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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
MAY 9 
Live Stock Notes. 
An Illinois Stock-Grower’s Figures. 
My farm consists of 200 acres, 80 of which 
are too rough and stony to be cultivated 
and are covered with brush and timber. 
Assessed value $8 per acre; selling value, 
$35; real estate tax, $34 ; personal property 
tax, $15. 
Account of stock, purchases and sale8from 
January 1,1890, to January 1,1891. 
RAISKD FIVE HEAD. 
Sold- September 30,19 bead of three- 
year-old steers.. 
August 13. seven head of 
butcher stock. . 
October 21, one bull. 
Bought—August 13. 2) head of two- 
year-old steers . 
October 1, one bull calf. 
December 22, one cow. 
On hand. January 1, 1890, 59 head of 
cattle of ad ages.• 
On hand January 1, 1891, 57 head of 
cattle of all ages. 
Pasture and feed purchased. 
«0 acres of pasture at 13 per acre. 
8(0 bushels of corn at 25 cents per 
bushel.. 
2u tons of hay at $5 per ton. . 
CR. 
$900,00 
110.00 
29.00 
$435.00 
16.00 
- 20.00 
100.00 
120.00 
75.00 
109.00 
$1,039.00 $567.00 
POLAND CHINA HOOS—THOROUG HBRKDS. 
On hand—January 1, 1890, 8 sows. 1 _ 
boaraud 15 shoats. valued at $150.00 
January 1, 189 , 13 sows, 1 
boar and 57shoats valued at $265/0 
Sold—10 shoats for breed rs. 78.00 
Five tat hogs and butchered one 
at $3.50 per 100 pound? live 
weight. 67.00 
Fed-500 bushels of corn at 25 cents... (5.W 
too bushels of rye at 50 cents. 5o.oo 
50 bushels of oats at 25 cents. 12.50 
Pasture, 10 acres at $2 per sere. <0.00 
Potca .....*. $400 $307.50 
Cattle......... 1,039 00 867.00 
CASH SALES. 
Butter. 21.59 
Eggs *2.84, and poultry *9.30. 12.14 
10 bushels clover seed, $42.75 ; beans, 
12 bushels, $15 . 57.75 
Incidentals.. 60.00 
Hired help . 
$1,580 47 $1,115*50 
Seven head of horses and colts. 1,115,50 
$465.00 
W. S. 8. 
Pauline Paul’s Measurements.— The 
great Holstein cow owned by J. B. 
Butcher & Co., that leads the world as a 
butter producer, weighs 1,450 pounds. 
These are her measurements: Height at 
shoulders, 55>£ inches, and the same at the 
hios, length of body, 66^ inches; rump, 
22^ inches ; width of hips, 23>£ inches; at 
heart, 20 inches ; girth, 79 inches. Measure 
a few of your cows and see how they com¬ 
pare with this. 
A SALE of 86 high-class Guernseys will be 
held by Harkness, of Philadelphia, May 7* 
Feeding Before Calving.— John Gould 
writes to the Country Gentleman: “I 
object to giving a cow before calving any 
drenches or physics. Where one has ensilage 
there is no danger of constipation in a cow. 
I am opposed to restricting a cow’s diet 
before calving. Give her her regular grain 
rations and other food. Her system should 
not be upset by a change of diet or by re¬ 
stricting it. She needs that her strength 
should be maintained, her appetite ap¬ 
peased, and her system left as normal as 
possible. There is, I think, far less risk in 
this than in introducing changes to ward 
off what might be, in other conditions, no 
danger at all. 
A Country Gentleman subscriber rub¬ 
bed his cattle all over with onions and thus 
killed the lice on them. He will now try 
the remedy on poultry. 
Welch Mountain Ponies.— Owing to 
the increased demand for ponies and small 
horses, efforts are being made to create an 
interest in the little Welch mountain 
ponies. A writer in the London Live Stock 
Journal,writing about these little animals, 
says: ‘‘I remember once buying such a 
pony, and his owner weighed 252 pounds 
and his father-in-law 238 pounds. What 
the pony weighed I cannot say, but it stood 
exactly hands, and took the pair of 
monsters along as if they were feather¬ 
weights. How it was done I cannot 
imagine, but I made up my mind that the 
heart within that small frame must be a 
big one, and that there must be a good im¬ 
pression of blue blood back in its veins 
somewhere, and so it proved on further 
acquaintance. This pony, although a rarely 
good one, is no solitary exception, for I 
very well know there are plenty of them, 
provided the real article is selected and 
venomous outcrosBes excluded.” As a first 
step toward bringing these ponies before 
the public, this writer proposes forming a 
stud book of Welch ponies, the effect of the 
McKinley Bill having been to practically 
exclude unregistered animals. 
The English are employing “ paternal 
legislation ” to build up their live stock in¬ 
dustries at a rate that frightens some of our 
statesmen. For example, the government 
pays a bounty on horses suitable for army 
service, provides suitable stallions at a 
cheap service fee and buys army horses at a 
good price, dealing directly with the 
farmers. 
Losses from abortion among English 
dairy herds are enormous. It is even pro¬ 
posed to collect statistics of this disease 
when making up the regular cattle statis¬ 
tics. It is thought that these figures would 
show such a frightful loss that the govern¬ 
ment would be forced to take measures to 
stamp out the disease—at least to know 
what causes it. 
The breeders of Dorset Horned sheep 
have already over 40 members in their as¬ 
sociation, of which T. S. Cooper is presi¬ 
dent. The association was found necessary 
in order to protect legitimate breeders of 
these sheep from frauds. Dorsets are very 
popular and good prices for first-class 
specimens are sure to prevail. In order 
that irresponsible people may not take ad¬ 
vantage of this popularity and try to sell 
grades and culls, the association has estab¬ 
lished a registry in which well bred animals 
may be recorded, thus enabling the respon¬ 
sible seller to give a reliable guarantee that 
his stock is genuine. 
Gombault’s Caustic Balsam.— In the 
summer of ’89, one of my mares met with 
an accident, severing the large tendon 
covering the hock joint, leaving the bone 
exposed and the leg so sore that she stood 
on three for over two months. I did every¬ 
thing for her, but all was no use. A pipe 
had formed and had come to stay. By this 
time she was nothing but skin and bone, 
and I gave her up, as I could do no more for 
her. One day, however, I ordered a bottle 
of Gombault’s Caustic Balsam and com¬ 
menced to use it according to directions. I 
diluted it with sweet oil. The second day 
after the first application, the sore was dis¬ 
charging twice as much matter as it had 
done beiore, and that was a pint a day. 
After the second application, the tumor 
commenced to go down and in three days 
it had stopped discharging entirely. To¬ 
day the mare is as good for work as ever. 
What medicine I used on her leg was worth 
$200 to me. I also had good success using 
it on curbs and ringbones, removing the 
former with two and the latter with three 
applications. I would also recommend it 
for sprains, lame back, rheumatism, galls, 
etc.; in fact, it has no equal. 
Grand Isle Co., Vt. wm. m. lyman. 
Skim-milk Lambs.—I breed only high- 
priced sheep and want to give them all 
things to push them. I feed them cows’ 
milk when raised by hand, allowing the 
lambs cut turnips or beets and sweet hay 
with corn meal and bran. For mutton, I 
doubt not that skimmed milk would be 
well utilized with the feed above named, or 
with oats and oil cake, etc. 
Madison Co., Ky. cassius M. clay. 
Peas and Oats —These two crops grown ? 
ground and fed together give to cows a 
feed that suits them almost as well as a 
ham sandwich suits a man. T. L. Hacker, 
of Wisconsin, in Hoard’s Dairyman, gives 
this experience: “ I have raised about half 
a dozen crops on various kinds of soil and 
have met with best results on light upland 
soil, sowing two bushels of peas to one of 
White Scboenen Oats. I use the Schoenen 
because the straw is much stiffer than any 
other kind we have. I harvest them with a 
self binder, stacking and thrashing the 
same as other grain. If they are inclined 
to shell, I run the machine mornings and 
evenings only. If the field is fenced off, 
the hogs can be turned in after stacking, 
so there need be no waste. I grind the oats 
and peas before feeding. For milch cows 
I consider them the very best feed we have, 
causing a large flow of very rich milk. I 
have also fed them to brood sows and ewes 
in lamb with good results, as they encourage 
a good flow of milk, and are a better bone 
and muscle producing feed for the young 
than any other we have. Commencing in 
a small way to test the various soils 
and find out which is best adapted to the 
crop, one can soon learn how to secure 
peas most satisfactorily.” 
English breeders of Suffolk horses have 
decided to form a stud book association. 
They tell us of farm renters in England 
who pay their rents each year in the colts 
from two or three Shire mares. They 
breed to the best stallions to be found, and 
raise colts each year, selling them when 
three years old. The food needed by the 
colts makes very little difference in the pro¬ 
ceeds of the farm, while the colt itself sells 
for a good price. Can this be done in 
America f Not with scrub colts certainly. 
It can by using well-bred horses though. 
American Polled Cattle—The R. 
N.-Y. receives a circular from G. S. Chris¬ 
tian, Noblesville, Ind., “Secretary of the 
American Polled Cattle Association,” 
calling upon breeders of polled cattle to 
unite. The objects of the association, he 
says, are to improve and encourage the 
breeding of American cattle, and to fix 
polled characteristic features, and to estab¬ 
lish and maintain a Herd Book of Polled 
Cattle. As to the importance of the mat¬ 
ter, he says: 
“ All breeders, feeders and dairymen will 
admit at once that polled cattle are more 
docile and tractable than those with horns; 
and experience teaches us that we can, by 
using polled animals which are at our 
command, and by judicious breeding and 
selecting, breed a strain of polled cattle 
with a near approach, and equal to the. 
breed of our cnoice; and, at this day and 
age of the world’s progress, it must be ad¬ 
mitted by all that horns on cattle are un¬ 
necessary and dangerous, jeopardizing the 
lives and comfort of animals as well as 
human beings. We would, therefore, urge 
upon the American breeders of cattle, that 
they begin a system of breeding a strain of 
polled cattle with a type and characteris¬ 
tics of the breed of their choice. It can be 
done in a few years’ time by using polled 
animals at our command and judicious se¬ 
lecting and breeding: we can have herds 
of polled Short-horns, Herefords, Jerseys, 
etc., equal to their horned ancestors.” 
Sale of a Fine Jersey.— Our Jersey 
cow Pretty Patty 44108, for the seven days 
ending April 12, 1891, made 17 pounds 1 
ounce, of gilt-edged butter, the weight 
having been reported after it had 
been salted one ounce to the pound, 
thoroughly worked and ready for market. 
The cow’s milk yield for the week was 231 
pounds. Her age was nearly four years. 
Her sire is Stoke Pogis 5th, 5983, the sire of 
17 young cows with large butter tests. Her 
dam is Yellow Lass 32603, a great-grand¬ 
daughter of the famous Eurotas. Pretty 
Patty’s butter test last year with her first 
calf was 15 pounds 4% ounces in a week. 
Sbe is of a silver fawn color, strongly and 
symmetrically built; has a deep, heavy 
barrel, an especially good udder and teats, 
and, in brief, in our opinion she is a model 
of a dairy or family cow. She has been 
bred to and is supposed to be in calf by the 
bull Ida’s Rioter of St. Lambert, 13656, 
whose dam’s butter test of 30 pounds 2% 
oucces in seven days, was, when made, 
over pounds higher than any previous 
test, and whose milk record for a day, week 
and month, though made over five years 
ago, has not yet been tqualed by that of 
any other cow in the Jersey breed. 
Through the medium of The Rural New- 
Yorker, Pretty Patty has been sold at a 
price commensurate with her richness of 
pedigree and individual quality, to Mr. 
Joseph E. Brown, of 123 Remsen Street, 
Brooklyn, New York. MILLER & SIBLEY. 
A Butter Ration.— Prof. Henry tells a 
Breeders’ Gazette reader who has bran, 
shorts, corn meal, oil cake and clover and 
Timothy hay: “ I doubt if there is such a 
thing as a complete or perfect butter ra¬ 
tion. What we feed must vary according 
to prices, seasons of the year, and the appe¬ 
tites of the animals. A good ration would 
consist of two pounds of oil cake, four 
pounds of corn meal,and four pounds of bran 
or shorts. Besides this feed, all of the mixed 
hay the cows will eat, which, with such a 
grain ration, will be from 12 to 18 pounds 
per day.” 
(Continued on next page.) 
OF INTEREST TO BUTTER MAKERS. 
The gold medal for the best butter at the Paris 
World’s Exposition was awarded to Moulton Broth¬ 
ers, of West Randolph, Vt. In making this butter 
Wells, Richardson & Co.’s Improved Butter Color 
was used. This award has largely increased the sale 
of the Improved Butter Color, for every progressive 
dairyman wants to use the best. Don’t let your 
dealer sell you other kinds on which he makes a 
larger profit. 
No dairyman can afford to be without it, for it is 
unequaled in strength and natural June color. Send 
three 2 cent stamps to Wells, Richardson & Co., Bur 
lington, Vt., for postage and packing of a sample 
bojttle (to color 60 pounds), and see for yourselves 
how far ahead it is of ordinary butter color. If you 
never colored your butter, this article will increase 
its value several cents a pound.— Adv. 
LINSEED 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 in the Rural New-Yorker. 
The New Onion Culture. 
2,000 BUSHELS 
JUST OUTI 
nrn mnr System Entirely 
PER ACRE. New. Tested on 
Popular Gardening grounds, and 
also at the Ohio Experiment Sta¬ 
tion by horticulturist W. J. Green, 
and found superior. The beginner 
grows 1,500 bushels per acre as easily 
as the expert his 600 bushels in the 
old way. By T. Greiner. Large 
clear type. Well illustrated. Price, 
50 cents, by mail. 
THE RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
Times Building, New York. 
HIGH-CLASS JERSEYS, 
17 
YOUNG DAUGHTERS of Our bull 
STOKE POGIS 5th 5987 have made 
from 14 lbs. 1*4 oz. to 22 lbs. 12 oz. 
_ _ butter In 7 days. We refused $15,- 
000 for him. He is the only living brother of the ac¬ 
knowledged champion dairy bull, Stoke Pogis 3d 
(now dead) whose 27 daughters 
17 
Average Over 20 Pounds. 
Ida's Rioter of St. L. 13656. -Son of Ida of St. 
Lambert 21590, (cost $6,500 cash before she was 
tested', official butter test for 7 days,30 lbs. 2H oz.-, 
milk record, 67 lbs. one day. 1861 lbs. one winter 
month. His four tested daughters average 20 lbs, 
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. 
BULL CALVES, COWS IN CALF, A FEW 
HEIFERS BY ABOVE BULLS. 
Also Children’s PONIES and pure bred ANGORA 
GOATS for Sale. No Bull Call less than $1(0, very few 
less than $2(0. No heifer less than *200. No general 
Catalogue. Write for what you want. Superior 
Bulls to head Herds a specialtv. Mention this paper. 
MILLER & SIBLEY. 
Franklin, V.nango Co., Penn, 
HORSE OWNERS! 
TRY GOMBAULT’S 
CAUSTIC BALSAM 
A Safe, Speedy and Positive Cure 
forf'urh.Splint.Sweeny 
t:i))|Mil Hock.St rained 
Tendons, Founder, 
Wind I*nIlk. Skin l»i•*«■«»- 
e*, Thrush, laiplitlieriu, 
all I.uincncNM from K(»avin, 
Itinglmm' or other ltony 
Tu in or ». Removes all 
Bunches or Blemishes from 
Ilorwcs and Cattle. 
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, charges paid, with full di¬ 
rections for its use. Send for descriptive circulars. 
THE LAWRENCE, WILLIAMS CO. Cleveland, O. 
PURINTON’S 
Farm BOILER. 
The Best article for Cooking Feed 
for Stock, Heating Cheese Vats, Milk 
or Water In Dairies, etc., for use in 
Laundries, Bathrooms, and any place 
where Steaming, Boiling, Heating or 
Cooking is needed. Thousands in use. 
Write to 
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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. 
CHESHIRES A SPECIALTY. 
I have now shipped 3*25 times to men I had 
sold to before. No other breeder can give such a 
record. Stock of all ages for sale. 
E. W. 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 detal's, giving practical rations for all farm ani¬ 
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