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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Live Stock Notes. 
Breeders of saddle horses recently met 
at Springfield, 111., and organized an asso¬ 
ciation for the purpose of starting a stud 
book. Chas. F. Mills, secretary. 
The Edinburgh Butchers’ Association 
proposes to insure cattle against tubercu¬ 
losis. That is, it will, on payment of a 
certain fee, assume the risk of fat cattle 
sent to be sold. 
For some months past, a portion of Lin¬ 
colnshire, England, has suffered from a 
severe plague of rats. Ferrets were effec¬ 
tively used in destroying the vermin. The 
breeding and handling of ferrets is quite 
a large industry in this country. 
At the Royal Dublin Society’s late show 
a new class of horses was shown. These 
were “Polo Ponies," short, sturdy, little 
fellows, quick and spry. The interest shown 
in the game of polo—a sort of “ hookey ’’ 
on horseback—has created a demand for 
these little fellows. 
The plan of keeping a goat among dairy 
cows to prevent abortion is really taken 
seriously by many English breeders. The 
plan of allowing different sorts of animals 
to run together is interesting from many 
points of view, and we would like to hear 
from those of our readers who have 
observed any curious or marked results. 
Rye For Pigs.—I n a late Rural the 
question was asked: “Who has fed rye 
slop to pigs ?” I have done so for the last 
three or four years always with good re¬ 
sults. Rye is considered good food for 
mankind; why should It not be equally 
good for the brute creation ? J. E. J. 
Utica, Wis. 
Skunk farming is not a new industry at 
all it seems. One of our friends writes of 
a boy who paid all his expenses at the Cen¬ 
tennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, out of 
the proceeds of a “skunk dairy.’’ A man 
that we learn of lately “came out even” 
growing wheat, but has now a good-sized 
bank account built up by skunks. Money 
in skunks—if you are ready to turn part 
skunk yourself 1 
The Jersey cow Paola State Pogis, 
owned by P. J. Cogswell, made in five 
weeks, 109 pounds 10 ounces of butter. 
She weighs 750 pounds. Her feed consist¬ 
ed of one feed per day of about 18 pounds 
of corn silage, two feeds of cut clover hay, 
and about 22 pounds of grain feed per day, 
as follows: One part corn-meal, one part 
fine feed, one part pea-meal, one part 
ground oats, one part oil-meal, and two 
parts wheat bran ; also one feed per day of 
roots. 
Hog Cholera. —John Gould writes the 
Country Gentleman about the hog farm of 
Mr. Theo. Louis, of Wisconsin. He says : 
“ In a country of more or less hog cholera, 
this disease has never appeared on his farm, 
and his explanation why is, clean and well 
kept hogs, plenty of fresh water for them, 
not only to drink but to bathe in, and a 
generous feeding of charcoal, salt, lime, 
ashes and a little copperas, the whole mlxtd 
and put in self-feeders, where the hogs eat 
to their hearts’ content. I was surprised 
to see the hogs stand about this box and 
eat this mixture by the peck, the whole 
amounting to several bushels per week.” 
A Fine Shropshire.— Geo. E. Breck, of 
Paw Paw, Mich., sends a photograph of a 
Shropshire Ram, of which he writes: 
“This animal, Willows No. II. is one of 
the grandest Shropshires ever Drought to 
America. He weighs 300 pounds, is low on 
his legs and his body is well covered with 
the finest wool I have ever seen on a sheep. 
I could have rented him last fall for $5 a 
head. I brought over several equally good, 
and I have no hesitation in saying tuat I 
imported the best 100 Shropshires ever 
brought to America. 1 have sold 107 ewes 
at auction at prices ranging from $50 to $75 
a head. I shall go for sheep again in 
July.” 
Secretary Fasig of the Cleveland track, 
makes this eloquent statement regarding 
the American trotting horse: “The trotting 
horse is an American citizen, needing no 
naturalization papers or introduction. For 
general use and business he is, next to man, 
God’s noblest creation. The draft horse 
can pull, the thoroughbred run; neither 
can trot; neither is adapted to the general 
business of mankind; one is a slow slug, 
the other treacherous and flightj—a gam¬ 
bling machine ; whereas the trotting-bred 
horse can pull your plow, he can run as 
fast as is ever necessary in business, and he 
can make you grow young with the pleas¬ 
ure he affords in a * spin ’ down the smooth 
stretch of road on your way home—such a 
‘ spin ’ that opens your heart, makes you 
pat the baby on its head, furnishes a kind 
word and a loving kiss for your wife, in¬ 
stead of that desire to kick your dog after 
a slow, work-your-passage with the whip- 
ride behind a dunghill beast.” 
Feeding Cattle at an Arkansas 
Oil Mill. 
Most of the cattle fed at our oil mill are 
purchased in Texas, and range in age from 
three to five years. At the mill are a large 
number of very fine three-year-old Texan 
bullocks, I think it would be hard to beat; 
they were purchased in the fall in fair con¬ 
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dition, and shipped to this place by rail. 
The usual time of feeding is from four to 
five months. The ration per beast at the 
start is 15 pounds; of cotton seed hulls and 
five pounds of meal per day thoroughly 
mixed, and fed dry. As the animals get 
used to the feed, the ration is increased 
until it reaches 25 pounds of hulls, and 10 
pounds of meal per day for each. The sheds 
are 30 feet wide, with a driveway through 
the center for hauling in the feed. On each 
side of this are the stalls where the 
cattle are chained, two steers occu¬ 
pying one stall; the feed troughs are 
situated inside the driveway and answer 
for the partitition between that and the 
cattle. The sheds contain now 1,500 cattle 
and the remainder—about 4,000—are kept 
In open 20-acre lots just outside of the city 
limits. The company bought up all the 
land obtainable on which to keep their 
stock. The gentleman who has charge of 
the feeding informs me that the bullocks 
in the open lots do as well on the same 
rations as those under shelter. Nothing is 
fed but hulls and cotton-seed meal. I have 
never known cheap molasses to be fed. 
Last year the cattle were sent to Liverpool, 
but this winter they are contracted to par¬ 
ties in St. Louis, Mo. The manure Is haul¬ 
ed out and dumped on an open 80-acre lot 
near the stables and is one of the richest 
manures in existence, hence it is a great 
pity to waste it in this way. It contains 
a large per cent of potash and ammonia. 
The people are manufacturing a small 
part into a fertilizer composed of some 
kainit and 10 per cent of lime, with enough 
dry clay to absorb the ammonia freed by 
the lime. This they soon run through a 
mill when dry and put up in 100-pound 
sacks and sell at $8 per ton. They also 
sack up the ashes from the furnace and 
ship them to the East at $20 per ton. They 
are the productof burnt hulls used as fuel in 
running the works. I am using several 
tons of both the ashes and prepared manure 
on my garden and potato crop this season, 
and will in the fall be prepared to speak 
definitely as to the results. Two hundred 
cattle are kept on each 20-acre lot and fed 
from open troughs. The steers, when sent 
to market, average in weight 1,200 to 1,300 
pounds, and are shipped by railroad. 
Little Rock, Ark. w. P. T. 
An Ohio Farmer’s Stock. 
I have been much interested in The 
Rural’S reports of the cash sales from the 
farm. My farm consists of 84j^ acres; as¬ 
sessed value $3,460. The stock sold was 
grown on it except two cows and calves, 
and they also should be justly considered 
farm stock for I exchanged a colt for them. 
Taken as a whole, the farm is better adapt¬ 
ed for grazing than for grain growing, but 
by tile drainage, manure and clover, I 
hope to grow grain successfully. Last 
year 14 acres of wheat averaged 24 bushels 
per acre; 10 acres, 15 bushels, and 11 acres 
of corn, over 60 bushels per acre. This 
year 1 do not expect to make the sales ag¬ 
gregate as much as last, but at this date 
it is impossible to tell what the result will 
be. My present farm stock consists of six 
horses, three brood-mares, one four-year- 
old gelding, one two-year-old filly, one 
yearling, 11 South Down sheep, 8 brood- 
sows, 13 stockers, two cows and one calf. 
Eleven acres are in wheat, 25 in clover sod 
for corn and the remainder of the farm in 
pasture, except a garden plot of about one 
acre. My sales 1890 were as follows: 
Hogg. $563,89 
Meat. 8.88 
Two four-year geldings. 280.00 
Cattle. 177.98 
Wool. 21.% 
Three -sheep. 15.50 
Seven lambs,. 21.20 
Wheat. 870.00 
Poultry. 5.57 
Total.81.t59.88 
In addition to the stock inventoried, 
there are at present on the farm about 60 
grade P Rock hens. In the future I expect 
to pay more attention to the poultry part 
of the products, believing there is more in 
it than in pig growing. JOHN M. JAMISON. 
Ross Co., O. 
Possibilities of the Razor-Back 
Hog. 
“ Tom Sawyer” in the Florida Agricul¬ 
turist thus comes to the defense of a much 
abused animal: 
We are all pretty much the creatures of 
circumstance and some of us would be as¬ 
tonished to know how we would turn out if 
suddenly left to shift for ourselves in a state 
of nature and among the Wire Grass of a 
Florida forest. Take Mr. Depew, for in¬ 
stance. He is a great man of some fatness 
as a result of many banquets which he paid 
for with nice little after dinner speeches, 
but you put him out to root for himself iu 
these pine woods and I’ve no doubt he 
would show a degree of thinness and an 
elevation of spine that would do credit to 
any razor-backed Alliance man In Florida. 
So it Is with a hog. You take the measli¬ 
est razor back that ever outran a pack of 
hounds, and put him in a pen to a banquet 
of extra wet slop, with a bill of fare includ¬ 
ing such entrees as corn, pinders, cassava, 
chufas and potatoes, and my word as an 
Alliance man that hog will begin to stick 
out on the sides until in a few weeks you 
will wonder how his legs sustain his cor- 
porosity. 
I know that the razor-back can be and 
often is an army-sized nuisance upon the 
farm. I have known him to make church 
members actually swear and I swore at 
one once myself (swore at the hog I mean), 
but there were two sides to the question. 
Just here let me say that if a farmer will 
keep good fences he won’t have to swear at 
the razor-back. If a hog is hungry he will 
go nosing around your fence because he 
smells something to eat inside, and if he 
finds a weak place iD that fence he will go 
through. That is hog nature. The good 
Lord made him that way, and if he didn’t 
follow his natural instincts he would not 
be a hog. When a man is hungry he is 
going to get something to eat or break a 
half dozen of the commandments in the 
attempt, then how much better do you 
expect a hog to be than a man ? 
The razor-back is thin I know, but as I 
have suggested that is more his misfortune 
than his fault. If you give him some 
pinders and stuff he will get over his thin¬ 
ness. I have known some very thin men in 
my time, and some of them were as grand 
as they were thin—in fact I am thin, but 
no one ever reproaches me on that account. 
As a promoter of prosperity the razor-back 
needs only to be utilized. He does not en¬ 
courage the cholera nor can the hungry 
darkey readily catch him in a scrub race. 
He will make his home in the pine woods, 
and after displaying a remarkable talent 
for multiplying and replenishing the hog 
population, will come up to your pinder 
patch in October, then by the cold nights 
in December he will be ready to offer him¬ 
self a sacrifice to man’s all-absorbing appe¬ 
tite. The meat problem is now solved, and 
the razor-back did it with his little bacon. 
TO SUCCEED IN THE DAIRY. 
Good cows are essential. Perfect cleanliness is 
necessary. But nothing Is of greater importance 
than the use of a good color. Wells, Richardson 
& Co.'s Improved is guaranteed the strongest and 
most natural. It has been improved recently, and 
is now far ahead of all other colors. The largest but 
ter buyers urge their customers to use this color, for 
it is sweet, pure, and its use can never be detected. 
Don’t allow your dealer to sell you any butter color 
but Wells, Richardson & Co.’s Improved. Tell him 
the BEST is what you want, and you must have the 
Improved. It excels in strength, puriiy and bright¬ 
ness, never turns rancid, always gives a natural June 
color, and will not color the butter milk Thousands 
of the best creameries and dairies use it.— Adv. 
In writing to advertisers please alwaj 
mention The Rural. 
UNSEED OIL MEAL 
As produced by the 
DETROIT LINSEED OIL WORKS, 
DETROIT. MICHIGAN. 
Is the Best Feed for 
DAIRY COWS, HORSES, PIGS. SHEEP 
-AND ALL- 
DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
The large and increasing trade the Detroit Linseed 
Oil Works enjoy, without any personal solicitation 
whatever, together with other facts they can give 
upon mail application, fully sustain the above state¬ 
ment. 
Write for further particulars, referring to this 
notice found ;n the Rural New-Yorker. 
Window Gardening. 
A Lot of Delightful and Prac¬ 
tical Articles and Pleasing Il¬ 
lustrations — All on Window 
Gardening —make up this pretty 
little work. Written by expert 
flower and plant growers. Covers 
every phase of plant culture in the 
house. Price, lO cents. 
THE RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
Times Building, New York. 
ROAD CARTS 
le make the BK81 ! ^ ou wil. 
*uve money by buying vehicles direct from the 
nanufactuiers. Enclose 2 cent stamp for 
Hast rated catalogue and net prices. Address 
PRATT VEHICLE MPG.CO. K “'sTw"‘s;: 
CHESHIRES A SPECIALTY. 
I have now shipped 3185 times to men I had 
sold to before. No other breeder can give such a 
recori. Stock of all ages for sale. 
E. VV. DAVIS, Oneida. N. Y. 
Feeding Animals. 
This Is a practical work of 560 pages, by Professor 
E. W. STEWART, upon the science of feeding in all 
its details, giving practical rations for all farm ani¬ 
mals. Its accuracy is proved by its adoption as a text 
book in nearly all Agricultural Colleges and F.xperi- 
ment Stations in America. It will pay anybody hav¬ 
ing a horse or a cow, or who feeds a few pigs or 
sheep to buy and study it carefully. Price, $2,00. 
Address THE RURAL PUBLISHING COM¬ 
PANY, Times Building, New York. 
P ETER C. KELLOGG & CO.’S Twelfth 
ANNUAL 
Special Combination Sale of 
JERSEY CATTLE, 
Tuesday to Friday, April 28 to 30,1891, 
AT THE 
AMERICAN INSTITUTE BUILDING, 
Third Ave., between 63d & 64th Sts , New York. 
(Address all Correspondence to 107 John 8t. 
Consignments of none but superior Cattle are en¬ 
tered or promised by the following well known 
breeders, viz.: 
Mins E. T. Mlntnrn, 
JIpKsrs. Frederic Bronson, 
W* €. Norton, 
8. M. Burnham, 
A. II. Sloore, 
S. W. Robbins, 
Khrick Family, 
1). F. Appleton, 
Nathan Kohl ns, 
Win. I*. Douglas, 
J. K. Roberts, 
Wallace Barnes, 
Messrs. T. O. Bullock, 
T. 8. Cooper, 
J. B. Morris, 
F. J. Prentiss, 
Breen Mt. S. Farm Co., 
A. C. Cooley, 
Lawrence Timpson, 
A. L. Thorne, 
A. L. llulslxer, 
W. W. Darrah, 
E. Bodee, etc. 
Several others have expressed an intention to eon 
sign, but have not positively promised. It is probable 
that we will be able to confine the regular sale to two 
daj s—April 28 and 29—using the following day to sell 
only such animals as may be debarred trim the regu¬ 
lar order of sale, should any of inferior quality be 
sent. Circulars explaining restrictions in quality 
will be forwarded on application. No entries taken 
later than April 15. Address 
PETER C. KELLOGG & CO , Auctioneers, 
107 John Street, New York 
HIGH-CLASS JERSEYS, 
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YOUNG DAUGHTERS of our bull 
STOKE POGIS 5th 5987 have made 
from 14 lbs. lf£ oz. to 22 lbs. 12 oz. 
butter in 7 days. Werefused$15,- 
Obuforhim. He is the only living brother of the ac¬ 
knowledged champion dairy bull, Stoke Pogis 8d 
(now dead) whose 27 daughters 
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Average Over 20 Pounds. 
Ida’s Rioter of St. L. 13656.—Son of Ida of St. 
Lambert 21990, (cost $6,500 cash before she was 
tested), official butter test for 7 days.aO lbs. 2J^ oz.-, 
milk record, 67 lbs. one day, 1891 lbs. one winter 
month. His four tested daughters average 20 lbs, 
10*4 oz butter in 7 days. Several give on ordinary 
feed from 40 to 49 lbs. milk per day. He weighs 
1705 lbs. Our Jerseys are big. Our heifers not 
bred till 2 year olds. 
HULL CALVES, COWS IN CALF, A FEW 
HEIFERS RY ABOVE BULLS. 
Also Children’s PONIES and pure-bred ANGORA 
GOATS for Sale. No Bull Calf less than $100, very few 
less than $2tu. No heifer less than $200. No general 
Catalogue. Write for what you want. Superior 
Bulls to head Herds a specialty. Mention this paper. 
MILLER & SIBLEY, 
Franklin, Venango Co., Penn. 
HORSE OWNERS! 
TRY GOMBAULT'S 
Caustic balsam 
A Safe, Speedy and Positive Cure 
fori'u ili.SpI i ll I ,N\\ ceny 
Capped Hoek.Kt rained 
Tendons, F o under, 
Wind I*,ill*. Skin I>i»can- 
e», Tlirual*, I>iplillict-ia. 
all IdinenesNfrom Spavin, 
Kinghone or oilier Bony 
Tumors. Removes all 
fe Bunches or Blemishes from 
llorseM and Faille. 
SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTERY OR FIRING. 
Impossible to Produce SCAR or BLEMISH. 
Every bottle sold is warranted to give satisfac¬ 
tion. Price 81.50 per bottie. Sold by druggists, 
or sent by express, charge* paid, with full di¬ 
rections for its use. Send for descriptive circulars. 
THE LAWRENCE, WILLIAMS CO. Cleveland, O. 
PURINTON’S 
Farm* BOILER. 
The Rest article for Cooking Feed 
for Stock, Heating Cheese Vats, Milk 
or Water in Dairies, etc., for use In 
Laundries, Bath rooms, and any place 
where Steaming, Boiling, Heating or 
Cooking is needed. Thousands in use. 
Write to 
J. K. PURINTON «fc CO., Des Moines, Iowa, 
CLOVER STOCK FARM HERD 
Of Improved Chester White Swine, headed by Sweep¬ 
stakes Animals, won at the largest Fairs in America. 
Stock for sale. C. H. GREGG, 
Krumroy, Summit County, Ohio. 
ATTENTION FRIEND FARMER. 
Prospect Herd of the Todd 
Improved Chester Whites. 
Breeding stock recorded. 
Orders booked for Spring 
Pigs Write for what you 
want and illustrated cata¬ 
logue before buying else¬ 
where. 
SIDNEY SPRAGUE, Falconer, N. Y. 
f \ O from B. & W. P. Rocks, Red Caps and 
Em V* VI O S. S Wyaudottes at $1.00 per 13. From 
best stock. A. R. MULLER, Truxton, N. Y. 
C C from White Plymouth Rocks and 
kU VlO Wyandottes $1. ; U per 13. $4.00 per 39. 
Circular free. T. F. MILLER, Matiituck, N. Y. 
HORSES Lakeside Stock Farm, 
SMITHS, POWELL & LAMB, Syracuse, n. y. 
FRENCH COACH. —The evenest, best colored, finest bred of any importation yet. 
TROTTING BRED HORSES.- Fine representatives of several of the most noted trotting strain, 
including descendants of “ Electioneer,” ” George Wilkes.” “ Alcazar,” “ Whips,” ” Administrator.” etc. 
CLYDESDALES. -The largest and most noted stud in the Eastern States. 
PERCHERONS. - A fine stock of the various ages. 
Also the Celebrated Herd of Milk and Butter Producing Holstein-Friesians. 
BERKSHIRE AND CHESHIRE SWINE. 
Separate Catalogues of Horses and Cattle sent on application, Mention this paper when writing. 
