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lerdslup knitted bis brows
and spiked in silence, At lest lie'
found utterance. •
"That's a good idea of yours. I"
makes thinge easier, Wel] Bret of
all, With and I. became engaged.
lydit9i is the Fitt pi:ter of the Into
Adnt'rel Te Riot. Behand: Jack, her
ptl'ttr, live with their uncle, Gen-
teel Sir Hubert Fit fames, et 1 is,
Ulster Gardens. Jack is a alio
Foreign Office , he is just like Edith,
awfully clever and that sort of
tiling, an assistant secretary f tiunlc
• they call him. Now we're getting
en,.. aren't we 7"
"Splendidly."
"That's all right. About a month
g
ago a chap turns up from (,ni-
stantinople, a killer of special Envoy
from the Sultan, and he explains to
t,lhe foreign Office that he has in
his possessiun a kit of uncut dia-
monds sof terrific value, iceludi:tg
• one •as big as a chuck's egg, to which
leo .figures would give a price, 110
• yon Follow me?"
".Each word,"
"Good. Well—I can't tell you
why, because I don't know, and I
could not understand it if I did—
there was some political import -
untie attached to these gems, and
the Sultan roped our ]foreign Of-
fice into it. Se the Foreign Office
placed Jaelc in charge of the busi-
ness. He fixed up the Envoy in
tate house at Albert Gate, got a
lot cd diamond cutters, and ma-
chinery -for him, gave him into the
charge uf all the smart policemen
in London; and what do you think
is the upshot ?" •
"Wheel"
"The Envoy, his two secretaries,
and a confidential servant were
murdered the night before last, the
diamonds were stolen, and Jack
has vanished—absolutely guile clean
into space, not a sign of him to be
found anywhere. Yesterday Edith
sends for are, cries for half an
hour, tells me I'm, the hest fellow
that ever lived, and then I'm jig-
gered if she didn't wind up by say-
ing that she cunldn't marry ate."'
The earl of Fairhol-ine was now
worked up to fever heat. He would
not calm down fur an appreciable
period. so Brett resolved to try the
effect of curiu-,ity.
He wrote a telegram to Lord
Northallertun
"Very sorry, but I cannot leave
town at present. Please ask me
later. Will explain ',erica for post-
ponement when we meet."
He had touched the ,dominant
note in mankind.
"Surely:" cried the earl, "you
have not already decided upon a
course of action 7"
"Nut exactly. I am wiring to
postpone a shooting fixture."'
"What a beastly shame!" ex
elaimed the other, in whose the
sporting instinct was at once
aroused. ''I'm awfully sorry my
affairs should interefere with your
arrangements in this way."
"Not a bit," cried Brett "I make
it a sacred rule of my life to put
pleasure before business. I mean,"
he explained, as a look of bewil-
derment crossed -his• hearer's face,
"-that this. quest of ours promises
to be the most remarkable affair I
have ever been engaged in. That
pleases me. Pleasant -shooting is a
serious business, governed by the
callendar and arranged by the
head -keeper."
An electric bell summoned Smith.
The barrister handed him the tele-
gram rivet a sovereign.
"Read that message," he said,
"Ponder over it. Send it, and give
the change of the sovereign to Mrs.
Smith's brother, with my c?impli-
ments and regrets_"
CHAPTER, II.
Then rte• turned to Loral Fair -
}mime,
"Just ane question," he eaid,
"before I send you off to bed. Nu,
you must nut protest. I want toe
to meet me here this evening at
• seven, with your brain clear'and
your nerves restored by a good,
sound sleep. We will dine, here or
elsewhere, and act subsequently.
But at this moment I want you to
know the name of the person most
readily accessible who can tell me
all about Mr. Talbot's connection
With the Sultan's agent."
{'Tris sister, undoubtedly. Where
can 1 find her I"
"At Dieter Gardens. I will drive
you There."
The barrister smiled. "'Vou are
going to bed, I tell you. Give me
. a, few lines of introduction to Miss
Talbot."
The ,earl's face had brightened at
the prospect of .meeting his fiancee
ender the favorable conditions of
Brett'e presence. But he: yielded
with good grace,. and promptly' sat
down to write It brief note explain- that are beyond the, e;n of Soothed .two rival theor'les ,.f, flown titre.
to of the barrister'I - identity avid 'yard I }tato heard sarnebkr",nq' of the weapon ts'whe'at•, and the' fields
The two parted at the door, and you truer me 00 ear as to toll ale the seven experime.ttal farms of
, hansom rapidly brought Brett_ to
the residence of 'Sir Hubert Fit' -
fames.
A stately footma:l •tuuk Ibeggie's
d
ea./el.und its accomp'i'•tying letter,
placed them On a salver with a
grac:fat turn uf Inc'wrist, which
oddly suggested a similar turn in
his nose, and maid ;
"Miss Talbot is nut at hone, air."
"Yes, she is," answel'cd Brett,
paying the driver of the hanium.,
The footman deigned to exhibit
astonishment. Here was a gentle-
man --Dire ebviumily iaccustomed to
the manners ea, '3iocietee---who de-
clined tit accept, the courteous
elaimer of an eexpected visit.
"MissTnlbotis not receiving•visi-
tors." he explained.
"Exactly. Take that c•ai'd and
the letter to Miss Talbut and bring
me the answer."
Jeames was no match for his an-
iagonist. •He silently, slowed the-
way
he
way into a reception room and dis-
appeared. A minute later he an-
nounced, with much deference, that
Miss Talbot would see Mr. Brett
in the library, and he conducted
this mysterious visitor upstairs.
On rejoining Buttons in the hall
he solemnly observed:
"That's a swell cop who is with
the nissus-shining topper. button-
hole, buckskin gloves, patent lea
thers, all complete. Footmen caia't
in it ]vith the force, nowadays."
Jetimes expanded his magnificent
waistcoat with a heavy sigh over
this philosophical dictum, the poig-
nancy of which was enhanced by
his knowledge that the upper house-
maid had taken to conversing with
a mounted policeman iii the Park
during her afternoons off.
The apartment • in which Brett
found himself gave ready. i:iidicae
tions of the• character of its tenants.
Tod's "Rajasthan" jostled a vol-
ume of the Badminton Library on
the bookshelves, a copy of the Alia-
habad Pioneer lay beside the Field
and the Times on the table, and
many varieties of horns made tro-
phies with quaint weapons on the
walls.
A complete edition of Ruskin, and
some exquisite prints of Rossetti's
best known works, supplied a dif-
ferent set of emblems whilst the
room generally showed signs of
daily uccupation,
"An Anglo-Indian uncle, 'artistic
niece," was the barris'ter's rapid
comment, but further analysis was
prevented by the entrance of Miss
Edith Talbot.
The surprise of the pair was mu-
tual.
Brett expected to see a young,
pretty and clever girl, vain enough
to believe she had brains_, and suf-
ficiently well endowed with that
rare commodity to be able to twist
the good-natured Earl of Fairholme
round her little finger.
Young, not more than twenty—
unquestionably beautiful, with the
graceful contour and delicacy bal-
anced features of _a portrait by
Romney -Edith Talbot bore few of
the marks that pass current as the
outward and visble signs of a mod-
ern woman of Society. That she
should be self-possessed and dress-
ed.in perfect taste were as ohvt'eus
ad'junots of her character' as that
each phase of her clear thought
should reflect itself •in a singularly
mobile face.
To such a woman pretence was
impossible, the polite 6e`iune of
fashionable life impossible. Brett
readily understood why the :Earl
of Fairlfolme had fallen in !eve
with this fair creature. He had
simply bent in worship before a
goddess of his own treed. •
To the girl, Brett wa equal]e a
r'evelation.
• Fairholme's introductory ' ote
described the barrister as "the
smartest criminal lawyer in London
—one whose aid would be invalu-
able." She' expected to meet a
sharp -featured, wizened, elderly
man, with gold -rimmed eye -glasses,
a queer voice and a nasty habit of
asking unexpected questio:rs.
In place of this commonplace per-
sonality, she encou,itered a hand-
some, well-groomed gentleman
one who won confidence by his in-
tellectual face, and detained it by
invisibly establishing a social equa-
lity- Fortunately, there is yet in
Britain an aristocracy wherein good
birth is synonymous with good
breeding -a' freeman„nry whose
pass -words. cannut be simulated, -
nor its membership bought,
Brett read the wondee. in the
girl's eyes, and hastened to ox-
pain.
"The Earl •of Fairh,.ilme,” said
Brett, "thought I might be of clime
service in the matter of your bras-
ther's strange dieappearnnee, Miss
Talbot, I ani nat,tt professional de-
tective, •but my frionds.'aro: geed,
enough to, believe that I am • very
euccestfui in unravelling mysteries
ail the fade that is ,known. to. you
personally i! �
"Myr' oriels, General IrSttijamea,
has just gone to Scotland yo,rd,"
rile began timidly.
"Quite so, Perhaps you prefer
to' await bis return -2'
„Oh, no, 1 do not mean that.
But it is so hard to know how best
to act. Under expects the police to
aeeomplish impoissibilities. He says
that they should long since have
funnel out what has become of Jack,
Perheps 'they may resent my inter-
fe renes,"
"My interference, to be oxaet,"
said Reggie, with the pleasant smile
that had fascinated so many wo-
men. Even Edith Talbut was not
wholly prouf against its magic.
1 i faith "1 persi�na] i have little la th in
them, ' she confessed.
"I have none."
"Well, 1 will do as you advise."
"Then I recommend you to take
me into your confidence, 1 know
Scotlit,ud Yard and its methude. We
do nut follow the man's path."
"1 believe in you Had trust you,"
said the +girl.
So ingenuous 1i'as the look from
the large, deep eyes which acootn-
Qioreied this „ declaration of confi-
dence, that Miley men would have
pronounced Miss Ta/but to be an
experienced flirt. Brett katew bet-
ter. He s}snply bowed his ackreew-
ledgments•
"What is it that , you want to
know2" she continued. "\1'e our-
selves are' no better informed than
the newspapers; is to what Inc actu-
ally happened, save that four men
have been killed as the result of a
carefully planned rubbery. As for
my brother—"
She paused and strove hard to
force back her tears.
"Your brother has simply 'anish
ed, Miss Talbot. " If the criminals
did not scruple to leave four cT s d'
men behind, they would not draw
the line at a fifth. The clear infer-
ence is that your brother is ali'ee,
but under restraint."
"I can see that it is possible he
was ailed 'until some time after the
tragedy at Albert Gate. But -but
•
Messrs, Jan E. Eines and Sons, the
Essex seed grewere, The Meek -
Lan *Cry of press bxeeqi
g tla
a re-
cently been making great hearl•say
among eegrioulturists es well, res
stock ',eaters, and this season
Messrs, living have been growing ex-
perimentally two now varieties of
wheat produced on the Mendelian
sa-stein by Professor Bilin of Cam-
bridge, one of Mendel's foremost
disciples in England. But Messrs,
Icing believe themselves in the sys-
tem of pedigree edeetion and not in-
tercrossing and side by side with
Professor Biffin's new varieties is
growing a new one of their own,
produced by selection over a num-
ber of years, Professor. Biflin s
wheats were Red Joss" and Bergey -
nes, and Certainly in this particular
soil and undo', the peculiar climatic
conditions of the summer their ap-
pearance was not a kind to shako
Messers Ring's belief in the older
systems, which was represented by
Snowdrop, a new white -chaffed red
wheat with, a good close head. The
Mendelianvarieties are smaller in'
the ear, shorter in straw, and grew
less closely together, while they are
said also not to remain true to type.
Messrs. Icings hsYld it to be a clear
triumph for pedigree selection; but,
on the other hand, of several agri-
cultural experts with whom one of
our representatives went over the
ground, those adhering to Profes-
sor Biffin of Cambridge are not dis-
turbed. In two or three of the var-
ious trials the Mendelian wheats
certainly get the worst of it, but
the Cambridge men point out that
many factors enter into the eonsid-
eration, that on another soil and in
another kind of weather the re-
sults may be altogether different,
and that the rival wheats are -after
all not yet harvested and weighed
against each other. Another ex-
eellent wheat amainS the 63 trial
growths on the same ground is a
new selection from Squareheads
Master which has not yet received a
name.
Those of the unsophisticated to
whom wheat is wheat merely would
have been struck by the sight of
—what connection can Jack have these sfxtythree varieties, growing
with the theft of diamonds worth in strias side by ode, of -all colors,
millions 7 These people used him from greenish white to deep old gold
as their tool in .some manner, why and orange red, square -headed
should they spare him when succesn wheat and long-eared wheat, beard -
had crowned their efforts -7" '" ed wheat and plain wheat, wheat
"We are conversing in riddles. from France, Flanders, Egypt, from
Will you explain 7" all over,. England. The.constant
"You know that my brotheleis an search for new and bettevarieties
assistant Ender -Secretary in the which goes on throughout the conn
Foreign Office?" "Yes." try is slowly making wheat . better
"Well, early in September his and better, but the chief reason for
chief placed him in charge of a the activity in experimental grow
special undertaking. The. Sultan ing is that all varieties tend to de -
had decided to have a large num- generate after a few years, • and
her of rough diamonds cut and pol-
ished by the best Turopean experts..
They were all magnificent gems,
exbeedingly valuable it seems, be-
ing rare both in size and purity;
but one of them was larger than any
known diamond. Jack told me it
was quite as big as a good-sized
hen's egg. Both it and the others,
he said, had the appearance of
lumps of alum; but the experts said
that the smaller stones were worth
more than a million sterling, whilst
the price of the large one could
not be fixed. No one but an Em-
peror or Sultan would buy it. His
Excellency Mehemet Ali Pasha was
the especial envoy charged with
this mission, and he brought cre-
dentials to the Foreign Office ask-
ing for facilities to be given for its
execution. Ile and the te'o secre-
taries who accompanied him have
been killed."
"Yes?" said Brett, whose oyes
stere, fixed on the hearthrug..
"Jack was given the especial duty
of looking -after` Mehemet Ali and
his companions during their resi-
dence in London. It was his busi-
ness to afford them even- assist-
ance in his power, to procure them
police prutecti•on, obtain for them
the best advice attainable in the
diamond trade, and generally place'
at their disposal all the rearm -tees
which the British Government it-
self could command if it undertook
such a cor'ieus task. He had been
with then about a month—not
hourly engaged, you understand, as
once the preliminary arra:hgemeees
were made, he had little further
trouble -but he 'used to call there
every morning and afternoo:i to see
if he could render any assistance.
Matters had progressed So favor-
ably until the day before yester-
day, that ie another mo:lth he
hoped to see the Last of them, He
was always saving that he w'uulcl
be glad where the business was end-
ed, as he diel nut Like to be of]fei-
ally connected with the fate of a
few little bits fel stone that hap-
pened to he so immensely vale
able,"
(To be conti:lued.)
THEORIES IN 11"1IEA'F.
Exllexinients Being Made, With Six-
ty -'Three Varieties.
There is a touch suggestive of
Omar Khayyam in the idea of three -
and -sixty conflicting varieties of
whcat,'but in the 'quiet heart of ag-
ricultural Essex, •l3ngland, there
has been proceeding with silent10-
tensity throughout the present sum-
mer a singular combat, says the
Lender) Standard. The pert'ea are
position ill the ingttii' dee f et,' in this present affair. Will of battle are of various points on
need to be regenerated again by
special selection. One attempt
which the Mendelians are now mak-
ing is being closely watched by
farmers. English wheat usually
fetches a few shillings less" per
quarter in. Mark lane than wheat.
from California, .and certain kinds
from. Canada. The reason is that
these foreign wheats are "strong-
er," that is, rise better in the loaf,
than English wheats. The explana-
tion is believed to lie in the differ-
ence of climate, but the secret isnot
yet definitely known, and the
Mendelians are now trying to breed
a new English variety, which shall
equal Californian wheat in strength.
SCIENTIFIC DRY -FARMING.
That dry -farming .methods, when
properly followed, are successful
has just been demonstrated by
Professor Briggs, Kearney and
Shantz, .of 'the Department of. Ag-
riculture, who in be?ra'1'f• of the de-
partment, ' have coglaleted an in-
vestigation
nvestigation of the dry .£arm. in
Idaho, II. S. Professor Briggs, be-
fore leaving this city, stated that
in all of the travels of the commit-
tee it has net seen either irrigated
or non -irrigated farming which
produced better results than were
to be found on the dry farms here,
in the face of the fact that the year
has been one of eevere drought.
The Woodsmansee and Webster
Farm of 6,000 acres is producing 2,-
400 acres of Turkey red wheat, that
will average not less than 40 bush-
els when threshed. This result is
obtained under dry -farming tillage
methods, and the use of 30 pounds
of seed to the acre.
Mr. 0, H. Woodsmansee of Rex-
burg, Idaho, has been invited to
address The Sixth International
Dry -1 arming Congress to be, held
in Colorado Springs, October 16 to
20, explaining his methods of til-
lage and business, utilized on his
big ranch. Mr, 1Voodmansee is said
to be one of the most exacting farm
operators in the West, and is able
'tri tell at the close of each year'to
a fraction of a cent, the cost of
ploughing, harvesting and handling
his crop.
In the vicinity of Idaho Falls
Government men found 50,000 acres
of dry land grown grain that will
run from 30 to 50 bushels to the
acre. In addition to this, the val-
ley is now harvesting 160,000 acres
of diversified dry -farmed drops, all
of w•liieh,are producing heavily. The
valley already, has about 200,000
acres of dry -farmed land under
what is known as atimmer tillage or
fallow,which will be seeded this
;loll,
, Give the average nian half' a
chance and he'll want the other
half.
LETTERS OF
A SON IN THE MARINO
TO HIS RAO.
-NY REX MoEVOV
[Mr, McEvoy will write for
this paper a s1l'les of letter's
from the west. They will
appear from time to time In.
de' the above heading, and
will give a picture of the
great C'anaclian west from
the standpoint of a 'oilll
O talt`o man going outs -re
A 1 there
to make his way. 'These let-
ters should be full of inte,est
for every Ontario father.]
No, 2.
Winnipeg, Aug, 2001, 1911.
711Y Dear Bad
I am a long way from home now, but
I didn't remember it when I got off the
train here, and almost the firstperson
1 ran into was Bill-Dodson,.who used to
keep store over at the corners, ire's been
out here three years now, and be has
EL fine house on ono of the best utreets
in town and drives an automobile. Ile
took me in it up to his house to dinner
and asked about all the folks round
home. ice may .lie east next winter. Ile
has done pretty well contracting.
My last letter was frori'Moron Day,
after our first gBatpse of Lake Superior,
That same night; before it got dark, we
stopped at Jaokfish to take on coal. The
0. P. R, has an immense coaling plias
here perched by theside of 'the line on
the 'steep slope of a' hill, While wo tvere
waiting there we could see -a large [Ram-
er lying at the wharf below ue. The coal
was hauled up out of its hold in great
buckets, which were hoisted by cables
far above our heads to where dump cars
were standing . on a track on a lofty
trestle. Ae soon as the care were full
they. were ran -off down the track' to a
pocket or hopper, where they were auto•
matically emptied. These pockets have
chutes over • a siding on. which, coal ear0'
,..are. mut to be loaded. 'These dare. aro
sent east to supply the engines of the
0.
P. It. ost,.the•long run through 'depot)
wherecoal is not obtainable.
After leaving Jaekfleh we passed round.
a most remarkable horseshoe where the
track .looped right round the bay on a
bank built up a long way above the
water. While going round the curve I
could see the, engine and the first six
cars of our train from. my window. At
Brit -.1:thought the engine belonged to
another train. .
That night I waked about ono o'clock
and found that the train was standing
still, : I raised . the blind' at my window
=that is one advantage of "'having a
lower 'berth -and looked out of the win-
dow. Two giant buildings of a grey
coior towered up right outside my win-
dow, and I recognized them at once from,
pictures as the grain elevators of Fort
William. They are tromendoue build•
lags and they reminded me from the
outlines that I could see dimly against
the night sky, of the pictures of Notre
Dame cathedral in Montreal, Our barn
wouldn't be knee high to a grasshopper
beside ono of these elevators. They aro
enormous. They were the first thing to
remind sue that we were getting pretty
near the West and rte great wheat fields.
and you may be sure I was pretty in-
terested. I just gazed .at them till we.
started off again, which was not long,
and the last I saw of Fort William was
n great black rugged hill standing out
a'ainst the sky with electric lights
twinkling in the town beneath.. it. I am
told that this mountain was thought
by the Indians to. be a sleeping giant.
Well, he will sure be a surprised giant
if lie ever_ wakes up and sees Port Wil-
Iiam. and Port Arthur at his feet, for
they must be pretty busy places from
what I could see from•, the window, and
they say that 'their development has
'practically all been to the :last ton yeasts.•
I woke itp.. at • Dryden; where the On=
tario Oocernment has an experimental
farm, so you can judge that there must
be some nuaa„ytity of good agricultural
land in this end. of the Province. It is
In a goad lumbering district, too, and
the. large piles of lumber in a wood yard
near • •e station are the most prominent
chilies to ire seen from the train. There
is a brick yard here, too, that seems to
turn out quite a lot of bricks for the
country round,
I was up and ready for breakfast by
eight o'clock by my . watch, I thought
I would have broulcfast in the dining
ear for a change, but I found that I
was an hour too early, as at Fort Wil-
liam the watches of westbound travel•
tors must all be mit hack an hoar. It
1s the nearest thing to living Som• life
over again that can be imagined, I
would rather not live it over again just
before meals, and I decided not to wait,
so got ray own breakfast out of the
•
grub •,isloihur SIPlip tri the 901080070
valise' for tact:
Wo stepped ist jSonore, arhioh user] 40
be eatlott RHA 1'vrtaga,ain the morning,
It`s gttlte n town, with substantial lirieli
bundinge 11 hsa a large brJek Rail.
way 'X', H. 0. A. building, lose to OW
stati05, 'a'lto place is right close to Noe
watin, and both aro on the Lake of the
woods, There sro lots of islands to the
hake, and there are pretty houses on thous.
ball lsidden by the trees. A sehoel tea.
cher who was in our oar sac's, that
twenty -ono Frenebmenwere msesnered
by the Indians ori this lake by the tiioux
Indiana in .0756, - Au exploring pasty dee
eoverea the bones of the vtathes in 1907.
You don't thiole of Indians and acaiping
when you look at the pretty, groat la/ree
to -day.
p
X
saw the shops the Government Is
building for the trnnscontinentiti rail,
way et Transeoite, ust six miles out 1,f
Winnipeg, They are tremendous shops
--everything Booms fo be on a big scale
out hero --and quite a town has grown
up round them. Wo got to Whsninog wet
long after noon. The teacher said that
the 'first European to put foot on the,
proSent site of winnipog was a Prowls.
mangy named La Vcreadrye, who come
hero' 180 years ago, They say that there
°are 170,000 people- ]sere now, Hail 151
place looks to be going ahead et a great
rate, Budding is going on in every di-
rection, and some great buildings :aro
being addod to tiioso which already. lino
Xsortage and -Mohr streets. The Bank of
Montreal certainly thinks that the West
is going to have lots of money, for they
are putting up a tine building, that I
saw, tight in the heart of"tile town, and
it is to have a vault -about a hundred
feet square, the floorofwhichwill be
eighty feet below the street. That. will
hold a considerable amount of money
and valuables. '
Yon meet all - sorts of people on the
streets of Winnipeg.. You can tell what
amixed populationthere is when the
word "Office- at the' Emigration bureau
has to bo written in eight languages. I
took a copy of it. Here it is:
°PPICE.
SICRFSTOFA 90NT017
BIIRI]ATJ ICANZELEI
SRIAD l9ONTOOR
IRODA •
Everybody seems to' get along with
English, however, so I guess the foreign-
ers must..: mostly be sent out to the
prairies.
Good-bye for the present. Loving son,
JIM.
• " .' , . g—.
TING GEORGE A CRICKETER.
Aa a "Middy" He Used to indulge In
the Game and aubeequontly
Played In o' Match
There is only one occaelon recorded.
id which the late King took part tire
formal match, namely, when in 1866
ho assisted I Zinged to defeat the
Geutleinen of Norfolk at Sandringham,
and was bowled by the first ball he
_received,
On the Farm
CARE OF DAIRY I-IE1i71,F.
To increase the profits ft'oln olsr
herds or decrease 'the profits of
preelectiont we must •eliminate the
cows which individually run us jute
debt, writos J, Wt Belly.
In the second place, we. must
feed our cows more intelligently,
The feeding of a dairy herd to pro-
duce profits more economically is
ee hard; proposition to put to a man
at the present time. Under tate
present conditions the only way to
produce butter fat at less cost than
we did last year is by increasing
the' efftoieney of our home, -grown
dairy foods,
The ,feeding value of our home-
grown foods will depend largely
maim 'theirpalatability. By feed-
ingp take our
a, variety of foods we n
•rations more appetizing and pale -
table than a few foods.
Ensilage and roots are more pa-
latable titan dry fodders. Cows
that 1170 feel these appetizing feeds
ivith clover bay will eat more hay
than when e,onfis cd to clover alone.
Early cut hay is more suited to
the ration than late cut flay and; the,
cows will colasuine large quantities.
of it. eIn feeding home-grown Feeds •
� g
w'o' must feed•sitclt toods iii a pxae-
tical way, as will induce the cows
to eat more.
The more easily digested ration.
the larger the milk flow. A cer-
tain amount of energy is required
to prepare these foods for assimi-
lation. In feeding coarse foods eve
find this isea large per cent.
Tender pasture grass is more
easily digested than. dry fodders.
Again we see the succulent Node
ate, more easily the,
than dry
fodders; that early cut hay is more
easily. digested than late cut hay
and that grain and concentrates
are more easily digested 'than hay
and coarse fodders.
Wegcan make, a balanced ration
from corn epsilage and alfalfa hay,
but such a ration contains an ex-
cess of coarse fibre and requires too ;
great an expenditure of energy to
digest and assimilate it. Such a
ration may be greatly improved by
the addition of" a few pounds of
concentrates.
Cow's that are giving milk must
have an abundance of protein. The
more protein we feed up to a cer-
tain point the larger the milk flow.
Early n tho 'sixties, when the pro - 1t is the amount of food over and
feselonal' cricketer attached to .Tilton above that required to maintain
College was the well -gnomon Cam the body that goes to stimulate the
"bridgeshiro player, 1e, Bell, he was not
'Infrequently summoned to Windsor milk production.
Castle to bowl to the Prince of Wales The Gorman standard of feeding
and the uther young and Royal mem- calls for 1 - pounds of protein for
.bers of the household. But, alas! it every ten or twelve pounds of milk.
hereto be recorded that on his return
from one of these expeditions he made
the direful announcement that he
"couldn't make a lob of 'em at all."
Another principle is that feed-
ing concentrates rich is nitrogen
and mineral matter increases the
King George, as well ae his brother; value of tlte?smanure and much of
.the late Duke o1 Clarence, took an aa- the profits from high feeding must
rive interest in the game. His Majer be made through the fertility
ty, Indeed, who as a "middy" used to
'Bacchante, at the conclusion of Dna brought onto the farm by the in -
indulge In the game on the deck of the
days racing at Goodwood some years creased value of the manurial Ler-
ago played in a match in Goodwood _ • • , - -
britt.
Park that was got up between the included His Majesty and an eleven ter that must be worked out by the
guests at Goodwood House, The team
according eto his farm
saptalned by M. Cannon, the famous' Mall himself'
having possessed one of the' most ex. the same on two farms. The &f-
end condition. Conditions are not
Jockey. The former is credited with
pensive bats in existence, the blade ference in cows. the kinds and
regard. to, thei KinglOnverite bat, . foods, the market pricee of dairy
py 4:iroducts Art:edetaiihribylefoolidosn:ee-go;
being of walnut and the bat being .amount of
mounted in silver. A peculiarity. with
the way, lies la the fact that high; up ,-.„,.,1,.,„o to-, wo
splice appear the lainons three' fee- as is alffilies t'a likits°,14‘t'Int'hP° aPrtritifearaP
them -that form the crest of the Prince farm, always , watching the milk
Queen Victoria witnessed more than
of Wales. flow. increasing the foods rend pro -
,one cricket match, but never one that tein until a, point is reached that
may with accuracy be described as a yields the mese profit.
firet-class fixture. On August 3rd, Cows muse have good care and
:1866, she, together with the Prince and comfortable surroundings if they
'Princess of Wales and other members are to respond to intelligene feed -
of the Royal Family, witnessed a very. ing. The great problem in connee-
close garae at Osborne tetween the tion with the stable is to keep it
:Royal Household at Osboreie and the
otficers and. men of the Royal yacht, warm and well ventilated at the
marrow margin of twelve runs. The Same time. Pure air is just as nec-
essary to the cow as food. Sun -
which Was won by the former by the
match was particularly interesting for light is another essential, Dark
the reason that the late Prince Leo- etables where sunshine never reach-
poid undertook the duties of scorett
whilst figuaieg on the side of the- es breed disease. Sunlireht is a
sailors we find the late Duke of seem- °file'
Coburg -Gotha, eat: line of the score -I - "
tor to all animale
sbeet reading:— , I 'There seems to be a Wide diver -
H11'411,110; tobaCopiell,k much exorcise the dairy
cow should have, and I wish to say
that I em nota member of the class
who believe in shutting in the cows
from October until June without
turning them out far exercise.
There is a muscular tope and
vigor that must be kept up to. main-
train health. 1Vit' all our present
day systems of ventilation and im-
proved methods of tieing the coeve,
we meet give the cows some out-
door exercise if we secure the bosh
results of erudnction and procrea
I,icn,
11 we look upon the cow as a
milk -producing machine alone and
do nut place a. value upon her abil-
ity to bring a strong and vigorous
self, it, may be more profitable for
aorto keep her inside all the time
whirs she .can turn all of her en -
erg' towards the producing of milk
alone enc} be.. discarded, in .two ,nr
i,hree ;years'a.nd another cow take
Ilea place.•
Surd) practice may 'pay tae milk
producer but, not a man Who is
trete- t , 1 :'d tin a head of acro,
uemicai butler -matures.
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