1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
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Live  Stock  Matters 
FORKFULS  OF  FACTS. 
Have  you  ever  fed  calves  on  butter¬ 
milk  ? 
Don’t  overload  the  churn — or  the 
churner. 
In  England  a  donkey  is  called  a 
“  moke.” 
A  feature  at  the  World’s  Fair  will  be 
a  collection  of  2,000  snakes. 
A  “ great  gall”  may  be  of  service  to 
a  book  agent,  but  it  uses  up  a  horse. 
Lots  of  horses  sleep  standing  up,  but 
who  ever  heard  of  a  mule  doing  so  ? 
It  is  hard  to  sell  a  white  horse.  If  dirt 
was  white,  such  horses  would  be  in  de¬ 
mand. 
Old  Grannie,  a  Scotch  polled  cow, 
lived  to  be  35  years  old  and  gave  birth  to 
27  calves. 
Is  it  safe  to  feed  ensilage  to  sheep  ? 
Mr.  Woodward  says  yes ;  others  are 
doubtful. 
An  English  Guernsey  breeder  claims 
that  his  cows  will  average  as  large  as 
Short-horns. 
Cheshire  pigs  are  always  in  salable 
condition,  if  kept  on  fair  feed.  They 
always  make  good  meat. 
The  Fanciers’  Journal  tells  of  a  Cochin 
hen  that  was  wedged  in  a  tight  place  and 
lived  there  10  days  without  food  or  water. 
A  Country  Gentleman  writer  tells 
how  he  saw  a  horse  trying  to  run  away, 
but  it  was  checked  and  held  by  its  mate 
— a  mule. 
Will  any  one  eat  bull  beef  and  boar 
pork  if  he  can  help  it  ?  The  same  objec¬ 
tion  to  these  may  be  urged  against  rooster 
meat.  The  capon  is  coming. 
In  the  north  of  England  farmers  are 
fond  of  a  class  of  dairy  cattle  known  as 
“  Blue-gray.”  It  is  a  cross  between  the 
Galloway  and  roan  Short-horn. 
Most  of  the  “  authorities  ”  say  that  oats 
are  the  best  grain  for  colts.  There  are 
few  that  can  prove  it,  though.  Why  are 
oats  better  than  linseed  and  bran  ? 
An  English  dairy  paper  says  that  cot¬ 
ton-seed  meal  will  make  soft  and  greasy 
butter.  In  this  country  we  feed  it  to 
correct  this  tendency  in  other  feeds. 
At  a  dairy  conference  in  Westmore¬ 
land,  England,  it  was  found  to  be  a  regu¬ 
lar  practice  to  sell  the  cows  at  their 
fourth  calf.  This  was  always  done, 
though  nobody  seemed  able  to  tell  why. 
The  Fanciers’  Journal  has  the  follow¬ 
ing,  which  is  sensible  : 
High  roosts  are  worse  than  none.  In 
fact,  if  fowls  are  kept  bedded  with  clean 
straw  or  leaves,  there  is  no  need  of  hav¬ 
ing  roosts.  If  roosts  are  to  be  used,  they 
should  be  flat  and  not  less  than  three 
inches  broad  and  not  over  two  feet  high, 
and  always  on  one  level. 
Says  the  London  Live  Stock  Journal : 
The  cows  which  are  found  munching 
old  shoes,  rabbit  skins,  and  taking  shirts 
off  the  washerwomen’s  lines,  are  not 
those  which  see  such  articles  frequently. 
The  oddest  “  swallow  ”  we  ever  knew  w'as 
that  of  a  sow  which  gained  access  to  a 
cradle.  The  babe,  happily,  was  not 
there.  But  the  blankets  were,  and  the 
sow  ate  them  and  died  of  the  feat.” 
California  ranchmen  are  adopting  a 
new  scheme  for  stacking  Alfalfa.  In¬ 
stead  of  stacking  it  whole,  they  run  it 
through  a  big  feed  cutter  and  stack  the 
cut  hay.  This  packs  better,  keeps  better 
and  feeds  out  better.  A  big  26-inch  cut¬ 
ter  is  used,  which  cuts  and  stacks  over  100 
tons  a  day.  Shall  we  ever  come  to  that 
in  the  East?  Our  hay  mows  would  cer¬ 
tainly  hold  more  cut  hay  than  long,  and 
it  would  keep  better. 
This  item  is  floating  about  the  country: 
Corn  will  grow  chickens  more  rapidly 
than  any  of  the  other  grains.  This  has 
been  demonstrated  with  a  number  of 
Langshan  pullets.  Part  were  fed  oats 
and  wheat,  the  others  exclusively  corn. 
The  latter  are  ready  for  laying  now, 
while  the  former  show  no  signs  yet.  Not 
that  corn  is  an  egg-making  food  for  it 
is  not,  but  it  brings  the  pullet  up  to  the 
eggs-laying  period  earlier,  while  the 
wheat  and  oats  keep  her  at  the  work  of 
frame  and  flesh-making  longer. 
We  don’t  believe  a  man  could  possibly 
get  more  bad  advice  within  an  equal 
space. 
Southern  Ponies. — If  one  wants  to 
see  ponies  that  are  ponies,  he  must  come 
to  Raleigh,  N.  C.  There  are  some  Texas 
mustangs  here,  but  these  are  not  to  be 
compared  in  beauty  and  docility  with  the 
“  Bankers”  of  the  North  Carolina  coast. 
These  are  raised,  or  rather  they  raise 
themselves  on  the  long  island  beaches  of 
North  Carolina.  They  are  much  better 
tempered  than  the  bronchos,  and  are  ex¬ 
tremely  popular  here  for  ladies  and 
children  and  for  business  men’s  driving. 
Many  of  them  are  of  remarkable  beauty 
and  quite  fast  for  such  small  animals.  I 
consider  them  ideal  ponies,  w.  f.  massey. 
A  Pig  Bank. — G.  W.  Farlee,  in  the 
Jersey  Bulletin,  tells  this  story  : 
A  few  years  ago  I  noticed  a  pair  of  fat 
hogs  owned  by  a  day  laborer.  He  had  a 
family  of  seven  children,  hence  the  waste 
from  his  table  was  insignificant  and,  with 
the  exception  of  a  few  small  potatoes  or 
a  late-grown  crop  of  turnips,  all  the  feed 
for  his  pigs  had  to  be  bought.  I  expressed 
surprise  at  his  keeping  pigs,  and  said 
that  I  thought  he  could  buy  his  pork 
cheaper  than  he  could  raise  it.  He  re¬ 
plied,  “  That  is  true,  but  it  is  just  this 
way  :  I  somehow  manage  to  spare  a  little 
money  each  month  to  buy  some  grain 
and  bran,  and  by  Christmas  I  have  500 
pounds  of  pork.  Now  if  I  didn’t  keep 
pigs  when  Christmas  came  round  I 
wouldn’t  have  any  pork  or  any  money 
either  to  buy  with.” 
That  money  never  would  have  found 
its  way  to  the  bank,  but  it  did  run  into 
the  pork  barrel. 
The  Iowa  Station  has  been  feeding 
milk,  both  full  and  skim,  to  cows,  to  de¬ 
termine  its  value  for  this  purpose  as  com¬ 
pared  with  hog  feeding.  The  cows  ex¬ 
perimented  with  were  on  a  good  Blue 
Grass  pasture  and  had  no  grain  feed. 
They  did  not  like  it  at  first.  A  little  was 
first  mixed  with  bran,  and  the  quantity 
was  gradually  increased  until  the  cows 
drank  20  pounds  each  night  and  morn¬ 
ing.  The  station  concludes  that  farmers 
can  rarely  afford  to  give  full  milk,  “  but 
there  are  times  when  it  can  be  done.  *  * 
It  is  grateful  to  the  animal,  has  immedi¬ 
ate  effects,  increases  the  flow  of  milk  as 
well  as  the  fats  and  solids.”  We  would 
like  to  know  when  these  times  are. 
The  Minnesota  Station  sowed  rape  on 
land  on  which  a  crop  of  mixed  peas  and 
oats  had  been  grown.  Sheep  were  fed 
on  it  as  an  experiment  in  comparison 
with  other  sheep  fed  on  all  the  Timothy 
and  clover  they  would  eat.  While  four 
sheep  ate  387  pounds  of  hay,  four  others 
picked  a  good  living  on  one- fifth  of  an 
acre  of  rape.  The  liay-fed  sheep  gained 
10  pounds  in  32  days,  and  the  rape-fed 
sheep  34  pounds.  An  acre  of  rape  was 
eaten  while  the  other  sheep  ate  1,900 
pounds  of  hay.  With  hay  at  the  Minne¬ 
sota  price,  ($6  per  ton)  and  counting  the 
increased  gain  from  the  rape,  an  acre 
was  worth  for  sheep  pasturage  $8.90. 
Where  hay  is  worth  more,  this  figure 
will  be  correspondingly  increased. 
Feeding  Potatoes. — The  Iowa  Station 
(Ames  P.  O.)  fed  sugar  beets  and  raw 
potatoes  to  dairy  cows  to  observe  the 
effect  of  this  feed  on  the  butter.  Cream¬ 
ing,  churning  and  selling  were  all  care¬ 
fully  done  and  the  butter  was  graded  in 
the  general  market.  Bulletin  17  gives 
the  full  details  of  the  experiment.  Briefly 
stated,  the  conclusions  are  that  first-class 
butter  cannot  be  made  from  heavy  feed¬ 
ing  of  either  beets  or  potatoes,  though 
good  butter  is  possible  when  cows  eat  20 
pounds  of  beets  and  no  more.  First-class 
butter  was  impossible  when  they  ate  10 
pounds  of  raw  potatoes  daily.  Butter 
from  potatoes  is  colorless  and  lacks  keep¬ 
ing  quality.  Twenty  pounds  of  beets 
daily  provided  all  the  color  needed.  The 
cows  in  this  experiment  grew  tired  of  the 
potatoes.  The  experiment  was  tried  to 
see  if  the  occasional  big  unsalable  crops 
of  potatoes  could  not  be  fed  to  advantage. 
Evidently  not  to  dairy  cows — though 
sheep  and  steers  might  give  better  returns 
Sheep  Watered  on  Dew. — I  have  an 
outlying  meadow  that  is  running  out  so 
it  will  not  pay  to  mow  it  any  longer.  It 
is  too  rough  to  be  broken  up,  so  I  cannot 
restock  it.  It  is  destitute  of  water  and 
is  not  near  any,  but  has  a  very  strong 
bottom,  and  holds  water  after  a  rain  for 
quite  a  long  time.  I  have  been  told  that 
I  can  use  it  for  a  sheep  pasture  ;  that 
sheep  will  do  well  without  a  sure  supply 
of  water,  as  they  can  thrive  with  only 
the  morning  dew.  Is  this  true  ?  w.  P.  p. 
Malone,  N.  Y. 
Ans. — As  explained  by  Prof.  Craig  last 
week,  sheep  will  live  better  than  most 
other  stock  when  deprived  of  water,  but 
they  will  not  thrive  and  do  well  unless 
they  are  given  a  chance  to  drink.  In  a 
very  wet  season  the  field  might  answer  ; 
but  in  that  case  there  would  be  danger 
of  foot-rot  among  the  sheep.  We  believe 
that  a  thick  seeding  of  grass  seeds  just 
after  a  rain  and  a  good  dressing  of  chemi¬ 
cal  fertilizers  will  help  the  meadow.  We 
have  seen  one  greatly  improved  in  just 
this  way  the  past  season. 
Feed  for  Jerseys. — E.  S.  Henry,  State 
Treasurer  of  Connecticut,  keeps  25  thor¬ 
oughbred  Jerseys.  Here  is  what  he  says 
in  the  New  England  Farmer  about  feed¬ 
ing  them  : 
The  rations  for  milch  cows  have  been 
daily,  according’  to  age  and  condition  : 
40  to  50  pounds  sweet  ensilage. 
1  to  2J4  pounds  cotton-seed  meal. 
H4  to  3  pounds  N.  P.  linseed  meal. 
3  to  4  pounds  corn  and  cob  meal. 
2  to  3  pounds  spring  wheat  bran 
The  grain  ration  is  thoroughly  mixed 
with  the  ensilage  and  fed  in  two  rations, 
supplemented  with  a  very  light  feed  of 
early  cut  hay.  Experience  has  convinced 
me  that  for  both  milch  cows  and  young 
stock,  two  full  daily  feeds  are  preferable 
to  more  frequent  feedings.  These  cows 
averaged  355  %  pounds  of  butter  per  cow 
during  1891. 
If  the  thing  could  be  figured  up  we 
believe  it  would  be  found  that  a  mighty 
small  proportion  of  the  butter  made  in 
this  country  is  from  cows  of  the  so-called 
dairy  breeds.  Much  of  it  is  made  by 
“  general  purpose”  cows  which  are  kept 
because  their  sons  help  turn  the  corn 
crop  into  beef.  Dairymen,  are  dividing 
into  two  classes — one  wants  the  cow- 
mother  alone  and  has  no  use  for  the  son, 
while  the  other  keeps  the  son  for  the  sake 
of  the  mother.  The  belief  is  growing, 
however,  that  the  son  is  in  the  way  of  the 
churn. 
A  system  of  agriculture  that  necessi¬ 
tates  the  purchase  of  butter  in  a  section 
where  hundreds  of  cows  gaze  upon  the 
adjacent  ranches,  has  in  it  something 
radically  wrong.  It  is  a  too  flagrant  ex¬ 
ample  of  the  one-crop  system.  Yet  we 
have  known  this  condition  to  exist. — 
Texas  Farm  and  Ranch. 
If  our  esteemed  contemporary  would 
take  a  look  over  Orange  County,  N.  Y., 
he  would  find  just  that  condition  of 
affairs  prevailing.  A  very  large  propor¬ 
tion  of  the  farmers  sell  their  milk,  and 
of  these  most  buy  their  butter.  Orange 
County,  which  was  once  the  butter  county 
of  the  United  States,  to-day  does  not  make 
one-tenth  of  the  butter  its  inhabitants 
consume. 
In  writing  to  advertisers  please  always  mention 
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Cotswolds,  Soutlidowns, 
Oxford  Down  and  Shrop 
shire  Sheep  and  Lambs  of 
superior  breeding.  We  are  booking  orders  now  for 
lambs  ofthe  above  breeds,  We  also  have  a  choice 
lot  of  yearlings  and  two-year-olds  to  offer.  Write 
at  once  for  prices  and  particulars. 
W.ATLEEBURUHli&CO.,  PHILA.,  PA. 
IMPORTED  SHROPSHIRES! 
Our  1892  Importations  of  yearling  rams  and  ewes 
are  from  the  best  English  flocks.  None  better. 
THE  WILLOWS,  Raw  I’aw,  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  his  fine  dairy  points.  Price,  f.  o.  b.  here 
#20  each.  D.  M.  CAMRBELL,  Oneonta,  N  Y 
WATERING  DEVICE 
for  LIVE  STOCK  in  STABLES.  Send  for  circu¬ 
lars  for  the  only  practical  and  economical  one  In  the 
market. 
C.  E.  BUCKLEY  &  CO.,  Dover  Plains,  N  Y 
FOR  SALE. 
oA  pair  of  Geldings,  1614  hands;  good  action;  good 
pair;  weight.  2,500  pounds.  Clay  Jones  stock,  he  by 
Cassius  M.  Clay  80  For  Information  inquire  of 
K.  C.  PARKER,  Bristol,  Vt 
LEVI  F.  MORION’S 
ELLERSLIE  GUERNSEYS 
Cows  Rive 
0,000  to  11,000 
pounds  milk 
per  year  with- 
o  u  t  forcing;. 
Milk  f  r  o  m 
fresh  cows,  4)4 
to  7  per  cent 
fat. 
YOU  NEED  A 
BULL  FROM 
OUR  HERD. 
H.  M.  COTTRELL,  Supt.,  Khitiecliff,  N.  Y. 
High-Class  Jersey  Cattle. 
SUPERIOR  REGISTERED  A.  J.  C.  C. 
STOCK  ONLY. 
The  dam  of  one  of  our  SERVICE  BULLS  tested 
officially  30  pounds  214  ounces  butter  In  seven  days 
and  gave  1891  pounds  of  milk  In  31  days.  For  another 
bull, sire  of  19  groat  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  head.  No  catalogue  of  Jerseys.  Write  for 
what  you  want. 
MILLER  A  SIBLEY, 
Franklin,  Venango  County,  Pa. 
Mention  this  paper. 
GUERNSEYS  8FA°LRE 
Tlie  Stonykill  Farm  Guernsey 
Herd  for  Sale. 
This  herd  consists  of  nearly  Forty  Head  of  care¬ 
fully  bred  COWH  and  HEIFERS,  and  will  be  offered 
at  very  moderate  prices,  quality  considered.  For 
further  particulars  address 
SAMUEL  VERRLANCK,  Flshklll-on-IIudson,  N.Y 
UPTON  STOCK  FARM. 
Headquarters  for  Thoroughbred  Stock. 
JERSEY  CATTLE. 
I  have  bred  Jerseys  for  27  years.  1  have  young 
cows;  any  one  would  just  fill  the  bill  for  a  choice 
family  cow.  Ten  or  more  for  sale  for  from  $40  to  $50 
each.  All  In  one  lot  at  $40  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, 
with  as  long,  fine  delaine  staple  as  I  can  get.  In  16 
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 
FOR  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. 
WANTED. 
A  thoroughbred  Durham  Bull,  about  one  year  old 
tit  for  service.  Give  description  and  price. 
Address  I).,  care  of  THE  RURAL  New-Yorker. 
Feeding  Animals. 
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