1891 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
237 
An Ancient Physician’s Wisdom. 
Galen writes: “It is vain to speak of 
cures or think of remedies until such time 
as we have considered of the causes.” The 
cause of many diseases is want of vitality. 
Compound Oxygen is a vitalizer, and 
strikes directly at the root and source of 
the disease, by imparting new strength 
and vigor to every organ of the body. We 
submit a few testimonials from those who 
have helped themselves by means of Com¬ 
pound Oxygen. Here is what they say : 
Drs. Starkey & Palen:— “ I have used 
your Home Treatment of Compound Oxy¬ 
gen for catarrh. I can safely recommend 
it.” R C. Foster, Greenville, S. C. 
Drs Starkey & Palen:— “Abaut six 
years ago I had a number of lung hemor¬ 
rhages, followed by fever and great exhaus¬ 
tion. I used your Compound Oxygen 
Treatment, hemorrhages cea«ed, appetite 
returned, slept well and general health be¬ 
came better than it had been for years.” 
Rev. C. A. Duncan, Pastor of Presybyter- 
ian Church, Jonesboro, Tenn. 
Drs. Starkey & Palen:— “I believe 
the Compound Oxygen Treatment as dis¬ 
pensed by you to be an invaluable remedy, 
because of the incalculable benefit I re¬ 
ceived from its use.” Rev. A. M. Smith, 
Pastor Evangelical Lutheran Church, 
Myersville, Md., Aug. 6, 1888. 
Drs Starkey & Palen “ Your Com¬ 
pound Oxygen Treatment is the most ra¬ 
tional means of relief in all throat and 
lung troubles, also in nervous complaints.” 
H. W. Bradley, M. D., Griffiths, Ga. 
Send for our Treatise on Compound Oxy¬ 
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and results. Book sent free. There are 
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manufactured by Drs. Starkey & Palen, 
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Sutter Street, San Francisco, Cal.— Adv. 
LIVE STO jK—Continued. 
Poland China Pork —I raised 125 March 
and April pigs last season. I only milked 
10 cows and raised 10 calves, so, of course, 
the pigs did not get much milk. The first 
four weeks the sows with their litters 
were fed on oats, bran, and swill made 
from heavy shorts; at six weeks, the pigs 
were fed on soaked corn, in connection 
with ground oats and bran. When eight 
weeks, they were weaned and fed all 
sorts of feed that I could raise or buy at 
reasonable figures. Milk is, of course, the 
best swill; but a substitute of one pall of 
heavy shorts to a barrel of water is very 
good. The swill should not be allowed to 
become sour. Plenty of pumpkins, cooked 
potatoes, and of whole as well as of ground 
corn, together with plenty of oats, and, in 
fact, plenty of everything obtainable at 
reasonable or fair figures, can be profitably 
fed. I claim I can make 15 pounds of pork 
from one bushel of corn fed in connection 
with swill, when the pigs are allowed to 
run in clover pasture. WM. HOLLAND. 
Black Hawk County, Iowa. 
Female Influence.— Does the female 
exert influence on the male when mated 
with subsequent females ? Mr. Frederic 
Street, in a paper on Horse Breeding before 
an English farmers’ club, gave the follow¬ 
ing experience : “Some time since my son 
had two Belgian hare rabbits, a buck and 
a doe. The first result of their being mated 
was a litter of six young ones, all true to 
color. .Not caring to keep the buck, I gave 
him to the son of a neighbor, when he was 
turned in with a number of silver gray, 
yellow, and other colored does. After the 
young rabbits were weaned I sent for the 
same buck. In due course the doe produced 
a litter of seven only two of which were 
true to color, the others partaking of the 
color of silver gray and other colored tame 
rabbits. I mentioned the case to a cele¬ 
brated breeder of Welsh black cattle, and 
he said that would explain what had 
hitherto been a mystery to him. He had al¬ 
lowed his pedigree black bull to serve 
ordinary Welsh cows, some of which were 
red in color; and although he had none but 
pure black cows in his herd, his bull had 
got several red calves. 
Likes Cheshire Pigs. —A few weeks 
back I saw in The Rural an article in re¬ 
gard to Cheshire hogs, which, from what I 
have seen of them, I can indorse in full. 
Having 20 sows to be served in June, 1890, I 
bought a November, 1889 boar, which I yet 
have, and have used for all my own sows, 
and served nine sows for my neighbors at 
$1.50 each, and all that have farrow¬ 
ed have had from six to twelve pigs, some 
from coarse-quality sows and some from 
sows all black, but the pigs have bred right 
back to the boar. They have all been white 
and of good quality. I was so well suited 
with this boar that I got my son last 
August to buy a May pig. She has had 
just a common chance this winter, has run 
after feeding steers, picking up their drop¬ 
pings with other shoats. While the latter 
have done just fairly, she is fat, showing 
that there is a good deal in blood in case of 
hogs as well as of any other kind of stock. 
My man can do anything with either the 
boar or sow. They are the quietest bogs I 
have ever seen, and all with whom I have 
talked tell the same story. K. E. w. 
Addison, N. Y. 
GLUTEN MEAL FOR FEEDING. 
R. D. W., Deibertsville, Pa.— la gluten 
meal, if fed with hay, a well balanced ra¬ 
tion ? Does it tend to constipation ? What 
is its feeding value ? If it should not be 
fed alone with hay, what other feed should 
be mixed with it, and in what proportion ? 
Ans.—G luten meal is a very excellent 
feed. It is the corn meal with the starch 
taken out of it, and consequently has a 
better feeding rate than the corn meal it¬ 
self. As it is now dried in some cases be¬ 
fore it is sold, the only objection appertain¬ 
ing to it, viz , its wetness is done away 
with, but even in its fresh state it is quite 
free from objection if it is not permitted to 
get sour. In its wet and dry state it con¬ 
tains the following nutritious matters: 
Wet. Dry. 
Albuminoids. sm per cent. 10^ per cent. 
Caroobydrates.1994 “ 56 “ 
Fat...2 “ 6 “ 
Nutritive ratio.1 to 754 “ .. “ 
When dry it is equal to corn meal in al¬ 
buminoids and fat, and as the water does 
not count, the quantity fed being in pro¬ 
portion to the quantity of water, which is 
78 to 80 per cent, it may be considered as 
equal to corn meal in its nitrogen and fat; 
consequently it may be fed by itself and 
without mixture, unless it be with the hay, 
cut fine, which is the best way to use it. It 
is not productive of constipation, but when 
wet is rather the reverse. For butter pro¬ 
duct it should be fed sweet and fresh and 
not soured. H. s. 
COTTONSEED MEAL FOR COWS. 
THE QUESTION. 
A local paper quotes an article detailing 
the great value of cotton-seed meal as a 
feed for cows, and ends by saying : “The 
fact is, there is money in cotton seed meal 
—in saving of first cost by increasing the 
results at the pail or in flesh or butter, and 
by adding to the worth of the manure.” I 
have talked with a large farmer and he 
says that farmers used to use car-loads of 
it in his neighborhood, but finally con¬ 
cluded that it caused abortion in the cows, 
and now they use none. What is The 
Rural’s knowledge of it as a feed for cows? 
Saratoga Spa, N. Y. E. H. 
Dr. H. Stewart Gives His Experi¬ 
ence. 
The cotton plant is remarkable in several 
ways. It clothes the world, civilized and 
savage; it is fast supplanting the olive as 
a producer of oil; the oil from the seed has 
greatly disturbed the dairy industry so far 
as the poor qualities of butter are con¬ 
cerned ; the refuse of the seed, after the oil 
has been extracted, is the most nutritious 
of all foods for cows ; the hulls are valu¬ 
able for feeding and fattening cattle; the 
oil is now largely used as a remedy for 
consumption of the lungs and for persons 
who suffer from malnutrition. The root 
has peculiar medicinal properties which so 
affect the nervous system as to cause abor¬ 
tion, and in the times of slavery It was 
common to serve out to the women as 
an antidote a dose of black haw (Viburnum 
prunifolium) to save the children, which 
were worth so much money to the owners. 
Thus it well deserves to be called the king 
of farm products, being simply indispen¬ 
sable to the comfort of mankind. 
The last-mentioned circumstance, how¬ 
ever, some years ago, when oleomargarine 
was first introduced, had an influence upon 
the medical profession, naturally on guard 
against any reasonable suspicion of injury 
to the public health, in respect of the 
probable effect of the oil upon their pa¬ 
tients, considering this known property of 
the root, and a good deal was said not only 
about the danger of using the oil as food, 
but also of feeding the meal to cows. When 
the meal was first introduced as food for 
cows I was offered a bag of it to try, this 
being, I think, the first bag ever fed to 
cows in the United States. Knowing of 
this peculiarity of the root, I felt some 
uncertainty as to the possible results, and 
used it very cautiously at first; but, find¬ 
ing no harm happening in any way, I pur¬ 
chased it by the ton and fed a large quan¬ 
tity of it during several years. As It be¬ 
came popular, I at times cautioned dairy¬ 
men against feeding it too largely at first, 
or in large quantities at all, but solely on 
account of its nitrogenous character, it 
containing 40 per cent or more of nitro¬ 
genous matter. But I never found any¬ 
thing worse than an attack of garget from 
it when four pounds were fed twice a day, 
and then I reduced the ration to two 
pounds at each meal, after which not even 
an attack of garget occurred. It has been 
used so long now without any ill effects in 
any way that I am convinced no fears need 
exist as to the loss of calves from its use, 
nor in any other way if it is fed in reason¬ 
able quantities. Nor has there ever been 
any ill result experienced from the use of 
the oil as oleomargarine, and whatever 
fears in this direction may have existed at 
any time from excess of precaution, there 
need be none now after so many years’ 
experience. 
MORE POLLED JERSEYS. 
Since I published the facts about the 
Polled Jerseys discovered at Newark, I 
see that Mr. W. S, Miller, of Elmore, O., 
mentioned, in a paper he read on Polled 
Durhams, at Columbus, lately, that a 
neighbor of his has two recorded Jersey 
heifers that are entirely hornless. Mr. 
Miller gives me the following interesting 
information: 
The Polled Jerseys I referred to are 
owned by J. H. Wood, of Elmore. He 
bought them recently of Senator Godfrey, 
who represents Mercer County in the Ohio 
Legislature. I met Mr. Godfrey while I 
was at Columbus. He told me these 
heifers were sired by the same bull, but 
are from different cows. He could not ac¬ 
count for their being hornless, as their sire 
and dams had horns. I have seen the 
heifers. They are of very nice colors, both 
being solid dark fawn. Mr. Wood told me 
that he had just sent their pedigrees to the 
secretary for registry. 
“I saw your article on the Polled Jerseys 
you discovered in Licking County,” said 
he, “ and I showed the paper to Mr. Wood, 
and he wrote to the owner of the cattle 
and found that they are full bloods, but 
not eligible to registry. A herd of Polled 
Jerseys would be a bonanza. This queen 
of the dairy needs only to drop Its horns to 
complete its beauty. The following are 
the pedigrees of the Godfrey Polled Jer¬ 
seys : Sire of both, Bernard J. 23385; the 
dam of the one is Reservoir Hebe 26541; 
that of the other, Celina Hebe 26542. From 
these horned specimens were bred the two 
polled heifers we refer to, by T. J. Godfrey, 
Celina, O. Both were dropped the first 
week in August, 1889.” 
The above is “exact” information. This 
is the second instance of the registration of 
purebred specimens of polled individuals 
in our herd registers of horned breeds. The 
first case was that of the Polled Short-horns 
now owned by Mr. Miller himself. These 
Polled Short-horns .are destined to create 
a revolution among the Short-horns. Mr. 
Miller has been selling his polled bulls to 
Sbort-horn breeders for the purpose of pro¬ 
ducing polled herds. 
What do these instances teach? Evidently, 
simply, that there is a natural tendency to 
throw off the horns, this of itself indicating 
again that the horns themselves are an ac 
quired characteristic; and thatjhe tendency 
to.be rid of them—which has-been observed 
among all classes of breeds, in all times— 
is but a reversion to the orginal type or the 
bovine which was hornless. r. c. auld. 
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