Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — Page 6

@|)f JemocraticSentiticl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. JT. W. McEWEN, - -r. c r PumffiHgu.

ABOUT DAIRY FARMING

THE HOME OF THE GUERNSEY AND JERSEY. Treatment of Thoroughbreds Is Princely in America The Flout Breeds Are Marked Daintily as a Racehorse—Aristocracy Averts Itself at All Points. Beanty Blends with Batter. Ip al]. the old geographies New f ork was, amohg other things, put down as the first State in its dairy products, says the Press. Its excellence in dairy farming was due to the character of itsinhabitants, who were (largely Dutch and large consumers es butter and cheese; to the extensive 'battle grazing meadow lands in such pounties as Herkimer, Delaware, Dutchess, and Onondaga, and to the growth of its great cities. The State produced more and better butter and cheese than all the balance of the Country, and the Southern and Western farmers sent to the State for the best brand of cattle as the merchants came to the city to buy their best goods. A farmer in Illinois or Virginia, when he had bought a Jersey or Guernsey'heifer or bull from New •York, generally advertised the fact in his local paper and his neighbors usually called in great numbers to see this improved example of the bovine kind. ( New York has exercised as great influence over the dairy interests of this ..country as Kentucky has over the raising of fine horses, or Ohio and Illinois on sheep husbandry. Put a few years ago the New York Dairymen’s Association began to realize the fact that the State was losing

Power house. Dairy Stable for 400 cattle. Main entrance and Hen house. Barns for calves, 2,000 ton silos. VIEW OF THE BUILDINGS ON MR. MORTON'S DAIRY FARM.

its prestige in this respect, and that IHiotas, Wisconsin and Canada were ' butter and selling it in this owy for not more than half a cefitapound advance over the New York,, .-State product. The market preferred the Canadian and Western product, ;and the dairy farms in the State were not making more than exjibhdes. .The Western meadows contained more plant/food, and the sa.mfe,,&resd of cows would yic'd a fourtba4H*»re butter. The West had

better mehdows and the railroads in ita 'fivjof, and the Eastern farmers .»a»usb4eft a6o*6t to scientillcally meet the competition of their Western rivals or abandon their old farms as New SStglabd farmers had done in attempt to raise grain, etc,, In competition with the therefore been a life and cfceatfyßs'Uggle with a great agriculturaypßustry that has contributed shiargely to making the Empire Sta ion and wealth. Vwrk Dairy Product*. ago the State Dairyestablished a ntimber or fflftry' conferences or schools, where the farmers were scientifically, taught how to produce the best milch cows, the greatest yield of milk and the finest butter.

Tji«*f kPjMgJg an< * compulsory •cifinwfiejthwf to the chief farming 1 interest Qfthe State have had the «. result of .partially re-establishing the prestige farming. The fttgaaers best cows, if not the best meadows, the best dtaßes aQ<l the best creameries of , TOpooiiltry. A farmer of much Intelligence knows just how to breed gob<s?cows %nd .what to feed them upOn to secure the greatest, and best . yield ,pf iptljf and butter, but how to makA" his latfd produce the food p products necessary for such yields has given him no little thought. The State is old, and the large resources ; of plant food that made the f dairymen in so many counties EKQspeitfi}s,,feive been largely exhausted. • -V Hkftliy any other product of the soil and the mill so exhausts land as cheese. A ton of cheese will take $9

THE GUERNSEY COW, CHANOINESSE.

a ton of plant food from the land while a ton of butter takes only 26 V coats. The manufacture of cheese from cattle not ofethe best blood had therefore exhaustffi many large farms to such a degree that butter producing was. not even profitable. Plant food is the hardest of all foodf to reate?* tp the solL Grain food is easily ' shipped, but grain food does not produce milk. Its function is making beef, and beef and milk will not mix

in the same animal, therefore, there was but one way for the New York dairy farmer .fcQmeepthe prqblem that poor farms, ordinary cows and extravagant feeding had brought upon him, and that was to produce a cow that, being fed upon the minimum of plant food, would produce the maximum of butter and cheese. The farmers knew it waseasierto produce a fine milker than to restore the virgin resources of nature, for a fine cow or a fine horse is distinctly a product of civilization and culture, while nature, once robbed of its virginity, can neveT be entirely re-

stored. This has not yet become so necessary in the West. Illinois and Wisconsin hay fields and meadows are as fresh as New York’s were a half century ago, and here is given its reason for raising the best breeds of cattle for dairy farming, for a fine cow will eat no more timothy or clover than a scrub, hut she will produce five times as much milk. The result is that New York has the best milch cows that have so far been raised. Cattle culture in this State has become one of the finest branches of veterinary science. Many of the

richest men in the State are devot ing their time to the breeding of fin cattle and are conducting sojne c the most costly and prosperous farms in the world, for they have learned that this sort of farming is not only most remunerative, but It is one of the. most delightful and elevating branches of agriculture. The world renowned Jersey cattle have always been prime favorites among most dairymen, but there are other breeds that are constantly disputing supremacy with this great breed of cattle. The two other breeds that are well before the world to-day are the Crumhorn, HolsteinFriesian and the Guernsey. The former breed has maito-a great record

INTERIOR OF THE MAMMOTH STABLE, CONTAINING 400 STALLS.

as milkers, but it is to the latter that particular attention Is to be called. The Guernsey is a spotted Shorthorn cow, ated is one. of the largest and most beautiful and gentle cows in the meadow or at the stall. They are always plump and maintain good condition, and it is always a pleasure to look at and handle one. But, best of all, they stand equal in record in the quality and quantity of milk and butter yield with the Jersey and the Holstein They are certainly more beautiful than either of the other breeds. A half-dozen of these beautiful cattle were on exhibition at the recent food exhibit at Madison Square Garden. They were the property of Vice President Morton, and certainly were one of the chief attractions of the fair. Every lover of the cow and those who cared nothing for the cow gathered about tjjese beautiful and gentle creatures which Mr. Morton had sent down from his farm at Rhinecliff-on-the-Hudson. His farm superintendent, Mr. Cottrell, said these cows were sent to the food exhibit for the high butter record they had made. * . • t... Guernsey* at ths Food Exhibit. ••pbjjre is, for instance, the pet of the lot; Good Morning, 3674, a nearly solid fawn, imported Nov. 16,1887,

and which has a record of 8,295] pounds of milk in a year and 1,071| pounds in a month. o6ho is to go to the World’s Fair as a specimen of a high bred, rich milker. Then there is Rosette, |vith a record of 8,101 pounds in 351 days; Olga, "75 pounds in one month; Margo, 6,o97'poqpds in eight months; Lady Antoinette 11., 830 pounds in one month; Britoni, 5,701 pounds in seven months; Chamoinesse, 5,532* pounds in nine months; Rosaline, 5,716 pounds In nine months, and May Blossom, 5,780 pounds in eight months. In a serie* of tests made among the very large

THE DAIRY.

stock of thoroughbreds owned by Mr. Morton the milk from Cood Morning showed a percentage of 5.90 of butter{at. ” Last summer Mr. Morton's barn was burned, but his fine stock.was saved and the new barn which he is now building at Elerslie will be one of the finest in the world and certainly the best equipped for the breeding of fine stock, there being room for more than 400 cattle. The main building will be 300 feet in length and 65 feet wide, with an extra width of 89 feet for room for the silos and machinery. The Morton

herd now contains 164 head and will be increased to 400, with a working dairy of 300 cows. " The world is standing on tiptoe trying to approximate the speed oi the future horse, hut the amount ol food that is to be given to the future cow and the amount of milk and butter to come from her is a very great economical question. Nowhere yet have civilized men .settled so near to each other that the cow does not thrive. In England, France, and Germany she keeps pace with the civilization about her. The more nervous and intelligent the people grow the firmer grows the cow. The more populous the community becomes the richer and more milk

and butter does she yield, notwithstanding the fact that tlm meadows and hay fields are gradualljKbecoming smaller. The growth, ami perfection of the cow is one hf the greatest economical triumphs of the present civilization, for she is one of the chief agencies of its existence, and he who can continue the im-

FINEST GUERNSEY BULL IN AMERICA.

proveinent of the cow is no iess than a benefactor of his time.

Nellie Was Precocious.

Ellen Terry made her first appear ance on the stage when. she. was only 10 years old.

What Do You Drink?

About 6,000 intoxicants of different kinds are known to custom hous< officials.

NATURAL CAAS.

A Brief HUtory of tlie Rl« » ,ul F»U of This Furl. The hist&V of the rise of natural *as for manufacturing purposes In Pittsburg interesting one, says the Cnronicle-Telegraph of that city. It was about the middle of May, 1884, whea it displaced coal in the first iron mill in this city. The first qf that month it was used for the first time in an extensive industrial works, in the O'Hara glass house at Thirtieth street and the Allegheny Valley Railroad. About the fifteenth of the month it took the place of 6,000 bushels of coal in the Carnegie mill at Twenty-ninth street. Not until early in November was It introduced in the mill of this firm at Thirty-third street, where It took the place of 7,000 bushels of coal daily. While the use of natural gas was very satisfactory, the slowness attending its introduction was rettiarkable. It was about the middle of the sumniW fit 1885 before it was used in half of the iron and steel works in the Pittsburg district, and it was fully three years before it took the place of coal in all of them.

There was considerable trouble in securing manufacturers to make the change. The low rate offered to the firms was not so much of an object as the room saved by absence of ashes. There was no trouble in reconstructing the furnaces from coal to the use of natural gas, yet this retarded its early use somewhat. Among the first along the Monongahela River to adopt it was Jones & Laughlins, in the winter of 1884, in the American Iron Works. To guard themselves against possible trouble they only remodeled a portion of their works. About six months after it was used with satisfaction in these works it wds used in all the mills along this river and the Ohio, excepting in those of the Oliver Iron Company.

Beginning with 1889, the gradual abandonment of natural gas in the local mills where naturals gas is still being used in puddling furnaces are those of A. M. Byers & Co., Zug Co., Brown Sf -Ctt, and the Carnegid mill'.at Thirty-third street. These four mills run 162 furnaces of this kind, besides the heating furnaces and the tube works Qf.tbg flrnqi first named. There are few mills in which gas is still used in the heating furnaces, but altogether it has already given away to fully 200,000 bushels of coal daily. The idea that the supply of natural gas would never be exhausted was only entertained for about a year—from 1887 to 1888. After that there were many evidences that the supply would not hold out. During this year there were some firms who became imbued with the idea that all they had to do was to dig a well anywhere apd they could soon get enough gas to supply them. There wery few accidents in any of the mills caused by gas.

The Black Swallower.

What a terrible, horrible animal a tiger would be were it able to swallow from eight to twelve times its own bulk! It seems impossible that there can be any creature able to do this, and yet, far down in the depths of the southern seas, there lives a tfsli knoWB -as the black swallower, which whole a fish eight to twelve f t?fihfes larger than Itself. Happily fqr the other inhabitants ot the sea the black there being hut three known specimens in the museums of the world, In appearance it is a slender, elongated fish of uniform thickness, from eight inches to a fetofe in length. The skin ,is without scales, the head somewhat cone-shaped, narrowing forward. Its fins end in spines, thus preventing it from becoming a dainty morsel for other fishes. The mouth Is that of a monster; it is very deeply cleft, extending behind the eyes, apd armed with many long, sharp-pointqcP and moveable teeth. Such is its appearance with an.eippty.gfomach. , m. Going about in search of food it’ espies another fish many times larger than itself. It, darts upon this fish from behind, seizes the tail, and gradually crawls over the struggling victim with its jaws, using first one and then the other. As the captive is taken in, the stomach and integments stretch out, until at last the entire fish is passed through the mouth into the stomach. Then the distended organ appears as a great bag, projecting out far backward and far forward. Over this horrible bag. and resting on it, the swallower seems to lie; the lower fins appear dislocated and lie far away from their usual position. The walls of the stomach have been so stretched that they are transparent, and the species of fish within can be discerned. Sometimes, three „timqs at least, suGh rapidity is more than the captor can stand. The fl9h within the stomach .begins to decompbse and gas is created. The black shallowerJs forced'over on its back*, when the imprisoned gas, as in a . balloon, takes it upward frotp the depths to the surfaqq, ql£ the |ea ! . Thus have the three «pe£imens beeq J( found floating on the* surface, tbous-. adds of fathoms above their true, haunts. In'each instance the fish’ ih Ihe stomach.has been about twice as long as the swallower, and froni six to twelve times bulkier. j a *

Pleasure.

Society is not, and ought not be; exclusively devoted to serious concerns. The beneficent Creator of the universe would not have adapted human beings to the enjtyment of his gifts he intended that they should be enjoyed. With the law which enjoins industry comes the law of fruition. Why should the eye be formed to perceive natural and artificial beauty if it is not to be used for that purpose? Why has the capacity to make instruments capable of emitting sweet sounds been given if such sounds are not to be heard? ‘ Why should 1 ’ the human structure be capable of the sweetest melody, and of graceful action, and of the delightful expression beaming from innocent and heavenly countenances, if pleasures from such sources were forbidden us? Why does the grape ripbs, the silkworm toll, the annual return, the diamond sparkle,^ 5 The marble yield to the chisel, and the canvas catch and preserve the inspiration of

genius, but to waxen human desire, animate industry, and reward with fruition? It is the excess and the abuse which are forbidden.

Improvement In Machinery.

The wonderful advance that has been made during the last third of a century in the construction of machinery, and particularly in the equips ment of ships with propelling power, is well illustrated by comparisons presented by an Eastern journal. It is well known that the Great Eastern, that wonderful leviathan of the seas which was the talk of the world some thirty years ago, was in all practical respects a complete failure. The reason fo'r this will bo understood when it is stated that engines of only 7,650 horse power were provided to propel,a shin 680 feet in length and 82 feet In oread th. In those days engines of such power were considered very remarkable, and it does not appear to have been suspected at the time that the failure of the great ship was due to a lack of sufficient power to drive her vast bulk through the water and render her manageable.

She was abandoned and allowed to go to ruin because it was believed that the limit of size had in her case been exceeded. But when we compare her 7,650 hoirsc power with the 20,605 horse power of that modern greyhound, the City of Paris, a vessel 120 feet shorter and nearly 20 feet narrower than the Great Eastern, it is plainly seen where the trouble lay. Such an equipment of machinery as the great steamships of our day carry would h,afe fjee’n entirely beyond the comprehension of the engine-builders of thirty years ago. But after all it appears that we are only just beginning to develop the possibilities of the steam engine, and that there are no longer any limitations as to the dimensions that may be chosen for steamships. The Campania, just launched from an English shipyard, is 620 feet in length, or only sixty feet shorter than the Great Eastern, and is equipped with engines of 30,000 horse power. The propelling force which these figures indicate is almost iqconceivable. The new American steamships now building for the transatlantic business, will be smaller than the Campania, but larger than any of the other liners now afloat. They will be provided with engines proportionately powerful and representing the highest modern skill.

A Brilliant Thought.

There may be more ways than one to kill a cat, but I learned of a novel way to protect that animal from the mischievous youngster the other day. It happened that I was stopping at a summer boarding house up in the Catskills for a few days where an old maid boarder had located herself and her three cats for the season. The children in the house, from the youngest to the oldest, had led the three cats such a dance that the felines were justified in wishing during their waking moments that they were dead. It had kept the old lady on the jump to keep her cats out of the children’s hands during the day and to protect them at night they had to be locked up in her room. Thus stood affairs until a few-weeks ago the old lady happened to think of a scheme whereby her own and her pets’ „ troubles would be epdeyl. She organized a juvenile..society, ipr the prevention of cruelty to animate. It was a thought that entered her head at 1 o’clock in the morning as she lay awake trying to devise a method to relieve the cats of trouble. The next morning every child in the boarding house was corailed in the old lady’s room, and she instilled into the young hearts love for everything that walked, flew or crawled, including babies. n The little comprehending the'sport they were sacrificing, or the deep motive of the old lady, all ! took! a pledge to live up to her teachings, and not only this but to get every new boarder’s children to join the society, too. For fear the novelty would wear off and the children would forget their pledge, the old lady sent to the city and obtained little badges for the children to wear. The result is that all the children in the house strut about like minature policeman; the cats are recovering their composure, besides patches of new fur, and the old lady can do her knitting without fear of being disturbed to rescue her pets from all but sudden death.—New York Herald.

Clad in Costly Fur.

JohDgtJi^Baptist with his raiment of skins would have been of little in-terest-idnnJfdfth avenue Thursday afternooißebmpared with a promenader clad in Persian lamb, says the New York Evening Sun. Her garment consisted of a bell skirt of tender young astrakhan, missing nothing of a fashionable cut, and a Spanish jacket. This was short over a skirt of shaded green velvet of a lettucelike tint, so light it was, a girdle fastening with large flaps in the back, apd large velvet sleeves. This costumfe was crowned by a black hat in velvet and- .violets.— There was no man or ,boy on the street so ignorant of feminine gear that this costume did net catch his eye. To look at it women almost brought the procession to a iialt.

“Boy Wanted Inside.”

Cheap Enough.

A Mexican street car can be hired for personal use for $3.50 a day, with a right to stop at any place for twc hours. * ’

NEW SHADOW PICTURES.

Two Hand*, a Light, and a White Wall Will Furnish Lots of Amusement. How that the long winter evehings

THE WILD INDIAN.

are here the amusement of the children is a serious consideration. Here

THE CAPTIVE GOOSE.

are some new shadow pictures that might be well to try, and which, if

THE COW’S HEAD.

well presented, are calculated to amuse grown people as well as little

SAMBO.

ones. Anyone can make them. They

THE BLACK SWAN.

do not require abnormally hands and arms. Try them. " 1

The Wives of Barca.

In the valley of the Barca in Abys-' sinia there is, according to a recently returned traveler, a community where the women, without holding a meeting or agitation of any kind, have emancipated themselves. All the women work'hard while the men are idle, but by way of compensation the house and 'all it contains belongs to the wife. At the least unkind word she turns the husband out at night, in storm or rain, and he can’t come back.; .until he makes amends by the gift of a cow. ' The wife considers it a abuse the husband, and if she enough to show any love in life or grief at his death spg,.would be scorned by her tribe. The wife, without any reason, may strike her tent and go, taking with her one-third of ,the joint possessions. The husband, unless he is traveling, may not live out of his tent, but the wire may go to her parents for a year and annul for the time her own marriage. In all of this the secret of emancipation toward which women are blindly struggling is hidden. The emancipation of the wife comes only when she entirely supports her lord and master, thus rendering herself indispensable to his comfort. And possibly emancipation on these terms might not foe as desirable as the present regime of shopping in the morning, taking a nap in the afternoon, and accompanying somebody to the theater at night.

Two Imperial German Spendthrifts.

It is not generally known that the German Empress, in spite of her many excellent qualities, is very extravagant and owes large sums of money to many of the Berlin tradesmen, one firm alone having a bill of 800,000 marks, or £40,000, againit her majesty. The Empress never wears either a dress, a mantle or a bonnet the second time in public, and everything that she buys is of the very best. The Emperor is also very largely in debt, in spite of the handsome present made to him last spring by the Empress Frederick, who advanced him 1,500,000 marks. The Emperdr has, unfortunately, not the slightest idea of money, and scatters it right and left, to the great horror of maOy of his loyal subjects.—London World. What a Show It Would Be. One or two of the older Senators are said to favor the idea of Senators wearing silk gowns while i» sessioi, like Supreme Court judges.

OUR BUDGET OF FUN.

HUMOROUS SAYINGS AND DOINGS HERB AND THERE. fsiti and Jokeieta that Its Supposed to Bin Boon Recently Born- Sayings aad Doings that Are Odd. Curious and Laughable. Scissored SmUes. The more liquid a man puts down his throat the less chance there seems to be of drowning his voice.—Yonkers Statesman. Some men are born wealthy; Some men are born great; But all men are kicking Forever at fate. Ho man can stand a drain upon his resources so well as the farmer, provided the drain is on wet land.— Lowell Courier. It is running to extremes when prediction that the comet was going to make it hot for us is followed by a snow storm.—Washington Star. Literary Aunt —Are you fond of Crabbe’s tales, Edna? Edna— l don’t know, aunty. I’ve never eaten them, but I love the meat in lobsters’ legs. —Truth. The Maiden—“ Then you find married life happy?” The Wife—“ Yes; but then I seldom see my husband, you know.”—Smith, Gray & Co.’s Monthly. Dukane—l believe the physician Is right who said cholera is a crimA Gaswell—That accounts for the effort being made to arrest it.—Pittsburg Chronicle. Satan —Where does this arrival hail from? Charon—Hew York. Satan—Boil him in oil. We can’t afford to catch the cholera.—Hew York Herald.

Mamma —“Why do you put on such airs over that little girl?” Wee Woman—“ Her mother got bought teeth like you lias. ’’—Street & Smith’s Good Itews. Daube —NowsMiss Hunter, please look pleasant; that’s ,!&>—keep that for a moment until I catch it. There! now you may resume your natural expression, if you wish. Patient —“lsn’t $2 rather high foi pulling a tooth?” Dentist—“l think not. Fifty cents for extracting and $1.50 for gas.” Patient—“ One fifty for gas. So that’s why you talk so much.”—Texas Siftings. Mother —“ Dear me, are you through shopping? How did you manage to get back so soon?” Daughter (a bright girl) —“I told them to send the change home with the goods.”—Street & Smith’s Good Hews. fioY (on a bridge)—Say, mister, il you don’t look out you’ll be fined. Teamster—Why will I? Boy—That sign says “walk your horses,” don’t It? Teamster—Jesso. Boy—Well, yours are standing still.—Street & Smith’s Good Hews. Old Lady (reading report of public dinner) —“Some of these were drunk standing.” Think of that, Elizer Jane; so drunk they couldn’t sit down! They must be what thorn papers call people “who stand well Id society. ” —Princeto# Tiger. He —“ The architecture of Europe would interest me most.’* She (Dakota belie, expatiating on her travels) —“Yes, everything Is so quaint.” He —“How did the cathedral of Cologne Impress you?” She—“Oh, of course, that was too sweet for anything.”— Thomas Cat.

“That man Blobbs is a lucky dog." “And why?” “He was going through a tannery the other day and fell into a vat ” “I don’t call that luck. ” “But he had on his light summer suit, and when they pulled him out .it was dyed a beautiful black and he won’t have to buy any winter clothes.”— Buffalo Express. “Jimmy, wot’s an anarchist?” “A anarchist is a feller wot takes wot’s your’n an’ keeps wot isn’t his’n; accordin’ to them if I was ter take ev’ry apple an’ peach from that stand yonder it’d be all right, ’cause that Eyetalian can’t eat ’em, and I’d have a perfect right to ’em!”—“Jimmy, let’s be anarchists!”—Life. Physician —“ The best, thing we can do is to find a healthief location for our hospital.” Hospital Manager —“lf all your colleagues were like you the best thing we could do would be to shut up our hospital altogether. ” Physician “Oh, you compliment me.” Hospital Manager—“ Yes, for then we could start a second cemetery'. ” —Exchange. “Miranda, when my boy first went to college they called him a mossback, and now I see by this paper they’re callin’ him a full-back." “Can our boy be drinkin’, Cyrus?” “I don’t know, but I’ll pack my grip and go right on, and if he is he’ll be a called back quicker than greased lightnin’!”—Pittsburg Dispatch. Teacher—“l have told you of Louis Kossuth and what he did. I have also just said that he recently received a congratulatory ess from the Hungarian diet. Now) who can tell me the Hungarian diet is?” Little Boy (formerly of Hazleton, Pa.) —“Mdst anything thpt they can lay their hands #p.. & Smith's Good News.

An Ingenious Contrivance.

To obtain a light instantly without the use of matches and without danger of setting things on fire is an easy matter. Take an oblong vial of the clearest of glass, put into it a piece of phosphorus about the size- of a pea; upon this pour some pure olive oil heated to the boiling point, the bottle to be filled about one-third full; then cork tightly. To use the light remove the cork, allow the air to enter and then recork. The whole empty space in the bottle will then become luminous, and the light obtained will be a good one. As soon as the light becomes dim its power can be increased by opening the bottle and allowing a fresh supply of air to enter. In very cold weather it is sometimes necessary to heat the vial between the hands., to increase the fluidity of the oil, and one bottle will last all winter. This ingenious contrivance may he carried in the pocket, and is used "by'the watchmen of Paris in all magazines where explosives or inflammable materials are stored.

Gracious! What Next?

A pool-room, exclusively for the use of “ladies” is to be opengdjn Coy* ington, Ky. No liquor* will 'be sold on the premises '* • ’