Ranche and range., July 03, 1902, Page 3, Image 3

About Ranche and range. (North Yakima, Wash.) 1897-1902

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ftfE RANCh
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With which is consolidated
Th* Washington Farmer,
The Pacific Coast Dairyman,
The Farmer and Dairyman,
The Farmer and Turfman.
Official organ of the State Dairymen's Associa
tion and tbe State Live Stock Breeders' Associ
ation.
Published Every Thursday by THE RANCH CO.
MILLER FREEMAN, - Editor and Manager.
Editorial Ortices: - - Seattle, Wash.
Tel. Main 1266—Long Distance Connection.
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Date of expiration of subscription Is shown on
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Falling to receive the paper regularly you should
notify the Seattle office at once, when mistakes,
If any, will be corrected. *-«■—
Address all communications to Tflh RANCH,
104 W. Washington St., Seattle Washington.
Now is the time of year when the
milkman is reminded that he must
fork over a big round iron dollar to
the dairy commissioner for his annual
license which permits him to continue
to operate as a vendor of the lacteal
fluid. The law was created with the
idea of securing a complete registra
tion of the milkmen of the state, and
to keep closer tab on them, enabling
the householder to report violations of
the law to the commissioner by num
ber of the milkman's wagon and so on.
Although the theory seemed very nice
when promulgated, the experience of
two or three years shows that no one
has ever reported any violation by the
number of license on the delivery wa
gon. Last year there were 374 licenses
issued at one dollar per. The com
missioner thinks there will be a slight
increase this year, although there have
been some consolidations, including
the merger over at Tacoma, where
about all the routes are now in the
hands of one company. The money re
ceived from 1 licenses does not go into
the fund for the support of the office
of commissioner, but is paid into the
general state treasury.
The records of the dairy commission
er's office show that 383 state cream
ery brands have been issued. There
are not, of course, 383 creameries in
operation in this state, nor one-fourth
that number. The commissioner has
been following out his original idea
that everyone who has a cream' sepa
rator is entitled to a state creamery
brand. Many dairymen have taken ad
vantage of the ruling, providing them
selves with the brand, and placing
same on their butter. Undoubtedly it
is a good thing for the dairymen, be
cause it puts them on the same foot
ing, as regards price, as the creamer
ies. However one swallow does not
make a summer, nor should the posses
sion of a hand separator make a
creamery. The rapid advance of the
hand separator has brought about a
condition that was not expected when
the commissioner first began handing
out the brands. Some change should
be made to distinguish the individual
dairymen's butter from the creameries,
if it can be done without affecting the
sale or lessening the price of the
dairymen's product. Probably the adop
tion of another and separate brand for
the dairymen would fill the bill.
The esteemed Herald, of Yakima,
has unwittingly given up good space in
its last issue to a communication writ
ten ostensibly by an eastern fruitgrow
er which endorses the Hazeltine Moth
Catcher in the strongest terms. This
device has been denounced as a fraud
by the Missouri Experiment Station,
and the Station at Cornell- where thor
ough investigation of same was made.
We publish in another column the re
port of the Missouri Station. We
might add that if the busy editors of
papers such as the Herald would scru
tinize more carefully communications
of this sort furnished gratis by cor
respondents, they would be able to de
tect the attempt to work the paper
for free advertising. The proximity of
that versatile individual Joel Shoe
maker, whose methods of working the
country press by sending them free
articles on technical agricultural sub
jects, in which he deftly incorporates
endorsements of a certain New York
company's fertilizers is a handy ex
ample for the Herald's editor.
The Tacoma milk merger known as
the Tacoma Hygeia Company, which
started up a couple of weeks ago, is
now running quite smoothly. The
plant, which is a model in its way, is
operating well. The delivery system,
which caused considerable trouble, and
was the source of much woe on the
part of the consumers for the first few
days has been gotten in good working
order. The price paid to the dairymen
is 13c per gallon at present, delivered
at headquarters. Two DeLaval sepa
rators are used through which the milk
is run, for clarifying purposes only,
and for private customers it is put up
in sealed quart bottles, which present
a very neat and attractive appearance.
The present selling price is 5c per qt.
bottle. The average per cent, of but
ter fat in the milk is 3.8 per cent.
—and that is more than can
be found in most of the milk de
livered in the Sound cities. The Ta
coma company is on the right track.
It is furnishing a better product hand
led in the most modern and sanitary
fashion, without an increased cost to
the consumer. They not only have a
good business proposition, if properly
managed, but it will be a practical ben
efit to the town.
There must be something in this
Rochdale co-operative plan, for we no
tice all the mercantile trade papers
which get their support from the
wholesaler, are roasting it at every
turn in the road.
Speaking of the Rochdale "co-op"
scheme recently promulgated by the
farmers' clubs in session at Moscow,
the New York Merchants' Review
makes the following suggestive com
ment: "Moscow! Moscow! Verily, it
hath an ominous sound. Napoleon had
his Moscow, which foreshadowed his
Waterloo, and perhaps the co-operative
movement will meet a like fate in the
western town with this strange old
world name."
E. E. Elliott, agriculturist of the
State Agricultural College, is doing his
share to advertise and develop the re
sources of the state. A very good ar
tide from his pen on our agricultural
opportunities appeared in the last num
ber of the Breeders' Gazette.
THE RANCH.
MAN IS THE REAL FORCE.
The real force on earth is man, and
not nature.
Nature received and cared for ua
at first —in true stepmother fashion.
She gave us cold stone caves, cheer
less, long-haired mammoths and inhos
pitable cave bears for food and for
neighbors.
All the rest we had to do for our
selves. We had to change iron ore into
pwords and guns and kill off the rep
tiles and other monsters. We had to
drain the swamps and cut out the for
rests that nature lavished in every
direction.
We have still to water nature's dcs
crts —spots of eczema on the earth's
surface. x
We have ahead of us the perfecting
of our own social life, the ameliora
tion and control of climate and rain
fall.
All of this work will be done inside
our brains. Watching the buzzard
will teach nothing about flying, nor
Will watching fish teach anything about
the perfect ship.
As well watch the mole and ask him
for hints on building the Mount St.
Gothard tunnel.
In the curious, oily gray mass inside
the human head lies the solution of all
earth's problems. The force at work
in the brain is the agent of Divine Wis
dom —able to do whatever it will
through hard work.
And that is what makes life interest
ing and worth while. —William R.
Hurst.
Gem State (Idaho) Rural: The
Ranch gives a portrait and a short
write-up of G. L. Aggers, president of
Seattle Produce Exchange. Mr. Ag
gers is an old Colorado friend of the
editor of this paper and we are glad
to learn of his successful business ca
reer in the wide-awake Puget Sound
city.
We have received a book entitled
"Butter-Making on the Farm," by C. P.
Goodrich, dairy instructor of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. Goodrich is one
of the foremost authorities on dairying
in America, and what he has to say
is very valuable and to the point.
Every progressive dairyman who
wants to learn some new ideas
about his business should get a copy
of this book. The price is not one dol
lar, or fifty cents, or even ten cents,
because it is being given away abso
lutely free of charge, postage paid, by
the De Laval Company, who have ap
propriated a good-sized sum to its pub
lication, distribution, etc. Address
them, San Francisco, Cal.
OPTIMISM AS A HABIT.
There is a class of farmers too much
inclined to look on the dark side. This
fatal habit is engendered by apparent
or temporary failure.
Pessisism may be a useful philos
ophy when active. There is a noble
discontent that is the mainspring of
progress—the dissatisfaction of condi
tions which may be improved. But
there are many good folks who seem
so anxious to be miserable that they
will go out and pledge their happiness
as security on which to borrow trouble.
They need an arrest of thought.
No success can come out of discour
agement. When you lose your courage
you throw away the weapons God gave
you with which to flght the battle of
life.
To this class there is no need to
preach our President's excellent doc
trine of the Strenuous Life, for, what-
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A modern and up-to-date combination
which Is more wholesome than the baking
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ASK YOUR GROCER
ever be the faults of the American
Husbandman, indolence is not one of
them.
I wish to preach the doctrine of
Cheerfulness, of encouragement and
hope, of self-confidence and of deter
mination. Success is largely a matter
of will power. The man who hangs
on with a smile of grim determination
to "get there" despite temporary back
sets and apparent failure, is the man
who wins. To give up is to fall by the
wayside.
Keeping everlastingly at it is easy,
if the ills and mistakes of life are
regarded as but the incidents and les
sons of a business career. Keep a stiff
upper lip and assume an air of suc
cess, and you will get the world's re
spect, while the man who convplains
and wastes his life in envy or despair
will receive nothing better than pity
and perhaps contempt.
To believe in one's self —there's the
thing and also there's the rub. Many
men have an overweening assurance.
They need no sermon on the text "I
will," but to those who have not lived
up to their expectations, who have not
done as well as they knew, who may
hap have been unfortunate through no
blame, who think the fates are against
them and there's no use trying, to
these there is hope if they will but
grin while they bear it. Laughter do
eth good better than medicine, and a
great modern cult has been built up
with but one new, good stone to sup
port it, and whether they know it or
not the name of that stone is Cheer
fulness. Sow the seeds of hope, culti
vate the habit of optimism (which
means the most) and reap the harvest
of happiness which comes from the
consciousness of duty well performed.
Walt Whitman once attended the fu
neral of a little girl, the child of one
of his neighbors in Camden. The small
white coffin was nearly covered with
flowers. Old Walt, leaning on his cane,
stood and looked down at the form,
lying there so still. A little girl came
and standing on tip-toe by the old
man's side, also looked wonderingly
upon the face of the dead. Old Walt
turned and gently said:
"You don't understand this, do you,
my dear?"
"No, sir!" lisped the child.
"Neither do I —neither do I!" said
the old man, brushing his hand across
his eyes, as he moved on.
If the government bugologists would
spend their time devising ways and
means of exterminating the cattle tick
and give the inoffensive mosquito a
rest they would make a more plausible
pretense of earning their salaries.
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