St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-11-24

pared for the press; and a third is
contemplated.
i The report in question, it is of in
terest to recall. itemized these four
fundamental faults:
i First. Lack of a standardized pro-
duct. Second. Lack of accurate knowl-
edge among producers. Third Leased
car system transportation. Fourth.
Lack of systematic methods of distri-
button.
j To meet these difficulties the com
/ mittee recommended:
First. The establishment of a stand
ardized system of milk grading and
labelling for all New England. Second.
The establishment of country milk sta
tons by producers in cooperation
with local business men and railroads,
wheres milk may be graded and pro-
'cessed and the surplus utilized in the
manufacture of butter and cheese.
Third. Bookkeeping by farmers for
keeping accurate records of produc-
ton costs and economizing farm oper-
'ations, a cooperative arrangement be-
| ing suggested. Fourth. Reform of
present methods of railroad transpor-
tation abolishing the leased-car sys-
tenn and establishing a uniform per-
can rate. Fifth. Improvement of city
distribution. Adoption of a ticket
system, cost accounting methods, and
the study of common problems by
dealers in a cooperative organization.
Sixth. Advertisement of food value of
milk and milk products. thus adding
to the other improvements in market
ing the important factor of publicity.
Burlington News.
"Peart Good Cider"
They will tell you, up New England
way, that whenever you drink it, you
must stop after the first long luscious
draught and say, -" u peart good cider
fer this time of year" It is neither a
formula nor convention. because the
heart is in it. 1t is a sacrament.
Because. whether you take the con-
coction which is not brew one day
after the apples have been pressed
and the spice been prepared. or you
wait until the roaring nights of winter
and sip it. with cheese on the side in
the shape of pumpkin head, it is, it,
unquestionably is peart good cider
for that or any time of the year. Cider
lis always made from the apples of
Eden-not those from the tree of
Good and Evil, but those from the tree
of Wisdom-Philadelph Evening
Ledger.
DR.. Trudeau A Hero of Peace
DR.. Edward Livingston Trudeau,
who has died at Saranac Lake, N. Y,
at the age of IS, was a hero of peace
whose story will be an inspiration to
generations of men and women strug-
Igling against the odds of failing
health. DR.. Trudeau more than any
one else was the founder in this coun
try of the open-air treatment for tu-
I'berculosis, Snow represented by about
I 500 sanitaria. The pioneer establish
ment of the sort was a shack which
DR.. Trudeau built in the Adirondack
wilderness in 1885, and at which he
himself and two friends were the first
patients. There they spent the day
wrapped up in blankets in the open
air with the thermom eter at 40 degrees
below zero. In the 80 years since then
the little town of Trudeau has grown
up around the site of the shack, and
also the sanitary city of Saranac Lake.
DR.. Trudeau also kept up with the de-
Velopments of the treatment of tuber-
culosis and became one of the lead
ing authorities upon the subject in
this country. He had intended to en-
ter the Annapolis academy after his
g radiation from Columbia, but while
nursing a brother who died of tuber-
culosis he contracted the disease him
self and determined 20 devote the rest
of his life to combating it. He was
graduated from the college of physi-
clans and surgeons in 1871 and began
practice in New York city. 1t was on
the advice of DR.. Alfred L. Loomis, a
famous physician, that he went to the
Adirondacks in 1873. There he lived
much out of doors. became a great
hunter, an amateur boxer of local
fame and the family physician of the
people for 40 miles around. Many
people suffering from tuberculosis
were also sent to him for treatment
during these years. One was Robert
Louis Stevenson, who there wrote
some of his famous stories. McGill
and the university of Pennsylvania
each conferred upon DR.. Trudeau the
degree of LII. D., and Yale would have
done likewise if he had been able to
be present to receive the honor in per-
son. He suffered greatly and was
frequently obliged to forego trips
from home. AS president of the
eighth congress of physicians and sur
geOnS at Washington in 1910 he deliV-
cred an address on 1.-THE value of op-
timism in medicine" He was barely
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