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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1892-09-28, Page 7I►1rri J.'et$' Veleiriaii $, %NW owl tem ' r Itvea right Next dear to ile top live Ill )lyTtloville, I thltllt, hi eighty. CO .l ijterabant all his life in Roston or New Ark, 'TOMO/bet WO. it wan; his lll(o Waa mostly nsade a fortutle bringln' pilo from ottt tbo OndcIW West, to settle down 'nd give himself a 4.t,, iii six daughters and a bo• y --a collego lad, they aid— MY, tbo airs them gals put on ;' They acted teal thigh bred. Y`?t'ouldn't look int one of us , but we—we didn't core , + d laugh right, out when they come by, their heads up in the air; tl our revenge we idlers got when 't canto to near. ket•day ; C, atm the eatables they bought we made them roundly pay. charged'em sixty cents for eggs; for milk wo ;est 'em ten; d beets 'nd veg'tables went up to where they'd never been. wo—we grinned, and sort o' said, "Be snobbish as you please, ell charge you for it when you come to buy your beans and seise." iind HO it went 1%4.nigh four years witln:nt n break or hitch, lId all us farmers round about WAY icelin' pretty rich. tit one day that old skinflint said as how he thought he'd try o raise his eggs and milk himself, his oats 'nd beans • 'nd rye. nd blame ins it he didn't ! Spiled the; market for our stuff $y eatln' what he'd raised himself ; 'ud if he had enough, . " 3y Jlmhq, he'd sent it out by freight to friends in town, Which brought the total profits of the tanners' busi• truss down. And that's why we all hate hint ! Just his meanness! Ain't it ocean To spend four dollars good hard cash Inc one small Lima•boan; • When you've a neighbor that don't ask no more than four or five Per cent, above the market price for all the beans atie'e'1 And ain't it ocean to spend a pile to raise your own green pease, When what you've paid for pronto wont to give your neighbor case? 1 know that fellow pays at least a dollar ten a peek For all the oats he raises, and I seen a single check For sixty dollars that he paid to got a beg o' seed, That when it grew' would yield about two dollars' worth of feed. I wish the boys would tote to send me down to Wash- ington ; I'd call upon the goverment to see what could be done. It's high time fanners got some sort of adderq,tate return For all the tuxes theypays out ; 'rid I'd take pains to learn If any eity snob 's a right to come 'nd use his gold To take the bread out of our mouths, 'nd treat us stl:f 'nil cold ; And if I couldn't make a law to cure this rank abuse, I'd raise a dollar }hortgage on my farm 'nd then vamoose' Iiarper's Magazine tar S, ,teutber. THE MODERN:DINNER. Is it Based Upon Mules of Rigbt Beason and Couuncn Sense? The article on " The Art of Dining" which appears in the current number of the Nineteenth Century from the pen of Colonel Kenney -Herbert contains many, interesting suggestions. The writer treats mainly of the formal or elaborate dinner, and finds much to condemn in the profuse and osten- tatious style now widely prevailing. He is for simplicity, and lays down as sufficient for all purposes the following menu: A soup, a piece of fish, a releve, an entree, a roast bird, an entretnet de legume, a sweet entreinet, a savory- morsel and dessert. The important part in this arrangement is the place of the releve after the fish and before the entree. There can be little doubt about that, contrary to eti•reat custom, this is the nature" order of things. The re - leve is the principal item in the repast and . should not be later than third on the list. The dinner begins with soup, because, if wearied by fatigue or long fasting, noth- ing is so quickly absorbed or so readily excites the digestive powers as a small quantity of warm meat essence, such as aro the best soups. Fiah follows, not of necessity, but because it is a light and wholesome article of diet, which from its comparative absence of flavor could not be relished after the more savory meats. At this poiut it is obvious that the princi- pal item of the meal should be served, and the interpolation of a trumpery entree is (if we carefully interpret our needs) really an obyiously unnatural arrangement. On the other hand,when the appetite has been fair- ly satisfied with the substantial releve,there is much to be said for following it with a delicate n•'d attractive entree. Tho roast fowl. vegetables, sweets 'and deeme•t seem, on the whole, a natural arrangement, which it would be impossible to improve up- on. THE DECORATIVE MANIA. Colonel Kenney -Herbert condemns in strong terms the current craze for making things look pretty, "We have become the ivictims of a decorative mania. The use of fancy colors, without consideration of their congruity, for the sake of prettiness, to tint the maskings used in savory cook- ery, is surely preposterous, for how in the natural order of things can a fillet of fish be green or a cutlet of chicken pink ? Who can see without pity in the window of some fashionable culinary professor a noble salmon that never did any one an intention- al injury put in the pillory and exhibited as a peepshow to the passer-by with his back bristling with prawns like the 'fretful por- cupine'; crayfish disporting themselves about him, his sides outraged by a grue- some tattooing of truffles and divers devices in patterns like a Maori masher, and lastly, to complete the atrocity, an impalement of, hideous`hatchet' skewers? Surely this is as bad as the. desecration • of 'dead Hcetor' with the garish bedizenment of a circus clown." Perhaps the most revolutionary point in the article in question is the suggestion that the modern dinner should be brought to an end within an hour. For the purpose of expediting the progress of the dinner the writer suggests that the various component parts of the meal should be served ready helped from the buffet. He also raceme mends the abolition of the service of cheese.. "The Son" Cholera Cure. Take equal parts of Tincture of opium. Tincture of rhubarb. Tincture of cayenne. Spirits of sulphur. Essence of peppermint. Mix well together. Dose: Fifteen to 30 drops in water; to be repeated in 15 or 20 minutes if necessary. This is the original formula for The Sun Cholera Cure. It was given to The Sun in the "cholera year' 1849, by George W. Busteed then and now a practicing phar- macist in this city It was published daily in The Sun during the summer of that year; it was published at intervals for several years. and again daily during the "cholera years' 1855 and 1856; and has been printed in The Sun probably 1000 times since it first appeared. The Sun Cholera Cure has been adopted into the United States Pharmacopreia, and is a medicine approved and valued by every Insalical man in the country.—Now York Tf4a E9LLQNP4'* age IlaTs 1't 1.35 Jansy to be Attreetiva *1' Minors! be 1.11 (.00st'Voi ejiaton, The brunette looksltl etA the blo(`tie care, fully Rad wondered, It is much easier to 'wonder at a warm Clay at the seaside than, it is to,talk. The brunette thought to iter- eelf, "I have sense enough to know that I am an extremely pretty woman:- fly nose is absolutely Grueien, my chin has the most delightful of dimples in it, and my forehead 18 tts white as the proverbial marble, while my eyes are full, dark and expressive. My noir, whioli waves naturally, I can wear us few women do ---that is to say, 1 eau part it in the huddle, draw it back, and knot itlow on the nuuk, so that I look like au old picture. 1 apt well -formed, 1 aao always wolf dressed. • The blonde hasn't a correct feature in her face; her teeth are pretty but she shows then) every time she smiles, which is often; she dresses well, but she is grieving already over the fact that because she is nearing 30 her hair is beginning to darken. Yet, when we two go out together, there is ono man who pays attention to ine and ten to her; women smile and haw to me, but they rush to her with delight and overwhelm her with invitations. Now will you kindly explain that?" She summoned up sufficient courage to say to the blonde : "What is the reason you are so attractive to people'?" And the blonde answered : "First, be- cause I never forget anything, and, second, because I am so exceedingly frank. You heard Mre. Shabby -Genteel admire my blue gown this morning. I laughed at her plea - sandy and told her it was a profound se- cret, but it only cost nineteen cents a yard. 1 did not tell her that I paid $25 to haus it made, for that would have ruined the ef- fect of it in her eyes, and; as it is, she doesn't begrudge me the gown and she is ready to contradict anybody who calls the extravagant. Then, if I meet a man I snake a mental photograph of him and what he t: doing, or what he is interested in at the utile of the introduction, so that if I meet him ten years after and somebody starts te. present hint anew I can put out my hand: and say : 'I know Mr. Gordon very well in- deed, though probably he 1)as forgotten one. I remember meeting him some years ago, and we had quite a talk about the breed o: his fox terrier.' Mr. Gordon is charmed a: my memory, and is my slave from that time on. He may even go so far as to patronize lee beeause he thinks his image was ire• pressed on my heart when no ether mom'. was, but that sort of a thing never Iron Iles, it only sinuses me. It try to remem- ber what 0 man's politics are, what he likes to eat and what partof the country he conies from, for I dont want to talk about the charm of the north to a man from 'way down sot,th in Dixie, and I don't want to dilate on the advantages of the land whore the magnolia blooms to a man from the far west. 1'ou may think this remembering is difficult, but it isn't. It simply gets to be a habit." Just then a party of men came by, and the brunette saw how it worked, for some- body started to introduce the handsomest man of the lot to the blonde, when she in- terrupted and said : "Thank you, 1 don't need any introduction to Mre Stuart. I conte from Baltimore, and from the time I was a girl at school not to know the hand- some Stuarts was equivalent to not being in the swim." Later in the day when the brunette was looking out of her window, she saw the blonde on the box seat of Mr. Stuart OIW a 'XON TUTTTEh 00W $HE MAKE$ ONE TMQU$AND FORTY $EVEN P.OUNda$ INA YEAR. Signal's Lily Flagg is the Jersey Queen tiutt Established this Record— Details of Her Work•—tier Rill of Fare for the Year Outlined, In the light of every day experiences on the farm and in the dairy it is marvellous that a little cow weighing only 930 pounds should produce 1,047 pounds three-fourths ounces of butter in ono year, but here we have the best possible evidence that it hat been done. It is very hard for a man, whose cows scarcely produce two hundred pounds of butter yearly to believe that u single cow can produce the yield of five ouch cows. But when we know how these bio records have been reached, step by step, first one cow, and then another raising the figures, we are convinced of the possibilities of such performances with' careful breeding and feeding. The contest among the Jerseys has hap. Oily been for a champion prize cup that is passed along from one record breaker to an. other. The cup was introduced by' E. F. Appleton at the time he took the record of J36 pounds fourteen and three-fonrthe ounces from Landseer'a Fancy with Enroti- sama's 945 pounds nine ounces. Then it was won by Meson's Belle with 1,028 pounds fifteen and five-eighths ounces and now Signal'* Lily Flagg has the cup, with the record of 1,047 pounds three-fourths ounces. The popularity of these contests is shown in the following invitation ; "The :itizens of Huntsville, Alabama, request the measure of your presence at a reception to he given at the Monte Sano Hotel, on Wed- nesday, June 29th, at half -past 8 o'clock in lonor of Gen. S. H. Moore; W. E. Matthews, elsq. ; Captain Milton Humes and Mr. L. C. ,00dell." These were the gentlemen whc -lwned the cow and conducted the test. At this reception and feast the Champion Cup was presented and the whole city of Hunts- ville paid honors to the little cow that won the prize. The test began .lune 1, 1891, at which time her highest daily yield of milk was fifty pounds four ounces, containing TIIE CIIAMPION BUTTER COW. four pounds six ounces of butter. In July she fell off slightly, the highest daily yield an that month being thirty-seven pounds eleven ounces milk, containing four potutds two ounces butter. IIs August, September and October she held about her own. In November she fell off with her highest yield of milk at twenty-five pounds six ounces four-in-hand, and she thought to herself, :and a best butteryield of two pounds fifteen "What a good thing it is to have a good !anti one half ounces a day. On December memory !" :8th the record stopped and a ball calf was And the waves came in one after another ?dropped. At that time she was giving singing something that sounded exactly like jtwelve pounds eleven ounces milk and rnak- '•Annie Laurie !"—New York Sun. ling twelve ounces of butter a day. On the 15th of January the record again began with twenty-eight pounds nine ounces milk and two pounds twelve ounces daily. This was about her normal yield through that month and February. In March she slightly in - 'creased the yield, the highest day's work in How She Gave herself Away. "Will you marry me, dear?" asked Mr. Bleecker of Miss Emerson. "No, sir," replied Miss Emerson, who did not even say it was sudden, although it milk was forty-one pounds ten ounces, con. was, for Mr. 13leeckeri had been present-Itaininge three pounds twelve ounces of but - ed to her only a week before. ter. 1n April her best daily record ran up She thought his presumption merited a to thirty-nine pounds twelve ounces of decided rebuts. milk and three pounds fifteen ounces of "Say no' again, dear," said Mr. Ibutter. In May, the last mouth of the test, Bleecker. Ther highest day's work in milk was thirty - "No, sir !" she. repeated, with even more four pounds six ounces, and in butter four positiveness in her voice than the first pounds ten and three-fourths ounces. In time. these citations the highest milk and butter "Thanks ! Oh, I'm so happy !" records for the month rarely occurred on And Mr. Bleecker threw his arms around the same day." the astonished maiden's' neck and kissed Up to May 24th the teat had been what her persistently and vigorously. She is called "private," that is, it was not con - struggled to free herself, and then de- ducted under the management of the Am- man sl : erican Jersey Cattle Club, though it was "What does this mean, sir ?" well known throughout the country that "I was merely enjoying the privileges of the test was going on, and all were invited an accepted lover," he replied, unabashed. to insect the management. Duringthe "Accepted love ?" (This is astonish- last week of the year an official tester othe inent). club, the well known Valency E. Fuller, "Yes. We are engaged. who owned Mary Anne of St. Lambert, "Will you kindly explain whether or not presided with several other well known you have lost your hind ?" dairy authorities. and, either under better "Lost nothing, my love. You have been advice or conscious of the importance to school, haven't yon?" of the occasion, Signal's Lily Flagg sin -pasts - "Certainly." ed all herrevious work. The stun of the "You studied grammar ?" year's work was milk 10,954.03 pounds and "Of course." butter 1,047.04 pounds. The official test "You are familiar with the ordinary rules began May24th and continued seven days ; of grammar, then?" the recorbeing twenty-seven pounds three I trust so. But what has this to do with and one-half ounces of butter from 189 it? If you are a director looking for a pounds seven ounces milk, or less than school -teacher, I would advise you to look seven pounds of milk to' one pound of elsewhere, Mr. Bleeker." butter. "That is not my ,business at present. If The following is the feeding of Signal's you are familiar with the rules of grammar, Lily Flagg for the full year. She began then you of course know that two negatives with a ration of two gallons corn meal, make an affirmative ?" three gallons wheat bran, one gallon ground •`W—W---Why, yes'' oats, three quarts oil meal and two gallons "That's it exactly. I asked yon to marry silage, given daily in two feeds. Gradually ma. You said 'no' twice. That means yes. this ration was increased until she took four Oh, my darling, how I love you!" gallons corn meal, four gallons ground oats, Whereupon he embraced her again ; and two gallons wheat bran, one and one-half Miss Emerson, seeing that she had plighted gallons oil heal and about fifty pounds of her troth according to the Lindley Murray ,lover hay. As her time for calving op - rules, made no further objection, but mar- l)roached the feed was reduced, and on ried• him. —Puc k. December 30th she had only four gallons of bran. After calving the grain was gradu- Cheaper Than a Tallow Tip. ally restored to the full ration and kept up until the last week when, under the advice of Mr. Fuller, two quarts of oil meal were added. During the whole year the cow received precisely the same treat- ment as that given the general herd. She ran on a rather poor pasture and took the rain and the wind with the other cows. Signal's Lily Flagg was bred in Ken- tucky and while strictly thoroughbred and registered cow she does not belong to any of the fashionable families as the first part of her name would imply, as she is only one -twelfth Signal blood The credit of her work belongs to the breed, and as Bisson's Belle was of the same class this should greatly encourage testing the best cows to find the wonders. She was eight years old at the time of this test and weighed about 950 pounds. While perhaps not a model cow in appearance, yet she is of good form and, what is much better, of strong consti- tution and she looks well enough to go through another year's trial. She has two tested daughters, one of fourteen pounds a week and another of twenty pounds, thus showing that she possesses that greatest of all thoronghhred gifts, the power of trans- mitting her good qualities to her offspring, and as she has dropped eight calves (one pair of twins) the worlds is likely to mho 'greatly benefited by the good worksof Signal's Lily Flagg. — American Agricul tttrist. A fish dealer in the California marketlnad on his slab the other day two specimens of fish nct frequently seen in our markets, but plenty frotnl Vancouver Island northward. In plain commercial language it is known as the candle fish. Technically the name is Thaleichthys Pacificus. The specimen shown measured a foot in length and have somewhat the appearance of an eel, except the head, which is pointed and conical. It has a large mouth. The.. Indians of Vancouver Island and vicinity use the fish both for food and light. It i.'1 the fattest of all fishes. IN he n the Indians want a light they put a wick through a fish and burn it as if it were a tallow dip.—San Franseisco Bulletin. Philosophy. "John," said Mrs. Moovalong, "the land- lord was hero to -day and hs laid that he was coming next Monday for the rent, and he expected to get it, too." Did he ?" "Yes, and he seemed in earnest about it." "Real positive, was he ?" "Yes. "Well, as long as he feels so confident I don't see that there's any nae of my worry- ing about it. I reckon he knows his own bus;nese. "—Washington Star. THE WINTgR:-DAlRY1NMQVgfA1EN ST, iA $tiB.$TANTI.AL HQ 1$E FOR SWINE, Iteliort of the Commissioner po the Dairy .4$ m,auy farmer!} h'.ive requested a de. tltetione et nouns li(gin'awl SVO,},latnok, xeriptieli of toy ldog•houee, r}vlil (Insult' the /101,0:1v4000, shoots of hat's of tllo ,,11'04 14,requcet, } 1'hetlioue.Ols built for eight brood' Report of the DairyOolnllttesuincr give per. sows i the sp ug, fifty pi's in the fall, tionlars of the winter dairying at Mount and furnistics pleltty of pawnor this num. Elgin and Woodstook Uomiuion Dairy Sta. bur' The size is twenty feet wide by tions up to April ;30th, 18802. '1.'here was tweaty•four feet long. Tho pens are cac11 seine 4710 elay in obtttii}ing UIQ 1311(1 t�eoouttt Sales of the shipments of butter which were tient to Great Britain. Some of the butter was hold in the warehouse at Liverpool and, elsewhere, longer than it should'have been held by the consignees if my directions had beau followed. In consequence, it came into competition with the grass made but- ter of England, and failed to realize a price which was quite satisfactory., Besides there wore complaints concerning tho quality of a few Iota of it, from the development of a flavor Which seemed to come from the feed- ing of roots, which had been kept badly during the winter. The report goes on to sax foot square, making the alley through say : the center eight feet wide, giving plenty of I had the honor to recommend to the room to drive a load of corn under cover of Minister of Agriculture that the patrons of the roof, to unload in the fall. Four of the Mount Elgin Dairy Station bo paid for these pens are on each side, and one swill the butter which was manufactured to the trough, eight feet long, answers for two end of February at 24 cents per lb., and for pens. Over each trough is placed a swing. the butter manufactured during March and mg door, three by eight feet, so that any April at 21 cents per lb.; and that the pat. litter which may bo rooted into them can be rons of the Woodstock Dairy Station be easily cleaned out, and the pigs cenalsobeshut paid for the butter which was manufactured book until the swill is pourdd into the to the end of February at 22 cent* per Ib., troughs, a great advantage as any feeder and for the butter manufactured during knows. March and April at' 21 cents per lb. The There are little doors from each pen into difference in the price between the Mountthe alley, also into the yards on the sides of Elgin and Woodstock make* of butter is ex- the house. These yards should have a planted at page 12 of the Report, and was board floor, unless the ground is very sandy mainly due to the fact that the cream only and well drained.small nen near a hog• was collected at Woodstock. At Mount house becomes a Mortar bed, after every Elgin, whore a Centrifugal Crefsin Separator rain, and the object of the small yards out - was used, the creams was under the care of aide is to give early pigs srinshine and more a skilful butter -maker from the time it was chance for exercise then a six by six pen af- soparated. It is my opinion that the but- fords. Over each pen under the upper roof ter could have been sold to realize these is a small window to admit air and light. prices for the patrons, had it' been sold' This elides on the scantling which supports without any regard to advertising the grow- the lower roof. ing importance and possibility of developing The odtside posts are only four feet high, a large trade in winter -made butter with and the center poste eight feet. The roof Great Britain in the near future. These is boarded and shingled. The house is in - prices should be satisfactory to the patrols, closed with No. 4 boards, then paper and as the result of the first experiment in this drop -siding are put on to keep out direction, and I am confident that in coming frost in winter. Large doors at years, with market prices equal to those which each end can be opened when occa- prevailed during the winter of 1891-92, our winter made butter from creameries would command a relatively higher price. The experience of the one season has brought to light a few facts which I take the liberty of emphasizing here for the benefit of those farmers and factorymen who intend to con- tinue or to commence this branch of dairy- ing. 1. An abundant supply of succulent feed should be provided for the cows for fall, winter and spring. Corn ensilage is cheap- est and best ; corn fodder comes next in point of economy and suitability ; carrots. mangels, or sugar beets, with hay, straw and bran or heal, make excellent rations, but they cost too dear for profit. At pages 26 to 44, 78 to 84, and 99 to 100 of my An- nual Report, detailed information on the combinations of rations will be found. 2. Where these feeds have not been pro- vided by the patrons, to alter a cheese fac- tory and equip it for winter butter -making would only invite failure and create dis- satisfaction. 3. As far as practicable, milking cows should be kept in stables where the tem- perature is comfortable, ---never below 4.5' and never above 600 Fahr. 4. The milk from a few fresh -calved cows imparts such a quality to the flavor of the whole quantity of butter, which may be made in a creamery from November to March, as will increase its value in the British market by from 1 to 4 cents per pound. , 5. To supplement the general directions which are contained in my Annual Report, I will furnish specific iuformation, to those who apply by letter giving the plans of buildings and other particulars, on the de- tails of effecting the alterations in chebse factories, on the most suitable packages in which to put the butter, on the engagement of competent butter -makers, and on the shipment of 'butter to the British market from those factories whose managers desire to diepose of the product in that way. 6. It will be better policy to delay for one year the altering of a cheese factroy and its equipment for butter-makir.g during the winter, than to begin this new business be- fore the manufacturer and patrons are both quite ready to conduct it with success.— Jas. W. Robertson, Dairy Commissioner. PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF PIOOERY. A Cheap and Durable Grindstone Frame. One great cause of trouble with grind- stones is fitting them to rickety frames, and placing them out of doors uncovered, and with water in the trough. The portion of the stone standing in the water becomes soft and is easily worn away, while that exposed to the sun's rays is continually hardened, and soon wears out of a true cir- cle, upon which no tool can be properly ground. The frame shown in the illustra- tion consists of a well -seasoned piece of timber, about one foot square and three feet or more in length, with a trough cut in the top eight or ten inches deep, and thoroughly coated with hot oil ; or even with kerosene, several times•before it is used. The legs aro mad front three by fo t:einlcln ecantlin see �3*t at the top end ,and firmly naffed' on; as shown in the engraving. The shaft may be supported by wooden boxes attached, or friction wheels that often come with the stone. Make a good, solid cover, and keep it on the stone when not in use. As (a) is a holo, with a plug, which is drawn to let off the water each time after using. If the bottom of the legs rests upon brick or stone, the whole apparatus may be left out of doors the year round. Knew When He Had Enough. Edward Cowens, employed by Shivers & Moffett, Camden, was called to hie home, suddenly yesterday afternoon. He returned and informed his employ- ers that a babe had been admitted to his family. Shortly afterward the telephone summon- ed him to his horse, and when he returned he found two more children had been added to his family. He waited around home, and another, the fourth child, made an appearance. Ho then returned to work, and asked his employers, not to answer the telephone again. A Mark of Breeding. Spinster—You ask a pretty good pace for that parrot. Dealer—Yes, but then the bird has had such an aristocratic training. Spinster—How do you know?" Dealer—Because he always talks when anyone begins to sing. GROUND PLAN OF I'IlNiERY. sign requires, but for every day use a small door, thirty by seventy-eight inches, is placed at either end. A well and pump should be placed where most convenient so that no delay will occur when feeding time conics. There is but little trouble to pro- vide places for grain and meal, but a boun- tiful supply of Water is quite as important and often neglected. The cost of the house with lumber at twenty dollars per thousand, and shingles at three and one-half dollars is about one hundred dollars. Several loads of sand or gravel may be profitably dumped into the pigyards each year.—A. H. Shel- don, Iowa. CANADA'S NATURAL FERTILIZERS. Muck—Its Origin, Use or Application and Value. Every true pluck consists largely of,semi- decayed vegetable matter or humus—the accumulated remains of plants, chiefly aqua- tic, of many generations. These well-known deposits of swamp muck are the result,prin- cipally of the continuous action of water on the fresh and green vegetable matter, con- verting it into a uniform black or brown mass. The lack of structure in the matter deposited increases with decay. In the upper layers are to be found the roots of plants still growing ou the surface, together with much undecomposed woody tissue. The lower portions of the muck deposits show, as a rule, but few roots, the process of decomposition having proceeded farther, destroying all structure. A black or brown material results, light as to weight and powdering easily when dry. In some degrees a measure of the value of a muck may be obtained from its color, its structure, and the amount of ashes left when a small sample is burnt. A good muck should he dark brown or black, structureless (that is not full of undecayed woods and roots), lightand easily powdered when dry, and should yield only a small quantity of light ashes whoa burnt. As a supplier of plant food, muck is chiefly valuable for its nitrogen, contained in the organic matter or semi -decomposed plant remains. Under favorable circum- stances it yields this nitrogen as food for farm crops. But in addition to being a nitrogenous fertilizer; its application to many soils im- proves their tiith or mechanical texture. If a soil be too light or too heavy, the hest re- sults cannot be obtained, though all the ele- ments of plant food be present. Muck has the effect of making heavy soils porous, al- lowing air and water to freely permeate and the roots to find an easy passage. For light rind sandy soils and those poor in organic matter pluck is most beneficial, improving their ietili rIii' .1‘....: d;fenfor moisture and fen tilizing elements. For rich soils that re- quire lightening it forms a valuable and cheap substitute for barn -yard manure, of account of its bulk and lasting qualities. By its further decomposition in the soil, carbonic acid gas is developed. This when dissolved in the soil -water assists in setting free mineral plant food hitherto in a condi- tion unavailable and is probably in service in other ways. The germs of nitrification which render soluble and assimilable the nitrogen of muck, likewise convert and make soluble that in the nitrogen -holding substances in the soil, so that both tine mineral and organic plant food of a soil are made more readily available for crops by the application of muck. As might be supposed, all mucks are not equally valuable. Those which contain large amounts of clay and sand will be poor in organic matter and consequently in nitrogen. Again, the proportion of nitrogen in the organic matter of mucks is very variable. This is partly due to the natnre of the vegetation from which the muck has been formed, partly to the degree of decay or fermentation that has taken place, and partly iso doubt, in some instances, to a leaching action of the water on the soluble nitrogen-holeling compounds. The color of muck is not an invariable criterion as to its luality ; many of a brown color contain a arger percentage of nitrogen than black samples, which appears contrary to the generally accepted opinion. —Frank T. 'Shutt, M. A., Chief Chemist Dominion Ex. perimental Farm. • NQTCS'}:QR QHE1";oEMAKF,RS, i'rof• Boli"rusts liaa.111 S'1}ival�le Pmthmtrra uAi 0l;voaoiri,tkl,sg iso S.Nptollibel', 1. Invite your patrons to co'opor}lte with you in the Wert to bring the September ulieese from your factory to the very front_ It the World's Colnulfiian Exposition in 1803. 2. Urge them to see that the cows have an abundant supply of ellecnlont, whole- some, nutritious Ned, and aceess to sure water. When salt is not provided where the cows can roault it every day, they will drink foul and stagnant water if they can got it. Plenty of salt and prohibition from impure water will effect a double cure. 3. All the: vessels used in the handling of :niik should be ()leaned thoroughlyiuune- diately after their use A washing in tepid or' cold water, to which ch has boon added a little sods, and a subsequent scalding with boiling water, will prepare them for airing, when they may remain perfectly sweet. 4. Cows should be milked with dry hands and only after the udders have been washed oleau, 5. Tin pails only should be used. 0. All milk should be strained immediate- ly after it is drawn. 7. Milking should be done, and milk should be kept only in a place where the surrounding air. is pure. Otherwise the presence of the tainting odors will injure milk. 8. All milk should bo aired immediately after it has been strained. The treatment is equally beneficial to the evening and morning messes of the milk. 9. Some of the qualities that are ex- pected and desirable in the cheese of Sep- tember snake are— (1) Rich, clean, creamy flavor, ; (2) Solid, firm, buttery body ; (3) Fine, silky, flaky texture. (4) Bright, uniform color : (3) Attractive, neat, symmetrical appear- ance. 10. Use from 3 to 31 lb. of salt per 1,000 Ib. of milk. 11. Put two bandages on each cheese, and finish them on the ends in Buell a manner that the outside one may bo stripped off before the cheeses are put on exhibition. 12. In other respects follow the Bulletin of Notes for Cheese Makers for August, from which I take the following extracts : Patrons are more likely during this month than at any other time to forget to provide salt for their cows, and to neglect to sup - sly an abundance of pure cold water. Cool rrenings are no excuse for the peglect of the aeration of the milk. It should be stoat thoroughly aired immediately after it s strained. The making of cheese for exhibitions is tsually undertaken during the two first .+•eels of this month. Serol a circular to :vet.). patron Making mention of those mat - tete; which are referred to in this Bulletin, :old inviting their co-operation that they may aid you in the manufacture of cheese flee euoneh for exhibition and prize -taking. Making the Cheese.—When the evenings are cool and the milk needs ripening, don't fail to leave it in the vat until it reaches the proper state of maturity before the ren- net is added. Use enough rennet to coagulate mature milk to a state fit for cutting in forty min- utes when set at 880 Fahr. in the ren- net extract to the extent of one pailful of water for every vatful of milk, and then mix it thoroughly by vigorous, rapid stir - After the whey is drawn, air the curd thoroughly and snake provision for keeping it warm. Let the temperature be kept above 94'. Frequent turning and aeration will facilitate the deveiopnicnt of acid, pro- viaing, the temperature is maintained. After the curd -cutter has been used, the curd should be stirred and aired for fifteen cr twenty minutes before the application of salt. The curd shi,u:1 be put in the hoops within twenty minutes after, the salt Inas been mixed in. Pressure in the hoops should be applied veu;y gradually. The cheeses should he bandaged neatly when they are turned in the hoops, within two hours after they are put in the presses. Tliey should again be turned in the hoops some time in the follow. ing morning. Endeavor to get everyone who sends milk to your factory, or who is concerned in its management, to try to bring it to the very front in point ok reputation for the excellent quality of its product. A Rustic Drill for Iron. With proper tools, broken farm imple- i ments can often be repaired at home in 1rnuch shorter time than would be needed 'for a journey to the blacksmith. The illus- tration herewith, a sketch f which wan ,sent us by Jelin C. Umsted, Kansas, shows: ' au ingenious contrivance for rapidly drilling• iron. A heavy log (a) forms the base, aha if forked is still less liable to turn. It is also better if it bows up slightly at the middle. To the base log, four • uprights, each six feet Icing, are nailed, to support the weight log (b). The latter should be eight feet long and six inches through, and should be hinged at one end by a movable pin, to be placed in a series of holes bored in one pair of uprights. The other end is attached by a rope (h) to a windlass (c) by which the weight log can 'be raised or lowered A brake rod (di passes through a hole in the board (c) nailed Ion top of the uprights, and when the upper log is to be kept raised, this rod is pushed 'into a hole In the windlass. Place the drill in a common brace, and insert the brace head in a socket cut in underside of tip log. When in use, the weight of the upper log must rest upon the drill. For boring wood, use a lighter weight log. Madcap Mende. The little Princess Maude has all bf her ,fathers liking for a good time. She de- lights in running and riding and rowing a boat, all of which she can do very well. As yet her attention to hooks is the result of the desire on het part to he obedient to her mother's wishes. She is a healthy, rosy- cheeked, brown -eyed child, and is very fond of the companionshipof her father. Some one remarked to the pftuce on one occasion that he was often seen with this daughter, to which he replied; "Oh, yes, Maude and I are great churns." The young Princess Victoria, w•ho is the eldest daughter of the Princess of \Vales, is very much like her mother, both in appear- ance and manner. She shows her Scandi- navian ancestry in the rather remarkable combination of black hair and blue eves. She is a very pretty _'irl and n vrrx close student, having all 01 her mother's love for hooks. The Queen is said to be f'rider of the Primness Yict''riu than any of her other serandchildren.