, 1880-12-17


farm to be certain to get the largest re-
turn for money and labor expended.
Most farmers are compelled to keep
cows, Then the first thing to do is to
buy Short-Horn bull to grade mp, If
You have but half dozen it will pay;
and the larger the herd the greater the
profit. The great secret of success in
this business is patience, and good care,
generous keep, will ensure success.
Remember, you can't squat on u large
herd, nor can you own one without large
means; but you can, by patience, grow
one, and by that time you will learn to
handle them. While on the other hand,
starting with large herd without ex-
perience, you are most likely to make u
failure, at least for time.
Suppose farmer has small herd of
common cattle, would recommend him
to buy thoroughbred Short Horn bull
and two or more heifers from reliable
breeder, breed up the common cattle,
save the thoroughbred and grade heifers,
and almost before he knows it be has IL
fine herd of pure bred heifers, besides
his high grade heifers. Short horns are
now in the reach Of most farmers.
Farmers should awake to their interest
and add this important industry to their
other farming. Is there any good reason
why such county as Santa Clara and
many other counties in this State should
not be able to sell 30, 900 or 40, 900 head
of good fat beef steers annually? With
our virgin soil and mild climate can wenot
equal any county in Scotland
with her worn-out soil and
cold, and to us lnhospltable
climate? Well, some counties in that
old country export to England 10000
beeves annually, besides supplying their
own people. Go with me to old England
and see what the tenant farmers are do
ing to make both ends meet. To aid
them in making bread and meat and pay
rent, they select the best bred of all
kinds of stock, and especially the Short
Horn, for beef and dairy purposes. Now
if they can breed and grow the finest
quality of beef, and make butter and
cheese of good quality, and get rich at
it, where they feed six months in the
year with fog two miles deep, then why
can't we do the same in this California
climate and no rent to pay?
| will give an incident in my small
boyhood days to show how easy it is to
impress the young mind and shape his
course through life. When my father
moved to Missouri-the gentleman-he
purchased farm that had large lot of
hogs. To keep them from going wild,
he promised me q sow-shote II
| would feed them twice day
until he took them away. So at
the appointed time he gave me beauti-
full SOW shote about six months old. L
gave her such attention as boy would
who thought he had fortune in this lit
tie sow. In time she had ten pigs, eight
of them SOW pigs. They were all blue,
with white list around the body. L
have never been as proud of any prop
erty since as was of that SOW and pigs.
All my boyish attention was given them;
they became a part and parcel OF my
everyday life. Early in the morning and
late in the evening looked after them.
They grew rapidly with such attention.
This being new country, they required
but little feeding. They increased
rapidly, and in less than three
years my father sold his farm to
move higher up the county, and SO my
hogs had to be sold. They were gath
cred up and sold for $500. This was a
great sum of money at that day for boys;
but large as it was, l loved my blue
listed hogs more than money This early
training, the love acquired for stock,
has shaped my course through life. No
man can succeed in any business unless
he loves it, My first start as a boy was
in hogs; next, fine horses; and last the
Short Horns. / have been breeding
this noble and useful animal for more
than 20 years. No business that | have
ever done has given me so much real
pleasure. Their beautiful color, massive
and finished form, their noble ancestry,
everything connected with them is inter-
esting,
The one unfortunate thing in house
decorations nowadays, in the opinion of
Mr.. r.. w. Eds, is the everlasting seek
ing after some novelty i'll papers, cur
tains. or other hangings. Everybody
wants to have room different from their
neighbor. Decoration is being done us
a fashion, not from real love for it, OF
course, we should not like to see room
after room repeating itself in decoration,
but why few really good papers should
not be the groundwork OF true artistic
decoration--when the narrowness of
worldly circumstances prevents the more
elaborate and more expensive hand deco
ration in paint or distemper-and let the
rest follow from the design, there is no
good reason. If that suggestion should
be adopted there might be hope for real
art decoration instead of the cold form
ality and everlasting interchange of two
or three colors. AS critical writer on
art decoration has said: IF the papers
on our walls and the curtains we hang in
our rooms were even at second hand, but
the record of the fresh impressions and
the graceful fancies of artists of our day
instead of being incumbered with me-
chanical pattern work struggling to be
N r+;et;o - ,ynuI1 hn hpttnr than oil tho