1893 
79 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Live Stock Matters 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
PIG POETRY. 
The Swine Breeders’ Journal gives two 
poems read at conventions of swine 
breeders. Here is a sample by W. B. 
Gill before the Chester White breeders : 
So, after all’s heard from, 
The hog I like best, 
Is straight on the back 
With a powerful chest, 
With a medium bone, 
Wide and dished in the face, 
Standing well on his legs 
As if he could race. 
Must be straight on belly, 
Well let down in flank, 
With a nice curly tail 
Resembling a crank; 
With ham deep and wide, 
Running well to the front, 
And when he is fed 
Gives a satisfied grunt. 
This extract is taken from The Song of 
the Sow, by John Swengel: 
I’ve a mission to fill, and I’ll fill it well 
If you just heed the story I’ll tell. 
First, I will ask for a sensible feeder 
Before I’ll agree to make a good breeder. 
In heat or In cold I’ll need a dry nest. 
To go to at will and enjoy a good rest. 
When I have no family withhold the corn; 
Feed turnips, pumpkins or slop, night and mom, 
Or give me a run on blue grass and clover; 
Put a ring in my nose, so I’ll not turn it over. 
If you feed corn alone and get me too fat, 
Don’t be surprised if my “kids" are mashed flat. 
’• Bad luck " of the past to you a lesson should teach 
That there Is a happy medium to reach. 
When 1 have the charge of a nice lot of pigs. 
Don't think I can raise them on thistles or tigs, 
But open your heart, your corn crib and bln— 
For starving me now would sure be a sin. 
You should frequently vary my bill of fare, 
While I have my little ones under my care. 
There is one thing more for which I will pray, 
And that is fresh water for us every day. 
My ’’ wee ” ones will think that sweet milk is a treat; 
You know it’s their nature to drink and to eat. 
Slops made of middlings and pieces of bread, 
When you have no milk, will do well Instead. 
Don’t ring the boar’s nose. 
J. H. Drevknstedt says, in the Fan¬ 
ciers’ Journal : “ An Indian Game hen 
made us a present of eight chickens on 
Christmas Day. Like the proverbial 
Arab, she had folded her tent and stole, 
not away, but her nest. The young¬ 
sters are happy and lively in a large open 
coop surrounded by snow banks and 
scratch around on the coldest days like 
a Leghorn in a garden. With a good 
hen and a warm coop at night amid the 
rigors of even such an exceptionally cold 
winter as the present, there need be no 
fear as to rearing chickens.” 
That Dog Remedy. —There is a great 
deal of truth in the suggestion of Farmer 
Miles in The Rural of January 14, but 
I would like him to tell me how to get 
all the owners of the scrub dogs to 
castrate or spay them. There are so 
many worthless or scrub curs in Bedford 
County, Va., that if there were a law to 
force the carrying out of Farmer Miles’s 
suggestion, a great many of the black¬ 
smiths would have to turn their atten¬ 
tion to “ dog dentistry ” and we would 
have to employ several “ dog surgeons ” 
besides. J. t. graves. 
A Sterile Boar. —I purchased a boar 
on November 8 and he proves to be 
sterile. Being a pedigreed animal and 
stated to be “ an animal of high merit,” 
I reported his condition to the breeder 
of whom I had bought him. What is the 
proper thing for him to do ? J. m. s. 
Bridgeton, Mich. 
R. N.-Y.—Answering in a general way, 
we should say that the breeder ought to 
replace him with another animal. We 
do not, however, know all the circum¬ 
stances connected with the case. We 
will try to obtain the opinions of buyers 
and sellers of stock. 
The new officers of the New York State 
American Merino Sheep Breeders are : 
President, S. B. Lusk, Batavia ; Vice- 
President, Cholett Collins, Victor; Secre¬ 
tary and Treasurer, J. Horatio Earll, 
Skaneateles, Executive Committee, Geo. 
S. Hickox, Canandaigua; H. C. Smith, 
Marcellus Falls; R. M. Lee, South Bloom¬ 
field; Pedigree Committee: W. J. Tyler, 
South Byron; Geo. F. Martin, East Rush; 
Glen L. Wheeler, Penn Yan. 
Value of “Strippings.” — Are the 
strippings of more value than the rest 
of the milk ? This question was raised 
at a farmers’ institute a few days ago. 
I hold that they are poorer in quality. 
The others say that they are richer. 
Haverstraw, N. Y. A. h. m. 
Ans. —The others are right. The strip¬ 
pings are several per cent richer than 
the other milk. The old custom in many 
places was to save the “strippings” in a 
separate dish for the coffee. Our experi¬ 
ment stations have carefully tested the 
matter and proved that the old custom 
was correct. 
The American Guernsey Cattle Club 
have reelected Silas Betts, Philadelphia, 
Pa., president. The club will send 25 
cows to the dairy competition at Chicago, 
Ill. 
A Fine Holstein.— Smiths & Powells, 
of Syracuse, N. Y., send us this note : 
We have recently had born at Lakeside a bull 
calf of such unusual breeding as to be worthy of 
mention through The Rural columns. He is very 
handsomely marked, and promises to be a very beau¬ 
tiful animal. His sire was Sir Netherland Clotbilde, 
and his dam is one of the highest-bred heifers of the 
Clothilde family. She was two years old August 31 
last, dropped the calf referred to in November, and 
last month, although but a little over two years old, 
she made 15 pounds 2 ounces of first-class, worked 
and salted butter in a week. This young calf traces 
in four direct lines to Old Clothilde. and his 30 
nearest female ancestors have butter records 
which average for the whole number a little over 
20 pounds 4 ounces in a week, and milk records for 
the nearest 30—omitting the dam, which has only 
just commenced her record—of 16,207 pounds 4 
ounces in a week. This is the first calf of any breed 
that we have ever known that can show such enor¬ 
mous average records for either milk or butter for 
an equal, or anywhere near an equal number of 
ancestors. We think It is well for breeders to fre¬ 
quently bring before the public records of rarely- 
bred animals, in order to encourage higher breeding 
among those who are interested In dairy stock. 
Millet for Cows — What value has 
millet as hay for cows as a milk producer, 
and how does it compare with clover in 
that respect ? What is the proper time 
in central Indiana for planting it ? What 
kind of soil is best suited for it ? What 
is the average yield per acre ? How 
much seed per acre should be used in 
planting ? f. v. c. 
Ans. —The comparative value of good 
millet hay is shown by the following 
figures, where 100 pounds each of the 
substances are compared: 
Value 
100 pounds. 
Millet. $.66 
Clover hay. .77 
Timothy hav. .62 
Red Top hay. .62 
For cow feed, when well cured, it is as 
good as Timothy hay. Our cows eat it 
readily both green and cured. We should 
sow about the middle of June. In ordi¬ 
nary seasons, six weeks’ growth will 
leave it fit to cut. It must be cut early, 
before the seeds form ; if left too late, it 
is but little better than straw. The seeds 
are small and the soil must be well pre¬ 
pared, finely pulverized and free from 
lumps. A rich, open soil that will work 
well is suited to millet. About half a 
bushel of seed per acre, if sowed broad¬ 
cast. 
It is but Wretched Policy to allow yourself 
to drift into an Incurable disease, by neglecting the 
earliest and most tractable symptoms. By content¬ 
edly waiting for a Cold to get well of itself, many a 
one has so damaged the structure of his Lungs, as to 
put himself beyond the reach of medicines, before 
being conscious of danger. How much safer on the 
first indications of a Cold, to resort to Dr. Jayne’s 
Expectorant, an efficacious remedy for Coughs, 
Asthma, and all Bronchial Affections, and sure to 
exert a beneficial Influence on the organs of the 
Chest.— Adv. 
For A Horse. 
For accident, too hard 
work, and skin diseases, 
Ph enol Sodique does 
wonders. For all ani¬ 
mals and human flesh. 
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Gentle as pets, persistent milkers and hardy In con¬ 
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dairy or family cow than any other breed. In the 
“ Old Brick Guernsey Herd” 
are daughters and granddaughters of the renowned 
Squire Kent, 1504 A. G. C. C. and of the finest strains 
on Guernsey or in America—Comus, son of Squire 
Kent and Statelllte, son of Kohirn head the herd. All 
particulars in regard to Breed and Herd cheerfully 
given. S. P. TABER WILLETTS, 
“ The Old Brick,” Roslyn, L. I., N. Y. 
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HACKNEY STALLIONS 
fou 9A.IL.E. 
Three Grand Imported Hackney Stallions. Write 
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IMPORTED PERGHERON MARE FOR SALE. 
FANCHON, No. 2681, foaled 1884, sired by Passe 
Partout (394) a son of Dunham’s celebrated Brilliant 
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neavy tail, and mane 38 Inches long. A very stylish 
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BELL, No. 15496, two years old, daughter of the 
above, and will be as large and fine an animal as her 
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Also a nice lot of High-Grade MARE COLTS. 
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We now offer 50 two-year-old ewes, Imported in 
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[DOG-PRO OF.] 
Having sold so many Ewe lambs In lots of 3 to 10 to 
different parties, and only one ram lamb In ench lot, 
It has left me quite a number of first-class ram 
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