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The Exeter Advocate, 1898-6-3, Page 6DR. JACK WIFE By ST. GEORG E RATHBORNE. CONTI:NUN Larry feels better. He has just diseovered in the corner bale of hint what appears to be art odd, ter. Thte best be inn make of it is an Australian boomerang; but iu his eyes it assumes the functioes ofa plain, evex7- brass, with wheels under the bloeles, and some shells in a cup attaohecl, At sight of this weapon Larry is seized with a stupendous idea. He drags it into tbe state -room, aucl then berg the door. Although uot a seldier or guraterby prefession, Larry has some knack with various utensils of war, and eeadily com- prehends how the yacht cannon should be loaded. He finds the shells blank cart- ridges for firing salutes, but it will be easy to slip some rusty nails OS other missiles into the grim throat of the little brim monster, auci thus make it 4 ter, rible weepoo, By this thee the assaults on the door of day cudgel. the cabila was begun agate, ar4 it speed - How eagerly his bapd, goes out to it, HY gives way with a ?rash. and with what inter.se jay he clutthes Nen rullh thr°0gh, and. n a alert *he hard wood. A thump ssrith such s Owe a hand violently shakes the door et crooked weapon must give a r41411 4 head- the stateseoom, behind whieh stanes ache for hours. Larry, coolly arrangiug his yacht cannon Now, lee xallord have a care, or he will for busthess, while at his side is Doctor "blowo up with his own petard," for Jack's wife, her flashiughlue eyes speak - the dude is on the -warpath.. mg defiance to the mob that hammers It is far from Lerry's intention to dia. madly for adnaittance, close his presence, unless it is absolutely eeressary. He would much rather aecotn- CHA.TPER KY= plish Ids work ih•ough strategy thau force, but as a lest .esore is ready to ap- "Silence!" mart the lion-liOe voice of to arms. the big Englishman, and his men cease peal Whenever the British eubjeet is about their chattering, for his word is. lav. to tern hs way, he ducks his head out Then eomes a single kick at the door. of sight Tee vast dOnensieus of the chair "Within there, Yankee." ellow Itiza a geed ereanee for hiding. "Well, what d'ye want?" demands Lod Rackete xnerehes up and down as Larry. eot forgetetng, his usual aggravat- though endearoring to frame a plan ing drawl. section; he Imo numerous things to worry "Come out and surrender, Mr. Ken - over. it is nee oftee his loreship's head nedY." treebleti, and tees ustuseal exertion ex- "ThatIlts, awfully." beasts the poor mate eWssll send ,you safely to the sham So no throws lei"; ppuderinq wentet you my word for iv." Into an eesy chair. 13y eoese freak of e "Alener tt elieuees to be the one behind wi: h "Of eouree." Poor Larry has tteen up his tenneme. "I have a lady in my charge." querters. By awn% tr ntiserablo Areal; of "She remains on the Bull -Doge" illduen, the thiug is en rollers Ordinars "So do I." laconleally adds Larry. 41y, this fat would have little or no sig.- Ho eau imagine the look of disgust raise:tee, but a combivation of oieeksee. upon the fuss of the Briton, when he sMnees makes it aseinne a peouliar prom. finds his del/lauds thus raet by a flat re- ineuce just now. fusel. Aa milerd thus roughly drops into the "You understand that we gen, bets* chair his weight ceasee it to roll back- thia door in as- we rlid the other, and I ware. and Limas enforsimate head is have elx men back of me to enforce xay squeezed between the chair and the cabin orders." wall. "reix—is that all your erew—only six?" Lavoiuntarily the dude lets forth a yell Larry seeks haformation, and this is that would put the whistle of a steam the way he expects to get it, The plan tug to shame. It is impoesible to help it suereeds, for milord imagines he is giss under the circuanstences, much as Larry leg in- wou'el give to avoid such a betrayal of "The rest are away on shore. It would be folly to thiuk of resisting us. Open, his minters, Wesel gets up. His movements can theu. and (=se iudelant" ouly he Melted ta the spasmodie leap an 'Teuldnet think of it, weally I/0W." eleetrie current westia brint about. l'er- "Then the door than be broken in, and baps the wildest faueies ;lash through you need expert no mercy." his brain, as he thee madly springs out "The nest man who strikes that door of tho hair. may sink the yeelat Listen, Lord Race Reewing full well that the game is up, kett, I'm a desperate man. 1 have the lorry no letager attempts concealment. means to early out my threats." The pain he has just suffered. also urges "Humbug! you Yankees ean boast," him on to attack the other. sneers the man on the other side. He rushes out with the whirling "Look around. Do you miss anything boomerang, th the inter astenishment of in the cabin, my dear fellow?" 'lord Peed:ea, wile fully believes the "Great Scottthe brass gun!" dada to be drownere WV, or at least "Exactly. I have it in here trained on dghting for his life out on the ocean. the door, and loaded to the muzzle with "Your he gaeps nails, revolver cartridges, and trash. "Yes, me. Whit else would you have? When I lire it will tear the whole side of ,I've comet) haunt yommiserable wretch. your boat out. Now, order your men to A) you hear. tome... doomed—doomed I" break in the door." With eh repteitOai of that last word There is a tone of triumph visible in Larry aims a vielette blow at the head of the dude's addrees. Though still in a bad the big Briton. The whirling boomeraeg, position, he at least holds the power in looking, for all the werld like a writhing his hand, and is fur from whipped. Ariake, rases soel,oe to his head that His ieforraation causes some consterna- les can hear the whistling sound it makes, tion among the sailors, and. no doubt which inersases his damn. there is a scattering on their part to get N'or does Larry etep with threats. Be out of range. Perhaps they know the saeans to test his novel weapon upon the qualities that distinguish this gun. At ?aristocratic skull ef the Briton, and any rate, the threatened attack fails to vursiate his tactics with this end in view. tnaterialize. After a couple more ineffectual blows Some other zaeans will be adopted to h. finay suceeeds in heingiog the boom- bring the mutineer to terms; but Larry exa.zig with a resounding whack against dues not sleep, and he is accomplishing callord's head. The Englishman at once at last one good thing in the passage of drops like a bulloek in the shambles, but time, tinratelietely scrim:lees to his feet and Every minute counts, since it gives ilashes ont of the mien. Doctor Jack a better chance to reach the Larry ies not fellow t Larry has his scene, and. thrit is the event Larry de - hands full as it is, without rushing on pends upon. He goes to the little. bull's - deck to assail the whole crew. eye window at the side of the state -room He is left meszer of the cabin, but this a number ()f tiraes :tnd looks out. Black - will not be for liam. That boomerang ness meets his gaze, though he can see cannot keep tlx stzilers who man the the lights of Talpantiso aver the watery yatat at by, wee., d though it looked in space that separates them. the eyes of the Enelish nobleman. Is Jack Evans coming? Larry realizes this, and is quick to Perhaps this man Juan, who offered to main; up his mind bow he should act. serve him in such a strange way, is 'What h. v.....cate., n.e.t of all, is a weapon, really deep in the service of the Briton. but h!, Meet me- heiere he does anything He may even have assumed a mask in else is te elm the door shut, and order to insnare Doctor Jack. shoe: att he tit0 its oaken. As time passes, Larry becomes more lies will ;ire elm a breathing spell and a ceeteet o, leok around. The walls are Lung with s, sEr4me., weapons the own -r of the yaeill ims pid up in his bui none of them strike Larry as Leing ;A.:417nel to his purpose. Be wants soreeth!t”; with whieh he is more famiiiar thi.n the yatagban of an Arab, or the war-elub of a South Sea Islander, though it inust be confessed he did a remarkably cluver job with the boomerang. He darts to the door of the second state -room, and flinger it open. As he sus- pected, this is the apartment belonging to milord himself, and here he is apt to .find what he seek. One of the first things he discovers is a revolver and. a box of cartridges lying on a shelf, and the eagerness with which Ile seizes upon them is proof of his earn- estness. Then he again seeks the cabin. It is time, too, for already loud blows can be heard upon the door, telling that the men have obeyed. milord's call for help, and are eager to burst the door open in order to accomplish their end. Larry deliberately fires several bullets through the panels of the door. It is not apparent what daxnage his lead does, but the pounding stops. This allows another breathing spell, which will not be for long. The British 'tailors are not to be put off, and they will soon return to the attack, breaking the door in. Perhaps some may enter by means of the window at the stern, which can be reaohed from without. Larry has a chance to leap into the water through this o-pening, but does not care to avail himself of it. Having come hither and endured these hardships with a purpose in view, he does not mean to seek his own safety in flight—at least, not yet. Again he tures to the state -room door and knocks. It is once more opened by .kvis, who greets him with a smile. Perhaps she has been a witness of the encounter in the cabin, and her reception Is that accorded a victor. At any rate, Larry feels six inchee taller than before. "What can we dor' she asks, hastily. Larry has set to work examining the thickness of the state -room door. "Quite a sturdy affair. We might hold out behind that unuil Jack conies," His idea is, of comae, for defense. If they can keep the enemy at bay for a cer- tain length of time, Doctor Jack may ar- rive on the scene; and once he shows up the chances for winning must be increased dotfold "Look here, what's Miler he cotes, banding over a small yaeht canon rit knife. It is sharp enough to pierce througk the garments of the daugling adventurer and produce a painful stab, Each movement on the part of the dude is accompanied by a yell from, the object of his tender solicitude, and the gyrations executed by the pair of legs were certainly never equaled Me EMT dancing ftoor, ,Finally, when the fellow is about to drop into the water of the harbor 50 save his life, his comrades above corapreheect the situation and draw him up sadly de- moralized. That game has proved a bad. failure, and something else must be devised, if they hope to accomplisla their end, Having disposed of dais matter, Larry can now pay attendee to other things, and be twee both eyes and ears in the endeavor to see what etaY he going on over the water, Was it a boat he had a glimpse of, or did his eyes deceive him? Even if a boat, could the ocenpauts be Kirke Smith and. Doctor Jack. So he waits, eagerly, anxiously, -este, to whom he has communicated his hopes, makes 4 suggestion that seems ise, and Tarry thereupon lights tbe lamp in the braoket on the well. Its rays, shieleg through the beillts-eye dew, will attract the eye of the man whose coming they so anxiously await; the man who seeks his own, and whose coming will ceoue co/astern:Ale/Ion board the thr.i. little British yacht when he board.; he. Those above are not yet done. They cudgel their brains to devise means whereby tlao determined accupeets of the stele -room shall be forced to sureendet Suddenly an Deject, 4Wing'S in through, the small open window matt drops on the door, immediately they perceive a horrible odor, which arises front 4 smouldering bunale of rags. It is something beenstay dietigreeable end calculated to zneke multi head swim inside of sixty seconds Or less, Of emerge the idete of those who bane eineceived tidebrljliant eoheme is that driven by the gas nod odor to eeek fresh air, the occupants ef the stateroom will immediately unfasten the door and stag- ger into the cebiu. Larry somehow is overoome at ono°. He gives a positive howl of anguish as the fearful odor strikes him, and curls up oix the floor like a wounded bear. Only for the bravery of Dootor Jack's wife they might be smothered then and, there. lier quiek Welliall'S conception realizes went is to be done. Without waning a second, she snatehes a towel, holds her breath, thrown the cloth aver the smoking Inhale of rags, =etches the whole thing off the floor, and tosses It through the bull's-eye window. "SavecIr gasps Larry, rising to a sit- ting position, for he has witnessed the whole performance, though too weak us take part irk it. Still gaspiug he reaches the opening, and sucks in some fresh air. It is hard to tell -what manlier of scheme their enemies will next ennead. Larry is be- ginning to realize that he is fighting tneu who do not give up in a hurry. "We can prevent that sort of business easily," he says, closing the bull's-eye, but the air is so full of gas that he is compelled to partially open it again or suffocate. "Never could stand the least gas, Cousin Avis. Makes my head spin like a top," be says, as if endeavoring to apolo- gize for the undignified and sudden num= in which he went to the floor when the terrible odor came in at the window; but Avis, brave Avis, who possesses much of the spirit that emmates her husband, and never despairs, flashes a bright smile toward. her cousin and answers cheerily. Then they fall to watching again. It is not long before Larry's attitude gives rise to the idea that he has heard some thing besides the lapping of the waves against the side of the little yacht. "Is that a mouse, Avis?" he demands. Listening, she hears nothing. "Jovel it must have heard me and stopped. Wonderful cweatures these rats on shipboard." "Rats. Do you think it can be that?" and the woman who can face the gravest danger in the world without flinching shudders and turns pale as the sounds Larry heard come distinctly to her ears. Then she suddenly smiles "Cousin Larry, rats do not work so methodically. Listen, and you can count the number of taps. It is as if some one hammered gently on the partitions. Per - and more uneasy. He wonders what the haps our friends, the eneintehave another enemy is at. They have certainly not plan on the tapis." given up the game, for as yet it lies "Jove! d'ye know what it makes me pretty muck in their hands. All they think of?" bursts' out Larry—"a tele - have to do is to find a way of grasping graph sounder at—" the ease. Their very silence convinces him that something is on the amis. There has been a light in the, state -room, but he exting- uishes it, for fear lest some one may fire a shot through the bull's-eye window, that may be fatal. Li the darkness they wait. Larry has explained all he knows to Avis, and she is as much hi hope of seeing Jack arrive on the scene as the dude can be, for her confidence in him is amazing. "When Jack conies it vvill be all right," she says more than once, and sloth sub- lime faith in a man is little short of wonderful. Larry keeps himself prepared, and should an attack be made upon the door, he will give the aggressors raudi more Shan they bargain for. or does he neg- lect the opening through which gleam Valparaiso light& dancing along the waves between. When he looks out for, perhaps, the tenth time, eagerly listening for some sound that would indicate the coining of Jack, he receives a thrill. Surely a mov- ing object obscured the light just On the shore for a momeot, and this could only be a boat. His pulses quicken and hope is revived. Straining his eyes, he awaits the develop- ment of events. While thus glancing over the dark water,b.e becomes conscious of a movement near by. It is not Aviathough she stands at his side watching for the coraing of the man she loves. Larry is quick to comprehend the significance of the sound,and realizes that it means new danger to himself and Avis. His enemies have been secretly at work and mean mischief. First he sees a pair of legs dangling between the sky and himself, and. evidently feeling for the support of the bull'seye. Larry takes this as an insult, an in- fringement on his rights, and according- ly he resents it. In Some way or other he has 'become possessed of a knife, It has been usedas a carver at the Englishman's table, and has a buck -horn handle witb a silver butt the blade being a foot long and coming to a oimeter point—quite a formi- dable weapon in. the hands of a desper- ate and determined ana-n. Reaching this out when the dangling limbs come within easy reach, Larry be- gins to prod them with the point of the He says p.o more, for Avis has given a sudden startled cry—a new expression flashes over her face—she bends her head to listen. Now the gentle taps, short and long, come froxn a point close to her ear, as though they are being delicately hammered on the vessel's side. Suddenly Doctor Jack's wife looks up, smiling :— "This is what it says, Cousin Larry: 'Avis, I am here. Jack.' " CHAPTER XVIII. thoughts. The endeavor seems success- ful, too. "Jovel I've an idea, Cousin' Avis," he exclahns. "Let us have it gnictily, then," she says, for Larry is just as apt to lose it gain before it can bo conamunioated. The little man shoots her a reprottobful glance, as though be hardly thiuks she Stents him fairly, "It's evident that we can't leave this yacht Until We've conquered those on board, and I purpose doing that seine thing," he says, soberly. She looks at him, amazed, "Alone, Larry?" (TO mt ooarmunn,) At receiving this information, Larry is quite delighted. He suddenly remembere that Dootor Jack chanced to be an oper- ator in his youthful days, and that hav- ing taught Avis how to send and receive fairly well when they were first married, they used to have considerable fun out of the affair. Now this knowledge gives promise of bearing practical fruits. Avis is all excitement. The fact that this series of gentle tapings, nob unlike the wash of the waves against the side of the vessel, constitute a message from her husband—that Jack is really within a yard. of where she stands—causes her untold satisfaction. Looking around she seesthe carver just where Larry dropped itwhenthe gas over- powered. him. She seizes hold of it, and upon the side of the state -room beats an- swering signals. The wind has arisen a,nd whistles through the cordage of the rigging, so that one on deek would not be apt to notice these sounds unless his ear chanced to be educated to the Morse alphabet. Larry listens with a positive grin upon his face. It is all Greek or Choctaw to him, but he kn.ows Avis is talking with her husband, and the fact of Doctor Jack's presence inspires the little man with lively emotions. • So he waits with patience the termina- tion of this strange conversation, waits midi Avis turns upon him eagerly, to say:— " They are here in a boat,their presence unsuspected. If we could, only peso through the °peeing in safety we might elude the vigilance of our foes, but' — with a shadder--"that is simply impos- sible—you might succeed,but I should die in the attempt The question is, what shall be done?" Larry smites his head with his fingers, as though he would thus grouse Ida A CENSUS OF THE WORLU. To rind the Grand, Total of Human Be- luga ea the Glebe. The greatest undertaking of its kind in the history of the world was receutly tet on foot at the meeting of the inter- national statistical institute in Berne It is proposed to take a census of all the inhabitants of the earth and to publish the results at the opening of the twen- tieth century on Jas. 1. 4001, Tin euormous difficulty of the work beecnnea apparent when; one considers that at least two-thirds and perhaps three-quar- ters of the inhabitants of our planet dwell in lands none of which have yet been fully civilized and many of which still remain in a condition of savagery, 'Yet the purpose la aa far as possible to Mamie in the enumeration every bu- tt= being on wham the sun rises on a partioular day in the year 1900. Ex- plorers and census takers are to be sent to every attainable point on tbe globe for the purpose, Snob it the scheme, 15 looks impraetioable. An attempt /mare- cently been made to take a complete ceusus of Russia, and this will aid the new undertakbag immensely. During bit tour in Europe Li Bung Cbang be- came interested in the proposed census ef the world and, 15 12 asserted, prom- ised his co-operation and assistance in the work, China forms the greatest faotor af uucertainty in estirneting the popula- tion of the globe. Estimates of the number of inhabitants in China vary, sometimes by 100,000,000 or 200,000,- 000, and even the population of the chief cities can only be guessed at. So, too, Africa presents an enormous field of mysteries and difficulties. Estimates of its total population are constantly varying, beaus° explorers frequently come upon knots and centers of popula- tion the real extent of which is un- known. The most careful statisticians admit that their estimates of the papa- lation of Africa may be as much as 50,- 000,000 ant of it. West of Iudia are the vast lands that Alexander overran in his conquest—Afghanistan, Persia aud Turkey in Asia, How many scores of millions or even hundreds of millions may they not contain? Many of the up- lands of Persia are practically unkuown to the civilized world, but they can support a great population. No one knows how many people Arabia con- tains. Even the islands of the sea and the polar regions have many human in- habitants. Nobody knows bow many Eski- mos there are dwelling in the lands of eternal ice that encircle the north pole. Many of the islands of the vast Pacific swarm with inbabitants living on the open bounty of nature, whose free and careless life has captivated the imagination of highly cultivated men like Robert Louis Stevenson,. and when the census is completed, if it proves practicable, what will it probably show the total population of the globe to be? For many years past the common esti- mate of the number of the world's in- habitants has been 1,500, 000, 000—i. e., about 30 inhabitants to every square mile of land on the globe. If all of these inhabitants could be arranged in a row, standing shoulder touching shoulder, there are enough of them to completely encircle the earth at the equator, where it is about 25,000 miles around, no less than 22% times. Twenty-two complete circles of human beings, shoulder to shoulder, and three-quarters of another such circle, standing round the globe where its girth is greatest—that is the epeotaole that would be presented.— New York Ledger. 'nays's Rebellious Lock. Ysaye should use side combs. That one refractory look which had a way of breaking loose from the mass and dan- gling before the virtuoso's eyes when he Was on his first visit to this country is at its old tricks again, and however pleasant it may be for him it well nigh frenzies his auditors His most magical effects of musio rauet count for little with that pendant look to distract the mind and eye. The look doesn't seem to be any too acceptable to the violinist. Ever so many times during the playing of each selection he makes vain grabs at it and futile passes, but with 'willful caprice it always evades him. Come to think of it, the violin playing of Ysaye is really not half so rensarkable as his ability to play the instrument and to keep his hair out of his eyes at the same thne. Still, the side combs are to be reoomraended. They would lessen the marvelousness of the performance, but they would make it easier for the audi- ence. No excuse would be needed for them. Musicians have already appro- priated length of hair, and it is but 'warrantable that they should likewise appropriate all that goes with it —New York Sun. HORSE DISCIPLINE. Some of Professor Oscar B.Gleason's pie and Bacutive omelet. It is often a serious question how to throw is powerful horse when fox any reason it is necessery to do so. Here is Professor Oscar H. Gleason's way as de- scribed in his book; Place a strap Oh the horse's off fore leg, Tie a rope into the ring in this strap and bring the rope up over the THROWN HORSE. horse's back, Draw this foot up to his body. Taee this rope in your right haucl and in your left hand take the borse's halter. Pull the barse's head toward you and press against the body, saying, 'Lie down," Unless be is averystroug and powerful brute a num weighing 190 pounds 044 throw a horse in from five to ten minutes, When the horse bats lain down, take the rope that bas now come over the bookend that you hold in your band and pass through the ring in the halter, fastening to the shoulder. For subduing a horse let another MAP, you hoicliug the head, jingle sleigh - bells, shalt° a buffalo robe, beat tin palls and make all the rattle he can, In this mower, although the horse may he nervous at first, he will soon be con- vinced that nothing is going to hurt biro. .As soon us he discovers this and that be caunot get up he will give up forever. 'When yon let him up, repeat the noise again. These lessons should be repeatcd ou a very nervous horse about three times in order to obtain good results. If perchance the horse is so powerful that you cannot throw hiw, try the above) in connection with any double safety rope. Place on knee pads, eta. For breaking a horse of jumping fences Professor Gleasou says; Place a surcingle around his body with a ring directly under him. Put a strap around both fore legs above knee His Bicycle. "That German baker had the most ingenious turnout in the fancy dream biaycle parade." "What was it?" "Hie Wheels were exact imitations of two pies." "21aadoesn't seem so remarkably funnYO.," "Nbut the way he describes it got him the th H e P71i,sShat?" "He prize." ''smein picycle.' Cycliog Gazette, TO CUM A JUMPER. close up to shoulder. Take short rope or strap, fasten one end in strap on off fore leg and draw moderately tight. When this is on, the horse can move one leg at a time, so as to walk, lie down or get up, but cannot put forward both legs at mace so as to run or jump. Profit In Sheep In the West. There are many who are constantly askiug whether there is money in run- ning sheep on a western farm independ- ent of the open range. I wintered 64 sheep, 62 of which were ewes. Forty of the ewes had been bred, while the other 22 eweswere lambs. I shipped my wool clip on April 1 to St. Louis, and it net- ted me a little over $75 for the 64 fleeces. The wool sold for 17 cents, which was at that time the top price. My sheep were ram on common prairie pasture, with the COWS and horses, and only five barbed wires for fence. . We had an unusually bad drought and were 12 inches short of the normal rainfall, and the lambs did not have a good chance, yet they brought $4.75 per hundredweight in Kansas City on, Aug. 26, when the top was only $4.80. Here is my sale bill: Forty-three lambs, 8,070 lb., at $4.75 $145 89 Twenty-three ewes, 2,850 lb., at $3.40 79 91 One wether, 100 lb., at 58.85 8 85 One ewe, dib., at 52.10 180 Freight Yardage Conunission Total expense Net profit Now, it will be seen that the 68 sheep were only the culls and simply represent; She increase for 1897, fed on grass alone. I have left 50 ewes and lambs, 6 ram lambs and 1 late ewe lamb. The wool and sheep.shipped netted me $278, and the five ram lambs are good for $50 more, ora total net profit of $328 for the year, and those of my flock that are left are greatly superior to those sold. My sheep weighed 6,080 pounds at the fano and shrunk seven pounds each, or 470 pounds in all. I paid freight on a 83 foot car and on 17,000 pounds and could have sent over 11,000 pounds more in the oar for the same money. It will be seen that the cost of marketing, 68 sheep was $28.10, or 41 1-3 cents a head. With the exception of, the yard age charge of 6 cents a head I could have marketed 11,000 pounds raore of sheep for the same money. Heretofore have butchered and delivered my mut San at home, but it costs more than 41 cents to kill and deliver a mutton. Th prospects are good that the next yea will be still a better year for sheep.— Denver Field and Farm. $280 86 518 70 840 00 28 10 5202 so I PASTZUril N G. firplied With Much Success to CreamIn. tended Nor Making Butter. Xf. H. W. Potts is conneoted with set of creameries in Victoria, Australia, They have made the experiment of pas- teurizing all ere= at the collecting sta. tions. Thence it is sent hot to the creameries, cooled quickly axed made let° butter. Mr. Potts Made that a very superior article of butter is made from this pasteurized cream. It is necessary. of coarse, to WO A starter to SOUr 15. We would like to have some of our Ameri- can butter factories try Mr. 'Potts' plan, whicia he details as follows in The Creamery Journal. The season bespeaks of is the Austrelian summer, intensely Lot; It has always' been present in my rand. Mum the inception of pasteuriz- ing, that to effeot much practical good we should be able to pasteuxiee the cream ate= creameries. In this comm. tion I ought to explain that our so called creameries are collecting stations, where patrons' or suppliers' milk is received and separated and the cream sent on te the ceutral factory to be manufactarea into butter. At our most distant creamery we had pasteurized two ten gallon tins of cream. The temperature was raised to 160 de- grees V, in that hot condition it Was placed in the cremnery wagon with two ten gallon cans or tins of cream separat- ed in the ordinary way without heat- ing, but cooled to 65 degrees F. These were conveyed over it rough, dusty road ten miles, and on arrival at our central factory the pasteurized maul was found to be et it temperature Of 105 degrees F., and the ordinary cream had risen to 85 degrees P, eample of each was euitahly taken and submitted to the acidity test in our laboratury. The pasteurized cream was in excellent condition, smooth, even and registered .47 per cent of acidity, whereas the ordinary create showed .84 per cot of ecidity, and the condi- tion Otherwise was not good, being clab- by or lumpy, uneven and ill smelling. The cream was passed over coolers end the temperature lowered to 55 degrees F. There eould be no question as to which would make the best butter. Since theo we have continued the ex- periment at the whole of our creamer- ies (six in all), and the butter has fully realized oar best expeotations, so raueh so that the *hole of our factories' out- put at the time of 'writing is being made *ens pasteurized cream. All oar provieusiy experienced diffieultiee have now been practically surmounted at the lowest cost. Under the accepted conditions of pas- teurization it was deemed imperative to cool down cream or milk immediate- ly after leaving the beater or pasteuri- zer to 50 degrees 10., and to do so meant almost insuperable difficulties at each creamery to get such it low temperature in summer with a refrigeration plant. That, however, in consequence of cost, could not be considered. A large ex- pense will thus be saved by this demon- tration in providing cooling appliances at the collecting stations. We know now that it is only requi- site to convey the cream hot to the fac- tory, where adequate xefrigeration pow- er is installed. This is a reversal of the generally accepted theory. Refrigeration plants are an important iteiaa of expenditure in our factory sys- tem here. Too much buckwheat fed to !loge makes the pork soft and less desirabl Lor market. This Cream Traveled. A can of pasteerized cream was re- cently shipped by express front Apple- ton, Wis., to Liverpool and thence re- turned to Appleton. Ie left Appleton Jan. 29, NOV York Feb. 2, and, return- ing, reached New York Feb. 22 and Appleton Feb. 28. Messrs. Potts, Wood & Co. inade the shipment simply for testing the efficacy of their system of pasteurizing, and were gratified, bob not at all disappointed, to find the cream, to all appearance, as sweet and perfect upon its return as when it started on its long voyage, thus verifying the prediction made by Mr. 0. L. Fitch before the dairymen's convention at Manitowoc, based upon experiments conducted by him last sumreer, that it was entirely practicable for Wisconsin to furnish, London with sweet cream. Dairy and Creamery. A heifer with her first calf should give three-fifths the amount of milk she is to produoe when full grown. A steam engine seems the best kind to use in the dairy, even the home dairy. There is no smell about steam. Then, too, the steam is extremely use- ful and saves time and labor in cleaning dairy utensils. You can beat water with it very quiokly, also warm a roorn. A heifer that does not give as much as 3,000 pounds of milk in a year with her first calf will not be much good as a cow. Write to the agricultural department at Washington for some of its bulletins giving feeding tables for milk cows. The department bas published bulletins giving food values and rations for all kinds of live stook. Profeeset Roberts of Cornell univer- sity says tbat ensilage should be accept- ed as the best form in whiola to use corn. He considers siloing corn superior to any other method of preserving it for feeding purposes. Nearly every make of cream separator will do good work if managed right, though some of them are superior to others. Be sure to bave an store or two a root crops ready for the cows in the dry feed season. These will furnish an agreeable variety even with, ensilage We wish to emphasize the suggestion Shat creameries everywhere will And good profit in manufacturing ice create, especially in the summer months. Thee" have . the machinery, the eteam, the power and the space. They have, in fact, everything necessary. Those near a large towo might build up an im- 43 menu: Mee cream trade. This delicious dish becomes more and more popular.