1892  • 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
735 
Live  Stock  Matters 
FORKFULS  OF  FACTS. 
The  use  of  cheap  molasses  in  stock 
medicines  and  for  making  damaged  hay 
and  straw  palatable  is  so  common  in 
England  that  the  London  Produce  Re¬ 
view  says : 
In  years  like  the  present,  the  use  of 
molasses  in  cattle  feeding  has  become  so 
common  in  this  country  that  it  is  not 
necessary  to  enlarge  further  upon  its 
usefulness  or  to  give  recipes  for  its  use. 
We  have  tried  Prickly  Comfrey,  though 
not  on  an  extended  scale.  The  promise 
was  so  discouraging,  when  we  did  make 
an  attempt  to  cultivate  it,  and  the  cattle 
were  so  particular  about  eating  it  that 
we  have  never  made  a  second  attempt.  I 
judge  that  it  is  a  failure,  because  thou¬ 
sands  of  people  have  made  an  effort  to 
raise  and  feed  it,  all  of  whom,  with  one 
or  two  exceptions,  have  abandoned  its 
Culture.  I.  P.  ROBERTS. 
Better  Stock  Wanted.— This  is  the 
way  Sam  Jones  puts  it : 
Listen,  now.  Things  are  running  down. 
Look  at  Nancy  Hanks  !  Which  would 
you  rather  be  to-day,  Nancy  Hanks  or 
John  L.  Sullivan  ?  Which  is  the  highest 
animal  of  the  two?  There  ain’t  two  mules 
in  this  country  that  can’t  go  through  just 
what  Sullivan  and  Corbett  went  through. 
All  they’ve  got  to  do  is  to  turn  their  busi¬ 
ness  ends  together  and  the  whole  pro¬ 
cess  is  gone  through  with.  Nancy  Hanks 
to-day  on  the  market  would  bring  more 
money  than  99  out  of  100  men  in  this 
crowd  would  bring.  Yes  sir.  We  can 
improve  stock  ;  why  can’t  we  improve 
manhood  and  womanhood  ? 
How  can  lice  on  a  hog  be  best  killed  ? 
What  does  The  Rural  think  of  Thorley 
Horse  and  Cattle  Food  ?  h.  l.  p. 
Bainbridge,  N.  Y. 
Tobacco  water  will  kill  the  lice.  Get 
some  tobacco  stems  and  boil  them  with 
water — making  a  weak  tea.  Rub  this 
over  the  hogs,  particularly  along  the  back 
and  around  the  neck  and  shoulders. 
The  kerosene  emulsion  so  often  described 
in  The  R.  N.-Y.  is  also  good.  We  have 
not  used  the  food  and  suppose  it  is  noth¬ 
ing'  but  meal,  bran,  etc.,  flavored  with  a 
little  resin  or  fenugreek 
Rascals  at  the  Races.— Wliat  a 
ing  geese  and  ducks  is  cruel.  The 
absurdity  of  this  fad  is  evident  if  we 
make  the  smallest  inquiry;  for,  as  already 
pointed  out,  the  persons  making  such 
statements  do  not  know  an  iota  about 
the  subject.  As  a  rule,  the  word  “pluck¬ 
ing”  is  a  misnomer.  The  birds  are  not 
plucked  ;  the  feathers  are  rubbed  off  by 
the  hand  or  a  piece  of  cloth ;  a  good 
plucker  takes  a  pride  in  her  or  his  per¬ 
formance,  all  the  feathers  being  rubbed 
off  the  body  of  the  bird  in  less  than  two 
minutes. 
The  editor  of  the  Gazette,  however, 
adds  : 
Skillful  pluckers,  who  know  what  they 
are  about,  will  take  only  feathers  that 
are  (or  will  soon  become)  loose ;  but  we 
can  assert  that  geese  picking  is  often  per¬ 
formed  in  a  most  barbarous  manner, 
leaving  the  birds  nearly  naked. 
Sheep  and  Snakes. — A  writer  in  the 
American  Sheep  Breeder  tells  this  story 
of  Montana : 
One  day  I  was  sitting  on  a  ledge  of 
rocks  overlooking  a  creek  bottom  where 
a  band  of  1,500  sheep  were  grazing.  I 
noticed  a  couple  of  sheep  walking  around 
in  a  circle  of  about  10  rods  in  circumfer¬ 
ence.  They  seemed  to  be  watching  some 
object  in  the  center  of  the  circle.  In  a 
few  minutes  more  sheep  came  and  joined 
the  first  two  in  their  march  around  the 
object  in  question.  After  a  little  while 
several  hundred  sheep  were  milling 
around  in  the  same  way,  and  as  they  kept 
it  up,  I  became  curious  to  know  what  it 
was  that  caused  this  queer  movement, 
and  I  crawled  down  over  the  rocks  and 
went  up  to  the  sheep.  Some  of  them 
were  looking  so  intently  upon  the  object 
in  the  center  of  the  circle  that  they  did 
not  notice  my  presence,  and  I  had  to  yell 
at  them  and  swing  my  arms  around  vig¬ 
orously  in  order  to  clear  a  passage 
through  them  to  the  vacant  space.  To 
my  surprise,  I  found  a  small  snake  coiled 
up  in  the  center  of  the  circle  with  its 
head  elevated  a  few  inches  off  the  ground 
and  moving  to  and  fro.  I  killed  the 
snake  and  thought  nothing  more  of  the 
circumstance  until  some  months  later, 
when  I  was  at  a  sheep  ranch  up  in  Mon¬ 
tana.  There  I  heard  an  old  sheep  herder 
say  that  there  was  no  danger  of  rattle¬ 
snakes  around  a  sheep  camp,  as  the  sheep 
soon  found  them  out  and  called  the  at¬ 
tention  of  the  herder  to  their  presence 
by  milling  around  them  until  he  went 
and  killed  the  snakes.  In  this  way  it  did 
not  take  long  to  rid  a  range  of  rattlers. 
THE  BRITISH  EMBARGO  ON  AMERICAN 
CATTLE. 
CHEAP  FOOD  FOR  FARM  HORSES. 
My  experience  has  been  limited  to  the 
feeding  of  farm  horses.  Oats  are  no 
doubt  the  best  and  therefore  the  cheapest 
feed  for  horses  used  mainly  for  fast 
driving.  I  believe  that  they  are  the  most 
natural  feed  and  that  it  is  true  economy 
to  retain  them  as  the  foundation  of  the 
ration  for  all  horses.  For  farm  teams 
other  grains  can  be  used  in  part  without 
detriment  to  the  efficiency  of  the  horse 
and  at  less  cost  than  when  oats  form  the 
entire  grain  ration. 
Ground  oats,  corn  meal  and  bran  form 
an  excellent  feed  and  at  the  usual  prices 
considerable  saving  can  be  made  by 
using  this  mixture  in  place  of  clear  oats. 
A  good  and  cheap  ration  can  be  obtained 
by  raising  oats,  peas  and  barley  together 
and  grinding  and  mixing  them  with  an 
equal  bulk  of  bran.  About  25  per  cent 
more  pounds  of  mixed  grain  can  be  raised 
to  the  acre  than  of  oats  alone,  and  pound 
for  pound  the  mixture  is  of  equal  value 
with  oats  for  horses  and  better  for  all 
other  farm  stock.  Ground  and  mixed 
with  an  equal  bulk  of  bran,  it  has  been 
fed  with  good  results  to  horses,  colts, 
pigs  and  cows  in  milk.  While  feeding 
this  mixture  there  has  been  no  case  of 
indigestion  or  colic  among  colts  or  horses. 
Last  winter  colts  three  years  old, 
weighing  1,300  pounds  apiece,  were  win¬ 
tered  on  straw  and  five  pounds  of  the 
above  mixture  of  grain  and  bran  per  day 
for  each  colt  and  those  two  years  old  on 
a  proportionate  amount.  The  straw  was 
that  on  which  the  mixed  grain  grew  at 
the  rate  of  2,400  to  3,000  pounds  of  grain 
to  the  acre.  Horses  can  be  satisfactorily 
and  cheaply  wintered  in  this  way,  feed¬ 
ing  the  home-grown  straw  and  grain  and 
purchasing  bran  to  complete  the  ration. 
When  oats  have  been  relatively  high  in 
price  it  has  been  found  profitable  to 
separate  a  part  of  them  from  the  mixed 
grain,  sell  them  and  replace  with  corn 
meal  or  cotton-seed  meal  for  cows.  Also 
when  peas  bring  a  high  price  for  seed, 
they  are  cleaned  from  the  mixed  grain, 
sold,  and  corn  meal  substituted  in  the 
ration  for  horses.  c.  s.  rice. 
Lewis  County,  N.  Y. 
beautiful  business  this  horse  racing  is! 
Here  is  an  instance.  The  pacer  Grover  S. 
was  entered  in  a  race  here  the  other  day. 
He  was  by  far  the  best  horse  in  the  race 
and  had  every  chance  to  win— yet  for 
some  reason  the  betting  was  against  him. 
He  won  one  heat  and  then  the  race  was 
postponed.  On  the  next  day  this  hap¬ 
pened: 
The  first  heat  to-day  Grover  won, 
but  he  reeled  on  the  homestretch  in  a 
very  noticeable  manner.  The  betting 
before  the  fourth  heat  was  not  very 
heavy  ;  but  although  Grover  had  two 
heats,  and  really  nothing  to  beat  if  fine 
and  well,  the  field  was  six  and  seven 
against  five. 
The  gelding  scored  up  indifferently, 
but  getting  the  word  went  away  with  a 
rush.  Near  the  quarter  pole  he  stag¬ 
gered  for  about  20  yards,  and  then  fell 
against  the  outer  fence.  All  the  judges, 
one  of  whom  is  a  veterinarian,  and  about 
a  score  of  others  went  around  to  where 
the  horse  lay.  He  was  dead. 
“  What  have  you  done  to  your  horse?” 
asked  Mr.  Wenderoth. 
Nothing,”  said  his  rubber,  and 
“  Nothing,”  echoed  Lyman. 
Stooping  down  to  look  at  some  blood 
on  Grover’s  mouth,  caused  by  the  fall, 
Dr.  Marshall  said: 
“  This  horse  is  poisoned.” 
Examination  proved  that  the  horse  had 
been  poisoned  by  his  owner  who  had 
been  betting  against  him  at  big  odds  and 
killed  him  in  order  to  win. 
Forty  years  ago  all  through  Ireland 
the  growing  of  live  geese  and  duck 
feathers  was  a  great  industry.  The  birds 
gave  three  different  products  for  sale — 
eggs,  feathers  and  meat,  and  gave  the 
pig  a  close  run  as  “rent  payers.”  The 
practice  was  denounced  as  cruel  and  the 
raising  of  birds  for  their  “  plucks  ”  was 
ruined.  A  writer  in  the  Dublin  Farmers’ 
Gazette  advocates  feather  farming-  as  a 
means  of  relief  to  small  farmers.  He 
says : 
This  fowl  industry  has  altogether  been 
ruined  by  the  ridiculous  fad  that  pluck- 
Lver  since  the  outbreak  of  contagious 
pleuro-pneumonia  was  generally  acknow¬ 
ledged  in  this  country— in  1878— the 
L  nited  Kingdom  has  placed  restrictions 
on  the  importations  of  American  live  cat¬ 
tle,  by  requiring  that  none  should  go  be¬ 
yond  designated  stockyards  at  certain 
specified  ports  of  entry,  and  that  all 
should  be  slaughtered  there  within  10 
days  after  landing.  This  has  been  a  sore 
grievance  among  our  cattle  owners  and 
shippers.  It  prevented  the  sale  of  “  store  ” 
stock,  to  be  fattened  at  leisure  on  Eng¬ 
lish  pastures  after  debarkation,  and  it 
also  prevented  the  thorough  recupera¬ 
tion  of  the  animals  after  a  rough  voyage, 
nor  could  the  amount  of  flesh  they  often 
lost  on  the  passage  be  put  on  again  in  the 
few  days  before  their  death.  Thus  it  not 
only  curtailed  the  trade,  but  decreased 
the  price  of  those  landed  by  an  estimated 
average  of  somewhat  over  $10  per  head. 
As  the  same  restrictions,  however,  were 
placed  upon  cattle  from  other  countries 
which  were  scheduled  as  infected  with 
the  disease,  no  just  complaints  of  par¬ 
tiality  could  be  raised  by  us.  When,  how¬ 
ever,  it  was  proclaimed  that  the  plague 
had  been  stamped  out  in  any  infected 
country,  the  embargo  has  always  been 
raised  after  due  time  and  investigation, 
and  cattle  from  that  country  have  always 
had  free  admission  into  the  British  Isles. 
After  the  recent  proclamation  of  Sec¬ 
retary  Rusk  declaring  that  contagious 
pleuro-pneumonia  had  been  eradicated 
from  among  American  herds,  our  cattle 
owners  had  every  reason,  therefore,  to 
expect  the  speedy  removal  of  the  embargo 
against  their  stock,  and  even  if  the  re¬ 
cent  alleged  case  of  the  disease  among 
American  cattle  at  Deptford,  should  turn 
out  genuine,  too  much  importance  should 
not  be  attached  to  it.  The  British  Gov¬ 
ernment  has,  of  course,  an  undoubted 
right  to  exclude  all  foreign  cattle,  sound 
as  well  as  diseased,  but  while  on  friendly 
terms  with  this  country  she  has  no  right 
to  discriminate  against  us  in  this  or  any 
other  matter  on  any  flimsy  pretext. 
Such  discrimination  would  compel  our 
Government  to  ask  for  a  satisfactory  ex¬ 
planation,  and  in  case  of  refusal  of  re¬ 
dress,  to  adopt  a  retaliatory  policy. 
In  writing  to  advertisers  please  always  mention 
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THE  BEST  FEED 
obtainable  for 
COWS,  BEEF  CATTLE,  HOGS  and  HORSES. 
Market  price  must  soon  advance,  and  we  advise 
your  taking  in  your  winter’s  supply  now. 
Please  write  us  for  quotations  and  other  particulars 
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ELLERSLIE  GUERNSEYS 
Largest  Guernsey  Herd  in  the  World. 
Cows  Rive 
6,000  to  11,000 
pounds  milk 
per  year  with- 
o  u  t  forcing. 
Milk  from 
fresh  cows, 
to  7  per  cent 
fat. 
BULLS  ONLY 
FOR  SALE. 
H.  M.  COTTRELL,  Supt.,  Rhinecliir,  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!4  ounces  butter  in  seven  days, 
and  gave  1891  pounds  of  milk  in  31  days.  For  another 
bull.sire  of  19  great  butter  cows,  we  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  we  knock  in 
the  head.  No  catalogue  of  Jerseys.  Write  for 
what  you  want. 
MILLER  A  SIBLEY, 
Franklin,  Venango  County,  Pa. 
Mention  this  paper. 
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lambs  of  the  above  breeds,  We  also  have  a  choice 
lot  of  yearlings  and  two-year-olds  to  offer.  Write 
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HIGH-CLASS  SHROPSHIRES! 
Our  second  Importation  for  1892  Includes  30  Bowen- 
Jones  and  Minton  yearling  rams,  now  weighing  220 
pounds  or  more,  to  shear  15  to  17  pounds.  Also  95 
beautiful  yearling  ewes.  Send  for  catalogue. 
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