Show THE CAUSE OF INFERIOR STOCK some farmers sell or aiau blau slaughter b abter their beat stock of mares ewes or cows and thus cut ot off all hope llope ot of any improvement at one blow does a heifer show a disposition to fat easil easily she is encouraged to feed until ft fit f fut it t and ia is hen then ben bold gold and eaten eiten eifle while her fellows who belong lelong to the same breed as pharaohs Phara lean kine are kept for milk or rearing caves because tiey tiley are not and cannot be made fat for be the butcher has a farmer a sow pig which becomes ecomet tat fat on the feed on which the rest bt bf lis his pigs are starving he gives her over to the be butch butcheri but cherb chera erlb erld knife and propagates from land shad and corn cribs has he a fine round bright eyed ewe awe she will be fat about the time his hia half balf filled pork wk barrel barrei are empty and she is stripped ripped nt of f her fair skin and fair 1 ro portions simply because echaus she ia is worth the trouble of killing and thus many tot lot of our farmers perpetuate A breed of animals that are sire a disgrace to the country they thay seem teem uneasy while hile bile they possess an animal that hat will draw the ut attention of their neigh oora or the butchers butcher sl ans ana an woe be to 0 it if it its puts puta on a better appearance than its itil fellows for from that time its doom is sealed to improve the breed of animals it ia is by no means necessary to incur a great expense in bring ng animals from a dis distance talice if a farmer will mount his horse and ride across the b country some gome fine day and view the stock of his neighbors be he will boon perceive that there are abundant means cf bettering hig bia c circumstances by a cross or exchange with other stock at slight cost and heby he by this plan of or improving hla hia judgment jud by comparison and hoarding boarding up experience for a 2 future day that will be cf ff more value to him than the expense of many such excursions and improvement pro pru once begun anti and perz persisted persi sed in for a short time will produce such a corresponding improvement in the mind and circumstances of the farmer as will insure its continuation and richly reward all hla hia labor and outlay many of our farmers destroy the hope of improving their stock by a system of false economy in the selection of tie the tle males from which they breed their stock many do not keep a male from which to breed bred their horses 0 or r horned stock nor is it necessary as one will do for a whole but this one ode should be the tie hes ties and in order a good one a good price and should be be charged tor lot bis his services main democrat THE FIDDLE tho tha organ may maybe be the king of instruments instrument but the fiddle ia lo the prime minister the very comparison compari compans sn n is unfair for the organ orgin is a large collection of ts any one ole of which that if fis any one stop is nothing when compared compare to a very moderate performance on the violin nor could an organ of five stob he the very best successfully y compete witti with the usual quartet of stringed in stu students ments with a double bass under tinder all to give them a substantial growl to stand upon the rhe organ is it must be allowed a sacred instrument ment for tb use of st cecila and the hea heavel heaverly ly choir above and all the churches which are wise enough to use it here below the fiddle is the only we believe on which it is of ot authentic record that the devil has played we know that burns lias has represented ep resented him aa as performing on the bagpipes an instrument which abdula never be sounded bounded out of his bis own dominions but this is poetry the evidence of is plain prose the devil appeared to him in bleeps sleep and played so exquisite a amata that when he awoke he co could ud onty only ony put on paper a very distant imitation of its to I 1 fernal infernal f ri beauty and his faint recollection of f what hamlet woud call a blast from h ly is acknowledged to be one of the best of martinis Tar tins tinis tinb works it wag was actual actually y proved by the testimony of an eye witness that at vienna the tile devil was wag seen behind very much resembling himself and guiding gulding hib bis fid fin fingers gerB gers london blondon ath |