ELEPHANTS AND MILK. \ I 



five thousand gallons. The farmers get twelve 

 cents for it on the spot. So you see there is a 

 revenue of three thousand dollars a day to this 

 district. Now you've been telling me of the 

 West, how they raise forty bushels of wheat to 

 the acre, and all that. Well, what does it 

 amount to by the time they get their returns, 

 paying so much out in railroad freight ? You 

 ride along this afternoon, and if you come back 

 this way, tell me if the houses and fixings and 

 things, especially the boys, and more particu- 

 larly the gals, look any better in ihem fever- 

 and-ague diggings than they do here, if we do 

 live on elephants and milk! " 



And so I parted from Mr. Mead, with many 

 thanks for the valuable information I should 

 never have been likely to acquire by travelling 

 on a railroad. 



I soon came to Purdy's station, and dis- 

 mounting at the door of the factory was 

 politely shown the various processes by which 

 the raw material of cow product is manufact- 

 ured and reduced. One gallon of pure milk 

 is reduced to half a pint of the condensed, and 

 to this sugar is added for long preservation, 

 although it is not required if the milk is to be 

 used in two or three weeks. There is perhaps 



