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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Care of Breeding Ewes.— Mr. A. W. 
Fox of Oregon, Wisconsin, is one of the 
most successful breeders of Shropshire 
sheep in this country. The following rules 
for the care of in lamb ewes are taken from 
his personal experience: “Do not feed 
much of any grain to the in-lamb ewes. 
Rather make a nice variety of the several 
coarser foods. Clover hay, topped corn 
stalks, oat straw and such, with only such 
light feeds of oats and bran as may seem 
necessary to keep the flock thriving. Va¬ 
riety is one of the most essential features 
of successful sheep feeding. Sheep love a 
change of feed if even to a poorer sort: this 
fact should ever be in the shepherd’s mind 
the year round. A couple of weeks before 
the lambs are expected in the spring the 
bag of each ewe should be carefully 
trimmed of all loose locks of wool which 
might be sucked and swallowed by the 
lambs, sometimes causing death. After 
the ewes have lambed, their feed ration 
should be judiciously increased, and as the 
lambs grow and begin to eat with the 
ewes, there should be a pen fixed with a 
small passage to it through which the 
lambs can pass to a feed box kept well 
stored with a mixture of crushed oats, 
bran, oil cake and other relishes to which 
the lambs should have free access at all 
times.” 
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NOTES FROM MILLER & SIBLEY. 
We have lately made the following but¬ 
ter tests : Rho A Pogis 39269, a four year- 
old, dropped last calf September 15, 1890 ; 
gave for the seven days ending November 
14, ’90, 174 pounds of milk and yielded 14 
pounds 15 ounces of butter. The weight of 
the cow is 890 pounds. This makes the 
sixteenth daughter of her sire Stoke Pogis 
5th, 5987, to test upwards of 14 pounds. If 
those who own untested daughters of this 
bull will only take the trouble to give them 
a test, we have no doubt that eventually 
the number of his tested daughters will far 
exceed that of his full brother Stoke Pogis 
3d, who now leads all other dairy bulls, 
both in the number of tested daughters as 
well as the average of the tests. The dam 
of Rho A Pogis is by Duke of Belmont 
4478, who is by Sweepstakes Duke 1901 out 
of a daughter of St. Helier 45. 
One daughter of Ida’s Rioter of St. Lam¬ 
bert 13656, that we have tested, is Ida 
Twinkle 36994, a six-year-old weighing 
1,090 pounds. Her last calf was dropped 
October 21, 1890. For the seven days end¬ 
ing November 21, 1890, she gave 266 pounds 
4 ounces of milk, which produced 23 
pounds 2 x /i ounces of butter. The dam of 
Ida Twinkle is Twinkle 5th, 18486, who is 
by Bloomfield Squire 5423, and traces to 
Albert 44, Pierrot 636 and McClellan 25. 
Another daughter of Ida’s Rioter of St. 
Lambert 13656, tested by us is Ida Marigold 
32615, a five year old ; last calf July 31,1890. 
For the seven days (September 30 to Octo¬ 
ber 6) she gave 244 pounds 8 ounces of 
milk, which produced 25 pounds 2)4 
ounces of butter. Is not this the highest 
test made by a cow sired by a descendant 
of Stoke Pogis 3d ? For the seven days 
immediately preceding the above test she 
made 24 pounds 13 ounces of butter, a total 
of 49 pounds 15>£ ounces for the 14 days. 
The weight of the cow was 1,160 pounds. 
She is the heaviest cow in the herd. We 
like to see the size and strength her sire 
imparts to his get. He himself has 
weighed as high as 1,705 pounds. We think 
his dam weighed 1,100 pounds. Previous 
to this butter test Ida Marigol had given 
as high as 44 pounds of milk per day. If 
fed with a view to her best flow of milk, 
we think she would go between 50 and 60 
pounds. All the daughters of Ida’s 
Rioter of St Lambert 13656, are large 
milkers. One of them. Highland Ida 
38427, is reported by her owner, Mr. 
Henry A. Slack, of Hurstville, N. Y., as 
giving as high as 49 pounds of milk per 
day for him. By the way, we recently had 
occasion to look over our original milk 
record sheets for the year 1885, and were 
agreeably surprised to find that Ida of St. 
Lambert had given more for the 31 days 
than we had previously announced. Our 
statement of the amount was 1,888 pounds, 
but the dates reported were not those within 
which the cow did her best. For the 
period, November 30 to December 30, 1885, 
inclusive, she gave a total of 1,891 pounds. 
We hope that any other mistakes we may 
hereafter be so unfortunate as to make 
may be on the same safe side. The dam of 
Ida Marigold is Arawana Marigold 9380, 
who is by Atamasco 2731 out of Mariana 
5571. Well-known names in the pedigree 
of Arawana Marigold are Rajah, Mr. Mi- 
cawber, Champion of America and Pansy. 
All the butter reported above was thor¬ 
oughly worked and salted one ounce to the 
pound._ 
A SENATOR’S HORSE TALK. 
Leland Stanford has been telling the 
N. Y. Herald about his plans for breeding 
trotters. He first bought Occident. Re¬ 
garding the development of this horse he 
says ; 
“ I recalled to mind that when a miner 
I was in the habit of amusing my¬ 
self in my idle moments in my office by 
taking a magnet and attaching tacks to it 
until its powers began to be exhausted and 
they would begin to drop off. I have no 
doubt that I would by persistency have 
completely destroyed its strength. As I 
recalled this incident I came to the conclu¬ 
sion that in the successful development of 
the horse the one great evil to be avoided 
was to abstain from exhausting his powers 
to the full limit. Well, I went on develop¬ 
ing Occident according to my theory of not 
overworking him, of always keeping him 
vigorous until he reached the furthest pos¬ 
sible limit of his speed.” 
Other sayings of Senator Stanford are 
below : 
“No one can make me believe that the 
fast trotting horses of to day or any other 
day derive the instinct to trot from the 
Conestoga, the Clydesdale, the Percheron 
or from any other cold-blooded breeds. I 
do not believe that there ever was a Thor¬ 
oughbred that could not be made to trot 
faster than any cold-blooded horse.” 
“I was for many years connected with 
the street car system of San Francisco. I 
noticed that the average life of usefulness 
of common horses in that line was three 
years. In the large number of horses in 
the stable of the company there was one 
blooded horse, and to my certain knowl¬ 
edge that horse performed daily service— 
the most arduous service a horse is called 
to perform in this world—for twelve long 
years.” 
“ When I bought Electioneer my friends 
were astonished. They could not see what 
I wanted of that horse, with his heavy 
shoulders like a cart horse, and with high 
hindquarters like a steer.” 
“ I find it difficult to get my men to fol¬ 
low out my precise instructions in the 
handling and training of my colts. I make 
it a rule to employ no man about my 
stables who loses his temper. My rules 
also are that there shall be no loud talking 
or cursing about the premises. These 
rules are posted in the stables, and the man 
that violates them incurs the risk of being 
discharged ” 
“I believe in early development. I be¬ 
lieve that I have yearlings which, if prop¬ 
erly developed, could be made to trot al¬ 
most as low as they could later on in life. 
The point to be avoided is not to overdo 
the business; to always reserve something; 
to excite the supreme effort, but to avoid 
exhaustion.”_ 
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DAIRY NOTES. 
From the New York State Dairy¬ 
men’s Association. 
A. D. Baker : “ I was forced into butter 
making to get fertility for my land, and 
learned from the butter conference how to 
make butter. A grain farm has an advan¬ 
tage in that it can grow its own grain, and 
the same help that work the soil can care 
for the stock. I receive as much cash from 
10 cows as from 30 acres of wheat. I believe 
that a great loss Is incurred by pasturing, 
as it takes twice as many acres in summer 
as in winter to furnish a cow’s food. Soil¬ 
ing saves cost and manure. One must 
Know the cows are good and supply the 
best combination of food for milk produc¬ 
tion.” 
Col. Curtis : “ If Mr. Baker, who lives 
in the richest part of New York State is 
forced into the keeping of stock for fer¬ 
tility, what of those living in the poor sec¬ 
tions? There the soil is so poor that plants 
lack nutrition and it takes more pounds of 
milk for a pound of butter than formerly.” 
Gov. Hoard : “I bee many cows in the 
field and lots of manure under the eaves. 
One patron received $68 per cow which 
gave a profit of $28 each ; another received 
$35, leaving a profit of five dollars. The 
first spent time in thinking, the second in 
‘ cussing.’ ” 
Josiah Smith : “ Provide a place for 
plants. Provide your wife with tools and 
have the wood box always full. Your wife 
will have to lug wood 27 miles if she takes 
only 40 steps per day for a year. The house 
tools are used every day in the year; 
the binder only a few days.” 
John Gould: “ The dairymen of our 
country are the money lenders. Did you 
ever hear of a dairyman making an assign¬ 
ment unless he speculated in produce? We 
are not so much in need of new ideas as of 
the capacity to put our old ideas into better 
practice. Cheapen here, be more lavish 
there, and strive for a continuous income. 
Abandon all talk of making cows hardy ; 
give them summer treatment In winter. A 
cow is a boarder, and should pay her board 
bill. Nine acres of ensilage kept 27 
cows for 7 months; why should I pasture 
80 acres to keep the same number in 
summer ?” 
Prof. I. P. Roberts: “It has been rec¬ 
ommended to use a male which has been 
bred for a special purpose ; but if results 
are disappointing, the breeder loses faith 
and ceases to try. From want of confidence 
there is not much sale for thoroughbred 
males. What has caused this lack of con¬ 
fidence ? Lack of potential energy and 
lack of suitable surroundings when pure¬ 
bred males pass into the hands of breeders 
of grades. Why have not breeders been 
more successful ? Their failure is due to 
lack of knowledge of the laws of nutrition, 
environment and habit, and a failure to 
take full advantage of the law of selection. 
Too much stress is laid on blood, and too 
little on comfort, food and selection, which 
play such important parts in the acquiring 
of energy that if one be left out disappoint¬ 
ment may follow. Learn to breed dairy 
cows according to dairy laws, and roadsters 
according to trotting laws. Selection pro¬ 
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what has been produced. Food, conditions 
and habit are the factors to be used for 
gain. Dairymen desire animals which 
have the habit of milk giving fixed, have 
prepotency enough to transmit the same 
and make good use of their food and give 
an increase of product from an increase of 
comfort. A man may have good dairy 
cows to start with, but if he feeds Timothy 
hay and oat straw with plenty of outdoor 
exercise, he will make fair roadsters of 
them, but he will not produce milkers.” 
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B stands for butcher’s blocks and such bloody things 
C stands for churn with butter so pat, 
D stands for Dr. Babcock’s tester of fat. 
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