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The Preservative Question.
The United States Department o!
Agriculture is coming in for a good
deal of adverse comment for exclud
ing from our ports a consignment of
Australasian butter that contained a
large amount of boron preservative.
The critics are saying that the govern
ment should recognize the fact tjiat
preservatives are being used in the
butter manufactured in this country
as well as in the butter coming in
from foreign parts. A London paper
takes up the matter and says that
during the last ten years the people
of Great Britain have consumed two
hundred thousand tons of butter with
boracic acid in it and that not one
case of injury can be proved against
it. Well, how could such a case bd
proVed? No mater how much injury
may have been done to the consum-
ers it is not possible to say for a
certainty that such a result did ensue.
On the other hand, it is the part of
the preservative dealers to prove that
the substance they sell is not harm
ful, and they have not done that.
The United States Department of Ag
riculture does not take action like the
above without having some good rea-
son for its action. We are having
too much preservative used in foods
anyway, and any action of the govern-
ment looking to the decreasing of the
amount used will have the support
of most of the people.
Testing Associations.
No matter how smart a nation is, it
can learn something from almost any
other nation. The Danes have given
us a good object lesson in the estab-
lishing of testing associations, by
which each farmer is enabled to know
the performance of each cow, as to
weight of milk produced daily and
percentage of butter-fat in same. We
have been a long time adopting the
Danish method, as to organization.
We have done a great deal of test-
ing of Individual cows and now
and thea a herd has been tested
but we have not tried very .hard
to get at the herds of the farmers not
interested in scientific matters.
We are therefore doubly glad to
learn that a testing association has
been organized near Athens, Wis,
and there the Danish method is to be
given a chance to show what it will
do «nder American methods. The as-
sociation when formed this spring
had twenty-six members, and each
farmer will have his herd tested once
a month. The man that is to do the
testing travels from herd to herd,
spending a day in each place, both
weighing and testing the milk from
each cow. The association pays the
salary and incidental expenses of the
man doing the testing, but he has
free board at the home of each mem
ber while testing his herd.
Finances of the Creamery.
The way in which the finances of a
creamery are handled will determine
to a considerable degree the success
of the creamery. I believe that it i3
a mistake for any creamery associa-
tion to arrange for the declaring of
big dividends on the capital stock, es-
pecially if the shares are not equally
divided among the men that supply
milk to the creamery. Anyway it is
a safer plan to have most all of the
profits go back to the milk producers
in the shape of a better price on milk.
I know a creamery where the capital
stock really pays about 20 per cent,
but I very much fear that when such
a dividend is declared something
about the creamery is being neglect-
ed. If any dividend Is paid at all. it
should be a small one, and the sur-
plus should either go back to the
farmers on milk or should go into im-
provements in the creamery.—James
Oarlinger, Berrien Co., Mich., in Far
men' Review.
Some Short Names
Here are some short names. Many
years ago there was a shop kept in
Brussels by Therese 0, and there is a
Mme. O living with her two children
at Molenbeck, a suburb of the Beljgan
capital. In 18GG among the Bei^an
recruits was a young qran named O,
who could not write, and signed his
name with a cross. In the department
of Somme, in France, there is a vil
lage called Y, in the Zuyder Zee there
is a bay called Y and Amsterdam has
the River Y. In the Chinese province
of Honan there is a city called U,
and in France there is a river and in
Sweden a town rejoicing in the name
of A.
"Blazed Trail" Pioneer
Andrew McFarlane, "pioneer of the
blazed trail," who died in San Ber-
nardino, Cal., recently, was a nativ9
of Allegheny, Pa., where' he was born
in 1829. He was one of the most no-
ted prospectors and hunters of Cali-
fornia. His chief gold discovery was
the Long Tom mine in Kern county,
from which many millions of dollar?
have been taken. He and his two
brothers crossed the plains in the
early '50s.
. Chronic Lieutenant Governor
Three terms as lieutenant governor
of Ohio is the record which in all
probability will be set liy Andred L.
Harris, who has been renominated by
the republicans as the running mate
of Governor Herrick. He served as
lieutenant governor from 1892 to
189G, while William McKinley was
governor. His election to a third
term is practically certain.
Tell the average woman that her
house always looks neat and she will
reply: "Mercy, it takes lots of work
to keep it so."
FOOD IN SERMOTiS.
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Feed the Dcminle Right and the Ser-
mons are Brilliant.
A conscientious, hard-working and
eminently successful clergyman
writes: ' I am glad to bear testimony
to the pleasure and increased meas-
ure of efficiency and health that have
come to me from adopting Grape-Nuts
food as one of my articles of diet.
"For several years 1 was much dis-
tressed during the early part of each
day by indigestion. My breakfast,
usually consisting of oatmeal, milk
and eggs, seemed to turn sour and
failed to digest. After dinner the
headache and other symptoms follow-
ing the breakfast would wear away,
only to return, however, next morn-
ing.
"Having heard of Grape-Nuts food,
I finally concluded to give it a fair
trial. I quit the use of oatmeal and
eggs, and made ray breakfasts of
Grape-Nuts, cream, toast and Postum.
The result v?.a surprising in improv-
ed health and total absence of the
distress tHat had, for so long a time,
followed the morning meal. My diges-
tion became once more satisfactory,
the headaches ceased, and the old
feeling of energy returned. Since that
time, four years ago, I have always
had Grape Nuts food on my breakfast
table.
"I was delighted to find also, that
whereas before I began to use Grape-
Nuts food I was quite nervous and be-
came easily wearied in the work of
preparing sermons and in study, a
marked improvement in this respect
resulted from the chance in my diet.
I am convinced that Grape-Nuts food
produced this result and helped me
to a sturdy condition of mental and
physical strength.
"I have known of several persons
who were formerly troubled as I was.
and who have been helped as I have
been, by the use of Grape-Nuts food,
on my recommendation, among whom
may be mentioned the Rev.
now a missionary to China." Name
given by Postum Company, Battle
Creek. Mich.
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