VOL. XXX.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., NOV. 9, 1895.
NO. 45.
Have You One or More Cows?
IF SO, whether for pleasure or profit,
household or dairy, you should know
ofthe Centrifugal Cream Separator.
LETTER FROM MEXICO.
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DELAMSEPABATOBS »n at least
w Cow v Year over anfl above any
or Creamii System. All other S.
inferior imitations, and infringe i Be Laval patents.
Send for Catalogue ai any (lOSM paid
Satisfaction panuM as a condition of sale.
The De Laval Separator Company,
Gen Kit.... Offices:   7-t Cortlandi Street, Now York.
an  American  Thinks  of its Resources and Possibilities.
Branch Offices: Biffin. 111.
CREAM SEPARATOR PATENTS.
IMPORTANT    DECREES    AND     INJUNCTIONS
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Centrifugal     Cream     Separator     Infringement     Litigation.
ALPHA"   De Laval Patents Sustained.
Thk Di: Lav ai. Com r.isv, by advice of counsel, begs to announce for the
information and further caution of all whom the facts may concern, several
decisions in its pending Patent Right litigation, of interest and importance
to users and intending buyers of Centrifugal Cream Separators.
On June 18th, Judge Coxe, sitting in the U. S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of N. Y., at Canandaigue, N. Y., granted a decree, inclusive of a
perpetual injiuiotion.sustainiiig the material claims of the "Alpha" De Laval
patent, in the suit of The De Laval Separator Company, of New York, against
an infringer who had been making and selling a cream separator with a separating bowl device.
Following this decision, Judge Wallace, sitting in the V. S. Court at Syracuse, N. Y., on August 130th, granted an injunction against John Houston, of
Ilamden, Delaware County, N. Y., an owner and user of an infringing separator, which injunction restrains Houston from the further use of such machine.
That no one may have reason for complaint at the possible outcome of
such further proceedings as are pending and as may be necessary in maintaining just and lawful rights and interests as regards the manufacture and
use of asserted infringing machines other than the ones specifically sued
upon in these actions.due and repeated caution is again given in this respect.
The De Laval Separator Co.,
General Offices:
74 Cortlandt Street, New York.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Mexico is by no means an agricultural
country and what its prospects are to become one is a question which others are
more competent to say, yet what I have
seen and heard inclines me to believe
that it is a wonderful land and is capable
of great possibilities in more ways than
one. The corn crop was very large in
Mexico this year. The valley of Mexico
was one green field of growing corn. The
climate is -such that different plantings
can be made to ripen for many successive
months. One does not need to go out of
the city of Mexico to appreciate the fact
that there is an abundance of corn. All
along the poorer streets old women are
selling boiled and roasted ears, and they
always present tortilla (a kind of batter
cake made of corn) can be purchased
almost anywhere. The wheat crop was
also large, but the price has been low.
Almost all the cereals grow here. Barley is raised at Salazar, which is al an
altitude of over 10,000 feet. Some one
has told me that
K.CXICO l'HODUCES   EVEUYTHIXll
Except pumpkins and squashes. I cannot say if that is so, or if so why it is, but
I confess that I never remember to have
seen them in market. I had strawberries
at two meals the other day (in October)
and they can be obtained every month,
with the possible exception of January.
Peas, beans, cabbage, cauliflower, in fact
almost every vegetable can be found on
the restaurant tables at almost any time.
The best lettuce I have ever seen—and I
have heard many others say the same
thing—is to be found here. It is a variety
which grows in a close head and is very
crisp and nice.
Dairying is a much neglected branch of
agriculture and ought to be a profitable
field for intelligent investment. Butter
sells at 75 cents per pound, Mexican silver. On all Mexican tables milk is used
hot as a precaution against germs. To
the credit of Mexico be it said that I do
not think much if any oleomargarine is
produced here; and to the discredit of my
own land be it also said that considerable
of the stuff is shipped in from the United
States. One dairyman who has been supplying a limited trade here with Jersey
products has, I see by the paper, gone to
the States for more cows of the same
breed.
I notice that the Department of Agriculture has decided to admit Mexican
cattle. I can testify that Mexican beef
is good. Some of the toughest beef I ever
ate purported to bo Armour's best, while
very ordinary looking restaurants in
Mexico will serve you with the nicest
steak imaginable. If the importof Mexican cattle will serve to break up any
combine in the States it will serve a good
purpose.
A great deal is being said and written
just at present about the cultivation of
TI.ol'ICAI., I'll M...I i-i i;,,l'i, \I., PRODUCTS.
Mexico beyond any doubt has a future as
a coffee growing country. The native
coffee is very nice, equal in flavor to
.Mocha. The Mexican coffee "zone" comprises a number of States and investments in coffee land are being constantly
recorded in the newspapers. I notice
that a successful Ceylon coffee grower is
about to start in on a large scale on the
Isthmus of Tehauntepec.
That reminds me that I recently talked
with a gentleman who had just returned
from the Isthmus. He brought some line
samples of coffee and also a cocoa bean-
The latter, enveloped in its husk, weighed
about a pound and would sell for about 40
cents gold. It is from this berry, as the
reader doubtless knows, that the chocolate products are made. Vanilla beans
are also successfully cultivated, usually
in connection with something else. Bananas, lemons, oranges, limes, and many
fruits almost unknown farther north, are
grown in the districts known as the
"terra caliente," or hot country. I find
alfalfa is grown to a considerable extent
here in the valley of Mexico and on the
back streets nearly any morning one can
see a procession of donkeys, each loaded
with bundles of it
Having mentioned the Isthmus of Tehauntepec it is not out of place to call attention to the fact that the Mexican government is operating a railroad across it
from ocean to ocean. When the deep
water harbors at either end are completed
and the docks equipped with every facility for the rapid transfer of freight, including elevators for grain, it will have a
marked effect on the commerce of the
hemisphere. C. A. Mosi.i,.:\.
City of Mexico.
Bicycling Among the Farmers.—Matters
Curious and Interesting:.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Not long since, the writer, though in
buoyant health was hard of hearing for
about a week. It was very odd to note
one's isolation and how the loss of one
of the senses cuts you off from touch
with things. In riding my bike no grating of gravel or clicking of chain annoyed me. It ran as mum as a soaring
bird. I could not hear remarks of people I passed. The dog barked in vain,
and sharp nerve splitting sounds were as
mellow and soft as music.
As one rode along he could fall into
the deepest sweetest reverie undisturbed
by singing birds, cawing crows, screeching children or barking dogs. It reminded me of once calling at the bedside
of a lady friend who had been a great
reader, but was now suffering a protracted and fatal illness, during which
visitors were barred. I asked her if she
was lonely. She brightened up and said,
pleasantly, "No, I am here; I love to
meditate in silence; lam good company
for myself." It also suggests once reading of the great blessing we unconsciously enjoy by not having more acute natural
hearing. There can be no motion without some voice.
If our hearing were acute enough we
could hear the fly walking on the window pane; could hear the moisture of the
soil burst into unseen vapor. The passing zephyrs would be as a roaring wind,
and a summer breeze as a mighty hurricane. We could hear the countless roaring of rain drops and insects and the
rush of sap as it climbed up the trees and
grasses. A human voice would sound
like Niagara.
What sound is that I hear? It is ice in
the ice box thawing into water.
But that distant clanging? It is the
church bells of the State calling to worship.
But that roaring. Ah! The wind is in
the east and you hear the breakers of the
Atlantic on the distant beach.
Life would be a harrowing, grating,
bellowing roar, a tumult as the howling
of a mob. It would be impossible for one
to escape and drop into that happy state
of quiet reflection and sweet oblivion.
Just then the door to my room suddenly opened and a sharp voice said: "Ed!"
Well, what is it? "Why! I called you
to dinner a half hour ago, and now the
eggs are cold, the coffee's cold and the
steak's!!! E. H. Collins.
Carmel.
Our present enormous corn crop would
have been an over production a few years
ago, and the bottom would have dropped
out of prices. The agricultural experimenters declare that $10 an acre can be
made bv cutting up the corn for fodder,
for they say, an acre of fodder is worth
two tons of hay. This means cash for all
our hay, and a market for our surplus
corn abroad.