The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-10-01
III leleses Of Condemnation.

nearly all the processes 81 ~ NJ sI
industry are only successive steps il
the progressed condensation, developed
his interesting and useful thought in thi,
lucid way:
I'VE turn soil into grass, grass int
milk, milk into cream. and cream int
butter, which is the final product il
the series. Corn, which is q torn O.
condensed soil, may itself be condensed
into whisky, starch or glucose. Thu
amount of twenty-eight pounds of glu
c0se extracted from one bushel OF corr
is sold at twice the price and freighted
at less than half the cost. Oats are
condensed into oatmeal; sorghum into
sugar; apples into cider; barley into
beer; and 80 on without stint. Every
step advances the price, diminishes the
weight, and saves cost in carrying to
market. But the ordinary form Of
condensation on the farm begins with
the coarser crops and ends in the vari'
Gus animal products. Sheep, cattle,
hogs and horses are condensed from
the grasses and grains, and every step
of the series all the way up from the
soil to the thoroughbred, il rightly
managed, brings its legitimate prott,
the final gain being the Comparatively
inexpensive conveyance to market
which comes from large values packed
into reduced rnagnitudes. But this
constant crowding Of value into smaller
dimensions 10 shown not only in the
tran Nomination of the coarser into the
Ter commoditj MT it is seen like.
wise in the inn fovdiaent of our domes.
tic animals. A Texas steer and . hikh
grade Shorthorn are freighted to mar
ket at the same rates, while the one
brings double the price Of the other
when they get there.
1.-THE waste that comes from the ex-
cessive making of what is called offal is
the grand cause of failure on the farm.
1t absorbs food and time, it costs every
thing and brings nothing. 1t is fully as
expensive to raise horns and white
leather as to raise marketable muscle.
The price is different, but the freight
the same. Some farmers display great
talent in the production of otfal. They
raise hay that is all woody fiber, apples
that are all core, corn that is all cob,
and cattle that are all head and horns
and gristle and tail. They stigmatize
the skill and care that diminishes the
core, the cob and the overweighted
bone to increase the salable parts as
fancy farming. Now the whole scope
and purpose of improvement, both in
the animal and vegetable kingdom, is
simply to reduce to the smallest COM
pass consistent with strength the un-
salable portions, and to enhance the
quality and size of the salable ones.
The crab apple and the Northern Spy,
the choke pear and the Flemish Beauty,
the Mustang pony and the Arabian
mare, the Florida COW with her shrunk-
en- udder and the Jersey that fills the
pail. are examples of the opposite ex-
tremes in the different series. The one
result sought in breeding, practiced as
an art, is to raise from the lower end of
each series up toward the higher.
1.-The model Shorthorn cow is SAM
pie of closely compacted values-a
treasure OF the most nutr;tive food so
packed as to secure the highest prices
and cheapest transportation. She is
developed to fullness of quality just
where the epicure finds and pays for
the most delicate roast or sirloin steak.
And those portions of her body which
the butcher considers superfiuous are
condensed to just within the limits of
size and strength which are ndispensa-
BILE to the economy Of animal life. In
the gradual progress of condensation to
which she has been subjected through
many generations, her horns have been
made rudimentary and her head shaped
after the best model and her bones
brought to the ineness and strength of
steel. And the policy that has effected
this striking result rests on the follow.
ing reasons: /. The offal absorbs for
its growth and support = portion of the
food which the animal consumes, con.
sequently the greater the volume Of
o6al the greater the amount Of food
wasted in feeding. 2. Large and coarse
offal Is almost invariably accompanied
BY coarse muscle. Capacious olfal
carries inferior beet. s. Large and
coarse DIAL usually goes along with 1
scanty development Of valuable parts.
Hence II indicates . lack, not only in