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Show faiIm and garden. MATTEP.3 OF INTEHE9T TO AomcuLTuntsTS. (, rp-lo-Ilal lllnla Abnnt "ol-tUlon "ol-tUlon of Hi foil .! tlrhlt ll,rc,l llrlUnllui. XllUollor. uJ Florlcultaris o-,,. H.lln( ot I rail. At a convention of potato Rrowera held In (lrand Hapld. VU. A C. Dennett read a paper In which, among other thltiK, he (aid An aMoclatlon a formed In New Jcrtcy to iell their on rranberrlea, ronelttlng of aeventeen firm In New Jrriey and one from Cape Cod. They employed a aleaman at a ulary ot five thousand dollar fur tho aeaaon of about six monthi. lie both told and collected and won to keep back five per cent, out of v tilth to take hit pay. At tho end of the con he turned back to the aMoclatlon three and one-halt per rent, leaving for coal of ifltlng one and one-halt per cent, while tho ordinary rommlHton man charge ten per rent, thu aavlng to the aMoclatlon over thirty-three thou-aad thou-aad dollan In one teaton. Tho prlco of tho berrlM waa fixed every two week by a board ot director, llach irower received the price hie berrlef brought, lets tho one and one-half per cent expenie ot telling. Ikicli member could tell bit on berrle If h wlthed, but muit turn Into the association asso-ciation five per rent of tilth sale. In tut the association could not furnish berrlea fast enough to supply the demand de-mand tho agent could tell for outside parties, but on such tale should turn Into the association set en per cent. The next year tho association voluntarily volun-tarily raised his salary to (even thousand thou-sand dollars a year and expenses and citric hire. Then he turned back two and one-half per cent out ot the flv per cent, making cost ot selling two A 81KK0LK HAM TYl'ICAI. OP rilK llltEEU, and one-halt per rent and yet leaving the agent set en thousand dollar net cash for six mouihi' tcrvlce. Two more years hate been added lo the experience of this association and they aro now handling over one hundred thousand bushels of cranberries a year and rrfuso lo admit any more numbers. About two year later an association associa-tion wsa formed on Cape Cod on a similar plan. They employed a Chicago Chi-cago man a ssleaman, and they shipped ship-ped him car load after car load on which Ihey set o high a price he could no' tell them and later In the season when tho prlie had declined and many of the berrle became tofl they were obliged to take them back and ell them as best they could, The result was a big lots and I bite never heard from tho association since These Illustration' show clearly that success depends on the men who run the machine. In the case uf the New Jtney association the selling agent had tht confidence of the auoclatlon. ht being an eastern man and a prominent promi-nent cranberry grower, and the loord of dlrectora took hi advice In fixing prices, which enabled him Hi meet competition, while the Cape Cod grow. era thought they could set their un price and the peoplo would hate to pay It. Tbcy would uot trust any Chicago Chi-cago man, not even one ot their own selecting. In the cane of the drape Growers' Association of Ilraekton, New York, a very succeetful Institution the grape are all Inspected by an uHli-er of the association before being khlp-ped khlp-ped and the superior quality and reliability re-liability ot their grape make n easy to secure an extra price for thtm much more than enough to pay ill the expenses of the association, The price Is made uniform arvl ' , Aal'y ,i '.v; ,iorjUlir. siailuu TXere It a great and uselstt lo to producer In thlpplng produce to Chicago, Chi-cago, Milwaukee, Kt Paul and Minn spoils greatly In excess of their Immediate Im-mediate demands and paying fre flu there, and then paying these rlt:e a big commission to distribute thl p.-od-uca to other cities at our esprn From tbla city of (lrand llaplda, ir the entire northwest and at least ac far south as Kansas City, we bar tht lame freight ratra as Chicago I'nder the Interstate commerce law w can become a distributing point Jui at well as Chicago, and tale all lliii extra ex-tra freight and their eoinmlaaiou It used to be different, we were (net compelled to use these eltlea foi dl trlbutlng polnti, and It seems tint tin force ot habit or lack of knowu-,1.., , V thee facta I costing us many thousand thou-sand doilsrs rverr year Miliar from tlllk. A preai report from llelvldere, W aayi- Considerable Interest I manifested mani-fested In thli county In the attempt of v. W Patrick to manufatture tui" from milk The Kux and Hock river valleys already have a number of restful Industrie In which the milk product of the farmer' dairy district I prepared for a wider field The denalng plants at Carpenleravllle, the Anglo-Sulk company nt Dlxnn, and the DeXalb farm on which milk Is especially es-pecially prepared for the use of bald and Intallds, are all doing a big bust-nets, bust-nets, and It Is thought that the new tenltire at Marengo may meet slrfllku turrets In creating a demand for It product. So tar little Is known t to what this demand will be, the sugir being subject to use fur medicinal purposes pur-poses only The working pioduct l collected from fifteen counties In the neighborhood of Marengo. The milk Is separated from the cream, which 's utilised In making butter. On the skimmed milk curd Is allowed to form until It Is hard enough to handle. Then It Is put through a drying process and afterward ground as fine a ordinary cornmeal. This product Is tent to Ohio, where It reeeltes treatment, reducing It to n liquid used for glatlng paper Tho augar product comes from the whey left In the tat after the curd I removed. It Is forced Into large boiler, where It Is allowed to boll for tome time, alter which It Is run Into evaporating pans, where the boiling boil-ing continue until a thick syrup Is left. After standing a certain length of time it is again boiled, when the sugar forma. The augar la worked over until thoroughly drained, alter which i Is packed In barrels for tho refinery It now resembles the ordinary ordi-nary roane brown tugar of commerce. The process of refining la a well-guarded secret, known to Mr. Patrick and one other man, When the product emerge from tho refinery It la inowy white It Is aald that thsro are fowrr thin a doien men In the United State who are In the secret of refining milk micar. The new factory has Just been completed. It requires 6,000 pounds ot milk to produce one barrel of sugar. This sugar tells for 40 centi a pound. There are waste substances which an utilized by farmera In feeding stock. T..I. ArlMeUlljr ll.t.loptd. II. W. Colllngwood says: Another curious thing that wo find about the flock la tho fact that there aro hereditary heredi-tary tendencies for certain foods. Many of these hem have ovldently been fed entirely upon corn. They eat meat and other grains largely under un-der protest, liens are much like men In this respect. An ex-mayor of New York told mo not long since that ha cannot get through the week without at loail ono square meal of corned beef and cabbage. Possibly there an persona who can tell In what country that tendency wai formod. A genuine Yankee cannot forget tho baked beam and fish halls of hit early life. Let mo feed a hen for tho first three months of her life, and I will largely fix her feeding hablta and also have something to do with the food her children crave. I think most poultry-men poultry-men have changed their methods ot feeding since the truth became generally gener-ally known that meat In some form gives by far the best material for a h.m's muscle maker. Some ot ua who are millionaire In theory have bsen taught sever lessons In economy during dur-ing the past few yean. I know a man who. In 1890, did not think It possible for hit family to live an anything any-thing ktafr t i-ic.uis rout: Bw iKWuruy bat fotrcej hlrj to rt'.-Ise rt'.-Ise the talue tn a pot roait or even a shin bone. It has besn a profitable surprise to such men to realize that the nerve and force In a pot roast will enable them to retain their standing stand-ing In church ind state. In like manner man-ner w have been forced to hunt cheaper cheap-er ration for our hens, and we have found them In various forms of meat The Introduction of the green-bono cutter has really started a new Industry In-dustry and has doubled the cost ot bose In many local markets. There wo . time when the faithful aid horse, at dMth, was hauled oft to the ewamp. Now hi meat may be cut and ground and dried Into an excellent food for the hem. I if a man speaks without thinking i l'a apt q ay what he thjnka. |