1892 
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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
T  i Tip  lX/T  o  will  be  almost  impossible  to  tip  it  over 
lve  matters  as  it  is  too  close  to  the  &round.  The 
horse  has  less  weight  to  carry  and  does 
not  need  to  slacken  his  pace  in  turning 
corners.  About  the  best  recommendation 
the  sulky  has  received  comes  from  Robert 
Bonner  who  prides  himself  on  owning 
the  fastest  trotter  in  the  world.  He  does 
not  propose  to  buy  Nancy  Hanks,  but  to 
buy  a  pneumatic  tire  sulky  and  drive 
Sunol  for  a  new  record.  He  says  this 
contrivance  will  increase  the  speed  of 
horses  bv  several  seconds  in  a  mile. 
FORKFULS  OF  FACTS. 
The  gentle  hog  makes  lard. 
Lse  the  calf  to  run  the  “  Baby  ”  sepa¬ 
rator. 
No  better  horse  pasture  than  Bhie 
Grass. 
Let  that  bull  spend  his  vacation  in  a 
tread  power. 
Beef  should  not  rise  to  the  dignity  of 
a  “  side  issue’’  with  a  good  butter  maker. 
l'UE  brooder  men  at  Ilammonton  used 
to  pick  up  any  and  all  eggs  for  hatching. 
Now  they  begin  to  breed  for  their  own 
eggs. 
A  man  in  a  sandy  part  of  Florida  says 
that  horses  and  mules  go  lame  and  cattle 
fail  unless  supplied  with  plenty  of  lime. 
The  food  and  water  there  seem  deficient 
in  this  substance  and  the  animals  crave  it. 
Every  prize  fighter  has  what  is  known 
as  a  “bullet  head.”  A  long,  narrow 
head  in  a  hog  indicates  a  hustler,  but  not 
a  good  feeder — unless  one  wants  lean 
pork.  The  lean  pork  must  come  from 
exercise. 
Don’t  forget  the  cut  bone  for  the  poul¬ 
try  this  fall.  Your  butcher  probably 
throws  away  hundreds  of  pounds  of  good 
bones.  You  don’t  hear  that  the  feed  man 
throws  away  good  grain  and  yet  the 
bones  would  take  the  place  of  the  grain. 
The  importance  of  having  cattle  tied 
in  the  stable  so  that  they  can  be  easily 
turned  loose  was  well  illustrated  in  The 
R.  N.-Y.’s  neighborhood  lately.  A  barn 
containing  30  cows  was  struck  by  light¬ 
ning,  and  only  two  of  the  cows  could  be 
taken  out  before  the  fire  reached  them  ! 
Next  to  a  capon,  about  the  most  un- 
happy  looking  male  is  a  scrub  bull  at  the 
head  of  a  milk  dairy  where  the  cows  are 
bought,  not  bred.  His  only  purpose  in 
life  is  to  bring  the  cows  to  milk.  The 
calves  are  merely  incidents  in  this  result 
— they  are  generally  killed  as  soon  as 
they  appear.  A  ridiculous  figure  does 
such  a  bull  cut. 
Still  the  Californians  insist  that  dairy 
Short-horns  are  their  best  butter  cows. 
As  the  Kean  County  Echo  says : 
In  every  dairy  in  the  county  there  are 
so  many  beef  cows  that  the  milk  pro¬ 
ducer  has  scarcely  a  ghost  of  a  chance. 
But  in  spite  of  all  this  the  fine  opportuni¬ 
ties  for  green  feed  almost  the  entire 
year,  the  remarkably  equable  tempera¬ 
ture  and  the  large  and  constantly  increas¬ 
ing  home  demand  for  dairy  products  all 
combine  to  make  the  business  profitable 
to  those  already  engaged  in  it,  and  to 
offer  good  inducements  to  others  to 
embark  in  it. 
Water  the  Sheep. — I  have  repeat¬ 
edly  tried  sheep  without  water.  They 
will  go  very  long  without  it,  and  those 
who  think  they  can  do  without  it  or  with 
very  little,  are  very  much  mistaken,  as 
fresh  spring  water  is  as  essential  as  food. 
So  is  shade,  which  is  rather  hard  to  pro¬ 
vide  unless  Nature  has  done  so  long  ago. 
As  for  ensilage  for  sheep,  I  have  never 
fed  any  during  the  summer  ;  but  as  soon 
as  we  house  our  Dorsets,  we  begin  to 
feed  it,  mixing  it  with  good  hay  or  corn 
fodder,  and,  for  ewes  that  are  suckling 
lambs,  grain  is  added,  and  none  have 
ever  done  so  well  as  those  fed  in  this 
way.  t.  s.  cooper. 
The  New  Sulky.— At  Fig.  238,  see 
page  586,  we  show  a  picture  of  the  new 
sulky  with  which  the  great  mare  Nancy 
Hanks  made  her  famous  record.  It  will 
be  noticed  that  the  wheels  are  much 
smaller  than  those  on  the  ordinary  sulky. 
They  are  attached  to  both  seat  and  shafts 
and  the  axles  run  with  “ballbearings,” 
that  is,  little  movable  balls  instead  of  a 
fixed  hub  surface.  This  saves  much 
friction  and  saves  labor  and  oil.  Instead 
of  the  heavy  iron  tires,  large  rubber  tires 
are  used  like  those  on  modern  bicycles. 
These  are  tough,  light  and  easy.  They 
will  not  “slew”  at  corners,  and  give  a 
chance  for  more  rapid  turns  and  a  quicker 
pace  aropnd  corners.  Such  a  sulky  is 
lighter  and  safer  than  the  old  one,  It 
More  Double- Yolked  Egos. — About 
40  years  ago  I  lived  in  Brooklyn  and  was 
at  that  time  considerably  affected.with 
the  “chicken  fever.”  I  had  a  correspon¬ 
dent  in  Boston  from  whom  I  occasionally 
purchased  fancy  fowls.  He  sent  me  at 
one  time  a  pair  of — I  think — Cochins  such 
as  they  were  then,  but  not  such  as  we 
have  now.  The  hen  laid  for  about  five 
days  in  a  week  invariably  a  large, 
double-yolked  egg  or  two  of  ordinary  size. 
1  kept  the  hen  and  cock  shut  up  by  them¬ 
selves  and  no  other  had  access  to  their 
coop,  as  I  was  desirous  to  breed  from 
them,  but  never  an  egg  would  hatch, 
either  double  or  single.  j.  w.  w. 
The  “cruel  and  senseless”  practice  of 
docking  the  tails  of  horses  was  recently 
the  subject  of  a  serious  debate  before  the 
Royal  Agricultural  Society  of  England. 
It  was  admitted  that  the  practice  is  a 
very  painful  one,  and  useless,  so  far  as 
the  practical  value  of  the  animal  goes. 
Unlike  dishorning,  it  cannot  be  argued 
that  docking  makes  the  animal  more 
quiet  and  less  dangerous.  But  it  was 
stated  that  unless  horses  were  docked, 
they  could  not  be  sold  in  the  fashionable 
English  markets.  The  public  demanded 
a  docked  horse,  and  the  farmer  must  give 
what  the  public  call  for.  It  was  then 
proposed  to  dock  foals  just  as  dishorning 
has  largely  become  a  practice  of  killing 
the  budding  horns  on  a  calf.  It  is  a 
cruel,  miserable  practice  at  best. 
C.  A.  Deveraux,  in  Hoard’s  Dairyman, 
gives  this  curious  result  of  spaying  a 
Jersey  cow  : 
We  found  it  impossible  to  get  Polly  in 
calf,  and  thiuking  to  preserve  her  as  a 
milker  for  two  or  three  years  longer,  we 
had  her  spayed.  Last  year  she  did  well 
and  her  milk  has  increased,  yielding  as 
rich  yellow  cream  as  before  she  was 
spayed,  but  when  trying  to  test  its  butter 
quality  we  found  it  impossible  to  make 
any  butter  from  it  that  we  could  gather. 
I  would  be  glad  to  know  if  any  one  else 
has  met  with  a  like  experience. 
Mr.  Deveraux  claims  to  have  a  grade 
Jersey  cow  that  made  645  pounds  of  but¬ 
ter  from  11,000  pounds  of  milk  in  one 
year.  He  thus  describes  her  appearance  : 
She  was  very  fat,  her  neck  appeared 
large  and  thick.  Her  horns  looked  like 
a  steer’s  and  altogether  she  seemed  to 
promise  much  for  beef  and  very  poorly 
for  milk.  Had  she  not  been  heavy  with 
calf,  I  think  I  would  have  sold  her  for 
beef.  The  result  proved  I  was  a  very 
poor  judge  of  heifers.  After  we  began 
to  milk  her  the  flesh  disappeared,  the 
neck  became  thin,  the  horns  seemed  to 
grow  in  a  different  shape,  and  in  all  the 
years  since  she  has  never  put  on  any 
flesh,  because  it  is  with  great  difficulty 
we  can  dry  her. 
A  Lamb  Creep. — Prof.  J.  A.  Craig,  in 
Bulletin  No.  32  of  the  Wisconsin  Experi¬ 
ment  Station  (Madison),  gives  the  result 
of  an  interesting  experiment  with  feed¬ 
ing  lambs.  Three  methods,  he  says,  are 
followed:  1.  The  ewes  and  lambs  run 
together  and  pick  a  living  as  best  they 
can  on  pasture,  without  grain.  2.  The 
ewes  are  fed  grain  as  are  also  the  lambs. 
3.  The  lambs  alone  are  fed  grain  and  the 
ewes  get  nothing  but  pasture.  Prof. 
Craig  gave  these  methods  a  careful  trial 
and  also  tried  feeding  the  ewes  alone. 
This  is  practiced  by  many  who  claim  that 
the  lambs  receive  ample  improvement 
from  the  increased  quantity  and  quality 
of  the  milk  from  the  ewes.  Briefly 
summed  up  Prof.  Craig's  conclusions  are 
as  follows : 
1,  It  pays  to  feed  the  lambs,  before 
they  are  weaped,  all  the  grain  they  will 
eat  when  on  good  Blpe  Grass  or  clover 
pasture  with  their  dams.  This  conclusion 
js  indorsed  bv  a  previous  trial) 
2.  \\  hen  the  ewes  have  been  properly 
fed  during  winter,  so  as  to  be  in  good 
condition  at  lambing  time,  it  does  not 
pay  to  feed  them  grain  when  on  good 
pasture  with  the  object  of  securing  more 
rapid  and  profitable  gains  in  the  lambs. 
The  point  then  is  to  feed  the  lambs  by 
themselves,  but  not  to  let  the  ewes  touch 
the  grain.  How  is  this  to  be  done  ?  Prof. 
Craig  made  use  of  the  device  pictured  at 
Fig.  240,  page  587.  This  is  called  a  “  lamb 
creep.” 
To  feed  grain  to  lambs  it  is  best  to  have 
a  part  of  a  pen  or  corner  of  a  field  fitted 
for  this  purpose,  so  that  the  lambs  may 
have  a  special  place  to  feed.  In  a  pen  in 
the  shed  a  corner  may  be  easily  divided 
off  and  in  the  field  a  sheltered  place, 
where  the  flock  may  be  in  the  habit  of 
gathering,  should  be  selected.  The  sim¬ 
plest  way  of  making  a  lamb  creep  is  to 
take  two  strips,  long  enough  to  reach 
across  the  corner  of  the  pen  and  strong 
enough  to  hold  stiffly  the  narrow,  upright 
pieces  that  should  be  nailed  to  them 
about  one  foot  apart  at  first.  As  the 
lambs  grow  the  spaces  between  the  up¬ 
rights  must  be  increased.  An  ingenious 
and  very  useful  construction  specially 
devised  for  this  purpose  is  shown  at  Fig. 
240.  It  can  be  readily  seen  from  the 
illustration  how  the  size  of  the  opening 
may  be  easily  changed  by  shifting  the 
peg  at  A.  By  doing  that  the  sliding 
frame,  B,  is  moved  and  that  throws  the 
upright  rollers,  D,  closer  or  farther  apart. 
The  scale  of  the  plan  is  one  inch  to  the 
foot.  The  framework  of  the  creep  is 
made  of  light,  flat,  iron  strips.  The  up¬ 
right  and  horizontal  rollers  are  made  of 
hard  wood  about  two  inches  in  diameter. 
The  creep  is  three  feet  four  inches  high 
and  four  feet  six  inches  wide.  The  sta¬ 
tionary,  upright  rollers  are  one  foot  apart 
and  two  feet  long.  The  illustration 
shows  the  creep  opened  as  wide  as  pos¬ 
sible.  The  two  end  strips  of  iron  are  ex¬ 
tended  so  that  the  creep  may  be  readily 
driven  into  the  ground,  and  by  running 
a  board  partition  from  either  side  it  is 
easy  to  separate  a  small  apartment  for 
the  lambs,  either  in  the  sheds  or  fields. 
Inside  of  the  apartment  for  the  lambs  we 
have  a  small  wooden  trough  that  is  spe¬ 
cially  suited  for  feeding  lambs.  It  dif¬ 
fers  from  an  ordinary  grain  trough  for 
feeding  grain  to  sheep  in  that  a  narrow 
strip  runs  along  the  top  of  the  trough 
about  eight  inches  above  the  center  of 
the  part  of  the  trough  that  holds  the 
grain.  This  is  to  keep  the  lambs  out  of 
the  trough.  In  crowding  for  their  feed 
they  would  get  into  the  trough  with  their 
feet  and  spoil  the  food  if  it  were  not  for 
this  arrangement. 
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ELLERSLIE  GUERNSEYS 
Largest  Guernsey  Herd  in  the  World. 
Cows  give 
6,000  to  11.000 
pounds  milk 
per  year  with- 
o  u  t  forcing. 
Milk  from 
fresh  cows,  4J* 
to  7  per  cent 
fat. 
BULLS  ONLY 
FOR  SALE. 
H.  M.  COTTRELL,  Snpt.,  Rhlneclilf,  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  2 %  ounces  butter  In  seven  days 
and  gave  1891  pounds  of  milk  in  31  days.  For  another 
bull.slre  of  19  great  butter  cows,  wo  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  wo  knock  in 
the  head.  No  catalogue  of  Jerseys.  Write  for 
what  you  want. 
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Franklin,  Venango  County,  Pa. 
Mention  this  paper. 
FOR 
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The  Stonykill  Farm  Guernsey 
Herd  for  Sale. 
This  herd  consists  of  nearly  Forty  Head  of  care- 
fullv  bred  COWS  and  1 1KIFERS,  and  will  be  offered 
at  very  moderate  prices,  quality  considered.  For 
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MADE.  60  in  successful  oper¬ 
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TI8ER  and  INVIGORaTOR  for  themselves 
Jayne’s  Tonic  Vermifuge,  taken  an  hour  after 
meals.  It  Is  also  the  best  Worm  Medicine  for  chil¬ 
dren.  For  the  Liver  use  the  Painless  Sugar-Coated 
Sanative  Pills.— Adv 
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CHEAPEST  FEED. 
We  have  a  stock  of  damaged  malt  and  barley  suit¬ 
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all  right  and  PRICE  IS  LOW.  Carloads  of  12  tons 
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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. 
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