. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. % Scolding.—What good does scolding do ? It does no one the least service, but it creates infinite mischief. Scolded servants never do their work well. Their tempers are roused, as well as the mistress's, and they very often fail in their duties at awkward moments, sim- ply to spite her and to "serve her ; Very wrong in them, doubtless ; but human nature is trail, and service is a trying institu- tion. It does no good to husband or child, for it si


. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. % Scolding.—What good does scolding do ? It does no one the least service, but it creates infinite mischief. Scolded servants never do their work well. Their tempers are roused, as well as the mistress's, and they very often fail in their duties at awkward moments, sim- ply to spite her and to "serve her ; Very wrong in them, doubtless ; but human nature is trail, and service is a trying institu- tion. It does no good to husband or child, for it simply empties the house of both as soon as possible.—N. Y. Observer. ^im\\ |5vcc(lcv. utility Above Fancy in Breeding. # F wo were to judge of the character of our stock breeders by the prices occasionally paid for fancy animals under the influ- ence of unusual competition or wild ex- citement, as at the New York Mills sale of last year, for instance, we should undoubtedly do great injustice to the average American breeder, who is, after all, a thorough ntilita- rian, and knows that real merit will win, in the long run, in this, as in every other kind of business. Mr. J. H. Pickerell, of Illinois, the newly elected President of the American Association of Short-horn Breeders, is one of the right kind of men to bring the ideas and practices of the Short-horn breeders down to a solid, hard pan foundation, if they are in need of such training, as it has certainly seemed to us that they have been for a year or two past. His lecture, delivered at the annual conven- tion of Short-horn breeders at Springfield, Hi., last January, is one of the most sound and sensible iiroductions we have read on the subject of breeding for a long while, and we commend it to the attention of breeders every- where. No one who breeds Short-horns intelligent- ly, either with an eye to profit or pleasure, but has his fancy, both as regards the real, living, moving animal, and the j)aper Short- horn, with


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