Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1907 — Cows Cross the Sea. [ARTICLE]

Cows Cross the Sea.

The arrival in Tokyo of fifty valuable American cows, with the expectation of a flo£k of sheep, may go far toward minimizing the friction ..between the American and Japanese governments. Experiments in provisions tried during the Russo-Japanese war have convinced the Tokyo authorities that the Japanese army and navy badly need a meat diet. Meat diet is particularly the enemy of the beriberi, by which pest so many thousands of Japanese recruits have been incapacitated. It is singular that. so far. uo large scheme of cold storage has been adopted in Japan, and this would appear to be n profitable opening for American and Australian cnpital. Mutton is hardly known throughout the whole of Japan. There are no native sheep, the pasturage being altogether unfit for them. r Any are purchased mainly for the foreigu residents, are brought from China and killed In Japan. Not one Japanese in a hundred thousand has probably ever tasted mutton, and amoug the foreign population this meat is so prized that to send n shoulder of mutton to a friend is considered quite a delicate attention.— Tokyo Cable to the New Y’ork Times.

From coal refuse are obtained 400 colors, many perfumes, several explosives, a great number of wffds and medicines of incalculable value, saccharin, asphalt, numerous insecticides; salts, fruit flavors, lubricating oils and varnish. 2—r- 25,