carry on tn, daily milking.
 Just what the plans of the company are Is ubt ktHtIdtiy knoNn ana none of the officials will say It was learned on good authority. however, that as soon as the dairy experiments in the way of butter and cheese making are com plete and the canning plant Is ready the herd will be driven down 10 an in- let on the Maine coast. which has been fitted for a pasture. There the dairy will be established permanently
 Experiments have been made recent ly in permitting several of the tanner cows to go outside the inlet. These ex- psrlments have been peculiarly gratify- ing In every instance the COW has re- turned indicating clearly her prefer ence for domestic life and on two sep arate occasions COWS Of the hers have brought back with them strange com panions. The strangers are now thor oughly domesticated and have become ] xaluaAfa members 0f the herd