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w A Hint About Diet. Cheese should be eaten once a day at least. It contains two or three times as mnch nutrition as the same j money's worth of meat, and is, therefore, the most valuable animal food V obtainable. The woman who imagines that a cup of chocolate and a few Sc* crackers constitute a. square meal, will ; ' do well to add cheese to her menu. Shot Glace Silk Trlmmloi*.' ;" 8hot glace silks will be more used than ever as trimmings as well as linings. They appear in the forms of puffs P* and accordion-pleated frills on hats, mantles and dresses, and in some Sk cases two or three colors are used together, says the Lady. Pale fawn cloth capes and boleros are lined with M, a glace silk shot with blue, pink or some other contrasting shade, and kilted frills of the same silk pinked out at the edges from a full ruffle at the throat jL An Extraordinary Advertisement. An extraordinary sign of the times jj- is the following advertisement, *hich recently appeared in a London paper: | pi EXTLEMAN WISHING TO ADD TO AN R vT inadequate income offers his services [ to ladies desiring an escort for theatres, 1 amusements^ soui&l functions, or extensive *Z'., traveling. For terms ana interview, ?uW> dress "(Confidential," 1921, P. Office, gtrand. jjj$ Here is a man, presumably young, who will hire himself out to unattached womankind promiscuously, attend her f to tea-parties, allow her to pay his 4 tapper bill when on duty after the pity, and enact the role of tame cat, in fact, generally, "for a consideration." , Brooklyn Women Discard Birds. p The members of the Civitas Clnb, of Brooklyn, have set their hearts and ^ ' heads against the wanton destrnction <U of birds to gratify the feminine desire * for fine hats. They are to give a pracj*?'. tical illustration of what can be done with ostrich plumes and featherless millinery effects in their own hats and \ bonnets this year, and are to give an fc*s: AvkiKiiinn nf hnniAnp headweiar. The I?" Civitas includes in its member?; 200 young women and matrons from culti-' " . vated Brooklyn's most cultivated circles , and has also a long waiting list of would-be members in sympathy with j ?? its aims, so that whatever the young J ^ women undertake in the way of fash-1 ions must have a wide Influenoe ?> throughout the city. Woman's Interest in Sports. Woman's increased interest in all kinds of sports is evidenced by the trade in women's sporting goods that is done by the large sporting goods bouse on Twenty-third street The woman cyclist is largely responsible for this, bnt the golfer and tennis player has her share, and it may surprise some to hear that even hunting goods and fishing outfits are sold in considerable, quantities to the gentler '**>' ml A new design of Hglbert skirt is a feature. It is put on and taken off like an ordinary skirt When off the wheel it has the graoeful appearanoe m of the full ripple-back short skirt By ? * timnlo onntrivanofl a saddle Docket !is drawn into the pack, giving a perfect riding habit effect. A particular advantage is the perfect freedom of motion that the skirt allows.?New York Tribune. To Aeqoin a Gsaceful Pnu. A traveller gives the following hint. to seekers after grace and dignity. He says: "In my limited experience with queens, I have never seen one walk so well as does the stately working wo-; man of Ahmedabad. This is partly dne to the fact that the latter wears only a short skirt and a sash, with jj sometimes a loose half hpdioe. Ease in attire is not, however, the main reason t\ for the free gait and lofty carriage so gjconspicuous here; yet the secret is so simple that it is strange no fashionable : ' boarding school has caught it and advertised to torn out American girls that can *alk, Let any young woman fry this receipt: Pat t wad of cloth or J straw on the head and balanoe on this v a small jag or pail, walking around in the position enforced by the balance. I think an hour's daily exercise of this f sort might improve health as well as < ; carriage; at any rate, it would produce something better than the dragon stride of the English girl or the usual amble of her Yankee cousin." About Perfume*. The perfumes which are most agreeable to the senses are not always the most helpful to the nerves. Ambergris, for instance, is positively offensive to many, yet it is said to gwssess i wonderful power of clearing ;the niain and driving away thoee evil gririts known as the "blues." On the dher hand, attar of roses, with its mggestion of glowing suns and gorgeous eastern colors, predisposes one V tears. A faint odor of mask acts a tonic, while civet brings drowsiness of soul, for which the best antidote is the pungent odor of sandal wood. The fragrance of citron and abe wood is as soothing to nervous ptople as far-off music. Many perfumes delightful in the 2sn air become particularly disagreee in a close room. A whole evening can be spoiled by the presence of tateroses or lilies in a reception room. 4 Thar strong fragrance has a very bad effot. Magnolia blossoms, too, have il j. ' ' s t si1?*-'- VC'" ! a delightful perfume in their native grove, but woe to her who sleep* through the night with a single bios som on her pillow. There are manj fragrant flowers, suoh as carnation, clove pink, sweetbriar and apple bios som, that are as beneficial as they are sweet scented. * ?*?' ^ io nnerlr ftlxrnTi A >1UU ASf M4 .. %mj bracing, while a subtle one is gener ally enervating. One may becom* positively intoxicated through inhal ing the odor of the peach, almond,vrilc cherry and other blossoms of the sam< class, because they all contain a sug gestion of prussic acid.?New Yorl Journal. Money From Flower*. You cam turn May flowers intt money if you have the trick of doin^ it. Margaret Deland, John Strang* Winter, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Amelia Barr, Mrs. Burton Harrison, Mary E. Wilkens, Mrs. Humphrey Ward and John Oliver Hobbs all do it They make a fortune every spring out of the blossoms of May; and they accomplish it not by raising the blossoms, but by telling other people how beautiful they are. People who cannot get out into the woods to pick flowers are willing tc pay 'considerable money to read how lovely is the shape and how sweet the scent of the posies that bloom afar off. You who doubt this, have you never bought a spring poem? Margaret Deland goes into the spring poetry business wholesale. She has a woman friend in Boston who loves her rhymes and encourages her to write thom. Mrs. Humphrey Ward does np verses as neatly as she does up prose. Oi late, however, she has given up the {idea of publishing her poetry in book form and contents herself with serving it to publications to be used and forgotten. James Payn estimates that in the last five years Mrs. Ward has cleared 8200,000 in fiction alone, which was as much as George Eliot made in her lifeI time; so it is no wonder that she does not labor over rhymes. Mrs. Kate Douglas Wig gin, or "Miss Kate," as she is called in her Silver street kindergarten in San Francisco, writes verses while doing housework. She is one of those versatile women who can dance a plantation breakdown for you. If your ears are tired she soothes them with a song of her own composition. If it is your head that aches, she writes verses that tell ot green hills far away. Some of her beet work has been done on the spar of the moment. She is the wife erf a wealthy gentleman who divides his time between London and America. Amelie Rives, as her pen name still is, though she is an Italian princess, made so much with her miscellaneous poems during the two years she wrote that her father, a wealthy Virginia planter and trader, put a stop to the enormous sums paid her, and declined to have her checks raised by the publishers. It was too much for so young and inexperienced a writer to reoeive, he saicl Amelie Rives's spring poems had all a touch of love in them. John Oliver Hobbes is said to have exhausted all her brightness long ago and to be now repeating herself. Mrs. Burton Harrison is called a society Writer because she happens to be a woman of aristocratic family who has kept her plaoe in good circles. She writes, however, for money, not for amusement, and has turned her May muse to a consideration of the sea and sea grasses. She writes off poetry to order, gets well paid for it, and she m?t tmthfnllv be said to "mnlrn monev out of May flowers." John Strange Winter is noted for doing things up thoroughly. John Buskin, a dear friend of her girlhood, taught her the magic of a weil-oompleted task. She writes little things that tell their story without many words. Mary E. Wilkins is said to have refused to write a four-line stanza upon "May" for $50 with as much ease as Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward declined $10,000 for a "snappy" life of Christ. Miss Wilkinsjgets $50 a line for her May flower verses as readily as others accept a cent a word. She is turning them off with dizzy rapidity in her country home, fifteen miles from Boston, and she is fast reaching the Amelia Barr standpoint in poetry when she can write: "I can't do a poem for you this spring, nor next spring, but the following April, if the weather takes me right, I will send you a rhyme for your May issue." An uptown finishing school in New York decided to call Mrs. Barr to deliver a series of talks upon poetizing, but the following day the faculty found half the students scribbling rhymes upon slips of paper and harmonized "May" and "day," 44ray" and "fay," to the exclusion of other tasks. Upon which the faculty agreed to forget the resolution to call Mrs. Barr and to let nature take her couse with the students in the matter of poetry.?New York News Greenhouse to Ooet aiOOOOO. Buffalo is rejoicing in the prospect of possessing within the present year a fine greenhouse, all crystal and steel. The structure will be 200 feet long and will have an octagonal dome about 75 feet high and 60 feet in diameter. It will cost about ?100,000. i ' '' - %"$ *''5fi* *' tf?5> FIELDS^^AD VmUEE .THRILLINC INCIDENTS AND DARING DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA. An Old Indian Warrior's Capture of a Grizzly lirar Just in the Nick of Time ?How a California Boy Got Even With a Lion for Chasing Him Too Closely. "There is but one beast that the Indians are really afraid of," said Egerton Young, the Baptist minister who recently returned from a long sojourn among the Hudson Bay tribes, where he was the pioneer missionary. ! "That is the grizzly bear, the tiger of North America. Only once have I ! heard of a grizzly being captured alive, and in that case the feat saved the life 1 of a famous old warrior. "Among many of the Hudson Bay ' tribes it is the cnstom for the able* bodied to put to death the old men and women who are no longer able to do their share of the work. The old women are simply knocked on the head without ceremony. The process of getting rid of an old man is move elaborate. The Indians do not think it well to stain their hands with the blood of one who was once a warrior. So they delegate the task to their hereditary enemies, the wolves, to which they render all assistance ifa their power. When it has been decided at a solemn powwow that any particular old man is to die, instructions are given to a number of young men to take measures to get rid of him immediately. Among the executioners are always the sons of the condemned man. The day after sentence has been passed these executioners call on the veteran, attack him with stones and 8pears, and drive him into the wilderness. There they leave him to his fate. A few days later they return * i* a v 1 ana collect a xew weu-gnaweu o?me?, which they bring back with fitting ceremonies. "Among all the warriors belonging to a tribe - with which I mad? a long sojourn, none had a more glorions record than Miss-Miss. But MissMiss was getting old. His eyes wetfe dim, his hands were slow, and rarely did he bring home a fat buck. Furthermore, food was scarce, and Miss-Miss retained an excellent appetite. One morning Miss-Miss received orders to be prepared to receive the next day a delegation of young braves led by*his two stalwart sons. "But Miss-Miss, though he had assisted in many such ceremonials in his day, had not yet come to consider himself old and useless. He was very angry. Just as Miss-Miss had done reviling the ingratitude of the young, a boy rushed in to say that a huge grizzly was feeding a short distance from, the camp. Here was the veteran's ^ chance. All the braves were away at ( the hunt Children and squaws and. . Miss-Miss were the sole oooupants of the camp. He knew that to face a grizzly single-handed was certain death, bat it was the death of a man. So Mise-Miae armed himself with his spear and tomahawk, and went forth to seek the bear. "He had not far to ga Within a few hundred yards of the camp he espied the largest and leanest bear he had seen for years, making a scanty * meal off dried roots. Crawling up as close as he could, he hurled his spear. c The weapon btruck the bear in the t flank. As he had calculated, the wound had no farther effect than to infuriate 1 the brute and turn his attention upon * him. Miss-Miss took his stand with , his back to a tree, grasped his little tomakawk firmly, and awaited death. ? "Now had it been an ordinary little 1 black bear the peril of Miss-Miss would E have been small. A black bear would have risen on its hind legs when it : came to close quarters, and, leaving , it* oheet quite unprotected, tried to 1 insert its pews between tie men end the tree in order to hug hixa to death. All Miss-Miss would htvj had to do would here been to wait uiitH it oame within arm's length and plunge his hunting knife into its <sheet. One thrust would have been sufficient But a grizzly is different It strikes with its mighty claws. Mies-Miss awaited the onset When the bear came to close quarters it rose on its hind legs and made a mighty, sweeping blow at his body. Setting his teeth Miss-Miss struck at its head with his tomahawk. The weapon was dashed from his grasp and he was hurled to the ground, but, much to liis surprise, uninjured. Instead of the sharp claws in his side he had felt a mighty buffet as if from a huge boxing glove. MissMiss scrambled to his feet The next glance explained matters. Like himself the bear was a veteran. It had lost its claws long since. Miss-Miss dodged round and round his tree and from one tree to another. The bear, whoee sight was dim with age, aimed blow after blow, with no other effect than that of bruising its paws against the trunks. The light went on and ? juss-aiisss screngin was giving way, whe n through an opening in the forest he espied the blaze of the camp fires 8 close at hand. The bear saw it too, 11 and with a grunt of disgust and disap- 8 pointment turned round and trotted f back into the depths of the fault to resume its meal. Miss-Miss hastened bock to the x camp and called the oldest of the boys together. Take your las.-oes,' he cried, 'and we will capture a grizzly alive!' So out they went. When the tparty arrived within range Miss-Miss t whistled. The bear raised its head and t the boys cast their lassoes. One noose o fell over the brute's neck. c "WTien tne braves returned in the n evening, prepared to chase Miss-Miss t into the tvilderness, they found a huge, li roaring grizzly tethered in the middle s of the camp. No one of the tribe ever p j had done such a deed. They concluded n the Great Spirit had willed that Miss- v Miss should live, and Miss-Miss is s alive to-day and in high honor with t the tribe."?New York Sun. 1 Trapping a Mountain Lion* j "It was when I was sheep ranching in the 9ermosa district, in southern I California, that I was, in a way, con- j cerned in a very qneer trapping, oper ation," said James Smith, of Geneva, N. Y. "I was partner in a big ranch, and we were getting along swimmingly when'one spring a mountain lion|came into the neighborhood and set to killing our sheep and lambs. We tried hunting, traps and poison to rid ourselves of the beast, but could neither <1 get him nor drive him away. The I beast not only killed our sheep, but | one night a herder in our employ, a i boy from one of the middle Western States, came running to the ranch J1 bouse a good deal frightened, and j complained that a mountain lion had j: chased him. He hAd had a long run, j and the creature had followed him to ; nri+Viin Hftfr varrlft of thfl hnrifle. "With the morning light the boy re- : j covered courage ana went out to his j: herding again, but he mulled orer the : run an i the scare the lion had given him ind vcwed he would get even with the beast Along the'creek that bordered the range was a good growth of timber, ; ind the boy, remembering his rabbit- . snaring feats in the East, rigged up a ; 'jump-up' trap on a large scale for the benefit of the lion. He built an inrlosure that could be entered only by i passige on one side. Then he bent ; lown a stiff sapling and fecured its top to a notched tree stump in such a j ray that if it were moved, ever so little, t would fly up. To this top he at- ; ached a stout rope, with a slip noose to arranged that any creature enterng the inclosure would be caught by ' be noose and at the same time cause ;he sapling to spring upright When ! sverything was ready he put a lamb in be inclosure at night and waited. "The lamh'a hleatincr attracted the ion, and at midnight the boy, who ' ilept in an ontbailding, came to the -anch house to tell us the beast was Naught Once awakened we needed 10 telling of the fact, for the lion's ' Ties came plainly to oar ears from up he creek. We got oar guns and started for the trap. The night was ; lark, and as we floundered along imong the trees and brushwood the bremost man nearly ran bang into the ion, hanging by the rope to the saping. The beast had evidently tried ? Leap through the noose, for he was Naught, not by the neck, but round he l>ody, just forward of the hindjuarters. As he dangled from the sapling, trying to turn so as to bite off he rope, his clawings and contortions vere something wonderful to see, and it every failure he let out a screech hat could have been heard a mile iwuy. "Turn and twist as he might he ionld. not get to the rope with his eeth. Bat lest someting might slip >r give way and let him loose we lost 10 time in backing off to a safer disanoe, and then we finished him with >ur firearms. We were all mighty ileased to get rid of him, but I reckon he toy that trapped him got the most istis: action oat of the business?and le got the skin and bounty." The Old Guide1* Story. "Too needn't apolergize, gentle- < nen," said the old guide at the mounain resort "I kin tell that story a iozen times a day an' enjoy it as well's inybody. "I been here nigh outer sixty years iow an' she was the purtiest creetur I , iver see in these mountains. TwouLd , >e no use for to take no pictur of her 1 or vou oouldn't est th' snap in her eye , in' them motion*, jist like * deer when t hears th' first be/ of houn1. When the colored np her face wee just like h' inside of a sea shell, en' when she'd lit down side oi me to talk I ocmldnt .hink of nnthin' but e music box a feler brought up here one season. "I never liked th' man that was alius umgin' "round her an' I jiat up an* ellf her so one day. Got mad? No; the only laughed like a lot of bells ingin', patted me on th' han' an' said f she ever needed me she would come i o ine like my own darter. Then I \ leaned up my revolver for the first ] im<; in ten years. But he was her ] ihadder jist th' same. j "One day they'd been 'cross th' ake an' he was p .Ilin' lack easy, th' ] anoe full of water lilies, an' her a ( yin' back with her hat in her lap an' j >ne han' in th' water. I don't know , rhether th* big fool was a goin' to j verpose to her ocr what, but he dropped , lis oars an' started toward her. Over \ lopped th' boat ah* if that cur didn't 3 trike out fur shore without payin' no < attention to th' girl, Ihn hopin' I'll \ lever hook another trout Every , >oat was out an' I was jist getlin* 1 eady to swim for her, when I see her j mmin' like a duck. I knowed it was \ II right then, fur if she kept her i tead she could swim all day. 'Bout ] we rods tram short) the fellow let oat t screech an' went down. As he kirn tp she was 'longside, took him by the tair and towed him in. All she said er me was that she never wanted ter ee him agin, an' I shipped him next , aornin' with orders positive never to how his cowardly phiz "round here gin. They tell me her hnsban' owns boat all th' railroads weet of th' Misissippi, an' she mas' send me half ' rbat he makes every Cris'mas." Teitiivt Crock"?y (or the Government. All crockery ware and glass furnished o the Government mast be severely ested. One test consists in boiling he ware from ten to fifteen minutes, r until it is as hot as boiling water an make it. It is then instantly removed and plunged into water as near he freezing point as possible and be iquid. No crazing or cracks must how after the test. The tumblers are >ut into water at 182-4 degrees for one ainute. They are then (Iropped into rater at 42.44 degrees Fshr. If they how the least imperfection under this est they will not be accepted.?New fork Ledger. , ?owinj Late Cabbage Seed. It is not too late yet to sow cabbage Beed for late planting. Caution is needecl not to sow the seed too tlfirkly. That makes its growth so spindling that the successful first transplanting is very difficult. After the second transplanting the plants will be ready to set in the ope:a ground. The cabbage sown now will make much of its growth after the first frosts, an'! on fairly rich ground will not need much manure. i Fattening Calves Without Milk. Cheap as milk has lately been, it is yet regarded as too valuable to be fed to calves after their first few days of life as an exclusive article of diet. We think it is economy to feed some milk to calves. But :.t is best for them, whether they a *e to be fattened or raised to maturity, to early accustom them to a variety of food. A thin porridge made of wheat middlings, with a teaspoonful of linseed oil added as it is cooking, and having enough milk to color it white, makes a ration on which the calves will thrive nearly, or quite, as well as on new milk, and better tlian on milk that has had its cream removed. This should always be given at the warmth of new milk. If given cold at any time it will cause scours. Whenever any diarrhoea occur^ boil a tablespoonful of fine wheat flour in water and feed that for one ration. The diarrhoea will stop, and ' bv the time for the next feeding the calf B ill be all right for its feed. It pays to feed a thrifty calf in this way until it is three, four or even six months old. There are times when well-fattened calves are in demand. The butchers always rely on the farmer's anxiety to sell a calf if he is feeding it milk. But fed in this way with some clover hay as it grows old enough to eat it a calf mAy be kept with profit until it is a year old or even older than that.?Boston Cultivator. A High-Price Boar. This unprecedented figure was recently paid in Illiuois for the PolandChina boar named, the famous hog LOOK-!iTH-OVER, POLAXfc-CHEtA $3600 BOAR. going to a syndicate of Missouri breeders. At the same auction sale, $1575 was paid for a Poland-China brood BOW. Toani Clover. S? many praises are given by moet agricultural writers to young clover as a very valuable and nutritious feed that it becomes necessary to distinguish dearly what is referred to. The really valuable young clover is the Beoond orop growth, which sprii gs np after the first catting in Jane. It is at this time that the clover roots begin bo form the nodnles, which decompose air :in the soil and make use of its nitrogen. This nitrogen apparently, to jone extent, goes into the top growth, though this may only be from the increase of nitrogen in the soil, and its absorption by the roots through rains. The later this young clover is allowed to grow up to the time of seed forming the more nutritious the herbage will be. At seeding time the clover stalks becomes hard and fibrous, detracting from their value as feed. Early in the spring young clover is Id6(i palatable and nutritious than are my of the grasses. Its roots are striking downward toward the subsoil the , second spring of the clover growth. 3o there is less plant food for the jiover roots to get early in the season than there is for grass roots, which run mostly near the surface, and are quickly warmed by the bright spring sunshine. This is not a theory. The ?ow, if given a chanoe, will lake a test that no one can dispute. ? <.' there is any old grass pasture in th.> field, 1 the cow will eat that rather than clover, j an til the time that clover comes into bead, and then will leisurely snip ofl the sweet blossoms, leaving the lower ott't of the clover untouched. It is this which makes clover unsuitable for j pasturing, unless the object be to let % great amount of clover stalks go back i to the soil as manure. Neither is this early growth of , slover of much value as a fertilizer if plowed under. It is the nitrogenous substance which makes it nutritious for the cow that most increases its ; manorial value. In fact, all through j the second year's growth the richness I of the soil where clover is grown increases. This is probably from the , extension of clover roots into the sub- ! soil, and also from the decomposition i of air in the soil, which goes on at in- . creasing ratio until frost checks clover ; growth in the fall.?American Cultiva- , tor. 1 Hens in the Orchard. 1 Many farmers and orchardiste would < like to have hens in the orchard for i the good their presence would do the 1 trees, were it not that the fowls must j be kept confined because of the dam-! i age they would do the adjacent gar- i ] den and flower beds. The sketch j Bhows a way to keep one or more flocks - -a*. of hens in an orchard. A light, low honse, made of half-inch matched stuff, has a wire run attached to the end, as shown in the illustration. The house has no floor. The eggs are gathered by opening the hinged bdhrd in the end. Low trucks are attached to the corners so that the whole can be : moved occasionally to a new location. It can thus be moved tip and down beside the rows of trees, stopping for a day or two nnder each tree, scratching, fertilizing the ground and destroying insects. The fowls all do movable summer poultry HOCSR. I i J?6 well nnder snch conditions, and their presence will be of great value to the orchard. The lower sill of the side* of the house should continue out and form the base of the sides of the run. New England Homestead. The General-Purpose Cow. The time may oome when everywhere there will be pure-bred cattle, and nothing else, but that time is certainly now a long way oil As the case at present stands, the great hulk M of oar cattle is very common and ? scrubby indeed, and the beat that can be done with these is to gradually and j as fast as practicable grade them up? I improve them both by selections and crosses on pure-bred males. An important problem is up for solution at the very start in this undertaking, and that is as to the direction , that should be taken in this matter? whether, in other words, we should go in the milk and butter or in the beoffefr direction. The strictly beef breeds are usually poor when at their best when it comes / ; to the milk pail; the little Jersey is m , f ? type of the very poor when it comes to being put on the butcher's block. So much is this thought to be the tact ?3 by men whose main business is raising^ > ] choice beef cattle that they regard the* general introdnction of Jersey blood as a serious blow to the best far their ' industry. Thus when Jersey cattl* > first began to be brought to Kbataeky at all extensively this was the attitude, and they were much opposed and sneered at, but in spite of that they have become established and repre sentatively nu a great puae in our it :v^ agricultural and best food eoonomy. If fine cream and batter meet the want, then to the little Jersey we must- % go as the basis of operations best eal- $ culated to secure our general-pur posei cow, making up for (he loss on beef account at the end of it all by gains otherwise made on the way to that V'-jj end. On many farms, on most farms, is- ' V deed, the milk and batter stand related to direct home supplies only, and when that is the case then the trend should clearly be in the direction of beef. This is mostly as we find it end mostly ' '.j 7.3 in the common interest a* it should beL Beyond any doubt the ueereet approach to the ideal in thisreapect i* the Shorthorn or Durham breed of cattle more gentle and kindly than they. The beef they moke racks with the best, as evidenced by show-rings results eeotued ^^fflH under this crucial test In like manner have they earned rank with the beet when it comes to the production of first-class milk and batter. To-day fcn England there are dairymen who, though compelled to make every edge cut to make their business pay, tB have nothing but Shorthorns. And it " has long been so there. Cattle come to their best and begin J?1:? - -n rv.;iVz??? lAma fimm kolnM bU UCWUUC AO uiuaci a OVIMV r they are really what should beXjegarded as old; and when they do so, they Ice 1 in good form for fattening and malting: into exoellent beef, if of the beef broadeu ' ;,j It is far different if they are of oilhec -vjj than the beef breeds. Then the male* of the beef breed, when not wanted for purposes of increase, are made into steers, that yield the choicest beef a? the markets of the world. Millions off * dollars worth of jnst such beef leawn ' the bluegrass pastures of Ken tacky otnually, going to the great centers df. A civilization, and not a little of it intkft ) live 6tate across the sea. In imaginn- t; A tion?let us compare a herd of aocdk steers with a like herd made from tb? best of the strictly cream and batterbreeds. There is, of course, room for all and ^ a place for all; only it is important toremember, in dealing with our general-' X > purpose cow, that if we would get there all right, we should start right, adapting the means to the ends, and not putting a butter-and-cream oow where a beef one will pay far better, or vice versa. Circumstances shonld also be taken into aocount in considering this matter thoroughly. The heavier ana Deei t breeds of cattle need a fare and a pas- / turage that is generous according to *\ their size. Whilst the case for tb* ; iream and butter breed is not to ba ,-'.s stated in terms the opposite of this? the rule that something never conies from nothing alwafs obtaining?it is i the fact that the smaller kinds often prosper and greatly strengthen familyresources where the larger would fain- { ritably starve. ?Home and Fsnu. ' F