TALMAGE’S SERMON.
•THE POWEROF EXAMPLE" LAST
SUNDAY’S THEME.
Onlden Tuili “And Ahlmulrch Took nn
Ait In HI* Hand end Cat Down •
Hough from the Tree* end Laid It on
His Shoulders”—Jud. Is, 48.
BIKE LECH Is a
name maladoroua
lu Bible history,
and yet full of prof
itable suggestion.
Buoys are black
and uncomely, but
they tell where the
rocks are. The
snake’s rattle Is
hideous, but It
gives timely warn
ing. From the piazza of my sum
mer home, night by night, I saw
• lighthouse fifteen miles away,
aot placed there for adornment,
but to tell mariners to stand off from
that dangerous point. So all the Iron
bound coast of moral danger Is marked
with Saul, and Herod, and Rehoboam,
and Jezebel, and Ablmelech. These bad
people are mentioned in the Bible not
only aa warnings, but Decause mere
were sometimes flashes of good conduct
in their lives worthy of Imitation. (Jod
sometimes drives a very straight nail
with a very i>oor hammer.
The city of Shechem had to be taken,
and Ablmelech and his men were to do
It. 1 see the dust rolling up from their
excited march. I hear the shouting of
the captains and the yell of the beselg
ers. The swords clack sharply on the
parrying shields, and the vociferation
of two armies in death grapple Is hor
rible to hear. The battle goes on all
day; and as the sun Is setting Ablme
lech and his army cry: "Surrender!”
to the beaten foe. And. unable longer
to resist, the city of Shechem falls; and
there are pools of blood and dissevered
limbs, and glazed eyes looking up beg
glngly for mercy that war never shows,
and dying soldiers with their head on
the lap of mother, or wife, or sister, j
who have come out for the last offices
of kindness and affection; and a groan
rolls across the city, stopping not, be
cause there Is no spot for It to rest, so
full Is the place of other groans. A
elty wounded! A city dying! A city 1
dead! Wall for Shechem, all ye who
know the horrors of a sacked town.
As I look over the city, I can find only
one building standing, and that Is the
temple of the god Berlth. Some sol
diers outside of the city In a tower,
finding that they can no longer defend
Shechem, now begin to look out for
their own personal safety, and they fly
to this temple of Berlth. They go with
in the door, shut it, and they say: "Now
we are safe. Ablmelech baa taken the
whole city, but he cannot take this tem
ple of Berlth. Here we shall be under
the protection of the gods.” O Berlth,
the god! do your best now for these ref
ugees. If you have eyes, pity them.
If you have hands, help them. If you
have thunderbolts, strike for them.
But how shall Ablmelech and his army
take this temple nf Berlth and the men
who are here fortified? Will they do
It with sword? Nay. Will they do It
with spear? Nay. With battering
ram, rolled up by hundred-armed
strength crashing against the walls?
Nay. Ablmelech marches his men to |
a wood In Zalmon. With his axe he
hews off a limb of a tree, and puts that
limb upon his own shoulder, and then
he says to his men: “You do the same.”
They are obedient to their commander.
There Is a struggle as to who shall have
axes. The whole wood Is full of bend
lng boughs, ana tne cracKiing ana tne
hacking, and the cutting, until every
one of the host has the limb of a tree
cut down, and not only .that, but has
put It on his shoulder Just as Abimelech
■bowed him how. Are these men all
armed with the tree branch? The re
ply comes "All armed." And they j
inarch on. Oh, what a strange army,
with that strange equipment! They
come up to the foot of the temple at
Berlth. and Abimelech takes his limb of
a tree and throws it down; and the first
platoon of soldiers come up and they
throw down their branches; and the
aacond platoon, and the third, until all
around about the temple of llerlth there
Is a pile ot tree branches. The Shech
etnltes look out from the window of the
temple upon what seems to thum child
ish play on the part of their enemies.
But soon the (lints are struck, and the
■parks begin to kindle the brush, and
the flame comes up all through the pile,
and the red elements leap to the caae
meut. and the woodwork begins to
blase, aud one arm of flame la thrown
up on the right side of the temple, and
another atm ol flame ti throwu up on
the left side of the temple, uutll they
elasp their lurid palms under the will
night shy. and the cry of "Klre1" with
lit, and "Kirs’" without, announces the
terror, and the strangulation, and the
doom of the Hhrchenuiea. and the com
plete overthrow ot the temple ef the
ptil Herlth then there went up g
shout, long and loud, from the stout
lungs and swarthy chests ef AbltastecH
end hie men. as they stood amid the
gehee sad the duet crying Victory!
victoryr
Nee I teem tret trom this subject,
the telly ef depending spun any one
term ef tactics is seythlng we have to
do ter this world es for tied Lmeh
ever the oeoponry ef aide* times levs
Dm b4tu» •%•*, iitwf|fDiii, n4 iImv
■ee e single weapon with whteh A him
•tosh sit hie mew could have gained
saefe complete triumph It le we ensy
thing to tehe e temple thus armed I
have seow e house ehere durigg H
e »>sn aaf has Site
I t whole rwgttwoat hew after
__^ i were 1 aside the
map set<1 lore wore
let h*ce A hi mete- h
gp. they sorrowed
this temple, and they rapture It with- i
out the loss of a single man on the part
of Ablmelech, although I suppose some
of the old Israelltlsh heroes told Ablm
elech: "You are only going up there to
be cut to pieces." Yet you are willing
to testify to-day that by no other mode j
—certainly not by ordinary modes— I
could thattemple soeaslly.sothoroughly
have been taken. Fathers and moth
ers, brethren and sisters In Jesus
Christ, what the Church most wants to |
learn, this day, Is that any plan Is right, j
Is lawful. Is beat, which helps to over- '
throw the temple of sin, and capture
this world for God. We are very apt
to stick to the old modes of attack.
We put on the old-style coat of mail.
We come up with the sharp, keen, glit
tering spear of argument, expecting In
that way to take the castle; but they
have a thousand spears where we have
ten. And so the castle of sin stands.
Oh, my friends, we will never capture
this world for God by any keen sabre
of sarcasm, by any glittering lances of |
rhetoric, by any sapping and mining ,
of profound disquisition, by any gun- ;
powdery explosions of Indignation, by
sharpshootlngs of wit, by howitzers of
mental strength made to swing shell j
five mllps, by cavalry horses gorgeously
caparisoned pawing the air. In vain i
all the attempts on the part of these 1
ecclesiastical foot soldiers, light horse
men and grenadiers.
My friends, I propose a different style
of tactics. Let each one go to the for- j
est of God's promise and Invitation, and
hew down n branch and put It on bis
shoulder, and let us all come around
these obstinate Iniquities, Hnd then
with this pile, kindled by the fires of
holy zeal and the flames of a conse
crated life, we will burn them out.
What steel cannot do, fire may. And
I announce myself In favor of any plan
of religions attack that succeeds any
nlan of religious attack, however radi
cal, however odd, however unpopular,
however hostile to all the convention
alities of Church and State. If one
style of prayer does not do the work,
let us try another. If the Church
music of to-day does not get the vic
tory, then let us make the assault with
a backwoods chorus. If a prayer-meet
ing at half past seven In the evening
does not succeed, let us have one as
early In the morning as when the angel
found wrestling Jacob too much for
him. If a sermon with the three au
thorized heads does not do the work,
then let us have a sermon with twenty
heads, or no heads at all. We want
more heart In our song, more heart In
our almsgiving, more heart In our
prayers, more heart In our preaching.
Still further, I learn from this sub
ject the power of example. If Abim
elech had sat down on the grass, and
told his men to go and get the boughs,
and go out to the battle, they would
never have gone at all, or If they had,
It would have been without any spirit
or effective result; but when Abimelech
goes with his own axe and hews down
a branch, and with Ablmelech's arms
puts It on Ablmelech’s shoulder, and
marches on, then, my text says, all
the people did the same. How natural
that was. What made Garibaldi and
Stonewall Jackson the most magnetic
commanders of the century? They al
ways rode ahead. Oh, the overwhelm -
ing power of example! Here Is a father
on the wrong road; all his hoys go on
the wrong road. Here is a father who
enlist for Christ; his children enlist.
I saw In some of the picture galleries
of Europe, that before many of the
great works of the masters the old
masters—there would be sometimes
four or live artists taking copies of the
pictures. These copies they are going
to carry with them, perhaps to distant
lands; and I have thought that your
life and character are a masterpiece,
and It Is being copied, and long after
you are gone It will bloom or blast in
the homes of those who knew you, and
be a Gorgon or a Madonna. Look out
what you Bay. Look out what you
do. Eternity will hear the echo. The
best sermon ever preached Is a holy
life. The best music ever chanted Is
a consistent walk. If you want others
to serve God. serve him yourself. If
you want others to shoulder their duty,
shoulder yours. Where Abimelech
goes hts troops go. Oh, start out for
heaven to-day, and your family will
come after you. and your business as
sociates will come after you. and your
social friends will Join you. With one
branch or the tree or lire for a baton,
raarahal just aa many a.* you can to
gether. Oh, the Infinite, the teml-ont
nlpotent power of a good or bad exam
ple!
Still further. I learn from thin sub
ject the advantage of concerted action.
If Abtiuelech had merely gone out with
a tree-branch the work would not have
l»ecu ai compliahed, or if tt u, twenty, or
thirty men had gone but when all the
axea are Itfud and all the sharp edges
fall, a ltd all then* men carry each bla
tree branch down and throw It about
the leiutde, ibe victory la gained th*
temple falls My friends where there
Is one man tn the Church of Ood nt
thla day shouldering bla whole duty,
there are a great utsny who never lift
an ase or swing n bough It seems to
me as If there eere ten drone* In every
hive te one busv bee as though there
were twenty ealtore sound asleep In tn*
ship's hammocks to four men on th*
Sdorsav deck It seems as If there were
•fty thousand men belonging te *he r*
serve corps sad only one theusae t
“live combatants Oh, we nil wan'
•or beats te get ever la the gulden
sends, hat the moat of us are mated
either tn the prew or m the stem
wrapped tn ear striped shawl, heldtag
n hip handled sunshade While ether*
am blistered tn the heat and pull until
the aar lush* groan and the hinds*
band till they snap oh yen reltgteu*
l*epy beads asks up! feu have lale
an ten# *• ee# piece that tbe sat* an t
caterpillars bate begun te creel ever
rwwt Whai de yee se«* mr brother
•bout a living vies pel made te storm the
world? Now, my Idea of a Christian
Is a man on Are with zeal for God; and
if your pulse ordinarily beats sixty
times a minute when you think of other
themes, and talk about other themes, If
your pulse does not go up to seventy*
flve or eighty when you come to talk
about Christ and heaven. It Is because
you do not know the one, and hava a
poor chance of getting to the other.
In a former charge,one Sunday,I took
Into the pulpit the church records, and
I laid them on the pulpit and opened
them, and said; "Brethren, here are
the church records. I And a great
many of you whose names are down
here are off duty." Some were afraid
I would read the names, for at that time
some of them were deep in the worst
kind of oil stocks, and were Idle as to
Christian work. But If ministers of
Christ to-day should bring the church
records Into the pulpit and read, oh,
what a flutter there would be! There
would not bn fans enough In church to
keep the cheeks cool. I do not know
but It would be a good thing If the min*
later once In a while should bring the
church records In the pulpit and call
the roll, for that Is what I consider
every church record to be—merely a
muster-roll of the Lord's army; and the
rending of It should reveal where every
soldier Is and what he Is doing.
Still further, I learn from this sub
lthe ilnm-.r of false refuses. As
soon as these Bhechemltes got Into tho
temple, thoy thought they were safe.
They said: "Berlth will take care of
tts, Ablmelech may batter down
everything else; he can not batter down
this temple where we are now hid."
But very soon they heard the timbers
crackling, and they were smothered
with smoke, and they miserably died.
I suppose every person In this audience
this moment Is stepping Into some kind
of refuge. Here you step In the tower
of good works. You say: "I shall he
safe In this refuge." The battlements
ore adorned; the steps are varnished;
on th* wall are pictures of all the suf
fering you have alleviated, and all th#
schools you have established, and all
the fine things you have done. Up In
that tower you feel you are safe. But
hear you not tho tramp of your unpar
doned sins all around the tower? They
each have a match. You are kindling
the combustible material. You feel
the heat and the suffocation. Oh, may
you leap In time, the Gospel declaring;
"By the deeds of the law shall no flesh
living be Justified.”
“Well,” you say, "I have been driven
out of that tower; where shall I go?”
Step Into this tower of Indifference.
You say: "If this tower Is attacked, It
will be a great while before it Is taken.”
You feel at ease. But there Is an Ablm
elech. with ruthless assault, coming on.
Death and his forces are gathering
around, and they demand that you sur
render everything, and they clamor for
your overthrow, and they throw their
skeleton arms In the window, and with
their Iron fists they beat against th*
door, and while you are trying to keep
them out you see the torches of Judg
ment kindling, and every forest Is a
torch, and every mountain a torch, and
every sea a torch, and while the Alps,
and Pyrenees, and Himalayas turn Into
a Jive coal, blown redder and redder by 1
the whirlwind breath of a God omnipo- 1
tent, what will become of your refuge
of lies?
"But,” says some one, “you are en
gaged in a very mean business, driving
us from tower to tower.” Oh, no! I want !
to tell you of a Gibraltar that never has 1
been and never will be taken; of a I
wail lUtU 1.1 u samuii; assuuii can m;aiu,
of a bulwark that the Judgment earth
quakes cannot budge. The Bible re
fers to It when It says: “In God Is thy
refuge, and underneath thee are the
everlasting arms." Oh! fling your
self Into It. Tread down unceremon
iously everything that Intercepts you.
Wedge your way there. There are
enough hounds of death and peril after
you to make you hurry. Many a man
has perished Just outside the tower,
with his foot on the step, with his hand
on the latch. Oh! get Inside. Not
one surplus second have you to sparer
Quick! quick! quick!
WELL KNOWNS.
Dr. Felix Vulplus, who died In Wei
mar the other day. was the nephew of
the wife of Goethe, the poet. He was 73
years old.
Ex-Speaker Crisp was not born In this
country, which explains his temerity In
wandering to considerable distances
from his cyclone cellar.
Mrs. Elisabeth Cody Stanton and oth
ers are preparing to write a volume of
comments on text* of the Bible usually
considered us hostile to woman In her
(alter day aspirations.
John Itogt-rs' statue of Abraham Lin
coln, which has been set up In the Man
chaster <N. lit public library, repre
sents the president as studying a war
map The figure la one-third larger than
life alee.
• •ill Jules Simon Is quoted as saving
that I he young German emperor speaks
Ft to h like a Parisian, whereas lie first
Napoleon spoke It all his days with sn
Italian accent, and the third Napoleon
with a strong tier loan accent.
’ : I i • . ' lit
of the British Ladles Football elub,
a bh'h Was founded last year by |ta pres
ent secretary and ctttdain. Miss Nettle
II-nv»ball The members wear divided
skirt* of blue serge resembling hoick
ert-tker* and tit* team* are distin
guish! d lit wearing llm,,,• of pale blu*
or of * aid in* I red,
• hath- it I'*, tmonico, the pie.,a, |
proprietor of the famous dining pia.es,
was n«.t Mn • Itelnonlcu. Hi* mother
*** * sister of the lem-us |e>feneo Ik 1.
monh-o ant a,stried a man named Crist,
hr whom she had two sons. Chan *
and Lout* the present repreaenla
In* of the great ikiniiii... w *g
> harle* r'rlet until, for commercial r»e
“ ««, he assumed the heller known
heme Mil) seven tear# ago the tret
reeieurent twnrfng the name of leh
pi eaten we* wg* hvd
the is twee I titter* bank et Meter I
*•■ *, la owe* * >'*, > end ike nm
mu mg* reaitee (mj.owu
DAIRY ANI) POULTRY.
NTERESTINC CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
kor« ul Farmer* Op«r>t« Thin
Depart mrnt of th« Farm—A Fow
Uinta ns to thw Cart of l.lva Mock
and Poultry.
baervatlon lead*
u* to believe that
*even-tentba of the
fancy poultry
breeder* of thla
country live In
town. By town we
mean city, village
and hamlet. The
atralght out farmer
fanclera are very
few Indeed. Home —
in fact, a large per cent of the town
people who keep fine fowl* have aubur
ban home*, but the range la generally
ineaaured by feet and not by acrea. We
believe fully 50 per cent of all the poul
try fanclera keep their fowla on or
dinary town lot.*' UMiially on the back
end of the lot In pen* of amall »i7.e.
nf- i_ ___i I..-- mi
too.
We have fowl* In town on an ordi
nary lot In pone from 15 to 20 feet
■t|uare. The town chicken* really look
better than the connlry chicken* In
their large *l/.ed granny run*. Why?
because In the country we depend on
he gras* In the run* for green food;
at this Hca*on It g< !* old and tough,
the fowl* can't eat It and hence they
have no green food.
In town we grow little patches of
oat*, rye and iniiHtard, pull It while
young, fresh and tender, and feed It to
the fowl* dally. Result:, bright
combs and eye*, smooth plumage, eggs,
thrift and profit.
Marly In the Reason we planted corn
and sunflower scatterlngly In our cultl
vatable spots, and It Is around and
about the corn and the sunflower* that
we grow the green stufT. Chleken* like
such coverings and will work about
In them all day. We throw millet
seed In there for which they scratch.
We need a United States law which
■hall place filled cheese in the same
category with oleomargarine, licensing
the manufacturers producing It, plac
ing a small tax on each pound manu
factured, ar.d holding up It* identity
until It reaches the coni utter.—W. A.
Henry, University of Wisconsin.
Protect Vour Trail*.
Protect your trade by not selling
scrubs to anyone. Kill and sell for
poultry everything not worth $3 per
head or more. If every breeder of
thoroughbred fowls would do Ibis we
should bear less about hucksters and
dishonest dealers. Can a man who
pretends to breed thoroughbred stock
afford to use birds worth less than $3
each? Would he not he better off and
sell far more bird* If he did not use
a bird worth less than $6. and from
(hat to $20 each for females, and $10
to $50 for males? The men who stand
the best and sell the most stock are the
breeders who use none but the best,
and do not put Into their own pens birds
they would sell for less than $5 each.
Suppose all the first-class hr..
m ituM(I rnriiiifii't to kill
every specimen they raise not worth
the retail price of $6; the effect would
t>e this, that the merit and excellence
of the thoroughbred market would do
much higher than to-day. Kvery acrub
you sell, no matter what the price,
stands In the way of a purchase of a
better one. The men who now buy a
dozen scrubs would put the same
amount of money Into a less number of
better birds; and you as a breeder
would receive more money and a better
profit, and stop the propagator! from
scrubs, whose influence is lowering the
average standing of the breed, and the
evil effect upon your trade which comes
from having these scrubs pointed out
as corning from you; for If you have
an enviable reputation, rest assured
your name will be used by the second
party to persuade the third to buy from
umong these low grades. J believe one
better wring the necks of culls and
give them to the poor than to sell them
alive - It Is policy.—Poultry Monthly.
Our Font*r Mothrr*
At a dairy meeting In New York, re
ment Station recently purchased twen
ty-four young cattle for use In feeding
experiments. The cattle were such as
could be obtained In the vicinity. There
are better cattle <;nd meny wot s'" on<e
In ths territory. Might calves averaged
415 pounds, eight two year old S'eers
averaged 780 and eight yearlings aver
aged 555 younds. That Is the yearling
steers had been kept for a year for an
average gain of 140 pounds, tbs two
year olds auother year for a gain of 225
pounds. Two of the calves weighed
more each than did one of the yearlings,
and one yearling weighed within 70
pounds of as much as one of the tws
year olds. As the exact ages were un
known, It Is possible there was less than
a year's difference In the age In each
case. It Is also true that ths calves
were belter bred than either of the old
er lots. But In any case there was very
little pay for the food consumed by ths
older cattle.
«he*|> for Motion.
The best mutton sheep la ths sheep
which has a long body, round barrel,
and Is hardy and early In maturing. It
should also be plump and solid not
merely fat In those portions of ths
carcass wnere tn« nesi muuuu is
ed. The wool sheep may be very dif
ferent. He Is "cultivated" for bis out
side, while the mutton sheep Is grown
for bis Inside, Mutton Is a great (llsh
In "inerrle Kngland," though not quite
so national as roast beef; but It hat
long been popularly appreciated there,
and now Is constantly growing In fa
vor on Ibis able of the water. The
great drawback In America has been
the poor quality of mutton offered.
Butchers call anything that belonged
to the sheep family "spring lamb," ut
terly regardless of Its age and tough
ness, and thus fostered a distrust of
mutton for table use, J'roperly pre
pared It Is a delicious meat delicate
and tender; hut do not select ten year |
old animals as candidates for popular
favor. The strong and sinewy mut
ton so often put on the market as spring
lamb, has made Inexperienced house
keepers suspicious of everything
"sheepish," and has caused sheep to he
raised for wool rather than for food.
The tide Is turning now, for the good
ENGLISH BRED BULL ROMEO.
_ —- _
Sometimes the chicks eat It, and often
they cover It up; we wet it down at
night, and In a day or so they have a
fresh green sprout Instead of a seed.
We let the chicks in on the green In
tended for them, but that grown for
the fowls we pull and feed In the pens.
Green stuff Is the basis of health and
vigor In both fowls and chickens, and.
mind you. It cuts a big figure In the
feed bill. It cuts It down about half,
for from a peck of seed we can grow
several bushels of sprouts.
The green that we grow for the old
fowls we gather or pull over three or
four times before reseeding, taking
sare not to pull up the roots.
Hens will lay and chickens grow i
and thrive In the back yard to the city
residence if they have their "cases"
of green.—Poultry Journal
We I.ima Hy Fraud,
In 1880 the United States exported
cheese to the value of $12,170,000. In
1894 the United States exported cheese
to the value of $7,180,000- a decrease in
exports In fourteen years of 40 per cent.
In 1880 Canuda exported cheese to the
value of $3,900,000, In 1894 Canada
exported cheese to the value of $15,600,
000 an Increase In fourteen years of ;
nearly 400 per cent.
In Canada the manufacture of filled ■
and skimmed cheese Is prohibited by
law, backed up by strong public sent!- |
incut. From the hum,drat cheescmaker
tku lilulu ui ant'orriiiiMnl iillitlltlH itM*
uerglea of I he people have bceu bent
toward honeat, wholevoute eheeae and
world-wide market*
In thla country, in marked conlraal
with Canada, many people have been
working to produce cheaper cheeee and
not better cheer*. V.liluu our own ,
«tate trade haa been greatly Injured In ,
>aat year* by aklmmed chawaa and more
recently by filled chec»» Tbla ba» now j
M'«u atopped by law. Illtnota uianu
'.ulurea enurmou* tjuuiillllra of tilled
her** each winter, branding much of
it m Wlaconatn good*, tbua ataaltug
what ahould be a good nam* and break
ing down our markatn with a fraud |
product
Naw York and Wlacooaln are lb*
great «b**a»-*ip«rting atalaa- Wt** on
•in la by nature lb* greatant chaeaa
•tala in the Colon ma la •« by th# nat
ural adaptation uf lb* aoll to nutrltloua
gta*a**. the pure water* and the cool
uigbta tn aumnia* ttwa
Oar remmoowaalth baa hot million*
•f ootUia bet auae of the laaaea* of onr
own people lb tbe mailer of high uual
liy and honeat good*, and no* that re
formation haa com* *U our good ar t#
will tount for Util*. »o long an other
*<ai*a make frautl and brand I
them Wlaconatn mad*
jorted by the Country Gentleman, J. 8.
Woodward said:
1 have traveled over a large part of
ihls state and have been In many sta
bles. I address the brightest and most
Intelligent body of dairymen In the
itate; and as 1 saw how the cows had
been treated, I made a vow to say some
?ood words for our real foster mother.
Many barns and stables are not over 7Vi
feet high, often not over GVi feet. There
ire stables so dark that If the door Is
•hut It Is necessary to have a lantern to
see by In midday. Some are very cold;
some are damp and dripping. A stable
26 by 45. by GVi feet had 26 cows In It,
weighing over 1,000 pounds each, and
.here were no ventilators. Not 100 miles
rrom Syracuse I saw a stable 45 by 24
by 7 feet, In which there were 32 grade
Jersey cows, weighing over 700 pounds
sach. This means only 268 cubic feet of
ilr space for each cow, and Is equiva
lent to putting a man of average size
Into a box measuring 6 feet by 34 Inches
width and 35 inches height, with no
ventilation. In 90 per cent of the sta
bles, also, the cows are kept in the old
fashioned rigid stauchlous. God pity
the heart of him who coniines his cows
in turn way ror - t noura or the (lay, and
makeo them sleep, or try to sleep, In the
itauchlona also!
Many farmer* feed all dry food
through the whiter, with no succulence
whatever. Oat xtruw and corn meal are
all fat; they contain no hone or muscle,
and yet farmers think they are feeding
well when they give their cows this ra
lion. Many cuttle get drink only once
lu 21 hour* during the whiter, when
I hey are turned out luto the slable
yard, and the water la cold enough to
i hill them ull through. From such con.
illlloiis tts I have described, cows often
become distorted and deformed, with
■ boulders out of shape and bunches ou
he knees, the result of rigid stauchlous.
these are not fancy sketches, I have
■ecu them many a time
The farmer should study his cows,
raise the height of stable*, leant more
of cow ulngy, Tbs cow la tki per c«ul
irtlRcial
(Nil w lew** Meet**,
The great marhei* of the country as*
showing that the Mine In which very
heavy can I* can b* pruitubty maihslad
ksa gone by {taring r*ceni we«n* year*
ling mill* have sold more readily ami
at higher price* lk*n Rue, f«| steers
weighing I Rue pound* or mur* The#*
yearlings would weigh I two pound* or
more and wars of Rns duality Tb*
rstrn Hme and food required in ntslur*
lb* Inrg* coitl* we** pWt.'tf v„'d lor
A lib* mi»t*h* I* mad* by many »*rm
in
In* uhl bom* Agricultural tt»p*rt
of the herder and of the consumer also,
—Ex.
fa»rphllly ClieM«.
Caerphilly cheese Is made by a sweet
curd process. The milk is set at about
86 deg. Kabr., and such milk should be
perfectly sweet. Add sufficient rennet
to coagulate the milk firmly in one hour.
Break down carefully as In Cheddar
cheesetnaking, making the curd about
the size of large peas. Stir for half or
three-quarters of an hour. Let settle
about half an hour. The whey is then
drawn and the curd ladled out into a
clean cloth, and tied up, with a little
weight—say 14 pounds—placed upon It,
If a large quantity of curd, no weight la
required. Cut up and turn each half
hour. At the end of about three hours
from the time the rennet is added, the
curd Is broken up finely into the hoops,
where it stands for two hours or so,
when it is placed under the press,
gradually turning the screw and press
ing up to 10 cwt. at the cud of three
hours. The llrst cloth used Is line. Turn
the cheese once during the evening Into
tkn uon.c. ninth _* At.t.. I
salted on the outside twice, ubout Vi
ounce being used to each pound of curd,
I'lne salt Is best und after each saltlug. ^
itiorniug and evening, the cheese Is re- ’
placed In dry cloths In the press with
ubout 15 cwt. pressure on. t'ress al
together for three days. The cheese* aro
then taken to th" cheeserootus, which
are kept about deg. Kahr. In these
rooms they are wiped each day with a
wet cloth, and should be ready to sell lu
from 20 to 30 du> s, London Dally.
Wisconsin Dairy tttatlsllcs. A phe
nomenal increase lu the dairy Industry
In Wisconsin during ths past ten years
la shown by the state census returns for
test'), now being compiled. The census
returns show there ere uow In the sluts
1.334 cheese fsciurtaa, valued at |»4P,5J|,
end TVS creameries, valued at |l.44tl,?uT
Ths greater number of these have beeu
erected during the past ten years, Tbs
entire number of cattle and calves on
hand, tueludlbg cows lu |»»4, was
t.441.kSS, valued at IVk.tMlv.&uk.u. mis
year the number uf milch cows I years
bid end aver in the stats is kij.uag,
valued at 111,443.144, and ths cattle and
valves. Including milch runs, number 4
I 343.43T, valued at lak.mw.TM In lid
ths number uf pounds uf chess* report
id wss 13.4!k.»ou. valued at I3.M4,41131,
• hit* this year the number uf pouuds
reported was U.fMllt, and the value
M viI.Imj m IM4 the number uf
pound* uf butler rspufled was j« j|o
431. valued at |A.t4M,4»9to This year
th< m-iubef v»f pounds reported was T4,.
Sto.flM Slid ths value lit,IIP,If!
