1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
Live  Stock  Matters 
FORKFULS  OF  FACTS. 
Let  the  hens  work  over  the  coal  ashes. 
Don’t  let  the  lazy  horse  throw  extra 
work  on  his  mate. 
Wanted  !  One  reason  why  those  young 
roosters  should  be  at  large  ! 
No  better  winter  layer  than  the  Leg¬ 
horn  if  you  keep  the  cold  away  from  her 
comb. 
We  have  had  uniformly  good  results 
from  using  ram  lambs  moderately  the 
first  autumn  of  their  lives;  and  the  lambs 
from  such  sires  are  not  different  in  any 
respect  from  those  from  older  sires. 
J.  L.  THOMPSON. 
The  French  Coacher  is  comparatively 
new  and  is  intended  for  breeding  a  fine, 
stylish,  high-acting  carriage  horse,  with 
size  enough  to  handle  heavy  vehicles;  in 
case  the  colt  is  not  what  you  might 
consider  a  first-class  horse  for  citj’  pur¬ 
poses,  he  will  then  be  a  general-purpose 
or  all-work  horse  that  can  be  worked  on 
the  farm  or  driven  over  the  roads. 
w.  E.  ELWOOD. 
“  The  hired  man  got  angry  at  our  lazy 
horse  last  week,”  said  a  good  Long 
Island  farmer.  “All  I  said  was,  ‘  Charlie, 
read  black  beauty  !  ’  and  he  let  the  horse 
go.  A  few  days  later  I  was  driving  on 
the  mowing  machine.  Charlie  leaned  on 
his  fork  and  called  out  ‘  Mr.  H.,  read 
black  beauty  !  ’  I  looked  and  saw  that 
Kentuck  was  hanging  back,  making  Jake 
do  all  the  hauling.  It  was  a  good  hit, 
and  I  gave  Kentuck  a  good  cut  to  bring 
her  up  to  time.” 
A  CORRESPONDENT  of  Hoard's  Dairyman 
says  that  the  best  hotel  in  Dallas,  Tex., 
uses  oleo  exclusively,  as  do  most  of  the 
restaurants.  No  hotel  in  the  North  could 
do  that  and  let  the  fact  become  known, 
without  at  once  losing  a  large  part  of  its 
patronage.  Up  in  this  part  of  the  world 
we  like  to  know  what  our  butter  is  made 
of,  and  most  of  us  have  scruples  about 
eating  some  of  the  fats  which  find  their 
way  into  hog  butter.  The  very  thought 
of  eating  the  nasty  stuff  is  enough  to 
nauseate  a  sensitive  stomach. 
Among  the  lessons  learned  at  the  Can¬ 
adian  experiment  farm  are  these  : 
That  no  hens  should  be  kept  over  two 
years  ;  because  after  that  age  they 
moult  so  late  that  the  prospective  profit 
is  eaten  up  before  they  begin  to  lay;  no 
soft-shelled  eggs  were  laid  by  the  pullets, 
showing  that  they  are  not  as  likely  to 
do  so  as  the  old  stock ;  that  the  daily 
mixing  of  coarse  sand,  fine  gravel  and 
sifted  oyster  shells  in  small  quantities 
has  a  preventive  tendency.  A  small 
quantity  of  salt  was  mixed  daily  in  the 
hot  morning  ration,  but  as  it  created 
looseness  among  the  brahmas,  Cochins 
and  several  Plymouth  Rock  hens,  its  use 
was  given  up. 
The  thing  for  a  self-respecting  hog 
shut  up  in  a  bare  lot  to  do  is  to  die  of 
cholera  right  now  and  avoid  the  misery 
of  the  next  three  months  and  cholera  at 
the  end  of  it. — Omaha  Stockman. 
Our  esteemed  contemporary  is  right.  If 
he  will  corral  the  hog-cholera  inoculators 
that  are  now  infesting  the  West  with  the 
cholera-stricken  victims  of  their  skill,  in 
the  same  lot  above  alluded  to,  and  let 
them  all  die  together,  he  will  be  doing 
his  country  a  service.  This  pest  of  hog- 
cholera  is  very  largely  the  result  of 
avoidable  errors  in  the  treatment  of  the 
hog,  if  not  entirely  so,  and  this  idea  is 
beginning  to  dawn  on  the  breeders. 
Double  Germed  Eggs. — Henry  Stew¬ 
art  seems  to  assume  that  either  the 
white  or  yolk  of  an  egg  changes  into  the 
chicken.  If  he  will  examine  the  average 
egg  on  the  average  farm,  where  two  or 
three  roosters  are  kept,  he  will  find  in 
the  large  end,  floating  in  the  white  and 
plainly  visible,  the  germ  of  the  chicken, 
which  would  absorb  the  white  and  yolk, 
I  have  often  seen  two  germs  in  one  egg. 
If  a  double  yolked  egg  had  not  the  two 
germs,  of  course  there  would  not  be  two 
chicks,  and  if  the  two  germs  were  in  one 
shell  without  sufficient  nourishment  we 
could  not  expect  two  chickens.  The 
problem  is  like  the  fox,  goose  and  cab- 
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bage  story — we  must  find  the  two  germs 
with  two  yolks  and  then  if  possible  hatch 
the  chicks.  fred  hayward. 
Lazy  and  Industrious  Hens.— A  writer 
in  the  Fancier’s  Journal  has  this  account 
of  two  hens : 
I  have  a  Silver  Polish  hen  which  has  a 
brood  of  chicks,  16  in  number,  and  every 
hour  in  the  day  she  is  scratching  and 
hunting  bugs  and  worms  for  the  chicks, 
in  among  the  pines,  along  the  fences  and 
hedge-rows,  and  she  gets  the  bugs  and 
insects — at  least  the  chicks  do — and  I 
never  did  see  finer  looking  chicks,  or 
chicks  that  grew  so  rapidly,  and  now 
when  a  month  old,  they  are  beauties. 
The  clutch  is  composed  of  Light  brahmas, 
Partridge  Cochins  and  Golden  Penciled 
Hamburgs.  And  she  has  never  lost  a 
chick,  never  killed  one  at  night,  and  no 
dog,  or  hawk,  or  intruder  can  come  near 
her  brood,  which  she  guards  with  the 
most  zealous  care  and  affection.  A  $10 
bill  would  not  buy  that  Polish  hen.  In 
contrast  to  this  tireless  worker  and  good 
provider.  I  have  a  lazy  ben,  a  Silver 
Wyandotte,  which  started  out  with  a 
brood  of  27  chicks,  Light  brahmas  and 
Silver  Spangled  Hamburgs,  at  the  same 
time  the  Polish  hen  came  off  with  her 
brood,  and  I  solemnly  aver  that  up  to 
date  I  have  never  seen  that  Wyandotte 
hen  scratch  a  scratch,  and  her  fine  brood 
of  chicks  have  dwindled  down  to  12. 
Nearly  every  night  she  has  killed  a  chick 
with  her  clumsy  feet,  and  her  chicks  are 
not  nearly  so  large  nor  so  fine  as  the 
Polish  hen’s,  all  from  the  same  stock, 
simply  because  the  Wyandotte  is  too  lazy 
to  scratch  for  them,  and  yet  she  is  in 
perfect  health  and  is  the  best  marked 
hen  I  have  of  that  breed.  If  her  chicks 
have  ever  been  lucky  enough  to  get  a 
bug  or  a  worm  they  found  it  themselves. 
She  loiters  about  the  hen  house  most  of 
the  time,  and  when  she  is  “  shoved  ”  off 
into  the  woods  or  down  into  the  field  she 
is  back  to  the  house  again  in  short  order, 
and  the  most  persistent  driving  away 
into  places  where  bugs  and  insects  great¬ 
ly  abound  will  not  induce  her  to  scratch 
for  her  young  family. 
Dutch  Belted  Cattle 
Boomed. 
WHAT  IS  CLAIMED  FOR  THE  BREED. 
Will  you  kindly  give  us  three  reasons  why  you 
think  a  farmer  should  use  Dutch  Belted  cattle  in 
preference  to  other  breeds  ?  In  what  department  of 
farming  are  they  most  riseful  ?  In  what  ways  are 
they  superior  to  Holstelns  ? 
They  are  Great  Digesters. 
1.  Disposition  and  constitution  are  the 
chief  requirements  of  a  dairy  cow  and  in 
these  respects  the  Dutch  belted  cows 
have  been  bred  as  the  ideal.  2.  Medium 
size,  strong  digestive  apparatus  and 
wonderful  milk-secreting  powers  enab'e 
cows  of  this  breed  to  produce  the  greatest 
percentage  of  produce  compared  with 
the  amount  of  feed  consumed.  3.  Their 
persistent  milking  qualities,  capability 
of  utilizing  coarse  fodder,  digesting  all 
the  feed,  tidy  appearance,  as  the  parts 
liable  to  be  soiled  are  black,  are  special 
points  to  recommend  them  in  the  interest 
of  economy  and  profit. 
While  ours  have  but  one  type  —  the 
standard  milk  type — Holsteins  recognize 
three — the  milk,  beef,  and  a  combination 
Of  both.  H.  B.  RICHARDS. 
Secretary  D.  b.  Cattle  Association. 
Not  Too  Bulky  for  Business. 
Dutch  belted  cattle  are  desirable  for 
farmers  and  useful  as  a  dairy  breed  be¬ 
cause  they  are  large  and  persistent 
milkers,  and,  though  not  a  beef  breed, 
yet  when  for  cause  they  are  laid  aside  as 
milkers,  they  fatten  well.  Then  they 
are  hardy,  long-lived  and  prepotent. 
They  yield  good,  rich  milk,  though  it  is 
not  exceptionally  rich  like  that  of  the 
Jerseys  and  Guernseys,  the  butter  breeds. 
The  large  quantity  precludes  such  great 
richness.  They  are  so  far  acclimated, 
Americanized,  as  to  be  less  susceptible 
to  our  excessive  and  sudden  changes  of 
temperature  than  other  foreign  breeds. 
Not  quite  so  large  and  heavy  as  their 
cousins,  the  Holsteins,  they  work  our 
broken  and  diversified  pastures  more 
profitably.  From  their  many  years  of 
treatment  under  our  dairy  system,  they 
endure  longer,  do  not  “  go  to  pieces,”  i  e. , 
lose  teats  and  break  down  under  slightly 
loose  treatment  or  neglect,  as  do  the  Hol¬ 
steins.  From  the  fact  that  they  are  large 
and  persistent  milkers,  often  refusing  to 
be  dried  off,  and  holding  on  to  a  good 
age,  they  are  especially  useful  to  farmers, 
and  their  comely  appearance  makes  them 
an  ornament  in  the  pasture. 
NAT.  W.  HOWELL. 
Nothing  “Beats  the  Dutch.” 
Farmers  should  always  use  a  breed  of 
cattle  suited  to  their  speciality.  My 
“money  crop”  is  milk  for  a  first-class 
city  route  and  T  want  large  and  persistent 
milkers,  giving  milk  of  good  quality  ; 
then  they  must  have  a  thrifty  and  good 
constitution,  be  regular  breeders  and  of 
a  handsome  milk  form  generally  and  at¬ 
tractive  looking — cows  that  will  sell  well 
to  cattle  dealers,  city  milkmen  and 
wealthy  fancy  farmers,  and  the  Dutch 
belted  cattle  fill  the  bill.  There  are 
good  cattle  in  all  breeds  and  the  ad¬ 
herents  of  each  usually  ignore  all  others, 
good  or  bad,  but  I  will  not  be  a  judge 
for  others,  only  for  myself.  The  beef 
breeds,  Herefords,  Aberdeen  -  Angus, 
Sliort-horns,  Devons,  etc.,  are  not,  as 
breeds,  adapted  to  a  milk  farm,  although 
occasionally  large  milkers  crop  out 
among  them.  I  found  the  Jerseys  not 
profitable  for  me  here  in  Worcester 
County,  Mass.;  the  Guernseys  are  better 
for  this  vicinity  I  think  if  a  Channel 
Islands’  breed  is  desired.  The  Swiss  I 
found  very  good;  Ayrshires  and  Hol¬ 
steins  are  both  good  milkers,  but  their 
reputation  for  yielding  a  blue  and  poor 
quality  of  milk  is  hurtful  to  business  and 
Holsteins  are  almost  too  big  and  hard 
keepers  for  our  New  England  pastures.' 
The  Dutch  belted  cattle  breed  true  and 
transmit  their  good  qualities  and  I  have 
had  splendid  success  with  them. 
.JOHN  C.  MAC  INNES. 
Givk  Ready  Attention  and  Prompt  Treat¬ 
ment  to  all  Affections  of  the  Bowels.  Dlarrhma, 
Cholera  Morbus,  Dysentery,  etc.  Dr.  Jayne's  Carmi¬ 
native  Balsam  affords  Immediate  relief,  and  speedily 
cures  these  complaints.— Artv. 
UNSEED  OIL  MEAL 
At  present  writing  (July  1,  18112,)  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. 
VARS  OCA 
FRENCH  GOACHEBS  AND 
rcheron  Horses. 
100 
Prizes  at  four  leading 
American  Fairs. 
Write  for  Catalogue. 
JOHN  W.  AKIN, 
Scipio,  N.  Y. 
IMPORTED  SHROPSHIRES! 
Our  1892  Importations  of  yearling  rams  and  ewes 
are  from  the  best  English  flocks.  None  better. 
THE  WILLOWS,  Paw  Paw,  Mlcb. 
Hampshire  down  rams-  Bred  frem 
imported  stock. 
HORACE  ROBERTS,  Fellowship,  N.  J. 
Feeding  Animals. 
This  Is  a  practical  work  of  500  pages,  by  Professor 
E.  W.  STEWART,  upon  the  science  of  feeding  In  all 
its  details,  giving  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. 
LEVI  P.  MORTON’S 
ELLERSLIE  GUERNSEYS 
Largest  Guernsey  Herd  in  the  World. 
Cows  give 
6,000  to  11,000 
pounds  milk 
per  year  witli- 
o  u  t  forcing. 
Milk  from 
fresh  cows, 
to  7  per  cent 
fat. 
BULLS  ONLY 
FOR  SALE. 
II.  M.  COTTRELL,  Supt.,  Rhineclifl’,  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  STABLES.  Send  for  circu¬ 
lars  for  the  only  practical  and  economical  one  In  the 
C.  E.  BUCKLEY  A  CO.,  Dover  Plains,  N  Y 
GUERNSEYS  SFA°LR, 
The  Stonykill  Farm  Guernsey 
Herd  for  Sale. 
This  herd  consists  of  nearly  Forty  Head  of  care¬ 
fully  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 
AYRSHIRES  FOR  SALE. 
A  very  choice  lot  of  thoroughbred  Ayrshire  calves 
—  bulls  and  heifers— entitled  to  Immediate  registry, 
the  offspring  of  deep-inllklng  cows,  and  from  a  bull 
notable  for  his  tine  dairy  points.  Price,  f.  o.  b.  here, 
WHO  each.  I).  M.  CAMPBELL,  Onconta,  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  breeds,  We  also  have  a  choice 
lot  of  yearlings  and  two-year-olds  to  offer.  Write 
at  once  forprices  and  particulars. 
W.ATLEE  BURPEE  &  CO.,  PHILA.,PA. 
UPTON  STOCK  FARM. 
Headquarters  for  Thoroughbred  Stock. 
JERSEY  CATTLE. 
I  have  bred  Jerseys  for  27  years.  I  have  young 
cowh  ;  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  $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, 
with  as  long,  tine  delaine  staple  as  1  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  SALK. 
At  weaning  time  prices  will  bo  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  Fastening 
Smith’s  Self-Adjusting  Swing  Stanchlo 
iy  The  only  Practical  Swing  Stanchion  inv*nC 
Thousands  In  use.  Illustrated  circular  free. 
F.  O.  Parsons  A  Co.,  Addison,  Steuben  Co.,  N.  V. 
HORSES  -  -  -  CATTLE. 
SMITHS  &  POWELL,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  offer  very 
superior  FRENCH  COACH,  STANDARD,  CLYDESDALE,  PERCHERON, 
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  JUST  WHAT  YOU  WANT,  AND  SAVE  TIME. 
