Exeter Advocate, 1905-02-23, Page 6UL,.
ii
.iuvt%l U'
Thc Pricc of Liberty
OR, A MIDNIGHT CALL
1rkly M c.nMuu M� ..u.n,`-� y.._ •••v .
CHAPTER XLIti. not tho remotest idea that Christo-
havid Steel stood contemplating Lee aro is our Chris,"
the weird scene with almost doubt -
'••t feather in your sister's cap.
lag ryes. In his wildest moments! She has quite captivuted Latimer,
ho had never imagined anything Bell says.'
more dramatic than this. The can- "And she played her part splendid -
tile in its silver sconce that Mrs. ly. Mr. Steel. it is very, very good
Henson had snatched up before her to know that llatherly has cleared
flight was perilously near her flimsy 'envied in the tees of Lord Littimer
dress. Henson caught her once more at last. hid Reginald suspect—"
in a tierce grip. David could stand "Nothing." Steel said. "Ile is ut-
it no longer. As Henson came by tardy and hopelessly puzzled over
him his right arm (lashed out, there the whole business. And Bell has
was a dull thud. and Menson, with- managed to convince hien that ho is
out having the least idea what had not suspected at all. That busi-
happened. tell to the ground with a ness over she Rembrandt was really
very hazy idea of his surroundings a brilliant bit of comely. But what
for a moment or two. has Henson found out?"
hqually unconscious that she had "That Chris is not dead. Ile has
a protector handy, Mrs. Henson seen Walker and tho undertaker. But
turned and fled for the house. A he does not know yet that Dr. Bell
minute later and she was followed by was in the house that eventful night,
Menson, still puzzling his racking which is a blessing. As a matter ob
head to know what had happened. tact, Reginald has not been quite
David would have followed, but the the sa►no man since •Rollo nearly
need for caution flashed upon hien. killed him that exciting evening. Hie
If he stood there perfectly still Hon- nerves stem to be greatly shaken."
son would never know who his an- "That is because the rascal feels
tagonist was. David stood there the net closing round him," Stool
waiting. As he glanced round ho said. "It was a fine stroke on your
saw some little object glittering near sister's part to win over that fel-
to his feet. It was the ruby ring! low Merritt to her side. I supplied
"Be you there, sir?" a rusty voice the details per telephone, but the
whispered close by. plot was really Ansa Chris's. (low
"I aro, Williams," David replied;
"I have been waiting for some time."
Williams chuckled, making no kind
of apology for his want of punctual-
ity.
"I've been looking after our man,
sir," he said. "That Dutch chap
what Miss Enid said you'd come for
And 1 saw all that business in the
shrubbery just now. My! it I didn't
feel good when you laid out Henson
on tho grass. 'Tho sound of that
snack was as good as ten years'
wages for me. And ho's gone oft to
his room with a basin of vinegar
and a ream of brown paper. Why
didn't you break his neck?"
David suggested that the raw took
a prejudiced view of that kind of
thing, and that it would be a pity
to hang anyone for such a creature
as Reginald Menson.
"Our man is all right?" ho asked.
"As a trivet," said Williams.
"Sleeping like a babby; he is in my
own bed over the stable. I'll show
you into the harness -room, where
Miss Enid's waiting for you, sir,
and then I'll go and see as Henson
don't come pros%ling about. Not
as he's likely to, considering the
clump on the side of the head you
gave him. I take it kind of Provi-
dence to let Inc see that."
Williams hobbled away, chuckling
to himself and followed by David.
There was a feeble oil -lamp in the
on earth should we have managed
without the telephone over .his bus-
iness?"
"I ant at a loss to say," Enid
smiled. "But tell me about that
plot. I am quite in the dark as to
that side of the matter."
David proceeded to explain his own
and Chris's ingenious scheme for
getting Merritt into their power.
Enid followed the story with vast
enjoyment, tempered with the fact
that Henson was so near.
"I should never have thought of
that," she said; "but Chris was al -
Wats so clever. But tell enc, what
was Henson doing in the garden
just now? Wlttianls says ho was ill-
treating my aunt, but that seems
hardly possible even for Reginald."
"It was over a ring that Mrs. Hen-
son had," David explained. "She
was running away with it and Hen-
son was trying to get it back. You
see----"
"A ring!" Enid gasped. "Did you
happen to see it? Oh, if it is only—.
But he would not he so silly as
that. A ring is the cause of all the
trouble. Did you see it?"
"I not only saw it but I have it
in my possession," David replied.
Enid turned up the flaring little
lamp with a shaking hand. Quite
unstrung, she held out her fingers for
the ring.
"It is just possible." she said,
hoarsely. "that you possess the key
hitt-nese-room. Enid was waiting of the situation. If that ring is
there anxiously. what 1 hope it is w•o can tumble Ven -
"80 you have put Ronson out of son into the dust to -morrow. We
the way for a time," she said. "Ile can drive him out of the country.
and he will never, never trouble us
again. (low did you get. it?
"Mrs. Henson dropped it and I
picked it up."
"I'leane let the seen it," Enid said,
pleadingly. "Let iso be put out of
my misery."
David handed the ring over; Enid
regarded it. long and searchingly.
With a little sigh of regret she
passed it back to David once more.
"Yon had better keep it," she
said. "At any rate, it is likely to
be valuable evidence for us later on.
But it is not the ring 1 hoped t., sec.
1t is a clover copy, but the (,lack
pearlrs nre not no fine. and the en-
graving inside is not so worn ns ft
used to be on the original. it Is
evidently n copy that Henson hes
had made to tease my aunt :van, to
offer her at some future date, in i' -
turn for the large suets of money
that she gave him. No; the original
of that. ringi
n a popularly auppuBeJ to
11e at the bottom of the North ,'in.
If such had been the ease --seeing
that Menson had never handled it
before the (trent 'Tragedy carpo—the
ri'it1 r
o e1) tic est b cr
Ir existence."
istcn
"Why so?" David asked.
"Because the ring crust have been
passed 1110 j'►st now using awful lan-
guage. and wondering how it hail all
cone about. Wasn't it a strange
thing that Van Sneck should costo
here?"
"Nut very," David said. "Ile is
evidently looking for his master,
Reginald Henson. I have not the
slightest doubt that he has been
here many times before. William
says he is asleep. l'ity to wake him
just yet. don't you think?"
"1'erhnes It is. Hut I am horribly
afraid of our dear friend itegi:'0Id,
all the same."
"Our dear Reginald will not trou-
ble us just yet. ifo came down as
far ns London with lull. Of course
he had heard the news of Ynn
Sneck's flight.. Wes he disturbed?"
"I have never seen him in such
a passion before, Mr. Steel. And
not only was he in a pension, but
he was horribly afraid about 801110 -
thing. And ho has made n discov-
ery."
"Ile hasn't found out that your
sister--"
"Is at 1•ittimer Castle? That is
really the most consoling part of
the hnsinese. He has been at l.itti-
tner for a day or two, and he has
Pale Face, Weak BIoo
You Can Maks the Blood Rioh, the System Strong,the Complexion
Healthful by Using
DR. CHASE'S
Why do some people have health-
ful. rosy complexions while others
are pale and wan in countenance?
Why are some people strong and
able to defy disease while others are
weak and subject to all the ills of
bunion kind?
The difference Is In the blood. Pal-
lor of the eyelids, gems and lips
tell of blood that is lacking in qua-
lity and richness.
The person who has poor blood is
subject to headache. (lim.iness,
sl.cplessnesie the action of (ho heart
is weak and there Is 80ntetimes pal-
pitation: the breath is short, nn(1
there is leek of energy and strength.
This weak. anaemic condition is
entirely overcome by the persistent
list. of Dr. Chase's Nerve Focal.
which is above all e•Ise a builder nal
enricher of the blond.
Yon inn beet prove this by noting
your increase in weight from week
to week. while using this great food
carr.
New. rich flesh mord tissue nre add-
ed, new strength and visor take the
place "1 weakneee= nod wafering, and
ie-t,'n•1 .d taking cold or rnntrnrtil►f
e!, , at every gust of wind that
NERVE FOOD.
blows you find yourself getting
strong and robust.
Mrs. M. A. ('lock, Meaford, Ont.,
writes:—"Three years ago I became
very march run down in health and
sulTered from weak. tired feeling'',
indigestion and rheumatism. At
tithes 1 woe so badly used up that
I required help to move in bed.
1Vhile sick and downhearted I re-
ceived I)r. Chase's Almanac and
sent for some of hr. Chase's Nerve
Food.
"Under this trentmel,t 1 soon be-
gan to improve, and by the time I
had used ,1.•1',•11 boxes of hr, Chase's
Nerve Food I was happy to tired my-
self strong and well ngnin. i often
think of what a lot of tnoney 1
Spent for medicines which did me
no goods. and believe 1 owe my lifn
to IDr. ('hose's Nerve food. 1 hope
women who suffer as I did will i►ene-
fit by my experience anti use Dr.
('hnse'a Nerve Food."
Pr. (?hnsc•'s Nerve Food. 50 rents,
at nil deniers, or ledmanson. Itnte�
& Co , 'Toronto. Portrait and sig-
nature of I1r. A. W. (.'hose, the fam-
ous receipt book author, aro on
every buil.
copied front it," Feld said. 1t is a
very faithful copy inelee,i, and ...mid
not have been made from lucre dir-
ections—take the engraving inside,
for instance. The engraving ludas
the cipher of the house of Latimer.
If Menson has the real ring, if we
can Lind it, the tragedy goes out of
our lives for ever.'
"1 should like to hear the story,"
said Steel.
Enid paused and lowered Cie lamp
as a step was heard outside. But it
was only Williams.
"Mr. Henson is in his bedroom
still," he said. "I've just taken him
the cigars. Ile's got a lump on his
head ns big as a billiard -ball.
Thinks he hit it against a branch
And my Indy have locked herself in
her room and refused to see any-
body."
"Co and look at our patient,"
Enid commanded.
Williams disappeared, to return
presently with the information that
Van Sneck was still fast asleep and
lying very peacefully.
"Looks like waiting till morning,
it do," he said. "And now 1'11 go
back and keep my oye on that 'ere
distinguished philanthropist."
.Williams disappeared, anis Fuld
turned up the lamp again. Her face
was pale and resolute. She motion-
ed David towards a chair.
"I'll tell you the otory," she said.
"I am going to confide in you tho
saddest and strangest tale that ever
apst.pe"alod to an imaginative novo-
CHAPTER XLIV,
"I am going to tell you the story
of tho great sorrow that has darken-
ed all our Jives, but I shall have
to go a long way back to do it,"
Enid said. "I go back to the tron-
blous clay of Charles, as far back
as the disastrous fight at Naseby.
Of course I ant speaking more from
a Royalist point of view, for the
Litlinters were always followers of
the Court.
"Mirul you, there is doubtless a,
deal that is legendary about what
I am going to tell you. (hut the
ring given to my ancestor Itupert
Littimer by Prince Itupert himself is
an actuality.
"Naseby was over, and, so the
legend goes, Prince Hupert found
himself desperately situated and in
dire peril of capture by Cromwell's
troops, under one Colonel Carfax,
a near neighbor of Itupert Littimer;
indeed, tho Carfax estates still run
parallel with the property round
Littimer Castle.
"Now, Carfax was hated by all
those who were attached to the for-
tunes of the King. Seeing that ho
was of aristocratic birth. it was
held that ho had violated his caste
and creed by taking sides with the
Roundheads. History has told us
that he was right, and that the
Cavaliers, picturesque as they were,
were fighting a dubious cause. But
I need not go into that. Carfax was
a hard, stern man who spared no-
body, and many wore the stories
told of his cruelty.
"Ire and Rupert Littimer were es-
pecially at daggers drawn. I bo-
lieve that both of than had Issas in
love with the same woman or some-
thing of that kind. .And the fact
that she died not marry either made
little difference to the bitterness be-
tween than.
"Well, Carfax was pressing close
nn Rupert, so close, indeed, that un-
less some strategy were adopted the
brilliant cavalry leader was in dire
peril. It was there that my ances-
tor. Itupert Littimer, came forward
with his scheme. Ho offered to dis-
guise himself and go into the camp
of Carfax and take hint prisoner.
The idea %vas to steal into the tent
of Carfax and, by threatening him
with his life, compel hitn to issue
certain orders, the result of which
would be that i'rince Rupert could
get away.
" 'You will never come back again,
friend,' the Prince said.
"Itupert Littimer said he was pre-
pared
ro-pared to run all risk of that. 'And
if I ilo die you shall tell my wife,
sir,' he 9111(1, 'And when the child
is born, tell him that his father died
as he should have done for his King
and for his country.'
" 'Oh, there is a child coaling?' "
Rupert asked.
"Latimer replied that for aught
ho
knewhe was rt
father already.
And then he woe. his way into the
camp of the foe with his curls cit
short atxl in the guise of a country-
man who comes with valuable in-
t pore 11o
t And. that s r i
1 \
in-
formation. n
rf
schemedCuhis way into n ax's tent,
,
and nt the point of a dagger coin -
pelted hint to write a certain order
which my ancestor's servant, who
accompnuiiel him, saw carried into
effect, and so the passage for Prince
Rupert was made free.
"The Luse would have succeeded all
round but for some little accident
that 1 need net go into now. Rupert
Littimer was laid by the heals, his
disguise was torn off, and he stood
face to face with his hereditary foe.
Ile was told that he had but an hour
to live.
" 'If sou have any favor to ask,
say it,' Carfax said.
" 'i have no favor to ask, proper-
ly so-called,' 1 i(1 inner replied: 'but I
ant loth to die %without knowing
whether or not I have left anybody
to succeed me—anybody who will
avenge the crime upon you and yours
in the years to conte. Let me go as
far ns Henson Grange, and 1 pledge
you my won! I will return le tho
morning!'
"Ilia Carfax laughed the sugges-
tiotl to scorn. 'the Court party were
nil linrs nal is'rjurers and their
word ecus not to be token.
" 'It is as 1 say,' Itupert Latimer
repeated. 'My wife Bee ill at iien-
son ((range and in sore trouble
about me. And I should like to see
any child before i die.
" "(hen you shall have the chance,'
Conroe 8neere•d. 'f will keep you a
close pri9ontr here for two days,
and if at the end of that time noth-
ing happens. you die. It, on the
other band, n child is born to you,
then earl shall go from hero a free
111011 '
"And so the compact w89 made.
UrefortnnateI%. or fortunately an the
case may tie, the story got abroad,
and some indiscreet person carried
ithe nems to haute Latimer. 111 us?
she eats she insisted upon getting)
' up and going over to Curfax'a camp;
at once. She hail barely reached
' there before, %cell, long ere Ituipert.
I.ittimer's probation was over, he
was the father of a noble buy. 'Flew
say that the itoundheads ,un.1e a
f cradle for the child out of a leather
breastplate. and carried it in triumph
round the camp. And they held the
furious Carfax to his word, and the
story spread anti spread until it
came to the ears of Prince Itupert.
('I'o be Continued.)
Jeitkine—"I gave it to Ghat roan
s-trail,+lit, I eras tell you, sir. 71b
is twice as big as 1 ane, too, but
I told hint exactly what I thought
of him and of his conduct. right to
his face." .funis—"Alyd didn't he
try to hit you, Jenkins?" Jenkins ---
"No, sir, he didn't. And when nu
tried to answer back I just hung up
the telephoiiu-n'ceirer and walked
away."
"I should hardly think it worth
while to call on Airs. Jones when
you rllpcnt only fifteen minattes
there." "Well, you sero, we both
' talked all the time, so that made it
equal to halt an hour."
"William, wake up!" tflto whisper-
ed. "I'm sure 1 heard a burglar
downstairs. Co down!" "Ifoaven&l"
he replied sleepily. "Surely you
don't think l'tn in the habit of hob-
nobbing with burglars!"
It was only in 1800 that the Ent-
peror repealed the law forbidding
Japanese 9uhjects to leave their own
country. In 1900 there were 124.-
000 Japanese living abroad, 15 of
whom were in Russia.
Tho Austrian military authorities
have ordered an ironclad motor -clue
for the artillery, the armor of which
will reach to within an inch of the
ground. A revolving cannon is to
be placed in tho centro.
Some of the German health irtyur-
aride companies have found it a pay-
ing 1nvesttnetlt to establish 91111et-
toria for *►e care of their conswnp-
tivo policy-he Idors .
The largest picture ever painted
has Ixrn completed by a French art-
ist, after tight. years' labor. The
subject is the funeral of M. Carnot,
aril the canvas treasures 150 9q;uare
yards.
The sight of birds Is extraordinary
and the simple fact that the eye of
a httwk or pigeon is larger than
their whole brain, gives some idea
of what their powers of vision taunt
be.
A medical authority says that in
railway col 1isi0119 the pas.etergers
who are asleep escape the bad effect
of shaking and concussicm.
Doctur--"You're a long tittle pay-
ing my account. air!" Irarh►p —
"Well, you were a long titre curing
me!"
"I would go to the ends of the
earth for you!" declared the ardent
lover, "Vim; but would you stay
there?" asked the unfeeling girl.
"I understand that 8110 married a
struggling young man." "Yes; 1re
struggler) enough, but he couldn't.
get away."
The cellars in the Ranh of France
res,'uables a large. warehouse. Silver
coin is stored there in 800 barrels.
A black lily, or tulip, with n flow-
er ergr'htinehes in diameter, tram Innen
found on the ielattd of Luyot►, in the
Philippines.
A gallon of water a tiny is drunk
by every ,fapanext• who practimes, ns
nearly all do, the gyei last.ics known
a9 j11-jltsu.
TIIIN
Food is not all that thin
people need. Maybe they're
sick. You can't make them
eat by bringing them food.
But Scott's Emulsion can
make them eat. That Emul-
sion gives a man appetite
and feeds him both. Ii brings
back lost flesh.
No trouble about diges-
tion. The weakest stomach
can digest
scan's Emulsioo.
It tastes good, too. Scott's
Emulsion paves the way for
other food. When wasted
and weakened by long illness
it gives strength and appe-
tite that ordinary food can-
not give. Not only food --
medicine too—Scott's Emul-
sion of pure cod-liver oil.
worn .es4 nos a ltd. 10 try M rre »h.
eovrr a DOWSE. Tanaka*
LADA"
Ceylon Tea is not only a stimulating beverage but
highly nourishing to those of weak digestion
Sold only in sealed lead packets. By all grocers.
Given the gold medal and highest award at
St. Louis.
THE SEPA1RATOR.
While the merits of the farm sep-
arator aro quite generally under-
stood, dairymen in Many sections
fail to properly appreciate that it is
invariably applicable to their own
individual conditions, and that to
every one separating cream front
milk it offers a means of better and
more satisfactory results, says L.
P. Diartiny. •
The advantages of the farm separ-
ator over the gravity system aro
too numerous to give a full or ex-
tended enumeration, but those of the
most importance are, more perfect
separation, greater value of skian
milk, saving of time and labor, sav-
ing of ice and a better quality of
butter.
Under the best methods of deep
setting, it is rather difficult. to keep
the loss of Nutter fat in tho skier
milk down to three -tenths of 1 per
cent., which will mean a loss of $00
in a head of twenty cows. each giv-
ing 5,000 pounds of 4 per cent. milk
per annum. This is a very conser-
vative estimate, for it wo were to
take the average of nil conditions
throughout tho state, the loss would
be about twice as great as I have
estimated.
Progressive dairymen, as a rule
are aware of the advantages of the
centrifugal separator over the old
process and comparatively little
Milk is being 'skimmed in that way,
most Wisconsin dairymen delivering
their whole milk to the creamery, or
using a farm separator and deliver-
ing the cream to the creamery.
The point that will most interest
the average dairyman is the advan-
1 tnges of the farts separator system
of creaming and then delivering the
cream to the creamery, and 1 wish
to discuss it from this standpoint.
THE PRINCIPAL ADVANTAGES
of the farm separator to the patrons
of the creamery are increased value
of skim milk, saving in cost of haul-
ing the dairy products, less expense
in making up the butter, a smaller
and less expensive creamery plant,
and a possibility of better butter
product.
I have named these advantages of
the farm separator system in their
value of importance. although there
may be a great many exceptions to
this enumeration. For instance,
tho less, ning of the cost of deliver-
ing the dairy products to some dis-
tant creamery may be of greater
value than the increases() value of the
skits milk, and there may be other
conditions that would change the
order of the advantages of the farms
separator.
teems of the farts separator find
one of their greatest advantages in
having warm, sweet, skim milk,
fresh from the cow for calves, pigs,
and other feeding purposes. With
separator 'skim milk there is no
scouring, or other digestive trou-
•l1es, with calves, 01141 this one point
is not fully appreciated, for t11f9
trouble impairs the future ii cfubless
of our cattle more than wo think.
Where the patrons deliver whole
tnilk at the creamery, it will cost
them on the average eight cents per
hundred weight for hauling. With a
herd /
f twenty y cows, s, 1;lving ono
hundred thousand pounds annually,
this means n cost of 5H1) to get it
delivered to the creamery. In de-
livering
o-livering cream, it useally costs about.
one-half a cent
per pound pf butter
fat, which means 000 hundred thou-
sand pounds of milk testing four
per cent., or four thousand pounds
of butter fat, that the cost will be
520, a saving of 500, and very often
the cr(nmery man hauls the cream
himself free of charge, because he
can reach out farmers from his fac-
tory and haul a larger quantity of
butter fat to his fn(•tury. in the form
of cream, cotltllal'ed with what he
could haul in the form of milk. and
thereby increase the blledness of his
factory.
The roan who delivers creast to
the creamery should receive more
per pound for butter fat than the
man who delivers whole milk, be-
cause he has saved the creamery
man the expense of separating the
milk, which means that he does not
neap ns large and exp,•nsive n crc•ntn-
ery, less high-priced niaehinery, less
help, and less expense in running the
factory. A9 a rule, the man who
delivers cream should receive about
one cent per poral more for his but-
ter fat than the elan who delivers
whole milk, is cause in connection
with the less expense in the making
of the butter the creamery wean suf-
fers none of the loss of fat In the
skim milk, while there is always a
loss of fat in the skins tnilk of the
man who
DELIVERS WItOLE MiLK.
The possibility of a bettor butter
product is very evident from the
fact that the dairyman has a less
volume to care for, there Is loss filth
In the cream to haaten fermentation
then there is in the whole milk, ter-
ttll ntetions in the milk go on more
slowly in rich cream than In whole
milk, and the cream docs not need
tw be heated at the factory, as does
the whole milk, which process can
not but hasten fermentation.
One of the objections made to the
farm sepurntor is the first cost, but
when we .top to figure of the pro-
fit there is in the investment, the
cost is not worthy of much consid-
eration, beside that they must be
well made of the vary best material
and the best workmanship to run
well and be durable at the high rate
of speed at which they must run.
Some creameryulen object to the
introduction of the farm separator
at first and condemn them in a
great many ways, but as a rule,
they object to them because they do
not care to make preparations for
handling the cream or it generally
comes in in too small quantities at
first. It necessitates different ap-
paratus for testing and more work
for the comparatively small amount
handled.
Again some object to the use of
the farts separator on the claim that
butter made from farm separators is
not of as good quality as that made
from whole milk. The cause of the
poor butter is not in the use of the
farm, separator system, but in the
abuse in not taking proper care of
the cream, not delivering the cream
often enough, and not keeping the
separator cleaned. Might here Is
where a great ninny shortsighted
separator agents have clone a lot of
harts to the system by claiming for
their respective machines that it is
unnecessary to wash them more than
once a day, and sometimes not so
frequently. If there is any milk
utensil tl.at needs washing it is the
bowl of the separator. It gathers
filth from the milk and holds it and
if the milk Is run through this bowl
after it has stood for twelve hours;
it will undoubtedly cause bad flavor.
FARM NOTES.
For successful seeding land must
be in good heart and tine tilth;
roots of peretininls and seeds of an-
nuals mast he killed. A nurse crop
is better than weeds. Barley is tbo
best of spring seeding.
Cheap tools are a delusion and a
constant source of annoyance. Late-
ly. I bought a few of those cheap
garden trowels in one of our de-
partment
o-partnu•nt stores. Like all tools
made for a cheap trade, they aro
cheap, cheaply trade anti poor. Tho
blade slipn out of the handle, and
when you have once worked with
such an implanted., or rather a poor
imitation of an implement, you will
lie ready to throw it on the rubbish
pile, and get a good substantial
garden trowel, such as most seeds -
men keep. You pay a good price,
but ,you get a serviceable tool.
A good appearance adds solid
value to the farm. Neat, well -paint-
ed buildings. trim fences, good walks
and driveways, handsome shade
trees and n lawn add dollars to the
market estimate, and the sense of
worth is there, even if the owner has
no present idea of turning it into
cash. When a farm begins to hold
up its head with due regard for ap-
t carances, the farmer is likely to
do the same. and he tnkee n higher
place in the tcgard of the commun-
ity. An honest pride in the farrn-
home is one of the most delightful
rewards of broad gauge, successful
fanning.
A Dii•'FiCULT PROBLENT.
Prof. b1 1
D(c
C me 1 rcf, nrl(vl as one
of the great authorities in England
on questions relating to the breed-
ing of live stock, says of cross-
br'%xling' "ft' has often and often
c►u! t beat been fd that ah • b (minutia of
t c 8
any kind are crosses Inetweeu two
pure breeds. As illustrating this
we can refer to the 'blue-gi•ity' cat-
tle, Oxford-Ilnntpshiro Iambs, and
the Yorl.shire-lterk.hiro pigs. The
pity of it is that we cannot make
these valuable crosses into regular
breeds, retaining all the good quali-
ties of the first animal. combining
the good ryenlitics of the two ori-
ginal breeds, but when we Mato
these crosses ngnin the results, in
nine cases out of ten, are wastrels,
and we have to fall hack on the ori-
ginal pure breeds to make good
crosses once !nitre. It Is quite
within the possibilities of nnin►nl
physiolergy, however, to nlak1' n new
brace► --say, to make rho 'blue -gray'
cattle a fixed type. breeding and
conning true within itself but It
would regilre n tnillienarre's purse
and n lifetime of Work to do it. it
n large number of erosvt►rerl males,
possibly out of the progeny nitwit
ten per cent. might be worth keep-
ing to breed from again. if this
system of ?election were adhei err to
gen, ration after gonerat ion, the
type would become fixed and n new
breed evolved which would rennin its
characteristics. '1'110 majority of
cattle breeds cross well with Shorty
horn. and of sheep breeds with the
Down or Leicester, het this is be-
cause
o-cause three have been longest de-
veloped be Relect ion, breeding. keep -
Ing a register of pedigrees, etc., so
that their 'prepotency' has been
strengthened n9 ngainst the less -d,
veloped hreets. Bearing In nand
that It has taken from fifty to one
hundred and Twenty years to bring
son10 uvr I•nu.•nt breadele
present,of asst•• ae Ret ans fleatothot,
what It would me8n to tiring a
ereso-tired up. to the same stage,',