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THE FARM AND GARDEN. 



UlYE SmOGl^. 



JEROME EDDY. 



Oicned fry Henry C. Jncftt A Co.. Wiltink, If. Y. 



Ever since Jeiome Eddy scored his record of 

 2.16J-^, and showed his ability to have wiped out 

 all stallion records, and especially since he be- 

 came the property of Mr. Jewett, we have been 

 ■very anxious to extend the pedigree of his dam. 

 At la.st we have reached what we sought, in a 

 very satisfactory and circumstantial form. The 

 history seems to be complete, and a-s our readers 

 ■will understand it better we will recite it, in brief, 

 commencing with the remote end of the story. 



Mr. George Fox, of Fox's Corner's, a few miles 

 north of Harlem Bridge, had a daughter of im- 

 ported Trustee that went lame, and he traded 

 his Trustee mare, in part payment, to Charles 

 Broolis and Ned. Luff, of Harlem, for a pair of 

 large coach horses which he used in his family 

 for a number of years. About that time Charles 

 Brooks had charge of Long Island Biacli; Hawlt, 

 at the Red House, in Harlem, and he bred the 

 Trustee mare to Black Hawk. The produce was 

 a filly, ;,nd he sold that Ally, when two years old, 

 to Wil'st Underbill, near Glencove, ou Long 

 Island. In dtio time Mr. Underbill bred this 

 filly to Smith Burr's Napoleon, and the produce 

 was a brown Ally, which, when matured, was 

 fast; and he sold her to Nathaniel Smith, a but- 

 ter merchant of Washington market, who was 

 well known among the 

 road riders up-town as 

 "Butter Smith." This 

 Napoleon mare had a 

 great deal of speed, but 

 she had a will of her 

 own, was hard to man- 

 aee on the road, and 

 withal was a kicker. 

 Smith got tired of her, 

 and he traded her for 

 another mare to Dr. 

 Fecit and W. H. Saun- 

 ders, of Clyde, N. Y., 

 who were in the city 

 with a lot of sale horses. 

 Peck and Saunders put 

 her along with tiie mate 

 o( the mare they traded 

 for lier, and sold the 

 team to Lewis J. Sutton, 

 of Orange County, N. Y. 

 This kicking mare was 

 bred to .Mexander's Ab- 

 dallah, and the produce 

 waa Fanny Mapes, the 

 dam of Jerome Eddy. 

 Our first impression waa 

 that the Black Hawk 

 mare was not by the 

 original Long Island 

 Black Hawk, but by his 

 son, known as Brooks' 

 Black Hawk, or New 

 York Black Hawk, as 

 he was called. As the 

 sale to Mr. Sutton, how- 

 ever, was made in 1S.52, 

 the dates settle the 

 question that she was by the old horse, 

 MonChly. 



ble at all times, increasing the flow of milk, and 

 making an admirable cbanL;>' from hay. For 

 horses it has no superior. Our larmcr^, however, 

 cannot resist the temptation of securing a crop 



STOCK NOTES. 



Use Plenty of Drv Eakth. -It is cheap and 

 plentiful. Throw it in the stalls, into the urine. 



of grain, but they will find it profitable to grow i and even over the backs af the stock, if necessary, 



a portion of their oats as mentioned 



Corn is a valuable green food in winter if it is 

 cut before it tassels. We say green because it is 

 a different thing from matured fodder. Some 

 prefer to wait until tlie small ears appear, but for 

 both horses and cattle it answers best when cut 

 very young, cured and fed in winter. 



as it is not only a good disinfectant and absorbent, 

 but prevents vermin. 



Abortion ixCows.— There is no known remedy 

 for tills ditficulty, but we mention, for what it 

 may be worth, that several French dairymen 

 report that tliey liave succeeded in curing and 

 jireventing the disease by keeping a male goat in 

 the lierd. 



Estimating fok Pork.— The amount of pork 

 ,„, ,, . ^ ,, v.. J ■, i to be expected from the corn fed next fall will 



These crops are excellent for light sandy soils, 1 ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ,^^ summer management of the 

 and grow quickly. The seed should go in this pjg^. Plenty of green food now will show its 

 month, and before doing so the ground should be eflects on the capacity of the pig when he is 

 worked up line. One fault with many wlio grow penned up for his corn diet, 

 these grasses is that they defer the cutting until | 



MILLET AND HUNGARIAN GRASS FOR STOCK. 



the seed heads are formed. This practice is 

 wrong, as tlie seed is not used for stock, and it 

 deprives the soil of valuable material, which 

 should be stored in the stalks and leaves instead 

 of the seed. It may be sown very thickly when 

 a grass crop is desired, but for growing a crop of 1 



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ENSILAGE AND GREEN FOOD. 



Green food is plentiful now, but the farmer 

 should begin to grow his winter supply. There 

 are many good points in favor of ensilage, and 

 there are also some objections. The claim that 

 all ensilage is sour is not founded upon fact. 

 Something depends upon what the ensilage is 

 composed of. If corn is used exclusively there 

 Is no process known that will prevent a certain 

 degree of acidity, but if a resort be had to clover 

 and grass, which may be ensilaged as well as 

 corn, the ensilage will be sweet all the winter. 

 Acid does not really injure the ensilage, it rather 

 promotes its digestibility, but affects the milk 

 somewhat. This is due, however, to the nature 

 of the food itself, as much as anything else, as 

 any change in winter from hay and grain to 

 green food will do the same thing. Etcn cooked 

 potatoes and turnips have an effect on the 

 quality of the milk, and at no season of the year, 

 even when the cows are on pasture, can milk be 

 procured which is entirely free from odors of 

 some kind. The use of hay with ground food 

 always gives the best quality of milk, and ensi- 

 lage is not an exception to other bulky food. 



Those farmers, however, who have no silos, can 

 grow a large quantity of good succulent food by 

 sowing oats, and cutting the crop at the time it 

 Is in its "milky" stage, care being taken that it 

 does not become ripe. The juices and nutritious 

 matter are then preserved in the straw :is well as 

 the grain, and will be found tender and accepta- 



Stock and TrRNiPS.— Don't forget the turnip 

 crop next month when the new seed will be ready. 

 The English consider farming useless without 

 turnips, and if our farmers will raise more roots 

 they will find it to their advantage in winter, 

 when nothing but dry food can be. had. 



Pasture. — We are often reminded that stock 

 seed six quarts per acre are sufticient. Horses ] do best on a good pasture in the summer, re- 

 prefer Hungarian grass to millet. Hungarian ! quiring but little grain. This is true, but the 

 grass may be cut every month or six weeks, but , quality of the pasture must be considered. Clover 

 millet allords only a single cutting. These crops , and timothy grass is very ditlcrent from the 

 are the quickest and easiest produced of all the ] natural wild grass, and although a pasture may 

 grasses. / | provide a suj^ciency, unless the grass is of good 



quality the results will 

 not always be satisfac- 

 tory. 



Raising Colts.— .Al- 

 though it is remembered 

 that mares be bred in 

 spring or fall, it is v,-ell 

 known that no plan can 

 be adopted in regard to 

 time. Alares do not con- 

 ceive as easily as other 

 animals, and the conse- 

 quence is that colts 

 come in at all times of 

 the year. The only thing 

 to be done is to secure 

 brood marcs that give 

 plenty of nourishment, 

 and breed colts front 

 them whenever it can 

 be done, without regard 

 to the season. 



.IDNE Pios.-Large hogs 

 cannot be secured from 

 the pigs that are farrow- 

 ed this month if they are 

 to be slaughtered at the 

 end of the year, but 

 they may remain with 

 the sow until they are 

 eight weeks old with less 

 danger of injuring her, 

 as she can be better pro- 

 vided with a variety of 

 food. Late pigt, how- 

 ever, grow very fast, and 

 gain in that respect over 

 those that are earlier. .Woid feeding tliera corn ; 

 they should not be fatted until six months old. 

 To properly understand what is required in a ^^^ result of Improvement.-Wc have lately 

 good article ofbutter, it mustbe considered that I j^^^^j^^ several herds of dairy cows among 

 butter, like other commodities, posses.ses several | ^j,ig[j Holstein bulls have been introduced, 

 points of excellence, all of which must assist in j .[.j,g qo-wh from the cross of that breed with the 

 arriving at perfection. The first quality to be 

 sought is the flavor. This cannot be imparted by 

 mechanical means, but depends upon the quality 

 of the food and the cleanliness and care exer- 

 cised. The slightest odor, or exposure, will more 

 or less affect the flavor. The dairyman can only 

 rtnin the flavor, and cannot add anything that 



BUTTER-MAKING. 



native breed, give on an average, fifty per cent, 

 more milk than their dams, and as they are only 

 half ttred, better results will be obtained when the 

 stock becomes three-quarters bred. According 

 to the above we wonder that every dairyman 

 docs not at once seek to improve his herd. 

 The Record of Princess 2d.— That a cow 

 „, , , , 1, .. , I should give over 46 pounds of butter In one week 



will improve it. The proper coloring of but er is j ^^°^'^^ ^^^^^^ J„„^ j, „„« of the greatest 

 an art. The color should be added to the salt, in achievements of the nineteenth century. Given 

 sufllcient proportion to impart a straw tinge. To j j^^ q^arts her yield of milk was about l.V) quarts, 

 have it even and uniform, it must be well worked ^^ ;„ the neighborhood of 6% pints of milli for 

 into and incorporated with the butter. The grain , each pound of butter. Her feeding was heavy 

 is another (luality, and, unlike flavor, this is im- ' and of the best quality, it is true, but this fact 



parted liy mechanical methods. Just how to 

 describe the best practice for giving the proper 

 grain cannot be done. Experience alone will 

 only give a knowledge of how to secure the grain 

 as to whether much or too little working will 

 affect the result. Something depends upon the 

 quality of the salt used also. No salt is absolutely 

 pure, and, therefore, great care should be exci'- 

 cised in procuring that article. Salt of a special 

 manufacture, for dairy purposes, is made by 

 those who thoroughly understand what is re- 

 quired, and the difference of a few cents in its 

 cost snould not be considered. Only one ounce 

 to the pound is required, and the butter will 

 for more when sent to market. 



does not detract from her performance. Every 

 one cannot own a Prirce.ss 2d, but every one can 

 feed for the best results, and breed the stock to a 

 hijher degree of usefulness. 



Jersey Points of Excellence. — The new 

 standard for Jerseys does not allow any points 

 for the escutcheon, it having been eliminated. 

 The udder and milk veins arc strongly encour- 

 aged, and every precaution taken to (levclop 

 ii.w/i(t II ••.1.1 in preference to exterior marks of 

 color. This is a great step forward, and will do 

 much in favor of the rapid in^^ r.ivoment of the 

 Jerseys, as the tendency duri ;■.•_' I he past ten 

 ""'^ I years has been for production in preference to 

 sell i standaid stock. We commend the example of 

 the Jersey breeders to tlie breeders of other cattle. 



