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100000 quarts of milk brought into
BuenoS Aires every morning, and the
annual export of cheese is several mil
lion pounds.
These figures, I know, are nothing IN
comparison with the statistics of our
American dairy interests. We are now
annually making more than half
billion pounds of butter aud more than
three hundred million pounds of cheese.
We make three hundred million pounds
of condensed milk every year, and the
total value of the product of our dairy
ing is close to 100000 900. But it must
be remembered that as far as such
things are concerned are an old
country, while as to modern dairying
the Argentine is practically new. More
over, we have 100, 100000 people and the
Argentine less than S,00o.Nco This
country is advancing more rapidly in
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from to so cents a can according to
size. The Argentines like it SO much
that they often send cans of it to Eu-
rope as a special treat for their friends.
exported to the United States. The
stuff is made of only pure milk and
sugar, which are put into great copper
kettles and cooked by steam for twelve
hours. The conserve is stirred by ma
chinery that keeps moving all the time
while the cooking goes on.
x
Leaving the dairy, I visited some of
the places where the employees live
There are more than 100 men working
on the estate, and they have brick
houses which were especially built for
them. There is a store that supplies
them with groceries and clothes, and
butcher shop in which two bullocks
day are killed to give them their meat
l saw a half-beef hanging on the rack
when 1 entered this shop, and the
the day.
The most of the men are Argentines,
who. am told, are skillful in the han
ding of cattle. All of such work is
done upon horseback. and almost every
man has his horse The saddles used
are of the Argentine kind. with stir
rups made of great disks Of leather in
which hole has been cut for the foot
These stirrups are tied to the saddle
with rawhide To me they. look
unsafe. and if one were to be thrown
his foot might catch and he be dragged
to his death.
The cows on these estancias are
chiefly Holstein and Durham, or cross
between the two. The estancia keeps a
steady improvement going on in its
breeding. 1t has several hundred fine
bulls. and every station keeps two or
three The cows are in large fields
surrounded by wire fences. Some of
the fields contain several hundred
acres The cows feed in herds of 100
or more: they range in weight from
500 to 1900 pounds. and some of the
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money grant by parliament. But will
his reward stop there?
There are many people in England
who are extremely worried at the man
ner in which the liberties of the people
have disappeared since the war started
Up to the present time no abuse of the
autocratic powers voted to itself by
the present government, and especially
to Kitchener. has been discovered but
the recent action of parliament in in
sisting upon limitation of the sweep
ing order in council whereby any one
could be tried by court martial and
by which the highest courts in the
land could be ignored. is significant of
the general public uneasiness.
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There are even those who. despite
their admiration for Kitchener. see a
menace in his popularity and his un-
limited power 1t has long been known
that through his friendship with the
king the famous soldier has been one
of the real rulers of the country. Is
he now to become something more than
a soldier? 1t is significant that the
king recently insisted upon him taking
over as his private residence York
House, st. James Palace, lorg the home
of royalty.
King George himself when he was
Duke of York lived there. Also the
Duke of Cumberland, son of the noto-
rious George III, who became King of
Hanover. and the late Duchess of Cam
bridge called 1t home. Recently it has
been at the disposal of the Prince of
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such matters than we are. and In the
future 1t may form one Of our great
sources of butter supply
As to the future meat and butter pro
duction of the Argentine, its possibili-
ties are beyond conception. With in
tensive farming and upbreedtng- tho
proportionate increase will soon he
much more rapid than it is now This
is a natural stock country, and in the
past. where the animals ran wild. they
formed enormous herds that surpassed
in number those of our buffaloes.
It must be remembered that this
country had no cattle horses or sheep
until they were brought in by the
Spaniards. Forty-three years after Co
lumbus discovered America, Don Pedro
de Mendoza brought over here seventy
two horses and mares. His colony had
terrible time and they finally went
to Asuncion in Paraguay, forsaklng a
part of their horses. About n genera
tion later another colony came here
and they found that the pasture lands
We're covered with droves or wiid
horses. the offspring of Mendoza's herd.
1t was a little later that sheep were
brought over. and they bred In the
same wonderful way. And then came
the cattle, which increased so rapidly
that the people could not take care of
them, and they roamed by the thou
sands over the pampas.
For a long time the greater part OF
the stock was wild, and the kill
ing was done for their hides and tall
low. More than hundred years be-
fore our Declaration of Independence
was signed it was related that a trav-
eler found at Buenos Aires twenty-five
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killed His hide Was then taken off and
his tallow saved. Indeed. for long time
the city of Buenos Aires WAS lighted with
mares grease gotten in this Way.
To-day horses are still cheap in the Ar
gentine. The country has perhaps one
for every man. woman aud child in II . but
the stock IS of a compa aratively high grade
and it is steadily improving. 1t is tho
same with the cattle ! doubt whether
the average of good blood is SO high in
any other pastoral country. and the fact
that the bulls at the sales have brought
again and again all the way from $4,000
and upward apiece. and that the country
has the record of having paid the highest
for single bull that has ever been paid
anywhere in the world, gives some in
GfcationS of the conditions today. But
of these l shall write more in the fu-
ture. FRANK e. CARPENTER
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Wales. but he must now give way to
papa's pal.
1t would not be correct to say that
Lord Aberdeen. who is about to be sue
ceeded by the Earl of Wimborne has
been an unpopular Viceroy of Ireland
There are 50 many factions in the EN-
erald Isle that it would be impossible
TO find a viceroy who would be accept
able to all. But Lord Aberdeen, and es-
pecially Lady Aberdeen. have been yery
popular with large section of the Of
fetal and social classes, and have also
won the affection of many of the mer-
that Lord Aberdeen wanted to retire
some time ago, especially before the
Ulster question became acute but the
government found ii impossible to find
any one to take on the nwelcone ioh
There is always to be found a great
sympathy for the little man and ire
spective of the merits of the present
war. the spectacle of little Serbia bat
Ting against its great neighbor Aus
tri. has been watched with interest
throughout the world.
Although an old man and not in the
best of health, King Peter of Serbia
81 BILE occasion. His second son. how
ever. has been the royal representative
at headquarters and 1t was not until
the Serbian troops were being hard
pressed by the Austrians that King Pc.
ter came among them and put new
life and determination into their ranks
The Serbian monarch has aged per-
ceptibly since the opening of the first
Balkan war. His hair and mustache
are now quite white and his strong
face is broken by many lines of care.
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hull hides Each had on board four
teen or fifteen thousand hides. and i'll
all 900, 900 cattle had been killed to
make the hides shipped by that feet.
These hides had netted the exporters
about one dollar each and the ships
made about 60f per cent off them.
At this same time, it is said that the
cattle grew so fast tlat they would
have devastated the country mad II not
been for the wild dogs that devoured
the calves. A little later on u priest
writing about BueroS Aires, describes
the abundance of the cattle. He says
that the country was then so covered
with them that any one had the right
to take up all he wanted, up to ten or
twelve thousand head. If he needed
more than that he had only to get a
license from the government. At that
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fcopyrisht. 1918, b, Frank C. csrpenter)

VICENTE CASARES, ARGENTINA
q HAVE come to Vicente Casares to
give you some pictures of La
Martona, the biggest butter farm
q of the world. 1t lies here in the
heart of the Argentine Republic, within
hours ride of Buenos Aires, and
twenty-thrce days by steamer south of
New York The farm has more than
10000 acres, and the most of this is
covered with grass high your
knees. The farm has Is, 1000 cows, all
of which are in milking condition. It
supplies the most of the butter and
milk for the Argentine capital, and 1t
ships thousands of pounds of butter
and tens of thousands of gallons of
milk every day. IT sends :ts products
to all of the other provinces and coun-
tries about. ana it will probably soon
be exporting butter to the United States.
Indeed. the Argentine Republic
promises to cater more and more to
the North American stomach. 1t has
begun to furnish US a part of our chops.
steaks and roasts, and in time it will
be supplying much of our bread and
the butter thereon. Later I may write
of the bread possibilities. In this let
ter j shall treat of the butter alone.
The dairy industry of the Argentine is
Just at its beginning Nevertheless,
its annual butter product is already
something like 16,0G0.000 pounds, and
the shipments to the United States have
already begun. Ey the Buenos Aires
Herald of this very morning | see that
2.0Go boxes of sixty pounds each were
received in New York yesterday, and
that another butter cargo of 5000
boxes is now on its way. All of this
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process no salt is used, and all butter
here is sold without salt.
Later on I watched them putting up
the milk for the city. This is served
out in bottles and each bottle is cover
ed somewhat like ours. In another de-
partment they were putting up milk
for the steamers, of which several
start out from Bucnos Aires every day.
This WAS in pint bottles corked with
tin. in the same way as beer bottles,
the milk being so treated that it will
keep many days. In d third room they
were making an Argentine sweet or
conserve of milk and sugar which is
popular over this part of South Amer
ica. This is called "dulce de 1eche" 1t
is a kind of milk marmalade which is
eaten with a spoon. 1t is sold in cans,
the smallest of which holds only a half
dozen spoonfuls. and the larger ones
about half pint. The dulce brings
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This new breed is a cross of the Hol-
stein with the Polled Angus It has
produced "a very fine milking strain,
and the major domo told me he consid-
cred it superior to that of any other in
this part of the world.
The ArgentineS are breeding their
meat cattle up to a better status than
that of almost any other country, and
If they should pay similar attention
to breeding up their dairy cattle they
will probably do equally well with
them. AS it is now, there are about 700
dairies in the country, but these have
all sprung up within the past twenty
years.
Indeed, the story of the evolution of
cattle breeding and dairying in Argen-
tina is one of the wonders in the his
tory of stock raising. Even now 1t is
not uncommon to find an estancia that
has tens of thousands of cows, using
canned milk for its coffee, and in the
past butter has been practically un-
known on many of the estates that
owned more cows than Job ever dream
ed of possessing. Today more than
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each station. Before beginning a strap
is tied around the hind legs and tail of
each animal. This is to keep it
still and so that no dirt may get into
the milk. The milking is done in the
cans that are brought from the factory.
and soon 1t is finished the cans
are carted off to the dairy.
There are q number of these stations
scattered at wide distances apart over
this farm, and it takes something like
500 horses to carry the milk. 1t re-
quires some also for the gauchos, who
drive in the cattle and who manage
the great carts which bring the cans
of milk to the factory. The cans are
like ours except that they are, perhaps,
twice large. They are made of
them will hold eight or ten gallons.
Those 7 saw were clean and 7 watched
them being sterilized by the running
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has been sold in advance. and it will
be used in New York, Chicago and Bos-
ton. The paper states that the buyers
are mostly hotels. and that the import
has already caused :, decline in our
prices. The butter, when landed. cost
a fraction over % cents a pound, and
IL was sold at ~ cents. At this rate it
can be shipped from here at a profit.
But to return to the great butter
farm of Vicente caSareS. The station
here was named Sfter the man who es-
tablished it. II is now run by his sons,
one of whom is the assistant secretary
of agriculture of the Argentine Rcpub-
lie. The other owners belong to a fam
lily which is one of the rich ones of
this part of the world, and they have
their country homes on the estate.
The dairy farm proper is a business in
stitution. pure and simple. 1t is not
run for show nor for pleasure. 1t is
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THE WAR HAS AGED THE KING SERBIA.
A remarkable portrait study taken recently.

the admiralty a man who is half Amer
lean. in the person of Winston Church.
Ill, for, when barely more than a boy,
the Irish nobleman saved Lady Ran
dolph Churchill from watery grave in
the Solent. She made, he confesses. a
great impression on his then sus-
ceptible heart, and he enjoys bearing
witness to the interest and admiration
which the former Jennie jerome ex-
cited wherever she went.
Apparently he was at first something
of scape grace. was James Herbert
Gustavus Meredyth Somerville, Baron
Athlumney, to give him his full name.
Born In County Meath. he went up to
Dublin Castle, at only six. as page of
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veteran Irish peer, who. AS director OF
the provost marshafs Office, is doing
SO much in the interest of British SOL
dIers at present An old soldier him
self, who showed uncommon mettle in
both the Egyptian and South African
campaigns. who was A. d. c. to Kitch
ener for two years, and who, inciden-
tally, is regarded as perhaps the best
bridge player in the United Kingdom,
this nobleman, at fifty, can look back
over as dramatic and chequered a
career as falls to the lot of most men.
1t was during the Dongola expedition
that he did his pajama fighting. He
took a prominent part in getting gun
boats. up the Nile. and for days 1t .
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OF superheated steam through them
after each using.
do not know enough about dairying
to give a technical description of the
way the milk is handled. L watched
it taken out of the carts, and poured
into the centrifugals in which it is
cleaned There are a number of these
machines each of which holds loo gai-
Ions The milk goes through them at
different temperatures, and then
passes on through a pasteurizatlon
plant until it finally comes forth abso-
lutely pure. In one place I saw great
separators out of which the SKINNED
milk was pouring in great stream
one pipe. and the rich yellow
cream flowing out, through another; L
watched the churns. each of when
will turn out 500 pounds of butter an
hour, and then looked at the machines
where the butter is rolled over and
over and pressed this way and that
until all the milk Is worked out of it
and it becomes solid Eat. In this
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All PasA 10000 Pasture
the
About the Dairy Cateh South
Th Passing Away the Wild Herds and the Fine StoW Argentina
nofS Something
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managed like a great American fac
tory with experts In charge oi the
plant, and the work goes on with the
parts Of the world The blowing is
done with steam plows made in our
country, the sterilizing machinery
comes from Europe and the patterns or
the churns are from far-off Australia.
The butter fat is tested by an Amer
lean invention. and the milk IS pas
teurized upon the basis of conclusions
reached by the great scientist OF
France. All of the machines in the
factory are moved by steam, and the
steam is made with coal brought here
from England. The floors of cement
and walls of white porcelain are also
of imported materials and they are as
carefully set as those or a million
aires bathroom.
/ have spent this whole morning in
going through the establishment and
over the farm. My conductor was the
manager, an italian expert in the busi-
ness. He could not speak English, and
my Italian and Spanish are lame, as is
also my French. However, with all
three We managed to understand each
other. The man took me through
room after room filed with shining
Everything was immacu-
lately clean and 1 can assure you that
you need have no fear Of disease from
Argentine butter made in this way.
Later on we took look at the cows.
driving through field after field on
which hundreds were grazing. The
farm is divided into camps and sta
tions. and each station has house for
it's manager. hear which is it's milking
corral. The cows feed out of doors all
the year round, but they are driven in
every morning. They are milked once
a day only, and this is in the corral,
W hich is surrounded by woven wire
fence and covers perhaps half an acre.
About one hundred cows are milked at
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stretch his uniform consisted of a suit
of ragged pajamas, jersey and a hat.
This for the reason that he was in and
with ropes to make them fast to the
shore NOT an altogether delightful
job in view of crocodiles and strong
currents.
Swimming. however, always has been
Lord Athlumney's long suit. 1t is
thanks to his prowess thereat. that
Britain today has as her first lord of
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tiliery. which was incorporated in the
City Imperial Volunteers, and also
mounted infantry and infantry detach-
nients. Out of 1913 men who served
thirty-siX were killed or wounded
Eighteen of the artillerymen were
mentioned in dispatches. one received
the distinguished service order, and
three the distinguished conduct medal
Possibly the only man living who can
claim the distinction of having fought
in pa jamas is Lord Athlumney, the
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-03-11
TO Test Darnell's Sanity.

Chicago, March. 5.-Rev. James Nor
rison Darnell; the former Kenosha,
WIS.,, preacher who is under iudict-
ment on charges Of violating the Mann
Act. it to undergo an examination in
to his sanity. This was learned when
Darnell was kept i'm the Federal Mar
shaI's Office after an orGer that he be
taken back to Milwaukee Saturday
had been entered before a Federal
fudge. Darnell's bond was fixed a:
5000.
The inquiry by insanity experts will
be conducted by two experts
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-03-11
PRESIDENT COMES IN FOR LARGE
SHARE OF CREDIT FOR THE
WORK ACCOMPLISHED
BY SESSION.
ADM Illustration NOW
Is AT HALFWAY PLACE
Republican Critics Of President Have
Taken Heart in Last Few Months,
but Troubles Not Yet over
compromise 10 Now
Necessary.

Washington, March with the adj
journment of congress the present ad-
ministration has reached the final stop
ping point in the halfway place of its
career. 1t leaves President Wilson and
the Democratic administration still on
trial in the eyes of the country. Many
of the measures ii has enacted into law
are still in an experimental stage and
the existence of the European war
makes it difficult to definitely deter
mine the effect of legislation passed.
BY the Democrats the war is used
as an excuse for the failure of certain
laws to work out as anticipated. and
among the Republicans the war is
cited as II of the most lucky inci-
dents the Wilson administration has
experienced, if such an event can be
termed luck from any possible angle,
in that it has CLOSED over the failure
OF the tariff law and has prevented a
full realization of the business calamity
that law has entailed.
Wilson Enforces lis Will.
In any event, the adjournment OF
congress after an almost continuous
session of two years, makes it pos
si5le to examine the work accomp.
lished In that time and to endeayor TO
present the picture.
AT the outset it must be acknowl-
edged that President Wilson has been
eminently successful in enforcing his
Will upon congress and it was not un.
til the close Of the present session that
he first met defeat in his advocacy of
the mysterious ship purchase bill.
SO whatever has been accomplished
by congress, President Wilson must
come in for a large share of the credit
and whatever has not been done, must
be credited to him also. for example.
the failure to pass an adequate rural
credits bill.
Many Big Things Accomplished.
1t has been an administration OF &C.
CON plishments and the list of the big
things done includes many important
acts.
The Republican critics of the presi.
dent have taken heart in the last few
months. but It must be remembered
that their W troubles are not over.
A detection in the party which makes
it possible for the candidate 10 carry
only two states, cannot be healed over
In a moment. Compromise is C
sary and a compromise without a sac.
rifice OF principles. There are those
who would selfshly use either ele.
ment OF the party for their own ad.
vantage and this is the danger in the
situation.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-03-11
Auto Bandits Are Bows

Chicago, March S.-The four automu.
bile bandits who laid a trail of purse
snatching from a stolen automobile
last Thursday were boys. the Oldest Of
them only 10 years of age. it was re.
vealed by their arrest. All confessed
and were identified by a dozen women
whose purses had been stolen. The
boys are Garfield Sullivan, aged IL;
w. Virgil Litzinger. IS. and James
Springer and Alvin Carlson, 10. Sulli.
van, who drove the stolen car. caused
the arrest of all four by his braggipe
to other companions.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-03-11
Kaiser Would Be Called comrade.

London, March S.-The Daily Mail
quotes the Hamburger Nachrichten as
saying when the kaiser was on the
western front he dropped his handker-
chief and an infantryman picked it up.
The kaiser gave him some cigarets
and the man said: Thank you, YOU
majesty" Thereupon the kaiser said.
oh, you need not call me your maj
esty here; o can simply address me
as comrade." Another infantryman
heard this and promptly called: Com
rade Wilhelm, suppose you give me
some, too"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-03-11
DARNELl IS EXPECTED TO
PLEAD GUILTY IN COURT.

Milwaukee, March S.-A plea of
guilty to charges OF violating the
Mann white slave act was expected
from Rev. James NJ. Darnell, the
marrying %parson," by the federal au-
thorities when he arrived here from
Chicago to appear In federal court.
1t was expected that after entering
his plea Darnell would ask a suspen-
sion Of sentence until a plea of insan-
lty could be made.
II was reported here ON good au-
thority that Darnells attorneys had
agreed upon the plan to have their
client plead guilty and then plead that
he was insane.
Darnell is accused of transporting
Ruth Soper of Owatonna, Mimi, from
Illinois to Kenosha, Wis.,, where he
was formerly paster of a church.
Darnell, in the custody of federal
officers, left Chicago for Milwaukee.
He was expected to go to the federal
buildings Immediately after his ar
rival.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-03-11
YORK POLICE ACCUSED
IN CATHEDRAL BOMB PLOT

New York. March 6.-Counsel in the
case of Charles Carbone and Frank
Abarno. accused of attempting to ex-
plode a bomb IN st. Patrick's Cathe-
dral, agreed with Judge Swami to have
the men plead to the indictment
against them.
Meantime Judge Swami will have a
conference with the attorneys and lis
ten to informal argument by counsel
for the prisoners, who claim that they
were drawn into the plot by The police.