Show DAIRY AND POULTRY INTERESTING CHArTeRS FOR OUR RURAL HEADERS floe Pacereafal I arners pests This tlprlmoI of tits I rmA Yew flint a In the Cote ut Lh Stuck Boll Poultry Injnrlnc lulrjr spoil Trade N conversation not fits long since with a gentleman who has t spent n consider I t able time In Great c Ilrltaln In lncstl W gating the markets L of that country for both butter and i t cheese wo were very much Impressed I Impress-ed with his Idea I tint Is I hit our people had too much of the Yankee In their business methods meth-ods In connection with lingland when exporting butter and cheese says III gin Dairy Report The matter came up Incidentally al to the quality ot goods from the reason that a box I maker had sent to a factory where I this gentleman was hating butter packed some boxes made of wood that I had both flavor and taste He refused to accept them believing I that In the I tI end although a saving of two or three j I I tents on the box might be had he would probably lose a cent or two on each pound of butter which would not ben food Investment The waver salton drifted Into the quality of goods heretofore sent to Knclsid from our I t American market as a representative of tho quality of both butter and I cheese made In this country Of course Oiled chess rama In for discussion as It always doc In that direction showing that the quality of cheese sent onr there as full cream cheese being filed or sophlstlcstcd with lard had dOe more to degrade the reputation of American cheese than any ono thing and that the dealers over there oak idtantage ot that and whenever they find a bad lot cither ot English or Canadian cheese they label It American Ameri-can and mark It at low prices and refer their customers to the fact that they cannot Ret good cheese from Amirlca and these are a fair sample of the goods It Is I so In the butter line Wo have been sending over to a largo extent nothing but low grade butter that would sell there possibly for t a cent a pound profit more In proportion pro-portion than the better grades and I the English dealers had come to believe be-lieve that they could get no good butter but-ter In this country but now that a chance has been made It rests entirely en-tirely with the dealers and shipper on this side to build up and sustain a rep utttlon for high class goods In the Kngllsh markets that will stand us In l good stead not only at present but In the future Take for example the Vn lib dairy Industry It Is I fostered by the government and In such a way that the maker or manufacturer who does Dot coma up to the requirement ot grade both In regard to the butte Itself and the method ot packing that I ha loses caste at once and not only ItI that but bo loses money at the samt time This is I a most effectual way ot curing cither shipper or manufactur era of careless or slovenly ways So om with exporting dairy products from this country Now that we have gotten got-ten rid lot the filled cheese question and It must go forward labeled so that Ibo people who buy It will know what they aro buying the butter goes lion comes to tho front more eaten 1 lively than ever before and the quality that wo send forward will determine Ibo extent of tho market which American Amer-ican butter will obtain In England I standard VarlNlwc ofChleken Minorca This variety of fowls be long to the Mediterranean clans and they are placed next to the leghorns 1 laying qualities They are In appear once very similar to tho Leghorn Their general outline Is I In fact that ot the latter but ot more length of body and henvler In mold Indeed they are the only variety of Ibo Mediterranean class t that has a given weight which approaches ap-proaches that of the Wyandotte being only onehalf pound lighter than tta Ill I named Ths origin of the Mlnu a like that of so many other ot our ro3tablo J poultry Is much In doubt Some are tit the opinion that they originally or-iginally came from Minorca an Island in tho Mediterranean Sea ono of the iialearle Isles while others contend they are a variety of the lllack Spanish lie l that as It may they are ono of the most profitable breeds of poultry for the farm that Is I known For table purposes they are good the flesh being while or light coloredand fine grained Their chief property Is I their egg production pro-duction They are nonsitters and Teararound layers AI winter layers thy nro exceptionally good when kept under fairly favorable circumstance < > hlle the Leghorn siirpasnes them In the number of eggs laid the Minorca eggs are target and equal the output In bulk Their eggs are white and afar age eight to the pound They lay from helvo to fifteen dozen a Year For farm purposes they nre especially pro fliaulo Being of an active restless position they keep In splendid condition con-dition and make good foragers Kor I suburban poultry keeping they aro very pro deal birds and net Rood results lo the keeper They are hardy cosily rslicd and mature quickly rlllnr hales fillllr Lire Stock Iteporl of Chicago says Doolte the fact that wo are Into the middle of August and have rescued tin linn when range cattle are ordinarily hard and fat enough for the eastern shipper and exporter as well as the dresied beef man this years arrival thus fir have been greatly disappoint ing In the matter of flesh and condl lion nod even the local slaughterers ale not trying to buy them with any alwrlly They lira remarkably soft nnd conjequently shrink heavily en i route some shipper saying In fact that they hardly recognize their cattle i as the same bunch they loaded Of t course as tho season advances this con Milan of affairs will Improve but so general Is I the complaint of poor flesh and condition all over the rango coun try It now looks as though receipts at t 1 market would bo unprccedonUdly small 1 until Iho 10th or 16th of September Where In ordinary year killer woul take a whole trainload of ono brand this year they hardly want to buy more han tkrce or four cars so fearful fear-ful are they of tne way the stock Is I going to kill out Such rattle as have been good enough to bring say 1385 or better have sold fairly readily but J those which will bo noted as selling under that figure have sold slowly tht J very excellent condition ot southern grass calllo this year largely accountIng account-ing for this Killers can get then 1 j latter raL J3 0u to 13 C5 and being smaller boned than the westerns the I y kill out more satisfactorily and thus can bt handled more prontally than I I rangers costing the same figure The I killers are acting toward range cattle much be same as the lover of watermelon water-melon does toward that fruit when It I first appear on the market wants Id l see the Inside ot It before ho Pair choMt Since in the meantime thi I dillon of range cattle unfit them astern or export buyers and there 3s practically no competition fort for-t w on this market we advise shippers ship-pers who are tributary to the South Omaha or Denver market to go theN ro the-N h their cattle At those points bojh fat and feeder stock Is In demand Oma1 ha Is I particularly well situated at present pres-ent for handling these northwester rangers as she Is I a great distributing point for feeders and Is Increasing her beef slaughtering as well Another and Important point In her favor Is I the recently established Joint rate covering flock cattle over the N P and c M SU P roads Wo of course have no desire to say anything against one market to benefit another but wa think It 1 only Just to tho shipper to advise ad-vise him ot our opinion as regards the most advantageous point for the disposal dis-posal of his stock cattle Every farmer should have war throat and needles bandy It Is I Urn well employed I Ws C T It r 104 ti fd 3 1t v1 x I r F w y 11 t 1 1s x s ltee ell fI ltti ins u 11M of I 11141 I i Mmll t h d 4 I 11 I i cs 6 t v I j a ° 9 as7tl 3 r I 77 PAW a BLACK MINORCA COCi0IRII I |