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Amador ledger., 1905-11-10

large scale The ordinary big green
cucumber pickles are usually quite
free from cider vinegar. The only way
to make them edible is to soak the
pickles in strong brine, to extract the
acid, then to soak them in water to
get out the brine, and finally pickle
them in real vinegar.
Pure vinegar can be made as well
from other fruits as from apples.
Grapes, plums, and other fruits which
contain a considerable proportion of
sugar, which is converted into alcohol
and then into acetic acid, make good
vinegar.
The Department of Agriculture has
in press short bulletin on vinegars,
which can be had upon application to
members of Congress. 1t is known as
Farmers Bulletin No. 233 and is com
piled from the work of the various
agricultural experiment stations on
this subject.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10
THE PICTURESQUE DIARIES
OF EUROPE.
Government Investigation Shows
Them Below the American Standard.
GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL.

We often hear of the model dairies
of Europe, cooperative dairies into
which speck of dirt is never allowed
to lodge, of Danish butter that is in
truth a dream and brings fabulous
price, of eggs guaranteed fresh and
Countrywide, and other reports of the
way they do things on the fine old
farms of Europe until one begins to
think that one can not be more than
half living in this country. But how
much of this sort of thing will bear
investigation and close analysis?
The Dairy Division of the United
Safes Department of Agriculture is a
progressive and useful institution and
has done several things to destroy
prevailing fallacies and incidentally
establish the fact that American meth
DDS as a whole, in at least some phases
of agriculture, are as far if not farther
advanced than those of any other coun-
try.
Not the least interesting of such in
formation gathered was that collected
by the late Henry E. Alvord, for many
years the chief of the Dairy Division,
in tour of the countries of Europe
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tempt to compete with the Old World.
In order to learn the bottom facts
about making any of the famous spe-
cialties in cheese, it is necessary to go
to the locality where they originate.
Making Dairy Work Popular.
Americans find novelty in Europe in
the fairs" and markets" where prod
ucts of the dairy are sold to the highest
bidder. In Normandy the wives and
daughters of farmers and peasants as
semble by the hundred in the parks or
along the streets, selling their
'mottes" of butter. The cheese fairs
of Frome, England, and Kilmarnock,
Scotland, and the street markets of
Alkmaar, Hoorn, and Utrecht Holland,
also present lively and interesting
spectacles in connection with the sale
of dairy products.
Major Alvord's observations show
that while too much can not be said
of the industry, frugality and thrift of
Europe's dairymen, close comparison
leads one to feel that the conditions of
the industry in the United States are
decidedly more satisfactory in almost
every particular.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10
Wholesome cider Vinegar.

In an ordinary cheap restaurant the
safest thing to do if you wish to use
some vinegar on your food is to try and
get half lemon. Then you will know
that you are not eating out the lining
of your stomach with caustic chemi-
calls. Vast quantities of pure cider
vinegar" are quite innocent of the
meaning of apples and are distinctly
injurious, being purchased by the re-
tail dealer in barrels, at seven to ten
cents gallon, which every apple grow
er knows is a prohibitive price for
cider vinegar. However, real cider
vinegar is a good condiment. The rea-
son it can not be sold for the prices at
which chemical vinegar is offered is
that it takes from one to three years
to make properly.
The cider first must go through the
process of alcoholization, and then be
changed into acetic acid. There are
methods of artificially fastening this
process, but the product is not first
class, and it can only be done on a
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pie room for improvement in our coun-
try, the only foreign country from
which the United States can possibly
learn anything is Denmark There the
best creameries are models of cleanli-
ness, good order, and systematic man.
agement. But all these details are ac-
complished only through lavish ex-
penditure of labor which would appal
an American creamery manager 1t is
not an uncommon thing for six or
eight persons to be constantly en-
ployed for six or eight hours day,
turning out quantity of butter which
is ordinarily made in this country by
a man and boy whe have all the work
finished daily at 3 or o'clock in the
afternoon.
Major Alvord found it impossible to
draw any comparisons between the
methods of cheese-making and the re-
suits in this country and those abroad.
1t is believed that the American fac
tory system. common to the United
States and Canada, is superior to any
thing elsewhere. In variety and fancy
cheese this continent can not yet at
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stereotyped answer:-"My father did
So"
The American farmer, Major Alvord
thought, has undoubtedly much more
intelligent knowledge of the principles
of feeding, but there is probably more
carelessness and waste in feeding ami
mails of all kinds in America than any
where else in the world.
The most astonishing feature of Eu-
rope in the care of milk on the farm is
the entire absence of refrigeration in
France, and the general ignoring of
the value of cold in dairying. In the
matter of dairy appliances and equip
ment, the United States is surpassed
by no other country, although Den
mark and parts of Great Britain stand
about as we'll.
In most big cities of Europe there
are few well-conducted milk delivery
establishments, such as are usually
found in our smallest cities, while in
some localities dairy animals are
driven through the streets and MIXED
at customers doors. Mich COWS are
managed in the same way even in the
best streets of Paris and of Rome
Paris probably has the poorest milk
service OF any of the large cities. Dur
ing the Exposition at Paris in July,
1900, special show of perishable dairy
products was held as an annex to that
exposition.
Paris Milk Exhibit Very Poor.
While the French producers had
every opportunity of exhibiting their
goods in the best possible shape, the
only samples of natural milk and
cream, absolutely free from chemical
preservatives and uncooked, which
were sweet and palatable after noon
of the exhibition day, were from the
dairies in New York and New Jersey,
then eighteen days from the COW! The
American products had been preserved
solely by cleanliness and cold. Major
Alvord made the statement on his re-
turn from Europe that no milk-supply
company in Europe could duplicate this
performance
In butter-making, while there is am.
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conditions do exist abroad-where the
COW is taken in as member of the
family-as they do in no place in the
United States, but they are the excep-
tion. Stables which in summer are
converted into conservatories and
rooms for weaving and cheese curing
are the unusual and show places The
construction of COW stables generally in
the dairy countries of the Old World
is of substantial nature, with little
regard paid to light and ventilation,
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10

for the purpose of looking into the
dairy industry of the continent.
Major Alvord stated first, upon his
return home, that while the United
States has never evolved a strictly
dairy COW Of it's own, it has now moth
ing to gain through the importation
of new blood from Great Britain, the
Channel Islands, the Netherlands, Den
mark or France. There are many pic
turesque and useful breeds of milch
cattle in these countries but they do
not compare, he stated, with the adapt
ed American breeds. For instance,
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Holland Cheese

Brittany, in the north of France. has
within its borders pretty, active little
black-and-white cattle with marked
dairy characteristics, producing often
their size, but they are believed to be
useful in the United States only as
playthings.
American Cow Stables Up to Average
In the stabling and general care of
dairy cows no foreign country shows,
in general practice, any methods or
conditions better than our own While
the average conditions throughout the
country are undoubtedly far from
what they should be, the United States
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10
MODEL COOPERATIVE FRENCH
CREAMERY

farmer and dairyman are making as
rapid strides forward as can be found
anywhere.
Major -Alvord found comparatively
few places in Holland and Switzerland
where there is such close relationship
between the dairy cows and families
as the occupancy of connecting apart
ments, so often described in poetic
fancy by European travellers. These
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10
Foreigners Provide Good Feed.

There is one thing where Europeans
may be ahead of Americans. They
seem to he better versed in the feeding
of cattle. Even the poorest peasants
do not hesitate to purchase concentra-
ted cattle foods where necessary, yet it
appears that the only reason the ma
tives can give for this practice is the
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conveniences of arrangement or ease
in cleaning. While much attention is
paid to cleaning COW stables, it is ap-
parently more from an appreciation of
the value of the manure than from an
effort to have sanitary conditions in
the dairy.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10

Cromwell was a gypsy batter. He
once ordered them expelled from Eng
land and if they refused to depart by
the next wind they should be hanged
without delay.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10
Thoroughbred MiIch Goats.

Among the various European milch
goats the Spanish goat is said
to be foremost in the quantity and
quality of milk given. The accom-
illustration is from a photo
graph taken by Explorer David G. Fair
child, of the Department of Agricul-
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10

In Arizona Indian children may be
seen catching ants and eating them,
and in Mexico the honey ant is eagerly
sought after by the natives as an ar
ticle of food.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10

The steel in the modern band-saw is
of finer quality and will stand rougher
usage than the far-famed Damascus
blade of the ancients.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10

Zorene, a new chemical compound,
will, it is said, double the life of metals
exposed to the air. such as bridges,
vessels, tanks and the like
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10

A beeS carrying no burden, will fly
at the rate of forty miles an hour.
Carrying a load of honey his speed is
reduced to about twelve miles.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10

An adulterator of food in Germany
is liable to a term of Imprisonment of
six months and fine of 1,200 marks.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10

The Irish bsgs, it is stated, could pre-
duce fifty million tons of peat a yea
for one thousand years.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10

A Laplander will sometimes travel
on skates one hundred and fifty miles
in day.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10

The physician in China collects no
fee, but receives a percentage of the
money paid to the apothecary.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10

Nine-tenths of the people of Persia
are Mahometans.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10

A man will die for want of sleep in
about ten days and for want of air in
about five minutes.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10
Briefs From Everywhere.

British Columbia is the only British
province in America which has pre-
served the old English custom which
obliges judges to wear wigs.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10

ture, while he was touring Spain
observations of the milch
goat industry of that country
The remarkable size of udder of this
goat is nothing abnormal among the
Spanish goats, but on the other hand
is the general rule. Many of these
goats give eight quarts of milk a day.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-10

Sierra Vista townsite is on the line
OF the Los Angeles Pacific railroad,
midway between Sawtelle and Santa
Monica. Big auction sale Saturday.
You had better attend. For free
transportation. etc, see A. f.. Webster
4 Co, whose offices are In the Mason
building, Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-10
SENATOR CLARK
A HARD WORKER
AMAZES ASSOCIATES BY HIS
CAPACITY FOR LABOR
LEAVES FOR HOME IN BUTTE
Makes a Thorough Inspection Of San
Pedro Harbor, and His Plans
for Steamship Line Take
Mature Form
LEAVES FOR HOME IN BUTTE

Senator w. A. Clark left last night
over the new road for Salt Lake City,
from where he will go to his home at
Butte, Mont.
The four days that he spent in Los
Angeles since his arrival here from
Jerome where he went to look over his
mining properties, have been busy ones.
officials of the road have been amazed
at his power for work. He has been
everywhere, examined into the minutest
details of the workings of the road, for
seen difficulties which were destined to
come up, arranged them to his satisfac-
tion and then had time to take care of
a large correspondence and manage
ment of his properties which do not
concern Los Angeles.
Yesterday afternoon in company with
General Freight and Passenger Agent
Gillett he visited San Pedro, looked
over the holdings of the Salt Lake and
made a close inspection of the harbor.
His statement at the reception given
by the chamber of commerce Monday
night that a steamship line from San
Pedro to the Orient was neither dream
nor vagary of the mind but a possibil-
ity of the near future takes on mature
form when it is learned that during
his stay in Los Angeles he has been
making a close investigation of the
subject.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-10
40 DAY RULE WILL
BAR MANY VOTERS
APRIL a. WAS LAST DAY OF
REGISTRATION
CITY ATTORNEY FINDS FLAW
Says That the Time for Registering
for Special Initiative Election
Expired Latter Part Of Last
Month

No person can vote at the coming
election, which is to decide whether
Los Angeles shall be wet or dry, unless
he registered prior to April "a.
city Attorney Mathews said yester-
day that the amendment to the city
charter adopted last winter alters the
rule for registrations for initiative or
special elections. The law was changed
so that 1t is exactly similar to the law
applying to registration for general
elections. 1t specifies that citizens, in
order to qualify as voters, must regis
ter forty days before the date set for
the election, and that all transfers
must be made twenty-five days before
the date of the election.
The time for registration, therefore,
for the coming initiative election ex-
pired the latter part of last month and
last Monday was the last day for
transfers.
This will make it impossible for thou
sands of voters who registered during
the past two weeks to cast their ballots
on June 2, and possibly may affect the
election.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-10
AGED COUPLE ALLEGE
THEY WERE SWINDLED

An alleged attempt to swindle an
time was brought to light yesterday by
the filing of suit by Henry and
Felicita Horde against Mike Polish to
rescind deed recently transferred by
the plaintiffs to the defendant.
The Hordes, by careful saving, man
aged to buy small piece of property
in the Salt Lake Depot tract. This was
worth $4,000 but was encumbered by a
$1,000 mortgage. Several months ago.
according to the complaint. Henry
Horde, who is 70 years of age and in
feeble health. was approached by Mike
Polish, who represented that he owned
piece of property in Fresno and that
an exchange would be of great advan-
tage to the old couple.
The Fresno property was represented
to have twenty-five feet frontage at
$50 per foot. The old man was in toe
feeble health to visit Fresno and learn
the value of the property. but he con-
sented to make the exchange because
the proposition was made by one of his
countrymen.
| Several weeks ago Horde recovered
from his illness and visited Fresno. He
was informed that his property was
valued at 81 front foot and worth
$3.50. The petition to have the transac-
ton Eescinded followed
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-10
WON'T STAND FOR
JUPITER HATFIELD
WEATHER BUREAU DISLlKEs
HIS dope"
NO "LoNe RANGE" FORECASTS
Scientists Uncle Sam Has Taken Un-
der His Wing say Independent
Observers Are a Menace to
Public Interests

Hatfleldian dope" may be all right,
but the weather bureau won't stand
for It.
The term fake" is applied to all
sc-called "long-range" forecasts, and
If Jupiter Pluvius Hatfield, the erst-
while wizard of Esperanza, would find
solace in his rainmaking qualities, he
must apply the strenuous passage.
knock and the world knocks with
you; boost and you boost alone for
his is the science that scientists such as
Uncle Sam has taken under wing re-
fuse to acknowledge.
| In a recent number of "Climate and
Crop Service" issued by the depart
ment of agriculture at Washington, a
few shots are taken-by "long range
at those who profess to be able to
make accurate forecasts concerning
the weather at "long range" Here
are few excerpts:
"Meteorology being one of the
younger sciences is the object of much
speculation on the part of those who
dupe the public into the belief that they
possess the key to the book of nature
and are therefore capable of penetrat-
ing into the mysteries of the future
and seeing just what weather will
occur during periods covering as much
as year. The publication and dis
/ semination of these spurious weather
predictions are a serious menace to
public interests and cast doubt upon
the honesty of the author who claims
disinterested devotion to the public
welfare" etc.
THE weather bureau is utilizing the
best talent obtainable in it's endeavor
to meet the requirements of the people
for whom it was organized, and con-
trary to the fake long-range forecast
ers, it takes the public into it's conf
fidence and makes known its methods
and theories. Therefore. the advance
ment of this Important branch of sci
ence should not be hindered by the en-
couragement of those who have abso-
lutely no standing in the scientific
world"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-10
SUSPECTED OF HAVING
COMMITTED ASSAULT
Juan BiIderrain, Wanted Since April
6, Placed Behind Bars Of
City Prison

Juan Bilderrain, wanted since April 6
for an assault on Luciano Grajada with
deadly weapon, was arrested last
night by Detectives Benedict and Leon
and placed in the city jail.
On the evening of April last Gra-
jada escorted several young women to
their residence. 525h CASTELAR, street,
and started to walk toward his own
home.
He had not proceeded far when he
was suddenly attacked from the rear
and stabbed in the back He was taken
to the receiving hospital where it was
thought that his injuries might prove
fatal Grajada recovered, however, but
his assailant was not to be found.
Bilderrain was suspected of having
done the stabbing but the police were
unable to locate him until last night.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-10

Sierra Vista townsite is on the line
of the Los Angeles Pacific railroad,
midway between SSawtelle and Santa
Monica. Big auction sale Saturday.
You had better attend. For free
TRANSFORMATION, etc, see A. F. Webster
& Co, whose offices are in the Mason
building, Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-10
MUSIC AND
THE DRAMA
ChiIdren's Rehearsal

In the Temple auditorium this after
noon there will assemble 1000 children
who have been selected by Miss Kath-
ryn E. Stone, supervisor of music in
the public schools, to sing in the Innes
May festival, which will begin next
Monday. This will be the first full re-
hearsal of the big children's chorus
and after it Is done with this afternoon
Miss Stone will be able to determine
just how we'll the Los Angeles young
sters will acquit themselves when they
sing before critical audiences in the big
pavilion next week.
Miss Stone has taken her monster
little chorus and divided them into
three sections. There will be a boys
chorus of 400 voices, the largest boys
chorus ever gotten together in Los An
geles, and Miss Stone declares that the
work of these boys will be conclusive
proof that boys can sing as well as play
baseball and she is betting on them.
There will be two mixed choruses and
there are so many of the little singers
that It is being deemed advisable 10
divide the choruses. although Superin-
tendent Forshay is eager that the en-
tire chorus be heard at one time.
The adult chorus held full rehearsal
in Brkers hall last evening. There are
500 active singers in this body, so that
with the children's chorus of 1000 and
the High School Polytechnic chorus of
$50, the Innes band will have an array
of vocal assistants for the Los Angeles
festival
For the children's matinees a special
price of 10 cents has been voted for the
pupils attending the public schools.
These tickets will be sold only in the
public schools and will be for the use of
public school pupils only. The tickets
will be distributed in the schools to-
morrow.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-10
HEAVY RAINS BENEFIT
CROPS AND VEGETATION
Bulletin Issued by Weather Bureau
Shows Improvement in the
Growth of Produce


Heavy rains during the past week in
the counties adjacent to Los Angeles
and the unseasonably cool weather.
which was an accompanying feature,
were not favorable to the growth of
crops and vegetation, according to the
government climate and crop service
bulletin, issued by the weather depart
ment yesterday.
The unusually cool, damp weather,
which the mountain and cherry Sec
tions experienced, have brought a set
back to the fruit crops in those local
tiles, causing the cherries to drop and
making growers fearful that apple
bloom have been injured.
In Santa Barbara county .5S inch of
rain fell May 1, which brings the total
rainfall for the season 2S.73 incres, a
record surpassed only twice in the
climatic record of the county.
Throughout Los Angeles county cool,
cloudy weather was the feature of the
week, with a rainfall that was general.
Snow yet remains on "Old Badly"
which is an unusual sight for this sea-
son of the year.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-10

At Fischers theater, the new First
street playhouse which opened last
Sunday, the star of the burlesque and
vaudeville attraction is a clever SOU
brette, Miss Lille Sutherland. She has
recently returned from Australia,
where, with the Kolb & Dill and Bar
ney Bernard aggregation, she made a
decided hit
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-10

Proving another hypocrite does moi
prove your holiness.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-10

II you want go east, c. HaydoclI.
Agent Illinois Central r. R.. 23S 8. Spring
Better late than never-Get Las Palmas
cigar
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-10
DRUGGISTS MUST BE cHARY
They Sell All Kinds of Hair Preparations,
and Fear TO Discriminate.

Druggists sell all kinds OF hair prepara-
tions, and as a rule they are wisely chary
Of giving preference TO any particular one
but many OF them have come out plainly
for Newbros Herpic4de. the new treatment
that absolutely kills the dandruff germ N
swannell & Son. Champaign. Ill, saw; zone
customer OF ours who did not have a haiI
on top OF his head when he began to usf
Herpicide, now has fair start towards q
good head OF hair. We believe Herpicide
to be by aar the best preparation Of h,
kind on the market" Hundreds OF similar
testimonials from everywhere. Sold by
leading druggists Send 1Oc IN stamps foi
sample TO The Herpieide Co. Detroit. Mich