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Show AGO BIBLE OF LONG SACRED BOOK BEYOND DOUBT THREE CENTURIES OLD. Given by Fond Mother to Son Who Left Scotland to Come to America in 1611 Hat Been Family Heirloom Since That Time. wr.v Love the Best Gift. One mar had riches for his gift and km The en css thereof; Anothet, neie fames topmost summits lilt All pigmy above, Kelt the keenpeaks pangs of lofty loneliness; And one had love. s of life Lown in the lowlv HA .years were spent; Where, far removed from moiling din and strife Brook song and bird song blent Babbled of quiet things, of resting peace. And deep content Yet there was something in his cup of d ss TnelTahly more sweft Than e'er he knew who in the gidd m urn Of fortune set his feet Of quaffed fame's goblet, wreathed wlh rue and bays. And found It incemplefc -- X iiiunal M tguzinr low tin pan, the parties then separate and stand in two lines, facing each other, about eight or ten feet apart. The starter at the head of one of the lines fastens one end of a ball of yarn to a doorknob or chair Just behind him. and. putting the ball on his pan, tosses It to the player directly oiposite, who endeavors to catch It on Ms pan, and toss it to the person on the other side, who stands next to the valley-path- starter. The third player in turn sends it back to the one standing second on the opposite side. In this order, going back and forth, the ball travels down the ranks. When It reaches the end of the line it is Started back again, and kept going until the yarn is all unwound. In no case may the ball he touched Pancake Time. with the hands. When it falls to the ttoor, it must be Lifted up with the pan by the player who drops it fails to catch it, and when the yarn fastens itself to the clothing, or becomes entangled around the body of the player. It must not be touched, no matter how much it may inconvenience the movements. As the days grow shorter and the Great care should be taken not to 'mornings colder the toothsome pan- break the thread: any one doing so cake appears at many a breakfast Is counted out of the game. He can.table, In spite of all the doctors have not leave his place, however, for movto say about them, and a whole army ing may disturb the yarn attached to lor small boys are delighted to swim others. The ends of the broken yarn of ,a big pile them In maple cyrup and must be tied before the game 'tuck them under their vests by way la resumed. together of their throats, before they When the yarn Is all unwound it is hurry ofT to school. Long, long ago, In old Engthe object of each player to loosen were land, pancakes thought to be himself from the tangle without even worse than they are now looked breaking the thread. ,uPn- Some ancient writers went so The time must be noted, and five far as to gravely claim that the minutes only be allowed for the disof pancakes would drive people entanglement. 'stark, raving mad. At the end of this time the side In those days pancakes were greed-Illwhich has the greatest number of eaten during Lent, when meat was members free from the meshes of the forbidden. Great batches of them wins the game. were fries in fat and served swim- yarn ming In grease. When they were Strap Puzzle. ready a bell was rung, calling the hunTo make this puzzle, get two pieces gry laborers from the fields to the ot leather about two inches square feast. This bell came to be known one long, narrow strip or very as the pancake bell. Boys then went and limber leather. Now cut a slash out "pancaking," and, armed with across two sides of each square near sticks and stones and broken crock, the and also a long slash in edges, " ary o door, repeated this each end of the strip. The problem - chant from house to house: Is to the strap in the squares, as 'T am come a shrovlng for a piece of shownloop at Fig. I, and then take It off pwncake. , If you'll give me a little I'll ask no more, again. . Ycu will find it easy with the ir you dun t give any I'll rattle your strap entirely free to make the loop door. shown at the top of Fig. 1. .laving They usually got the pancakes , done so. pass the free end ot the strap down through the other slash . Plate Balancing. Do you know how to balance a and one end of the puzzle is finished. china plate on the point of a needle, Then pass the tree end of the strap and even to cause it to spin steadily up through the first slash of the upon this delicate support? Cut two corks down the middle, and In the ends of the four halves thus obtained insert forks. Inclined to the smooth sides of the corks at a little less than right angles. Place these four corks around the rim of the plate at equal distances from one another, and see that the .teeth of the forks are in contact with tho rim, to prevent them from away-ito- i Without the slightest trace of shyness the trout came to the edge of the hank, to the very feet of the lady, and waited for more bread to be throws. In reply to a question put by the visitor, the lady stated that the trout had been her pet for a long time, and had become so tame that It would even take a worm or a piece of meat from her fingers. The pool Is stocked with hundreds of trout, but this, curiously enough, Is the only one among them all to act in this way. It lives by itself in a part of the pool which no anglers are allowed to invade, and comes regularly at the appointed time for its meals Mindon News ot bread Grasshopper Pie. c - eat-tin- g y I ' , With a little care this plate can now be balanced on the point of a .needle whose eye has been buried In the cork of an upright bottle. By giving .It a gentle rotary motion .the plate may be made to spin .around, which It will do for quite a 'long t'me. Insects That Draw Pictures. Few people, except lumbermen and scientists, know that there are a lot of American Insects that draw pictures. But lumbermen know It to their cost, for the pictures are drawn in the timber of valuable trees, and the drawing instruments used by the little artists are their Jaws and boring tools, with which they carve their designs so deeply Into the trees that they die. The most striking pictures are made by the Columbian timber beetle. When this Insect bores Into oak 'it makes a perfect engraving of a steamboat. The hull, with Its rounded keel, and the black funnel, are so well made that It does not require the least bit of imagination or study to see it . s soon as anyone lays his eyes on a piece of white oak In which the timber beetle has been he is sure to exclaim :"Why, look at the picture of a steamboat! " Weavers and Weft There are two sides in the game ot weavers-an- d weft, so that only as equal number can take part. Each player U provided with a new, shal- - During the hot summer das the Filipinos go out into the fields wito big nets to catch their winter's supply of candy, for it Is alive when they first get it. During the summer months great swarms of giant grasshoppers light down upon the fields in such clouds as to shut out the sun. Then there is a great stir, for these They grasshoppers must be killed. not only destroy the crops, but they are thought very good to eat, and so there Is a double reason for a war on them. Boys watch In the church towers, and when they see a swarm coming send out an alarm. The natives rush to the spot with bags and nets and begin their work. The grasshoppers are knocked down, with paddles, stunned with gunpowder explosions any way to kill them, and are left to dry, in large numbers and they are then shipped to the 4 a cities, where they are worth bushel. People eat them In the streets and at entertainments as we eat peanuts. and like them Just as well as we do the sweet goober nuts. They are baked with sugar and make eaten as candy; housewives pies of them, with big ones around the top crust: bakers bake them in cakes as we do raisins, and boys think a pocketful of them sprinkled with sugar a great treat. An Easy Cne. Put three candies, peanuts, or any small article that Is eatable, each under a hat, and then show your audience that you have nothing hidden In your hands or about your person. Next have one in the audience, if he wishes, mark the articles in order to identify them. Then lift the hat from eac'j one and slowly eat the article that Is under each, and then tell the andtence that you will bring the three articles under any hat they may select. How Is it done? Simply by placing the bat selected on your head. Some Dolls. Most dolls are born In Thuringia, a province of Germany. Thuringia is on this sometimes called puppet-lanFigure No. Flame No. I. account Almost the entire population second square and down through tha Is employed making some parts of the second slash. Fig. 2 shows you how dolls which are sent to every counto make the second loop. Bring the try In the world except India. The free end of the strap around the low- little Hindus are said to be the only children in the world, all er slash, slip It back through the upper slash, stick the upper square, countries having something which the loop and all, through the loop In the little girls can rock to sleep and love. lower end of the strap, pull the strap That the American girls love dolls, back until It forms the loop shown In one has only to read that last year the lower end cf Fig. 1, an there you over 28,000,000 worth of dollies came are! In taking the squares off the into this country, and nearly all of them from Thuringia. loop this process Is simply reversed. Tough cardboard for the squares and a strip of firm cloth for the strap Parlor Blind Man. In parlor blind man" the leader Is may be used if you cannot get the leather. blindfolded, while the other players stand or sit about the room. The manA Piscatorial Pet. ager of the game has told each child A remarkable story is told of a lady what animal he Is to represent for the living near Ingestre Hall, Staffs, Eng- time being, and when he is touched land, who has nmde a pet of a trout. by the blinded child he must imitate A correspondent writes that while the noises made by that particular animal, walking round a pool In that neighrepeating the noise three borhood he observed a lady throw a times if requested. From the noise must blind man piece of bread on the water. Almost thus made the Immediately the surface of the pool guess the performers name. If sucwas ruffled, there was a glimpse of cessful, the child - named takes the bright color, and the bread had disap- place of the blindfolded one, and so peared. Other crumbs followed, thrown the game goes on. For instance, one nearer and nearer to the bank, and child mews like a cat, another barks gradually there swam into view a fine like a dog, still another hisses like a trout goose, etc. d iloll-les- s Farcical Judging of Fruit. The writer attended the Illinois state fair last week, and while there Yellow with age, yet held together made a cursory examination of tne firmly by its strong calfskin binding, fruit in the horticultural exhibit The The Grate Booke. which was print- premiums had been already awarded, ed in England more than three cen and some of the results were startlturies ago. was exhibited to the des- ing. The Judge that awarded the precendants of John Cory and his broth- miums for Bartlett pears had placed ers at the family reunion held in the the blue ribbon, which indicates first, Thurson a plate of Keiffers. The Keiffers Cory groe, near OaKlandon, of day. The book, which is a priceless too had none of the appearance A heirloom in the family, has passed Bartletts but were typical Keiffers. now dewn through nine generations, is the property of James E. Cory ot reiennsjhama, who at the recent the of president union was Cory organization The history of the Grate Booke lias been traced back as far as 1611, when the tamily records show that to John Cory s mother gave the Bible her son as she wished him God speed when he left his home In Scotland to John Cory trj his fori line in America soon after landed at or near Boston the coming of the Mayflower. For a while he lived at New LonHe don, Conn., where he was married. afterward crossed Long Island sound and for a short time lived at Souththat ampton. where the records showwhale on March 7. 1644, he was mrde for the district of commissioner died at Hasham-omacHe Southampton L. I., in 1685, leaving four sons and two daughters. When John Cory died he willed the Bible to his son Elnatlian. Thus the book has been handed down through nine generations, and the time-worBible that was exhibited in the grove near Oaklandon Thursday bids fair to remain a family heirloom for many It has about 500 years to come. leaves of English parchment of pages 8 by 12, and It is printed in old English type in the spelling of that age. It was published in 1603. About 300 descendants of the young man who first received the book with his mothers blessing as he left to set sail for an unknown land gathered on Thursday In the old Cory grove, where the old volume was an object of reverence. They came from various parts of the United States, representatives being present from PennCalifornia, Ohio sylvania, Alabama, and Indiana. Indianapolis News. n SHE GOT THE LETTER. Cogent Reason for Wanting It Melted Government Official. Public officials who petitioners in the discharge cf their duties expect and hope to receive truthful replies; but once in awhile they get an answer so pregnant with truth that Its crystal purity fairly dazzles them. That Is what happened in the New York postofflee on Thursday in the course of a conversation between a government official, and pompous and a woman, young and good looking and in apparcross-questio- n gray-heade- d ent distress. t want to get a letter back that I mailed about fifteen minutes ago, Can I? said the woman. It can be done If you can prove authorship," said the man gravely, but it will put us to a great deal of trouble. Yes, I suppose it will, but I cant help that I really must have the letter. I shouldnt have sent It In the I first place. I did it on impulse wouldnt have it go through for anything. Who la It to?" was the next question. She mentioned a mans name. The solemnity and importance of her inquLsttor'8 look became still more Intensified. Why, he asked solemnly, do you want to get the letter back. came the unhesitating Because, reply, I am afraid his wife will get hold of it. She got the letter. New York Press. Why He Would Wait. When I was touring In the south last fall, said Lew Dockstader, Bar-nu& Bailey's circus was booked to pitch tents in Macon, Ga. Walking along the street one day I came upon a group of darkies gazing at a yellow and red poster which bore in letters of greeit this announced ment; Walt. Wait. est Show on Earth. 'Ah, ain't agoin marked one husky Walt. The GreatSept. 1. to dat show,' re- mulatto to his yel- aint goln? was low companion. Whah foh you the response. 'Ahs gwan to wait foh de othah he said. They aint no bettah show,' said show wot's bettah, SNAP SHOTS IS A LIVELY GAME. she. Tes, they Is, was his rejoinder. It say ao on dat bill. Caln't you read? "Greatest Show on Eath 'cept one. New York Times. Taking No 8tump. A tramp up in Piscataquis county rang a doorbell the other day, and when the woman of the house, a raw boned, determined looking person, came to the door, he asked, thinking it a good Joke: Madam, will you marry me? The woman unrolled her sleeves, reached for her hat and jacket and said: Well, A Clever Shot in a Game of Snap Here Is a new game that requires almost no preparation which ts great tun and which demands a lot of skill to bring victory to a player. It is a fine game for girls, for there Is no smaller button is used In the place of a ball. One player starts the game by pressing with her large button on the edge of the small button, causing it to snap across the table very much Jumping about, and 5. girl can play as in the old game ot it .while her veiy prettiest She tries to make the button land In ' party frockwearing without the slightest dan- - the other girls saucer. When the butger of mussing IL ton has landed and has stopped rollTwo players only are required. ing the other player has a turn. She They sit at opposite sides of a table, snaps It hack and tries to make It akd any sited table will do. Before land on her opponents saucer. If a each girl la a little plate or saucer. snans the button off the table player Each girl has a large bone button her opponent scores two If points. in the place of a pfi bat and a the button di.es not go more than half . tiddle-de-wink- four on ye, and I no stump! New ment of the horticultural exhibition cannot be too severely condemned. We have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars In equipping a state fair as an educational Institution and then the management Is turned over to men entirely incapable of managing it In a way to make the educational feature of any value. The Illinois State Board of Agriculture has the names of numerous fruit growers in this state any one of which knows enough about apples and other fruit to at least recognize the varieties. Why are they not appointed as judges? The trouble with the Illinois State Board of Agriculture seems to be that a man is appointed as Superintendent of a department and then allowed a free hand to work his own sweet will. No matter how little he knows about it, he is not Interfered with, and it would be considered discourteous to even make suggestions to him. The power of the man is supreme over all the exhibitors. His opinion Is accepted and must be accepted against the opinions of men that know a hundred times more about the exhibit than he does. In the selection of judges for the fruit there is no reason why the State Board of Agriculture should not ask the advice of the State Horticultural Society. When the International Live Stock Exposition and the World's Fair managers wanted live stock Judge they wrote to the different live stock associations and asked them to name a number of men who were able to judge in their breeds. Out of tbeso the managers of the two great shows made their selection of Judges and so got men well equipped for judging. There is no reason why a State Board of Agriculture should not ask the State Horticultural Society to name men capable of judging the different kinds of fruit It would be far better than writing to a local lawyer and requesting that he pick out a man to act as judge on a fruit exhibit. Farmer's Review. Silage in the Cow Ration. ot Wisconsin At the last round-uinstitutes, C. P. Goodrich said: Now, I will tell you how I think la the cheapest, easiest and best way to provide summer feed for cows. It Is to have a good silo and put up corn silage. If you have good pasture this silo needs to be only about one-haas large as the one which holds the winter silage. It should be smaller In diameter, but just as deep, so that enough can be fed from the top each day to keep the silage from being damaged by exposure to the air. In this way you can have the best of feed to tide over a time of drouth and short pasture. It will be always ready and In the most convenient form possible to feed. The cows will eat the silage with great relish every day, no matter how good the pasture Is, though they will not eat as much as In winter, when on otherwise dry feed. I know personally several men who practice this way and feed silage every day In the year, and I need not tell you they are very successful men. I know a few men who feed silage the year round who do not have any land in pasture. I have In mind one now who has a small farm and keeps as many head of cattle as he has acres of land. He has nearly of his land In alfalfa, and the balance, outside of that occupied by buildings and yards, la used tor growing oata and corn. He has the material for a good, well balanced, succulent ration the year round, and his cows produce splendidly. Practically one acre feeds a cow. If he needs to buy a little concentrated feed the pork made from the skim milk Is ample for that purp lf one-thir- d m d than half an acre, yet into that every year he puts the cornstalks from forty acres of land. The stalks become quickly pulverized under the feet of the farm animals and in the course of months one fails to recognize In the manure any cornstalks. Of course this means work, but it means also the keeping up ot the producing capacity of the land. It also means the keeping up of the ability of the land to resist drouth. Get the straw Into the manure and then get the manure into the field as quickly as possible after it Is fit to go there. Cultivation of New Land. Franklin Williams, m a bulletin oi the United States Department of Agriculture, relative to the cultivation ol new land, says: The quantity of roots remaining in the ground after it has been cleared Is always surprising. No matter what clearing method has been pursued or how carefully it has been done, the plow will discover an aggravatingly large number of roots. When rtumps are pulled out by machinery many more roots are removed than by any other method. But even In machinery-cleared land the ground will still be full of roots, mostly small, it la true. In plowing new land a good, steady, strong span of horses la of the first Horses that are fast or importance. fractious will not answer. They will fret the plowman, break the plow, and bruise their shoulders. With s spirited team, even though nothing Is broken or Injured, it la hard to do good work. If the plow la drawn rapidly it is quite impossible to guide it clcsely and avoid stumps and roots. After the winter season of comparative idleness horses should not be put to plowing new land. Their shoulders have grown tender from disuse and should be first gradually toughened In old land; moreover, some of their accumulated energy should thus bs worked off. Oxen preferable to horses. Foi plowing new ground oxen are preferable to horses. They are steadier and stionger. Formerly in breaking new land it was a common occurrence to see several yoke of oxen attached to one strong plow; and they did service. Now, in this age of hurry' and rush, the slow, plodding ox has been forced to give way to the faster horse, and when new ground Is to be plowed unfortunately the ox is seldom at hand. yoe-ma- n There are several pattern! of plows work. while however, strong and handy, are not essential. Any standard plow with a good cutter properly and securely adjusted will do made especially for These grub plows, e aint takin pose. Three Ways of Improvement Three ways there are of Improving the dairy herd, by either one ot which it may be brought to a paying basis. Of the three ways two of them are what we might term popular and are generally urged on the audiences by speakers and on readers by writers la dairy papers. The first method is for the dairyman to sell off all the cows he has and put the money into stock of one of the dairy breeds. The second method is to keep the cows and put a pure-bredairy sire at the head of the herd, and then follow selecting the best dairy calves for cows, discarding the calves of poor It will take ten dairy conformation. years or more to accomplish ones aim by this process. A third process ts to go out into the country and select the best animals possible, giving them the best of treatment thereafter. Some cow owners are very sure that the right kind of treatment will greatly Increase the power of the cows to give milk, even far beProf. yond that usually supposed. Sloane, of the Maryland station, says that cows well treated and properly fed have developed wonderfully. Relative to one batch of cows purchased In the country he says: They were stabled, curried, as is a horse, every day in the year, and received a liberal feed of grain every day they were In milk, both winter' and summer. On this treatment the pure-bloode- new-groun- d good work. Cut roots that stop the plow. When plowing new land alwaya have a mattock conveniently fastened to the plow handles, and cut all roots that do not break. When the plow becomes hung" In roots it is better to cut it loose than to back and pull out The root that stops the plow will Interfere with cultivation, and the same root, unless severed, will occasion this' annoyance for several successive seasons. In plowing new land it la well to make haste slowly. Leave no skips. Turn a continuous furrow. The time saved in cultivating the crop, together with the Increased harvest, will more than pay for the pains taken. The second season the plow furrows should be run at right angles to those of the first If these two plowlngs are thoroughly done, the ground will be completely broken and subdued. If the land is very stumpy it will be quite difficult to level down for planting purposes. When the stumps are too thick for the A harrow to be used a heavy brush or cultivator, run opposite to the way the land was plowed, will answer fairly well. When the land Is not too stumpy, or the stumps are cut very low, the spring-tootharrow will do excellent wock. The teeth will bound over stumps and roots that are fast and comb out a great many that are loose or broken. If the roots are plentiful, and they usually are, many ot them will have to be removed. With an Improved adjustable spring-tootharrow, many of the loose roots may be combed out and wludrowed and then burned or hauled off. In bringing new land under cultivation, cultivate for several successive seasons or until all roots are thoroughly broken and all foul vegetation completely destroyed. If cultivated for only one year and tben seeded down or left idle any number ot roots nnd small bushes will revive and start Into renewed life. h In selecting a peach tree to plant the experienced orchardtst selects one York Sun. Need I tell you that this man la not over five feet tall and with a diameter ot less than an Inch. Some Shota. getting for bis labor and hia feed a even select Mrs. Wynne's Large Family. whips three feet tall. The Indeed? do who very high price They Mrs. of wife Wynne, the acting amateur wants a big tree, not knowway across the table her opponent as does he are aa times many It will not make the growth scores two points. If the button postmaster general. Is one of the much as some getting men who work harder ing tbat of the younger tree. comes to a rest against the saucer the best known hostesses In Washington. than use do, they just because they She is a remarkably young looking girl making the shot scores five woman to be the mother of ten chil- intelligence, judgment and skill In points; If the button should land In Uniformity In fruit packing is desummer cow feeding, as well as in the saucer and slip out again she dren, but she was married when baresired, as buyers are constantly looking In cow winter and feeding, selection, out of school, and her first long scores seven points. A lucky for uniform packing Instead of hot ly breeding and care of cows. was her wedding gown. causing the button to remain In the dress packing. The buyer does not saucer scores ten points for the player know what price he can afford to pay Quit Burning Straw. None of Them Fit to Wear. making it Twenty-fivThe old wasteful habit of burning for a consignment tbat Is not uniform points Is a Eunice Actually, Uncle George, I game. The players take turns snapall the straw on the farm U still fol- and so pays the smallest possible fit haven't to wear. anything Grown people as. ping the button. Uncle George Yes, I've noticed lowed on those farms that do not have price. veil as youngsters f.ud lots of fun that all your gowns sre in the height a good deal of stock. Even where it in this game, which Is a model evenThe Babcock test should be within ts possible to utilize the straw by of fashion. Boston Transcript ing pastime. hauling It to the barnrard It Is still the reach of every farmer. reckln I ' Ive buried plate of Rome beauty took first prize Rome and beauty was typically Rome Beauty the York Imperials shown were typical York Imperials. What inducement Is there for fruit men to show fruit If the judges selected are men almost ignorant of the things they are supposed to Judge. It would be far better to hire experts at almost any price than to have such results. Of the three judges chosen only one, so far as the writer knows, is an expert on fruit. If all three judged the same fruits the results might not be so bad; but each one was given a certain amount of the fruit to judge and made supreme so far as that fruit was concerned. The expert used the better part of two days in arriving at his decisions, while the other men made their awards in a few hours. The expert related to the writer the manner in which he was selected. The member of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture that had charge of the fruit exhibit wrote to a lawyer in the city and asked him to select a judge for the fruit. The lawyer chose the fiuit man mentioned. It is probable that the same unscientific method was used in the selection of the other judges. It is surprising that they got even one good man out of three. Such Inefficiency in the manage- as York Iperial, though the doe not burned, because the owner In the the fertility that out figure to atraw the worth Is hauling straw anythe barnyard for. He says that Is aoms way the ash is left and there in all h fertility in that Taking all is under the Impression that he Is get of his straw by ting about as much out un burning It as In any other way, less he can sell it or feed It to atock But all Investigations go to show that humus plays a much larger par in the matter of soil value than w thought Every pound of straw should be brought back onto the land in some form. A number of cattle will trample up a good deal of It If It Is thrown into the barnyard from time to time. This would be especially the case with some barnyards we have seen and it would at the same time greatly improve the condition of the barnyards. Get the straw and the manure mixed together in the shortest possible time. When the straw is mixed with the ma nure it is surprising how quickly it will go to pieces. One farmer has a barnyard that does not cover more cows commenced to Improve. Not in the first year was it so noticeable, but in subsequent years there was constant increase in the amount of milk and In the amount ot butter made from this milk. In the five years that the herd has been at the station some good records have been made from cows that did not promise at the start to ever be able to pay for their feed. One cow made 200 pounds of butter the first year and 420 the fifth year, and this though sbe was old enough at the time sne was bought to lead to the conclusion that she was or should have been in her prime as a dairy animal. This was the best record made, Dut only one cow in the herd failed to respond to our treatment, and she was so evidently of the beef type that we did not feel that her record was against our conclusion in the least Bad Milk and Infant Mortality. The health officers of Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, say that one Infant out of every seven that die In these cities is killed by filthy milk. Some of the people in those cities are urging the authorities to adopt the Chicago method and treat all dirty cans with blows from a sharp axe. WalkA New Zealand paper says: ing down the streets of the Empire City on a recent Sunday morning passersby were struck by the sight of a trio of filthy milk cans that were so obviously unfit for the use to which they were put that the most callous could hardly refrain from expressions of horror and disgust. The cans referred to were In a main street of Wellington city, a few chains from the Premier's residence, and it was nobody's business to interfere. Had the sight been witnessed In an American city, a few blowa of an axe would have prevented these filthy disease spreaders from doing further injury; but here they may be allowed to go ou carrying disease and death to scores of children for many years to come." Infant mortality due to the use ot bad milk is Inexcusable ns it la so easy to prevent the use of such milk. In the past, much of this mortality has been due to ignorance, aa people never connected the poor milk with the digestive disorders that carry off so many small children. Now that the truth is known, there Is no rea- son why the slaughter should not Curing Cheese. In the United States the consumption of cheese has never reached the volume it has in some of the countries of Europe. This appears to be due largely to the fact that the quality Is often so poor that people rather avoid than choose it. Poor cheese. It Is true, comes from other things than poor curing, notably bad milk and bad methods in cheese manufacture. The curing, however, has had a great deal to do with the matter. Much of the cheese produced has been made from fairly good milk and under good conditions of manufacture. But It was put into curing rooms where the temperature was high and where bacteria giving undesirable flavors grew rapidly. This has led to a thorough study of the matter of curing cheese. It has been learned by actual experience tbat cheese will cure even If kept at a temperature below the freezing point. In a refrigerator cheeses go on ripening and at the temperature of most refrigerators no deleterious germs grow. The flavors that develop are therefore good ones instead of the undesirable ones. Not only is the quality Improved, but the keeping period Is lengthened. Cheeses cured at from 30 to 60 degrees have a far better flavor than those cured at a much higher temperature. How Milk Helps. Milk as a feed, when combined with other feeds, has a very much larger feeding value than when fed by Itself. It also increases the value of the other feed fed. Just how this Is the scientists have not yet worked ouL Thus an experiment was made In feeding 100 pounds of skimmilk to pigs weighing about 125 pounds. Tbat akimmllk when fed alone made five pounds of pork. Then 100 pounds of corn was fed alone and that made 10 pounds of pork. That would Indicate that 100 pounds of milk and 100 pounds of corn would make 15 pounds of pork. But when the two were fed together the experimenters were surprised to find that they made 18 pounds of pork, or three pounds more than could be explained. Thus, It Is evident that milk In balancing a food makes It possible for the animal to use it to better advantage than when the grain Is used alone. |