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Show ttLLcr rmsr CLASJ LWC3, Thr tUetlratUna Whkti Show IU !m-pnrt-.nl Thla fa. Tliree pletnrea of sheep lllnstrato In a forclU way one mistake in sherpbree-1-In-x that Is mvle by very many farmers. Too many faruiors say that so long n thsy can recurv a first cU- rim nny ol 1 ewo will answer This It a mUUkc It would prv far mars to sUughter aome of their ewut Ju-d as It a o'lld ny dairymen to Lnoek a tot of their cows on the lies I c rr 45 no t foi! itarLLiisn ivi Pig 1 repre-srnU a typo cf one that li a1wh)s unnrotl table, lbr wool U epeti an I Ilufly giving her no proteetiou In wet weather, and to this Is duo the fact Out she is rarely without a ruuulng Hlmo. Her owner suites that she li doeldedly lacking in motliirly Instincts, m aha rrnrs but IndilTerently the tnt of tif Iambs, tiho luw always Ixwi a xery poor milker hi form sho Is very light In front, owenetkod anl nirro through the girth. Tig. 9 Is a Shrornhlro grade eno of snperior merit In quality sho scores high, as will bo apparent lu her Uno fenturetl faco an I su ill bon. Yet she Is robust an l u Jer aillug Her (tocull tr points are a wry straight bock and no ii oood BRcciJiva nwr-atriklngly nwr-atriklngly arched rlla, vsnctlally over tho heart, whlth ulwiya gives her the appearance of being In plump con Iltion. HI10 Is enuglv built, yet lengthy, n kind mother, n hearty eater mil n sptonllj milker when she ha n lamb at foot. tiho has been a source of great profit to her owner Kvcn when in low condition after suckling a lumb, she alwnts hosu lino nipenranco anl is so thrifty that beforo going Into the sheds she Is tho fattest of tho tlock. Fig. 9 is her lamb when not quite right ft eeks ol L It was sired by a pure brel bhrophlro buck, anl when dropped 3IarchtI-tt welched 11; roiinla. It ULut un average specimen of tho oft nu 111 Tint uoeu r.wrs lamb. spring of thlt ewe. When t hotograj hed May 13 It weighed 4 J 'ft whllo on Bept. 17, It welched exactly I00iounds an average gain of about four pounds per week since Its birth. Its grain fool consisted luolnly of uommeal and oil meal, aud, latterly, cottou.wod meal Instead of tho oil cimL It Ins tin strong, lengthy frame to cirry a heavy weight of motion when ma lo ready for tho spring market, fahorter bodied lambs may make a greater Inctvosoni Umbn, but de not dovclop afterward iu well as strongly couplel lambs of somewhat some-what lengthy body, Uural Now Yorker. That WTooUy Taito In Jlultoii, Tlioldvathtt the wool gives taste t) tho lloih, cither by Its growth beforo butchering or by Its touch lu butcher Ins, or after, is a very ol 1 one, but it Is erroneous. Tho flesh of tbo sheep kv takes of tho flavor of Its feci more than doori that of the stet-r or tho hog, an 1 tho milk still more, perhaps. Dut all the apparatus ap-paratus of glandi aud I tunes for tho manufacture of wool Is situated In tho ikln, and all Us deposits aro made thero without affecting the flesh. The disa-grvcablo disa-grvcablo "sheepy" flavor Is imparted to moat by ago, by bad feeding (or no feed-lu- at nil), an 1 by del y in tho removal cf viscera. Let a sheep bo properly managed man-aged from birth to butchering, aud tho entrails taken out with neatness and dls- Iiatch, nu 1 the carcass may bo wrapped n tho skin without detriment, birrluj tuo unciennnness. r rom 1110 enormous preponderance cf the breed, the much decried "Merino tatto1 Ih tho scapegoat for all tho bod feeding nnl wurso butchering of the country, A sheep may yield the beat flesh of all tho domottl-cotod domottl-cotod atiliiiiiU or fowls or tho worst. Exchange, In tho cam of the dlsastroni fire at tho Hotel Hoyal, Kuw York, Is to be noted the samo fact observablo lu all hotel ho-tel tiros attended with loss of lira. The servants, lurtlfularly tho chambermaids, chamber-maids, aro the first victims. Among the dead anl mMng at the Now York fire wero flo ehainWriuidds. Thento nro usually thriut into auiall, ont 1 1 the wuy rooms, lunccesMblo to the tinmen when tUtnea break out. Hie ha plot prisoned wuiueneltler ure burned to do.Uli or sufTovate, alt way of etu belugintouT. When tho (Ire Is extinguished, then somebody remembers that n dozen chiinbermnlds wwe sleeping In sumo littlo iiLsido rooms up under tho roof. Not the least of tho ttrrors tint txwet poverty nud holilensncNi is this that H '- nt prutected in life aud limb as wialtlik Who thinks of tho live or safvt) of tho cry poor ;ho toll? There nro alw tys plenty and more than plenty to take tholr j laces iu coso they aro cut of by accident. |