1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
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Live  Stock  Matters 
FORKFULS  OF  FACTS. 
Got  any  turkies  ? 
Pig  pork  is  healthier  than  hog  pork. 
Now  is  the  time  for  green-fodder  crops. 
Don’t  let  the  horse  wear  a  tight  collar. 
The  check  rein  puts  a  check  on  com¬ 
fort. 
Has  a  newly- weaned  lamb  any  sense 
at  all  ?  Doubtful ! 
You  can’t  judge  the  quality  of  milk  by 
its  color.  The  Babcock  tester  is  the  thing 
for  that. 
Cows  and  Cold  Drink. — From  my  own 
observations  during  two  years  with  30 
cows,  I  do  not  think  they  care  for  cold 
water,  for,  if  the  water  in  the  trough  had 
been  pumped  a  few  hours,  they  would 
drink  a  lot  more  of  the  warm  than  of  the 
freshly-pumped  water.  Their  doing  so 
was  a  regular  thing,  so  that  I  tried  to 
have  the  trough  full  all  the  time,  as  it 
made  quite  a  considerable  difference  in 
the  milk  supply. 
Canada.  wm.  makkham  allen. 
Petaluma,  Cal.,  is  great  headquar¬ 
ters  for  poultry.  A  correspondent  says : 
At  a  fair  estimate  there  must  be  in  a 
radius  of  15  miles  from  Petaluma  close 
to  half  a  million  hens  in  flocks  ranging 
from  100  to  1,500.  We  consider  there  is 
more  clear  profit  in  keeping  25  hens  than 
one  cow.  We  do  not  make  $5  on  a  hen, 
but  we  do  clear  .$1  50  to  $2.50  per  hen  per 
year.  How  many  men  have  I  heard  ex¬ 
claim  :  “  If  it  had  not  been  for  my  chick¬ 
ens  I  would  have  run  behind.”  And 
dairymen  also  say  ,  “  I  make  more  money 
out  of  my  hens  than  I  do  out  of  the 
cows.” 
The  people  also  enjoy  a  good  market. 
It  is  said  that  one  can  sell  anything  from 
1,000  sacks  of  wheat  to  half  a  dozen  eggs 
and  get  cash.  As  the  same  correspondent 
says : 
I  saw  an  old  gentleman  once  bring  his 
eggs  to  market  in  his  coat-tail  pocket, 
get  his  cash  and  go  away  smiling. 
Size  of  Jersey  Cows. — Here  is  what 
the  Jersey  Bulletin  has  to  say  about  two 
important  topics : 
A  correspondent  writes  us  asking  ad¬ 
vice  as  to  how  the  size  of  the  Jersey  can 
be  improved.  He  happens  to  have  a  wife 
who  is  rather  under  medium  size,  but  as 
pretty  and  as  graceful  and  lovely  and  far 
more  charming  than  she  could  possibly 
be  if  she  weighed  200,  or  1,000  pounds  for 
that  matter.  We  asked  him,  for  answer 
to  this  question,  how  he  would  go  about 
improving  the  size  of  his  wife,  adding 
that  with  women  and  Jersey  cows  size 
does  not  count.  Don’t  worry  any  more 
about  the  size  of  your  Jersey  cows  than 
you  do  about  your  wife’s. 
“  Dip  Agent,”  in  The  Sheep  Breeder, 
tells  how  they  heat  the  water  for  dip¬ 
ping  sheep  in  Montana.  First  they  find 
a  number  of  big  rocks : 
“Around  each  rock,”  says  he,  “we 
wind  a  strong  piece  of  wire.  We  then 
build  a  good  fire,  and  our  rocks  are  hot 
in  short  order,  and  our  wire  serves  us 
well.  We  drag  the  stones  out  of  the 
fire  and  drop  each  one  in  the  tank,  and, 
after  they  cool  off  we  pull  them  out 
easily  with  the  wire,  otherwise  we  should 
have  had  a  tedious  time  fishing  them  out 
of  the  tank  with  a  fork.  It’s  quite  sur¬ 
prising  how  quickly  a  few  hot  rocks  will 
warm  the  water,  even  in  a  big  tank.” 
Shade  for  Sheep. — Sheep  have  to 
wear  an  overcoat  all  through  the  hot 
weather ;  consequently  they  need  shel¬ 
ter  more  than  any  other  animal.  Where 
the  shelter  is  the  manure  will  be  also, 
and  this  will  not  give  a  fair  distribution. 
English  shepherds  have  studied  the  mat¬ 
ter  for  their  high-priced  sheep.  The 
Mark  Lane  Express  says  : 
We  have  seen  nothing  better  than 
light  frames  mounted  on  wheels,  the 
whole  covered  in  with  Willesden  paper, 
though  any  light  and  sunproof  material 
would  answer  the  purpose  as  a  covering. 
The  great  advantage  of  these  is  that 
they  can  be  drawn  from  field  to  field  as 
conveniently  as  sheep  racks  on  wheels 
are  transported.  What  is  of  immense 
value  in  them  is  that  they  can  be  moved 
by  the  shepherd  from  one  pari  of  the 
field  to  another  with  little  effort ;  conse¬ 
quently  as  soon  as  one  patch  of  ground 
has  received  as  much  dunging  as  is  ad¬ 
visable  a  new  piece  can  be  treated  and 
the  whole  field  manured  evenly.  The 
low  frame  on  which  the  covering  is 
mounted  causes  a  draught  of  air  to  be 
constantly  circulating  through  it,  and 
the  sheep  are  restful  and  thrive  far  bet¬ 
ter  than  they  otherwise  would. 
Save  the  Skunks. — A  friend  in  Michi¬ 
gan  believes  that  skunks  do  far  more  ser¬ 
vice  than  harm.  He  says  : 
I  remember  that  about  30  years  ago  my 
father  tried  during  a  month  or  two  to 
kill  a  woodchuck  for  his  hide  to  be 
tanned  for  a  whiplash.  Now  I  can  take 
my  Winchester  and  go  out  and  in  two  or 
three  hours  often  kill  three  or  four;  and 
rabbits  are  a  still  greater  pest,  as  they 
increase  much  faster,  and.  as  I  am  in  the 
small-fruit  business  and  quite  a  large 
truck  grower,  they  eat  almost  everything 
I  raise,  cut  off  the  young  raspberries  and 
grape  vines  and  eat  the  garden  stuff. 
Now,  why  were  they  not  so  plentiful  in 
the  skunk  days  of  25  and  30  years  ago  ? 
Why,  the  skunk  destroys  the  young,  digs 
up  the  grub-worms  in  the  night,  and  does 
no  harm  except  to  get  now  and  then  a 
chicken  or  two.  which  can  be  easily 
guarded  against  by  a  little  care. 
What  is  your  opinion  of  this  matter  ? 
Big  Jersey  Calves.— G.  W.  Farlee,  in 
the  Breeder’s  Gazette,  thus  describes  his 
method  of  raising  Jersey  calves  : 
I  wean  my  calves  when  two  days  old 
and  immediately  add  one-fourth  sweet 
skim-milk  to  the  ration.  The  whole  milk 
of  a  highly- bred  Jersey  cow  is  too  rich 
for  calves  and  is  liable  to  give  them 
scours.  If  the  calves  are  doing  well  at 
two  weeks  old,  the  proportion  of  skim- 
milk  is  slightly  increased  and  a  little  oat¬ 
meal  and  oil-meal,  thoroughly  scalded, 
is  added,  not  to  exceed  a  tablespoonful 
of  the  mixture  daily.  The  oat  and  oil- 
meal  are  gradually  increased,  also  the 
proportion  of  skim-milk,  until  when  five 
or  six  weeks  old  the  calf  is  getting  no 
whole  milk.  The  calf  receives  skim-milk 
and  grain  mixed  with  it  until  it  is  nine 
months  old,  if  I  have  the  milk.  I  get 
great  size  with  this  treatment  and  be¬ 
lieve  I  can  make  as  fat  veal  on  this 
ration  as  on  the  whole  milk  of  ordinary 
cows. 
Kill  the  Horns. — On  page  459  The 
Rural  truly  says  :  “  Farmers  can  see  no 
value  in  horns  and  many  of  them  do  not 
want  to  cut  or  burn  them  off.”  On  page 
455  it  gives  wholesome  advice  in  these 
words  :  “  Kill  the  horns  before  they 
form.”  In  the  summer  of  1889  I  hired  an 
itinerant  dishorner  to  dishorn  two  of  my 
cattle.  lie  did  not  do  a  scientific  job  and 
all  four  of  the  stubs  grew.  This  did  not 
please  me  and  I  began  to  look  for  a  bet¬ 
ter  way.  The  following  winter  I  pro¬ 
cured  a  bottle  of  Haaff's  Horn  Killer  and 
have  used  it  with  very  satisfactory  re¬ 
sults  on  all  the  calves  I  have  raised  since 
then.  I  have  investigate  d,  so  far  as  I  am 
able,  all  the  chemical  dishorners  I  have 
heard  of  and  have  concluded  that  this 
one  is  second  to  none.  It  contains  no 
acid  or  potash  and  causes  no  pain  even 
when  applied  to  the  tender  skin  of  a  per¬ 
son’s  arm.  It  can  be  taken  into  the 
mouth  with  no  serious  effect  ;  yet  it  is  as 
efficacious  as  a  preventive  of  horn  growth 
as  any  one  need  wish.  Some  of  the 
preparations  for  dishorning  calves  cer¬ 
tainly  do  contain  acid  and  other  things 
not  desirable  to  apply  to  calves.  Last 
spring  I  purchased  a  dishorning-chute  and 
dishorned  my  grown  cattle  with  the  saw. 
They  did  exceedingly  well.  They  did 
not  shrink  in  their  milk  flow  nor  show  as 
much  evidence  of  pain  as  most  animals 
do  when  castrated.  Still  I  would  advise 
all  who  are  opposed  to  horns  to  kill  them 
before  they  form  and  save  their  cows’ 
heads  from  the  chute.  G.  G.  G. 
Marking  Sheep. 
A  correspondent  inquires  if  sheep  can 
be  marked  so  that  the  numbers  can  be 
seen  without  handling,  and  whether  they 
can  be  branded  in  their  faces  ? 
If  “branding”  is  ever  practiced  on 
sheep,  it  is  done  very  seldom.  I  have 
never  heard  of  such  marking.  The  Dana 
label  is  used  by  most  of  the  associations 
which  record  full-blooded  sheep,  but  of 
course  the  sheep  must  be  caught  before 
the  number  can  be  noticed.  Another 
method,  which  would  come  very  near 
answering  the  purpose  of  telling  the 
number  without  catching  the  sheep,  is 
the  use  of  a  round  piece  of  metal  about 
the  size  of  a  quarter  of  a  dollar,  on  which 
is  a  raised  letter  or  number,  which  can 
be  seen  very  plainly,  being  fastened  to 
the  ear  by  a  ring.  Another  system  is  by 
making  half  round  notches  in  the  rim  of 
the  ear:  each  position  of  the  mark  in¬ 
dicates  a  number.  This  method  can  be 
extended  to  any  number  and  is  fully 
described  in  most  of  the  books  on  sheep. 
For  instance,  a  notch  in  the  lower  side  of 
the  right  ear  would  mean  No.  1  ;  in  the 
middle,  No.  2  ;  at  the  tip,  No.  3  ;  then  on 
the  front  tip  No.  4,  and  so  on,  until  10 
different  numbers  have  been  located. 
Then  comes  a  combination  of  these 
marks,  by  which  any  number  can  be 
represented. 
Where  it  is  only  desired  to  have  the 
number  appear  for  a  few  days,  as  during 
shipment  to  market,  it  can  be  placed 
wherever  it  can  be  easily  noticed  on  the 
wool  with  a  brush  and  some  black  paint, 
or  stenciled  on  with  blacking.  In  prac¬ 
tical  sheep-raising  the  grower  must 
handle  his  sheep  daily  and  have  the 
yards  and  pens  arranged  so  that  any 
sheep  can  be  caught  at  any  time,  and  in 
fact  the  sheep  should  be  so  tame  that  the 
flock-master  can  easily  go  among  them 
and  touch  any  one  he  wants  to  examine. 
Numbers  which  can  be  seen  from  a  dis¬ 
tance  are  therefore  seldom  needed.  “The 
shepherd  knoweth  his  sheep  and  is 
known  of  them,”  so  while  the  man  who 
cares  for  them  every  day  would  have  no 
trouble  to  read  a  small  tag,  a  stranger 
would  hardly  get  near  enough  to  read  a 
big  number. 
The  Dana  tag  although  small,  answers 
every  purpose  of  private  character.  At 
shearing  time  the  lambs  are  marked  with 
a  number  which  shows  the  family  they 
belong  to,  and  the  weight  of  the  fleece 
of  each  ewe  is  placed  against  the  number 
belonging  to  her.  Sometimes  a  “selling 
mark  ”  is  placed  on  those  which  are  to 
go  to  market,  and  this  would  probably 
be  a  wise  plan  where  the  flock  was  large. 
If  the  “best”  are  always  kept  over,  it  is 
a  great  help  to  have  “  numbers”  to  assist 
in  this  annual  sorting  out. 
Iowa.  A.  H.  SHELDON. 
LEVI  P.  MOKTON’8 
ELLERSLIE  GUERNSEYS 
Cows  Rive 
(5,000  to  11,000 
pounds  milk 
per  year  with- 
o  u  t  forcing. 
Milk  from 
fresh  cows,  45t 
to  7  per  cent 
fat. 
YOU  NEED  A 
BULL  FROM 
OUR  HERD. 
H.  M.  COTTRELL,  Supt.,  Rhinecllff,  N.  Y. 
College  of  VETERINARY  SURGEONS. 
Lectures  will  begin  September  29, 1892.  For  circular 
address  SECRETARY,  332  East  27th  St.,  N.  Y.  City. 
WATERING  DEVICE 
for  LIVE  STOCK  In  8TA  HUES.  Bend  for  circu¬ 
lars  for  the  only  practical  and  economical  one  In  the 
rnurket. 
C.  K.  KUCKLKY  <B  CO.,  Dover  Plains,  N  Y 
GUERNSEYS  a"",. 
The  Stonykill  Farm  Guernsey 
Herd  for  Bale. 
This  herd  consists  of  nearly  Forty  Hoad  of  care¬ 
fully  bred  COWS  and  HEIFERS,  and  will  be  offered 
at  very  moderate  prices,  quality  considered.  For 
further  particulars  address 
SAMUEL  VERPLANCK,  FlshklU-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  deep-milking  cows,  and  from  a  bull 
notable  for  his  tine  dairy  pointH.  Price,  f.  o.  b.  here, 
mo  each.  I).  M.  CAMPBELL,  Oneonta,  N  Y. 
Cotswolds,  Sotithdowns, 
Oxford  Down  and  Shrop¬ 
shire  Sheep  and  Lanihs  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  BURPEH&CO.,  PHILA.,  PA. 
UPTON  STOCK  FARM. 
Few  Remedies  after  sixty  years  trial  and  constant 
use,  retain  their  position  as  the  best;  yet,  such  Is  the 
case  with  I)r.  D.  .Jayne's  Tonic  Vermifuge.  Whether 
as  a  tonic  or  strengthener  In  dyspepla  In  adults,  or 
the  indigestion  and  derangements  of  the  stomach  In 
children.  It  Is  simply  Invaluable;  and  as  a  Worm 
remedy,  it  Is  one  of  the  most  safe  and  best.  Hold  by 
all  Druggists.— Ada. 
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. 
Please  write  us  for  quotations  and  other  particulars 
DETROIT  LINSEED  OIL  WORKS, 
DETROIT.  MICHIGAN. 
Headquarters  for  Thoroughbred  Stock. 
JERSEY  CATTLE. 
I  have  bred  Jerseys  for  27  years.  I  have  young 
cows;  any  one  would  just  fill  the  bill  lor  a  choice 
family  eow.  Ten  or  more  for  sale  for  from  *10  to  *.r>0 
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. 
DELAINE  MERINO  SHEEP. 
I  am  breeding  as  large,  smooth  sheep  as  possible 
with  as  long,  fine  delaine  staple  as  I  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 
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  *3U0  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. 
IMPORTED  SHROPSHIRES ! 
Our  1892  Importations  of  yearling  rams  and  ewes 
are  from  the  best  English  flocks.  None  better. 
THE  WILLOWS,  Paw  Paw,  Mich. 
Feeding  Animals. 
This  Is  a  practical  work  of  500  pages,  by  Professor 
K.  W.  STEWART,  upon  the  science  of  feeding  In  all 
its  details,  giving  practical  rations  for  all  farm  anl 
mala.  Its  accuracy  Is  proved  by  its  adoption  as  a  text 
book  In  nearly  all  .Agricultural  Colleges  and  Experl 
nient  Stations  In  America.  It  will  pay  anybody  hav 
lng  a  horse  or  a  eow,  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. 
The  Best  Cattle  Fastenina) 
B^The  only  Practical  Swing  Stanchion  Invent 
Thousands  In  use.  Illustrated  circular  free. 
F.  G.  Pariom  *  Co.,  Addison,  Bteaban  Oc.,  If.  w 
HORSES  -  -  -  CATTLE. 
SMITHS  &  POWELL,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  offer  very 
superior  FRENCH  COACH,  STANDARD,  CLYDESDALE,  FERCHERON, 
DRIVING  and  MATCHED  COACH  HORSES  (many  of  the  Prize  winners)  at 
very  reasonable  prices. 
Also  HOLS  1  EIN-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  JUST  WHAT  YOU  WANT,  AND  SAVE  TIME. 
