1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
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Live  Stock  Matters 
FORKFULS  OF  FACTS. 
Is  rye  feed  good  for  dairy  cows  and  is 
it  cheap  at  $16  per  ton  ?  w.  l. 
Ridgeland,  N.  Y. 
Ans. — Rye  is  an  excellent  food  for 
dairy  cows,  and  in  some  respects  is  worth 
more  than  wheat  bran,  having  less  in¬ 
digestible  fiber  and  mineral  matter,  and 
more  carbonaceous  matter.  Its  estimated 
value  is  $1  per  100  pounds  and  thus  it 
should  be  cheap  at  $16  a  ton.  It  would 
be  improved  by  a  mixture  of  oil  meals  of 
either  linseed  or  cotton  seed. 
Rutchicring  Lambs. — As  an  illustra¬ 
tion  of  the  depression  in  English  agri¬ 
culture,  we  are  told  how  the  Yorkshire 
farmers  are  killing  their  sheep  and  lambs 
and  selling  directly  to  customers  in  order 
to  save  the  butcher’s  commission. 
It  is  now  a  common  sight  on  market 
days  to  see  the  farmers  bringing  the  car¬ 
casses  of  lambs  and  sheep  to  town  for 
sale  among  their  newly-acquired  circle 
of  customers.  They  are  able  to  dispose 
of  their  meat  at  less  prices  than  can  be 
afforded  by  the  butcher,  and  the  result 
of  the  experiment  has  shown  that  their 
stock  is  readily  snapped  up  by  many  cus¬ 
tomers  on  the  lookout  for  a  bargain. 
Naturally  enough  the  effect  has  been  an 
adverse  one  for  the  butchers,  who  in 
many  instances  have  been  compelled  to 
lower  their  prices  in  order  to  compete 
with  their  rivals,  the  farmers.  Several 
of  the  farmers,  so  as  to  be  on  the  right 
side  of  the  law,  have  taken  out  licenses 
for  slaughtering  their  stock  on  their 
premises,  which  goes  to  show  that  the 
experiment  will  not  necessarily  be  a  tem¬ 
porary  one. 
Here  is  a  good  hint  for  many  Ameri¬ 
can  farmers  who  sell  small  animals  like 
calves,  lambs  or  pigs. 
Russian  Poultry. — II.  S.  Babcock,  in 
the  Poultry  Monthly,  has  this  to  say 
about  this  rather  unknown  breed  : 
Outside  of  the  Polish  and  the  French 
classes  we  have  no  other  bearded  fowl 
than  the  Russian.  It  is  the  only  rose- 
combed  fowl  with  a  beard.  This  fact 
alone  makes  its  preservation  desirable 
that  our  exhibitions  may  lose  nothing  in 
the  way  of  variety  and  attractiveness. 
Rut  besides  this  fact,  the  fowl  has  many 
excellent  qualities.  It  is  an  admirable 
layer  of  medium-sized  eggs  and  has  been 
credited  with  the  production  of  200  eggs 
per  annum  ;  and  not  only  is  it  a  good 
layer,  but  it  lays  so  well  in  the  winter 
months  that  for  a  long  time  it  was 
known  as  “  the  great  winter  layer.” 
My  experience  with  the  breed  would  not 
lead  me  to  call  it  the  best  winter  layer 
we  possess,  for  I  can  name  several  fowls 
which  I  regard  as  its  superior  in  this  re¬ 
spect,  but  I  know  it  to  be  a  good  winter 
layer.  Nor  is  this  all,  for  it  has  a  plump  • 
build — somewhat  similar  to  that  of  the 
Wyandotte — which  makes  it  dress  well 
for  the  market,  and,  though  its  plumage 
be  black,  the  skin  is  of  the  desired  yel¬ 
low  hue.  There  are  better  table  fowls 
than  the  Russian,  as  there  are  better 
layers,  but  a  fowl  for  general  purposes 
must  be  a  good  one  if  it  surpasses  this 
breed. 
A  Cow  Leak.-  Somebody  asked  W. 
M.  Gilbert,  at  a  recent  dairy  conference, 
where  the  greatest  loss  in  the  dairy  oc¬ 
curs.  Here  is  his  answer  : 
From  poor  cows. — One-third  are  kept 
at  an  actual  loss,  one-third  just  about 
pay  for  their  board,  and  one-third  pay  a 
profit.  We  want  a  cow  that  will  pay  us 
a  dividend  just  as  long  as  we  milk  her. 
There  is  a  man  in  Orange  County  who  is 
milking  90  cows  that  are  making  an 
average  of  295  pounds  of  butter  each  a 
year.  Yet  one-third  of  them  did  not  pay 
for  their  board  last  year,  which  was  $40 
each.  With  this  great  drawback — the 
keeping  of  .'10  cows  for  nothing,  and  less 
too — to  encounter,  there  was  a  net  profit 
of  more  than  $1,800  realized  from  the 
herd.  Had  all  the  cows  been  as  good  as 
the  best  one-third  of  the  herd,  the  profits 
would  have  amounted  to  more  than 
$5,000.  These  cows  were  fed  good  corn 
ensilage,  hay  and  a  liberal  grain  ration. 
Food  is  the  lever,  when  we  have  the 
specific  dairy  cow  to  feed  it  to.  She 
must  have  it  and  it  must  be  the  food 
that  will  produce  milk,  not  fat,  or  she 
will  not  respond  in  the  milk  pail,  no 
matter  how  good  nature  made  her.  The 
great  trouble  with  the  average  dairyman 
is  his  desire  to  get  his  cows  through  the 
winter  as  cheaply  as  possible,  and  have 
them  come  out  alive  in  the  spring.  He 
considers  all  the  money  he  puts  into  a 
ration,  more  than  enough  to  keep  life 
in  them,  lost.  The  man  who  makes 
money  from  his  herd  to-day  is  the  one 
who  has  paying  cows  and  who  is  a  lib¬ 
eral,  skillful  feeder — by  which  I  mean 
the  man  who  not  only  knows  how  to 
combine  and  balance  a  ration,  but  how 
much  to  feed  a  cow. 
Milking  Machine. — I  inclose  an  arti¬ 
cle  describing  a  new  milking  machine. 
I  have  not  seen  a  notice  of  it  in  The 
Rural.  The  name  of  the  machine  is  not 
given,  nor  is  the  place  where  it  can  be 
purchased,  and  as  I  swear  by  The  Rural, 
I  would  like  it  to  have  the  device  looked 
up  and  give  its  readers  the  benefits  of 
its  investigation.  c.  t.  cash. 
The  R.  N.-Y.  noticed  the  machine 
three  years  ago,  when  it  was  first  tried 
in  Scotland.  The  milk  is  pumped  or 
sucked  out  of  the  cows  through  tubes 
which  fit  over  the  teats.  The  power  is 
furnished  by  an  air  pump.  The  machine 
does  fairly  good  work  after  the  cows  be¬ 
come  used  to  it.  It  does  not  milk  them 
clean  and  it  is  necessary  to  strip  by  hand 
unless  the  udder  is  rubbed  during  the 
last  of  the  milking.  The  device  costs 
too  much  and  will  not  come  into  general 
use  except  in  big  dairies  where  careful 
milking  is  not  demanded.  The  last 
issue  of  Farming  World,  a  Scotch  paper, 
contains  this  statement: 
l  visited  Mr.  M’Fadyen’s farm  (Stafllor, 
near  Kilmarnock),  where  36  cows  were 
being  milked  regularly  night  and  morn¬ 
ing'  by  the  mechanical  milking  appara¬ 
tus.  He  applies  it  to  the  cows  immedi¬ 
ately  after  calving,  and  never  resorts  to 
the  ordinary  method  of  milking.  Mr. 
M’Fadyen  said  he  would  not  do  without 
it,  as  it  was  a  great  saving  of  labor  and 
expense  ;  so  much  so  that  it  would  clear 
itself  in  two  years.  Moreover,  the  mis¬ 
tress  declared  the  cows  never  were  so 
clean  milked,  because  itwasone  woman’s 
duty  to  strip  them.  Mr.  Murchland  cer¬ 
tainly  did  not  do  himself  justice  in  for¬ 
bidding  his  customers  to  strip  the  cows, 
because  the  machine,  unaided,  does  not 
usually  clean  them.  The  average  weight, 
of  strippings  per  cow  runs  from  one-half 
to  three-fourths  pound  each  milking. 
It  is  not  necessary  to  strip  the  12  cows 
attended  to  by  the  son,  who  is  careful, 
and  rubs  down  the  udder  when  the  milk 
is  nearly  exhausted. 
Eggs  in  a  Hen.— Greyelin,  a  high  au¬ 
thority,  says  the  ovarium  of  a  fowl  is 
composed  of  600  ovules,  or  eggs;  there¬ 
fore  a  hen  during  her  whole  life  can’t 
possibly  lay  over  600  eggs,  which  in  the 
natural  course  are  distributed  over  nine 
years.  Is  he  right  ?  R.  N.-Y.,  page  689. 
Ans.— Greyelin  is  not  a  high  authority 
and  no  authority  at  all  in  fact,  lie  is 
one  of  those  too  enthusiastic  French¬ 
men  who  jump  at  conclusions  on  insuf¬ 
ficient  data  and  mislead  those  who  give 
credence  to  their  hasty  statements. 
Nearly  every  statement  made  fora  dozen 
years  past  by  the  French  dairy  authori¬ 
ties  (?)  has  been  proved  wrong  and  much 
trouble  has  been  taken  by  those  who 
have  discovered  the  mistakes,  in  setting 
things  right.  And  this  statement  that  a 
hen  has  only  600  germs  (not  eggs)  in  the 
ovary  is  not  only  false  but  unfounded; 
for  hens  that  have  lived  for  10  years  or 
more  have  laid  their  usual  quantity  year 
after  year  and  the  total  surpasses  this 
alleged  limit  by  far.  I  myself  have  kept 
a  Light  Rrahma  hen  which  was  procured 
of  Mr.  Josselyn,  of  Fredonia,  N.  Y.,  at 
least  14  years  ago,  and  was  then  laying 
and  continued  for  12  years,  when  she 
was  still  laying  her  usual  egg  every 
second  day,  until  she  was  unfortunately 
killed  byamink.  On  examining  her,  the 
ovaries  were  as  full  of  embryos  as  those 
of  any  young  hen  I  ever  examined. 
There  were  certainly  100  still  visible. 
This  hen  laid  more  than  1,200  eggs  that 
1  have  kept  track  of,  besides  several 
missed.  She  was  kept  for  this  very  pur¬ 
pose  of  testing  this  commonly  reported 
statement  of  Greyelin.  One  of  the  same 
half  dozen  birds  procured  from  Mr. 
•Josselyn,  is  still  living,  and  is  now  laying. 
Having  kept  these  birds  so  long  and  a 
close  watch  on  the  eggs,  which  were 
highly  valued,  no  mistake  could  be  made 
in  the  number,  which  were  always  taken 
from  the  nest  as  soon  as  the  hen  was 
heard,  either  by  myself  or  some  person 
who  was  equally  interested  in  keeping 
this  account,  in  my  absence.  Rut  the 
statement  is  physiologically  untrue,  for 
the  embryos  are  being  continually  pro¬ 
duced  in  the  ovaries  just  as  other  parts 
of  the  body  of  an  animal  are  being  re¬ 
newed  to  repair  the  waste  ;  and  it  would 
be  just  as  reasonable  and  true  to  say 
that  a  man’s  hands  cannot  last  more  than 
so  many  years  because  at  the  start  there 
is  just  so  much  skin  on  them  and  no  more, 
and  it  must  be  worn  off  in  so  many  years. 
Nature  is  always  renewing  the  body  and 
all  parts  of  it,  as  long  as  health  con¬ 
tinues.  H.  STEWART. 
an  Opportune  Khiend  will  bo  found  in  Dr.  I). 
Jayne's  Expectorant,  when  racked  by  a  severe  Cold, 
and  the  many  Lung  and  Throat  atrectlons  which 
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