People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — OUR CREAMERY. [ARTICLE]

OUR CREAMERY.

Something for Those Who are Infejfested hi Dairy Products. • The patrons will not miss it far if they adopt a liberal policy in regard to feeding their cotvs. The prospects are fair for a good price for butter, consequently good returns for your milk. You will have to feed whether you nrtlk or not, and the extra cost in producing more milk will be ihore than met by the advance in price for the iriilk product. Another matter the management wishes to call your attention to is the quality of milk. We have had more trouble this summer to make good, butter t han is usual. This we think is attributable to SV'Cd the cows get in the pastures and the excessive warm weather. There is no way to avoid this entirely* but we can in a measure do so. Cows should not be allowed to eat mag or drink bad water. These two elements will ruin the butter for a f&riey market. The weeds in the pastures should be mowed down before thew Blddiii, as that is when. tltey are at the worst stage to taint the milk, careful handling after milking is necessary in order to get the best results. We am glad to note that there has been a great improvement in this matter. But there is room for mode. The principle that the Creamery is operated oh iS co-operative, which means that those operating it and those supplying the milk have a mutual interest. Whatever tends to better the condition of one must necessarily better the condition of the outer. We will have to work together if we would make a success of the dairy interests. We believe that there has never been anything attempted in our county of a public nature that is so beneficial to the community as this enterprise. It ought not to be allowed to go down or even lag. We have not Written this in a complaining way, for v T e know what the patrons had to contend with this summer'and fall on account of tile drought, but have Written it for this reason: There has been some talk of the creamery stepping. This will not be done unless absolutely* lteeessary. We have the names of parties on our books who have bought butter of us ever sincp the creamery started and are depehding on us to supply them at the highest pfices going. If we should have to drop thes6 it would injure the patrons as well as the management. Wo think the best thing to do in order not to lose what we have gained is to make a supreme effort to keep the supply of milk up sufficiently to meet the demands. The drouth and hard times will pass away before long and if we do not let all go now we will come out all right tvhen better times come. The second edition of the Cosmopolitan for September brought the total edition up to 211,000 copies, without doubt the largest edition of any magazine in the world for this month. It remained for the Cosmopolitan to have the World’s Fair treated in a single number by twelve different writers. As the exposition of 1893 must remain one of the leading events in the history of the United States, the most distinguished men were asked to prepare this magazine volume, which is destined to become valuable as one of the most perfect descriptions of the World’s Fair. Among the number of those who contribute are our only ex-president, Walter Besant, the most distinguished of the English literary men who visited the exposition, and a host of others. Besides the usual fiction, including a story byMark Twain, entitled, “Is He Living, or Is He Dead,” and the regular departments. The Cosmopolitan contains nearly one hundred illustrations devoted to the World’s Fair, including eleven full pages. It is pronounced one of the most remarkable of the publications yet issued regarding the Fair. It is a completely illustrated guide or souvenir, as one prefers to call it, by the most famous writers of the day, put before the reader at the price of 124 cents, and more than the equal of the books of the Fair which sell for seven-ty-five cents and one dollar. Don’t fail to read the advertisements of our home merchants that appear in this issue, and then to even up the thing call and see them *and you will be benefited. Home first, the world afterward. Preaching at the Christian church next Sunday at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., by the new pastor, J. L. Bradv.

A new swindle upon honest and unsuspecting farmers has been brought to iigtifc, and this is tile way the scheme is operated: Swindler No. 1 calls upon a farther with a patent wagon tongue and informs him that, having made a big thing of it, he is est his way home, with only this county to sell. He tells the farmer he can have it for $250, and. if he wants it to write to him. In a few days patent right than No. 2 comes along. He has heard the farmer has the right of the county for the patent wagon tongue, and as he has made a big thing of it in Pennsylvania, he wants to buy the right ©f the county and offers the farmer £4OO, and pays $lO to bind the bargain. The farmer writes to No. 1 and sends him his note for $250. He never hears.of either of the men again, but his note comes up for tion in a neighboring town, and Mr Farmer is out £250.-—Bluff-ton Banner. An editor died and slowly wended his way to hell. The devil saw him and said; For many years thou hast borfie the •blame for the many errors the printer made in the paper. Thy has failed, alas! for subscriptions • never paid. Thy printers have deviled thee on Saturday evening for wages when thou hadst not a cent to thy name. Men have taken thy paper without paying a cent; yea, verily and accursed thee for not issuing a better paper. All these things thou hast borne in silence. Thou canst not come in. There would be a continual dunning of delinquent subscribers (for hell is full of them) and discord will be created in our kingdom. Be gone! Heaven is thy home. A machine which snaps the corn from the stock and then rapidly and effectively husks t it has been devised by Augustus Smith, of Scotland, Dakota. A gatherer and separator mechanism is supported at the front end of a main • frame carried on wheels, there being husking devices at the rear end of the frame, and the two being connected by an elevator which carries the separated corn ears to the husker. The husking mechanism comprises an open bottom trough-like chamber with side walls formed of corrugated rollers arranged longitudinally and in a plane parallel to the feed. The husked ears are discharged into a box under the side of the husker, Laßue Bros, have a bran splinter new delivery wagon and it speaks well for this enterprising firm. Val Seib was here Sunday with his family.