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Show BEAVER PRESS urrier and Jves, ;h jM I Tt, t$XSt '" l. Jfa&LwZ i - . . A r? . ., If H?K ""T Artists l S ' X Touts Lastof Currier and lyes i- -- m..-"- ". J V V J- ' 1 ' ' vs.! Necessary Utensils. The milk house Is one farm structure which should not be big. according to n R. Ross of the dairy department of the New York State College of Agriculture, who says that It should be Just large enough to contain a milk tank suitable for cooling and holdstoring the milk, and a rack for addiing utensils, with only enough tional space to permit the attendant to work conveniently. If the milk house is larger than Is necessary for the proper handling of the milk, he says, there Is always the temptation to use It for storage purposes, and for other purposes than for which It is built. He says that this folstorage practice should never he that the lowed because of possibility the milk may become contaminated. He adds that storage practices are also likely to be forbidden by most boards of health. Other recommendations which Professor Ross makes are that the milk house should be near the stable and It should be connected to the stable by an enclosed passage, provided with A plenswinging doors at each end. tiful supply of clear, cold water should be available; and the milk house should be convenient to the Ice house, though not inside the ice house. It should be distant from any point of contamination and should, of course, be so built that wagons or trucks can be driven directly to it All of these points are thoroughly described and Illustrated tn a new bulletin by Professor Ross, published by the New York State College of Agriculture. This bulletin is available to those who want it and will be sent free on a request to the office of publication at the college of agriculture, Ithaca, New York. Ask for E 200. . J - i'' ' js'" themselves but enriched our national tradition y" iil ii fruits of Temperance" The Fruits of Intemperance' By ELMO SCOTT WATSON OME day when you're rummaging around in the attic of the old homestead and you come across a curious old colored picture In a quaint frame, don't pass It up without further notice as Just another outdated Item In the collection of "Junk" which accumulates In attics. Better take another look at It and see If there f" V "Printed by Currier and Ives. 125 Nassau Street, New York." If so, there's a chance that It's worth several hundred times the price your grand" father paid for It that day a came around and sold It to him. He may have charged your relative two or three dollars for It, thereby making a handsome profit, for the picture Itself cost hira only six cents and your grandfather didn't realize that he was paying a high price a much price for a simple wooden " frame. Nor could either the or your grandfather realize that years later that six-cepicture might be worth anywhere from $300 to $700, or if It happened to be some particular one, even up Into the thousands. Tet such Is the case, for Currier and Ives prints have become "Americana," eagerly sought for by collectors and worth unheard-o- f prices-- Hot because they are examples of great art, but because some of them are very rare. At an auction of Currier and Ives prints held In New York city In 1028 a number of them averaged better than $500 and one brought $3,000! More than that, a book about them, printed as late as 1929 and containing reproductions of 32 of the most famous prints, sold for $40 a copy. True, It was a limited edition but that same book today Js selling for more than four times Its original cost. And there's another Item which reflects the fact that If you happen to own a genuine Currier and Ives print, you have a valuable possession: taking advantage of desire of collectors for these examples of art, French lithographers within the last year bave been reproducing them, even going to the trouble to make them look old and faded and and offering them for sale as "genuine Currier and Ives prints." However, It Is not difficult for the expert to detect these frauds. There Is considerable difference between the appearance of a print made by modern color printing processes and that of a print In which the color was applied by the Currier and Ives process of the hand brush. So before yon become excited over the discovery of a Currier and Ives print make sure that It's an "original" and not a reproduction. And even then don't have dreams of sudden wealth. For there are only a few of these prints which are worth a great deal of money and some of thera are worth only a few s. In fact, there's no set price for a Currier and Ives print It's worth what you can get for It and that depends upon how badly some collector wants It. Why all this sudden boom In the prices of a form of art which was popular with one generation of Americans and scorned by the next as and "old fashioned"? The answer Is, of course, that as soon as collectors began seeking these "Clnderellas of Americana," "pack-peddler- too-hig- h "pack-peddler- dol-lar- " : as a recent writer has aptly named them, and discovered that they were becoming Increasingly rare, the ancient law of supply and demand began to operate. So prices for Currier and Ives prints, as for any other commodity which some one has to sell and which some one else Is willing to buy, began to go up. Exactly the same thing happened when it was discovered that the old yellow-bacdime novels were "Americana." It is axiomatic among collectors that "what is cheap today may be dear tomorrow" and one commentator on the astonishing increase in the value of Currier and Ives prints seriously suggests that, "It might pay some provident reader to begin collecting comic strips, for posterity may want them who knows?" Which leads to the real reason for the value of Currier and Ives prints, the value which set collectors hot on their trail. For, beginning a hundred years ago, and continuing for more than half a century, they mirrored contemporary American life. They were the "news reels" of a day when newspapers contained little or no pictorial material except for occasional fashion prints. They supplied a definite need for pictured news before Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly and Harper's Weekly appeared 6n the scene with their woodcuts to do that. "They pictured news of Immediate and pungent Interest," writes one commentator on this subject "It was not so much the actual discovery of gold In California In 1S19 that started the gold rush across the plains as It was the Currier and Ives imaginary picture of the event that Inspired the tremendous and arduous migration to the raciflc. The clipper ship prints suggested a less perilous route. Then came the railway pictures, the prints of the first trans-- ; continental trains running amidst Indians and buffalo." These prints were on a great variety of sub-- : Jects. In addition to news pictures there were various historical scenes, marine subjects, pictures of horse racing and other sports, portraits f famous men, political cartooas, and subjects of a sentimental and highly moral nature. The temperance crusade which began In the '40s is reflected In a number of Currier and Ives prints, of which the two, "The Fruits of Temperance" and "The Fruits of Intemperance," shown above, are typical And the Currier and Ives prints were also the first "comic strips," for they had one series of caricatures of life among the negroes, called "Darktown Comics," which were very popular. AH of these pictures bave a historical value to later generations of Americans which is difficult to estimate. Made long before the day of the camera they preserved for us details of costume and otner seemingly unimportant facts which are of the highest value in that they reveal things about our forefathers which the formal historians overlook and even the most skillful word painter could not make understandable to ns how people of those times looked and acted as vividly as can a Currier and Ives print So Currier and Ives, "pictorial historians," selling their prints for prices ranging from six cents to $'!, (depending upon their size) supplying peddlers who hawked their wares along the streets and through the countryside, conducting one of the earliest "mail order" trades and building op a business which flourished for more than half a century, sot only enrl-he- Pendleton, who had returned from Europe with the new art of lithography, began to think of embarking in his own business. So he went to New York and began his career as a lithographer in partnership with a man named Stoddard. This lasted only a year, but in 1835 Currier began again. In 1850 James A. Ives Joined his fortunes to Currier's and the famous firm was on Its way to success. Two years later a young German who had been drawing political cartoons In Germany came to this country and set himself up as a lithographer. Louis Maurer was his name and in time he became one of the Currier and Ives "aces." And it Is in this man that there Is provided an additional link between the Currier and Ives era and the present For Louis Maurer is still living in New York and recently celebrated his ninety-nintbirthday! Maurer can tell interesting stories of how he went to work for the lithographers for $10 a week, how his salary was raised to $13 a week when he made a big hit with his drawing of the race beteen two famous horses of the day, Flora Temple and Highland Maid, and how when he left them in 1800 he was getting all of $15 a week. This, for the services of a man whose pictures are now selling for hundreds of dollars! Incidentally, Louis Maurer doesn't own one of his own prints. For thirty years Currier and Ives were "print-maketo the American people" and then In 1SS0 Currier retired with a comfortable fortune. The firm, hpwever, continued with a son of the founder In his place. In 1888 machine color printing, which, had been started in this try in 1S50, was applied to the Currier and Ives product and even greater numbers of their pictures flooded the country. But by 1001 cheaper methods of color printing forced them out of business and it took another thirty years to bring them back Into the limelight again only this time It was the limelight which plays upon the historic past So 1931 finds Americans ransacking old garrets and places for examples of the art of Louis Maurer and others who made the name of Currier and Ives famous. For It Is their work which Is commanding the high prices today and those who have these prints should look for the name of the artist who drew the picture before getting excited over the possibility of Its having great value. The Currier and Ives "aces" were Maurer, who did western scenes and the firemen series; Thomas Worth, who did horse prints and the Darktown Comics; A. F. Talt who did western scenes, camping, outdoor prints and field sports; Fanny Palmer, who did American scenes and farm scenes; and Sarony, Butterworth and Charles Farsons who did ships and marine scenes. In general the transportation prints railroads, emigrant trains, etc. the ship pictures and the hunting scenes are most valued by collectors. A print of "The American Express," shown above, recently sold for $850, but Talt's "The Life of a Hunter," so far has the record. A print of this picture topped the New York sale with a price of $3,000. But lest anyone who happens to have one of these "Life of a Hunter" pictures believe that he has as unsuspected gold mine in his possession, let it be added that there were two Currier, and Ives prints issued under this title. One had the subtitle "A Tight Fix" and it was one of these which brought the $3,000. The other, which has the sub-titlof "Catching a Tartar" Is worth only $20 or so. But as previously stated, a Currier and Ives print Is worth what you can get for It, and if you have one and don't need the money which it will bring whether $10 or $50 or $200 or $700 immediately, better hold on to it! For one thing you have a relic of an Interesting period in American hlstorv no a another you have something which win increase ! ui vmue as me years go on. h k rs . e t. ( br Wttra 1 - . swap! t H Should Contain Nothing but as well. It was in 1830 that young Nathaniel Currier, working as an apprentice in Boston to John "The if : MaurJi' TfP , fvlt'-- kffy'j Defense 77re Fight Tire'l ffnMT SUITABLE HOUSE FOR DAIRY FARM s, ZZX) The Trapper ctorta , 'The American Express',' 1855 - . 77ic Ntwipa Colon.) Weed Out Boarder Cows in Building Up a Herd By weeding out his boarder cows, raising heifer calves from his best cows only, and feeding feeds In proper amounts, it Is possible for a good dairy farmer to practically double his dairy herd income In four years without increasing the number of his cows. Just how this can be done on the average dairy farm Is well shown in the record of a herd of cows In one of Minnesota's dairy herd improvement associations. By following these practices, the average production of this herd Increased from 192 pounds of a year per cow to 317 pounds four years later. The Income over feed cost per cow during that time Jumped from $58 to $102. As this farmer had 16 cows in his herd he increased his Income over $700 from the sane cows In four years' time. The first step Itf building up a profitable dairy herd is the use of daily records of milk produced and feed eaten by each cow. These records are simple and require only a few minutes time to make. The dally milk record of each cow makes It possible to feed her according to her milk production, which usually means at the rate of g about one pound of grain to every three pounds of milk produced and all the alfalfa hay and corn silage she will clean up. The milk and feed records will also show which cows are profitable and which are not. milk-makin- g How fo train BABY'S WILS bottle-fe- d or breast-fe- d Babies, with any tendency to be constipated would thrive if they received daily half a teaspoonful of this old family doctor's prescription for the bowels. That is one sure way to train tiny bow;els to healthy regularity. To avoid the fretfulness, vomiting crying, failure to gain, and other ills of constipated babies. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is good for any baby. For Ms, you have the word of a famous Hnrlnr ev... seven years of practice taught him wnai DaDies neea to keep their itust ittle hnwels nc.tivp. rponlor. 1, iittln bodies nlumn nnrl hoalfh'ir cv. Dr. Caldwell specialized in the trpat-me- nt of women and little ones. He attended over 3500 births without loss of one mother or baby. Dr. W. B. Caldwell's SYRUP PEPSIN A Doctor's Family laxative Anthropological Study The organization known as the Laboratory of Anthropology is to be established In Santa Fe, N. M. Ultimately it Is expected to be the most Important center in the country for the of the study of archeologlcal remains of the Southwest. It will be under the direction of Mr. Jesse L. Nusbaum, one of the country's leading archeologists. Among the directors are Dr. Clark Wissler, Dr. Frederick W. Hodge, Dr. Alfred V, Kidder, Prof. Franz Boas, Prof. Byron Cummings and Dr. Edgar L. Hewitt. The site has been selected and Mr. John Gaw Meem of Santa Fe is the architect. The project has the backing of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. - To keep clean and healthy take Dr. I"Ierce Pleasant Pellet. They regulate liver, bowels and stomach. Adv. Avoid Contrasts What color is best for a bride? Matter of taste. Better get a Q A white one. The less work a man does, the more he tires other people. but-terf- milk-makin- xcooooooooooooooooooooooo Dairy Notes X50000CXWOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOO From a "Better Bull," raise better cows than you can buy. Even In zero weather milk should he artificially cooled. Cooling with circulating water is 21 times faster than cooling with air at the same temperature. It is advisable to have a good variety of feeds In the grain mixture. Such a mixture gives a better quality of protein and provides a feed that Is relished by the cows. 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