1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
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Live  Stock  Matters 
FORKFULS  OF  TACTS. 
Those  who  like  sweet  cream  butter  are 
usually  willing-  to  pay  a  fancy  price  for 
it,  but  it  does  not  possess  the  keeping- 
qualities  of  butter  from  well-ripened 
cream,  and  should  be  quickly  sold  and 
quickly  consumed. — American  Cultivator. 
The  recent  experiments  at  the  Iowa 
Experiment  Station  show  exactly  the 
reverse  of  the  above.  Sweet  cream  but¬ 
ter  kept  in  much  better  condition  than 
butter  from  ripened  cream. 
I  have  never  had  a  crop  of  corn  with 
much  smut  on  it,  and  my  cattle  have 
never  shown  any  bad  effects  from  having 
eaten  it  ;  but  I  know  that  if  they  have  a 
chance  they  will  eat  enough  of  it  to  cause 
death,  and  I  believe  it  to  be  the  chief 
cause  of  abortion  among  farm  stock. 
Blairstown,  N.  J.  G.  G.  GIBBS. 
The  Texas  steer,  like  the  buffalo,  is 
passing  off  the  stage.  The  former  ani¬ 
mal  can’t  stand  improvement  in  the  shape 
of  thoroughbred  sires  and  a  demand  for 
“  early  maturity.” 
A  Massachusetts  veterinarian  states 
that  he  was  called  upon  to  remove  the 
eye  from  a  cow.  The  operation  was 
successfully  performed,  but,  instead  of 
healing  up,  the  wound  developed  what 
seemed  like  a  button  or  bubble.  This 
grew  into  a  genuine  eye  which  has  gained 
full  size,  and  the  cow  can  see  with  it  ! 
For  proof  of  these  statements  the  owner 
of  the  cow  has  the  doctor's  bill  for  re¬ 
moving  the  eye  and  the  cow  with  two 
eyes ! 
Alluding  to  the  inoculation  of  Mr. 
Stanhope,  the  Herald  correspondent,  with 
the  germs  of  cholera  and  his  subsequent 
exposure  to  the  disease,  Dr.  Good,  the 
celebrated  London  physician  says  : 
It  is  to  be  lamented  that  Mr.  Stanhope’s 
courageous  experiment  will  be  of  no  use. 
Cholera  cannot  be  prevented  by  inocu¬ 
lation,  as  it  is  a  disease  that  goes  into 
the  body  by  the  mouth,  and  not  through 
outward  contact. 
Dr.  Billings,  the  great  Western  inocu- 
lator  and  champion  of  the  process,  ought 
to  secure  Mr.  Stanhope  as  an  assistant. 
Doctors  themselves  are  not  inoculated, 
and  yet  it  is  a  rare  thing  that  one  of  them 
takes  the  disease  through  exposure  in 
caring  for  cholera  patients.  A  great 
humbug  is  this  inoculation  business. 
Feeding  Corn  Fodder. — H.  C.  Wallace, 
in  the  Breeders’  Gazette,  gives  this  ex¬ 
perience  : 
I  have  never  been  able  to  find  a  satis¬ 
factory  rack  in  which  to  feed  long  corn 
fodder.  The  best  way  I  have  tried  is  to 
scratter  thinly  on  the  ground  or  on  the 
snow.  This  does  very  well  as  long  as  the 
ground  is  dry,  but  when  it  becomes  soft 
and  muddy  there  is  some  waste.  The 
trouble  with  racks  is  that  the  steers  will 
hunt  for  the  ears  first  and  will  throw  out 
half  of  the  fodder  and  trample  it  under 
foot.  A  very  successful  feeder  in  north¬ 
ern  Iowa,  who  feeds  altogether  on  un¬ 
husked  long  corn  fodder,  has  two  large 
lots  joining  each  other  and  uses  them 
alternately,  the  hogs  following  the  steers 
and  cleaning  up  in  one  lot  while  the 
steers  are  eating  in  the  other.  Very  little 
grain  is  wasted  in  this  way,  and,  while 
not  all  of  the  fodder  is  eaten,  what  is  left 
remains  on  the  ground  and  makes  a  com¬ 
fortable  bed  for  the  steers  at  night,  and 
this  latter  is  of  prime  importance  in  fat¬ 
tening  steers. 
The  “Pet  Hen”  Craze. — The  Adver¬ 
tiser  of  thi-  city  gives  this  report  of  a 
possible  “  craze”  : 
At  a  little  after  noon  Sunday  an  uptown 
train  on  the  Sixth  Avenue  elevated  was 
crowded  with  passengers.  A  stylishly 
dressed  woman,  handsome  and  young, 
got  on  at  23d  Street.  Several  gentlemen 
proffered  their  seats.  She  smilingly 
accepted  the  nearest  seat.  Every  one 
began  to  stare  at  her,  or,  more  particu¬ 
larly,  at  a  curious  something  that  she 
held  in  her  lap.  The  passengers  could 
scarcely  believe  the  evidence  of  their  own 
eyes.  In  her  lap  the  woman  held  a  hen 
—a  genuine  speckled  hen.  There  was 
not  much  of  the  hen  visible — only  the 
head  and  neck.  The  body  reposed  snugly 
in  a  white  silk  handkerchief,  pinned 
about  the  hen’s  throat  with  a  diamond 
broach.  Every  now  and  then  the  woman 
stroked  the  hen’s  feathery  neck,  and  the 
bird  would  blink  her  eyes  in  evident 
enjoyment  of  the  caress.  At  50th  Street 
the  woman  and  her  pet  left  the  train. 
And  now  for  the  hen  craze. 
TUTT’S  PILLS  cure  Stck^Headache, 
What  next  ?  Here’s  a  chance  for  Ply¬ 
mouth  Rock  breeders  anyway  1 
The  old  Scotch  song  goes  : 
I  line  a  hen  with  a  happlty  lest. 
Lass  gtn  ye  lo’e  me  tell  me  now; 
And  Ilka  day  she  lays  an  egg, 
Lass  gin  ye  lo’e  me  tell  me  now. 
This  makes  365  eggs  a  year  and  beats 
anything  Mr.  Wyckoff  has  yet  bred.  We 
would  like  to  know  what  breed  this  old 
hen  represented.  If  she  was  a  Leghorn 
and  her  eggs  were  of  the  usual  weight, 
she  gave  nearly  80  pounds  of  eggs  that 
year  !  We  now  want  to  know  how  much 
that  hen  ate  ! 
Old  Time  Ducks. — Duck  breeding  is  an 
ancient  and  honorable  occupation,  as  the 
following  quotation  from  the  English 
Husbandman  will  show.  It  was  printed 
in  1815  : 
The  tame  ducke  is  an  exceeding  neces- 
sarie  fowle  for  the  husbandman’s  yard, 
fore  shee  asketh  no  charge  in  keeping, 
but  ligeth  of  corne  lost,  or  other  things 
of  lesse  profit.  She  is  once  a  yeare  a 
very  great  layer  of  eggs,  and  when  she 
sitteth  she  craves  both  attendance  and 
feeding  ;  for  being  restrayned  from  seek¬ 
ing  her  food,  she  must  be  helped  with  a 
little  barley,  or  other  over-chavings  of 
corne,  such  as  else  you  would  give  unto 
swine  ;  as  for  her  sitting,  hatching  and 
feeding  of  her  ducklings,  it  is  in  all 
points  to  be  observed  in  such  manner  as 
you  did  before  with  the  goose,  onely  after 
they  are  abroad  they  will  shift  better  for 
their  foode  than  goslings  will.  For  the 
fatting  of  ducks  or  ducklings,  you  may 
do  it  in  three  weeks,  by  giving  them  any 
kinde  of  pulse  or  graine,  and  goode  store 
of  water. 
A  hog  of  200  to  250  pounds’  weight  is 
usually  more  salable  and  gives  better 
satisfaction  to  both  buyer  and  seller 
than  if  kept  till  he  weighs  300  pounds  or 
more. — Massachusetts  Ploughman. 
Right  you  are  and  we  add  that  a  hog 
dressing  from  125  to  150  pounds  is  better 
than  the  heavier  types  alluded  to  above. 
The  fight  against  the  deceit  practised 
in  the  sale  of  butter  imitations  is  becom¬ 
ing  more  sharp.  Personal  suits  for  dam¬ 
ages  have  been  brought  against  Dr. 
Harrington,  the  Boston  milk  inspector, 
and  more  threats  have  been  made  against 
the  officers  of  the  dairy  bureau. — New 
England  Farmer. 
It  is  pleasant  to  know  that  the  bull¬ 
dozers  of  the  hog  butter  crowd  cannot 
intimidate  Dr.  Harrington.  He  is  doing 
good  work  and  will  do  more.  What  a 
lot  of  scallawags  these  hog  butter  men 
are  and  how  hard  they  fight  for  liberty 
to  swindle  at  their  own  sweet  will. 
More  Steers  Wanted. — The  Texas 
Live  Stock  Journal  after  stating  that  it 
has  been  the  policy  in  that  State  to  get 
rid  of  the  cows  and  heifers,  says  : 
There  will,  no  doubt,  be  cattle  enough 
in  Texas  to  supply  all  demands  and  pur¬ 
poses  until  the  steers  now  on  hand  are  ex¬ 
hausted,  say  for  one  or  two  years.  But 
the  question  is  if  everybody  disposes  and 
gets  rid  of  his  cows  and  quits  the  breed¬ 
ing  business  who  is  to  supply  these  steer 
ranchmen  with  their  steer  cattle  in 
future  ?  Where  is  the  next  and  each 
succeeding  calf  crop  to  come  from  ? 
Steers  won’t  breed,  and  there  are  not 
cows  enough  in  the  country  to  do  the 
work.  The  men  who  have  the  cows,  the 
grass  and  the  water,  and  who  are  pre¬ 
pared  to  raise  good  steers  and  conduct 
this  business  in  the  proper  way,  will  be 
the  ones  who  will  make  the  most  money 
out  of  the  cattle  business  in  a  few  years. 
They  can’t  all  go  into  the  exclusive  steer 
business  and  make  a  success. 
And  now  we  have  another  breed  of 
fowls  called  Yiolettes.  Mr.  Geo.  H. 
Brackenbury  thus  describes  them  in  the 
Poultry  Monthly  : 
Legs,  orange ;  lobes,  white ;  comb, 
rose  ;  hackle,  blue,  striped  with  gold  on 
outer  edge  ;  tail,  solid  blue  ;  tail  coverts 
(female),  gold  and  blue  mixed;  sickles 
(male),  blue;  breast  of  both  male  and 
female,  blue  lacing  and  golden  centers. 
Female’s  back  and  wing  coverts,  clear 
centers  of  gold  laced  with  blue.  Bow  of 
the  male  is  deep  crimson,  which  con¬ 
trasts  well  with  the  blue  wing-bars. 
Cut  Fodder. — From  observation  in  my 
neighborhood  I  do  not  see  any  benefit  re¬ 
sulting  from  cutting  hay  and  corn  stalks 
for  stock  feed.  A  few  years  since  nearly 
every  farmer  near  me  bought  a  feed  cut¬ 
ter,  but  they  are  not  in  use  now.  I  think 
that  if  a  large  quantity  of  hay  were  cut 
it  would  dry  up,  while  corn  stalks  are 
not  often  dry  enough  to  be  stored  up  in 
large  quantities  without  heating.  As  to 
straw,  if  it  is  desired  to  feed  that  closely, 
perhaps  it  could  be  done  better  by  cut¬ 
ting  and  putting  the  grain  with  it.  I  see 
no  objection  to  handling  straw  in  that 
way,  as  it  would  have  to  be  moistened  to 
make  the  meal  stick  to  it.  l.  gates. 
Improved  Barnyards. — Even  in  Kan¬ 
sas  farmers  recognize  the  fact  that  the 
average  barnyard  is  a  money  loser. 
Thousands  of  farmers  have  been  “fer¬ 
tilizing  the  brook  ”  for  years  and  now 
find  a  thick  mortgage  on  the  farm.  We 
are  glad  that  Prof.  Georgeson  of  Kansas 
is  to  give  an  object  lesson  in  the  form  of 
what  a  barnyard  ought  to  be.  Here  is 
what  he  says  about  it : 
In  the  first  place,  a  broad,  shallow 
basin  has  been  constructed  by  means  of 
plow  and  scraper,  in  which  the  manure 
will  be  kept,  and  which  will  retain  all 
liquids  and  prevent  waste.  And,  in  the 
second  place,  the  greater  portion  of  the 
yard  has  been  paved  in  a  most  substan¬ 
tial  manner  with  rock  taken  out  of  the 
neighboring  hills.  The  impassable,  mi¬ 
asmatic  slush  in  that  yard  is  a  thing  of 
the  past.  If  at  any  time  more  liquid 
accumulates  in  the  basin  than  can  be  ab¬ 
sorbed  by  the  long  manure,  it  is  easily 
removed  by  making  a  miniature  well  of 
a  barrel  placed  in  the  center,  and  at¬ 
taching  thereto  a  small  pump  which  will 
discharge  through  a  piece  of  hose.  The 
surplus  can  thus  readily  be  transferred 
to  a  tank-cart  and  drawn  onto  the  grass 
land  or  wherever  liquid  manure  may  be 
used  to  advantage. 
This  is  good  sense  from  the  Breeders’ 
Gazette.  Such  sense  will  mean  dollars 
for  the  stockman. 
If  growing  stock  is  carried  through 
the  winter  only  to  come  out  next  spring 
weighing  less  than  at  the  present  time 
it  looks  as  if  the  wintering  would  be  a 
profitless  operation.  Economy  would 
suggest  to  either  send  the  stock  to  mar¬ 
ket  or  sell  to  some  one  who  will  give 
better  treatment  or  is  more  able  to  do 
the  losing.  Every  day  that  a  calf,  colt 
or  pig  lives  without  gaining  is  a  day 
wasted  and  just  that  much  money  lost. 
If  there  is  not  enough  food  in  sight  to 
supply  all  the  stock  with  abundance  it 
would  seem  the  part  of  wisdom  to  sell 
stock  until  the  food  is  sufficient  to  give 
the  remainder  what  they  want  to  eat. 
Make  meat  or  money  of  the  culls  right 
now.  Don’t  keep  them  for  Jack  Frost's 
consumption  ! 
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