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The Dickinson press., 1916-06-24

Mr.. and Mrs. Joe P. Cain, Mrs
| Minnie K%linefelter and Victor Hayes
autoed out on Wednesday morning to
their ranches near Grassy Butte.
after spending a few days in the city
Raymond Hayes went out on MONDAY
too bv team with a load of lumber
Misses Alice and Agnes Dickson
left the first of the week for points
west including Spokane, Portland
| Seattle and by boat owe to Victoria,
Vancouver in British Columbia. They
will be gone until about the first OF
September as Miss Alice dickson will
be back to take up her duties as
English instructor in our high school,
Miss Ruth Clark, one of the teach
ers at Fargo and formerly of Dickin-
| son, commenced a term of summer
school work in Chicago this week.
Miss Clark's sister, Mrs. Caswell, and
husband of Iowa, have been with Mr.,
and Mrs. M. L. Ayers in New York
City the past week in attendance at
the National Editorial Association.
Statesmen wanted for Dunn, Slope
and Mckenzie counties, North Da-
kota, to sell complete line Of wooden
and cotton goods direct to consumer,
Our merchandise is guaranteed
Splendid opportunity for summer
work. Applicant must have automo-
bile or horse and buggy and furnish
references. Apply at once, stating
choice of countries. Minneapolis
Wooden Mills Co., Minneapolis, Min
nesota.-adv. 6-24-1p
F. J. Funk, B. J. Hagerman, Bert
Sprague, Gust Skuras, D. Litsheim,
VIM. Hughes, Max Beres, Thos. Tot
tingham, Thos. Define, Ray Graf, O.
N. Dixon, G. V. Bohen and John
Foster, local BARRIERS, have entered
into an agreement as to uniform
| working hours. Their shops, begin
ming with next Monday, will all open
al 1880 a. m. and close at 1880 p. m,
They will be closed all day Sunday
Violation of this rule will cost the
employers or the employees heavy
fines.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Gardner and the
latter's father, L. A.. Davis, and
niece and nephew, Media and Lee
Davis, children Of Mr.. and Mrs
Arthur Davis, who were visiting the
Gardeners, came down from the ranch
north of Sentinel Butte the latter
part of last week to visit with rela-
tives in the city. MI. Gardner re-
turned on Monday and Mrs. Gardner
expected to remain until today (Fri.
day. before returning, accompanied
back by Lee Davis, who will remain
out there for the summer.
Misses Hazel and Mira Zebley re-
turned from Watkins, Montana, Sat-
turday, June 18th, where they have
established a residence on the lat
/ ter's homestead. Miss Mira will at
tend sumemr school here, making her
home with Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Ken
needy, while Miss Hazel will spend the
summer with her mother 81 miles
east of Richardton. The people of
the Watkins country have been en-
joying fine weather and have received
their share of rain. Together with
the fine soil, make prospects good for
a bumper crop.
The Dickinson press., 1916-06-24

I Judge E. T. Burke, of the supreme
court, was in attendance at the Elks
convention last week. Judge Burke
is a member of the Valley City herd.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Young and
baby and Mr.. Young's sister, Mrs. L.
L. Chevalier, and two sons autoed in
from the Young ranch near Gorham
the latter part of last week and were
guests of Mrs. Young's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. J. A. Belden, Of this city
the greater part of the week. Mr..
Young was recently elected a men,
Der of the Gorham school board.
The Dickinson press., 1916-06-24

Judge Andrew A. Bruce, of the
supreme court, was one of the dis
tinguished visitors from Bismarck
last week. He was the guest of Hon.
L. A. Simpson.
Judge Charles ]. Fisk, chief justice
of the supreme court, was among the
distinguished Elks who visited Dick
inson during the Elks convention. He
and his daughter, Doris, were guests
at the home of Attorney Thomas H.
Pugh during the convention. Judge
Fisk is a candidate for reelection to
the supreme court.
The Dickinson press., 1916-06-24

Louis Broadman, who resides nine
miles southwest Of Dickinson, comes
in every week with al This
year he has about 300 acres sowed,
80 acres being new spring breaking.
He came from the Old Country about
ten years ago and for the past seven
years has been residing on his home
stead. He now owns three quarters
of land.
Evening star., 1916-03-12

a large export trade was built I'D in
maple wood, the same kind of wood
whose sap had formerly been converted
into maple sirup.
With the increasing demand, the
diminishing supply and the increasing
rigor and comprehensiveness of the
laws against misbranding and adulter-
alton. the price of maple sirup that is
really and truly what it's name implies
has gone up to the point where there
is a good profit in its production, and
farmers in the maple sugar section of
the country are caring for their old
maple orchards, or what is left of
them, and in numerous districts are
setting out new orchards. The indica-
tions are that maple sirup and maple
sugar may not be lost to posterity.
Maple sap is obtained from the sap
of th~ sugar maple. the rock maple.
maple, but that from the true sugar
maple or the rock maple holds the
largest content Of sugar The sap is
obtained by boring hole through the
inch to one inch in depth. Into this
hole is inserted tube. sometimes of a
special design in metal, and often of
wood. From this spoutlike tube the
or pan and is boiled or evaporated un-
til the proper consistency of sirup has
been reached.
The flow of sap is variable. Some
seasons are good sap seasons and some
are not. Individual trees may be good
a good deal that has not been de-
termined in connection with the sap
production business. An authority on
the productiveness of maple trees has
written that the amount that a tree
gives depends upon the season. In
some years 1t may be but a few gal
Ions of sap. and during other years it
may be great many gallons. 1t is not
unIisual during q good flow he aavs
for q two-gallon bucket to be filled
twice a day with sap from q tree dur
Evening star., 1916-03-12
THE MAPLE SlRUP SEASON OPENS.

MMAPLE sirup suggests sweet and
UVIl tender thoughts and this is the
season when maple sirup is born
that is. the maple sirup that comes
from the maple sirup tree. Buckwheat
cakes. plain wheat cakes or batter cakes
and old-fashioned corn meal cakes come
into the minds eye. The very thought
Of such things puts an edge on the ap-
But while one thinks so much of maple
sirup it would not be fair to overlook
all the joys and blessings brought upon
the world by cane sirup and real and
true sugar molasses. The world is
stickier for those things.
Maple sirup and its patrons have been
the victims of numerous impostures
Many sweet things have been substituted
for maple sirup and many adulterants
have been added to real maple sirup to
swell its bulk, impair it's flavor and
cheaper its price. The market and the
purchaser have known maple sirup
whose only claim to the name was that
it was some other kind of sirup favored
with a decoction obtained by boiling the
twtgs OF maple trees. The sweetness came
from cane or corn and the maple flavor
came from maple wood. 1t had deceived
many palate, but never that Of the
devoted maple sirup or maple sugar
lover.
While the population Of the country
has been growing the supply of maple
sirup has been diminishing, because
OF the destruction of the trees whose
sweet sap is boiled down to produce
maple sirup. The maple tree has con-
siderable value for the making of boot
and shoe lasts. and many of the north
ern and eastern maple sirup orchards
have been converted into timber for
that purpose. there being a large home
demand among American boot and shoe
manufacturers for maple lasts, and in
consequence Of the demand in Europe
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ing the season of upfiow. the length Of
which period is also a matter of wheth-
er the season is a favorable or an un-
thority. a tree of ordinary size will
yield from fifteen to thirty gallons Of
sap yearly. from which are made from
TWO to four pounds of pure sugar
The sugar maple has many relatives
in the tree world. The maple family
is peculiar to the northern and tenn
perate parts of the world and there are
through America. Europe and Asia.
Some Of them are large trees. but
Nearly all the naples have a sweet
or, at least, sweetish sap and IL is
rarely milky. One writer says that IL
is the knotty or the knotted parts of
nish the handsome ''bird's-eye ma
pie" which is such favorite with the
cabinet makers.
Among the important varieties of the
maple in the United States. in addition
to the sugar maple, are the white ma
pie, the red or swamp maple. the
striped maple or moose wood" the
mountain maple, the vine maple and
once largely planted in Washington as
a street tree, but it has been found too
fragile and too much weighted with 70.
liage in summer to Withstand high
winds. Another well known species Of
Norway maple. and that for a great
many years has been planted in Enr-
land as an ornamental tree and has
come to be popular street tree in the
cities Of the United States. Many thou
sands of them stand along the streets
Of Washington. Two species of the
maple that are common in Great Britain
are the great maple" which is some-
times called the sycamore" and the
common maple. The wood Of the great
maple or the sycamore maple is highly
valued for carving, turnery, musical
Instruments. wooden dishes ana many
other purposes.
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MR. LADp AND A REALISTIC BIT OF HIS HANDrwoRk.

indefatigable search for it. 1t is no
small undertaking to work most of the
night and spend the greater part of
the daylight hours in the dense tropi-
cal jungle in search of new additions
to his collection.
He says he obtained nearly all of his
specimens within a radius of twenty
five miles from Guabito. the little sta
tion on the banana railway where he
resides.
Guabito is in the heart of the jungle,
which virtually surrounds it, with its
tall trees. which are almost lost to
sight beneath their growth of giant
creepers and snakelike vines and thick
underbrush. So dense is it that only
a person with the ubiquitous machete
of the tropics can hope to cleave
trail through it's entanglements of liv-
ing green.
The little village is a division point
on the important network of. railway
lines that lead to the vast banana
farms of the Boston corporation that
markets. at a profit. the lowly banana
in countries where it is considered
delicacy and almost a luxury.
Not far from Guabito, but yet far
enough to bring them just on the rim
of the twenty-fve-mile radius. are the
foothills of the Cordillera. which forms
the isthmian section of the Rocky
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hands needed. and then they do not
touch the milk itself. One operator
places empty. sterilized bottles SO that
they are carried into the machine; the
other operator removes them after they
have been filled and capped.
*
The bottles are carried around on a
sort of "merrygo-round' device. AS
they assume their position under small
pipes placed above them the proper
amount of milk is poured into them
through these pipes. and then, Just as
they pass out of the machine, the me-
chanical "capper'' fits pasteboard cap
into the neck.
1t may be said here that these paste
board caps come in long tubes so ar
ranged that they can be unloaded into
the capper without being touched by a
hand. While in the tubes they are
sterilized by baking.
of the filler a second operator exam
ines them before placing in the metal
boxes in which they are carried in the
delivery wagons and automobiles. Any
bottle found to be cracked or other
wise defective Is Immediately thrown
into metal trash can.
Forty-eight quartOs or sixty pint
bottles can be filled per minute by the
HlleT. 1nat tnlS maCnlne Is
of great service from the point of
speed IS well as from the sanitary
angle may be judged when one con-
siders that about $1,000 quarts Of milk
and cream are handled in one dairy Of
Washington alone.
If placed in ordinary pint bottles the
daily supply of milk in Washington
would extend along two entire sides of
the boundaries of the District, and for
several miles along the third side The
supply used in week would flood
for more than two feet the United
States Senate chamber. which is 113
feet inches by so feet 8 inches.
When 1t Is taken into consideration
that about 100000 bottles are used in
Washington daily 1t may be understood
why the dairymen are SO anxious to
have their bottles returned to them.
The quart size cost nearly cents and
the pints about 2 cents when bought in
gross and by carloads. Considering
that a single large dairy alone has to
buy carload of bottles each month to
replace those lost or broken, 1t may
easily be seen what a large item of ex-
pense this Is.
1t is dihicult to realize the great
amount of work involved in handling
this mammoth milk supply. Hundreds
OF men and women are given employ
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tor starts back in dismay, believing
strike to be imminent Fortuna tely
it is dead, besides having been nom
poisonous when alive.
Mr.. Ladd also is disciple of Izaak
Walton. In his piscatorial collection
are many specimens of the multicolor-
ed fish of the tropical waters of Al
mirante lagoon. which abounds in a
great variety of the fnny tribe. There
are turtles from which the tortoise
shell comes small hammer-headed
sharks and the more dangerous man.
eating variety.
What he is going to do with his col
lection Mr.. Ladd doesn't know just
yet. He believes, however. that some
day he will present it to museum OF
natural history in his old home town.
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as free from all forms of microscopic
life as is possible.
Numerous methods of pasteurization
are used. according to the opinions of
the one in charge at the various
dairies The essential feature of this,
however, be the form what it may, is
to keep the milk at a high tempera-
ture for a certain length of time and
then cooled Immediately and kept at
low temperature.
In the model dairy another step pre-
cedes pasteurization. though. 1t is the
breaking UP of the globules of fat in
the milk, so that the last may be
as good as the first which comes from
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BILE of producing thirty tons of ice
every twenty-four hours The model
plant also makes it's own power and
mas its own machine shop. 1t has a
clerical force of considerable size and
a small army Of men whose only duty
is to drive the team and deliver the
milk-not to collect bills or care for
horses which pull the delivery wagons.
There Is also machine for churning
buttermiik, great cylinder which also
gives evidence of cleanliness first"
The modern dairyman must be "on
the job" to see that he is giving his
customers the best possible product at
his command. And he sees to it that
his workers are also constantly up to
the mark. 1t is necessity in a COM
petitive business where the great part
OF the public, at least, is demanding
the best return for it's money. Team
work, with the goal of purity. is the
keynote of the industry. Science, as
Evening star., 1916-03-12

mountain-Andean range that consti-
tutes the mountain backbone of the
western hemisphere from the Arctlc
to the Antarctic regions. Between these
foothills and the little settlement of
Guabito is the large Guabito swamp,
alive with poisonous reptiles and vi
cious alligators.
From the jungle he obtained his gor-
geous-hued birds and insects and but
terflies. In the jungle he got his rep
lillian specimens. and from the foot
hills came the larger beasts, among
which there is jaguar of unusual
size and markings.
In his collections of snakes is a BUSH
master, the most poisonous and dan
gerous of all tropical reptiles. Mr..
Ladd's specimen is seven and half
feet long and has enormous fangs. He
engaged in most dangerous under
taking when he attempted the capture
and final kill. Among his alligator
skins is one that measures twenty-four
feet. The saurian was so old that he
had six-inch mangle trees growing out
of the crevices on his back.
The hunt for the alligator nearly cost
the amateur naturalist's life-a fall
from a cayuca almost within range of
the saurian's deadly jaws. from which
he was saved only by he quickness of
huge jaguar-whose skin now adorns
the couch in the .museum"-almost did
for him. stealthy movement, be-
trayed by the faint swapping of a twig.
caused him to turn in time to meet the
spring of the beast with a quick. well
directed shot from his high power Ex-
press rifle.
when I first came to Panama from
Boston five years ago. says Mr.. Ladd.
IT scarcely knew a beast from bird,
and it seems to me I had very vague
notion as to what butterfly looked
like. ! knew none of their ordinary or
scientific names. 1 was so ignorant
that a sleeping alligator looked so
much like log lying in the water that
my mistake almost cost me a leg. That
was one reason for starting my 'rnu-
scum l wanted to get even with the
gator for fooling me. I've got his hide
tackled up out there on the door now.
You saw it you came in.
THE other reasons? Oh! well, you
know. time hangs mighty heavy on a
fellows hands down here in the out-of
the-way places of the tropics. There
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applied with brains, forms the founda-
ton.
Despite the progress which has been
made in the milk business of Wash
ington, whole, there is plenty of
room for Improvement. according to DIR.
w. c. Woodward, the District health
officer. High standards of certain
dairies are Offset by the low standards
in others, and, according to DIR. Wood
ward, the average standars here should
be higher.
Among features which he advocates
for raising the standards of this
important food are a legal temperature
standard at which milk should be kept
following pasteurization, a standard
method Of pasteurization and a legal
record of the standards of milk in the
various dairies kept. He also desires to
see legislation in force which will pre-.
vent INSCRIPTIONS dealers from selling
stale milk.
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the bottle: in other words, so that the
richness and creaminess may be equal
ly distributed throughout the entire
bulk
This operation is accomplished by
sending the milk between rapidly re-
volvfng disks. which break up. but do
not destroy. the fat globules. From
this point the milk is forced into the
pasteurizing machines. which. in the
dairy herein cited. consist of large watts.
These watts, each capable of holding
located above the automatic bottle
filing ard Gaping machines. A small
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An American Naturalist in the Jungles

CHARLES D. LADD of Boston, Mass Though
~ Finds Time for Natural HioDs Exploits ung1a Collected
Mounted Over Five Hundred Running Birds
citing Task-Rare Specimens Found Only n His
Evening star., 1916-03-12
IN THE Bo1rLING DEPARTMENT.

pipe conveys the milk. after pasteuriza
tion. through the refrigerating pipes.
These are kept at about the freezing
point, and by the time the milk has
reached the feeding pipe of the bottlers
1t is completely chilled.
A float in the bottling machine. con-
nected with the feed apparatus, con-
trolls the supply. SO that there is no
danger of an overflow. When it is de-
sired to shut off the supply entirely a
stop-cock is used.
The bottling and Gaping machines
work in conjunction with each other
and are unique. Twice only are human
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collection with the intention of pIac-
ing 1t on exhibition at the Panama ma
tionai exposition that opens next
month. The offer, however, came
to naught for the reason that Panama
finds itself in financial difficulties from
which 1t is barely able to extricate
itself.
BESIDES being naturalist-self-
taught, 1t is true, but of no mean at
tainments-Mr. Ladd also is a taxi
dermist. He had to learn that since
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are no cabarets. no theaters. no amuse.
ments of any kind worthy the name
One cannot read all the time, SO ir
self-defense one has to find something
to occupy ones idle time.
ITO think of the Commons or Broad
way or any of the other thousand and
one places where there are amusing
things to do is to think of the unat-
tainable and therefore a waste of time,
so why do it? They are SO very, very
far away. So it's best not to give them
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a thought, but to find ones own
amusements as best one can.
And SO it seemed to me that there
was nothing more worth while for me
to do, so ] took to hunting and fishing
You see the result"
X
A short time ago the government of
Panama made Mr.. Ladd a tentative
offer of quite a large sum for his
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many features which mean the en-
pioyment Of workers. For instance,
there is the refrigerating plant of the
model dairy. In one of Washington's s
dairies. which does it's own refrigcrat-
ing and ice making, the plant is capa-
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
ANCON. c. H., March l, 1916.
E1O work eight hours every night
and yet have time during the
day to acquire by his own ef-
q forts large and varied natu-
raj history collection is the achieve
ment of Charles D. Ladd, train dis
patcher for the Changuinola railway.
in western Panama. He says he knows
nothing of natural history except what
he taught himself in the three years
it has taken him to collect and mount
the 50O-odd specimens of bugs, bee
ties. birds, butterflies. beasts and rep
tiles.
Many of his specimens are so rare
they are not to be found in any other col
lection, and a few are entirely un-
known to naturalists who have visited
the Isthmus of Panama
Mr. Ladd is from Boston. Perhaps
that is why he is constantly athirst for
knowledge, and also the reason for his
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there was no one in the whole country
who could do that for him. His skill
in curing and mounting his specimens
is little short of marvellous His ami
mails. reptiles and winged creatures
are so likelike that it is frequently
startling to the chance visitor who
finds his way into 1.-The museum at
Guabito.
In the center of "the museum" stands
a large tree, it's branches crowded
with the multicolored feathered deni-
zens of the jungle, swamp and noun
trains. Around it's base is coiled
huge snake SO lifelike that the visi-
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Gallons of
~
Dairy Before
Sen to the Delivery Wagons
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-F any one in Washington has an idea
that in order to keep a dairy he or
she need only to get few large
q milk cans. a gross or two of milk
bottles and a few paper caps. and then
get in touch with some farmer who keeps
cows. that person has overlooked the
last few years of progress made in this
industry Washington at present is US
ing about $4,000 gallons of milk and
cream a day. The dairyman who yester-
day. speaking figuratively, was selling
few quarts of milk day as side line,
or possibly as a convenience to his
friends, today is selling thousands of gal
Ions day.
During this growth. which has been
steady and is still continuing. one great
factor has come into it's own 1t is
applied science-science as applied with
brains.
Science. as applied to the preparation
and distribution of milk as commercial
proposition, has proved its worth to the
milk consumers of Washington, and this
in turn. nas proved of financial worth to
the dairyman.
Cleanliness in milk is being demanded
not only by the health department of
Washington but by the consumers them
selves Science is being applied in vary
ing degrees in the dairies of Washing
ton. OF course, but that degree is one
with an ever rising standard all along
the line.