1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
439 
Live  Stock  Matters 
FORKFULS  OF  FACTS. 
Any  of  you  going  to  try  a  patch  of 
Prickly  Comfrey  ? 
Why  can’t  the  milk  breeds  get  the  yel¬ 
low  out  of  the  grass  ? 
A  silo  with  cutters  and  power  means 
an  investment  of  at  least  $200. 
One  of  the  best  ways  to  keep  bots  out 
of  a  horse’s  stomach  is  to  keep  the  horse’s 
coat  clean. 
We  have  records  of  a  cow  that  gives 
milk  containing  9%  per  cent  of  fat.  She 
is  a  big  “  native.” 
A  “baby”  extractor  is  the  latest — a 
hand  machine  that  turns  pure  butter 
directly  from  the  milk. 
W.  Judson  Smith,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  will 
send  a  list  of  live  stock  premiums  offered 
at  the  next  New  York  State  Pair,  Syra¬ 
cuse,  N.  Y. ,  September  8-15. 
Signal’s  Lily  Flagg  having  gone  to 
the  head  as  a  .Jersey  butter  maker,  it 
surely  remains  for  all  the  patriotic  Jer¬ 
sey  breeders  to  “  follow  the  flag.” 
Did  that  cow  pay  ?  During  her  year’s 
test  she  ate  something  over  12,000  pounds 
of  grain,  besides  pasturage,  hay,  etc.  She 
made  1,047  pounds  of  butter  At  25  cents 
would  it  have  paid  ?  Now  count  the 
extra  time  required  to  care  for  such  a 
cow.  Not  all  the  big  eaters  pay  ;  the  big 
asu  Initiators  are  the  cows  that  count. 
The  American  Jersey  Cattle  Club  offers 
50  prizes  of  $25  each  for  essays  on  Jersey 
cattle.  For  full  particulars  write  to  the 
American  Jersey  Cattle  Club,  1  Broad¬ 
way,  New  York. 
The  Government  of  New  Zealand  offers 
a  bonus  to  all  who  will  erect  and  run 
butter  factories  in  that  country.  There 
is  also  an  export  inspector  to  examine  all 
shipments  of  butter  and  brand  only  those 
of  uniform  qualit3\ 
Diseases  of  the  teeth  are  more  com¬ 
mon  in  horses  than  they  used  to  be.  Lots 
of  horses  “  fall  off  ”  in  condition  for  no 
apparent  reason.  In  such  cases  veterin¬ 
arians  look  at  the  teeth  just  as  they 
would  look  at  the  hoof  in  case  of  lame¬ 
ness.  A  sore,  tender  tooth  will  run  a 
horse  down  quicker  than  any  other  sore 
spot. 
Barley  is  the  great  horse  grain  in 
California.  It  is  prepared  by  “  running 
the  grain  between  rollers  that  are  set 
just  right  to  flatten  out  the  grain  with¬ 
out  breaking  it  up.  It  should  be  fed  dry 
in  feed  boxes,  so  that  the  fine  particles 
may  be  gathered  up  and  used  in  soft 
feed.”  It  is  much  better  for  horses  to 
eat  this  grain  than  for  men  to  drink  it  as 
beer. 
A  writer  in  the  Jersey  Bulletin  says 
that  De  Laval,  the  Swedish  inventor,  first 
devised  a  test  for  using  the  same  acids 
and  manipulations  used  in  the  Babcock 
tester.  We  don't  care  who  invented  it. 
Dr.  Babcock  made  it  popular,  and  it  has 
already  been  worth  more  to  the  dairy- 
mtnoftlie  country  than  all  the  experi¬ 
ment  stations  have  cost. 
President  Harrison  sent  this  letter 
to  the  owner  of  Signal’s  Lily  Flagg  : 
Executive  Mansion,  I 
Washington,  June  7,  1892.  f 
W.  B.  Matthews,  Huntsville,  Ala.: 
My  Dear  Sir: — Permit  me  to  join  in  the  applause, 
if  the  man  who  makes  two  blades  of  grass  grow  where 
only  one  grew  before,  is  a  public  benefactor,  what 
honor  should  be  given  to  a  cow  that  gives  two  pounds 
of  butter  where  only  a  half  pound  was  given  before  ? 
Verv  truly  vours.  benjamin  harrison. 
A  Plague  of  Flies. — What  is  the 
remedy  for  the  small  black  fly  that  is 
worrying  the  cows  and  stock  in  and  about 
Oswego  County,  N.  Y.  ?  G.  w. 
We  presume  this  is  the  horn  fly  which 
causes  great  distress  to  cattle  at  this 
time.  It  works  at  the  base  of  the  horns, 
along  the  back  and  at  the  root  of  the  tail. 
Tobacco  dust  scattered  around  the  long 
hair  on  the  head  and  back  will  drive  it 
off  and  so  will  fish  oil  or  crude  carbolic 
acid  and  water  or  tar.  These  remedies 
are  hard  to  apply  in  large  herds  and  the 
most  practical  thing  is  to  have  a  cool, 
dark  stable  in  which  the  cows  can  stand 
in  the  heat  of  the  day.  A  low,  bushy 
pasture  is  also  good,  where  the  cows  can 
brush  off  the  flies. 
A  New  York  contractor  has  hired  a 
farm  near  the  Rural  Grounds  on  which 
to  pasture  and  recruit  his  horses.  Most 
of  these  horses  get  “sore”  during  the 
year.  They  have  “  fever  in  the  feet  ”  and 
hoof  and  ankle  bruises.  The  farm  was 
bought  chiefly  because  there  is  a  low, 
damp,  pasture  through  which  a  cool 
stream  runs.  It  is  just  the  place  for 
these  foot-sore  horses. 
Many  are  the  devices  for  protecting 
sheep  from  dogs.  Next  to  the  shot-gun, 
how  is  this,  from  the  Sheep  Breeder  ? 
“  If  a  few  dry  cows  or  heifers  are  kept 
in  the  field  with  sheep,  the  dogs  will  sel¬ 
dom  molest  them  after  the  sheep  learn 
to  recognize  their  big  companions’  value 
as  protectors.  We  have  found  sheep  in 
the  morning  huddling  so  close  around 
and  under  a  friendly  old  cow  that  she 
could  hardly  get  away  from  them.  She 
had  saved  their  lives. 
Farmers  in  sections  where  buckwheat 
is  grown  or  ground  often  ask  about  the 
value  of  buckwheat  hulls,  bran  and  mid¬ 
dlings  for  feeding.  Prof.  Woll,  of  the 
Wisconsin  Experiment  Station,  says  the 
hulls  have  little  or  no  value  for  feeding. 
The  middlings  are  almost  equal  in  value 
to  oil-meal.  Buckwheat  bran  is  not  a 
safe  food  to  buy,  as  the  miller  always  tries 
to  work  in  all  the  hulls  he  can.  The 
middlings  even  at  an  advance  of  $4  per 
ton  over  the  bran  are  the  cheaper  food. 
Prof.  W.  A.  Henry  is  convinced  that 
there  is  a  good  chance  for  small  pork 
packers  in  the  country.  Let  them  cure 
only  choice  cuts  of  meat  grown  in  a 
healthy  condition,  m  ith  plenty  of  lean 
meat.  While  men  are  able  to  sell  butter 
at  40  and  50  cents  a  pound  or  eggs  at  the 
same  price  per  dozen  in  these  days-  of  low 
prices,  there  surely  is  room  for  first-class 
pork  products  at  a  price  far  above  the 
general  market.  A  number  of  farmers 
are  selling  hams,  pork  and  sausages  with 
great  success.  Try  it. 
Rape  in  the  Corn-field. — How  would 
it  do  to  sow  rape  in  the  corn-field  at  the 
last  working?  A.  M. 
Carrington,  Pa. 
This  is  done  by  some  Michigan  farmers 
that  we  know  of.  The  rape  is  cultivated 
in  at  the  last  working  and  makes  a  good 
growth.  The  corn  is  cut  and  removed 
for  ensilage  early  in  September,  so  the 
rape  has  full  chance  to  grow.  Of  course 
the  corn  must  all  be  taken  off  so  that 
stock  can  be  turned  in  to  eat  off  the  rape. 
Rape  is  a  sheep  food  and  must  be  pas¬ 
tured. 
That  Inoculation  Fraud. — The  De¬ 
partment  of  Agriculture  has  done  well  of 
late  and  especially  so  in  the  matter  of  its 
researches  and  experiments  as  regards 
inoculation  as  a  preventive  of  contagious 
diseases  among  domestic  animals.  There 
can  be  no  longer  any  excuse  for  dabbling 
in  these  matters,  especially  in  the  line  of 
inoculation  as  a  preventive  of  hog  cholera. 
The  most  recent  experiments  go  to  show, 
in  fact  very  clearly  demonstrate,  that  the 
so-called  preventive  is  no  preventive  at 
all;  rather  it  spreads  the  disease  it  was 
intended  to  suppress.  In  all  the  domain 
of  science  there  has  been  no  more  com¬ 
plete  failure  than  we  have  witnessed  in 
the  efforts  of  those  who  believed  they 
could  suppress  pleuro-pneumonia  in  cat¬ 
tle,  foot-rot  in  sheep  and  cholera  in  swine, 
by  inoculating  animals  with  a  cultivated, 
modified  or  mollified  form  of  the  virus  of 
the  specific  disease.  One  need  not  hesi¬ 
tate  to  declare  that  the  processes  of  these 
scientists  are  not  scientific,  their  premises 
are  false  and  their  conclusions  necessarily 
not  only  false  but  dangerous.  There 
seems  to  be  only  one  man  in  America 
who  will  not  be  convinced  and  he  is  Dr. 
Billings  of  Nebraska.  With  a  faith  that 
no  failures  can  weaken  and  no  demon¬ 
strations  daunt,  he  goes  on  infecting  the 
swine.  If  Nebraska  does  not  take  some 
repressive  action  soon,  she  will  have  no 
swine  and  the  Doctor,  like  Alexander, 
will  be  sighing  for  fresh  worlds  to  infect. 
Soiling  Sheep  ;  Lambs  Every  Month. 
No  one  in  this  State  (Pennsylvania)  to 
my  knowledge  engages  in  soiling  sheep. 
The  question  has  been  discussed  to  some 
extent  by  a  few  of  our  leading  breeders. 
Soiling  is  quite  feasible,  and  I  have  no 
doubt  that  the  time  will  come  when  sheep 
will  be  soiled  largely  in  this  country.  I 
am  soiling  cattle,  and  am  perfectly  satis¬ 
fied  that  it  will  decrease  the  cost  of  pro¬ 
duction  of  beef  fully  one-half.  The  beef 
from  an  animal  soiled  is  much  better  than 
from  one  allowed  to  run  at  large,  and  the 
time  is  coming  when  the  buyers  of  meat 
will  appreciate  the  difference,  and  the 
price  realized  for  soiled  cattle  will  fully 
justify  the  needed  labor  and  expense. 
It  is  very  true  that  the  lamb  business 
is  extending,  and  the  time  is  at  hand 
when  there  will  be  a  demand  for  lambs 
every  month  in  the  year.  To  meet  this 
is  only  a  work  of  time.  The  Dorset  Horn 
ewe  will  take  the  ram  at  any  season  of 
the  year,  and  will  produce  two  crops  of 
lambs  per  year,  under  proper  care.  For 
one  breeder  of  Dorsets  108  ewes  dropped 
180  lambs  last  December,  and  the  same 
ewes  are  lambing  again  this  month — 
June.  I  have  a  flock  of  ewes  that  have 
been  dropping  lambs  for  the  last  six 
months.  There  is  no  question  that  with 
proper  management,  lambs  can  be  pro¬ 
duced  for  market  every  month  in  the 
year,  and  it  is  my  opinion  that  the  time 
is  at  hand  when  the  soiling  of  sheep  will 
be  found  to  be  profitable  and  expedient. 
Tn  all  branches  of  industry  cheapening 
of  production  has  been  sought,  and 
the  farmer  must,  of  necessity,  study  this 
question  as  applied  to  the  production  of 
mutton.  m.  a.  cooper. 
Secretary  Dorset  Horn  Sheep  Breeders. 
Is  Watery  Food  Objectionable  ? 
The  objection,  or  apology,  is  often 
made,  by  professors  as  well  as  farmers, 
that  ensilage,  being  a  watery  food,  is  not 
the  best  for  cold  weather.  This  appears 
to  me  to  be  a  prejudice  founded  entirely 
upon  theory.  In  some  respects,  other 
feeds  might  be  better  ;  but  I  cannot  be¬ 
lieve  that  the  amount  of  water  contained 
in  it  is  an  objection;  for  the  animal  econ¬ 
omy  seems  to  require  an  additional  quan¬ 
tity.  If  you  feed  dry  feed,  a  cow  will  re¬ 
quire,  say  10  gallons  of  water  per  day. 
If  she  eats  five  gallons  and  drinks  five 
gallons,  why  does  she  require  warmer 
stables  than  if  she  drinks  the  whole  10 
gallons  ?  Because  the  feed  is  water- 
soaked,  the  stock  that  eats  it  is  not  neces¬ 
sarily  so.  Unnecessary  water  is  sent  off 
through  the  flood-gates,  and  not  through 
the  skin  of  the  animal,  to  be  evaporated 
by  animal  heat,  as  would  seem  to  be  the 
implication  of  the  advocates  of  this 
theory.  In  fact,  does  not  our  stock  fed 
upon  ensilage  stand  the  cold  as  well  as 
those  fed  upon  dry  feed  ?  A.  E.  B. 
The  R.  N.-Y.  would  like  a  strong  elec¬ 
tric  light  turned  on  this  matter.  How 
can  dry  food  be  digested  until  it  becomes 
water-soaked  anyway  ? 
$ti0fcUattf0U;ei  gulmtitfinfl. 
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High-Class  Jersey  Cattle. 
SUPERIOR  REGISTERED  A.  ,T.  C.  C. 
STOCK  ONLY. 
The  dam  of  one  of  onr  SERVICE  BULLS  tested 
ottlclally  30  pounds  ounces  butter  In  seven  days’ 
and  gave  1891  pounds  of  milk  In  31  days.  For  another 
bull, sire  of  19  great  butter  cows,  we  refused  #  15,000 
In  general  no  animal  for  less  than  $200;  occasionally 
a  bull-calf  for  $100,  when  marked  with  white,  which 
is  not  so  fashionable.  Inferior  ones  we  knock  in 
the  heart.  No  catalogue  of  Jersoys.  Write  for 
what  you  want. 
MILLER  &  SIBLEY, 
Franklin,  Venango  County,  Pa. 
Mention  this  paper. 
LEVI  P.  MORTON’S 
ELLERSLIE  GUERNSEYS 
Cows  give 
6,000  to  11,000 
pounds  milk 
per  year  wit  h  - 
out  forcing. 
Milk  f  r  o  in 
fresh  cows,  '1R> 
to  7  per  cent 
fat. 
YOU  NEED  A 
BULL  FROM 
OUR  HERD. 
H.  M.  COTTRELL,  Supt.,  Rhineclitr,  N.  Y. 
GUERNSEYS  .?t\. 
The  Stonykill  Farm  Guernsey 
Herd  for  Sale. 
This  herd  consists  of  nearly  Forty  Head  of  caro- 
fullv  bred  COWS  and  HEIFERS,  and  will  be  Offered 
at  very  moderate  prices,  quality  considered.  For 
further  particulars  address 
SAMUEL  VERPLANCK,  Flshklll-on-Hudson.  N.Y 
UPTON  STOCK  FARM. 
Headquarters  for  Thoroughbred  Stock. 
JERSEY  CATTLE. 
I  have  bred  Jerseys  for  27  years.  I  have  young 
cows;  any  one  would  just  fill  the  bill  for  a  choice 
family  cow.  Ten  or  more  for  salo  for  from  $40  to  $51) 
each.  All  In  one  lot  at  $10  each. 
LEICESTER  SHEEP. 
Sheep  from  my  flock  have  taken  many  of  the  first 
prizes  at  Ihe  New  York  State  Fair  for  the  last  10 
years.  Choice  young  ewes  or  rams  from  $10  to  $15 
per  head.  _ 
DELAINE  MERINO  SHEEP. 
I  am  breeding  as  large,  smooth  sheep  as  possible, 
wltli  as  long,  line  delaine  staple  hh  [  can  get.  In  15 
years  I  have  made  quite  an  Improvement  In  size  and 
length  of  wool.  A  few  for  sale  at  from  $15  to  $20 
per  head. 
Fine  Trotting-bred  Colts 
BOR  SALE. 
At  weaning  time  prices  will  be  about  $75.  Older 
Colts,  those  that  have  been  driven  and  show  good 
action,  kind  and  good  drivers  from  $200  to  $300.  Some 
of  them  are  the  get  of  my  Norwood  Stallion. 
Pedigrees  given  and  all  questions  answered  by 
Inclosing  stamps. 
W.  S.  MOORE,  Mount  Upton,  N.  Y. 
FOR  CAI  F  Registered  Perclierun  Mare, 
run  UHL.ba  2  years;  sire  and  dam  Imported. 
Dam  by  Chlldebert,  $3,500,  by  Brilliant.  Right  every 
way,  $250.  GEO.  M.  TALLCOT,  Skaneateles,  N.  Y. 
KING’S  SPAVIN  CURE 
Will  cure  all  cases  of  Spavin,  Sidebone,  Curbs, 
Splints,  Sweeney,  Poll  Evil.  Grease  Heels,  Capped 
Hock,  Strained  Tendons,  Epizootic  and  Distemper; 
old  sores,  and  all  bony  tumors.  Removes  all  bunches 
on  blemishes  without  leaving  any  scars.  Warranted 
to  cure  or  money  will  be  returned.  Price,  $2.  Ex¬ 
press  paid  by  us.  Write  for  book,  Diseases  of  the 
Feet,  Legs  and  Muscles,  sent  free.  Manufactured  by 
WM.  KING,  Lock  Box  2,  Blairstown,  N.  J. 
GENERAL  ADVERTISING  RATES 
Cotswolds,  Southdowns, 
Oxford  Downs  and  Shrop¬ 
shire  Sheep  and  Lambs  of 
superior  breeding.  We  are  booking  orders  now  for 
lambs  of  the  above  breeds,  We  also  have  a  choice 
lot  of  yearlings  and  two-year-olds  to  offer.  Write 
at  once  for  prices  and  particulars. 
W.ATLEE  BURPEE  &  CO.,  PHI  LA.,  PA. 
IMPORTED  SHROPSHIRES! 
Our  1892  importations  of  yearling  rams  and  ewes 
are  from  the  best  Blnglish  Hocks.  None  better. 
THE  WILLOWS,  l’aw  Paw,  Mich. 
AYRSHIRES  FOR  SALE. 
A  very  choice  lot  of  thoroughbred  Ayrshire  calves 
—  bulls  and  heifers— entitled  to  Immediate  registry, 
the  offspring  of  deep-milking  cows,  and  from  a  bull 
notable  for  bis  fine  dairy  points.  Price,  f.  o.  b.  here, 
#20  each.  I).  M.  CAMPBELL,  Oneonta,  N.  Y. 
WATERING  DEVICE 
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market. 
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