THE SANTAFE STRIKE
Officials and Operators Give
Conflicting Reports.
GENERAL MANAGER MUDGE SANGUINE
Ckalrau Newman of the Telegra
phers' talon Sayn the Strikers Art
Oalilng and Lines Will Be
Completely Tied I'f.
TOPEKA, Dec. 11.—The official* of
ike Santa Fe railroad say the strike of
aperators is practically over. Tlir opera
tors themselves continue in the belief that
their case ia a winning one and say the
;>roapects look better now than they hare
been any time yet.
The men in the Santa Ke shops here
went to work as asual yesterday. An or
der had been issued closing the shops as
t result of the strike. The officials later
decided it to be useless for the shops to
be kept closed, as they say the strike will
lie of small proportions.
General Manager Madge professes to
lie sanguine that the strike is at an end
and talks as follows regarding the revo
cation of the order for closing the shops:
"The strike amounts to so little and
the situation is so favorable that to shut
down the shops is not necessary. If the
operators had succeeded in tying up the
>'.v*tem and had prevented the operation
or trains, we would have had aothiug for
the men in the shops to do. As it is, with
our trains running very close to schedule
and no practical interruption to our busi
ness, there will be the regular work to do
:i ikl no reasou why it should not be done.
"We have word that on the California
liaes the operators arc back to work. Ou
i lit' Southern California and San Joaquin
Valley there is none out. They went
nut when the order to strike was sent,
but came back shortly afterward. They
have no grievance and are under con
tract. On the Sauta Fe Pacific there are
a limit 00 operators out, according to our
information. Oue hundred and twenty
three men went out on the Gulf line in
the original strike, which was the whole
number employed."
STRIKERS GAINING.
Chairman Newman Says the Entire
Road Will Be Tied Up.
WICHITA. Kan., Dec. 11.-A. J. New
man, general chairman of the strike
committee of the Telegraphers' union,
declares that the men are gaining ground
hourly and that the trainmen will prob
ably join them, which will mean the ty
ing up of the road.
Me added that not a telegrapher was
winking on the Sauta Fe's Pacific divi
sion and hardly a train moving.
All Atchison trains, he declared, would
stop, and Santa Fe trains on the Gulf
division would also cease moving.
Mttle Trouble In Southern California
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11.—From Gen
eral Manager Nevins the following state
nient was obtained in regard to the strike
situation on the Santa Fe: "The trouble
on our Southern California division has
never reached proportions to cause us in
convenience. In this city all vacancies
have been filled. On the Valley road six
men quit. Their places have all been fill
ed or will be filled. On Superintendent
Dciiair'a division, from Seligman to Mo
jave, 14 men quit, aud on Superintendent
Hililiard's division, from Seligman to Al
buquerque, there were four vacancies.
Practically all these have been supplied,
many of the old men having returned to
work, and in other cases new men are
being employed. We are handling our
through telegraphic business from the
coast to Chicago with no delay whatever,
and all freight and passenger traffic is
being handled without the slightest de
lay or interruption."
De Wet Cornered.
PRETORIA, Dec. 11.-The Boer com
mander, General Christian De Wet, is
cornered between the Caledon aud Or
ange rivers, on the borders of Basutoland.
As the rivers are in flood it ia considered
that his capture is certain, even if he
should manage to recross the Caledon.
British columns have been sent to hold
all the passes and roads to the north to
prevent his escape. The military officers
here are greatly pleased that the attempt
of De Wet to enter Cape Colony with his
commando has been frustrated.
Bl( Cycle Contest Begun.
NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—In Madison
Square Garden a great international
.-peed battle between cycling kings of
two continents has been begun. At 5
minutes past 12 this morning 28 sea
soned racing men who hold records or
championships in a score of countries
were started in a contest of swiftness
and endurance that will continue cease
lessly today, tomorrow, Wednesday.
Thursday and onto within twtf hours of
another Sunday.
Americans Onthld English.
LONDON, Dec. 10.—The Daily Mail
has received the following by mail from
its Calcutta correspondent: "The port
commissioners recently invited tonders
for locomotives. The lowest English
tender quoted {1,544 for each locomotive
and wanted nine months to complete the
older. The lowest American tender
quote# £1,260 and asked for six months.
The latter was accepted, subject to the
approval of the government."
Amerloan Shipbuilding.
WASHINGTON, Dec-. 10.—The ves
sels built in the United States aud offi
cially numbered from June 30, 1900, to
Nov. 80, 1900, were 495, of 149,903 gross
tons. The principal items of the total
are seven steel steamships on the great
lakes (34,933 gross tons) and four smaller
steel steamships (8,450 gross tons), which
could pas* through the new Wetland
canal, and one steel schooner barge (2.790
tonal.
Arrayed Against Europe.
BERLIN, Dec. 10.-Tbe National Zei
titug devotes its first page today to a
carefully prepared editorial dealing with
the Uaited States as a world power.
After pointing out the enormous progress
economically and politically of America
in the world's affairs the editorial de
clares that in both respects the United
Htatea ia arrayed against Europe.
American Rails In Norway,
CHRIBTIANIA. Dec. 11.-The Nor
wegian government has awarded the en
tire contract for ateel rails for th« atate
railways thla year, 11,800 tone, to the
Pennaylvania and the Maryland Steel
companies. The contract laat year was
•warded to the United States and Eag
land, each taking half.
LARGE IMMIGRATION.
Ov«v Half a Million Foreigners Cams
to Oar Shorea Last Year.
WASHINGTON, Dec. B.—The annuai
report of the commissioner general of im
migration shows that during the last lis
cal year the total number of immigrant*
who arrived in this country was 448,572,
of which 23.200 came through Canada.
Of the whole number 304,148 were male*
and 144.424 females. This is a net in
crease over 1899 of 136,857. These fig
ures, however, the commissioner general
says, do not show the total number of
alien arrivals, as 65,635 aliens came as
cabin passengers. They would have
swelled the total immigration to 514,207
had they traveled in the steerage. The
figures show that of the whole number of
arrivals 424,700 came from European
countries. 17,940 from Asia, 30 from Af
rica and 5,896 from all other places.
Switzerland aud Spain and the Spanish
islands show a small decrease in immi
gration, while Austria-Hungary shows
an increase of 83 per cent, the Russian
empire and Finland til per cent increase,
Italy 29 per cent increase and Japan 310
per cent increase. The total arrivals
from Japan, however, amounted to only
9,791.
Of the 448,572 arrivals 54.024 were
under 14 years of age, 370,382 were from
14 to 46 years anil 23.566 were 45 and
over. It appears that 93.576 could nei
ther read nor write, aud 2,007 could read,
but not write. The totol number exhib
ited to the inspectors in money the sum
of $6,657,530, 271,821 bringing each a
sum less thau S3O and 54.288 having each
a sum in excess of that amount.
There were returned within one year
after landing in this country 356. and re
lief in hospital was furnished during the
year to 2,417.
RATHBON&'S EXPENSES.
I'ald Coachman mid Bought Shirts
Willi Government Fonda.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 8. Senator
Piatt of Connecticut, chairman of the
senate committee on relations with Cu
ba. has made public the statement pre
pared by the auditing division of the war
department showing the expenditures
made by E. G. Rat hbone, late director of
the department of posts for Cuba. The
total disallowances for the lti months
were $72.6.31.
The first disallowance was on account
of an expenditure of SBSO for a duchess
carriage, made on Feb. 28. 1899. After
that time there were frequent disburse
ments for the director general's carriage
service. March 20 he paid $202 for a set
of harness aud carriage "auxiliaries";
April 7, sl2 for a jipigapa hat and for
another hat for his coachman with ro
settes, and on tlie same date $306 for
harness, etc. Rent for the coachman, sta
ble, etc., seems to have been regularly
paid out of the public funds at the rate
of sllO per month, aud in one or two in
stances the hostler's salary was thus sup
plied. All the coach furnishings were
provided in this way. in May, 1899, u
uniform costing S4O. a pair of boots cost
ing sls and another hat costing $9 wore
bought for the coachman. June 9 a rain
coat costing $26 was supplied to that in
dividual. The coach later was supplied
with rubber tires at an expense to the
public of sllO. In addition, there were
many miscellaneous charges for stable
rent and for carriage and car hire.
Eagan Restored and Retired.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 7. Brigadier
General Charles P. Eagau, commissary
general of subsistence, who has beeu un
der suspension since Feb. 9. 1899. by
sentence of court martial for alleged in
temperate and abusive language concern
ing Lieutenant General Miles in connec
tion with the army beef investigation,
has been restored to duty and imme
diately afterward was placed ou the re
tired list of the army. The story is told
in two special orders which were bulle
tined at the war department yesterday
afternoon. They are issued by command
of Lieutenant General Miles, command
ing the army. The vacancy thus created
will enable the president to carry out his
purpose of appointing Colonel John F.
Weston, assistant commissary general of
subsistence, to be commissary general.
Received by the Sultan.
CONSTANTINOPLE. Dec. 11.—A
dinuer was given at the Viltliz palace
last night iu honor of the officers of the
United States battleship Kentucky, now
at Smyrna, previous to which the United
States charge d'affaires, Mr. Lloyd C.
Griscom. introduced the officers to the
sultan. The grand vizier aud other digni
taries were present at the dinner. Sub
sequently Mr. Griscom and Captain Col
by M. Chester were received in private
audience by the sultan, who afterward
received the other officers and addressed
to each of them a few gracious words.
Big Railway Contract.
ST. PAUL, Dec. 11.—In addition to the
44 passeuger cars, two dining cars and
two combination cars ordered last week
the Northern Pacific lias contracted for
about $600,000 worth of new motive pow
er, which will be built at the Schenectady
works. The order includes 50 engines,
aud the company has reserved the right
to order 73 more locomotives at the same
contract price if the condition of trade
shall warrant the additional order. The
entire cost of the new engines aud cars
will not be less than $850,000 to $900,000.
Enormous Postal Receipts,
WASHINGTON, Dec. B.—The report
of the third asshmnt postmaster general
shows that the total receipts from all
sources of postal revenue during the year
amounted to $102,354,579, while the ex
penditures reached $107,740,267. The
value of the total number of pieces of
stamped paper issued to postmasters was
$97,687,771, a net increase over the issue
of the previous year of $7,536,111.
Suffered Eleven fears.
KINGSTON, N. Y„ Dec. 8.-After liv
ing 11 yeaVs without eating solid food
Charles, the 14-year-old son of Hiram
Naber of West Woodstock, is dead.
When 8 years old, he drank a solution of
concentrated lye which destroyed his
stomach. For 11 years he was able to
take no nourishment except milk. The
boy never grew any larger after the ac
cident.
King Osear Able to Be Ont.
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 8.-King Oscar
has so far recovered from his recent ill
ness that he now drives about the city
and has recently been purchasing Christ
mas press-its. lie looks vigorous.
Harvard Defeats Yale.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., D«c. B—Har
vard defeated Yale for the third consec
utive time in the intercollegiate debate ia
Sanders' theater last sight.
STALWARTS WIN
TWOVICTORIESL
Snyder, of Chester, and Marshall,
of Allegheny, Will Preside
Over Senate and House
Respectively.
INSURGENTS GIVE UP THE FIGHT.
Mallcloua Work of the Philadelphia
Neirapaper Combine Cannot De
stroy the Republican Organisation
of Pennaylvanln For the Selflah
Pnrponea of Ainbltlonn but Repudi
ated I'olltlelana.
(Special Correspondence.)
Philadelphia, Dec. 11.—All doubts
about the ability of the stalwart Re
publicans to organize both branches of
the legislature have been removed,
since more than a majority of the
members in each chamber have gone
on record over their own signatures
for the candidates of the stalwarts for
presiding officers of those bodies.
The Insurgents have practically given
up the fight against Senator W. P.
Snyder, ef Chester county, for presi
dent pro tem. of the state senate. It
is intimated that in order to cover his
retreat Senator William Flinn, the
leader of the insurgents, will make the
motion for the election of Dr. Snyder
to succeed himself as presiding officer
of the senate in the absence of the
lieutenant governor. Flinn, at the close
of the last session of the senate, when
it became necessary to elect a presiding
officer who would officiate during the
recess, placed Dr. Snyder, in nomina
tion in the Republican caucus, and he
received every vote, including those of
the insurgents.
Now, since the three members of the
state senate whom the insurgents put
in the doubtful list —Senator Sproul of
Delaware, Vaughan of Lackawanna and
Muehlbronner of Allegheny—have all
publicly declared in favor of Dr. Sny
der. Flinn, revognizlng the handwrit
ing on the wall, is about to get in line
for Snyder and anltounce that the in
surgents have nothing against him.
and would like to see him elected.
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE.
The facts are that the insurgents
found that some of their number who
aspire to re-election did not propose
to follow Flinn's original plan and
vote for J. Henry Cochran, a Democrat,
for president pro tem. of the senate.
They are all human, and they all ap
preciate the fact that If they would
soil out the Republican candidate for
president of the senate In favor of a
Democrat they could never hope for
re-election in their respective districts.
This would be the biggest card that
their political opponents could play
against them.
The settlement of the contest in the
state senate came along about the
same time that the Insurgents and the
Democrats in the house discovered that
it would be impossible for them to
unite upon any candidate for speaker.
Neither Guffey nor any one else could
get all the Democratic members to
agree upon an insurgent Republican for
speaker, and neither Martin, Flinn nor
Wanamaker could get all the so-called
insurgents to vote for a Democrat for
speaker against the stalwart Republi
can candidate. Several of the most
prominent insurgents in the last legis
lature have come out openly In favor of
the election of Representative W. T.
Marshall, of Allegheny, for speaker
of the house. Some of them are still
opposed to the election of Col. Quay,
but it is believed that they will not
continue to oppose him when the time
comes to ballot on the United States
•enatorship.
They do not propose to get left in
the matter of the distribution of the
patronage of the house of representa
tives, which will be allotted by the
leaders of the Republican organization,
nor do they wish to figure in unimpor
tant places on the committee lists.
They all feel that their futures depend
upon their being in a position of in
fluence and importance, and that they
must not allow their personal animosi
ties or the revengeful spirits of a few
disgruntled leaders to take them out
side of the Republican lines.
BLISS WITH THE REGULARS.
Representative Ward R. Bliss, of
Delaware county, who was a conspic
uous figure In the deadlock on the
United States senatorship two years
ago, has come to the front as one of
the leaders In the cause of the regulars,
and he Is very active In the canvass in
favor of the election of Representative
Marshall for the speakership. He was
regarded as the most alert and the
brainiest of the Insurgents In the last
session. He acted as presiding officer
of their meetings In the house and
fought as well as he knew how against
the re-election of Col. Quay. He went
home, sounded the sentiments of the
Republicans of the district and con
cluded that they now favor the election
of Col. Quay. He was renominated
without opposition from the regulars,
and he is now on the firing line of the
stalwarts, and will be with them when
they win their victory at Harrisburg
next month.
The insurgents are still bluffing in
their newspaper war on Col. Quay.
They are making all sorts of false
charges about the use of money by the
regulars, yet they do not seem to think
of the fact that the people know that
were it not for the little coterie of
monled men who are keeping the in
surgent machine well greased with fat
contributions there would be no or
ganizations of insurgents. Money has
been the principal stock in trade of the
insurgents since they started out, and
they have spent hundreds of thousands
of dollars in a desperate but fruitless
campaign against the Beaver stateman.
Their newspaper bureau is perhaps one
of their strongest asseta.
INSURGENT NEWSPAPER COMBINE
Some of the antics of the Insurgent
newspapers would be very amusing to
a reader conversant with the true sit
uation if their hypocrisy was not so
transparent and contemptible. As only
one Instance, mark the publication of
an alleged list of Quay, anti-Quay and
doubtful members of both senate and
house that appeared in a Philadelphia
evening paper unfriendly to Senator
Quay one day last week.
In this alleged list, after grotesquely
arranging Quay members in the anti-
Quay list and vice versa, and classing
in the doubtful list men who have
never wavered in their allegiance to
Senator Quay, and who have repeatedly
showed their loyalty to him in the
most trying times, they finally recapit
ulated them so as to give the senator
22 votes in the house, making a total
of 118 votes, or nine short of the requi
site number for election.
It is noticeable that the particular
anti-Quay paper did not have the ef
frontery to claim that this was an esti
mate furnished by the friends of the
distinguished senator.
The list is adrotly drawn with two
or three well known anti-Quay men
in the Quay column, and with this nu
cleus the insurgents afterward tear it
in shreds. In other words, they use
this particular paper to set up a ridic
ulous ' straw man," no doubt manu
factured to order by the political liars
of their own original insurgent news
bureau.
Having themselves brought forth
this prodigy, watch how the bold and
valiant papers carrying that "wonder
fully production" full page "ad." swoop
down on their own creation like an
eagle on Its prey.
FIGHTING A STRAW MAN.
They have charged these windmills
of the Quixotic fancy so often and so
disastrously in solid squadron that this
time they change their tactics and give
the place of honor (?) to the morning
organ that for many years has been
willing to publish anything, however
false or untrue, that Its hatred conceiv
ed would injure the one man in Penn
sylvania it has hoped to crush and
ruin. So It, on the following day, takes
a "grand fall" out of the "straw man,"
and when it victoriously leaves the
field it would seem that It was so
thoroughly battered that it could not
stand another shock from its own pa
rents, especially.
But after they have all gone up
against it, the "yellowest of the yel
low" waits for a day, and then, "ye
gods," how it does hatter the wreck
that is left of the child of Its bosom.
"Infanticide is defined by law to be
the murder of a newly born child,"
and if the Insurgent press of this city
are not guilty then such a crime was
never committed—not only guilty In
the general sense, hut guilty of bring
ing It into the world with the express,
premeditated and willful purpose of
slaying it in cold blood. It, of course,
deliberately lies when it says that the
list published was Col. Quay's list.
They know and every one knows that
neither the senator nor any of his
friends has ever published any list.
They knew it was their very own.
They also summarize or recapitulate
their own falsehoods in this way:
"Quay's victory lilazoned In his or
gans the morning after election, Nov.
7. the 150, or 22 more than a majority;
Dec. 6, 113, or 15 less than a majority.
Decrease of Quay vote in one month,
by Quay's own showing, 37."
And this Is a specimen of the lying
mendacity of organs subsidized by one
advertisement. It Is pitifully cheap
lying, because when analyzed it Is so
transparent. Its hypocrisy, its cant,
its building of an argument on pre
mises wholly and willfully false, only
leads their conclusion back into the
same mire and filth of the rankest un
truthfulness from which they derived
their false premises.
Krle Cfinal Cloned.
UTICA, N. Y., Dec. 10.—Water is be
ing drawn from the Erie canal, and navi
gation for the season is at an end. It has
been kept open nine days longer than the
time originally decided 011 for closing in
order to nllow boats that were delayed
by the break at New London to reach
their destinations. The cost of repairing
the break was about s7,tXlo.
American Steel In Kuulaud.
LONDON, Dec. 11.—Three thousand
tons of steel plates mid angles for ship
building from the works <>f the Carnegie
company reached the Clyde Sunday by
the steamer Dunstaa from Philadelphia
Nov. JJ4. In spite of the railway freight
to Philadelphia anil the ocean freightage
the price is still 10 shillings per ton bclow
Engllsh figures.
Fatal F.xploalon In a Tunnel.
OGDEN, Utah, Dec. 11.—It is report
ed that an explosion of gas occurred in
the big Union Pacific tunnel six miles
north of Aspeu, Wy. Five men were
killed and a number badly injured. As
peu tunnel is 0,700 feet long.
X«H York Markcta,
Fl,OUß—State and western (lull and
weak, with buyers and sellers 6c. to 15c.
apart on most of tho trade brunds; Min
nesota patents, $4Hi4.25; winter straights.
$3.4003.55; winter extras. $2.60<&2.90; wmter
patents, 13.b(Vu3.90.
WHEAT—Weak and lower in line with
bearish cables, liberal northwest nci-lnts
and moderate liquidation; January, 77 1-16
@77V4c.; March, 78 11-16-a T9c.
RYE—Dull, state, 5»553c., c. i. 112.. New
York, carlots; No. 2 western, 5654 c., 112. o.
b. afloat.
CORN—Quiet and barely steady, feflect
lng lowar cables and flne weather west;
May. 41>y«5fU «-16 c.
CATS— -Blow and easy; track, wh'te.
state, track, white, western, 2#Vi
CSSc.
PORK—Steady; mess, $12.50{i13; family,
tu wfeie.
LARD—Firm; prime western steam.
'"BUTTER—Firm; state dairy. lCjjiilc.;
creamery. 18Cu2fic.
CHEESE-Firm; fancy, large, fall made,
llVc.; fall made, fancy, small, ll%c.
EGOS—Steady; state and Pennsylvania,
275i30c.; western, loss ofr, 29c.
SUGAR— Raw firm; fair refining.
3 15-18 c.; centrifugal, !>6 test, 4 7-16 c.; re
fined steady: crushed, 6c.; powdered, 5.70 c.
TURPENTINE—Quiet at 41V4©4Sc.
MOLASSES—Firm; New Orleans. 82@40c.
RlCK—Steady; domestic. *Tfc©6%c.; Ja
phT"A —Steady; city. country.
—Steady; shipping, 77V^Ric.; good
to choics. SMifcc.
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■I i> to 24 hours old, wanned to over 80 and usually about go degrees. The per
cent, of fat in the skim-milk, so far as reported, will nut reach on the average
a tenth of a per cent., and often Is too small to read, in the skim-milk bottle. \\ e
are pleased with the machine in every possible way, as far as we have been able
to observe it in a month's use.
CLINTON D. SMITH, Director Michigan Experiment Station.
1898 Record Equally as Good.
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Mictl., March «, IB<jS.
I do not know that I have anything to add to what I wrote you in January,
1847, or any ehungus to make in the statements therein made (see above).
C. D. SMITH, Director.
Vermont Experiment Station.
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, I
BURLINGTON, VT„ June 25. 1897. 112
It has been the uniform custom of tho officers of the Vermont Station to
decline to issue letters of a testimonial nature. I may say, however, that I can
and do refer parties inquiring regarding the merits of the Improved United
States Separators to the records of the running of the same as published in our
report for 1844.
('She tests referred to are as follows):
Aug. 14 0.08 Aug. lq 0.06
,6 0.03 0.05
' The results obtained by the use of these machines at our Dairy Schools of the
past two years are full better, so far as the character of the skimming is con-
verned, than those given in the report. . ,
JOSEPH I-. HIIXS (Director Vt. Experiment Station).
B lowa Experiment Station.
AMES, IOWA, Jan. lSqi.
Your two machines have been here in use for some time and are doing
excellent work.
We have succeeded in skimming over 3,600 pounds per hour, and as close as
consider excellent work for the winter. The small machine also does good
work. U. L. McKAY, State Dairy Instructor, lowa Ag'l College.
Again in June; lowa Experiment Station.
AMES, IOWA, June 35. 1847.
Your large size factory machine has been doing excellent work. We
used it six days per week for the past twi> months, and it skims to a trace right
along, skimming to 3,700 pounds per hour.
ti. L. McKAY, Statu Dairy Instructor.
Ohio State University.
COI.UMHUS, OHIO, June 35, 1897.
Enclosed you will find statement of the several runs made with your various
Separators.
(Tests from the runs referred to show the following):
■R January 15 0.02 February 3 0.00 February 15 0.02
H 18 tests show not over 0.05 of one per cent, of fat.
Of course, you will understand that these runs were made by students who at
the beginning had no knowledge of separator work. The same efficiency can
hardly be expected under such circumstances as where operated by an expert.
THOMAS F. HUNT (Professor of Agriculture;.
Idaho Experiment Station. H
Moscow, InAHn, March 36, IBJT.
* Our Dairy School hns just closed, having had a very successful career. We
H have used daily one of your No. 5 Improved U. S. Separators. It lias given
perfect satisfaction, and is tho favorite with all ihe boys.
t'HAS. P. FOX, Professor of Agriculture.
H Connecticut Experiment Station.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Aug. 3. 1897.
The Improved U. S. Steam Turbine is running every day, and has been since HH
April. It is an easv-running and thorough skimming machine.
in two recent tests, made on different days, running a trine over 700 lbs. 01 W
milk per hour, the skim-milk showed :
No. 1, 0.06 of 1 per cent, butter fat.
No. 3, 0.07 " ■!
This Is as close as nnv one could ask for.
A. W. OGDKN, Chemist. Conn. Ag'l Experiment Station. aK<J
Missouri Experiment Station. ran
COLUMBIA, MO,, March 35, 1898.
The Improved U. S. Hand Separator was used in our Dairv School during the
wint.-r term tt> the entire satisfaction of instructors and students, and did most
excellent work. J- H. WATERS, Dean and Director.
The Improved United States Separators are now not almost but
altogether universal. The number i:\ use is 120,000, more or less. 1 heir
sale is eleven to one of all imitatinp; machines combined. The latest improve-
ments carry them still further to the Iront. Send lor new Dairy catalogue
No. 301 or new Creamery'catalogue No. 190.
S VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO, Bellows Falls, Vt. M