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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
Live  Stock  Matters 
FORKFULS  OF  FACTS. 
Stamp  on  the  corners  and  edges  of  the 
silo. 
Clear  the  way  for  the  Guernseys — ye 
dairy  breeds. 
Don’t  let  that  idle  hull  pass  the  win¬ 
ter  doing  nothing. 
Don’t  let  the  cows  take  cold  in  the 
chilling  fall  rains — that  is,  if  we  are  to 
have  any  rains  this  year. 
We  spayed  a  few  cows  which  had  be¬ 
come  dry  and  which  we  wished  to  fatten 
for  beef.  They  gained  in  flesh  very  fast. 
MILLER  A  SIBLY. 
Here  are  W.  H.  Gilbert’s  reasons  for 
thinking  the  dash  churn  is  not  equal  to 
other  forms : 
Because  it  will  not,  as  a  rule,  recover 
as  much  fat  from  the  cream.  There  is 
always  some  cream  left  sticking  to  the 
sides  of  the  churn.  The  dasher,  passing 
up  and  down  directly  through  the  center 
of  the  churn,  does  not  disturb  this,  and 
it  goes  off  in  the  butter-milk.  A  square 
box  or  barrel-form  of  churn,  without  any 
“inside  fixings,”  will  produce  the  best 
results  as  well  as  do  the  most  rapid  work. 
Smut  on  Corn  Stalks. — I  have  always 
wintered  my  cows  and  heifers  on  corn 
stalks  without  removing  the  smut,  and 
have  never  seen  any  bad  effects.  Gen¬ 
erally  from  six  to  ten  heifers  and  from 
10  to  12  older  cows  drop  their  calves  in 
the  spring  and  none  has  ever  aborted. 
Smut  on  corn  certainly  does  not  pro¬ 
duce  abortion  here,  in  Pulaski  County, 
Va.  I  have  always  heard  that  smut  would 
produce  abortion  in  cows  ;  but  such  a 
thing  is  unknown  here,  as  I  have  talked 
to  several  of  my  neighbors  on  the  sub¬ 
ject.  B.  F.  MOREHEAD. 
Flavored  Eggs. — J.  H.  Drevenstedt  in 
Fancier’s  Journal  gives  this  bit  of  infor¬ 
mation  : 
Some  years  ago,  when  we  bought  eggs 
from  farmers  to  ship  to  the  city,  we 
found  the  largest  and  best-looking  eggs 
at  a  farm  adjoining  a  slaughter-house. 
The  owner  of  the  hens  fed  corn  princi¬ 
pally,  and  his  hens  having  free  range 
naturally  found  in  the  slaughter-house 
refuse  a  rich  feast.  Notwithstanding 
the  freshly  gathered  eggs  and  the  rich 
yolks  they  contained,  complaint  was 
made  that  the  eggs  were  “  not  fresh.” 
Investigation  proved  that  the  refuse  of 
the  slaughter-house  had  tainted  the  eggs, 
and  even  the  freshest  of  the  latter  did 
not  escape  the  unpleasant  odor.  That’s 
why  we  should  hesitate  to  feed  onions  as 
a  regular  daily  ingredient  of  the  food. 
Spaying  Spoiled  this  Cow. — We  have 
one  cow  that  has  been  spayed.  She  was 
a  very  extra  good  cow  about  eight  years 
old  and  as  I  could  not  get  her  with  calf, 
she  was  spayed  in  the  hope  that  she 
would  give  a  good  mess  of  milk  for  two 
or  three  years.  Her  flow  of  milk  has  in¬ 
creased  and  to  all  appearances  it  is  as  rich 
as  ever.  Thirteen  pounds  of  her  milk 
formerly  made  a  pound  of  butter,  and 
wishing  to  know  if  there  was  any  differ¬ 
ence,  her  milk  was  set  separate  and 
churned.  We  could  get  from  it  no  but¬ 
ter  that  we  could  gather.  Thinking 
there  might  have  been  something  wrong 
in  the  manipulation  of  the  milk,  we  re¬ 
peated  the  experiment  with  the  same 
result.  This  is  all  the  experience  I  have 
had  with  spayed  cows.  a.  devereux. 
Early  Birds  to  Catch  Eggs.— On  page 
631  of  The  It.  N.-Y.  are  some  records  from 
the  Canadian  Experiment  Farm  as  to  the 
age  at  which  pullets  begin  laying,  and 
the  inquiry  is  made  as  to  who  can  beat 
them.  I  can,  and  do  so  easily.  My  first 
hatch  this  season  was  made  on  April  16, 
and  the  first  pullet  laid  on  August  17, 
when  four  months  and  one  day  old.  My 
second  hatch  was  made  on  May  8,  and  the 
first  pullet  laid  from  that  hatch  on  Sep¬ 
tember  4,  when  four  days  less  than  four 
months  of  age.  My  third  hatch  was 
made  on  May  30,  and  the  first  pullet  from 
that  hatch  laid  on  September  26  when 
four  days  less  than  four  months  of  age. 
My  fourth  hatch  was  on  June  21  and  the 
pullets  are  now  but  little  more  than  three 
months  old,  and  are  as  promising  as  the 
others  at  their  age.  Now  while  these 
chicks  have  always  had  fairly  good  care 
in  every  other  respect,  they  have  until 
quite  recently  been  very  much  crowded, 
being  kept  in  lots  of  from  250  to  300  and 
even  400  when  quite  small,  in  apartments 
12x20  feet  with  a  park  2x8  rods.  They 
are  an  unusually  strong  and  healthy  lot, 
and  of  the  first  hatch  more  than  half  of 
the  pullets  are  now  laying,  with  the  rest 
SOOn  to  follow.  C.  H.  WYCKOFF. 
Golden  Spangled  IIamburgs.  —  A 
reader  asking  for  those  who  have  this 
breed,  says  :  “  I  had  the  breed  in  Eng¬ 
land  fully  25  years,  and  always  found 
them  satisfactory,  being  good  layers,  and 
especially  well  flavored  on  the  table. 
Some  of  my  friends  used  to  delare  that 
they  had  quite  a  game  flavor.  They  are 
the  prettiest  of  all  fowls  to  look  at.  They 
are  called  pheasant  fowls  in  some  parts 
of  England,  they  having  the  spangled 
markings  of  a  pheasant  cock’s  breast. 
Those  I  had  were  good,  medium-sized 
fowls,  nearly  as  large  as  Dorkings,  and 
larger  than  the  Silver-Spangled  or  Pen¬ 
cilled  IIamburgs.” 
H.  C.  Farnum,  of  Detroit,  Mich., 
writes:  “  I  closed  a  deal  yesterday  with 
Senator  T.  W.  Palmer,  proprietor  of  the 
‘Log  Cabin  Stock  Farm,’  Detroit,  Mich., 
for  the  entire  ‘  Log  Cabin  ’  stud  of  Per- 
cheron  horses.  In  the  lot  is  the  cele¬ 
brated  Fenelon,  2682  (38),  and  about  a 
dozen  very  finely  bred  mares,  got  to¬ 
gether  by  Mr.  C.  S.  Dola,  of  Illinois,  and 
subsequently  sold  to  Senator  Palmer. 
This  stock,  with  ‘  Island  Home  ’  stud  of 
Percheron  and  French  Coach  horses,  will 
place  me  in  first-class  shape  for  the  com¬ 
ing  season’s  trade,  as  I  think  that,  with 
the  acquired  reputation  of  ‘  Island 
Home  ’  and  the  present  addition,  I  shall 
be  able  to  please  the  most  exacting.” 
Selling  Guernsey  Milk. — A.  L. 
Crosby,  a  Jersey  breeder,  pays  this  trib¬ 
ute  to  the  Guernsey  : 
Milk  selling,  for  consumption  in 
cities,  is  gradually  coming  to  the  point 
where  quality  tells;  heretofore,  milk  has 
been  milk,  and  poor  stuff  at  that,  and 
for  the  general  run  of  consumers  it  will 
remain  so  for  an  indefinite  time,  perhaps, 
but  there  is  a  class  of  consumers  who  are 
willing  to  pay  an  extra  price  for  milk  of 
an  extra  quality,  and  this  class  is  rapidly 
increasing.  Selling  Guernsey  milk  to 
this  class  of  people  will  pay  much  better 
than  to  make  butter  out  of  it.  Some 
Jersey  men  are  now  doing  this  very  thing, 
and  as  they  have  continued  in  the  busi¬ 
ness  for  years,  they,  presumably,  are 
making  more  money  than  if  they  made 
butter.  But  the  Guernsey  possesses  ad¬ 
vantages  for  this  line  of  business  that 
the  Jersey  doesn’t;  her  extra  yield  of 
milk  and  the  extra  coloring  she  puts  into 
it,  are  factors  that  place  her  at  the  head 
of  the  gilt-edged  milk  cow  procession. 
The  Guernsey  may  be  said  to  possess  two 
serviceable  strings  to  her  bow,  and,  thus 
far,  she  is  in  the  lead. 
An  African  Sheep. — A  writer  in  the 
Wool  Grower  tells  this  queer  story  about 
a  sheep : 
Some  two  years  ago  a  friend  of  mine 
in  Boston,  having  an  interest  in  an  old 
delapidated  vessel  just  arrived  from  the 
coast  of  Africa,  invited  me  to  walk  down 
to  the  wharf  with  him  and  take  a  look  at 
what  was  left  of  her.  On  our  arrival, 
the  first  thing  that  attracted  my  atten¬ 
tion  was  a  little  black  object  running 
around  the  deck.  I  was  informed  that 
it  was  an  African  sheep  taken  aboard 
with  others  to  be  slaughtered  for  food, 
and  this  one  being  so  poor  in  flesh  they 
considered  it  worthless.  I  bought  it 
from  the  steward  as  a  curiosity  and  sent 
it  to  my  farm.  It  being  a  ewe,  I  tried  to 
induce  several  sea  captains  to  get  it  a 
mate,  but  failed.  I  put  it  in  a  pen  with 
some  young  calves.  As  the  latter  ma¬ 
tured  they  were  removed  and  others 
substituted.  With  every  new  arrival 
this  little  black  imp  would  have  a  fight. 
She  would  butt  the  calf  into  subjection, 
but  sometimes  it  would  take  more  than 
a  day  to  conquer.  After  this  she  would 
jump  onto  the  calf’s  back  and  stand  there 
and  chew  her  cud  until  she  wanted  to  do 
something  else.  When  the  calf  was  fed 
she  would  go  for  her  share,  and  nothing 
could  prevent  her  getting  it.  Last  week 
this  queer  specimen  of  a  sheep  dropped 
a  little  black  and  white  ewe  lamb  about 
the  size  of  a  small  coney  rabbit.  The 
lamb  is  well  developed,  smart  and  all 
right  in  every  particular.  The  African 
sheep  has  no  wool.  It  has  a  sort  of  curly 
hair,  more  like  goat’s  hair,  not  very 
coarse  and  a  little  curly. 
Speaking  of  feeding  grain  to  cows 
while  they  are  being  milked,  J.  D.  Smith 
tells  this  story  in  Hoard’s  Dairyman  : 
Some  years  ago,  my  wife  and  I  took  a 
little  trip  away,  being  gone  about  three 
weeks.  We  left  one  cow,  giving,  I  pre¬ 
sume,  as  much  as  25  pounds  of  milk  a 
day.  When  I  returned,  my  father-in- 
law,  who  had  milked  the  cow,  informed 
me  that  she  was  nearly  dry ;  said  she  be¬ 
gan  drying  up  rightaway  on  our  going 
away.  As  I  had  always  milked  this  cow 
myself,  I  supposed  it  due  to  the  change 
of  milkers,  but  she  gave  me  but  very  lit¬ 
tle  milk.  I  then  began  feeding  her  a 
grain  ration  when  I  milked  her,  and  was 
surprised  at  the  increased  quantity,  as 
well  as  the  difference  in  the  feeling  of 
the  udder  after  milking.  This  cow  came 
back  again  to  her  old  mess,  and  held  out 
late.  A  few  years  after  one  of  our  best 
cows,  one  I  had  never  fed  while  milking, 
began  in  midsummer  to  shrink  badly.  I 
began  feeding  her  when  I  milked,  and 
she  entirely  regained  her  former  mess, 
and  continued  to  do  well  until  late.  I 
have  always  fed  this  cow  since,  begin¬ 
ning  as  soon  as  she  came  in. 
Wild  Horses. — A  writer  in  a  Nevada 
paper  says : 
There  are  estimated  to  be  100,000  horses 
running  wild  in  the  mountains  of  Nevada 
that  are  not  worth  catching  and  break¬ 
ing.  They  are  remnants  of  bands  that 
have  strayed  away  and  of  small  frag¬ 
ments  owned  by  Indians,  which  were 
worthless  to  begin  with,  and  have  con¬ 
stantly  deteriorated  until  they  are  small 
and  weak.  They  will  gather  to  them¬ 
selves  animals  that  chance  to  stray  into 
the  hills  and  render  it  very  difficult  to 
regain  possession  of  them.  Even  good 
horses  are  low-priced  now,  and  scrubs 
and  fuzz-tails  are  not  worth  the  grass 
they  eat.  They  use  food  which  is  needed 
for  cattle  and  sheep,  and  the  day  will 
come  when  some  action  will  be  necessary 
in  order  to  keep  them  down.  Extermin¬ 
ation  would  be  the  proper  remedy,  but  it 
is  practically  impossible,  the  animals 
being  as  wild  as  deer  and  capable  of  get¬ 
ting  over  the  rocks  faster  than  a  tame 
horse  with  a  man  on  his  back.  Even  now 
many  of  the  cattle  and  sheepmen  carry 
rifles  for  them  and  shoot  the  stallions  on 
sight  whenever  they  get  within  reach. 
The  writer  even  goes  so  far  as  to  say 
that  the  State  may  be  forced  to  offer  a 
bounty  for  horse  scalps. 
Exit  Pleuro-Pneumonia.— The  follow¬ 
ing  proclamation  of  Secretary  Rusk  will 
be  of  special  interest  to  cattle  growers. 
For  a  good  while  England  has  prohibited 
the  imports  of  American  live  cattle  be¬ 
cause  of  this  disease.  Let  us  see  what 
she  will  do  now  ! 
Notice  Is  hereby  given  that  the  quarantines  here¬ 
tofore  existing  In  the  counties  of  Kings  and  Queens, 
State  of  New  York,  and  the  counties  of  Essex  and 
Hudson,  State  of  New  Jersey,  for  the  suppression  of 
contagious  plouro-pneumonla  among  cattle,  are  this 
day  removed 
The  removal  of  the  aforesaid  quarantines  com¬ 
pletes  the  dissolving  of  all  quarantines  established 
by  this  department  In  the  several  sections  of  the 
United  States  for  the  suppression  of  the  above- 
named  disease. 
No  case  of  this  disease  has  occurred  In  the  State 
of  Illinois  since  December  29,  1887,  a  period  of  more 
than  four  years  and  eight  months. 
No  case  has  occurred  In  the  State  of  Pennsylvania 
since  September  29,  1888,  a  period  of  four  years 
within  a  few  days. 
No  case  has  occurred  In  the  State  of  Maryland 
since  September  18,  1889,  a  period  of  three  years. 
No  case  has  occurred  In  the  8tate  of  New  York 
since  April  30,  1891,  a  period  of  more  than  one  year 
and  four  months. 
No  case  has  occurred  in  the  State  of  New  Jersey 
since  March  25,  1892.  a  period  of  six  months,  and  no 
case  has  occurred  In  any  other  portion  of  the  United 
States  within  the  past  five  years. 
I  do  therefore  hereby  officially  declare  that  the 
United  States  is  free  from  the  disease  known  as  con¬ 
tagious  pleuro-pheumonia.  J.  M.  Rusk,  Sec. 
If  you  name  The  R.  N.-Y.  to  our  advertisers  you 
may  be  pretty  sure  of  prompt  replies  and  right  treat¬ 
ment. 
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. 
Srlf- Regulating,  Guarai 
teed  good  as  the  Best,  at 
only  1$  1  7.  Send  4c.  stain  j 
for  No.  23  Catalogue  to 
BUCKEYE  INCUBATOR  C( 
SPRINGFIELD,  OHIO. 
LEVI  F.  MORTON’S 
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,  4^ 
to  7  per  cent 
fat. 
BULLS  ONLY 
FOR  SALE. 
H.  M.  COTTRELL,  Supt..  RhlnecllfV,  N.  Y. 
High-Class  Jersey  Cattle. 
SUPERIOR  REGISTERED  A.  J.  C.  C. 
STOCK  ONLY. 
The  dam  of  one  of  our  SERVICE  HULLS  tested 
officially  30  pounds  2%  ounces  butter  In  Bovon  days, 
and  gave  1891  pounds  of  milk  In  31  days.  For  another 
bull, Biro  of  19  great  butter  cows,  we  refused  18115,000 
In  general  no  animal  for  less  than  $200;  occasionally 
a  bull-calf  for  $100,  when  marked  with  white,  which 
Is  not  so  fashionable.  Inferior  onos  we  knock  in 
the  head.  No  catalogue  of  Jorseys.  Write  for 
what  you  want. 
MILLER  &  SIBLEY, 
Franklin,  Venango  County,  Pa. 
Mention  this  paper. 
AYRSHIRES  FOR  SALE. 
A  very  choice  lot  of  thoroughbred  Ayrshire  calves 
—bulls  and  heifers— entitled  to  Immediate  registry, 
the  offspring  of  deep-mllklng  cows,  and  from  a  bull 
notablo  for  his  lino  dalrv  points.  Price,  f.  o.  1).  here, 
#20  each.  D.  M.  CAMPBELL,  Onoonta,  N  Y. 
SHROPSHIRE  SHEEP. 
Imported  Rams  and  Ewes,  also  Homo-bred  Shear¬ 
lings  and  Lambs  by  The  Sort,  a  son  of  Rare  Stamp, 
the  slro  of  the  sensational  shearlings  of  1891,  and  out 
of  Ewes  by  Bonnie  Boau,  sire  of  tho  English  cham¬ 
pion  ram  of  1892.  Prices  such  aH  will  command  sales. 
Address  RICHARD  GIBSON, 
Delaware,  Ont.,  Canada. 
Cotswolds,  Southdowns, 
Oxford  Down  and  Shrop¬ 
shire  Sheep  and  Lambs  of 
superior  breeding.  We  are  booking  orders  now  for 
lambs  of  the  above  breeds,  Wc  also  have  a  choice 
lot  of  yearlings  and  two-year-olds  to  offer.  Write 
at  once  for  prices  and  particulars. 
W.ATLEEBCRPEE&CO.,PHILA.,PA. 
HIGH-CLASS  SHROPSHIRES ! 
Fifty  Bowon-Jonos  yearling  rams  from  1892  Impor¬ 
tations  are  selling  to  our  oldost  and  best  breeders. 
Send  for  catalogue. 
THE  WILLOWS,  Paw  Paw,  Mich. 
“MORE  TESTIMOHIALS” 
for  same  number  of  machines 
sold  than  any  other  hatcher 
MADE.  60  in  successful  oper¬ 
ation  at  Decatur,  Illinois.  ‘£3i 
chicks  hatched  at  one  time 
with  a  200  egg  capacity  Reli¬ 
able  Incubator.  Send  4c. 
in  stamps  for  new  illustrated 
catalogue.  Address, 
Sellable  Incubator  &  Brooder  Co., Quincy,  III. 
WATERING  DEVICE 
for  LIVE  STOCK  in  STABLES.  Send  for  circu¬ 
lars  for  the  only  practical  and  economical  one  In  the 
market. 
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