THE HIDDLEBURGH POST, i
GEO. W, WAGEXSELLER,
Editor and Proprietor
MlDDLEBURflB, Pi., MlBCH 4, 1897.
Russia is not only to build bcr own
railroads through China, but is to
Luild China's own railroads (or Lor.
It is estimated that the present
wealth of the United States exceeds
the wealth of tho whole world at any
period prior to the middle of tho
eighteenth century.
The New Jersey grange does not
believe in giving tobacco to the con
victs in the penitentiary. Tart of
their pnnibhmcnt, it thiuks, should bo
deprivation of such luxuries.
A mining prospector, whoso experi
ence is said to cover almost every
mining regiou of the Northwest, Lai
been lately waxing enthusiastic over
the future of tho Cascad-i rango in
Oregon as a gold-producing section.
Tho South is becoming a formid
able rival to Now England in tho mat
ter of manufactures ns well as to
other sections of tho country in the
matter of products auit in her foreign
trade, observes the Trenton (N. J-)
American.
Sir John Gorst, who is at tbc Lend
of the educational department in Eng
land, is in hot water for declaring in
a public speech that "at birth thoro is
not much difference between a baby
nnd a monkey," aud tbut the monkey
baa tho advantage.
A Boston uiiin who dines regularly
nt a prominent hotel was interested to
discover the other day that his waiter,
whom ho has been tipping liberally all
along, owns iivo tenement houses in
tho Hub, all clear of mnrtgngcH, and
that his tax bill is considerably larger
than his patron's.
A writer in thu Detroit Journal has
attempted to provide Major MeKinley
with a long lino of illustrious ances
tors. Ho traces tho Canton Napoleon's
linenge in a direct lino buck to Dun
can McDuir, the celebrated Thane who
was born about the year 1000, and who
was afterwards made famous by Sbak
eponre, who told of some , interesting
experiences this Scottish cbieftaiu had
with Mucbeth, who had troubfo with
his hands and ouo lUnquo, gentle
man, with a ghost.
Tho Eisteru express and railroad
companies bavo adopted tho proper
method of discouraging train robbery
by offering a bonus of 3500 for every
robber maimed and SI, 000 for every
ono killed. This may seem u cold
blooded scheme, but it is perfectly
legitimate, and wo uro euro that it will
do more to check train robberies than
offers of big rewards for tho capture
of tho criminals after they have onco
escaped with their booty. At any
rate, it gives employes some return for
risking their livea in defenco of rail
road or express property and furniNhes
a stimulus to tho purchase of tho best
weapons as well as to practice, in using
them instantly and tff ctivcly.
Farms in England are selling at a
rninons reduction of their former
value, and in many cases cannot be
sold at all. Many properties within
two hoars' ride of London are de
serted. Iteoetitly at the buIo of Lung
don Abbey 639 aores of land, with
farmhouse, stubling, homestead and
soven modern cottages, only realized
$28,500-, or less than $13 per acre.
Fifteen years ago the property wus
valncd at over $100,000, and fonr
years ago it was mortgaged at 70,000.
In Essex County, within a day's walk
of the Bank of England, a farm whick
in 1875 ronted for 82,000, has for tho
last tivo years rented for $j per annum,
tho occupant paying the taxes, amoutit
iug to about $750. In many cases
farms have been sold for less than
one-tenth of their value twenty years
ago. Well-to-do farmers are aban
doning the business and go
ing to tho colonics or to
cities to start lifo auow. Nor docs
there seem to be any hopeful outlook
for tho industry in the future. Al
though the situation is grievous, there
may bs bo me consolation in tho fact
that it is worso on tho Coutiuout aud
seems to bo equally irremediable. Wo
Lave not yet suffered so severely in
this eouutry.adds the Now York Trib
une, but have by no moans escaped
tho depressing iuiluonces which seem
to have fallen on agriculture every
where. i .
Brown 1 wonder w hy Paynter was
no angry when I nskod him what school
-of art be belonged to? Smith What
aehool? That implies that he lias some
thing to lea ra.-1'uck.
That Bashful Bunker
bt w. jr.
OW pretty sho was as
Hhe aat with her shape
ly fingers danoing on
the keyboard of her
typewriter.
I think in the time
to come when this
6hall have become the
classic period for the
future centuries, as the ancient Greek
is the classio for us of this time, that
instead of the maiden with tho distaQ
as we have, they will have the maiden
at tho typewriter, as one of the beau
tiful figures that make art everlasting.
Her eyes wero so blue, her cheeks
were so pink, and truly, her hair must
have been transplanted from tho banks
of tho Pactolus whoso shifting sands
were crystals of pure gold.
Tho man eat near her dictating a
letter.
On the window pane next to the
slrect were tho words "Hurford,
Blinker &. Co., Brokers," and the man
dictating was the Blinker of tho firm.
Die was also the Hurford and tho Co.,
seeing that ho had bought out every
body else, including the well-known
name of the firm.
And what a man was Blinker
Haverhill Blinker. A bacholor of
forty years' experience, a business
man of largo nnd increasing wealth,
a calculating speculator, a good all
'round follow, and among women tho
very prototype and synonym of basb
fulness. To see him bow and smile to
and at a lady when meeting her would
have led tho most critical to Bay ho
was a courtier of courtiers, but if it
bocamo necessary for him to go be
yond tho bowing and smiling limit,
lifo had no further charms for Haver
hill Blinker. Strango to say, too, ho
was not always conscious of his weak
ness, and there wero timos when he
really thought ho was quite a ladies'
man.
When bo recovered from one of
theso latter attacks he was always sur
rounded by a largo cirolo of sympa
thizing friends (male).
Until within six months ho had
novor been able to persuade, himself
that tho real and only way to accustom
himself to tho use of a woman's eocicty
was to employ a "lady typowritor,"
and then ho did it because u relativo
of his, his aunt, in fact, in a neigh
boring town, had asked him as a spec
ial favor to help tho daughter of an
old school friend of hers, in Boro dis
tress, who was quito a (.killed stenog
rapher and typewriter.
It was cutireiy beyond tho compro
honsibility of Mr. Bilukor'w aunt that
Mr. Blinker would give her employ
ment, but tho aunt thought ho might
know someone, who had a place for her.
Thcrofore, whon he wroto to his nunt
eaying thut ho would givo the young
woman a placo in his office at $40 a
month sho was mora than surprised
sho was delighted, and sunt the golden-haired
daughter of her door old
6choo friend right over to her nephew.
The day sba made her first appear
onco Mr. Blinker was oat when she
called about 11 o'clock, and the office
boy and tho clerk having insisted upon
her remaining for a few minutes until
Mr. Blinker should return, sho sat
down near tho window aud waited,
nover onoo noting tho fact that the
oflico boy and tho clerk wero each put
ting in every moment ol his sparo
time watching her and wondering
what tho mischief business an angel
right from heaven Lad with Mr.
Bliukor.
Whon Mr. Blinker finally appeared,
and tho ollico boy and tho clerk col
lapsed, ho hadn't tho least idea who
sho was, and his heart began to pound
so on tho insido of him that ho
thought it was tho janitor turning on
inoro steam and shaking up tho radi
ators in tho ollico and halls. It wan
tho very first timo he had ever seen a
woman in his ollico, and the experience
was so entirely novel that for an in
stant ho was speochlcsR.
"lathis Mr. Blinker?" the iuquirod,
rising to meet him as ho came hesi
tatingly toward, her,
"Yes'm," responded Mr. Blinker,
as it he wero a schoolboy about to bo
licked for pasting a wet wad ou the
wall. "May I inquiro to what I am
indebted for tho honor of this visit,
ma'am?"
Blinker wonld no more have made
such an egrogiously Billy and stilted
speech as that to a man than he would
have tried to havo told tho truth in
Chicago, bnt this was a woman, and
Blinker was not resuonsible.
"Yoar nunt," said tho visitor, with
a roguish twinklo in her eye, but
Blinker didn't boo it any moro than ho
saw profit in honest politics.
"1 I bog your pardon, ma'am,"
ho stammered.
Thojvcry idea of his saying "Ma'am,"
to a girl liko that! It would have
bcon criminal if Mr. Blinker had beon
responsible.
Then sho told him who sho was, and
tho way Mr. Blinker began to assume
airs and strut around as if ho were a
mighty potentate with a lot of sub
jects was as fanny as it could be.
Now she had beon with him six
mouths, and he sat near her dictating
a letter.
In tho midst of it ho stopped short.
He had boon tempted to do this
many times before. He had studied
the matter thoroughly, as ho thought,
and having considered it in every
light and having deliberated upon it
for many days, and having tried to ac
complish the desired result by every
moans in his knowledge, ho had at last
determined to do this.
Thereforo ho stopped in tho midst
of it.
"I am very sorry, Misa Prince," he
began, quite abruptly, and as if he
wanted to get through with tho dis
agreeable task in a hurry, "but I am
afraid I shall hare to loso you as my
typewriter. .
tins, clutched uJc.e.aly at tho tides
auoTosr
of the maohine as if to support her
self. "W-w-why," she stammered with
qvivering lips, "why, Mr. Blinker,
what have I done that I should be
discharged without warning?"
"But I'm giving you warning," he
said, half with bravado, half with
apology. "Yon don't have to'go right
away."
"I do not want to go at all until I
know why I am going," she argued.
This is all I have in the world, and I
am entitled to know why I am unfitted
for this."
"Ob, it isn't your fault, exaotly,"
ho went on evasively. "There are no
such things, you know, as misfortunes,
which can scarcely be classed as faults.
In your case. Miss Prince, your mis
fortune is that you are too pretty,"
and Mr. Blinker actually tucked his
head to one sido and simpered at hor.
She had been suspicious for a long
time, as most women are when they
havo their wita about them under cir
cumstances similar to those surround
ing Miss Prince end Mr. Blinker, and
sho almost smiled through the mist
that was gathering in her eyes.
"You havo always said, Mr. Blink
er," sho pleaded, "ihat you liked to
sco pretty things in your oflico."
Ho coughed nervously, uneasily.
How many things he had said to her
ho did not know. How many moro ho
wanted to Bay ho did not know. What
ho was now saying he did not know
how he was ever going to finish.
"I know that," ho admitted, "but
sometimos, you know, my dear Miss
Prince, a mnn cannot always have
what ho wants. As long as I was a
bacholor, Miss Priuce, I could do as I
pleated, but I am to bo married, at
least I hope so, and you know a man's
wifo sometimes differs with him on
what may seem to tho world at large
to bo quito trivial points."
Married I
At ono blow all her castles were
thrown to the earth, with not so much
as a corner standing to show that thoy
had ever been other than crumbling
ruins.
True, ho had never 6aid anything
definitely to hor, but there is so much
moro in what is never said, and daily
out of tho unspoken affinity which
surely existed botweou these two con
genial pcoplo the more foolish woman
had constructed such hopes as women
cherish to tho end of time. That ho
had thought enough of her to warrant
tneso hopes, a thousand wordless wit
nesses testified.
Now thus in tho very midst of tho
work that ho had given to hor to do
for him, and that she loved to do bo
cause it was for him, tho blow foil.
"Yes?" t-ho responded to his state
ment in tho faint pathctio question
ing that fills a woman's voico when
sho is thus callod upon to face her
heart's doom, and hor hands uncon
sciously sought to go. on with her
work.
"Yes, Miss Prince," ho said, with no
sound of sympathy in his roico, "and
I am pretty sure my wifo will not per
mit you to remain here as my type
writer. I may say," aud ho simpered
again, "as my pretty typewriter."
Sho never so much as saw the sim
per, and in that far Mr. Blinkor should
havo thanked his good fortune.
"I havo thought tho matter all
over," ho continued, "aud I lcavo it
to you as a fciruiindod woman whether
it is my duty to gain n wifo and loso a
typewriter, or vico versa?"
By this timo sho had rccovorod
from tho primary shock. Sho had
even .begun to wonder how ho had
ever mustered up sufficient courage to
propose to tho futuro Mrs. Bliukcr.
Shu even went further aud luado up
her mind that tho lady was a widow,
and had used tho traditional wilos of
the widow on tho unsuspecting and
bashful Mr, Blinker.
"By all means, Mr. Blinker," sho
said coldly, "gain tho wifo. Tho
world is full of typewriters, but it is
not every day that a man can get a
wife. At least such a wife as you do
serve," and in spito of herself thoro
was something soft iu her tono that
she did not want to bo there.
Mr. Blinker noticed it, too, but he
didn't stop to comment upon it.
"Good for you, Miss Princo," ho
laughed. "I know yon wore a woman
of sense."
Sho shrank as if sho had bcon
touohod with a hot iron.
"Ihauk you, Mr. Blinker," sho said,
"Now, if yon please, wo will go on
with our work."
It had seemed as if a lifetimo had
past sinco sho had written tho last
word, and as she bent down over it, as
if the better soe what it was, atoar fell
npon the lino.
This Mr. Blinkor also observed, but
said nothing, Feoming to onjoy it.
"Boforo wo do, Miss Prince," he
said, "may I ask a favor at your hands
a promise?"
"What is it? Yob," sho answered.
Mr. Blinkor braoed himself.
"That, if this woman whom I am
soon to ask formally to be my wife,"
he said, "should rofuso me, that you
will marry me."
For an insto' the girl looked at
him, then sbofjio to her feet, hor eyes
fairly blainj,.
Mr. Blinker saw that tho tigress was
about to spring, and he was fright
ened. "Wait, Rtop!"ho exclaimed, hold
ing up his haudd as if to shield himsolf
from the blow. "Hold oj till I tell
you who tho woman is. It's you, Miss
Prince you yon yon 1 Won't you
marry mo? Will yon bo my wife?
Haven't you always known I didn't
care a cent for any womau on earth but
you? Ruth, darling, don't look at
mo like that I"
Mr. Blinker was going all to pieoos
mentally and emotionally, and tho
yonng woman took pity on him, for it
dawned nuoa hor 11 at once that tho
more bashful a bachelor is the more
ridiculous he is in love, and the only
way to prevent a tender emotion from
becoming ludicrous is to accept it on
the spot-
Which she did, and Mr. Kinter
never bad another pretty typewriter.
New York San.
, Ills "Little Feller."
"I happened to be down in my cel
lar the other morning when the ash
man came around to collect the ashes,"
raid a gentleman who resides in Second
avenue. "I was opening a barrel of
great red apples at the time, and when
the big, dust-covered and necessarily
untidy man came baok with the empty
ash barrel I pioked op an apple and
held it out toward him, saying as I did
eo:
" 'Won't you havo an apple?
"He took it eagerly, saying as he
did so :
" 'Thank ye, sir; I've a little feller
at home who'll be tiokled to death to
git it. I most always find something or
other in the ash barrels to carry home
to 'in at night, but it ain't often I git
anything equal to this big apple. I
tell ye tho little feller's eyes will shine
when ho sees it.'
"I don't know how many times that
day my thoughts were of that big,
rough-handed fellow, with that apple
put away so carefully in his pocket for
that 'little fellor.'
'Whon evening cams I thought of
tho 'littlo feller' who was on the look
out for the big, dust-covered father,
with the calloused and soiled hands,
but with tne truo heart and kindly
word that made him a king in the eyes
of that 'little feller.'
"It must have been a vory poor and
hnmblo home to which the man went
at tho close of his weary day, but then
there was the 'littlo follcr's' proieneo
to irako boautiful cvon tho bare walls
and floors and to bring the love light
to his father's cyeo and joy to his
father's heart
"These 'littlo fellers' glorify and
beautify many a home in which pov
erty abides. But human affections
can sweetly and patiently endure toil
and rags and poverty whon there is a
'littlo feller' to meet and greet the
fnthor when tho long day is done."
Detroit Freo Tress.
Clim.ito and Movement.
"Tho most important physical fac
tor in determining lines of movement,"
toys a well known man of science,
"haj been climato. Speaking broadly,
migration follows the parallels of lati
tude, or, moro precisely, tho lines of
cqualjmean 'tomperature, and not so
much, I think, of mean annual heat as
of menu winter heat. Although tho
inhabitants of cold climates often
evince a desire to move into warmer
onos, they soom never to transfer
thomsclves directly to ono differing
greatly from that to which they are
accustomed ; while no people of tho
tropicB has ever, so far as 1 know,
settled in f any part of tho temperate
zone.
"There is one instanoo of a North
European race establishing itself on
tho southern shoros of tho Mediter
ranean tho Vandals in North Afrioa,
and the Bulgarians came to the banks
of tho Dan u bo from tho still sterner
winters of the middlo Volga. But in
tho few cases of northward movement,
as in that ot the Lapps, tho cause lies
in tho irresistible pressure of stronger
neighbors; and probably a similar
pressuro drove tho Fuegiansinto thoir
inhospitable isles.
"The tendency to retain similar
climatio conditions is illustrated by
tho colonization of North America.
Tho Spaniards aud Portuguese took
the tropical aud sub-tropic:il regions,
neglecting tho cooler 'parte. The
French and tho English settled in tho
temperate zone, and it wus not till
this century that tho eouutry toward
tho Gulf of Mexico began to bo oo
cupiod by incomers from the Carolines
and Northern Georgia. When tho
Scandinavian immigration began it
flowed to tho Northwest and has filled
tho states of Wisconsin, Minnesota
and tho Dakotas." Now York Horald.
tirades of Mackerel.
"Mackerel only comes in three
grades," said a well known grocery
man, "though there is not one buyer
in each thousand who knows anything
about it. Those grades are bloators,
selects and extras. They ure also
known ns Nos. 1, 2 and 3. Number
onos should measure thirteen inchos
from the tip of the nose to the crutch
of tho tail ; number twos should be
not loss than eleven and a halt inches
long, all sizes smaller are lumped un
der tho general head ot number three.
The terms bloaters, Bulects and extras
rofer to the quality and condition, and
not to the aize. Mess mackerel means
that tho heads and tails hare been re
moved. In tho case ot mackerel tho
fatter tho fish tho better is tho quality.
Mackerel are also referred to as Nor
ways and shores. This indioatos
whero thoy nro caught. Shores are
not as fat as Norways. Tho maokerel
caught off Prince Edward island and
known as islands should be of a dark
red color. Thoso caught in the St.
Lawrence Bay aro known as 'bays,' the
meat of which in darker than that of
the 'islands.'" Washington Star.
Fortuua for $70.
Several days ago (ho schooner
Robert I. Carter struok on Aldan's
Book, off tho coast of Maine, and to
all appearances was a total loos.
Nautical experts agroed that she would
loave her bones thero and her owners
stripped her and sold tho hulk to
Charles Bartlott, who bought it for
$70 "on spoc." Wind and tido floated
the sohooner off, and to tho amaze
ment of the salts she drifted np Fort
land Harbor. Bartlett had hor towed
in. She is worth 815,000 and has be
sides a cargo of 1200 tons of coal, most
ot which is eatable. Boston Transcript.
EOIMIDS DIET FOB FIELDS.
Wherever there is a low place beside
the road accumulating the wash from
the road bed the soil will probably be
rich enough to pay for plowing np and
carting into adjoining fields. This
will improve the road as well, as' it
makes a place into which its surplus
moisture will flow. But the dirt
should be closely examined to see
that it does not contain quack roots,
which often find lodgment on road
sides without getting into adjoining
fields.
. KNEE 8PBCKO HOHSKsC
In reply to my friend McLellen I
cheerfully givo him my views on
paper in regard to tbo subject in
question, writes Charles R. Wood, V.
S. I wish every blacksmith was as
anxiout to qualify himself as ho is.
There is considerable diversity of
opinion as to the causos of this defect,
which is not considered a disease.
While some assert that it is due to a
relaxed and lengthened state of the
extensors, others are equally positive
in attributing it to contraction of tho
flexors, und thus destroying the equi
librium of said flexors and extensors.
Neither of these hypotheses seems
to be verified by dissections of the
forelegs, which invariably disclose
permanent shortening of the liga
ments at the hinder part of tho knee.
Various experiments raado confirm
this theory. The ligaments at tho
back of tho knee, being shorter than
tbey thonld be, tho animal naturally
refrains from putting them ou tho
trctcb, the couscquence being that
when standing the extensors are a lit
tle relaxed and the kuco bent forward.
In timo this abnormal position be
comes permanent.
Though blistering and rost may ef
fect some improvement, hard and fast
work will bring on the trouble again.
Let the animal bo shod with a moder
ately high heel, or shoos growing
thinner from toes to heel. It is now
generally conceded thot a horse which
is knee-sprung cannot bo permanently
cured of tho defect, as the ligaments
directly posterior to tho knee aro per
manently shortened.
We have used shoos with low or thin
heels. In this wo havo to a great ex
tent adopted tho views of most veter
inary writers, but having never re
ceivod any deoidod benefit from such,
we have tried the eflect of using high
heeled thoes with considerable satis
faction, nnd on this theory explain
the fact that the ligaments', above
montioncd, boing permanently con
tracted, they cannot be extended.
The animal while in motion does
not seem to ho troubled by the defect,
but the moment he is permitted to
stand the kuees are slightly bent to
ease the ligaments. When high-heeled
shoes aro worn the tendons are never
stretohed, even temporarily, and the
animal has always (without any effort
on his part) a solid foundation to stand
npon, thuH affording considerable ease
when tho ligaments aro involved. We
are freo to adviso our patrons to adopt
this method of shoeing. From my
standpoint I do not think a heel ought
to bo extremely low or high; that must
be governed by the length of tho pas
tern joint. A happy medium will
answer any purpose.
An animal suffering from navicular
disease ia invnri bly knee sprung, nnd
when tho troublo about tho foot is
obviated, the legs generally assumo
their normal positjou, especially alter
neurotomy is performed. There is no
doubt in my mind that compelling a
horse with this troublo to travel with
a low heel increases tho difficulty very
materially ; the loss leverago upon tho
parts tho better ho will be. Boston
Cultivator.
BUST IN SMALL OBAtV.
Speaking of the rust diseases that
attaok wheat, oats barley and grases
in North Carolina, Professor MoCarthy,
ot the State Agricultur.il Experiment
Station, says:
The three fnngi whioh attack grasses
and cereals do not all have the same
alternate host. Pucinnia graminis has
for altornate hosts tho garberry, ma
honia and probably other shrubs.
Puoinnin ooronata has lor its alternate
hosts the buck thorns, llhamus lance
olota, frangula and other species.
Pucinnia Itubigo-vera has for its al
ternate hosts tho common and disa
greeable weeds Viper's buglas, Eeh
ium vulgare and Uromwell Litbosper
mum arvense.
Knowing that to complete this cycle
of growth these fungi require a host
widely diflerent from grasses and
grains if we could extirpate all such
host plants within a half a mile or bo
of a grain or grass field wo could ef
fectually stop their farther develop
ment. Yet we cannot hope to exi
terminate these pests in one or two
seasons, even by completely destroying
their alternate host plant. Once tho
"Bed rust" or uredo spores of the
Coronata and Kubigo-vera species are
produced on grain or cereals, these in
our warm climate, where growing
glumaceous plants are found in a
green condition all the year round,
may go on reproducing themselves in
definitely, as well as producing at the
same time the succeeding black form,
the teleuto spores, which are thon ablo
to stock the ground or infect any
chanco alternato host plant which neg
ligenoo .or acoident may allow to re
main. As those pores are extremely small
and light, and are produoed in almost
incredible numbers, tho few alternato
host plants which mir n.:..
the most careful care may ,
aecidio Bpores enough to inflict M
dreds of acres of grass or grain. 1
Common and destrndi
fnniri are ia tha TTnitp,t ...
,7 - wr Its IrQ VfJSf lfl I 1
rolifi thAv H11 . ' 01Jt
........ j ..... uuio 80 tujy,l
era! conventions of scient;r.n 'l
tsiAriia1 fermea V a a i
to devise methods for repressing
Practical experience reeommeu&iJ
following measures:
1. Use dry or well drained ljj
cm nil nrm'na 1
2. Plant only hard BtemmcJ, W
early maturing varieties of w!ia'. 1
3. Plant those varieties which in t J
"Bust proof" wheat and oats.
4. Sow thinlv tn div i1o.,t.
i;i mA .t. '.k- - ' 01 w
J J , uw nuu Hit vvs uu i l U U V
5. rioxr the lanA dcetv a
tho crop is harvested to destroytj
uuiter gruwiu, ur uurn tlie nr
and striw on the field. Tiis htv'
yum ia uvm utio KruU 13 grojj
a largo scaie.
C. Carefully search out ami li,
all alternate host plants fouul titiJ
uua-uuti iuiiu ui a n ueH( or Oftt 'if
7. Rotato crops so that some kJ
a rttrior tinirt rrPdoiion in i '1
11-- 1 - I V A '-4
come ou tuu lauu eucu iwo yearboat
tnree.
8. The use of fungicidal sprsri
growing grain nas not so tar ejTen(
isfactory results. The best
solution oi iron suipnate. 2. f,w
sucrate. Directions: Anp'.v ;';
finest possible spray as t-uou it H
grain begins to flower r.-puat erd
icu uava uuim niuiu m iu Ue
Then harvest it.
EFFECT OK FE3D UPON" THE C0irra5;r,
OF MILK.
rccttnas very little, if nny, efd
npon tuo quality of null:. Kvnn!
wo refer to tho per cent, or wk;
of total solid matter in the miik. h
a well-reoognised fact that sosiJtJ
auccc tuo tiavor oi uuli; nn.l mi
ncu in protein have a temitaer sto
ly to inoreaso the percentile of fat
caso of some cows; the snmo cum
said of feeds rioh in fat. This incied
is probably only tempornrv, hoset;
the milk gradually coming bsc-ito:!
normal composition. Auimil; ml
thin in flesh and iusufiicieiitlv lei
1. 1.1. 1 . 1 . T,.
urougui iu.10 goou conuiuun tjproj
er leea, win probably ticM wli
rather better' quality. Thu iapiod
ment in quality will not, as s rule, sf
very marked. The milk-proud
function is to a large extent under til
control of the nervous sr.stca. l:i
infineuce that disturbs tho uit
normal condition of tho animal, be
rough usage, extremes of tempered
exposure to rain, etc., will bmi
eflect upon the quality of tbc ail
On tho otber uand plenty of goodfe
increases the quantity of milk catM
animal reaches her maximum .toe:
tion. What has been said rer-'1
to tho influence of feed upon the q-J
ity of milk is equally truo rohi:w
tho amount of butter thut can be ml
from a given quantity of milk. N
method of feeding has vet been d
covered that so improves the qaa
of tuo rank as to inko a givcaqjil
tity of milk produce more Latter
ono time than another. The ip
of milk varies dnrinr; the diffi-rd
stages of lactation, but this is tat:
independent of the influenced ki
Tho above statements ure based ona
teachings of carefully cocaicted (1
peruncut. They are courart
the general belief that tho better '4
animal is fed the better the qualitjfl
the milk produced.
Tho writer is of tho opinion l
two feedings, morning aad lute rf
noon, aro sufficient dad v. Thcioif
thus fed is abundantly abie to die
that is necessary for her welfare, 15
cow desires considerable time t"
niasticato her feed, and there
Burely be no advantage in the mitt
feeding. Feeds that are liahlo to W
the milk should bo fed nuau'diu
after milkinc.
Cows should bo watered twice ill
if possible, namely, after the bw'H
and ovenioer fondincr. It is 5n
advantage to have tho chill iM
frnni ttiH wntpr in u-inter.
Average cows' milk hoi the tM
inir rnmnnKttinn I
Water 1
Fat.
CiiBelu and ulbumon (eiirJ) Tl
Ml'k suar jl
ASH
The average composition of m1'
P.I.I .nil la l't! f
Perot. I'm1,
Ho!stein 11.8
Ayrshire .... I'i.i
Blionhura I'J.'J
Oavon 13
Jurat y 14.7
QuHrusey 14.7
jTTiunu ............ . - I
Containing milk, siiRar, curl, u"-
vtiiiio ma anove uhui- $j
Iftkpn an toii. thnv do not oe
every cow of a distinct breed
milk of the above oompoiWJ
fact, a great many Jersey P-j
milk with four per cent, of '"VS
families and individual eu' 1
Holstein breed yield milt M
many Jersevs or Gucrnseya.-1' j
No. 39, Massachusetts t:?crpj
Station. J
Tokio, Japan, bag adopted
Bvatemfor the two mil's u; ,
railroad which it has benl'"
bnild at a oost of S'-'.OOO.O