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Show formers what chemists call the pro-1 tein compounds or that which eon. i tains one of the forms of nitrogen, one I of tho most costly elements In agricul- ture. Let us now examine whr.t the fat of animals Is composed of; Simply forms of carbon starch, oil. sugar, gum, etc. The oil seems identical in all. The solid jortiona differ. In man. in the goose. In butter nnd in olive oil, it is called margarine. In the solid portions of the fat of the horse, the ox, the pig and the sheep it is called stearlne. The hair, horns, hoofs and wool of animals are largely made up of nitrogen in connection with tho. chlorides and phosphates. These also hold about .1 per cent of sulphur in tho form of soluble and insoluble in-soluble sulphates. Farm Notes. Keep the collars and shoulders clean, in order to avoid galled shoulders. Sheep are good animals to aid in building up the fertility of the soil. Good grades are desirable but for breeding they should always be females. fe-males. Keeping the fences in good repair aids materially tp keep the stock from getting breoehy. It is impossible to get a fast horse on the road and a good draft animal in tho same individual. Artificial stimulants are of as little use to stock as men; tho reaction leaves them weaker than before. If the fence corners are allowed to grow up in weeds and briars, the fence will rot down much faster. Tho market in which it is intended to sell should, in some measure at least, determine the kind of a horse to breed. Many failures of tho seed to germinate germ-inate in the spring are due more to the unfavorable conditions of growth than the quality of seed. In very many cases at least, the gait of the horse is largely influenced' by the driver, so that a slow man often implies a slow horse. The objectio-i to sowing grass or clover with oats is that after the oats arc harvested the plants are killed out by hot, dry weather. Scouring In an animal is an indication indica-tion of indigestion, and in many cases it will bo necessary to diet an animal beforo a cure can be affected. A good quality of butter cannot be secured with milk from a half starved, Illy sheltered cow. A thrifty condition condi-tion is necessary to secure the best results. A loamy sandy soil, if reasonably rich and prepared in a good tilth, is the best in which to grow root crops' and In many cases enormous crops can be grown. Animals that are fed on concentrated foods will give a much more valuable fertilizer, than when they are feed upon straw, oats nnd that class of bulky foods. Good grass is almost a positive no- cessity in making good butter duringj the summer. No matter how well bred the cattle may be good grass will be found of material benefit. Stock-growing and grass-growing should go together. ( A better price can be secured for the grass or hay by converting into beef, while the manure is left to increase the fertility of tho soil. When quick returns are wanted the hog and the hen can be made very profitable, more so in fact in proportion propor-tion to the capital invested than with almost any other class of stock, provided pro-vided of course that good management is given. Hints to Housekeepers. Use tepid water for washing white silk handkerchiefs. "Olive slaw" is something new. It is olives pitted and then chopped fine and saturated with a sharp French dressing. Bathing the face daily in hot water removes the pimples by softening the oil in the tiny tubes, and is said to prevent pre-vent wrinkles. It is noeessary to the health of the feet to bathe them daily and change tho stockings very frequently. Be always careful to hang the stockings which have been worn whore thev will be thoroughly aired at night if they are to be worn again. A good cement for mending broken china: Dissolve a little gum-arabic In a little water so that it is rather thick; put enough plaster of Taris into this to make a thick paste. Cement broken brok-en pieces of china together, and in half an hour they cannot be broken in tho samo place. Hot water seems to mako it more firm. In judging as to tho odor of meat pass a clean knife, which has been dipped in hot water, through it and examine subsequently as to the odor of tho knife. Tainted meat often givo3 off a plainly perceptible and disagreeable disagree-able odor while being cooked. Good meat is clastic to the touch. Meat that is wet and flabby should bo discarded. dis-carded. Black walnut furniture is quickly cleaned by rubbing with a flannel cloth moistened with kerosene. Hub dry, I then apply tho following preparation: j Mix together equal parts of linseed oil, i vinegar and turpentine Shako well, npply with flannel cloth and rub in well. Let the furniture stand a short timo, then rub vigorously with dry flannel. Unless bodily stained and I marred, furniture will look better I treated in this way, than when coated with heavier dressings. Thick slices of cod. halibut and sal-! sal-! mon are nieo broiled. Sprinkle with J salt and cook twenty minutes, spread-I spread-I ing with butter when done. Shad and j mackerel can be broiled whole. Lay tho skin side down first and turn several sev-eral times, seeing that it does not scorch; place on a hot platter and but-j but-j ter welL Bluetish are very fino If I broiled until half done, then laid in a buttered dripping pan, with shavings of butter put thickly over them, and set into a hot oven until finished. Feeding fir Milk nnd lli-sh. Feeding for milk is of especial importance im-portance to dairymen, for on tho integrity in-tegrity of food i-ests not only tho flow of milk, but its power us containing the integral quality to make the outcome out-come profitable; but that tho samo general rule will hold good, however, with tho breeder and feeder for work or flesh. For instance, in feeding for milk, in proportion any lack of any ono or rnoro of the constituents necessary to form milk, in tho same proportion will bo the diminished flow for tho axiom is as true in feeding is in the cultivation cultiva-tion of the soil, that to insure an extraordinary ex-traordinary crop a'lof the constituents of tho crop mustbi held In excess by the soil, and that in a condition of solubility, and one essential being nb-sentoreven nb-sentoreven low, the crop Is deficient . and often a failure. Hemic the necessity neces-sity of so formulating tho food that it will conserve tho particular requirement require-ment sought. It is a general rule in feeding for growth, that tho food given shall hold what chemists cull ono part of llesh formors to three or four parts of fat formers starch, sugar, gum. oil, etc. The flesh formers furnish nourishment to the muscles, and the fat fennel's heat producing und lubricating elements ele-ments to tho animal system. In win-tor win-tor feeding the fat formers should bo in a prcater ratio than tho flesh formers form-ers and this as a rule in proportion to how much cold tho animals must bo exposed to. But here, again, the rol-lative rol-lative food as between these must depend de-pend also upon the amount of labor tho animal Is expected to perform. In other words, tho greater the muscular exertion tl e creator amount of flesh |