TALMAGES SERMON.
“HOW TO WARM THE WORLD*
THE LATSST SUBJECT.
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that winter is
ended and spring
has come, but the
winds, and the
frosts, and the ther
mometer. in some
places down to aero,
deny It. The
Psalmist lived In s
mors cental climate
than this, and yet
the mast sometimes have been cut by
dhn sharp weather. In this chapter be
apeak* of the snow Uks wool, and frost
like ashes, the hailstones like marbles,
and describes the concealment of low
est temperature. We have all studied
Che power of the beat How few of us
have studied the power of the frost?
**Wbo can stand before his cold V This
etallenge of the test has many times
Been accepted. October 19th. 1812, Na
poleon’s gr«at army began Ita retreat
from Moscow. One hundred and fifty
thousand men, fifteen thousand horses,
etc hundred pieces of cannon, forty
. A .taaMlaM T A Hfln HH V»S>4 oh t I
wither when they started from Mos
cow, bat soon something wrsthler than
tba Cossacks swooped upon tbelr flanks.
An army of arcttc blasts, with Icicles
for bayonets and hailstone* for shot,
and commanded by voice of tempest,
marched after them. The flying artil
lery of the heavens In pursuit. The
troops at nightfall would gather into
ctrciea and huddle themselves together
tor warmth: but when the dny broke
they rose not, for they were dead, and
the ravens came for tbelr morning meal
of corps**. The way was strewn with
'the rich stuffs of the east, brought as
booty from the Russian capital. An
invisible power seised one hundred
thousand men and hurled them dead
Into the snow-drifts, and on the bard
snrfad of the chill rivers, and Into the
nutwi of the dogs that had followed
them from Moscow. The freezing hor
ror which has appalled history was
proof to all ages that It Is a vain thing
for any earthly power to accept the
challenge of my text: “Who could
•tend before his cold?” In the
middle of December, 1777, at Valley
•forge, eleven thousand troops were,
with frosted ears and frosted bands and
frosted feet, without shoes, with
out blankets, lying on the white
pillow of the snow bank. As during
•or civil war the cry was: “On to
Richmond!” when the troops were not
ready to march, so in the revolutionary
mmr there was a demand for wintry
campaign until Washington lost bis
equilibrium and wrote emphatically:
**1 aaure those gentlemen It is easy
wnough seated by a good fireside and in
comfortable homes to draw out cam
paigns for the American army; but I
toll them It is not so easy to lie on a
bilk hillside, without blankets and
without shoes.” Oh, the frigid horrors
that gathered around the American
army In the winter of 1777! Valley
Forge was one of the tragedies of the
century. Benumbed, senseless, dead!
“Who can stand before his cold?” “Not
we,” say the frozen lips of Sir John
Franklin and bla men, dying in Arctic
wrnlnintlnn “Not we.” answer
Achwatka and his men. falling back
from the fortresses of ice which they
had tried In vain to capture. "Not we,"
say the abandoned and crushed decks
of the Intrepid, the Resistance and the
Jeannette. "Not we," say the proces
sion of American martyrs returned
home for American sepulture, De Long
and bis men. The highest pillars of
the earth are pillars of ice; Mont Blanc,
Jungfrau, the Matterhorn. The largest
galleries of the world are galleries of ice.
Some of the mighty rivers much of the
Tear are in captivity of ice. The great
est sculptorsoftbe ages are the glaciers,
with arm and band and chisel and ham
mer of ice. The cold is imperial and
has a crown of glittering crystal and Is
' seated on a throne of ice, with footstool
of ice and scepter of ice. Who can tell
the sufferings of the winter of 1433,
•when all the birds of Germany per
ished? Or the winter of 1658 in En
gland. when the stages rolled on the
Thames, and temporary houses of mer
chandise were built ou the ice? Or the
winter of 1821 In America, when New
York harbor waa frosen over and the
’heaviest teams crossed on the ice to
Ataten Island? Then come down to our
own winters when there have been so
many wrapping themselves In furs, or
gathering themselves around fires, or
thrashing their arms about them to re
vive circulation ths millions of tbe
temperate and the arctic tones who
are compelled to confess. ' None of us
eaa stand before hie cold "
Uae balt of tbe industries of our day
are employed In bulling inclemency
of the weather. The furs of the north,
the cotton of the south, the ftas of our
own fields, (ho wool of our sen flacks,
tho use! from our own nliis, the wood
from our own formts, nil employed tu
hauling these Inclomsnrtss. and still
•vary winter, with blue lips wad chat
having teeth, answers: "None of us can
••aad helots hla cold.** Now tits being
aaofi a raid world Ued seeds out tafia
eases to worm It. I am glad that the
4lad af the front is lh» God of the heat,
flhat th« God of tho mm* In the God of
Iks a kilo blossom i that lbs God of ion
vary la tho (M of Juno Tho tiw*u*«
mm fin baa shall mm warm this world u»
lb a fusotlsa af immediate sad nit »a
emaapasstag practicality la this so as
aad mnathnr there am na many firelews
haartha, an many breast- window
inaat an many defective mat* that stft
the smew jOnal aad aaad sad fiaa*
nels and thick coat are better for warm
ing op such a place than tracta, and
Bibles and creed*. Kindle that Are
where It has gone out. Wrap eomw
tblag around those shivering limbs.
Shoe those baro feet. Hat that bare
bead. Coat that bare back. Sleeve
that hare arm. Nearly all the pictures
of Martha Washington represent her In
courtly dreas as bowed to by foreign
embassadors; but Mrs. Kirkland, la bar
Intereating book, gives a more Inspir
ing portrait of Martha Washington.
8be comes forth from her husband's hut
In the encampment, the hut eliteea feet
long by fourteen feet wide she comes
forth from that hut to nurse the sick,
to sew the patched garments, to console
the soldiers dying of the cold. That Is
a better picture of Martha Washington.
Hundreds of garments, hundreds of
tons of coal, hundreds of glaziers at
broken window-washes, hundreds of
whole-souled men and women, are nec
essary to warm the wintry weather.
What are we doing to alleviate the con
dition of those not so fortunate as we?
Know ye not, my friends, there are
hundreds of thousands of people who
cannot stand before his cold? It Is
useless to preach to bare feet, and to
empty stomachs, and to gaunt visages.
Christ gave the world a lesson In com
mon sense when, before preaching the
Oospel to the multitude In the wilder
ness, he gave them » good dinner.
When I was a lad I remember seeing
two rough woodcuts, but they made
more Impression upon me than any pic
tures that I have ever seen. They were
on opposite pages. The one woodcut
represented the coming of the snow In
winter, and a lad looking out at the
door of a great mansion, and he was all
wrapped In furs and his cheeks were
ruddy, and with glowing countenance
be shouted: “It snows! It snows!" On
the nezt page was a miserable tene
ment, and the door wan open, and a
child, wan and tick, and ragged and
wretched, was looking out, and he said:
“Oh! My Ood. It snows!" The winter
of gladness or of grief; according to our
circumstances. But, my friends, there
is more than one way of warming up
this cold world, for It Is a cold world
in more respecta than one, and I am
here to consult with you as to the best
way of warming up the world. I want
to have a great heater Introduced Into
all your churches and all your bom®* j
throughout the world. It Is a heater of i
divine patent. It has many pipes with
which to conduct heat; and It has a
door In which to throw the fuel. On-e
get this heater Introduced, and It will j
turn the arctic zone Into the temper- i
ate, and tbe temperate into the tropics. J
It is the powerful heater. It is the glo- |
rlous furnace of Christian sympathy. |
Tbe question ought to be, instead of
bow much beat can we absorb? how
much heat can we throw out? Tbero i
are men who go through the world float- \
Ing icebergs. They freeze everybody
with their forbidding look. The hand j
with which they shake yours is as cold I
as the paw of a polar bear. If they i
float into a religious meeting, the tem- {
perature drops from eighty above to
ten degrees below zero. There are
Icicles banging from their eyebrows.
Recently an engineer in the south
west, on a locomotive, saw a train com
ing with which he must collide. He
resolved to stand at hlB post and slow
up the train until the last minute, for
there were passengers behind. The en
gineer said to the fireman, “Jump! one
man is enough on this engine! jump!”
Tbe fireman jumped and was saved.
The crash came. The engineer died
at hts post. How many men like that
engineer would it take to warm this
cold world up? A vessel struck on a
rocky Island. The passengers and the
crew were without food, and a sailor
had a shell-fish under his coat. He
was saving It for his last morsel. Ho
heard a little child cry to her mother,
"Oh, mother. I'm so hungry, give me
something to eat—I am so hungry!”
The sailor took the sbell-Osh from un
der his coat and said, “Here, take that."
How many men like that sailor would
it take to warm the cold world up?
Xerxes fleeing from his enemy got on
board a boat. A great many Persians
leaped into the same boat and the boat
was sinking. Some one said: “Are
you not willing to make a sacrifice for
your king?” and a majority of those
who were in the boat leaped overboard
and drowned to save their king. How
many men like that would It take to
warm up this cold world? Elisabeth
Fry went into the horrors of Newgate
prison, and she turned the imprecation
and the obacenlty and the filth Into
prayer and repentance and a reformed
life. The Slaters of Charity, in 1803.
on northern and southern battlefields,
came to boys In blue and gray while
they were bleeding to death. Tho
black bonnet wltk the side# pinned
back and the white bandage on the
brow, may not have answered all the
demands uf elegant taste, but you could
not persuade that soldier dying a thou
sand miles from borne that It waa any
thing but an angel that looked him in
the face. Oh, with cheery look, with
helpful word, with kind action, try to
make the world warm*
i'sum that day lost whose low deuceudtng
sun
Vlews from thy fist'd no generous s< turn
done
It wm his strong sympathy that
brought Christ from a warm heaven to
a cold world The land where he dwelt
had a serene shy. balsamic atatuspbsrr
tropical luxuriance No storm bluets
ta haayea. No chill fountains tin a
•■old December eight Christ stepped out
| of o warm he*«»a lato the world s frtg
tdlly. Tho therseometer ta Palestine
never drops he lew eeru hut December
is a cheer ham mouth and the pasturage
to very poor oa the bllltope Cbnot
stepped ewt of a warm keavea Into the
•eld world that mid December night
Tho world a rewwplloo waa ewM. Tho
surf of beets? amd Ualttee woa ewtd
Josephs sepulchre wee cold. Christ
same, the great warmer, to warm the
eerth, aid all Chrtwteadem to-day foots
the glow. He will keep on warming
the earth until the Tropic will drlv*
away the Arctic and the Antartlc. H*
gave an Imitation of what he was going
to do when he broke up the funeral ai
the gate of Naln and turned It Into a
reunion festival, and when with hli
warm lips he melted tbeOalllean karri
caae and stood on the deck and stampe!
bia foot, crying. '■Silence!" and th*
waves crouched and the tempest* folds!
tbelr wings.
Oh. It wag this Christ who warmed
the chilled dlectplee wbeu they had nc
food by giving them plenty to eat, and
who in the tomb of I^xarue shattered
the shackles until the broken llnka ol
the chain of death rattled Into the dark
est crypt of the mausoleum. In hl«
genial presence the girl who had fallen
Into the Ore and water is healed of the
catalepsy, and the withered arm takes
muscular, healthy action, and the ear
that could not hear an avalanche
catches a leaf's rustle, and the tongue
that could not articulate trills a quat
rain. and the blind eye was relumed,
and Christ. Instead of staying three
days and tbr<-» nighta In the sepulchre,
as was supposed, as soon as the worldly
curtain of observation was dropped be
gan the exploration of all the under
ground passages of earth and sea.
wherever a Christian’s grave may after
awhile be, and started a light of Chris
tian hope, resurrection hope, which
shall not go out until the last cerement
Is taken ofT and the last mausoleum
breaks open.
Notwithstanding all the modern In
ventions for heating, I tell you there is
nothing ao full of geniality and social
Its/ am coimtrv
place. The neighbors were to come In
for a winter evening of sodality. In
the middle of the afternoon. In the
best room In the bouse, some one
brought In a great backlog with great
strain and put It down on the back of
the hearth. Then the lighter wood was
put on. armful after armful. Then a
shovel of coals was taken from another
room and put under the dry pile, and
the kindling began, and the crackling,
and It rose until it became a roaring
flame, which filled all the room with
geniality and was reflected from the
family pictures on the wall. Then the
neignbors came in two by two. They
sat down, their faces to the Are, which
ever and anon was stirred with tongs
and readjusted on the andirons, and
there were such times of rustic repartee,
and story-telling, and mirth as the
black stove and the blind register never
dreamed of. Meanwhile the table was
being spread, and so fair was the cloth
and so clean was the cutlery, they glis
ten and glisten In our minds to-day.
And then the best luxury of orchard
and farmyard was roasted and prepared
for the table, to meet the appetites
sharpened by the cold ride. Oh! my
friends, the Church of Jesus Christ is
the world's fireplace, and the woods arc
from the cedars of l^banon, and the
fires are fires of love, and with the sil
ver tongs of the altar we stir the flame
and the light Is reflected from all the
family pictures on the wall—pictures of
those who were here and are gone now.
Oh! come up close to the fireplace.
Have your worn face transfigured in
the light. Put your cold feet, weary of
t.he Journey, close up to the blessed con
flagration. Chilled through with trou
ble and disappointment, come close up
until you oan get warm clear through.
Exchange experience, talk over the har
vests gathered, tell all the Gospel news.
Meanwhile the table is being spread.
On It, bread of life. On it, grapes of
Eshcol. On it, new wine from the
kingdom. On it, a thousand luxuries
celestial. Hark, as a wounded hand
raps on the table, and a tender voice
comes through saying: "Come, for all
things are now ready. Eat. on, mends!
drink, yea, drink abundantly, oh, be
lovel!”
My friends, that is the way tbe cold
world is going to be warmed up, by the
great Gospel fireplace. All nations will
come in and sit down at the banquet.
While I was musing, the fire burned.
"Come In out of the cold, come In out of
the cold!" __ __
FACTS TERSELY TOLD.
The Ascot races were founded by
Queen Anne.
The largest landed proprietor among
the peers is the Duke of Sutherland,
who owns more than u million acres.
James P. Jump of Owen. Ky., Is not
egotistical In claiming that he is the
champion egg-eater. He recently
dm bed outside of twenty-two of them
at one sitting.
Cultivated plums, of which there are
now several hundred varieties, ill des
cended from the original species, which
was a native of the south Caucasian
country.
It is calculated that 10,000.000 photo
graphs of the queen, the Prince and the
Piinceea of Wale# are produced annu
ally. and find a ready sale all over the
world.
tin much haa the art of dressing amt
dyeing feathers been developed that
numbers of the seemingly rare feather
Imsu worn have already been made
from the plumage of the ordinary fowl.
There Is a glgantle 'rocklng-stune" or
balanced bowlder on tbe pinnacle of
Tandtl mountain, Huenoa Ayres it la
twenty-four feet In height, ninety feet
tong and will weigh twenty-live tuns
lllass la the moat perfectly elastic sub
stance In r listener A glass plate hepl
under pressure In a bent condition f<«r
live and twenty year# will return to Ita
start original form HI eel comes seal
The ancient Chinese and Japanese fre
quently used tu draw pit lures with
ihetr thumb nails The nails were al
lowed to grow lu a length of Some eigh
teen In* hes and Were pared p a point
and Jlyped la Vermillion or shy blue
ink
Elbert, the renter of Ihe French wool
»n manufacture, la so well **lt that It
has abolished nearly all ita town latea
and now petit tuns Ihe govetnmene for
i leave is do away with the m-torL the
i duty on provision# entering Ihe town
"Eepertew-* Is Ihe heal teacher,*' re
1 marked Plodding Pels 'Tea." said
; Meandering Mike, ' but my personal oh
[ s*t * at ion la that H • a Mtlgkty pent wap
ley study law,'*
I DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
Now ■•scOMfal Farmer* Operate Tbla
Department of tba Farm —A Faw
Hiate aa ta tba Cara af Lin btarb
aad I'aaltrj
IIKHB la a genMa
man here from” II
llnola who la mak
ing the atatement
publicly that the
dairymen of the El
gin dlatrlct and
Southern Wlacon
aln have dlacarded
the alio altogether,
on account of the
allage producing
abortion In cowa arid brood
marea. Will you be kind enough
to Inform me, through the
roltimna of the Review, whether hla
atatement la true or falae, aa 1 wjah to
build one, but If the atatement la true
I would not wlah to go to the trouble
and coat of building. S. C. Olbba.
Uoodbue County, Minn.
• • •
We have no hesitancy In saying that
the atatement aa to abortion or any
other dlaeaae being produced by allage
la not true. You might aa well aav that
gieen graaa or green corn sticks or
aauer kraut would produce pitch re
mits aa to attribute It to Ihe allage. The
atatement aa to the abandonment of
the alio la ulao not true. There are more
alloa being built now than ever before
and more In use to-day than ever Ire
fore. Here and there are localities
where alloa have been put up und have
been abandoned, but It will be found
that the alloa were either not built
right or that the allage haa not been
handled right. Just how many have
beei, abandoned in the Elgin district
we draw on It for our money supplies.
Corn brings us into debt, as does also
wheat and horse raising. Marcus W.
Wood, In Farmers' Review.
A "WelMilMtlnMl" Poultry Kaleor.
For about thirty years I have raised
poultry, for twenty-three years as an
adjunct on the farm, and for the re
maining seven years I have been rais
ing them In the city suburbs. On the
farm I did not confine myself to any
special breed, but usually kept well
bred males. Dark Brahmas, Partridge
Cochins. Huff Cochins and so forth. For
tha past aeven years 1 have bred Ply
mouth Rocks exclusively, and think
they are the best general-purpose fowl,
maturing early. They are good layers
and sitters. They also give a good
•Ixed roast when brought to the table.
My fowls have never had very good ac
commodations In the way of housing,
and they sometimes get their combe and
gills froxen, but I am always Intending
to do better by them next winter. For
grain feed, corn Is my main reliance,
supplemented by what table scraps we
get. We make a good deal ourselves,
and get considerable more from city
families. This winter I am aupplylng
them with augur beets from the cows’
rations, which they seem to pick ut with
great relish.
I find a market for a large part of my
flock at $1 each to be used as breeders,
and think I could sell more if I had
the pluck to advertise more. Those
left over we usually dress and sell to
private families, at full retail prices In
the shops, which average about 10 cents
per pound. Occasionally we sell some
early chicks at 12 to 111 cents per pouad
alive. We do not. get many eggs In
winter now. but I "expect to next win
ter," when I get my Ideas carried out.
We lose some fowls occasionally from
different causes, but have never had
what I consider an epidemic of cholera
or of any other disease. I have never
used an Incubator, but have relied on
the old method, frequently getting from
12 to 17 chirks In a brood. Seventeen
A Rran Segsestloa.
At a convention of dairymen recent
ly attended by a repreeentatlve of the
Farmer*’ Review, a member advocated
the creation by the association of a
corps of Instructors In butter making,
the duty of whom should be to go from
house to bouse and teach the wives of
the farmers how to fnake good butter.
The speaker waied enthusiastic over
the proposition. These Instructors
would walk right Into the kitchens
and take possession, and give their les
eons In true pedngoglc style. We are
surprised that the humor of the sug
gestion did not strike the gentleman.
Does he not know that nsarly every
farmer's wife believes herself tbs best
butter maker In the neighborhood? She
need Instructions In butter making!
The Idea of It! The Instructors would
better go on to the next houxe! Said
Instructors would havs the opportun
ity of making a rapid exploration of
their counties.
Walsh Cattle.
The black Welsh cattls are natives of
the counties of Pembroke, Carmarthen
and Cardigan, and are more generally
known aa Pembrokeshire Blacks, sub
divided Into Castlemarlln and Itewe
land breeds. From Cardiganshire they
also extend along the North Wales
roast up to Anglesea. and are then
called the North Wales or Anglesca
breeds. Whether they were ever In
digenous to Radnorshire or Breconahlre
Is not positively known, hut they me
not generally found In either. They are
supposed to have been descended from
"Boa Prlmlgius,” that Is, they were
not brought In by settlers, hut were
found there In a wild state by the earli
est Inhabitants. They may tie described
as a horned breed, generally of black
color, and frequently with white marks
on the udders of the eows, also a few
white hairs at the end of the tall. Home- I
times a few white hairs are mixed tip
with the coat, but this Is not always
hereditary, and only comes out occa
*• " ' * ■'* •*'
A WELSH YEARLING BULL AND HEIFER.
we do not know, and Just how many
have been abandoned In the southern
part of Wisconsin we do not know, but
we do know that the assertion made in
general terms that the silo has been
abandoned In Southern Wisconsin is
not true. Take for Illustration the
county of Jefferson, that state. There
are a great many silos there and more
are being built. Of the patrons of the
Hoard creameries alone more than 100
now have silos and others are to build
them the coming year.
The gentleman that makes the state
ment our correspondent refers to very
likely does so In goon faith. The first
silos built in Wisconsin and Illinois
and In fact, in all of the states, were
very poor affairs. Moreover, many
men lost their silage, either by putting
it in too green and having It sour too
much or by putting It in too dry and
having It beat too much. Some others
used B. and W. corn, which matures
enough in some localities and not
enough in others. All of these were
exposed to possibility of failure, and
many farmers did not till their silos a
second year. Then, too. there was a
prejudice at first against silage for
milk when the latter was to be used
In the condensing factories. Some of
these factories would not buy milk
made from silage. This caused the
abandonment of muny silos, especially
in some parts of Northern Illinois. Con
UfllMHK III nwuiw ^
already withdrawn their objection* to
mtllc made from tillage, provided that
the Milage I* not Rpotled when fed to the
cow*. We certainly advlae the build
ing of ailoa, but a man muat not think
that be la aura of getting good ailage
the flrat time. It la a queatlon re
quiring atudy to aolve. Brain* and the
alio go together. We believe that al
lage well put up ta one of the beat and
one of the moat economical of feed*.—
Partner*' Review.
talc Wtaler !■*»•«••
I have tried a number of breed*,
•moug them the l-eghorn*. Black Hpan
lab. Brabntaa and Plymouth Rock*. I
prefer the Plymouth Rocha before any
of th# other* t have tried. Kor winter
quarter* I have a warm houeo wtth
doubt* aiding aod th* apaco between
packed wtth atraw, I ala® havo glaa*
wludowa In th# huuaoa. In winter ttme
I reed oata. corn and wheat, and In the
aummer they get aunie of the growing
wheat and ryo. I ala® beep them aup
plied with lime and aand. Kor egg* and
poultry w# hav# a home mar hat. aad
ihe merchaata la turn ah Ip the product
to itt, l-»ul« and Chicago. I hav* M
h.e. and la wtaur they produce about
one doaen egg* per day, W# loao » f»»
fowl* from lie#, dt—oao* aad predatory
' aalmat*. but w* uae prevoatlvo m*dl
eta*a aad *o preveal dt*e*a# to a great
oatoat. la ratalag hrooda wo are fair
ly tuccooaful. whea we give proper car*,
aad proper teed W* thlah w# euro
roup by the uoa of meat* and atla- Th#
! a**t *gg producer* w# over had w*r#
laagahaa* and Plymouth Mocha. Wa
1 toavider poultry #ur aavlag* haah, had
eggs Is th<- usual number given to a
Plymouth Rock hen, and If she has a
few more presented to her by other
hens she sometimes succeeds In hatch
ing her original number. I never do
much doctoring, hut depend on isolat
ing the sick fowls, and when their case
becomes hopeless I kill them and bury
them deep.
My neighbors usually discount me on
egg production and early maturity, If
all they say is true, and I do not believe
it is. I tie to the Plymouth Rocks for
medium results and think I get
them. If I were after early muturlty
only I should use bantams exclusively.
If beef at long range was my object I
woidd want Cochins or Brahmas.—F.
M. Gunning, in Farmers’ Review.
Wti? Ttiburt'tilln In Oppotetl.
There has sprung up a strong opposi
tion in some quarters to the applica
tion of the tuberculin test to cattle that
may he suspected of having tubercu
losis. This might have been looked for,
especially in localities where tubercu
lous herds have been slaughtered.
There are few men that feel like de
stroying their own property for the
good of the public. We see the same
spirit manifested among people in the
case of contagious diseases, such as
smallpox. Many people that get It
make a strong tight to have the matter
hushed up. although they know that In
IH# UUIIIK uirj air rajiUBiug lilt? lIVtJB OI
inuuy more to the contagion.
The Marne la true of tuberculosis. It
Is an exceedingly dangerous and de
structive disease, communicating Itself
from man to animal and from animal to
man. All of the authorities should at
tempt to stamp It out, but In doing so
private Interests must bn sacrificed lo
the good of the whole community. The
men that oppose it have to have a plea
to make their argument effective In the
eyes of the public, and their argument
la that tuberculin does not correctly
diagnose the disease However, statis
tics disprove their ssserllons. and find
ing a case or two where lbs test scene
in have failed has little argumentative
effect on the whole case We have
beard like argunreats agslust the value
of vaccinatum for smallpox, neverthe
less. statistics of hospitals, smiles and
even whole natloue are overwhelming
ly on the side of vaccination, -farm
ers' Hevlew.
Making Breeds No breed of rich
dairy c#we. cows yielding rich milk,
was ever formed on low, wet lands nnd
coarse, raak food, sad the heel of breeds
grown elsewhere aunt In a tew gea
erAttune deteriorate under such coadl
Hone. That a breed grow a under ouch
cendttloas caa. la a Iona settee of gen
erations. bo . hanged from a poor dairy
breed to a rich one by removal to up
load pasture#, end fed on rich food.
Ihrte voa bo ao doubt, but that It would
reu lire a Iona Ills lime Is ao leee true.
All surb attempt# are but wool# of time,
money end tabor, when breeds are al
ready to bo bad built up by nature sad
improved for centurtee by oblllful
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slonally. A brown black, approaching
a chocolate color, is considered a good
color. Occasionally there are some
cows striped red and black, also some
finite white with black ears, muzzle and
fpfct, but these are becoming very rare.
The special characteristics of the
blacks, which make them valuable, are
hardiness of constitution, aptitude for
dairy purposes, and docility.
How Anthrax la Carried.
Too great care cannot be used In
the case of anthrax making Itself mani
fest in any locality. If an animal has
died of the disease, the germs may be
come spread In a number of ways.
Even the persons making an examina
tion of the carcasses are likely to carry
away the germs on their boots. If
the carcass Is exposed to vultures, the
germs are still more widely spread.
Four years ago there was an out
break of anthrax on ten farms in Dela
ware. About 40 cows and 9 horses were
affected. Of tbelr owners four persons
took the disease. There seemed only
two ways for it to have come. One
was by the possible Introduction by
drovers that had, perhaps, been In In
fected localities. Tbe other possible
source was the Morocco leather Import
ed from the old world.
It has been proven In Europe that
even scraps of tanned leather and bits
of hair can convey the disease. Krpr
dally la thla poaalble by means of tbr
rnauurea compoaed of the sweepings of
kiuT) factorlea.
Thleb V'tfderi, Klein Milk.
At the preaent time aome of the moat
reliable of dairy authorltlea are con
sidering the relation of thick uddera to
rich milk. Thoae who have moat thor
oughly Inveatlgated the matter are
about ready to aaaert that It la a quite
valuable Index. The cow whoee udder
mllka down to a thin flabby each will
not uaually be found a giver of rich
milk. There la doubtleaa a reaaon for
thla In the manner of the production
of butter fat from the tlaauea of the
udder, but the process la an little un
derstood that wa wl'l not attempt to
ahow the relation between tbe thick*
newt of tiaauee and abundance of
cream The Idea, however, la not new
Wa have beard the fact row moated on
frequently by farmers that did not
pretend to And a reason fur It. The
farmers' Meview wuuld Ilka the abaer*
vat Iona of lla readers on this point.
Half a bushel of potatoes a day tor
a milk row. ta the limit recommended
by t*rofe»e«r fjord More than that la
Jurioualy affects the milk, he says.
(the Why daea a woman lake a
mea t name when eho marries him?
Its Why dote eke lake everything
ales he's got ? Truth
tied Jerley. that Me. K ile you ht<*
on ta out of eight,"
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bought Harper a linear
»pe<tala don't tan on Hauler H«e.
like a Its gettlua.