The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 08, 1897, Image 3
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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
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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
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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.
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