Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-11-28
NOTE INCREASE IN
THE MILK SUPPLY
Dairy Officials of O. S. U.
Express Pleasure.
OHIO WON'T FORGET ITS WARDS
Will Make Thanksgiving Gala
Day for the inmates of States
institutions-Orders Ten
Tons of Turkey.
Special Columbus Correspondent.

Columbus, Ohio.
THE production of milk in Ohio
is steadily increasing, accord
III to officials of the dairying de-
partment of Ohio State univer-
sity, who say they are both pleased
and surprised at the situation. For
several months the university people
have been fostering a campaign in
behalf of the raising of more and bet
ter dairy cattle and the gradual in
crease in the milk supply is thought
to be, partly at least, a direct result
of this campaign.
Prof. Oscar Err, head of the State
university dairying department, de-
clares that storms and billiards. like
those through which Ohio has pust
passed furnish conclusive argument
in favor of the contention that the
farmer is better off who has a large
per cent Of his working capital in
vested in dairy cattle. In a recent
discussion Prof. Err illustrated what
he believed to be the superior COM
mercial advantage of dairying over
poultry raising. He declared that dur
ing storm such as Ohio has expert
enced the output of the poultry plant
would be cut in half, and that, in ad-
dition, eggs that might be caught and
stalled in blizzard would be in dan
ger of freezing and if frozen ruined.
On the other hand, he argued that the
milk output is hardly affected at all
by any sort Of storm; and that further
more milk in transit is not impaired
at all by being frozen. Wherefore the
professor is strongly in favor of the
increased production of milk from the
standpoint of the economic advantage
of the farmer, if not from the health
value to the public of the milk itself.
Gala Day for ohio's Wards. :
Thanksgiving is going to be gala
day for the inmates of Ohio's institu.
tions, 10000 strong. The state board
of administration has ordered 10 tons
of turkey, 1000 gallons of oysters, an
immense quantity of cranberries and
other "delicacies" of the season in
proportionate amounts that will go to
make up a sumptuous and palatable
feast for the state wards on Thanks.
giving Day. Every institution will
have it's particular functions to make
the occasion pleasant for the unfortu
nate. At the Ohio penitentiary there
will be public entertainment given
by the prisoners and outsiders will be
charged 25 cents per" for admission
The total receipts will be used in q
project on the part of the prisoners te
purchase a aNmotion picture machine
At the penitentiary and in other in
stitutions the routine rules will be
suspended during the Thanksgiving
celebrations and pleasure and recre
alton will be the order Of the day.
Smashes Previous Records.
Decisively smashing previous rec
ords, the Buckeye state closed its
fiscal year, Saturday, with aggregate
receipts Of $16,312, ,633.3S for the year
a gain of more than s2,167, 900 ovel
tu0 IcCclplS Vi tu6 pTGC6Qluk year
This is by far the greatest showing
the state has ever made. A prelimi
nary estimate, given early in last
week, placed the aggregate receipts
around $15, 100000. A final tabulatior
by the expert bookkeepers in State
Treasurer John P. Brennan's Office
show that the gain is still greater
While the operating expenses are
higher than they were for the veal
before, they do not show a CORE
spending increase, More than a hx,l
a million dollars Of the increased ex
penditures were due to the ravages
of the foods which devastated tbs
state last spring. OF this s30o,0ot
went to the Red Cross and the ex
pense of sending the militia to every
stricken point in the state, and 1858,
600 to repairing the canals, lakes and
reservoirs, both during the food and
after it had subsidized.
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