Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1913 — MUSIC MAKES COW GIVE MILK [ARTICLE]

MUSIC MAKES COW GIVE MILK

American Farmer Will Impart Discovery to His European Brethren— Other Oddities Made Public. It seems there are plenty of ways of making money in this big world if we only caught one of them at the right time and the right place. For instance, a Nebraska farmer has just departed for Europe with the idea in mind of teaching the dairymen

of Europe that you can get more milk from your cow if you will only play soft, dreamy, sentimental music near her during milking time. American experts appear to be convinced of the worth of his discovery and he is planning to make all sorts of money by convincing Europeans. > Again, in Kansas there is a man who has the honor of being the only “freckle farmer.” His occupation consists in transplanting bits of skin from one part of the body to the other, and grafting fancy designs and images in the process. They are claimed to be more permanent than tattooing. The extraction of grease in queer ways has proven a lucrative means of support for several companies in English towns. In 1912 the town of Bradford, England, cleared between $200,000 and $250,000 from the selling of grease recovered from the city’s sewage. In horse tails there appears to be considerable profit, too, Judging from the shiploads of them that come in from China. Their price varies from 50 cents to $2 a pound, and the hairß, which are carefully arranged according to the length and color, are used in the making of brushes and haircloths.