February 1, 1909 
sans isi: 
THE CAPE TULIP—Homeria Collina, 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
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Me ticle 
A poisonous weed found growing in our Park Lands. For article on same see our 
January issue. 
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Another Aspect of the Milk 
Question. 
Dairying for best results is a problem 
with many phases. Let us look at the 
‘consumers’ end of the milk supply (says 
Dr. E. M. Santee in the ‘American Agri- 
-culturist,’) Why will not ths consumers 
of miik awake to tine fact that if it is 
wrong for the dairyman to allow the dust 
of the milking shed tv get into the milk 
it is worse for them to allow the dust of 
the house or of the streets to get into it, 
They should also know that it is just as 
necessary -for them to sterilise their 
utensils, as it is for the dairymen to thus 
treat his; and if is essential for the dairy- 
man to cool the milk for the short time 
that it is in his keeping, it is equally 
necessary that it should be thus treated 
during the long time that it is in the 
hands of the consumer. 
How many consumers will take a house 
fly from their milk and then use if it as 
the fly had never been in it? And yet how 
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do they know that this same fly had not 
come from a feast off some filth in the 
back yard. If that were the case it is 
probable that the milk from which the fly 
was taken constituted the first foot bath 
he has taken since thefeast. Many more 
sources of contamination in the home 
might be mentioued that daily pass un— 
noticed, while the ‘gunning’ for the 
dairyman goes on. 
I do not deprecate the effort to educate 
the farmer as to his duty; he needs it, but 
while doing it do not lose sight of the 
fact that the consumer needs it is well as 
the farmer. 
Antiseptics for the Baby. 
We can sterilise his bottles, we can boil 
his little mug ; : 
We can bake his flannel bandages and 
disinfect the rug 
That covers him when he partakes of 
medic: ted air ; 
But there’s one impossibility that leaves 
us in despair— 
And a not unjustifiable alarm, you will 
allow— 
To wit, we fear ’twould never do to sterilise 
the cow ! 
We are careful of his hours, we are 
thoughtful of his toys ; 
We are mindful of his sorrows, and 
judicious of his joys ; 
We ure prayerfully considerate of needful 
discipline, 
Of our little ‘Mother Handbook and the 
precepts writ therein ; 
And we strive to render sterile all designed 
for mouth or tum, 
But one frightful danger menaces—we 
cannot boil his thumb, 
A Story of Two Cows. 
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At the Illinois Agricultural Experiment 
Station are two cows, the story of whose 
work is well worth telling, They were 
brought up alike ona farm near Elgin, 
Ill., and obtained their early education in 
the same herd of 100 cows. Here at the 
University, with the very same surround- 
ings and equal opportunities, they have 
drifted far apart in character and their 
progress has been in opposite directions. 
It is not a difference of hide, or horns, or 
temper, it is not that one is wild and the 
other a pet. Itis not a difference of 
beauty or intelligence, but solely a differ- 
ence in the way they have worked, a 
difference in the money they have earned 
for the owner. 
All the mili of these cows have been 
weighed and tested for years. A record 
has been kept of every pound of feed 
consumed by exch animal both suimmer 
and winter. Hach year Gold produced on 
the average 11,390 lb. of milk containing 
