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"'~ .mmrv THE RELATION OF FOOD TO MILK HINTS FOR . THE FARMER- FAT. This subject has been before us as one of the most interesting pro- blems of the industry of feeding cows for the dairy, for fully a score of years and more, but it was many years before it wa regarded as one of the problems to be studied and settled by the medical profession and physiologists generally, writes Dr. Henry Stewart. It might seem to be really a subject better fitted for the attention of such experts rather than for persons who do not make their exâ€" periments in a truly scientific manâ€" ner. The question to be put accuratâ€" ly is, does the cow extract the fats from her food by ordinary process of assimilation convey, We cannot say convert, the fats thus consumed into that part of the milk which we call the butter fat? In other words, is it possible to increase the quantity of butter a cow will yield by feeding foods rich in fat? The question is not whether we can make a cow eat animal fats or. oils and thus increase the proportion of fats in her milk, but this simple propositionâ€"can the dairyman, by feeding foods naturally rich in fat, and such foods as the cow naturally is able to digest and assimi- late, increase the proportion of fats in the milk, or increase her yield of butter in any way? ' . Dairymen generally believe this, and feed their cows in accordance with that belief. As it is a common prac- tice among the most intelligent of butter-makers to choose these foods quite as much for the quality of the butter made as for the quantity, and it,has been a-result of long pracâ€" tice to find that the choice of foods has been one of the most important parts of their business, they have come to the reasonable conclusion that, they are acting in strict conformity with a natural law, that the fats in the food do increase the proportion of butter in the milk as well as affect its quality. ‘ The scientific physiologists and the medical profession are a unit in the belief that the fats of the food do go directly into the blood,. and are thus assimilated into the system directly, without change. It was not always so however. I remember during my training as aphysician, that this was a moot question, then under the most skilful study and experiment, and af- ter a series of tests most carefully ~conducted, under the control of the British medical members of the Royal Association, the conclusionâ€"quite un- avoidableâ€"was unanimously arrived at that the fats of the food Were as- similated without digestion into the blood directly, and then distributed through the body. . Of course, if this is true, the fats of the food go into the milk. Dairy- me-n in practice know, beyond ques- tion, that the quality of the butter is varied as the fats of the food vary. The oily beechnut makes soft butter, as it makes soft, oily pork. The but- for made from cotton seed meal is soft, while it has precisely the same reaction with nitric acid as the cotton seed oil has. Indeed, there are such an abundance of proofs to support this that it is the practice among inâ€" telligent butter-makers to choose such foods as contribute the best flavor and consistence to the butter, and it is a matter of rather considerable in- difference to them what scientific chemists say to the contrary of their belief. But it may be well to point out the fact that a bulletin has been issued by the New York Experiment Station on this subject, giving agreat varia- tion in the beliefs of some of those scientific students who are investigatâ€" ing this matter, some of them agreeâ€" ing with the contention of the prac- tical business dairymen. while others differ. But one point I think will have great weight with those who are on the fence, and this is that while the New York Station decidedly af- firms the belief that the kind of food as to the fat in it has no relation to the proportion of fats in the milk nevertheless it gives, as the result ol 3 test the clearest evidence and figâ€" ures to support it, that the feeding of palm-nut meal does increase the proportion of fats in the milk. Here are the figures; Per Cent. Fat. Usual ration, three weeks...... 5.28 Same, next three Weeks ........ . 5.80 . Palm-nut meal ration, three weeks ..... . 5.80 Same, next three weeks 5.80 Usual ration, three weeks 5.80 Same, next three Weeks 5.80 lit is stated as extraordinary, and. the belief that the palm-nut meal had the effect of increasing the pro- portion of butter percentage of fat in the milk for the two periods of three weeks next after the test was made, that the increased quantity of~fat in the milk was maintained. traordinary, because it is a part of the contention of those who believe in ,ntere‘sflng' Items About Our own this effect of the fats. in the food. that the cows not only ,yield more fat in the milk, but at the same time ac- cumulate I the increased quantity of fat in the milk for a considerable time after the ed I say ex- a surplus which inures to- feeding of the meal has been suspendâ€" It might be urged that the' feeding tervals of three weeks, is not so sat- isfactory a test as the feeding through some months, during which, in my own practice when feeding palm-nut meal having 12 per cent. of fat in it, comparison with corn meal having half as much fat in it, for six months steady, the yield of butter from one cow increased nearly 50 per cent., or half as much as the differâ€" ence between the corn meal fed and the palm-nut meal fed afterwards. It should be borne in mind that cows may be educated to consume a greatly increased quantity of food and turn it to profit; also that cows dif- fer in their natural ability to make profitable use of food, and while some will respond [favorably to a test of this kind, others will not; and that some dairymen are obliged to discard some cows on this account, while they this way of feeding. Some of my to habit of profitable feeding year after year. @- THE PRINCE or WALES. â€"â€" Sonic Unique lblnllncllons of Ills [{0an lllghncss. Here are some interesting facts about the Prince of Wales, wlnchl, are condensed from his biography as writ- ten by. his private secretary. He is a Colonel eight times over. .He has one private secretary, two assistanl secretaries, and a staff of clerks to assist him. He receives 200 letters a day and an- swers most of them. He has every order of knighthood in Europe. HIS uniforms are worth $25,000. ,He is, the chief horse owner, dog owner and yachtsman in England. He goes to church every Sunday morning. He started life, $555,000 a year. He loves to Parts. Hrs favorite, vehicle in London is a hansom cab, yet his stables cost $75,- 009 a year. I , He has friends in every nation and speaks German, French, Italian and Russmn. He is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 180 pounds. He is 57 years old and has four grandchildren. When he was young he was very tender-hearted and cried for days when a tutor left him. He Is said to be one of the best shots In England. He sets the fashions in clothes for the whole world. ‘ He has thirteen university degrees. He has made more speeches lhan any other man in the world, but mostly sh-ort ones. . He owns the deepest mine in Eng- land. " He was the first Christian to dine with the Sultan. with an income of travel incognito. in _â€"<’._ BRIEFLY MENTIONED. The fire department of Chicago has ninetyâ€"eight steam fire engines. . Cigarettes are smoked almost- exâ€" clusively in Germany, AustriagRusâ€" sir). and Greece, and generally through Lurope. The city of Cleveland is the first lo create a department whose sole ob~ ject is the abatement of the smoke nuisance. The Panama Canal Company of France has secured a six years‘ exten- sion of its grant from. the Colombian government. , Supt. Quigley, of- the Indianapolis police force, has given orders to en- force the anti-spitting ordinance by arresting all offenders. The city of Rochester, with an esâ€" timated population of 180,000, pays $1,575 per month for the collection and disposal of its garbage. Boston has an ordinance restrictâ€" ing the height of buildings, which has recently been put to ,the test and as I understand, as an objection“ to sustained by the courts. 3rpml” the eclipse. ALL THE WORLD OVER. Country, (ix-eat Britain, the United States, and Ah Parts of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. ' ‘ CANADA. .‘w ,...a “.7... a”.-. ., '~.~~wnl‘ueu>w““; .n‘ 5.x ' . .; ‘. xx: »..‘:‘:..,:‘5 } New York State apples have been awarded first: prize at the Paris Ex- position. A negro woman at Richmond, Va., dropped dead: from fright on 2Four of: a family of six while sit- ting at the supper table at Anoka, Minn.,,'were shot and killed by neigh- bours. ‘ _ _ ' Carl Raub'ocf'CelevelaInd shot and killed his niece, Miss Bertha Yucker, a teacher, and then killed hilmself on Thursday. Thomas Muncey, aged 99 years, is ‘At Dawson $8,000 was subsoribedfor dead at: Little Creek, Del. He never‘ the fire sufferers at Ottawa. saw a railroad. train, and never used , _ _ , 'C. P. R. employee have contributed liquor or tobacao. 0f the f°°ds “ch m fat’ for Short “1' nearly $12,000 to the patriotic fund. At lMedia. Pa., a‘ boy aged eight, The Patriotic Fund at Ottawa now saved his two little brothers from-be- amounts to $298,000. C. P. R. land sales for May 66,000 acres, for $215,000, or $88,000 over April. ' ing burned to death'. But his mother were and a baby perished. U. S. Senator Jones' says U.S. Gomâ€" missionetr Peck has only accounted for Russia has opened an Imperial 0011- of the $1,400,000 appropriated sulate at Montreal. Hitherto there has by only been a Viceâ€"Consul at Halifax. The WVelland Vale bicycle manufac- tory will be removed from St. Cathar- ines to Brantford. ' 'The bill to tax banks, fire,life, loan and other companies is being consid- ered in the Manitoba Legislature. Lord Minlto has received from the Mayor of Port Elizabeth, South Af- rica, $3,500, for the Ottawa fire fund. The biggest nugget yet found in the Klondike was picked up on Gold Hill recently. It weighed '77 ounces, and was valued at $13,000. I Some L‘ondo'n, Ont., confectionea‘s are fie!) mixers {ea}: “:6? (3.5a? and find charged with violating the liquor law b at: 0 all: 0 I? 5 ed yginpgivuig by selling " brandy chocolates,” said y evcu are t ey are 5“ 360 o m to be made in Toronto. The promo-tors of the electric rail- ~09WS he”? contiéue'd to improve with way between Woodstock and Ingersoll hlgh feefiln‘g until,they were, Old'aged’ expect to begin the construction of and their calves improved in respect the road in about two weeks Gold in considerable quantities is coming from the creeks in the Yukon to! Dawson City. The output is esti- mated by the banks at $25,000,000. the U. S._ Government for the Paris Exposition. ' The law is after a brick manufac-. turer i-nrAppleton, \Vis., w-hao dressâ€" ed. up his adopted fourteen year old daughter in boy’s clothes and. put her to work in the brickyard. - . . 1 Twelve members of two families! .,._ seem“ INTERESTSle ITEMS ABOUT OUR OWN COUNTRY. Gathered from Various Points from thl Atlantic to the Pulflc. Arnprior has a new dentist. l Forest wants a Board of Trade. Carleton Place’s population is 4,022. 'August 0 will be Whitby’s civic hol- iday. ‘ St. Thomas possesses shops. . ‘ , Gravenhurst will build a 310,000 town hall. .Ball playing is forbidden on Cold- wate-r streets. Forest will pay 25 mills on:the dol- lar as atax rate. ' Georgetown will build granolithio walks on its streets. John Fergusonds now assistant postmaster at Forest. A hook and ladder company may be formed at Carleton Place. The two hotels and liquor store in Ripley are managed by widows. Nelson, 8.0., City Council gave $1,. 22~ barber . |000 to the Sanan fires'ufferers. Charlottetown firemen have been were found dead near Montgomery, insured to the extent of $60,000. \V. Va. They had eaten provrsrons stolen from railway contractors, who- had poisoned, the food. Alone desperadm'l held up the pas-I sengers in a sleeping car on the Mis- Cobden boasts of a hen’s egg about the size and shape of apeanut. Orillia “Board of Trade has secured a tri-weekly mail service for Ardre‘ta. William H. Shewman, formerly of dfibhbt souri Pacific Railroad, between Falls ,lP‘etrolea, died in the Philippine 1,3. City and Stella, Nebraska, but did not r lands. secure much plunder, I | Robert Knowles, Southampton, has The I-Iaines Gauge Company, of Philâ€" adelphia, declines. to furnish apparaâ€"i tus for ships of the United States; navy. own the ground. that the proprieâ€" tors are members of the Socrety of Friends and are opposed to war. GENERAL. Spain is erecting forts under range ;of Gibraltar’s guns. been left an estate by relatives in England. .. Robert Sheridan succeeds J. T. Craig as a member of the village council l for Ashbur-nham. W. E. Perdue has been elected presi- dent of the Benchers of the Law So- ciety of Manitoba. The Northâ€"west Government is be- ing urged to appoint a bacteriologist Forest fires are domg a great deal; ,A‘CFISIS is impending 1n Corea, ow- [for the Tern-tones. of damage in different parts of 'New Brunswick. Sixty-five buildings were burned at St. Martin’s Village. ' Ottawa moulders have demanded an increase of 15 per cent. in their wages, and the employers offer 10 per cent., which has been rejected. elrs ask '20 cents an hour, and will strike if their demands are not met. Edward Jo-y, watchman at the Grand Trunk crossing at King street east, Hamilton, was p'revsenled with the Hu- mane Society‘s bronze medal for savâ€" l itng the life of a little girll named Sulâ€" ‘ livan, art the crossing, on April 30th. Crop reports from Manitoba show that rain is badly needed in nearly all districts. Despite the dry season, how- ever, crops have advanced nicely, and with showers within a week no great damage will be done. The hay crop will be light. _ It is said that the Allans of Scotland and Canada are behind the proposed new Royal Ulster Steamship Company, Limited, which was recently incorpor- ated under the law-s of New Jersey to run boats between British ports and Montreal, Boston and New York, GREAT BRITAIN. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain is said to be suffering from gout. For painting the words “I am a Boer” on the gate of a Wick, England, nurserman, _Miss Dorothy Chute was fined $520. _ Under' municipal ownership the wages of Liverpool Street Railway employes have been increased and hours Shortened. The Free Church Assembly of Scot- land approved by 502 votes to :39 the union with the United Presbyterian Church. The union will be effected ill October. ' A rumor is current in the lobbies of the Houses of Parliament, London, that the Marquis of Salisbury will re- tire from politics after the next genâ€" eral election. John Redmond, who is in Ireland, arranging for the Irish National Con- vention, says that the Nationalists are unprepared for the election, and will lose several seats in the event of an early dissolution of Parliament. UNITED STATES. Colorado wolves are being ex1erm1nâ€" aled by inoculation with Vll'uS of rabies. Nearly 55,000 men will take the United States census, which will cost $15,000,000. The State of New York has expend~ ed in the last twenty years $953,520 for Investigating committees of vari- ouskinds. ' Senator Clark. of Montana, has set- llerl a dowry of $14,000,000 upon his daughter. who was married on Mon- day. The eight-year-old daughter of James Brown, was pushed inl'o a bon- fire by a playmale and burned to death at Amsterdam, N.Y. The build- . 1 158mm Execution 0f two Japaan It will cost the city of IN‘anaimo, B. 1‘9qu883- ' 0., $112,000 to purchase the water- l ; (There are now 5,730,000 persons in Lindia receiving relief. Cholera in lBombay and Rajputana has not abatâ€" l . ed. 1 {The Gra'nd Vizier of Morocco, who [died recently, left a fortune of {55,000,â€" l {of Marekosch. invested in various parts of the globe, ,and is rising l lousy-lending nation. Germany has hundreds of millions . in importance as a: . l Ottawa l {The official organ of 'the. Bond Minâ€"i H. F. \Villiams of Cowansville, has works in that city. Mr. Francis Blondin, of Pembroke, has been awarded a United States pen- sion of $12 per month. Dr. George A. ‘Robinson, anative of Newmarket, is a'candidate for Assem- 3000 stored in 'the fortress of the pala'ce myman in New York State, The little British Columbia town of New Denver gave $560 to the suf- ferers from the fire at Sandon. ‘ One of the homeless families at numbers 20 persons, and iistry in Newfoundland strongly ad- i been appointed manager of the East- lvocates a union with Canada, andlern Townships back at Ormstown. . lfor'eshadows political action to that! end. _â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"¢.â€"â€" FlGHTING THE CODLING more. Regulations Adoplml for the Sll_:p|'c.~‘sl0l| of this lbcsirurllvc Pest. One of: the most destriuctwe of the Insect pests which assail‘ the fruit crop is the codling .mot‘h, the ravages of whlch detract greatly from the profits of apple raising. At the re- cent sess'lon off the Ontario Legisla- ture an act for the prevention and destruction of noxious insects was adopted, in pursuance of ‘WlLllC/h steps are being taken which, it is anticipat- ed, will grcaily lessen the evil. The A provides that such regulations as may be issued by the Lieuten-annGov- ernor-in-Conncil' on this recolmmen- dation of the hIinistcr of Agriculture for the pu.pose shal have the lo 0.: of law. in those municipalities “nu-h have adopted the Act by by-law. On the 24th of May an Order-in- Ciounoil was issued under the Act emâ€" bodylng regulations! for, the destruc- tion of the codling .moth. It is made the duty of every oboupvier of a lot, or the: owner in case of nous-occupa- tion, Within one week after receivmg notice, to. place bands upon all hear- ing apple and pear trees, and also up- on all other orchard trees of bearing age. within forty feet of them. The. bands are to be of “burlap,’ sacking or other suitable Imalterial, not less than four inches in width and of three thicknesses, and are to be fastened on at a convenient point between the crotch of the tree and the ground. The occupant or, owner is to have the bands removed . and inspected, all larvae destroyed, and the bands re- placed at intervals at not more than lwo weeks,’d-urmg June, July and August. Municipalities are reqmred to adopting the Act appoint inspectors, who will see to the enforcement of "egulatlons- In 0353 the Occuplel‘ 01‘ many years till she rebelled and took‘li‘ég owner does wt comply with the re- the two small children with her and ff) gulatilorn the inspector may cause the had Slept in a tent from May til} Oc_ work to be done, and the cost may be when 1‘, charged up. against the owner In the collector’s roll and collected as taxes. . â€"«~-â€"o---~~â€"- About 50 per cent. of the school boys of the District of Columbia, use tobacco in some form. Charles Hathaway, assistant post- master at Forest, has been appointed to aposition as railway mail clerk. Nelson, 13.0., is to have a Congre- gational church, with Rev. \Villiam Munro, late of _M0ntroal, as pastor. ‘ Scotl McDonald, who made his for- tune in British Columbia mines, died recently. He was worth $500,000. Woodstock public library will sub- stitute English for American maga- zines, on account of the unfriendly criticism by the latter. 'There are 22 paid men in Dawson City’s fire brigade. Edward Johnson, a native of Guelph has been appointed asoloist atalarga salary in a Jewish synagogue in New York. The C.LP.R. is erecting new offices at South Falls, at a cost of $5,000. ’1‘. J. O. GU'Uflldfln, of Hull, succeeds the late She-riff Coutlee, as sheriff of La Belle and Wright coun'tios.‘ One hundred and seventyâ€"five thou- sand salmon fry have been deposited in Charleton Lake, near Brockville. Lieu‘t. W. B. Everlom, of Prince Al- ' fred’s Guards, who was taken a priâ€" soner, near Kroonstad, formerly re- sided in W'innipeg. He is a brother of Rev. Samuel Everton, of Dauphin, Man. H.â€" A SUG GESTION. Last spring a farmer’s wife said- to him: "We have only one life to livel There's the Imoney in the bank. I think 'we would betiter take and re- model and build on to the house.” He replied: “I think so, too,” Last summer it was done and we heard her tell how convenient every- thing was and how much easier it was to do her work now that she had hot and cold water by turning a faucet, and drains to carry off the waste water. We heard her tell how she enjoyed the nice airy sleeping rooms in place of the little nine feet square bedrooms they had used for .30, Perhaps some other husband is waiting for his wife to suggest put- ting money into making the home comfortable rather than leave it in the bank or spend it for more land. Jugâ€"+4.“. -r-.\ 4g m. ..__~_ . . - ‘ «Wva- Ads‘u _ .. ‘<‘-‘ _..-.