L893 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
What Killed the Hens.—C. M. S., in 
a late Rural describes my experience 
with my hens in March 1892, when I lost 
55 in two weeks out of a flock of 66, and 
I found 16 dead under the roost one 
morning'. Ten years ago I abandoned 
soft food for young chickens, gave them 
bread for a day or two after they came 
out, and then wheat exclusively, with a 
dish of pulverized plaster from an old 
building, and another of milk to run to, 
and haven’t had a case of gapes on the 
place since. david park. 
Good and Poor Jerseys.—Is there 
any difference between light and dark 
•Jersey cattle? Which are considered the 
better and are there any poor full-blood 
Jerseys? subscribbr. 
Ans. —So far as color is concerned there 
is no great difference in value. The fawn 
or gray Jerseys are more numerous and 
popular, but some of the best Jerseys 
have been blacks or dark-colored. Cer¬ 
tainly there are poor full-blood Jerseys 
just as there are members of human fam¬ 
ilies inferior in every way to their broth¬ 
ers and sisters. 
That Cannibal Sow.—Under the head 
of Live Stock Matters in The R. N.-Y of 
May 13, A. W. B. says he gave salt pork 
several times to a cannibal sow without 
good result. Had he fed her but once 
with all she would eat, amounting to a 
surfeit, the effect would have been quite 
different. This is for the benefit of 
others who may have cannibal swine. 
Lehigh County, Pa. henry colt. 
Ans. —To prevent cannibalism in a sow 
loosen her bowels before she has her 
young. The sow that eats her pigs is 
constipated, in pain and practically in- 
sane. p t 
Those Grain Questions. —I consider 
wheat a cheaper feed for poultry than 
oats; in fact, I find it is by far the 
cheapest food for laying hens. Once I 
was out of it and I fed a considerable 
quantity of barley, oats and corn, but 
the hens soon fell off in laying. I then 
bought a lot of wheat and fed it almost 
exclusively and the hens increased their 
supply of eggs. I could never see any 
difference in the feeding quality between 
red and white wheat. I would pay the 
same price for either kind, but I always 
buy, if I can, plump wheat, a Johnson. 
Is the Milk Good ? — I have read so 
much about tuberculosis that I am 
tempted to ask this question. My Jersey 
heifer soon to come into milk is small 
and thin though she has a good appetite. 
How can I ascertain whether her milk 
is fit for family use ? c h. t. b. 
Southold, N. Y. 
Ans.— The only way to be sure of it is 
to have the cow examined by a competent 
veterinarian and a sample of her milk 
analyzed. Write to our State Veterin¬ 
arian Dr. James Law, Ithaca, N. Y., for 
instructions. 
Spraying and Pasturing. —I wish to 
spray my apple orchard with Paris-green 
or London-purple; is there any danger of 
po’soning my cows—which pasture in the 
orchard—from the spray being washed 
off by rain on the grass below, and would 
it be risky to use grass in another 
orchard (that would be sprayed) for hay, 
cutting it about July 1 ? j j, k. 
Ans. —A number of experiments have 
shown that cattle have safely fed in 
orchards during and after spraying. If 
you will keep them out for 24 hours 
after spraying there will be no risk 
about it. There is no danger in using 
the hay. 
Value of “ Future Delivery” Ani¬ 
mals. This depends on the parties to 
the transaction and the length of time 
to elapse. It’s a matter of confidence. 
One of the parties must trust the other. 
If the buyer is a former patron or an 
acquaintance, the seller may be secure 
without the cash. Many men send an 
order under a sudden impulse and when 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
the time comes for delivering, refuse to 
accept the stock or do not have the 
money. Some man will accept a chance 
to buy cheaper and has no conscience, 
revoking the order without a moment’s 
care as to any trouble he may cause the 
seller, who may have had several chances 
to contract the stock, but dare not, sup¬ 
posing it sold, and thus he suffers loss. 
“But,” says one, “you have the stock 
and it must be worth the price asked 
else you are asking too much.” True, 
we have the stock ; but the time when 
the demand is greatest is past and a sale 
cannot be made without additional ex¬ 
pense for advertising, or at a reduced 
price. The stock costs the buyer no more 
at one time than another; and there 
seem to be too many who are not finan¬ 
cially responsible, trying to get stock 
shipped in advance, to warrant the seller 
in taking chances. To send C. O. D., 
makes too much extra expense. The 
buyer has nothing but his money to make 
him honest, or to lose. The seller is in 
a position where honesty is a good busi¬ 
ness policy and must send stock or suffer 
from exposure by the patrons and the 
newspapers in which he advertises. I 
have yet to find a man who breeds stock 
enough to pay him to advertise it, that 
would not act more than fairly by any 
customer. For a pig from a prospective 
litter that may fail to materialize a small 
advance sufficient to bind the bargain 
and cover loss from a refusal of the buyer 
to fulfill his agreement would answer 
until the stock was ready to ship ; but 
for stock which is to be shipped within 
a month the cash should accompany the 
or der. c. e. chapman. 
As a general thing, people do not like 
to pay for an article very much in ad¬ 
vance. If the pigs were to be shipped 
soon, they, of course, should be paid for. 
The only question is in case of pigs en¬ 
gaged from a future litter. I think a 
small sum should be paid in advance in 
such cases. The breeder simply wants 
a certainty, that is all. To illustrate, 
people have several times engaged some 
of my pigs several months ahead, and I 
have not been able to get as much as a 
letter from the buyers, though I wrote 
to them several times telling them that 
the pigs were ready to ship. Sometimes I 
have lost the sale of stock through keep¬ 
ing it for men who had engaged it. I 
have a large number engaged ahead each 
year, and expect about 10 per cent to be 
paper orders only. The most aggrava¬ 
ting of all to the breeder is to have stock 
en g a ged ahead and then be unable to get 
any response whatever from the buyer. 
Oneida, N. Y. e. w. davis. 
gave them a fancy name, they would 
sweep the country. There is also a 
black-and-white breed, (Frybourg) in 
many points similar and about equal lo 
the above. It’s a great mistake of the 
Swiss Government not to show these 
three noble breeds at the World’s Fail. 
At the last Paris Exposition these cat¬ 
tle werj exhibited, and so were the Eng¬ 
lish The Swis.=, man thought he would 
like a c oss of Short-horn in his cow and 
asked the Englishman to let him breed 
his cow; but the Englishman sent in a 
bdl for $100 service fee., while the Swiss 
man thought it was free. Well, they 
finally agreed that if it was a bull calf 
he might keep it, but if a heifer it 
was the Englishman’s It was a heifer, 
and the Briton sent a man extra to 
Switzerland to get it; it turned out to 
be a great show cow and Mr Schweitzer 
missed a little fortune. .tacob buchi. 
It is wrli, to get clear of a Cold the first week, 
but it is much better and safer to rid yourself of It 
the first forty-eight hours—the proper remedy for the 
purpose being Dr. Jayne's Expectorant. -AUv. 
DORSET HORN SHEEP 
DOG-PROOF. 
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WirSfplt’.S w? Dy !" p0rt6<1 Windsor No. 
lRnrt bi iaaa P i U u °yal Show at Windsor. Kng- 
POr , te<1 ,. Motlel 1>r,nce - «03, and Linden 
Tho^th^wi*?* 1 . al . out of cholce imported ewes. 
0 tbat , ^ l8 V° ra ), S0 man y and early lambs (as a 
^ pounds at Christmas will bring more than 
five of same weight will bring in June) give the 
Dorsets a trial, and they will soon be convinced of 
their superiority over all other breeds. All sheep 
delivered free of expressage to the buyer. Address 
T. $. COOPER, Coopersburg, Penn. 
T S.—Also for sale a few very choice Jersey Bull 
calves, sired by the grand old bull Pedre,3187, now l(i 
f 0a ™ °i d - an(1 # 81 ' 11 ln active service; he Is considered 
the best son of the tamous Eurotas.—T. 8. C. 
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lhere Is probably no branch of 
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flock of sheep, and there is prob¬ 
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restore the fertility to many run 
down farms, and put their own- 
n„t i 0 8 on the road to prosperity. 
But every man doesn’t know how to care for sheep, 
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PONIES FOR SALE. 
Eighteen head of well broken, reliable ponies and 
aboutl.O head of breeding animals: Shetlands, Welsh 
Hackney-Ponies and Icelands. Address ’ 
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JERSEYS FOR SALE. 
#340 buys eight Yearling Jerseys. Pour can be 
leglstered, including one male. All are bred from 
Z ry teHt ut hera 5 l ,er cent 
fat. E. E. & 41. C. HARRINGTON, Watertown, N. V. 
FOR SALE I 
THOSE SWISS CATTLE. 
In a Lite ’ssue I see a German wants to 
introduce the Simmenth&l cattle into 
the United States. They are a Swiss 
breed from Simmenthal, Canton I era 
and adjoining valleys. They are the 
rivals for public favor of that noble 
breed, the Brown Swiis, but on account 
of their coloi (o«ange and v-hite) and 
larger size, they s em to take betuer 
with foreign rs At the various mar 
kets to which cattle come from the Alps 
in the fall, choice animals bring from 
$200 to $500, with buyers fiom Germany, 
Spain, Russia and Italy. Tup, Minister 
of Agriculture of Italy has lately recom¬ 
mended these cattle for crossing on the 
native stock. I have been in the dairy 
business and have handled nearly every 
breed that came aloDg, and for the aver 
age farmer I do not 1 now of abetter 
breed combining milk, beef and butter, 
though the Brown Swiss are somewhat 
the better for the dairy. Our German 
friend will not make a mistake in biing- 
ing them to the attention of the Amer¬ 
ican farmer, hut it seems to me that tbe 
dairy sections of New York, Pennsyl¬ 
vania or the Middle States would be the 
right places to start. By all means let 
him start with calves, as the risk of ship¬ 
ping and acclimating is much less. If 
an English lord had these cattle ar.d 
Ihree Thoroughbred Yearling Jersey Bulls, out of 
good cows sired by one of the best-bred Jersey Bulls 
living; solid color. $.10 to $50; registered 
W. K. MOWKY, Oxford, N. Y. 
Untyo Duroc-Jerseys. Best prize stock for n!~. 
flUga sale. C. S. STUCKEY, Atlanta, 111. Yl£S 
REG. CHESHIRES *, lve y0UnK boarstlt forser- 
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LARGEST GUERNSEY HERD IN 
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Our first 06 Importation will arrive ln July. 
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