The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 16, 1888 Page: 3 of 8
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LIME STOCK.
Protection from Plies.
At tliisj season of the year the annoy
aniife caused to animals by fifes and
mosquitoes often amounts to positive
agonyHnd all times in what is called
good corn weather it is sufficient to
present the stock eating enough tb put
them in good condition. The animals
will stand in the water- or pass the
greater part of the day in the shade
rather" than expose themselves to the
sunshine going out to cat only when
driven by hunger. They quickly lose
flesh the flow of milk shrinks and a
loss is incurred that cannot easily be
made good again. At all times a good
. feed of torn is beneficial tb stock but
is "specially 5o-Vhcnrfliesjircvery -annoying
since it will do much to pre-
vent shrinkage of flesh and milk.
Horses and milch cows may be pro-
tected in great measure at least by
" wiping them all over with a sponge
dipped in soap-suds in which a little
carbolic acid has been mixed.
A Wonderful Eccord.
'In the '3:60 class at Detroit1 July 24
Guy by Kentucky Prince the sire of
Spdfibrd Bayornne Prince and other
good trotters distanced a field of five
competitors m the first heatfand made
a record of "2:15 1-4 the best time by
long odds of any ever made by a Horse
without a record in a. race with other
horses. Guy was bred in Kentucky
and purchased when a colt by Mr.
.Perkins of Cleveland O. His speed
was at once discovered to be re-
markable and 'he was purchased by
W. J. Gordon- for $io1ooo. John"
Splan 'took tjiejfpuiigster in charge
but in spitfc oT the most careful hand-
ling could do nothing with him. He
would not trdt quarters with the wind
but Splan could never get him steady
and when he did make a break it was
good for a shut-out in any kind of
company. He was so utterly unrelia-
ble that all attempts to train him for
racing purposes were abandoned. He
was worked on the road in a heavy
cart the only hope being that he
would out-grow his flighty tendencies.
In the race in whiclr he made his
wonderful record it is probable that to
avoid a shut-out his driver when he
found Guy was headed away right let
him go on and trotto the limit of his
Speed and leave his competitors be-
hind the banner for if his Horse had
made a break it is more than probable
that he would have got the flag. In-
stances of young horses shutting the
field out Ore rare. One of the most
memorable ones was that of Mazoma-
nic at'Jackspn Michf where Be left
seven coirjpejilors battling' with the
flannel "soinS years' ago. National
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Size and Quality.
Has the size of the animal anything
- to do -with the quaility of the beef be-
yond the fact that one in good condi-
tion makes better beef thaiv one in
poor ? Does the size of the cow have
anything to do with the quality of her
milk ? Does the size of the mess nec-
essarily have anything to do with its
quality ? Does the cow that gives the
smallest mess always produce the
richest milk? Do the smallest Jer-
seys give- the richest milk f Does the
Jersey that gives the smallest mess
give the richest milk ?
If these questions cannot be an-
swered in the affirmative then there is
a screw loose some where in the reas-
oning of men who assume that a large
'mess of milk is as a rule inferior in
quality thereby implying that the small
mess must be rich. The fact is that
size has nothing to do w ith the matter
but selection and breeding have. The
small size of the Jersey 1s an accident
to a great extent while the rich quality
of her milk has been secured by selection-
and line breedingv if not inbreed-
ing for many generations'
The Friesian cow is large and she
gives a large mess of milk because'
slie has been bred from time im-
memorial with these ends in view.
Rjgr mess however is not so much
larger than that of the Jersey when
we ..consider her size and there does
not appear to be any reason in nature
why her mess of milk by careful selec-
tion and breeding may not be raised
to the quality of the Jersey. If the
latter gives thirty pounds of milk a
day from which three pounds of but-
ter is made why may not a cow twice
her size give sixty pounds of milk a
day from which six pounds of butter
can be"made without any more tatf on
the system in the one case than in the
other?
. 'Fat is an element mnature that is
easily obtained and th& appropriation
. of it does not materially exhaust the
soil. Butter-production' does not as
rapidly impoverish the soil as cheese
or beef-production does. Buft to se-
cure the carbonaceous elein8ijt;'fn the
form of butter fat wc'millr-inddfd a
peculiar physiological condition of the
cow- Just whdt lha&conditioa is .and
just how to best secure It are two
things to be fM ' ut. We nov only
know that 1 fully selecting and
breeding froftp s that have the phy-
siological teSxy id secrete butler
fat -.ye "jot Qjtfy wnnsmjtUiat ten-
' dency to the offspring "but increase
and intensify If. The subject is one
worthy of the most careful attention of
scientists.
It may bo that wc shall never be
able to tell why one family of bovine
animals is given to the secretion of
butter fats and mother pilts fat
around the kidnnyp and among the
muscles any more than wc can tell
why one seed produces white corn
nnd another yellow or why One seed
produces wheat and' another corn.
We cannot change the nature of cither
so far ns wc yet know) and perhaps wc
cannot change the innate qualities of
the nttimal. But wc can depend upon
the seed being' true to 'its kind' n'nd on
this fact wc can base our practice; so
as to sedurc enough of the kind that
we want. Possibly we cart rear cows
of large ske ' that awill givc . large
-yietd"of"milk' of superior quality the
yield always being proportioned to' the
size without detriment to the constitu-
tion qf the animal. Wc may yet get
the Jersey quaility into the Friesian
milk-. The idea is' Worth considering
and we believe an effort in that direc-
tion is'.worth making. The suggestion
Is made 'for what it may be? worth.
Prairie Farmer.
Work and Study.
What portion of the great army of
workingmen in this -country ever con-
sider1 this subject or are willing tb ad-
mit .that they have time for be-th.
They argue hat life is too short 'and
the prospects of advantage too few to
make jt either desirable or necessury
to devote their spare time to study
and kindred improvements of the mind
Very few ever find any time to read
even except possibly enough to keep
posedon the result of the ball games
prize figfits-nndthe miscellaneous sen-
sations of the day althou upon these
important subjects one wijl Tmd-4uitl
very iew wno aru nui muruuginy post-
ed and can explain every detail min-
utely. Ask the. average mechanic or other
laborer to subscribe to a trade paper
the benefits of whichgjNou have care-
fully explained and the invariable an
swer win oer 71 biiouiant reaa-it 11 1
had it; and I don't get any time to
read and can't afford it anyway; be-
sides the fellow that writes those arti-
cles are too hightolied for me and I
can't understand what they say." This
is one of the lamest arguments possi-
ble to think of and is one of the best
reassns why they should read and
study that they may be able .to un-
derstand and profit by what these
hightoned writers say. Such argu-
ments not "only show their ignorance
but their willful disregard of their own
usefulness and education.
There is no better educator than the
trade paper; or it keeps one posted on
what is being done in die world of
of science and we thlrik that many of
itlie'seMismTerestM.Hn) if they would
3JJCIIU 3illltl llribtlUll Ul MV. Ulllb 11IV.JT
devote to reading trash in looking
over a good trade paper they would
find some things that would interest
and instruct them and also move the
prejudice against the contributors.
The average working day is ten hours.
Now it is safe to say that eight hours
sleep is enough for any healthy man
and this leaves six hours out of every
day that may be devided up between
study and recreation for we would not
ask or expect a man to devote all of
his life to the former. Now the
actual facts in the case are that nine
out of every ten of those men do not
sleep even eight hours neither do
they study one-eighth part of that
time; and they have not time enough
to read a good sensible article that
will show them how to make the labor
they perform and about which they
are pretty sure to grumble much
easier and more profitably accom-
plished. Now let us look at another side of
this; question for a moment and see
what some of the effects of a little
time devoted to reading and study are.
Talje for instance the great inventors
and prosperous manufacturers many
of whom have risen from common
laborers. They have invariably been
the most careful readers even "burn-'
ing the midnight oil" in their pursuit
of information not of the standing of
the legue nine or of the latest scan-
dal but of that which was to be the
work of their lives. Think you that
they found such time uninteresting or
unprofitable or that they begrudged
the little they spent of their hard earn-
ed wages in the purchase of books and
papers. A. B. Grime in Boston Bud-
get. (
. Coldness of Complexion.
A person with but. little color in
complexion or hair must supply' "the
deficiency by having heep rich tones
in the dress material4 She should
never wear anyjlat colors no. grayor
drab pale tints of green faVeTulefbr
dejntihybutshtf should brighten up the
coldness ot her complexion uy dancer
colqrs something thaj has warmth in
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It vas
gazingdi
as exactly midnight and she was
g'dreamily inio?the fitef-ZttO
'A nnnv finr vnur hniifrhts. Miss
Clara" he said airily.
' 'l -vas!'fhinHrtMrBanlr)3:oli"
she refilled 'liow very much annoyed
pana was to-day over the amount of
last .month's gas bill." . ..-.
And then presently he left without
giving her a penny. Toledo Bee.
THE D7URY.J
Tho Ripening of Cream.
At the late (winter) meeting of the
New York Dairymen's" Association
Prof. Ii. H. Arnold pronounced the
proper ripening of cream as essential
to the making of perfect .butter. In
explaining the tvo kinds of changes
which go on in cream when ripening
and which are induced1 by two dis-
tinct' causes the change most readily
noted is the development of acidity
which is the result of fermcntion pure
and simple and is brought about by
the growth of organic germs whenever
the- cream is warm enough to allow
them to sprouKnnd grow. The only
direct effect of the fermentation is to'
change .the milk sugar in the cream
into an acid. The acid when formed
coagulates the albuminous matters in
the cream separating them into a Solid
curd and scrum. This facilitates
churning but has no effect whatever
upon the fatty parts of the cream until
the acid becomes strong enough to be-
gin to cut the butter-flavor which is
thereby reduced to th'e injury of the
butter.
. It is generally supposed that souring
develops butter-flavor. No greater
mistake could be made. It has no in
fluence upon flavbr at all until it be-
comes strong enough to commence in-
juring it. Butter-flavor is increased
while the cream is ripening but it is
effected by the action of the air upon
the fat in the cream and not all by
fermentation.
If a sample of sweet cream is divid-
ed and both parts are kept at a favor-
able temperature for ripening and the
air is excluded from one and a free ex-
posure given to the other both ..will
brtiir nt fhfl cnlrto irni linf flnvnr u111
only be increased in the one exposed
totJiG-nirijoC"-! ning two parts will
show this. ""-n.
The free oxygen oMhair under
favorable conditions oxidizes jfltjeast
some portion of the milk fats iwiththrr
result of developing butter-flavor. Oxi
dation is most effective while the cream
is sweet and at the churning tempera-
ture or about 60 degrees. What is
wanted therefore for highest flavor
is to give the sweet cream the longest
and fullest exposure to the air at a
proper temperature.
Those butter-makers who add sour
milk or buttermilk to hasten the sour-
ing cannot have butter which reaches
the hight perfection in flavor. The
sooner the minds of dairymen are
disabused of the idea that the ripen-
ing of cream and the development of
high flavor in butter he only in the
souring of the cream the better it will
be. The importance of atmospheric
influence in the ripening df the cream
must be recognized by those who wish
to produce the finest quality of butter
The most advanced butter-makers
maintain the perfect exclusion of the
low cooled milk and cream from the
air. Whenever warm air or air com-
paratively warm comes in contact with
colder milk or cream or water or any
other liquid the warm air touching
the cooled liquid is condensed and
deposits moisture in die form of dew
on the surface of the cold liquid.
With the dew thus deposited go on all
the impurities the air may contain.
In the case of milk and cream these
deposits impair in a marked degree
the flavor and "keeping quality of the
butter made from them. It is not es-
sential that air should be excluded
from milk until its temperature falls
to the temperature of the surrounding
air but when it drops to that point
exclusion from air is important.
Churning should be done at the
first appearance of acidity. Do not
wait until the cream gets intensely sour
and stale. In churning the butter
should be granulated in the churn
instead of being gathered into a lump.
It Should be cleansed of buttermilk by
washing and not by working. Aftor
lightly salting it must be worked into
a solid condition with the slightest
working that will effect that end.
The Physiology of Pleasure.
The question has often been asked
as to what constitutes the greatest
pleasure anjd who is the happiest manJj-jjt -or tte old)ibmes"teadthc
but it is obviously one that does not
V.... 1 t- n aa mm la ihji llinf r n itf. w a
admit of solution. The intensity of
the pleasurable sensation is a matter of
temperament and surroundings but
cseteris paribus the happiest man is he
who possesses the greatest sensibility
the most powerful imagination the
strongest will and the least number of
prejudice's. The men are rare who
can by an-effort of the -will arrest tfotf
oscillations of sorrow and allow only
chords of pleasure to vibrate. Pleas-
ure is the mpde' of lsensatjon never
the sensation itself and it is not a
paradox Tiut- an incontestible physiol-
ogical truth tasay thab-no pleasure-ex
ists which is essentially or necessarily
a pleasure The ideal of perfection in
humanity would be to efface pain from
the list of sensations and tb give all
men the maximum" number of pleas-
ures All the rest as the philosopher
said isbut a dream of vapor .-Medical
Press.
To. take rus.t out pf steel ru) the
steel witl sweet oil Jn a day or two
rub witl firiely powdered unslacked
lime until the rust all' disappears then
oil again roll In woolen and put in a
dry. place especially if it be (able
cutlery.
A FEW MOHE KICKS.
The Arizona Organ of ProUilen Putt in
Bonis Objection. '
' The fact that wc have been running
the Kicker pretty much ns we pleased
since the first number was issued has
given mprtai offense to' certain people
m this' neighborhood. We havebcen
kipked licked pounded threatened
shot at and bluffed right along ant!
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have grown fat on it.
We came to stay. f
Fact is we've got to. Wc haven't
anything to go on.
Having tried all other measures to
make Us let go and having failed in-
gloriously in eaeh instance it Was dc
crmuicu 10 uuycqu us in a social way.
We have been chuck'-a-luck with the
Very "cream of society sine our nd-
venU In fact we have been most of
the cream.
It was decided afew days ago by a
syndicate of the high-toned that we
must be socially snubbed and crushed.
Accordingly Mrs. Major Bazoo of
Grizzly Heights announced a recherche
afiair and invited everybody in the set
lmt us. It was given out that she
feared our manners would disgrace the
occasion and if they didn't our clothes
wouid.
We weren't saying a word We
saw the bluff and went one better. On
the night of the party the sheriff made
a haul of three high-toned prisoners at
the house of Major Bazoo while half
a dpzen others broke for the woods.
We have got one great advantage over
the other creams of society. We left
the cast by daylight and shook hands
with die sheriff a? we started. We are
.neither a bigamist eloper embezzler
horse thief jail-bird or gambler. We
don't want to -work this lever unless
some One jumps on our collar. We
have reduced tony society over half
since we came here by giving the
sheriff pointers. We can run the other
half out of town ih a week. Mrs.
kMajor Bazoo has called to beg our
paraoK. and express her deep disgust
with herself- We have forgiven her
knowing ihttll not happen again- As
for Judge Cahbqts who inspired the
iinv-nit nnrl cpt tK! crushint? machine
at work wc bear hiNWe-aJjffi95?iyT
We will simply remark that he is a big-
amist incendiary embezzler forger
perjurer Aand highway robber and we
have dispatched Pinkerton to come
and get him.
wu shan't worry.
Our amiable and gentlemanly sheriff
entered our office day before yesterday
in his usual urbane manner and an-
nounced that he must serve papers on
us. It was a notice of a breach-of-promise
suit against us by die widow
Clixby who alleges that we-have been
toying with her heart-strings and that
it will take"$5ooo of our cash to settle
her thoughts back in the old channel.
It is another move on the part of
our enemies to down us.
We first met the widow Clixby
twenty-eight days ago in Carter's gro-
cery She asked our opinion of her-
rings and we asked her's of soap. She
invited us to call at the house and see
some poetry she jiad written on the
rise and fall of the mastodon. 'We
complied. We called there three or
four times afterwards but Only as a
friend. On one occasion the widow
showed us a clipping from an eastern
paper to the effect that it was better
for a man who had passed the age of
23 to marry a widow if he was to
marry but we didn't bite.
We know our gait. If the widow
Clixby can prove to the world that we'
have toyed with her affections we'll
cheerfully go to jail. We are not on
the toy. The widow will find us no
jack-rabbit and the enemies who have
encouraged this new moVe may hear
something drop before the trial is over.
A sad MOOD
Wednesday evening as we put pn
our Mother Hubbard and sat down by
the open window to get a breath of
fresh air before retiring a sadness sud-
denly stole over us and in a few min-
utes we found tears in our eyes. The
querry came to us over and over again :
Js life worth the living i" and as we
- -i - . a
days of boyhood the many graves
the changes of thirty years-r-the foun-
tains of the deep were broken up and
we wept.
Such moods do a man good. 1 hey
brine him nearer heaven's" cate. rWe
3on't know whether they come from a
disordered liver or the near presence
of a guardian angd but we always
feel a heap better afterwards; We
no longer feel a spirit of revenge. We
have no greed. We feel charity for
all.
And as the bright beams of the har-
vest moon steal nto our Qffic.e.wind(Ow
tmd throw a flood of silver light upon
tne acau aus on wie imposing sioue
as the south wind corrtes sighing
around the. corner of Jackass Hill and
ivhisners to us the storv of household
uraves as the whip-poor-vili wakes
from his sweet sleep in the rear of
Stevens' disreputable dance house to
call to us to press onward and upward
and be not discouraged we take doivn
the office towel wipe the falling tears
way and.seek Qur couqb with tbe de-
.terminatiqn to secure a pass from here
to Omaha and return or make it so hot
for the railroads that they will have to
keep every tfewipiall the year round.
THE FAIR!
Abilene Tex. Oct. 3 4 and 6
WITH HEADQUARTERS AT
Roberts & Maekechney's
Grocers and Commission Merchants.
rpHB FAIR wo mean may not bo altogether tho PAIR you
Understand but tho fair quality fair Quantity and fair
prioo of our fair stook of 1
-; 'Cannot fall to make a fnlr Impression on your fair mlmU when you Mt Us ami (he KATR
in'lhc fair city of Abilene next October. ...
You will be here of course. You ultoulil be you must be. Wc Offer four premium.
Wc would like you to cct at least one of them. Read Ihis: ..
For the best article of wheat bread we offer a premium of loo njJunds of Abilene fancy
Patent Hour. For choices production of Irish potatoes orie Wmtaker Star bam. finest
exhibit milo malic Kaffir corn Dlmrro corn etc. five pounds good jea. Most excellent
article of sour pickles a five-gallon keg of lnccar (Roberts & Maekechney's own make and
GUARANTEED ABSOLUTELY PURE FRUIT VINEGAR).
Now Wt this fair? isn't It t
Send to us for pamphlets giving particulars of and rules governing Ihe h AIR and we will
mall them to you free of charge. ..-
Our fair advice is comk to tub FAIR llring cverythingof a fairniturc ; It wiy command
a fair premium. Everybody and everything will be on a boom ; cvcii the railroads except their
fare which will be reduced to Half fare. i . i
You have no excuse come. Bundle uj the fair women gather up the fair children get
your fair self in shape and make a fair showing at
The Fair Abilene Tex. Oct. 3 4 & 5
WITH HEADQUARTERS AT
Roberts & Maekechney's
Grocers and Commission Merchants Pine St. Abilene Tox.
FURNITURE!
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for all kinds of Furniture
ain't. n a KT7r VlPfl
snrine: beds crockery of
glassware the World renowned White Sewing
Machine and Undertakers' Goods.
North Second Street.
E. B. Rollins.
ROLLINS & SON
DEALERS IN
Staple and Fancy Groceries.
North Second. Street West of Pine Street
jkJBTJLi'EnsnEl
Highest market price paid for country produce
delivered free to any part of the oity.
J. R. SFAULDING
(Successor to Hill & Spaulding)
Plumber and Steam Fitter.
Chestnut Street AJbilene Texas.
Guns pistols sewing maohinOBt and" in fact all kinds of
machine repairing promptly done - at reasonable prices.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
TEXAS Id pacific i mmM
THE QREAT POPULAR ROUTE
BETWEEN THE
IEIA.ST A.ZsTID: THB WCEST
Short Lineto New Orleans i
And nil ioint in LouUiana New Mexico Arizona' nnit'Cflllfornltt. Favorite line to the
North Kasl anil SoutheaU. Kleganl; VMllinau Uuffst SecpfcS Car? thrpUfih. wan Sf. Iws
(vlaTexaikana) and Oakland Col.r' IMtea L'alsec. Sleeping Cars between 4alla onO. at.
Iotfl niornrfit;ulmmncj alo l'ullman Slpcr belwefcii Fori Worth.'Dallnt and New Urr
lean dally without change arriving then dt jus p m. wRrre-cdhhlRtlon'tflttadc with
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ONLY ONE CHANGE OF CAKS TO
Chicago Washington Philadelphia Glhomnati
- - - Ne?vor5nd70thrTr4oJpal citie.
Tsketha o:oo a. n. or755 P. m. train for .&"! ife .ffiWiS Take
louI and Ml point North and iait. Double ilall Mb 'X talked t. nwoyAfcWnti' "'
the f.55 P. "'..train or New Ortauu and all In 'hejl Tl iww
NPt-QrltnJMmottaj!eA.-J u' Northwest via' I
Ihe 7159 9 U train for I'ucblo Colorado SvAJ "J1 JJ & iu m iwS for
Fort Worth and the Tcxa IBnluuulterKMie. f "'.fif P"7lqr JQ "'T J
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F. L. SHKKKS TieKet Agent T. & I. Depot ""W7ftJlVA1
Ticket Aceni Union (0it &t aUm M. VN I4CSWMWVf W i . f.
iicmAg i JplN A. UHANT Qencnjl Manager. DHf.. .
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Hoeny, John, Jr. The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 16, 1888, newspaper, August 16, 1888; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth330588/m1/3/: accessed May 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.