THE I1IDDLEBURGS POST.
GEO. W, WAGEXSELLER, '
Editor and Proprietor
Btodlescboh, Pa., Sept. 2, 1897.
It is estimated that 82,000,000,000 cf
vtr material was afloat on the occasion
of the British naval review at Spit
head. This is a pretty little sum.
Evidently peace nowadays comes at a
high price.
Alaskan enthusiasts who are not to
be discoutaged by the stories of high
prices of the necessaries of life per
haps think they can make up for the
other expenses by saving on their ice
bills, suggests the Chicago Record.
British enthusiasts who wished to
celebrate what they call the thousandth
anniversary of the foundation of
England's navy by King Alfred have
beeu snubbed by young Mr. Chain
lwrlain, who is Civil Lord (if the Ad
miralty, with the statement that the
navy department has hud enough cele
bration for this year.
English Presbyteriuns are natur
ally making much of the laying of the
corner-stone at Cambridge of the
Westminster Theological college. One
of their papers remarks that this re
turn to Cambridge and to "classic
ground" is one of the most important
events which have happened in the
history of the English Presbyterian
church.
That scheme for a state railroad to
run from its northern boundary to the
Gulf is again being agitated in Texas.
Some of the talk is wild, but lots of it
is quite sensible, maintains the New
England Homestead. If New York
state can build and operate the Erie
canal, finally making it free nud ap
propriating an extra S!),000,0()0 for its
improvement, w hy may not the Em
pire state of the great Southwest have
a state railway. The purpose of both
enterprises is regulation of freight
rates. If the Texas scheme should
work as well in this prospect as the
Erie canal has done, it would be more
than viudicnted.
The Indian mail brings a remark
able detective story. The detective
was a professor Haukiu. It was the
cholera microbe he was after. Thirteen
people had sat at mess in Sangor.
Nine of them got sick. Three had
cholera. One died. The witirobev
was detected in a water-pot in the
kitchen. But the supply from which
that pot was filled was pure. The
dish cloth.however turned out to have
been dried on an infected sand bank.
Conveyed into the kitchen, the microbe
uad not only got into the water-pot,
but into a chocolate pudding. There
it yielded 4000 million cholera mi
crobes in eighteen hours. Chocolate
pudding has been off at Kuugor since.
One of the most promising tields in
the world for the motor car is West
ern Australia. There are thousands
of miles of rlut country, and into this,
auriferous region English ccpital is
flowing in big blocks. The Western
Australian government is borrowing
all the money it can to open up this
region, and for many years to come
there will be a great deal of activity
here in connection w ith property that
has to be carried long distances. The
camel is the beast of burden now, but
the bicycle is beginning to drive him
out. Miners find that they can puck
fair-sized loads on the wheels and get
over the country rapidly. A local
syndicate has been formed in Mel
bourne to manufacture motor cars,
aud it is expected that this means of
conveyance will force out all others.
The New York World in a recent is
sue publishes official data showing
that the situation in the state is most
distressing. From the figureB cited
by the New York paper it appears that
within the past two years something
like 131 murders have been committed
in New York city, for which only seven
persons have been sentenced to death
and eight to life imprisonment. Out
of the total number of murders com
mitted during this interval, tifty-one
are shrouded in deep mystery, aud
the perpetrators of these foul crimes
are still at large. Based upon the
penal records of the past two years, as
reproduced in the columns of the
World, the chances of a murderer's
reaching the gallows or the execu
tioner's chair in New York are one in
eighteen; of life imprisonment, one
in sixteen, and of escape altogether
one in three. This record is, indeed,
most appalling.
Tnre l always hope beyond; we are
bound to Lave colder weather next
winter.
CASTLES.
Th tottorinjr walla, the (rambling arch.
The columns. tb work of art.
Are mingled with briar and weed and.
It rime
A fitting counterpart,
In telling the tale of the long ago.
Of the east lea where lord and liege
The legions defied, but that fell before
Old Time's relentless siege.
But the eorneretones were deeply laid.
Below the rage of the storm.
And mark the spot that will tell the tale
To the ages yet unborn.
But nothing remains of the lores and hope
Of the princely dwellers there.
No pillar are left, no fragments are found,
Of their castle in the air.
let the castles of Love, and the temples of
Hope.
And Ambition's gorgeous goal,
Ilave aisles ai broad and domes as high
As the concept of the Soul.
Delusions may come and Illusions may go,
The mirage may bring despair,
let oheer to the soul, and joy to the heart,
Are castles in the air.
They take us away from the plod and the
grind.
Away from life's wearisome road,
And promise that somehow, In days to
come.
We shall bear us a lighter load.
Hope's anchor Is fastened within the veil
Of the faith abiding there;
We smile at care and banish griot
From our castles in the air.
Our castles may vanish, but never decay,
Like the casljes we have seen,
With moss-covered ruin the Joer of the
winds.
And the sport of the Ivy green.
But grander aud higher we build anew
Ho high that we seem to be where
The snugs of the anguls nil the dome
Of nur castles in the air.
Will Cum back. In Indianapolis Journal.
REFORMATION
OF SHEPHERD.
By R. CLYDE FORD.
isieieiGiGfceiaaej
REDGENo. 4was
stationed one
summer on the
range between
Bay Mills and
Point aux Pins.
The quarter-bout
for the hands,
"Sibeery," the
0&
night men called it from the time it
had been so christened by Joe Shep
herd in a fit of melancholy and despair,
was anchored in a little sandy cove ou
the Canadian side of the river near the
Point. The gouge in the shore line
here was due wholly to the removal of
sand by a "sand sucker," a contrivance
fitted np by the Canadians to get sand
for their new locks at the Soo. How
ever much the night men said they
disliked the constant wheezing and
puffings of the sucker, aud the un
couth machine itself, which they
claimed had sot fire to their last yenr's
quarter-boat and compelled them to
crawl out of a sound n!eep in the mid
dle of the forenoon, leaving watches
and clothes behind, still, in reality,
they did not object very much to the
snoker after all. It was their only re
laxation, their only excitement in the
lonesome hours of their quarter-boat
life.
"Mighty hot Sibeery, ain't it, boys?"
Joe would remark, when about ' 10
o'clock the men came down from their
hot rooms to sit in disconsolate groups
in the shade of the house on broken
anchor chains and dredge machinery.
"Might jest about as well be a Canuck
aud run a sand-sucker," ha would
grumble on, peering through clouds
of smoke from his corn-cob pipe out
into the cleor water, where, forty or
fifty feet away, the long pipe of the
sucker was feeling about on the bot
tom and pulling a steady stream of
sand and water up into the big scow
which served as a sort of stomach for
it And then some late comer would
appear with suspenders dragging, and
after contemplating the progress of the
pumping, would call out to the imper
turbable saud-sucker men, "That's
right, fellers, dig away; you need sand,
you fellers dot" And, in spite of Joe's
expostulating snort that the night crew
needed sand, too, this continued to be
the regular duily joke whioh the for
saken party on Sibeery hurled at her
majesty a subjects on the sucker.
It was a strange sort of regimen
which prevailed on the dredge. When
there were places to be filled anybody
who offered himself was accepted. No
questions were asked. It was, how
ever, expected that no one would get
drunk while on duty. What one did
when off duty was of no consequence,
The great channel between Duluth
aud Buffalo was strictly international,
and anybody could help dig it, be he
Jew or Oeutile, white or black. Per
eonal history counted for nothing, for
pedigree and past life were never made
subjects of study on the river. The
river is one place in this democratic
land, at any rate, where, as the poet
says, "There ain't no ancient history
to bother you nor me.
The make-up of the night crew was
remarkable, aud it had some striking
characters in it. But the most re
markable man of all who sat down to
midnight dinner on No. 4 was Joe
Shepherd. He was tall and slim, al
most luthy indeed, and not rery old.
He stooped slightly with the languor
ous etoop of a scholar, but was not
one. His face, turned a dusky brown
by the wind and weather of the chan
nel, was marked by a nose, large and
plump, and burned a still fiercer red
than the rest of his face. Joe's nose
was a flaming promontory in a parched
Sahara. Surmount his face by a soft
wool hat, and imagine him dressed in
fairly good clothes, and you have Joe
Shepherd, the person. But it would
take long acquaintance to know Joe
Shepherd, the man, the real personal
ity, which was at once the life and
soul what little there was of the
night crew.
Joe was the boss at night, the "run
ner" in the Ternacular of the dredge.
He presided over the machinery in the
engine room and regulated the great
crane and dipper. Ia the ghostly
electric light he presented a stracge
appearance, as Been from a tttg or
passing barge, his tall, gaunt figure
bending over the lever, which he
pushed forward or backward at a mo
tion from the cranesman till the crane
groaned or creaked. Occasionally hia
hand wonld reach up to the whistle
signal, and a hoarse, bellowing blast
would warn some passing steamer
where it was to go. Sometimes, too,
he would sing at his work, for he had
a good voice. His favorite song was
a kind of river lyric:
"An' the waters sweep tn
As we dig away
At the bottom oMhe river tied;
An' the boat creep on
As we list away
That's how we earn r bread.
"Battle an' creak o' the erane.
An' up with 'e anchor post;
On with the work again,
'TIs a dreary life at most,
'lis a dreary life at most.
An' the day sweep on
As we work away
Wherever falls the lead;
An' our lives creep on
Till our hearts gl' way
That' how we earn 'r bread.
"Rattle an' creak o' the crano,
An' up with 'e anchor post;
On with the work again,
'TIs a weary life at most,
'TIs a weary lite at most."
If the night crew had stopped to
think they could have seen that Joe
was their superior in everything but
morals. Morally dredge men are
pretty much alike. He swore like the
rest, he talked illiterately like the rest,
but now and then there would flash
into his oonversation an expression
beautifully turned, some illusion foreign
to his surroundings, indicating a life
and history not quite covered up by
the ooze of the river. But whatever
he might have been, it was evident
that he had shaped himself so long to
his environment that the adaptation
had become real life with him.
Joe's besetting sin was drink. In
this he did not differ any from the rest,
but one noticed it more in him because
the gentleman was not quite rubbed
out of him. Whenever the tug went
to the Soo in the day time, Joe went
along if he could get passage from Hi
berry, and he always came back with,
gourd-like i nose colored a more pro
nounced red. Joe had a wife, too, who
lived in a little house in the Soo, but
she did not see much of him. He went
to town over Sunday, but he spent
most of Saturday night with the bons
vivants of Water street, afid he did
not rest Sundays. Of oonrsy he ought
not to have been able to find liquor on
a Sunday, but whoever knows the river
and the river world, will see nothing
remavkable in this.
The men said Joe's wife took his
dissipation very much to heart for she
was young and un utter stranger ia the
town. And of course a wife wholboks
forward through a long week of lone
Bomo4ies8 to seeing her husband Sat
urday night, is wretched and cries
from disappointment if he does not
come home till Sunday afternoon, and
drunk at that. Women are so peculiar
about such things.
The Fourth of July came, that year
in the middle of the week, aud at four
o'clock in the morning of the eventful
day Joe blew a long blast of the
whistle, and the dredge stopped work.
As soon as the men could wash np the
tug took them down to Sibeery, where
a few hoarse shrieks brought out the
"exiles" who could sleep nights "as
white orter," said Joe. Everybody
put on his best clothes and took ail
the money he had. The term "best
clothes" among dredge men does not
mean much; a $10 suit at most, a
white shirt with a few tobacco stains
on the bosom, a collar laundered once
or twice in the course of the summer,
aud a necktie of glaring colors such
it is to bo well dressed ou the river.
By six o'olock the tug was puffing
away toward the Soo with almost the
whole population of No. 4 aboard of
her.
There is no need to particularize
specially as to the adventures of the
day. Everybody celebrated with a
will; celebrated as only river men
whose miuds are filled with the sig
nificance of the day can celebrate. The
night fireman of the dredge was drunk
by ten o'clock. Bill Sykes, the day
cranesman, was in the lock-up by
noon. Roddy, fireman of the tug,
took part in three fights in the course
of the day and was worsted in all of
them. But Joe Shepherd was unusu
ally methodical and moderate in his
jollification. He drank copiously at
his own and other people's expense;
but he combined exercise and pleasure
so carefully that he was "still on the
range" at noon. But his nose showed
certain telltale signs. Joe's nose was
like the water gauge of a boiler. One
could tell about how he was filling up
by it. At four o'clock the day runner
went to the tug and blew a few short
whistles, the rallying whistle for the
men. Aud soon they came those
that were coming at all but with steps
very measured and slow. Now and
then sotne of them would be moved to
tears from patriotic fervor and stop to
embrace one another and thank heaven
they were citizens of our great repub
lic all of this within a step of the
canal.
Last of all caroe Jos, somewhat per
tur)ed in manner, but still enduring.
He was singing with all his might the
refrain of his favorite song, with some
variations:
"Rattle V creak o' the crane,
An' up with 'e anchor post;
On with the work again,
'TIs a blamed hard life at most
'71s a blamed hard life at moat."
He had just started on this for the
third or fourth time when a little wo
man turned the corner and came np
by the side of him. The song died on
Li i;r. "r; . i,i.m.i ur
was the end of it.
"Joe," said the woman, "yon
haven't been home this week now
and" "Mrs. Shepherd," inter
rnpted Joe oratorically, "thjs is the
day we celebrate. The nation's wel
fare is Here ha stumbled and did
not finish his sentence. . .
. "But Joe, you didnt come home
last Sunday, either, and I git so lone
some all alone," and the woman began
to cry. 3y this time the two were up
near the tug.
"Oh, come, now, Mrs. Shepherd,
Julia dear, guess you'd better go back,
you'll be hinderin' proper navigation
on the canal here."
"I don't care, I won't go back, not
now axyway. If you're goin off I'm
goin' to see you Ami rut," and she
fastened resolutely to Jee's arm with
one hand, atnl wiped her ewes with
the other. Joe was embarrassed and
conscience-smitten. And it was as
ordeal to appear like this before the
men, some of whoa did not even
know he was married. While the pro
visions were being put aboard and the
last stragglers collected, Joe sat near
by on a stick of timber, with his wife
holding to his arm. When all was
ready the captain yelled "all aboard,"
and blow the whistle. Joe rose to go.
"Give me a kiss, Joe, please," said
his wife, and he hesitatingly and awk
wardly kissed her. Then he stepped
on the tug and the woman was alene
by the canal.
Joe was sobering up fast, but he
talked with nobody and during the
run back to the dredge stood by him
self on the bow and let the cool breeze
clear the cobwebs from his brain.
That night the dredge started up again
with Joe rnnning. For several hours
he soarcely spoke, but toward
midnight he turned to the inspector,
who stood near. "Mr. Hunter, a man
who gets drunk is a fool, ain't he?"
he asked, hilf in question, half in
meditation.' "Yes," answered the in
spector tersely. "Then I'll quit it,"
said Joe, and he kept his word.
A Mercurial Monarch.
To those who are nooustomed to
look upon Oriental potentates and dig
nitaries as the impersonification of re
pose and decorous gravity, most of
them being so impassive that it is per
fectly impossible to interpret their
feelings, the King of Siam is a perfeot
revelation, says a correspondent. He
is literally bubbling over with enthus
iasm, excitement, curiosity and de
light and impresses everybody that
has met him since his arrival in Eu
rope as being the jolliest little fellow
imaginable. He is always smiling
when he is not laughing outright,
never bows without a smile of suoh
broadness that it is almost a full
fledged grin, and dashes off his hat
with suoh a grand and vehement ges
ture that he almost knocks over the
people nearest him. He can do noth
ing calmly, and managed, by his an
tics, to keep the somber and unhappy
looking King Humbert in altogether
abnormally good spirits throughout his
entire stay at Borne. He made a per
fect show of , himself at the capitol.
He ran from statue to statue, looking
at them all round, in front, at the back
and even underneath. When he saw
the capitol Venus his enthusiasm knew
no bounds, and he actually jumped,
shouted and slapped his thighs .with
admiration. In fact, he is so lively
that the stately biased officials of the
various courts of Europe, where he is
visiting, are in a great state of pertur
bation.' He has already been nick
named "King Quicksilver," owing to
the rapidity with which he does every
thing, even his speaking of the Eng
lish language.
Ieperate Wile of Wheelman.
Only desperate necessity could urge
a wheelman to take such chances as
were faced one day recently by Joseph
E. Everett of Brick Church, N. J.
Mr. Everett is a lawyer, and having a
most important engagement iu a neigh
boring town, determined to take the
morning train to the place in question.
He miscalculated the time, and did
not discover his orror until warned by
the train whistle. He is elderly, but
is an expert wheelman, and, jumping
into the saddle, he dashed off to the
depot. Just as the train started per
sons on the platform saw him riding
with head down and feet moving like
piston rods down Harrison street to
the railroad. At the crossing the cy
olist turned on to the gravel track be
tween the rails and scorohed down the
road after the fast-receding train. As
the last cor passed Evergreen place,
moving at a speed which would have
caused an experienced train jumper to
hesitate, the cyclist rode abreast of
the rear platform. Still pedaling with
one foot and grasping the bar with
one hand, the scorcher reached over
and clutched the railing oh the plat
form. With a quick movement he
swung himself clear of the saddle,
drawing his wheel after him by twin
ing his other foot around the frame,
and landed safely on the steps of the
car The feat was witnessed by at
least twenty persons, and all agreed
that it had beat the record for any
trick riding any of them had ever
seen. Washington Star.
Wooing and Wedding In Alaska.
Wooing and wedding in Alaska
among the natives are interesting and
peculiar rites. When a young man is
of a suitable age to marry, his mother,
his aunt or his sister looks up a wife
for him. He seldom marries a w.oman
younger than himself; she is much old
er, and sometimes is double his age,
and even more. She is selected from
a family whose position equals his, or
is even higher. When a suitable wo
man is found the young man is asked
how many blankets and animal skins
he is willing to pay for her. When
that important question is settled, a
feast is arranged in the home of the
bride and the friends of both families
are invited. When the company is as
sembled the woman's people extol the
greatness of their family. The young
man's marriage gifts are spread out
where they will make a fine show, and
then his family sound , their praises.
The ceremony lasts from one to two
days, and finally the young man takea
his wife to his own abode.
Clover Seed.
If the farmer wants a crop of clover
seed, he should out the first crop as
early as possible, says Hoard's Dairy
man. The clover plant is a biennial.
That means that it takes two years for
it to blossom and seed. Now, if the
first crop is allowed to stand until it
blossoms, and the seed commences to
form, there will be but very little seed
in the second crop. The point is, to
turn all the seeding instinct and power
of the root into the second crop.
Hence, the necessity of cutting the
first crop much earlier than is usually
done, when it is cut for hay alone.
Preventing Egg-Eating.
If an egg is broken the hens will eat
it, and it is by eggs being broken that
the hens learn the vioe, as they never
eat eggs unless they first find one
broken. The only way to prevent the
hens from eating eggs after they once
begin is to make a nest with a top,
compelling the hen to walk in to reach
the nest, and have the box raised ten
inches from the floor, so that the hen
cannot stand near the box to eat the
eggs. When she goes on the nest she
cannot do any harm, as she must come
off and stand up to eat the eggs.
Bale For Chicken Raiser.
P. H. Jacobs, in the Poultry Keeper,
gives a few rules that should be often
referred to by chicken raisers:
Ten hens iu a house 10x10 feet are
enough. The yard should be at least
ten times as large as the floor of the
house. Tert weeks from shell to mar
ket is the time allotted a broiler chick.
Ten cents a pound is about the-aver
age price of hens in market for the
whole year.
Ten cents should feed a chicken ten
weeks, and it should then weigh two
pounds.
Ten months a year is usually the
highest limit of time during whioh a
hen will lay.
Ten hens with one male is about the
proper proportion.
Ten quarts of corn, or its equivalent,
should feed a hen ten weeks, if she is
of a large breed, but ten quarts for
three months is a fairer proportion.
Ten pounds is a good weight for
males of the larger breeds, one year
old.
Ten eggs is the average number to
each pound.
Ten flocks, each consisting of ten
hens, are enough for an acre.
Ten chicks, when just hatched,
weigh about one pound.
Ten hens should lay about 1000 eggs
during tno year. This allows for some
Jaying more than 100 eggs each, while
others may not lay so many.
' Moulting.
From July to December is the moult
ing or sheddintr period for the noultrv.
It takes about one hundred days from
the time a hen first commences to moult
nntil the process is completed. Some
hens will commence to moult much
earlier than others, thus finishing be
fore the cold weather sets in. This is
very desirable, as hens seldom lay
during the moult, or the larger part of
it, therefore if they oommence early,
thns finishing early, it will be a deci
ded gain, for then they can be gotten
in a laying condition before cold
weather, and we all know what that
means. The feathers are composed
largely of nitrogen ani lmneraj mj
tcr. The first process is the loosening'
stage, when the feathers loosen and
drop out, at times leaving the bird
almost naked, thus cold and disease
(from exposure) are apt to follow.
Heus should be carefully housed if the
weather is at all cold or damp. When
the new, feathers commence to come
in it causes a great drain on the
hen's body, especially of suoh sub
stances as goes to furnishing nitrogen
and mineral matter. Corn, wheat, etc.,
furnish the hen principally with car
bon (fat), etc., while grass, bags,
worms, etc., furnish the nitrogen aud
mineral matter. Thus we see that the
foods best adapted to the moulting sea
son are the nitrogeneous foods. It
will be seen from the above that at this
period the hens Bhould have unlimited
range, so that they can themselves
gather a good supply of such articles
as they need. Tho Epitomist.
Lining Large Iteck Out of the Ground.
Field boulders Are usually buried
either wholly or iu part in the surface
of the ground. To pull such a boul
der out of the ground requires an enor
mous amount of power, unless muoh
hand digging is given beforehand.
The sketch herewith shows a way to
lift the stone as it is dragged out by a
team of horses or oxen. The inclined
WAT TO MOVE HEAVI STONES.
stiok can be placed as near to the
boulder as is practicable and as it
rises to the perpendicular it of course
lifts the stone. The bight of the prop
will depend upon the size and depth
of the stone. The knack of "knowing
how" to do such things often saves a
vast amount of work. American Agri
eulturist.
How to Grow pickle.
Before we can think of pickling ou
cumbers wi must grow them, and that
It not always an easy matter, especial'
;w fix
ly where the blight (leaf-blight
bacterial blight) is a sure annual vuil
tor. This disease often (pernio,
usually, here and in many other local,
ities) sweeps through the patches, first
taking a plant here and there, and eon
tinning its attacks until every plant ia
the patch," long before the end of the
season, has succumbed, ThewtyU
to plant on strictly new soil, prefer.
aoiy some sanay or mucgy loam.rather
moist than otherwise, but thoroughly
drained. Persistent spraying with
Bordeaux mixture seems tohave good
effect in keeping foliage healthy, Md
if Paris green is added to it, in keep
ing the beetles in check. Ooodcnlti.
vation and repeated hoeing are abso.
lutely necessary, but the vines ia
these operations, as well as in picking
should be disturbed as little at pos
sible. It is the large number of
marketable pickles which is wanted
rather than large size of the indivirfn.i
pickle. The size most in demand is
three inches in length. The more
promptly we pick the three-inch size
the more pickles the area will furnish'
and therefore the greater the returns
and profits. An experienced grov?r
says in iuicuigau rarmer:
"The larger the number grown on
a given territory the more profit, hence
they should be picked very close. The
bulk of the crop should he of the
smallest or medium size. Those over
looked can be utilized, but the fever
the better, and none must be allowed
to mature. Care must be taken to dis-
iuiu iui viuco in iiiwe no possiuie; in
this regard children with their bare
feet are preferable to grown people,
and our experience leads us to believe
that children can, quite as easily as
grown-ups, do tougnt to pick them
clean."
A Handy Farm Boiler.
The ordinary farm boiler, or set
kettle, in unhaudv from the fad tii.i
' T -" ."M
the contents after each boiling mast I
ue laboriously dipped out. The cut
shows a boiler that avoids this diflUii.
ty, for the boiler itself is made oil
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sneeuron imeneavieBt to De obtained),
A SET KETTLE.
and rests upon the top of the brickJ
work, so that it can be raised and rcJ
moved. It has a handle at one en j
and a lip at the other, so that it can t
emptied directedly into pails or tubs
or car, be pulled off the brickwork!
upon a wheelbarrow and wheeled avis
to the barn or hog house. A light!
cover sets upon the top when over tba
fire. If the boiler is to be used oat of
doors, it should be made of galvanize!
iron to prevent rusting. If the boiler!
is very large, an iron rod can be place;
across the middle of the openings
the brickwork to support the bottom
of the boiler. ' This arrangement vill
be found convenient where food il
ofteai boiled for stock. New YorsJ
Tribune;
Ialry Dot. ' 1
Color is subservient to taste in bull
ter.
Quality is of more importance thai
quantity.
Bad water will make impure, on
wholesome milk.
It is uncleanly to wet the hanJ
while milking, and should always
avoided.
To improve tho milkiucr dualities
a dairy herd, use bulls only from til
best milkers.
Dairy heifers should always be
died familiarly from the first andtliei
will be no trouble.
The chief advantage of the cresmei
system is cheapness of product froi
the saving of labor.
No dairyman can make uniform'
good butter unless his cows are
Hal.
liberally with wholesome food.
Dairying has one advantage in tl
its products are always in the tin
food, and hence always in ileniana.
Proper management of the
gives the farmer a continuous incotw
something he does not have vua w
lines of farming.
Feeding and general care and Inn
agement have as muoh to dow
creasing the product of the co'
breeding or blood.
Tf tlia o,V ia w.t-ma than the CN
the purity of the cream and the '
flavor or the butter, will oe it
by exposure to it.
After cream becomes sonrtlm
ripening given it the more it Jepf
and the sooner it is BKimmeu
churned the better.
The milk cans, vails and other
els should be kept clean by first"
ing in tepid water and men
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thoroughly in boiling water.
Clean nastnres. with
h rail,
ff 10,
water, and proper care, is tn'JJ5
preventive of bitter milk. "JJ
especially ragweed, cause bitter
In a majority of cases kck'"j5
are made so by cruelty and n"11
To have gentle oows it is e(
treat them kindly from the'
are calves. Agricultural
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