IliAlUY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Mow RorrcMfnl Fiirnirr* Operate Thl* Dopartnumt of tho Homestead-—Hluta Am to the Curs of Live Mock and 1’oAltry. Homo Mmln (lotultt Cheese. j|’ We have received from time to time Inquiries on homochcese making. Mr. J. II. Monrad says that for home manufacture (Iouda is by all odds tho best. We reprint from his book ‘‘A. II. C. In Cheese Making," the chapter on (louda cheese. It may help some of our renders to utilize their surplus milk. Cheddar cheese on a small farm is certainly too laborious but—as before aaid—every cheese maker ought to •tudy its making carefully so as to lay a solid foundation on his or her knowledge of cheese making of all other cheese. I know of none more •tillable for making on the farm than the “Gouda.” The city of (Iouda in South Holland Is the center for the production of this popular cheese which is imitated in many places in France under the name of ‘'Frontage de llergues," in Denmark (a modi fled skim cheese) under the name of “Export Cheese.” Gouda is chiefly made from new milk, but, as do most other cheese, its reputation suf fers by the making of half skims. The milk is brought into tho make room as aoon as possible and strained into a cylindrical barrel on a stand. Color is added and the milk Is set at 83 to 00 degrees Fahr. The curd should bo ready to cut in fifteen minutes; and this should be done very carefully and gently, either with a wire cutter or with an American curd knife, and then left for a while, covering the tub with • cloth. The whey separates and most of it is dipped out. The curd is then stirred up gently and further broken by hand uutil it is reduced to the size of beans. Tho temperature is then fra (17.10.1 tlooimoe 1, w Ofl.Ift A* greet* C.) either by pouring back some of llie whey which has been heated, by adding hot water, or by any other con venient way. The “cooking" tem perature depends on the destination of the cheese. The lower the tempera ture the larger the yield and the finer and softer body (more moisture) but less keeping quality; the ulgher the tem perature the better the cheese will keep and stand transportation. The hot water or whey which is poured on the curd should not be too hot, not above 120 degrees 1'ahr., and ahould be added gradually. When ever the curd pieces “squeak” between the teeth, the “cooking" is done and > the pieces should then be the size of Wheat kernels The whey is dipped off, and the curd is squeezed and worked with the hands so as to get rid of most of the whey. Many makers salt it at this stage by working it in a box with a double bottom, the upper One boing perforated and covered with a cheese cloth. More extensive is the salting in brine. The salted or unsalted curd is put to press as soon as possible. The hoops (moulds) are deep dishes made of willow wood with a perforated bottom. The curd la filled in little at a time and pressed firmly and closely with the bands and sometimes with a Sort of rammer (potato masher.) The hoop is filled to the edge and then a rounded heap piled v on top, and put to press. Sometimes the cheese is taken from the press after a short time and broken up and then put to press again. The pressure is only about double the weight of the cheese to begin with, but after a few bonrs it is doubled and kept up for evolve hours. If a longer keeping quality is desired, the weight is •doubled a third time and kept up for throe hours more. The cheese is burned every hour to begin with and later every three or four hours while in the press. The holes in the mould must be cleaned out. If the salt has mot been added to the curd, the cheese are placed in the brine trough. This trough is filled with a strong brine and tthe cheese float in it, a little salt being nprlnkled on the top surface. They are turned twice a day and the sprinkling of salt is repeated. It takes four to eight days according to the size of the cheese, to finish tho salting. Some makers take them out of the brine after twentv-four hours and drv •alt them by rubbing the salt on, turn ing them t*»ice a day on the salting table, which is provided with grooves for draining. This takes four or five days with a cheese weighing fourteen to sixteen pounds. When salted they are washed with warm water, wiped dry with a cloth, and put in the curing room. Here they are turned at first once a day, later twico a week and after three months only once a week. The curing room should be dry and well ventilated and there must be no draughts,as that will cause the cheese to crack. If the cheese become greasy (by exudations) they must be washed in warm water and wiped dry again. The curing room is kept dark, and when the cheese are fourteen days old, the rind is colored - with a solution of saffron and beer or vinegar, or both. This gives a yellow ■5, color and is said to protect against flies. When three or four months old it is as a rule cured, but it is often sold as early as five or six weeks old. The cheese are packed in rows in - boxes, with Ecale boards between each cheese, and lately neatly painted, pressed cardboard boxes of same shape as the cheese are being used for the ex pert trade. The weight of the Gouda varies from six to sixteen pounds. A cheese weighing ten pounds will be about nine iuches< in diameter and four and one half inches thick, “May Cheese* are made in the spring when | the pastures are new, and they are always small. The system is as de scribed above, but they have a poor keeping: quality. “Jew Cheese” also called “kosher” are salted less than the regular Gouda and have a flat circle in the mould where the stencil of the rabbi declar ing: the cheese “kosher” Is carved. “Counselor's Cheese” are made quite small and have a different color. They have a bet ter keeping quality and are chiefly used for presents. “New Milk Hay Cheese” are those made in winter generally from the milk of fresh milking cows but are not considered as good as those made while the cows are on the pastures. TUB rKRMKNTATlO.H TEST. In making any kind of cheese,where, as in the Gouda, the rennet is added to the milk just as it comes from the barn, it is even more important than in making cheddar cheese to have per fect milk, and if there is any trouble, it may be necessary to submit each cow's milk to the fermentation test and thus find out if the trouble lies in the milk from an individual cow. The fermentation test is fully de scribed in Dairy Messenger No. S and be it enough to mention that it con sists simply of putting a sample of each cow's milk in a tube one inch by five inches, keeping it at a tempera ture of about 105 degrees Farh. from nine to ten hours and then observe the action of the milk. Dr. Gerber places the shortest time for coagulation of good milk at twelve hours, but I have found it (as dellvored at cheese fac tories) to coagulate as quickly as nine hdurs. Perfbct milk should, when coagulated, show a solid column of curd which, if left undisturbed, should stand quite a time without any whey separating and without any gas bub bles which indicate fermentation. The introduction of this test in our cheese factories would save the country thousands of dollars now lost in poor cheese, and in this matter we must also hope the best from the experi mental stations.—Farmers’ Review. * imported Dairy IJteomis. To a visitor to the patent office in Washington, the fact is very evident, that the advancement of invention for use in the dairy and creamery is in keeping with any other line, says C. E. Ilill. There one will see models of churns, butter workers, cream and milk testers, butter packers for cream eries, and various other appliances in almost countless numbers. But there is a question in my mind whether the dairymen of this country are availing themselves of the improvements in this direction. Oo, if you please, in a neighborhood of farmers and dairymen where the creamery man has not been, and you will find the milk set in the tin pans or earthen crocks, in the cellar where it will take up the offensive odors of vegetables, smoked and pickled meats, or anything and everything else that may be there, or perhaps, in the win ter time you will find it in the kitchen, where it gets all the delightful (?) odors of cooking, washing, etc. This you will find Instead of cans and tanks for the submerged system or milk houses and creameries. There is no reason why this should be, inasmuch as the country is flooded with circulars, and the agricultural and dairy jour nals are teeming with advertisements of the latest and most Improved dairy apparatus. There is no reason why the old-fash ioned “dash churn" should be used when a barrel or box churn can be ob tained at a slight advance in cost, un less it is that the “dash churn” man wants the old plunger for the reason that it makes the butter come quicker, hence less labor, evidently caring nothing for results. But the dairy man who uses a modern churn pre serves the grain of his butter, thus en hancing the value of the product. Furthermore, If : we are not near a creamery and are obliged to make butter at home, let us uso a lever or roller butter worker and turn the old wooden bowl over to the cook, for use in chopping mince meat and hash. Let us use a dairy thermometer in stead of the finger for regulating the temperature of the cream and milk. A Talented Fowl. What is probably the most intelli gent fowl in the country is owned • by a Staten Island boy, and no amount of money would induce the lad to part with his pet, says New York Recorder. Dew Drop is where this bright bird and her youthful owner live, and the tricks that the feathered creature knows would shame an acrobat and sleight of hand man rolled in one. A view was j^iveii one anernoon recently to a number of the boy’s friends, and then, they call the bird Funny, was put through her paces, to the delight of the little audience gath ered to watch her. First of all Fanny gracefully walked a tight rope stretched across the back yard where the amateur circus was given. The second number on the un published program consisted of a ser ies of summersaults performed with wonderful speed by the accomplished Fanny. Fanny wears long feathers on her little ankles, but that does not prevent her from being very agile and very graceful. After shooting off a toy cannon, flying through a paper covered hoop and skipping a rope, Fanny picked out from a dozen letters painted on blocks those which spelled her name. These and a dozen other clever tricks kept the select audience amused for over an hour, whan the circus came to an end and everyone present voted the exhibition of Fanny’s skill a great success. There are large districts In the west where people with asthma, hay fever, I and consumption can find temporary and often permanent relief from their complaints. • ’ . i ■: l."* c. GRAND OLD PARTY. CLEVELAND AS THE SAVIOR 1 OF HIS COUNTRY. TVhftt Dons He Think of HU .lob?—The American lUmetnlllit Meets the Eng;* lUh Politician — The laborer le Feed ing on Reflection. A Trao Prophet. I From tho oarllost days of his public career Mr. Cleveland has boon dis posed to tako a gloomy view of the conditions that confronted him. This gloominess would seem almost to have been an electioneering dodge, indi cating, of course unintentionally, that ho would be the savior of his country. Wo have failed, however, to notice nny retrogression in prosperity until he was placed with his own purty in full control of the administration-of tho nation's aiTairs. Of course, as sheriff of Buffalo, Mr. Cleveland’s opportunities were limited to the execution of that office. While his advancement as a public man has j since boon rapid, his power was cur- I tailed' by congross until 1898. His worthiest efforts at reform had been I but “the dead hopes of pioneers and j tho despair of those who fall in tho march.” The long restrained desire to save tho country from going to tho dogs was releasod just two years ago when, as the champion of the peo ple's rights, he acquired full power to Bave them from being “trampled to death beneath an iron heel.” That “iron heel” was tho policy of protection under which the people ap peared to havo prospered to an un usual dogree. But the campaign clamor that originated with Mr. Cleveland, and which was eagerly seized upon by every politician in his party, that the iron “heel” was trampling the people to death,alarmed them to sucli an extent that unlimited power was given the Democrats to save us. To their credit, be It said, they began tho work of “tariff reform” as tho most important measure. Dur 1_4V... _~ 1_ r J.i_ i. . r__ ' they wore agreed upon the best mode of salvation the “iron heel” got in its deadly work, and many a business and many a man's wages were “trampled to doath” beneath it; and the “iron heel” is still trampling. Mr. Cleveland is a deep thinker, says the Now York Advertiser, a pro found student of his own affairs. Ho can see as far ahead of his nose as most people. He knew what the re sult of “tariff reform” would be. He told Honry Kyd Douglass, who was Inaugurating a tariff reform club at the large and important industrial center of Hagerstown, in Maryland. Mr. Kyd Douglass had invited Mr. Cleveland to do the inaugurating on May 2, 1890. He was sorry, at least he told Kyd Douglass so, in his letter of declination dated April 29, 1890. He said more than that. Ho said it was an “Interesting occasion” and one intended “to give birth to an other of those agencies whose mission is to rouse to practical thought and activity. ” Mr. Cleveland was right. It did help “to give birth” to that Wilson tariff bill which he refused to own, and of whioh it can be most truly said that it is ono • *of those agencies whose mission it is to rouse to practi cal thought and activity.” The elec tions of last November proved the correctness of Mr. Cleveland’s phophecy. He also wrote to Kyd Douglass the additional prophecy that “Those who propose to juggle with the question of tariff reform will never again find their intended dupes asleep and uninformed.” What does Cleveland thiuk now? A Parlor Fray. I mot a very important man not long ago who is in touch with English politics, and is violently opposed to bimetallism. “Mr. Blank,” said I, “this matter of currency is forcing itself upon such as I, who supposed that rulors knew all about finance. The demonetization of silver in India wrought a lot of ruin in this country. Why did England take that step?” This great man looked at me as savagely as if I had asked him why he had murdered his grandmother. Could he have annihilated me I felt that I should have been an instantane ous wreck, but he couldn’t. Smother ing his feelings as people do in polite circles, this great man repiiod: “The j salaries of Indian officials are paid in ! silver. The greater part of thoso j salaries is sent to England. Owing j »V I'UU vviutwu V* blivj t U1UU of tho money sent homo became so I reduced as to create groat suffering. To remedy this evil England de monetized silver.” j “Did the remedy remody the evil?” j The great man glared at me an d answered sharply, “No. Matters are worse than they were before.” “Then,” I added, desiring to take a lesson in finance from a financier, “the remedy is worse than the disease, is it not?” You ought to have seen the great man's eyes when he snappishly an swered, “I can’t say.” “If,” I continued, “England wanted j to protect her own tlesh and blood, i and at the same time protect her ! conquered millions in India, why didn't she pay her salaries in gold?” j Had I thrown a bomb at tho great man, I could not have excited greater indignation. The groat man was 1 sipping tea at the moment I put wha* ; seemed to mo an innocent and justi fiable question. First he swallowed the tea the wrong way and choked. Then he dropped his spoon. Then he couched himself red in the face and exclaimed, “You ask very extraor dinary questions. I don’t know any thing about it. Ask England.” “Thanks; I will when I meet her.’’ And then we parted. There is one thing I do as regularly as night, comes around. I wish for tho overthrow of the so-called liberal party in Great Britain. It has ceased to represent the people in several ways, especially in the matter of finance. Bimetallism is popular with tho British masses, and with the re turn of the conservatives international bimetallism would be possible. As thought transference is a scientific fact, if all American bimetallists con centrate their minds on that which is nearest their hearts—and pockets— who knows what may happen?—Kate Field’s Washington. They Are Waiting:* It is fortunate for the Democratic i party that the workingman cannot get a crack at it for about a year and a half. And to tho extent that it is fortunate for the Demo cratic party it is unfortunate for the country at large. It is one of the stock arguments on the Democratic stump that the men on the payrolls of the manufacturers are the only work ingmen benefitted by a protective tariff, and that the carpenter and the bricklayer would be very much better off if they could buy what they need in the markets of the world—that is, in every other market except that stocked by the products of American labor. This sounded plausible and it took a very stern lesson . to teach the workingmen that protection protects all labor alike and that a blow at the men employed in the so-called pro tected industries is a blow at every man who works for wages. But the lesson has been learned, and since then the tin bucket brigade has on every available occasion marched to, the polls and registered its protest against tho policy that has hung up' so many dinner buckets on the wall.' It seems to be a simple proposition ^ that under free trade nothing but] ocean freights, which are being low ered every year,stand between Ameri can and foreign workmen. No one argues that home labor is not better paid than foreign labor. Protection, buying at home, keeps labor in de mand, enhances wages, encourages the development of industries. Free tfilflo Vnivlnrv oVtnnarl urlinnn 1„V>nn In cheapest, leaves home labor unem ployed and wages, of course, go down. Protection increases the demand and free trade the supply for home labor. When the workman in the so-called protected industries is at work at good wages, there is building for the carpentor and the bricklayer to do, and there is a market for the products of the farm as well as the factory. The workingman has found out that a cheap foreign market is a mighty expensive thing when he cannot buy, and that a higher home market is cheap when he has work. The Amer ican laborer has had lots of food for reflection during the past year or two, and that’s about all the food he has had.—Kansas City Journal. 1 he We.tt Is for Silver. The defeat of Senator Dolph was a just retribution for his course on the gold question. He did not represent the views of his constituents, and they very wisely and properly refused to sond him back to misrepresent them any farther. The financial ques tion is the most important that con cerns the people of the West, and for that matter the whole country, and it was not becoming in a Western sena tor to take a position on that ques-| tion which accorded not with the I views of his own people, but with those of the bankers and brokers or Wall street.—Denver Republican. Jill (.olden Monument. Posterity will have reason to re member Mr. Cleveland about $100, 000,000 worth, that being about the size of the |tax he levies upon the future to make food the inefficiencies of the present. It is like the case of the penniless debtor who, after giving a three days’ note for an overdue obligation, breathed a sigh of relief and murmured: “Thank heaven, that’s settled.”—New York Tribune. Ilns Lind and Learned. When Mr. Cleveland first enterec national politics he knew little ot nothing about duck hunting, but such has been his assiduity, his pertinacitv and his willingness to accept advice and learn from experienced sportsmen that he is now easily the greatest duck hunter in the whole list of American presidents.—New York World. I or Annexation. The annexation oi Hawaii is fa vored by pretty much everybody in this country except Grover Cleveland and Walter Q. Gresham. Those gen tlemen take a different view of the matter. They want the monarchy restored and the United States an nexed to Hawaii.—New York Tribune. Trot Oat the < Hh. A Democratic organ has discovered I that a $50 suit of clothes can now be ! had for $25. Will the organ in ques tion continue its investigations and find out and tell people where to get the $25? _ A Private Snap. The government has bought a new iight-house tender, and it is to be hoped that she will be even more comfortable and convenient for Mr. Cleveland when he goes duck shoot ing. __ And 11 i*-y .1 Ight Forget to Come Back. What a banquet London bankers would give Cleveland and Carlisle if they could get them over. Shades of Lucullus! Why, the Wilson affair j would be entirely forgotten. j Still They Corns. France has formally barred out American cattle. And thus the Democratic policy of opening tho markets of the world goes march ing on. Veteran* and Bond Dealer*. Tho Cleveland administration splits hairs in dealing with the old soldier, and allows bond syndicates to make i their own terms. ■ - , : ? j. ' i ~ STRONG Depend upon pore, rich, red, nourishing, stredgth-girlng blood. The nerres derive their sustenance from the blood, and when they are weak it is because they do not re ceive the nourishment needed. The true cure for nervousness will not be found in opiate or sedative compounds. These only allay the symptoms. " wl,e ,uffered nitty yean wm troubles, seven headache., debilitt ness, Indigestion and dyspep!(, ,!>l been treated by different docton ' different remedies, but ’ 1 Hood’s Sarsaparilla Has Don* I for her than anything else. w. ^ Hood’s Sarsaparilla a mott inaj,'0"1 Hood's Sarsaparilla I Removes the cause by purifying and enriching the blood, giving to it just those qualities which are demanded for the proper support of the nervous system. Hundreds of women who once suffered from nervousness, write that they have taken Hood’s Sarsaparilla and nervousness has disappeared. This was be cause Hood’s Sarsaparilla purified their blood. Bill* act harmoniously* with noon S rlllS Hood’s 8arsaparlfta. Mo. medicine for family use, and for . order* caused by torpid liver Md ZJ blood, Jn fact It Is a wonderful heaitJ** storer to the whole system, flood's saparilla has proved Itself in J* case, and we can faithfully recommend a use In every family ” Jacob Rome,. „ rison, Missouri. 1 Hood’s Pint saite^g "Starboard” and “Larboard.” A few years ago, when the editor of “Notes for the Curious” conducted the “Notes and Queries” department of a big New York weekly, no question that was sent in caused more work in seek ing an answer than this: 'Give origin of the terms ‘starboard’ and ‘lar board.’ ” The answer was finally found in Smyth's Sailors’ Word Book: “The Italians derive ‘starboard’ from ‘questa borda,’ meaning ‘this side,’ and ‘lar board’ from ‘quella borda,’ meaning ‘that side.’ Abbreviated, they become 'sta borda’ and ‘la borda.’ In English the terms soon became ‘starboard’ and ‘larboard. ’ ” How's This! 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