OCR Text |
Show Home, Sweet Home," and Cornin Thro th Ilye. No one can truthfully say that Mme. aa It Patti'B voice is as fresh was thirty years ago, but every one must admit that Is Is marvelous, considering her age, for she has turned (iO. As for her style and method, they are unimpaired. It seemed to me aa though her songs had been for a lower key than of old, but I may be mistaken. Her trills were liquid and brilliant aa far as they went, but the tamous one, None, they say hae I, was much shortened. Do you remember that trill? And then the way, later, that she played with the rye" as a kitten with a hall, tossing it higher and higher, rolling and turning, till it finally ended In a big, round gurgle and then came to an end. It was in the simpler things : that Mme. Patti was best "The Last : MME. ADELINA PATTI. : Hose of Summer" and Home. Sweet (Baroness t.edarstroin). Home, and the enormous audience the name that Hilled Albert hall arose to these To the present of Adelina l'atti is what that of Jenny and 'gave her an ovation. read in the papers that iatti was going to sing went out straightway and bought seats. writes Jennet t.a L. had not heard Mme. latti tlilder. hinee slit sang In opera at the old Academy of Music, New York, sup juried by the long since dead and but gone Nicoliui. Tha. was in why Rive dates? It was too lonR ago for one to be,jpartlcular aliout such details. I am fls re that Mme. Patti would rather not have me recall the year And here was Patti the real flesh and blood and no ghost going to sing again. There was no 'Nlcollnl this time, hilt a brand new young husband, whose name was published in brackets under her more famous one: When Grand as that music Is it is death to any but German voices, and even they cannOw long wltUtand its strain. Patti has confined herself to Italian Since ODeras and English ballads. she was so small that she had to stand upon a table to lie seen, she has been singing in public, and before that she played the violin in an orchestra of which her father was the conductor. Notwithstai.ding her long life before the public, Bhe shows few signs of wear and tear, because her life has been made easy for her. She has always had some one to stand between her and all worry. She is never allowed to be excited. Louisa Loew, the companion of fourteen years, after her quarrel with Mme. Patti published he tory o? her life to the world. It was r.ot all a pretty story, particularly the part relating to Nicoiin!, hut it was undoubtedly true. Mme. Patti lias been treated more or less like a valuable raienorse. Her food, her exercise, her rest, nil are looked after liy specialists, and have I Mine. Adelina al Albert Mall 1 to-da- y 1 gem-ratio- Cembine Poultry Raising and Farming. Poultry raising as a separate business ia very much more difficult to manage than is poultry raising when combined with farming. The farmer has a decided advantage. In the first place he can usually utilise the extra help to advantage and much help that would otherwise be wasted can also be utilized. The feed question is not such a great one for him as for the professional poultry raiser. He raises the feed and thus saves the cost of commercial handling and the middlemens profits. This makes a considerable balance in his favor. At certain seasons, as in the fall after the harvests have been gathered, immense quantities of feed are produced on the farm, such as the second growth of young clover. If the fowls have a free range the insect supply is not an unimportant factor, which is not the case on the ground of the professional poultry raiser. When Insects are plentiful the fowls are most profitable. The range alive with insects is a great thing for the young and growing birds, as It Induces a very large amount of exercise and establishes their health. The marketing of eggs and poultry Is also worked into the trips that are taken to the city for other things. In fact the raising of poultry is essentially a pait of the scheme of general farming that cannot be cast aside. Only Good Cows. In the great business world no man now thinks of succeeding with inferior machines. The farmer that keeps pows should take the lesson to heart and discard all dairy machines cows that are not up to No matter modern requirements. what a machine costs, it Is better to throw it out on the dump than use it at a constant loss. Only good dairy machines can be profitably used. The good cows make butter at a profit. The ordinary dairy cows make butter without profit or loss, and tbe poor cows make butter at a loss. Now it is evident that no matter how much a cow costs, it is best to send her to tbe butcher if she either loses money or makes butter with no profit There are in the hands of farmers many cows that have cost a good deal of money once and were perhapB good cows at one time, but have outlived their usefulness. These should be fattened up at once and sent to tbe butcher. Some men say they will fatten and dispose of their cows a few months hence, when they have dried up. Hut what is the use of keeping cows at all if they are losing money for their owners every day. The sooner they are sent away the richer will tlieir owners lie. Fanners and dairymen can afford to keep only good cows. AH others are a detriment to the farmer and the farm. was to a generation past. When Auicib-agirl that I was going to hear Mine. Patti sing sh- - looked at ino aghast, latti slug! 1 was mad and tboiig.it Unit sin buried ages aao." To prove hat she was alive and singing took the young American girl to tbe concert with me. To my gnat Patti gave h- -r old familiar repolrr. She first Coala Diva.' witfivYoli ho sang sapcia" us an encore. Then. Uio jewel song from Faust, wii Yithin a Miio of Kdlnboro Tow n" as &H encore. The Last Hose of Summer," Then I. in I I As far as manners ami appearance go Mine. Paiti was as young and j toiil a your r; as ever. S'le.was dressed in pale yellow wi'li a "iiieti.ro lnt perched upon her black ami curling To have seen her running airito the inclined plane that Ica-lHie platform of Albert ball, bowing gayly to right ami left, you would not have given her a day r.ioro than 20. She Is a wonderful woman, is Mme. Patti. I doubt if any prima donna of will have sir h a record of song. Fortunately for her she lias never torn her voice with Wagner's music. hair. I ly up 1 s to-oa- y Fattening Sheep in the Corn Belt Prof. v. A. Henry: A new indus try has sprung up within the corn belt in the last decade that of fattening plains" sheep in the corn wing centers. In the winter of 1880 and 1880 there were fattened in the state of Nebraska 625,000 bead of plains sheep, the great corn crop of that year forming tbe basis of operations. Briefly tbe system is as follows: During the summer, plains sheep are purchased in New Mexico, ranges. Colorado, or other western moved These sheep are gradually eastward, grazing as they go. Often they are dipped en route to destroy scab or make sure there is no scab. the bane of the feeder under this system. By the time corn is ripe the sheep have reached some place wrhere it is on tale in vast quantities and at a low price. A corral or enclosure Is made of picketB, and Into this the sheep are driven, to remain until fattened. Sometimes there are sheds for shelter, usually not. Often 2ii,uOH to 30.00U are divided into bunches and fed at a single point. Wild hay Is unloaded against the picket fence, through which the sheep feed. The only labor in handling the hay after unloading is for an attendant to keep it moved up closo to the fence. From one and a half to two bushels of corn fed in troughs are required per day for 100 head of sheep. To this is usually added a few pounds of oil meal, 'ihe feeding continues about 100 days, the sheep gaining on an average about 15 pounds per head during that time. The profit conies mainly from increasing the original value of the sheep. The Industry Is an Irregular and uncertain one. If scab breaks out, as It is liable to do, there is often a heavy Iosb to the feeder. Again, the profit depends upon ths price of corn, which varies greatly from year to year aud cannot be foretold much in advance of the time of feeding. Large numbers of Montana sheep are fed in much the same manner in Minnesota on the screenings from mills and elevators. This feed Is proving excellent for the purpose. Because of bits of straw and chaff in the screenings, fattening sheep do not surfeit so easily on screenings as on corn, and they may even be fed without giving any hay in addition. The Practice of Cross Breeding. Prof. C. 8. Plumb: The practice of Is, excepting one generation. and that for the butcher, usually unsatisfactory. This policy seems to sot free In succeeding generations weaknesses and undesirable qualities that had apparently lain asleep in the breed qualities that the improvers had in the pure breed fairly suppressed. Undoubtedly the nearest successful approach to crossing lies in the use of very high class mules on grades of the same general type. In this way herds are bred up and improved, so that really fine herds cross-breedin- g Minnesota Fears a Dairy Trust. Kciiorts continue to come from Minbeeii for yiars. An article published of the ai tempts of great monnesota recently in a London paper tells a ied interests to get control of the differed story. It ays she ca's creamery butler interests. One ot what she likes, sin lives as she likes, the officers of the state dairy commis- are she takes exercise as she chooses, she sion declares that the time developed by discriminating breedis near at At our fat stock shows provisions ers. lias no physician in r.ltonuance. Flic; hand when the creamerhas no nerves. If this be true times ies will have to fight for existence. are mads for showing two classes of have changed. When she was last Dig concerns will be established at fat steers pure bred and grades or cross breds; and while numerous in New York slip ha-- hed own cook, central points and these will pay big and high grades, are shown, it her own doctor and her own phys- prices for cream till they have anniical attendant. As for nerves, she hilated the creameries, after which is not often that steers from pure-brecrossed are shown. Yet high had them all over her body. She selthey will buy butter at tlieir own parents and crossbreds have won dom ventured outside of her hotel, grades establishmanner In like big price. and when she did she drove In a ments in St. 1aul and Minneapolis many a ribbon over the closed earring? and stuffed cotton In will attempt to get control of dll the though all such crosses are usually her ears to Keep the cold out. cream within ISO miles of these cities. the result of mating animals of very Mme. Patti has not yet succeeded In the meantime some of the big harmonious qualities. When such crossing Is done, the new blood for one casWelsh In selling her packing firms of Chicago are taking generation seems to give added vigor tle, and she still spends the most of steps to secure control of the output and strength to the feeder. And so her time there. The place has cost of a good many creameries In the authorities on breeding are very genher a fortune and It takes a fortune Rtate, paying an advance over the erally that the value of crossagreed to run it. Like every prima' donna market price for the goods. The lies mainly in producing for the ing that ever was born, Mme. Patti loves firms are evidently planning to spend butcher. the country. It is, of course, the con- a good deal of money in the developFeeding Oat Straw. trast to the excitement of their pub- ment of this new line of interest. From the Farmers Review: Do you near see will future tremendous lic life that makes singers and actors The In a of think trade. the butter it The and good changes plan to have oat straw quiet eager for the peace to in be feared event is stacked formation of so stock can run the fields. pasture, green an lmmenr-- butter trust that ran con- to it in winter? How does straw afI say again, Mme. Patti la a wonderful woman, and it is still a genuine trol the price paid the producers and fect milch cows? Chas. P. Power, also the price to be paid for butter Sangamon county. Illinois. pleasure to hear her sing. I would the consumer. much rather hear her, even though We consider the URe of oat straw In her voice inay have lost some of Its this manner wasteful and not calcua Kansas Dairy Commissioner. For freshness, than most of the famous lated to give best results with cattle. The dairymen of Kansas are movPatti was born, not singers of It is better to cut the stack with hay for of the a slate ing establishing made, and she still sings with all her food commission. At the knife and feed straw from racks as old time grace and charm.' The young dairy and time that state has nothing required along with corn fodder and present girl alluded to at the beginning of this of the kind, the other foods. Care must he taken to present law prohibit I feel. she letter was enchanted. supply plenty of water and salt when the adulteration of milk and aa you might ing only said, turning to me, cattle aie eating straw to prevent conof the progressive Many vinegar. havu felt If you had been taken to stipation. Blight oat straw Is excelNot exactly," dairy states have hear Jenny Lind. lent food for inileh cows when fed In In some while others commissions, I replied, for I could only have been with other foods. A favor conjunction to the adulterathe laws taken to bear Jenny Lind before I tion of pertaining of ite plan feeding it is to run it adminisare dairy products was born." tered by the state boards of health. through a cutter, then wet and mix with meHls or pulped roots and It is claimed that Kansas manufacA sprinkling of the latter will Not His Experience. tures 50.noo.uOfJ isiiinds of butter per such food palatable. make theres in oui the said convict, No, year. The state developed along this sonic things In the prayer bonk 1 linn with great rapidity during the de- opinion, where the straw is fed from can t believe, though I'll like to." pression of a few years ago, and there stack as you propose the food li is instance?" for the no doubt that a dairy commlsslonei soiled, bleached and rendered lest inquired "What, would find enough to keep him busy. nutritious. prison visitor. Well, for instance, where it says, More crops are mined by lack oi Good clover liny is hard to exrel as a Wo tire here today, and gone feed for the dairy cows. " 'iruimgc than this world dreams of. pure-hrcd- d pure-bred- s, Craig-y-No- to-da- CHAKLK9 . It. NQHWABB NtW If AN 9 1 ON IN NKN YORK. im. Charles Schwab, head of the great sr.-e- l triiHl, Ik building a palace in New York that will outvie in splendor any of the mansions ofhe money kings that adorn the great metropolis. It will, with tbe grounds, occupy one ni in block, and tin- cost, exclusive of famishing, will lie closr to JJ.OOy.lMji). - mo-lasse- s. Every device that adds to the comfort of modern life or turns barren surroundings into spots of beauty Is to be used. When finished and ready fur occupancy the steel niagiiiit-- will be aide to boast that his home Is ns ns any abide on earth, with the exception of royal resiliences. mag-nitlcle- J i iit . |