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Show i DAIRY AND TOVLTHX. INTEnCSTINO CHAPTEnS FOH OUR nUMAUIIBADCnS. Ilnie Porreatfnl larmera flprnile Thlt llrpertmret of the I arm A row lllnla ea In Ibe tare of lire Stock end Poultri. Atmul Hie Poultry lluu.a. E. T. Abbott, before Kanaaa elate lioanl of agriculture' 1 said a while est) that you needed a bouto for your poultry. I want to tell you about ene or two things that yon need abont a poultry houae. Yo not only tieeJ keep a ben warm, hut you need to give her a comfortable place for tbe nlrtt She not only needs to be eoufortable so far as Inclemency ot the weather Is concerned, but she neetls to be In the same condition tbst a man needs to be In order to rest. It you. don't bolleto It. Juat go out annte night In the barn and lie down on a crooked board or on a pole and undertake to sleep there, all Bight. Well, people will go to the woods and get knotty, crooked polee, and lay them up etarllnj nt the ground and running up at an angle of about tony-fit o degrees, until the last pole la generally about eren witb the top of the bouae. They elm ply reel on something, they sre seldom ever nailed fast, and are large aa my rtit at one end and small aa my finger at the other end. all filled with knots, r,llli crooked plares In them so that as the fonts more from one ptnee to another the polea are unsteady; and yet the people aspect their fowls to (tl up VO thoM poles snd rest comfortably ilurlnc the night. A monkey might wrap Its tall a roti ml such a pole and bohl on, but It Is no place for a hen to alt down and rest; and If tbe did alt down, alone would conn another ben directly aad alt down on a crooked place In the pole, waking a leverage, and causing the pole to flop over snd throW her off. knocking half a doson other down with It Not only that, bat If you build a roosting place that way that la tbe old orthodox roost, tbe kind they had when I was a boy, the kind that Is proper If yon follow tradition not only on-ly are they liable to fall oft tbeee crooked, unsteady polea. but every fowl trlea to get the top pole. Did you crer go Into a hen bouse where roosts sre msde that way and listen to sse what a rnmmotlon there IsT Utrry hen tries to get to the top pole, and etery rooster tries to ret there, too, and they crowd In, and work and work and ptteh themselres In until one gels puabed oft and falls down snd creates n great commotion. Why, It tnkea an hour erery night for tbe poultry to get settled don and become quiet. Now, Instead or doing that way, make your rooata all down on a level. I'erelsn theeae Made lu America. The Michigan 'Famter elate, tibai" tbe authority ot a prominent cheeM dealer, that In this country "the business busi-ness of manufacturing foreign aheeaas has grown to an Industry aggregating about 110,000.000 a year." New York Ohio. Minnesota and Wisconsin dairies supply most of tbe home markets with Caniembert, Itorjiicfort, norgnnsaba Btllton, Cheshire and Hwlss cheese, besides be-sides n l.luilMiraer that In six weeks cannot be distinguished from tbe genuine gen-uine article of ret en or eight montha old. Thta laat Is made In Jefferson county. N Y. The Itoquefort Is made on the ahores ot the great likes, moot. ly In Minnesota and Wleconaln, and tho Swiss can only bo made In Wis cousin and Ohio, where tbe pasturage and wster are Juat right St. Iawrence county turna out tona of Btllton, l'a-tncean l'a-tncean end other hinds, and Csmem-bert Csmem-bert and Ilrlo sre made In other parts ot tho state. The products are claimed to be equally good aa tbe Imported article, "and the deception Is aiding In tho development of an American Industry." In-dustry." Iletierel Purpnae Cowa. There nre two aides to every question, ques-tion, but when a final analysis la arrived ar-rived at there la aren to be a right and a wrong, and 1 'ever closely they may lie alongside of one nnother, tbey never really mix lu the seme, of anal-tnrantlnu', anal-tnrantlnu', sayt Jtrsoy Ilulletln. In moat diatussluns ot such topics as the general purpose cow, the difference ot opinion Is found to grow out ot and rest on a ronfuilon ot certain terms Strictly speaking, a caw that Is moderately mod-erately well fitted to several dirtereut uses is a spcolal purpose animal that special purpose being to roi-et the tarl-ous tarl-ous wants ot tbe gensral purpose farmer. farm-er. In this case the scrub cow Is a spcclsl purpose cow, her spcolal purpose pur-pose being to suit the scrub farmer Hut thla Is not the sense In which special spe-cial purpose Is Kenerally uiod and commonly com-monly understood According to tbe generally accepted uae of the term, a apcclal purpose cow Is cither a dairy cow or a beef cow, and belongs as a rulo to some ont of the breeds that bare been developed for the ono purpose pur-pose ar the other. In thla. Its proper sense, the term la not applicable to the scrub cow or to that rarity the general gen-eral purpose cow The physical conformation con-formation and physiological structure that tnables the dairy cow to do her work well dlaquallnes her for doing equally well the work of tho beet cow Bo, for similar reasons, the beef cow Is disqualified for doing first class dairy work These facts are ao simple, so plain and so familiar to any person who has any acquaintance even witb the two types of cattle, that It requires considerable patience to listen to their dlscuaalon. The point Involved In the general purpoie cow discussion Is not so much the kind of cow to be used, aa the hind ot farming to be followed. If the sale of dairy products or of dairy cattle Is to be the object, then common sense points out tbe necessity of resorting re-sorting to tome one of the developed """"KB .dairy br, n on ,nf 0,hf M ( i M" Baking be the object If, how- i , ao one thing It to be made a ' PCcWtr then the farmer la at liberty tii M" n ''"'J' 8llch '"" "" rule be content with the J1 The ik.eptional men will se J!1 '" t the beef breeds, or ol , ,.''' I,r. aa their clrcum !'aT '" '"i"" may dictate, and breed in tbst directum grading up and Ira-pntflag Ira-pntflag their scrubs atom the chosen I Una llelrr Nta. rstrona of all factories where milk ! I stasun,, , an,,,,),! .upport (he man-f! man-f! I" '""'"ll a fight for good milk " "wentli hnppens that the buyers set dare n pet the milk of certain P I rose tor the reason that to do so "'aM tnuke them powerful enemies. It at unfortunately tht case that pal rone frequently aide with a patron whin he la tn the wrong KapecUlly It thlt so if the factory manager or butter but-ter or rhroee maker be a new man Tbe patrons need to be stirred up on this tastier. Do not lose tight of the cow's feed, ctea It it Is summer. It sometimes happens that a cow la well fed ill through the winter, bat when summer sum-mer cornea ebe le allowed to lake eaif ot herself This la alt right so long aa the pastursge lasts, bnt little by little lit-tle the herbage tails and the feed be-cotjte be-cotjte dry. Tho change Is so slow that the owner dote not notice It till Irreparable Injury lias been done, at laet Injury that cannot tie repaired till the cowa come In again. Ily all mease look after the sows that arc In Bilk and see that tbey have a full feed every day. The adulteration ot fowl stern" to here no limit We thought when they began to adulterate butter with oleomargarine oleo-margarine that tht butlneaa would be phsttsble enough te the promoters and they wuult be astlsned to sell that article art-icle st leaat pure But now they have be-tm be-tm to adulterate the oleomargarine wftk atarrb perafllne and so forth. Nut we may expert they will adulterate adulter-ate the starch with aoinstblfig ttlll cheaper Verily greed Is both blind aad Insatiable If we allowed tbeee ttrtaufacturers of bogus products to hive their way we would soon be feed-lag feed-lag on sawdust and sand. This all etewa the need of pur food laws, both fr ths status and tbt natkm. Why teu MIhiiI.I Keep llena. a 1. Ileraute you ought by this meant to convert a great deal ot the waste on the fsrm Into money, In the shape ol efts and chickens for market. t. because with Intelligent manage-rctnt manage-rctnt they ourlit to be all-year rereuui Brodurera, excepting, perbaix. about tso montha during moulting aenaon. jl. Ilecnuta poultry will yield you a quicker return for your capital Inves- Jft Uab Jldv ot IbebUjluwMltttti tt nirltmtture. 4 Ileoatiee I ho manure Irotn tht poultry bouse will make valuable compost com-post for use either In vegetable garden or orchard. The birds themselves II allowed to run In the orchard will de stroy many Injurious Insects. C. Ilecausw whits cereals and fruits can only be turcestfulty sro.vn In cer tain sections, poultry ran be raised tot tsblo use or lo lay egga. In all parts ol the country. 5 Ilrcatise poultry-raising la an cm playmtnt In which tht farmer't wlfi and daughter can engage and leave hlrr free to attend to other departments. 7. Ileeaute It will bring the best returns, re-turns, In the shape of new laid egga-ilurlnif egga-ilurlnif the winter seaaon when Ibi farmer lies most time on his hands. I Hecauee to start poultry raising or ths farm requires little or no msnsge meat; poultry ran be made with little cost a aluablo adjunct to the farm -Hi. Psstctirltatlon In Denmark It Denmark over 80 per cent of the buttei exported Is made from pasteurize cream, and It It found that the ills trloU which forward the largest pro portion of "finest" quality are thoel In which pasteurising bat been mosi generally adopted, Tbe process con ltu In heating the liquid lo be pss ti'tirltcd to a lemperaturo suRlclcntl) hleh to destroy the particular bacterli which ono desires to get rid of I'oi butler-making a temperature of 151 deg. to IK dec bus been found thi most suitable. Ths milk may be pas uurlied prior to separating, or thi cream may be pasteurised by Itself Im mediately after separation. I'rompi and rapid cooling followa, whereupot a small iiercentage of a clean-flavorec starter" Is Inlioduoed, In order tc Inooulate the cream with tbe desired srotna-produclng bacteria found In tht best butter. Bueoeesful Bale of Shorthorns Ho rently one ot the moat Important salei of Hbortkorns In the Mldlanda wai ronducted by Mestrt Alfred Mantel L Co, of Shrewsbury, at Sberlowe acme few rnllee from rlhrtwshury, ling Isnd. The Bhorlowe herd was estab llthed somo CO years ago, and has haf a great reputation for having bter bred on practical lines Mr. Altret Mantel) conducted the sale, and In hli opening remarks alluded to the en rouraglng nature of Shorthorn sale during tho present spring and tin healthy foreign and home demand, thi latter of which proved that breeder) had confidence In tbe breed and Its fu ture. Thirty-three cows and hclttri were sold at an average of 7 poundi and i: shillings each. Twctvo bulla were sold at an average price of 31 pounds and U shillings each. |