1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Live Stock Matters 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Diseases of Cattle. —The United 
States Department of Agriculture has 
issued a large volume of 497 pages called 
a Special Report on Diseases of Cattle 
and Cattle Feeding. It is prepared under 
the direction of Dr. D. E. Salmon, assisted 
by such authorities as Drs. Law. Atkin¬ 
son, Lowe, Smith, Trumbower and Prof. 
W. A. Henry. It is without doubt one of 
the best works on cattle diseases ever 
printed. All cattle ailments are exhaust¬ 
ively treated by experts. The chapter on 
cattle feeding by Prof. Henry is admir¬ 
able. The book is sent free by the 
Department. The proper way to obtain 
it is to ask your Congressman for a copy 
and he will send the order to the Depart¬ 
ment. 
Skim-Milk a Waste.—The Rural is 
right when it says “ We should not care 
to run a dairy unless we could consider 
the skim-milk a waste product.” He who 
depends upon the skim-milk as profit will 
find the profit as thin as the milk. The 
calves, manure and skim-milk should pay 
for the labor; the butter, or whole milk 
—if that is sold—should pay a profit over 
the cost of the feed; how much will de¬ 
pend upon the cows andothe dairyman. 
The butter dairyman wants as little milk 
as possible; it is cream he is after. It 
won’t pay to make skim-milk : the man 
who sells whole milk can afford to milk 
a cow that will give thinner milk than 
the cow of the butter dairyman. 
A. L. CROSBY. 
Some Chicken Questions. 
Rural Reader, Canada. —1. Why do 
chicks die in the shell when set in the 
incubator for two weeks ?—50 dead to 20 
living. 2. How long must the male bird 
be in the pen with the hens, for the 
chicks to have the benefit of such breed¬ 
ing ? 
Ans. —1. Chicks die in the shell from 
many causes. When the temperature is 
unusually high, or is allowed to remain 
too low, the embryo chick perishes. If 
the hens are too fat the germs may be 
weak in the eggs laid by them, and too 
great an amount of moisture may also 
be fatal. The majority of losses occur 
from too frequent opening of the egg 
drawer, which permits an ingress of 
cold air, the result being often a sudden 
chilling or shock to the chicks. 2. It is 
usual to allow the male with the hens 
about two weeks before using the eggs 
for hatching, but something depends on 
the condition of the hens, and the stage 
of progress of laying. p. h. Jacobs. 
Dorset Horned Sheep “Up Head.” 
C. H. W., Eaton Rapids, Mich —Would 
Horned Dorset rams be as good to cross 
upon our common grade Merino ewes as 
the Shropshire or other long-wool rams 
for mutton lambs ? Would the lambs 
have the large horns of the Dorsets ? If 
so, would this feature be likely to hurt 
their sale in the markets ? I think J. S. 
Woodward wrote something about them 
in his articles on raising winter lambs 
some time ago.. Will he please give his 
experience with and opinion of them. 
Ans —Of all the breeds which I have 
tried for sires for early lambs, and I have 
tried nearly all breeds, there is none that 
compares with the Dorset Horned. They 
are active, hardy, very prolific, extremely 
prepotent and tireless workers. No mat¬ 
ter how hot the weather, they are always 
stirring about and will get a very much 
larger proportionate number of twin 
lambs than any of the others. In 1890 
we put three rams, one each. Dorset, 
Hampshire and Shropshire, with a flock 
of 126 ewes and took them about 16 miles 
away to pasture so that they could not be 
looked after very often except that the 
man on whose farm they were running at¬ 
tended to salting them once a week. Of 
the lambs from that flock among the 
first 62 dropped, but three had black 
faces, and of the whole crop over three- 
fourths were of the Dorset cross, although 
there were two to one against him. 
The Dorsets belong to the medium- 
wool class. Their clip is not heavy— 
from five to eight or nine pounds of a 
very soft, silky wool which sells for the 
very highest price. They are very nearly 
as large as the Shropshires, and of very 
good mutton shape, very quick growers. 
The ewes have udders like small cows 
and give an abundance of very rich milk. 
The lambs, even the half bloods, come 
strong and are up and looking for some¬ 
thing to eat quicker than those of any 
other cross. They do have the large 
horns, even the half-bloods, but this, 
since our first shipment, instead of being 
a damage is now a sort of trade-mark 
and helps to identify and sell them. The 
longer we have and use them the more 
highly we prize them as early lamb get¬ 
ters. J. s. WOODWARD. 
Paying for Skim-Milk. 
M. E. S., Dover, Pa. —What is the 
feeding value of sweet tnilk for pigs and 
chickens, and what can I pay a gallon 
and fetch it myself, having it very handy? 
Ans.— The feeding value of skim-milk 
as compared with other stock foods, is 
about as follows—100 pounds of each 
substance : 
Sklm-mllk. $-23 
Clover hay.77 
Wheat bran. 1.02 
Corn meal.. ..1.03 
Timothy hay.02 
Oats.05 
These are comparative prices , that is, if 
wheat bran is worth $1.02 per 100 
pounds, clover hay is worth $.77, and so 
on. The figures give a fair comparison 
of values. One hundred pounds of skim- 
milk, or about 50 quarts, are valued at 23 
cents, or less than half a cent a quart. 
We cannot advise you as to a price to pay 
for it ; local conditions will control that. 
You will see that, pound for pound, it is 
worth for feeding about one-fourth as 
much as oats—that is, 16 gallons of milk 
will contain about the same food ele¬ 
ments as a bushel of oats. Will the 
skim-milk prove as valuable for feeding 
as the oats ? For some animals, yes. A 
horse, for example, could not drink skim- 
milk enough to take the place of 12 
quarts of oats, but calves, pigs and 
chickens can use it if it is mixed with 
grain food. Skim-milk probably pays 
best when fed to chickens—used instead 
of water to make their morning mash, 
or soured and made into curds. 
In writing to advertisers please always mention 
The Rural. 
Poor 
horse with sore back or 
foot or diseased skin! 
Apply Phenol Sodique. 
It will do wonders. 
HANCE BROTHERS & WHITE, Philadelphia. 
At druggists. Take no substitute. 
LINSEED OIL MEAL 
Please do not forget that our OIL MEAL Is 
THE BEST FEED 
obtainable for 
COWS, BEEF CATTLE, HOGS and HOESES. 
Market price must soon advance, and we advise 
your taking In your winter’s supply now. 
Please write us for quotations and other particulars. 
DETROIT LINSEED OIL WORKS, 
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POULTRY FEED. 
We manufacture Ground Beef Scraps, Granulated 
Bone, Oyster shells, O. K. Feed, i. e. (Meat and Bone 
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 
for more particulars. C. A. BARTLETT, 
Worcester, Mass. 
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A few choice birds at $3 each. Light 
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Japanned Finish - - - • $1.0 
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per year wlth- 
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sent by express, charges paid, with full directions 
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THE LAWRENCE-WILLI AMS CO., Cleveland, O. 
B Lowest priced first-class 
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Owego, N. Y. 
Mention Tub Rukal New-Yorker. 
Combining the richness of the Jersey with the size 
approximate to tho Holstein or Short-horn, but 
standing alone and unkqualkd In producing the 
richest colored butter in mld-wlnter on dry feed. 
Gentle as pets, persistent milkers and hardy In con¬ 
stitution, they combine more qualifications for the 
dairy or family cow than any other breed. In tho 
“ Old Brick Guernsey Herd” 
are daughters and granddaughters of the renowned 
Squire Kent, 1504 A. G. C. C. and of tho finest strains 
<m Guernsey or In America—Comus, son of Squire 
Kent and Statellite, son of Kolilm head the herd. All 
particulars in regard to Breed and Herd cheerfully 
given. S. P. TABER WILLETTS, 
“ The Old Brick,” ItoSLYN, L. I., N. Y. 
Dorset Horned Ham Lambs. 
[DOG-PROOF.] 
Having sold so many Ewe lambs In lots of 3 to 10 to 
different parties, and only one ram lamb In each lot, 
it has left me quite a number of first-class ram 
lambs, and these I will sell, if taken at once, 
at $15 to $18 per head. Let those who wish to 
raise early lambs for the Christmas market give the 
Dorsets a trial, when I am certain they will soon be 
convinced that they are the breed they want, by 
their remarkable fecundity, and superiority In many 
other respects over all other breeds. Also for sale 
Imported ewes two years old, due to lamb this and 
next month, to Imported Royal Windsor, No. 232. 
First Prize Winner at the Royal Show of England, 
1889. All stock delivered to the buyer free of ex- 
pressage. Address T. S. COOPER, 
Coopersburg, Lehigh County, pa. 
THIS BJTrS 
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and will easily control the most 
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119 S. La Fayette St., South Bend, Ind. 
POP SALE One% grade Percheron Horse 
extra heavy, five years old, 
sound, kind and gentle. Price $250, F. O. B. Ashe¬ 
ville, N. C. E. D. HEINEMANN 
Asheville, N. C. 
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sent on application. WILSON BROS. Easton. Pa. 
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l Thatgreen cut bone is the most 
| economical and greatest egg 
I producing food known. 
MANN’S BONE CUTTER, 
I Warranted to cut greeD bones, 
meat, gristle, and all without 
clog or difficulty, or 
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lim F. W. MANN, Milford,Mass. 
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THE WILLOWS, Paw Paw, Mich. 
SMITHS & POWELL, Syracuse, N. Y., offer very 
superior FRENCH COACH, STANDARD, CLYDESDALE, PERCHERON, 
DRIVING and MATCHED’ COACH HORSES (many of them Prize winners) at 
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