1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
487 
Live  Stock  Matters 
FORKFULS  OF  FACTS. 
Old  sheep  soon  lose  their  courage. 
How  is  the  Indian  Game  poultry  boom  ? 
Who  can  make  mutton  out  of  a  ewe 
with  poor  teeth  ? 
The  R.  N.-Y.  has  some  chickens  that 
seem  to  prefer  “  nesting  ”  on  the  floor  or 
ground  to  roosting. 
Who  can  expect  a  good  lamb  from  a 
poor,  worn-out  old  ewe  ?  The  sire  is 
never  more  than  half  the  flock ! 
I.  K.  Felch  says  he  wishes  no  breeder 
would  sell  eggs  for  hatching.  Better 
and  more  satisfactory  to  buy  and  sell 
birds. 
It  is  said  that  up  to  within  30  years  the 
baboons  in  South  Africa  would  not  eat 
the  flesh  of  sheep.  They  now  kill  and 
eat  these  animals. 
Senator  Stanford  received  $125,000 
for  his  horse,  Arion.  This  was  divided 
into  125  parts,  and  will  be  used  in  send¬ 
ing  that  number  of  destitute  boys  to  the 
new  Stanford  University. 
Are  the  lambs  weaned  ?  Separate  the 
rams  from  the  ewe  lambs.  Also  take  out 
the  inferior  lambs  and  put  them  together. 
Feed  grain  as  soon  as  they  are  weaned. 
Give  the  ram  lambs  more  nitrogenous 
food,  like  linseed  meal  or  bran. 
I  recently  saw  an  inquiry  about 
Prickly  Comfrey.  About  10  years  ago  I 
invested  75  cents  in  it  and  I  have  been 
working  ever  since  to  get  rid  of  the 
pest,  and  have  more  now  than  the  orig¬ 
inal  stock.  h.  p.  N. 
Manitoba  Sheep. — I  keep  a  few  Leices¬ 
ter  and  grade  mutton  sheep,  but  have  no 
use  for  the  wool.  The  meat  is  worth  10 
cents  a  pound,  but  the  wool  must  be 
nicely  fixed  to  bring  15  cents.  Can’t  the 
size  be  improved  at  the  expense  of  the 
fleece  ?  All  b;g  sheep  seem  to  have  long 
wool.  I  want  a  good  carcass  with  just 
enough  covering  for  protection,  f.  t.  l.  h. 
What  is  to  be  done  for  fowls  that  have 
had  their  feathers  pulled  out  by  the 
others  in  the  pen  ?  J.  H.  Drevenstedt 
says,  in  the  Fancier’s  Journal : 
We  have  successfully  used  tar  oil  on 
bare  places  of  fowls,  and  tar  itself  is  ex¬ 
cellent  to  use  where  growing  chickens 
have  been  robbed  by  feather  eaters  of 
the  new  quills.  The  latter  are  filled  with 
blood  which  invites  feather  eating.  A 
good  dose  of  tar  will  stop  it,  but  care 
should  be  taken  to  feed  cracked  fresh 
bones  to  the  flock. 
Canadian  stock  breeders  are  excited 
because  of  an  order  from  Secretary  Rusk 
that  breeding  animals  from  Canada  shall 
not  be  sent  to  this  country  duty  free 
unless  they  are  first  entered  in  one  of 
our  stock  records.  Records  in  Canadian 
registers  will  not  answer,  he  says.  As 
to  the  difference  between  English  and 
Canadian  records,  the  Secretary  says : 
On  account  of  the  delay  which  would 
be  caused  by  securing  a  record  of  ani¬ 
mals  imported  from  Europe  in  the  books 
of  the  American  association,  the  Euro¬ 
pean  record  books  have  been  recognized, 
but  this  reason  does  not  apply  in  regard 
to  Canada,  for  it  will  only  require  a  day 
or  two  to  send  to  any  of  the  American 
associations  and  have  the  animals  re¬ 
corded  and  receive  certificates  of  record 
in  return. 
Says  B.  A.  Fox,  in  the  Southern  Planter: 
“  Corn  ”  boomers  are  about !  Look  out 
for  them — these  are  the  “  easy  feeders.” 
They  try  to  make  you  believe  that  they 
have  struck  a  big  thing,  simple  and  easy. 
No  work  attached  to  this  kind  of  feeding, 
it’s  plain  and  simple:  corn,  corn,  corn,  both 
winter  and  summer,  and  “  piles  of  eggs,” 
heaps  of  them  !  They  tell  you  lots  of 
fancy  tales  of  what  an  excellent  food 
corn  is,  and  when  you  come  to  sift  the 
matter  out  you  will  find  that  they  raise 
hogs  and  keep  a  few  chickens  and  it  is  a 
very  easy  matter  to  throw  corn  down 
upon  the  ground. 
Corn  is  all  right,  if  you  can  afford  it 
and  give  the  hens  plenty  of  chance  to 
pick  up  bugs  and  other  nitrogenous  food. 
It  is  also  good  to  stuff  into  young  roosters 
to  fit  them  for  the  broiler.  It  is  poor 
stuff  for  a  housed  pullet  that  you  want 
to  make  into  a  business  hen. 
It  is  claimed  that  the  production  of 
oleomargarine  in  Chicago  last  year  dis¬ 
placed  the  production  of  300,000  cows, 
and  will  likely  take  the  place  next  of 
the  production  of  400,000.  How  shall 
this  competition  be  met?  By  making 
better  butter.  By  taking  more  pains  to 
secure  all  the  value  out  of  the  milk. — 
Elgin  Reporter. 
We  shall  be  glad  to  urge  improvement 
of  the  butter  standard  at  all  times,  but 
good  butter  will  not  solve  the  oleo,  or 
hog  butter  question.  Be  it  ever  so  good, 
the  fraudulent  imitation  is  good  enough 
for  the  scallawag  hotel,  restaurant  and 
boarding  house  keepers,  who  foist  it  on 
their  patrons  because  they  can  buy  it  for 
a  little  less.  Remove  the  restrictive 
legislation,  and  at  the  same  time  make 
all  butter  perfect,  and  the  fraud  would 
displace  the  real  article  more  rapidly 
than  ever. 
The  milk  supply  of  San  Francisco  must 
be  in  a  bad  way.  The  methods  of  some 
of  the  milk  venders  have  been  recently 
exposed,  and  have  startled  the  people, 
who  find  they  have  no  laws  to  protect 
them.  The  Breeder  and  Sportsman  says  : 
The  farmers  who  raise  good  cows  can 
find  no  market  for  them,  for  a  dairyman 
with  a  few  cows  that  give  on  an  average 
12  quarts  of  milk  a  day  goes  out  with 
cans  enough  to  show  that  the  supply 
must  be  18  quarts  from  each  ;  to  regulate 
this,  the  introduction  of  coloring  fluids 
and  water  makes  up  the  difference. 
Farmers  would  sell  at  least  three  cow  s 
for  every  two  they  do  if  a  law  were 
passed  compelling  milkmen  to  sell  pure 
milk,  and  better  inducements  would  be 
offered  breeders  to  raise  better  cows  and 
try  to  improve  their  stock.  As  it  is  now, 
there  is  only  a  market  for  the  poorest 
and  weakest  cows  that  have  just  calved. 
An  Impotent  Ram. — Is  not  the  case  of 
the  impotent  ram  referred  to  in  a  late 
Rural  an  exceptional  one  ?  It  is  not 
likely  that  the  breeder  knew  anything 
about  the  impotence  of  the  ram.  It  was 
not  his  fault.  The  change,  the  shipping 
chances,  the  new  management  quite 
likely  caused  it.  However,  no  reputable 
breeder  will  hesitate  to  do  the  honorable 
thing  in  such  a  case  ;  no  lawing  need  re¬ 
sult.  The  breeder  has  a  chance  to  ad¬ 
vertise  himself  for  fairness  and  square¬ 
ness  and  durst  not  fail  to  turn  it  to  his 
advantage.  An  experience  of  25  years 
has  repeatedly  shown  me  that  a  ram 
may  fail  to  breed  the  first  year  after  a 
change  and  afterwards  be  perfectly  satis¬ 
factory.  His  having  “  served  the  ewes ’’ 
without  result  does  not  indicate  impo¬ 
tence.  His  failure  may  have  been  due  to 
the  condition  of  the  ewes  in  good  part. 
Once  I  sent  to  a  man  in  Iowa  a  Merino 
ram  which  would  not  notice  the  ewes. 
He  complained  and  I  sent  him  another. 
The  first  ram  afterwards  bred  the  best, 
but  I  got  nothing  for  him  from  the  flock 
owner.  r.  m.  b. 
Glandkred  Horses.— By  section  058 
of  the  Criminal  Statutes  of  New  York 
State  it  is  made  a  misdemeanor  for  the 
owner  of  any  glandered  horse  or  mule 
to  expose  it  on  the  streets  or  elsewhere 
at  the  risk  of  infecting  other  animals, 
or  even  to  refuse  to  permit  it  to  be  de¬ 
stroyed.  In  view  of  the  insidious  nature 
of  glanders  and  of  the  danger  of  con¬ 
tagion  by  other  beasts  as  well  as  by  man, 
stringent  laws  are  urgently  demanded 
with  regard  to  it.  Lately  an  effort  has 
been  made  to  secure  from  the  legislature 
compensation  for  slaughtered  animals. 
Such  compensation  would  have  to  come 
out  of  the  general  taxes  and  would  be 
unjust  to  the  public.  Since  glanders, 
being  incurable,  is  necessarily  fatal,  there 
is  clearly  no  more  reason  for  indemnify¬ 
ing  the  ow’ners  of  glandered  horses  for 
their  death  than  for  indemnifying  the 
owner  of  a  horse  which  has  contracted 
some  other  fatal  disease.  In  principle, 
therefore,  such  a  measure  would  mean 
that  the  State  should  insure  the  lives  of 
horses  at  the  public  expense.  Moreover, 
it  would  be  to  the  pecuniary  interest  of 
the  owners  of  old  and  disabled  horses  to 
expose  them  to  the  disease  in  order  to 
secure  compensation  for  them  when  de¬ 
stroyed  under  the  law.  Thus  a  worth¬ 
less  animal  might  actually  be  made  val* 
uable  by  subjecting  it  to  the  torture  of  a 
cruel  disease,  and  dishonest  men  would 
have  a  direct  interest  in  spreading  a  fatal 
plague  which  may  infect  human  beings 
as  well  as  members  of  the  equine  race. 
Surely  such  obnoxious  legislation  should 
never  find  place  on  the  statute  books  of 
any  of  our  States. 
Cost  of  a  Pound  of  Butter. — Henry 
Talcott,  a  well-known  Ohio  dairyman,  in 
an  article  on  the  silo  in  Farm  and  Fire¬ 
side,  says  that  he  can  grow  the  ensilage 
and  clover  hay  which,  with  pasture,  will 
feed  a  cow  one  year,  for  $15.  He  says  : 
The  cost  of  my  Guernsey  cows’  rich 
milk,  of  which  only  from  16  to  18  pounds 
are  required  to  make  a  pound  of  butter, 
does  not  reach  one  cent  per  quart,  while 
Holstein  and  Ayshire  cows’  milk  will  not 
cost  over  one-half  to  tliree-fourtlis  of 
a  cent  per  quart,  which  weighs  two 
pounds.  The  best  butter  made  in  the 
world  need  not  cost  10  cents  per  pound, 
and  the  best  full-cream  cheese  need  not 
cost  over  five  cents  per  pound,  if  made 
from  ensilage-fed  cows  in  winter  and 
pasture  grasses  in  summer.  The  farmer, 
in  this  age  of  competition,  is  bound  to 
produce  for  less  or  go  to  the  wall.  He 
has  no  excuse  for  waste  or  extravagance 
on  the  farm  ;  he  is  not  justified  in  com¬ 
mitting  it.  He  should  no  longer  waste 
time  and  money  to  husk  and  dry  corn  for 
cattle  feed  ;  and  then  shell  it  and  haul  it 
to  mill,  and  give  one-eighth  or  one-tenth 
of  it  to  the  miller  for  toll,  for  cattle  feed. 
There  is  no  earthly  use  to  try  to  produce 
milk  on  the  farm  with  high-priced  ground 
feed  of  any  kind,  bran,  shorts,  oil-meal 
or  cotton-seed  meal.  It  is  only  permis¬ 
sible  to  do  so  to  fatten  cattle  speedily  for 
the  butcher’s  block.  Nothing  is  needed 
but  good,  well-matured  corn  ensilage, 
clover  hay  and  fresh  pasture  grass  to  pro¬ 
duce  milk,  butter  or  cheese  in  a  sensible 
and  practical  manner. 
pounds  of  butter  per  year  as  some  others 
do,  but  the  cost  per  pound  is  lower  and 
that  is  what  Mr.  Talcott  seems  to  be 
after. 
LEVI  P.  MORTON’S 
ELLERSLIE  GUERNSEYS 
Cows  give 
6,000  to  11.000 
pounds  milk 
per  year  with- 
o  u  t  forcing. 
Milk  fro  m 
fresh  cows,  4J4 
to  7  per  cent 
fat. 
YOU  NEED  A 
BULL  FROM 
OUR  IIERI). 
II.  M.  COTTRELL,  Supt..  Hhlnecllfl',  N.  Y. 
College  of  VETERINARY  SURGEONS. 
Lectures  will  begin  September  29, 1892.  For  circular 
address  SECRETARY,  382  East  27th  St.,  N.  Y.  City. 
WATERING  DEVICE 
for  LIVE  STOCK  In  STABLES.  Send  for  c  Ocu¬ 
lars  for  the  only  practical  and  economical  one  in  the 
market. 
C.  K.  BUCKLEY  at  CO.,  Dover  Plains,  N  Y 
GUERNSEYS 
The  Stonyklll  Farm  Ouernsey 
Herd  for  Sale. 
This  herd  consists  of  nearly  Forty  Head  of  care¬ 
fully  bred  COWS  and  HEIFERS,  and  will  he  offered 
at  very  moderate  prices,  quality  considered.  For 
further  particulars  address 
SAMUEL  VERPLANCK,  Fishkill-on-Hudson,  N.Y 
AYRSHIRES  FOR  SALE. 
A  very  choice  lot  of  thoroughbred  Ayrshire  calves 
bulls  and  heifers— entitled  to  Immediate  registry, 
the  offspring  of  dcep-milklng  cows,  and  from  a  bull 
notable  for  Ills  lino  dairy  points.  I’rlce,  f.  o.  b.  here, 
!#:JO  each.  I).  M.  OAMl’BELL,  Oneonta,  N  Y. 
Cotswolds,  Southdowns, 
Oxford  Down  and  Shrop¬ 
shire  Sheep  and  Lambs  of 
superior  breeding.  We  are  booking  orders  now  for 
lambs  of  the  above  bleeds,  We  also  have  a  choice 
lot  of  yearlings  and  two-year-olds  to  offer.  Write 
at  once  for  prices  and  particulars. 
W.ATLEEBURPEE&CO.,PHILA.,PA. 
That  is  to  say  that  there  is  grain 
enough  in  the  ensilage  to  balance  the 
ration  with  good  clover  bay.  Probably  ^  H  fn  P?  13 
these  cows  do  not  average  as  many 
In  writing  to  advertisers  please  always  mention 
The  rukai,  New-Yohkkk. 
LINSEED  OIL  MEAL 
At  present  writing  (July  1,  1892,)  OIL  MEAL  Is  very 
low,  and  now 
IS  A  FAVORABLE  TIME 
to  lay  In  a  stock  for  Fall  Sales  or  use 
JOBBERS  as  well  as  CONSUMERS  will  do 
well  to  consider  this  subject. 
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  sale  for  from  $40  to  $30 
each.  All  in  one  lot  at  $40  each. 
LEICESTER  SHEEP. 
Sheep  from  my  flock  have  taken  many  of  the  first 
prizes  at  lhe  New  York  State  Fair  for  the  last  10 
years.  Choice  young  ewes  or  rams  from  $10  to  $15 
per  head.  _ 
Please  write  us  for  quotations  and  other  particulars 
DETROIT  LINSEED  OIL  WORKS, 
DETROIT.  MICHIGAN. 
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.  _ 
FOR  SALE. 
o  A  pair  of  Geldings,  16*^  hands;  good  action;  good 
pair;  weight,  2,500  pounds.  Clay  Jones  stock,  he  by 
Cassius  M.  Clay  80  For  information  Inquire  of 
E.  C.  PARKER,  Bristol,  Vt 
IMPORTED  SHROPSHlRES ! 
Our  1892  Importations  of  yearling  rams  and  ewes 
are  from  the  best  English  flocks.  None  better. 
THE  WILLOWS,  Paw  Paw,  Mich. 
FOR  SALE. 
—Two  choice  brood  mares,  11 
years  old,  Inbred  Champion, 
16  years  old  by  Volunteer  55.  Also  family  horse, 
16  hands,  1,050  pounds,  7  years,  bay,  black  points, 
sound  and  gentle.  Box  56,  Lock  Berlin,  N.  Y. 
Feeding  Animals. 
This  Is  a  practical  work  of  560  pages,  by  Professor 
E.  W.  STEWART,  upon  the  science  of  feeding  in  all 
its  details,  glvfcvg  practical  rations  for  all  farm  ani¬ 
mals.  Its  accuracy  is  proved  by  its  adoption  as  a  text 
book  In  nearly  all  Agricultural  Colleges  and  Experi¬ 
ment  Stations  in  America.  It  will  pay  anybody  hav¬ 
ing  a  horse  or  a  cow,  or  who  feeds  a  few  pigs  or 
sheep  to  buy  and  study  it  carefully.  Price,  *2.00. 
Address  THE  RURAL  PUBLISHING  COMPANY, 
Times  Building,  New  York. 
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  $800.  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. 
The  Best  Cattle  Fasteninai 
Smlth’g  Self-Adjusting1  Swine  Stanchic 
^y^The  only  Practical  Swing  Stanchion  lnv»rf 
Thousands  In  use.  Illustrated  circular  free. 
F.  G.  Parsons  A  Co.,  Addison,  StmbeD  On.,  H. 
HORSES  -  -  -  CATTLE. 
SMITHS  &  POWELL,  Syracuse,  N.Y.,  offer  very 
superior  FRENCH  COACH,  STANDARD,  CLYDESDALE,  PERCITERON, 
DRIVING  and  MATCHED  COACH  HORSES  (many  of  the  Prize  winners)  at 
very  reasonable  prices. 
Also  HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN  CATTLE,  from  the  handsomest  and  most  noted 
milk  and  butter  herd  in  the  world. 
RARE  BARGAINS  in  choice  show  animals,  and  cows  with  great  records. 
STATE  JU8T  WHAT  YOU  WANT,  AND  8AVE  TIME. 
