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Show TIIC OVEIt KITTED IIKAM". . As the season of fairs is not far of!'. and that of fat slot k shows will Hot bq long thereafter dilated, it is well Uicon-Wcr the elfin t of feeding for shu iisjii such animals as are to Ihi sold to tho butclu rs for Immediate me ss food, or othirwic retained uboii the pnmisfHas bretslers. A Hiin bat Is of course unfit for sltou.and it is tsmallj- true that the llttsh ol a bea-t in a state of loverly is iintlt for human food. Hut it Is equally true that excej t to Hie ee oi.the novice tho exies-ively fatted btoslis, toadegnv, a monstrosity. Xo infant in a bait show, nor any nun or wuuiau on tiie strtet or else-wbeie,p.ceiicomplimenlsOiigriat else-wbeie,p.ceiicomplimenlsOiigriat fatlHtf. It isaiervtrtej taste that brings emsimii.liisup'j!! the cxCefceivUyfal beast in tiie show ring; fur the lieast Ls drilling from its natural state of u-Iuluess, whether this lie in the breeding ard or ujsjn the lulchtr's 1 lie tw o extreme, Maul llesli and great cliesiy , sliuiiM lrultsi out of nil exhioilious where UMfuluess is the tnd sougiit. Rules goeriiIng fairs should so far make it a misdeiutauor to greatly great-ly overfeed as to ellllnlj hauge tho drift of pi-blie -eutnlleut on this subject. There is no diversity of opinion Us tu the t lids sought being usefulness snd prutltlo the gruuer; jtt Mitii txtremra are tolerated aud j even tueoursgeii, that tho oiuts of usefuiut-fesi and profit uruovirleapcd, the real tnds sjulilLviiigtliwarttsl. A loaf of bread so iutltsl up by chemicals as to unfit it for ue Uon the bible would n rtaiuly berultslout by the prujs reoii.inittee. Vtt from vear to eur awards are being made tipou breeilingtonsnud iiSJll heifers heif-ers inUnded lur breeding tliat have had their uscfuluc-s utterly taken from tliem by such long continued and excei-lve fecsling tlutt every fat vcsiile in the Iwdy is crammed till ilegeueration of ti.-sut. is reached, or V"-ry uearl . Impr.-gnatlou lw-comesditlitult, lw-comesditlitult, at d not in i few instance in-stance ImiKboiblf, simply because the ovaries and fallopian tubes: are lammed iri by pressure, mid prevented pre-vented from it ting in the way in-teii in-teii Its! bv nature. llegardlug the fatted steer, made lu for siiuw purjststf, it Is Weil known to many that the carcases of some of these have been Iniught by hotel kcci.r, and that Uieluugcou-tiuued Uieluugcou-tiuued excessively fat state lind so dwarfetl liic muvular tissue, and so hlleil these w ith greuse as to havu chsugtei Uie llavor, rendering the meat entirely unlike a prurly fed and fitted beaH this being carrlt d to such a degree that the meat was njected by guests The ruli juices that belong to meat pnj-erly fitted for use as footl are in over fatted meat driven out, mere &t Imlng su'.atltuted. The term "riiney," when applied loan over fatted lieast, Is a perversion of tiie term. The meat is over ripe, like an over rij iich a Jsncli. in f-i t. just verging on decay has, atone peiiod during the feeding proce-e. been jii't ngiil for the butcher's knife. It Iiassein a condition con-dition which, if n vein had been opened and the hldo taken olTat that time, Hie icilateof tliuepicure would have asketl for nothlngbetttr. Hut, .is wit. tin Jieach, tliegrajieaudthe nectarine, when held too long, tliu flavor that invites given place to that which rejs.1.. Xo comuiiltoe on fruit award! uponsjiecmieus thet have pnifced Slip state ami condition of highest flavor and usefulness-. Krult that has lass-ed lass-ed its Is-t stale has undergone de-Keneration de-Keneration of tissue. TUta is condition con-dition akin to degeneration 0f Hie muscular tissue; alwnjs tho result of a long cuntiuucsl stats of cbcslly. Tho musxles of the body are so pre-setl upou, and so excessively charged wltti fat, that while fatty degeneration may nut fully occur, thero is so near an approach to this that the nalurvl flavor of the meat 1 so nearly destniv ed that it Is fsr from satisfai tory w hen siTvcd ujmii tho iilqte. , As fully outlined in Hiwocolu runs ayuu-sgo. tin-stalecfptrfcxtiori is , reached in meat when nnimais are so breti Unit Uiere is within the muscles mus-cles cell tissue into winch fat ruay be deslied, resulting in tliat state known as marbling." Wheu Hits I marbling occurs mrly in the fatten- i iugiroces-s, nuareuite certiin to Ihnvewtll llavored, juicy meat as the result. But, a. stated, when the , fattening pan-ess Is implied beyond a reasonable limit an J long continued, contin-ued, a degrie of degeneration of Hie lean tissues will occur; and thtrt- upon all Inviting flavor is parted w itli, and we have not by any i means Hie taste of meat u nder a state j of decay, but it has a greasy, ill-tls-vorcil taste. The meat may reason, ably lie susitetl of having ap- I proached too uearly to a state of tie-generation tie-generation of tissue. U.S. n Cf.icQ-go Cf.icQ-go I'rairU farmer. |