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those who sell caponizing instruments, or 
those who can afford to buy and eat the ca¬ 
pons. How about spaying heifers? Bulletin 
No. 3 of the Missouri Experiment Station is 
devoted to the subject. Prof. Paul Paquin, 
State Veterinarian of Missouri describes at 
length some experiments conducted during 
the past year. We understand that Dr. 
G-range, of the Michigan Agricultural College, 
has also a series of experiments with spaying 
cows under way. Spaying, says Prof. Paquin, 
is performed for two special purposes, viz.: 
the production of what I will call steer beef 
for convenience sake (and to set the analogy 
between it and true steer meat); and secondly 
the long continuation of the production of 
milk.” Prof. P. thinks the operation should be 
systematically performed because the country 
is overstocked with scrub cattle. The scrub 
bulls are castrated every year and make good 
beef and sell at a good profit. But the scrub 
heifers unfortunately, are either bred or sold 
for barely the cost of raising them two or 
three years. In spaying heifers then, we may 
accomplish two things of financial value to 
owners and thecountry at large, viz.; dimin¬ 
ish if not end the production of scrub cattle 
^thereby gradually influencing the raising of 
better stock), and, second, transform prac¬ 
tically valueless heifers into valuable beasts 
for market. 
Those who wish to learn how to perform the 
operation are advised to procure this bulletin 
where all the various processes are described 
and illustrated. It is evidently anything but 
a pleasant business and is not at all liable to 
become popular except among owners of 
large herds. 
In order to get an idea of the influence of 
spaying on the weights of the animals, four 
heifers and two steers of about the same 
age were fed. Two of the heifers were 
spayed. They weighed 285 pounds more than 
the other heifers aud 40 pounds less than the 
steers. The spayed heifers sold at three cents 
per pound, the others at 2% cents. 
THE POST-OFFICE CLUB. 
The store-keeper at our place has found a 
parrot. This bird evidently flew away from 
his late keepers. He was found perched on a 
tree in front of the store one morning last 
week. As it was quite cold, the parrot was 
pretty well numbed and chilled aud so the 
boy had no trouble in catching him. He was 
brought in and put in a box by the stove 
where he could thaw out. After a while he 
shook his feathers, crawled to the top of his 
box and eyed his new surroundings. Then he 
opened his mouth and croaked:— 
“Farmin’ don’t pay!” 
This is all we have been able to get out of 
him thus far. He must have lived in a very 
melancholy family. There are some men 
just like him. All he can do is to open his 
mouth and croak:— 
“Farmin’ don’t pay! Farmin’ don’t pay!” 
At our club meeting last night this parrot 
was on deck. We think of making him an 
honorary member. It must be confessed that 
be expresses the sentiments of a good many 
folks in our neighborhood. “Farmin’ don’t 
pay!” Don’t you all know of people who 
croak just that way, when as a matter of fact 
the only trouble is that they don’t know 
enough to figure out the true profits of life? 
“Farmin’ don’t pay ?” 
The parrot croaked this out with one eye 
pointed directly at Uncle Jacob. That 
worthy rubbed his head ruefully as he lis¬ 
tened: “Veil, veil, my friend,” he said at 
last, “you says dot so many times ofer, dot off 
vords vas make somedink it vas shust so. 
But shust Iook here vonst. Farming vas oay 
me, I’ll ;bate you. I vas nefer haf reached 
fame und all dese Oder tings mit my life; but 
I vas find myself ven olt age vas come along, 
healdy, happy und gontented. I looks back 
mit my life full off bease und quiet—dere vas 
no heart-burnings und disappointments dere. 
I have shust tried to do my pest, my vife und 
shildrens dey vas lofe me shust like never vas. 
I vas not rich oxcept mit dem kind off riches 
dot money vas not able to puy. Dose tings 
vas come mit farming. Dot vas what I vas 
call goot pay.” 
But the parrot only scratched his beak with 
his claw and croaked again, 
“Farmin’don’t pay!” small pica. 
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