1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
783 
Live  Stock  Matters 
FORKFULS  OF  FACTS. 
Thk  only  way  to  sell  an  ugly  cow  is  to 
lie  abo  it  her. 
How  those  hens  would  enjoy  a  meal  of 
cut  green  bone! 
The  mutton  sheep  wanted  is  the  one 
that  matures  earliest. 
A  i.ittle  oil  meal  fed  to  fattening  cat¬ 
tle  will  help  get  the  full  profit  out  of 
corn. 
Feeding  experiments  are  reported  in 
Bulletin  22  Minnesota  Station  (St.  An¬ 
thony  Park)  and  No.  24  Massachusetts 
(Amherst.) 
Chickens  are  fond  of  pumpkin  pie  and 
don't  care  if  the  milk,  sugar  and  spice  are 
left  out.  In  other  words,  boil  pumpkins 
for  the  hens. 
Those  who  want  to  read  a  fine  account 
of  experiments  in  soiling  cattle  should 
get  Bulletin  9  of  the  Storrs  Experiment 
Station,  Storrs  P.  0.,  Conn. 
The  Royal  Agricultural  Society  of  Eng¬ 
land  proposes  in  future  to  give  no  prizes 
to  horses  whose  tails  have  been  docked, 
and  an  English  writer  says  that  high- 
class  carriage  horses  are  no  longer  sal¬ 
able  when  so  deformed.  We  record  these 
changes  with  great  pleasure,  and  we 
trust  the  Anglo-maniacs  of  this  country 
will  promptly  adopt  the  new  style  and 
abandon  the  deforming  and  cruel  process. 
At  best  only  a  perverted  taste  could  see 
anything  desirable  in  a  horse  so  muti¬ 
lated. 
Drying  Off  a  Cow. — I  have  a  cow 
which  began  to  give  milk  before  she  had 
her  first  calf  and  has  never  gone  dry, 
milking  now  about  five  quarts  per  day. 
She  is  fat  and  I  want  to  dry  her  off  ;  how 
can  I  do  it  ?  d.  w.  de  f. 
Ans  — Take  away  her  food  and  stop 
“stripping”  her — that  is,  do  not  milk 
all  out  clean.  Keep  this  up  persistently, 
and  the  milk  ought  to  stop.  Some  cows 
cannot  be  dried  off.  The  writer  had  a 
Jersey  that  milked  for  three  years  with¬ 
out  missing  a  day.  So  long  as  we  fed  her 
anything  she  gave  milk. 
The  Western  Agriculturist  gives  this 
dialogue  : — 
“  Driver  what  does  your  horse  weigh?” 
was  asked  of  a  driver  of  a  large  dapple 
gray  hitched  to  a  handsome  wholesale 
wagon.  “  He  weighs  about  1,600  now  ; 
we  bought  him  before  he  was  grown  at 
$200  and  we  have  been  offered  $275  for 
him;  but  he  is  not  for  sale.  He  can  haul 
three  tons  on  this  wagon ;  yesterday  I 
had  on  5,300  pounds  and  he  walked  right 
away  with  it.”  “  You  do  not  have  any 
check  rein  on  him  ?”  “No,  sir ;  I  love  that 
horse  too  much  for  that ;  he  holds  his 
head  up  when  he  moves,  and  he  is  as 
active  as  a  trotter,  and  when  he  pulls 
the  big  loads  we  give  him  he  wants  his 
head  down.” 
That  wagon  must  have  run  on  a  good 
road  or  the  horse  never  could  have  stirred 
the  load,  big  as  he  is. 
Leghorns  and  Minorcas. — How  do 
White  Minorca  chickens  compare  with 
White  Leghorns  as  layers  ?  G.  h.  f. 
Ans. — Minorcas,  both  White  and  Black, 
lay  larger  eggs  than  the  Leghorns,  are 
equally  prolific,  but  our  experience 
would  not  lead  us  to  think  that  they  ex¬ 
cel  the  latter  breed.  They  are  non-sit¬ 
ters.  They  were  boomed  largely  a  few 
years  ago,  but  they  never  have  attained 
the  popularity  of  the  Leghorns,  and  are 
not  so  well  suited  for  a  farmers’  fowl, 
especially  in  cold  climates,  on  account 
of  their  enormous  combs  and  wattles 
which  become  frosted  easily.  The  breed 
is  a  good  one  with  which  to  breed  up 
common  stock.  Unless  they  are  allowed 
to  run  at  large,  one  needs  a  10-foot  fence 
to  keep  them  within  bounds. 
The  Breeder  and  Sportsman  says  : 
In  a  large  paddock  at  the  Hermitage 
Stud,  where  a  bunch  of  yearlings  nibble 
grass,  kick  up  their  heels  and  enjoy  the 
sunshine  and  shade,  Mr.  John  Thompson 
picked  up  a  bullet  with  the  remark  that 
it  was  a  souvenir  of  the  late  war.  Here, 
he  explained,  the  battle  of  Nashville, 
one  of  the  bloodiest  of  the  civil  war,  was 
fought,  and  pounds  of  lead  were  shot  in¬ 
to  the  hills.  Almost  every  day  the  colts 
in  pawing  away  the  grass  bring  to  light 
the  messengers  of  death,  which  buried  in 
the  fructifying  soil,  have  filled  a  mission 
of  peace  through  the  steady  roll  of  seas¬ 
ons  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century. 
All  through  eastern  California  and 
western  Nevada  swarm  herds  of  wild 
horses.  They  are  the  offspring  of  Mex¬ 
icans  and  mustangs  and  runaway  Amer¬ 
ican  horses.  They  used  to  be  valuable 
but  now  with  the  changes  in  farm  and 
city  life,  they  are  too  small  and  vicious 
for  any  useful  life.  They  are  simply  a 
nuisance  and  we  are  not  surprised  at  this 
advice  in  the  Pacific  Rural  Press: 
If  there  could  be  some  concerted  ac¬ 
tion  for  a  general  rodeo  of  these  range 
horses  and  an  agreement  to  slaughter  fur 
hides  and  soap-grease  all  animals  not 
likely  to  weigh  more  than  800  pounds  at 
three  years  of  age  in  fair  condition  and 
also  every  one  with  a  serious  fault  in 
form  or  disposition,  the  balance  would  be 
worth  more  than  the  whole  and  slaught¬ 
ered  horses  might  be  made  to  net  two 
or  three  dollars  each.  Then  geld  grade 
stallions ;  there  are  too  many  any  way 
and  it  is  very  late  in  the  day  to  expect  a 
profit  from  raising  inferior  hordes 
THE  HOME  MARKET  STEER. 
FIXING  THE  FAMILY  BEEF. 
Winter  seems  almost  upon  us  to-day; 
the  ground  is  still  white  with  a  thick 
covering  of  snow  which  fell  two  nights 
ago.  Yesterday  was  a  busy  day  with  the 
farmers:  sheep  and  stock  of  all  other 
kinds  must  be  got  up  and  put  in  their 
winter-quarters  and  many  slight  altera¬ 
tions  and  repairs  in  buildings  and  their 
furnishings  are  necessary  in  order  to 
make  all  comfortable  for  the  approaching 
cold  weather.  I  have  just  been  inter¬ 
viewing  Mr.  Charles,  my  better  and 
larger  half,  in  regard  to  the  young  steer 
he  has  been  stall-feeding  for  several 
weeks,  and  was  glad  to  hear  that  he 
would  soon  be  in  good  condition  for  kill¬ 
ing,  weather  permitting,  and  I  know  he 
will  make  delicious  eating. 
He  was  selected  from  a  herd  of  40 
steers,  bought  in  Buffalo  last  June,  was 
pasture-fed  till  about  six  weeks  ago; 
since  then  he  has  been  kept  constantly 
in  the  stable,  fed  on  a  diet  of  pumpkins, 
cornmeal,  bran  and  clover  hay.  We 
killed  two  such  animals  last  winter  and 
certainly  never  had  such  superior  beef  in 
the  house — rich,  juicy  and  tender  as 
young  chicken.  The  manner  in  which 
we  disposed  of  our  beeves  last  winter 
proved  so  satisfactory,  that  I  will  de¬ 
scribe  it,  thinking  others  may  find  some 
suggestions  which  will  prove  helpful  to 
them. 
As  soon  as  we  are  likely  to  have  steady 
cold  weather,  the  steer  will  be  slaugh¬ 
tered.  One  fore-quarter  and  one  hind- 
quarter  will  be  sold  to  neighboring  far¬ 
mers,  who  are  always  glad  to  avail  them¬ 
selves  of  an  opportunity  to  get  such 
choice  meat  at  so  much  lower  than  retail 
prices.  The  fore- quarter  reserved  for 
ourselves  after  hanging  a  week  or  two, 
we  shall  cut  up  and  pack  in  a  twenty- 
gallon  crock  for  corning.  Each  piece  is 
thoroughly  rubbed  with  the  following 
mixture  and  then  packed  as  solidly  as 
possible  in  the  large  crock  or  jar :  Four 
quarts  of  rock  salt,  four  pounds  of  brown 
sugar,  four  ounces  of  saltpeter,  to  100 
pounds  of  beef. 
These  jars  are  far  superior  to  barrels 
for  this  purpose,  as  they  can  be  kept 
much  sweeter  and  the  jar  cannot  absorb 
the  juices  of  the  meat  as  a  barrel  would. 
No  water  is  needed,  as  the  beef  juices 
will  prove  sufficient  after  a  few  days’ 
standing.  A  twenty-gallon  jar  will  hold 
about  150  pounds  of  meat.  Corn  beef 
prepared  in  this  way  will  keep  several 
months  in  cool  weather,  though  I  think 
the  meat  fibers  are  hardened  and  tough¬ 
ened  after,  say,  two  months. 
I  canned  corned  beef  in  glass  fruit  jars 
last  winter  very  successfully,  opening 
them  in  mid-summer.  The  remaining 
hind-quarter  is  hung  in  the  large,  airy 
garret  over  the  woodshed,  where  it 
generally  freezes.  A  steak  or  roast  is 
cut  off  as  desired.  In  favorable  weather 
the  meat  will  keep  two  months  if  desir¬ 
able,  improving  in  quality  every  day. 
Genesee  Co.,  N.  Y.  mrs  Charles. 
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place  will  take  on  a  proper 
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If  not  at  your  druggist’s,  send  for  circular. 
Hancb  Brothers  &  White,  Pharmaceutical 
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to  7  per  cent 
fat. 
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No  matter  how  “hard- 
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lot  of  yearlings  and  two-year-olds  t->  offer.  Write 
at  once  for  prices  and  particulars. 
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HIGH -GLASS  SHROPSHIRES 1 
Our  second  Importation  for  1892  Includes  30  Bowen - 
Jones  and  Minton  yearling  rams,  now  weighing  220 
pounds  or  more,  to  shear  16  to  17  pounds.  Also  “o 
beautiful  yearling  ewes.  Send  for  catalogue. 
T1IH  WILLOWS.  Paw  l*aw.  Mien 
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Imported  Rams  and  Kwes,  also  Home-bred  Shear¬ 
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of  Ewes  by  Bonnie  Bean  Ire  of  tho  English  cham¬ 
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Address  RICHARD  GIBSON, 
Delaware,  Ont..  Canada. 
M.  C.  Miilkin,  Friend  ship,  Allegany  Co„N.Y. 
Breeder  of  National  Delaine  and  Black  Top 
Spanish  Merino  Sheep.  25  Registered  Rams  and 
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ff  17  Self-Rcgulatlng. 
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Ration)  and  In  Winter  we  cut  green  bone  and  meat 
as  It  comes  from  the  butcher’s  block;  beats  all  other 
animal  feed  for  laying  hens.  Send  for  new  Catalogue 
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DRIVING  and  MATCHED  COACH  HORSES  (many  of  them  Prize  winners)  at 
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RARE  BARGAINS  in  choice  show  animals,  and  cows  wiv<h  great  records. 
STATE  JUST  WMAT  YOU  WANT,  ANS  SAVE  TIME. 
