1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
455 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Corn on the Ear —On page 379, Fred. 
Grundy says, “ Corn should be fed to 
grown fowls on the ear.” For 35 years 
I have shelled corn so that my hens 
could eat it when they pleased and as 
much as they desired and have never 
had any bad results. All other feeds 
v, ere treated the same way, except the 
morning ones of prepared rations. These 
were measured to them, so that all would 
be entirely consumed. Most of us East¬ 
ern feeders buy shelled corn and cannot 
feed it on the ear. geo. c. mott. 
Sunside, N. Y. 
What Sheep? —For hardiness and vi¬ 
tality, wool and mutton combined, and 
for crossing on common ewes for early 
maturing lambs; which of the two 
breeds would you recommend — the 
Shropshire or the Dorset Horn ? 
Gas/ille, Ohio. subscrirer. 
R. N.-Y.—Our opinion is that the 
Shropshire will suit you best unless you 
have very warm and comfortable barns 
for the lambs. 
Green Hay: Small Potatoes. —Does 
the man who put his hay in green, have 
the bottom and sides of his mow tight 
like a silo? What is the best use to 
which small and unsalable potatoes can 
be put ? A. l. s. 
R. N.-Y.—We understand that the bot¬ 
tom and barn sides are tight, but the 
front is open as in most mows. Potatoes! 
too small to be sold to starch factories 
can be boiled for the pigs or fed raw in 
small quantities to the horses or cattle. 
We have fed many bushels of potatoes 
to horses. We fed not over two quarts 
of raw potatoes at a time. When roasted 
we could feed twice as many. 
CO-OPERATIVE HORSE BUYING. 
A FRENCH C O A C H E R IN CANADA.' 
I saw the necessity of introducing 
some new blood into our horses here, and 
upon going into the merits of the Hack¬ 
ney and French Coach, I induced about 
45 of cur farmers here to purchase a 
“Ilenstat” French Coach for 32,000. 
We formed a company in shares of 350 a 
share, being payable in three years, say 
316.66% a year, for which the subscriber 
received the use of the horse for one 
mare each year, with return privilege if 
the mare did not prove in foal. To out¬ 
siders our fee was 330. 
We secured the horse late in the sea¬ 
son and stood him in Cornwall, which 
was a mistake, as he should have 
traveled. However, he covered 38 mares, 
36 of which are in foal, and his stock this 
spring give universal satisfaction, indi¬ 
cating in a great measure the success of 
our venture. 
This year we make him travel, and 
have met so far very good success, and 
expect to breed him to not less than 70 
mares. We have also this year, to intro¬ 
duce him, reduced our service fee to 315, 
with return if the mare is not in foal, to 
all parties. 
The horse was purchased to be paid 
for in three years, one-third each year, 
at six per cent interest, which, I think, 
should have been off. The company hire 
a groom and keep the horse, and pay 
the groom for the season 340 a month. 
In traveling we make it a point that the 
horse, as far as practicable, lies over 
with our subscribers, who invaribly take 
an interest in his success and who also 
have a personal interest in him. We 
formed our company the same as one 
would form any joint stock company. I 
was elected president last year and also 
this. The horse, we expect, will cost 
the subscribers only their stock, and at 
the expiration of the three years they 
will have their proportion in his money 
value. i. BEROIN. 
A Successful New York Company. 
We are mostly well pleased with the 
cooperative method of buying a stallion 
and it is satisfactory so far. A few farm¬ 
ers met here at Orleans and in talking 
over the horse subject we came to the 
conclusion that we must raise a better 
class of horses or quit entirely. It was 
decided that the French Coach horse was 
the best general-purpose animal known 
in America. Then how could we get one? 
There was not a man that cared to put 
33,000 in a stallion, so we proposed to 
form a joint stock company and did so, 
and chose a committee of three to pur¬ 
chase the best French Coach stallion they 
could find, and instructed them to get a 
bay if possible and of good size, as a 
majority of the mares around here are 
small and have been bred for speed more 
than size. 
I keep the horse by the year and fur¬ 
nish everything and hire the man to at¬ 
tend him. We move him around, for he 
needs about so much exercise every day. 
We have one price for every one. The 
advantages of the stockholders are that 
they have a 6tallion to use and imorove 
their stock of horses, that they would 
not have if they had not formed a cor¬ 
poration. We are also going to raise 
horses that are sure to match very 
closely, for over 75 per cent of our colts are 
bay and the rest browns, all solid colors 
and bearing a very striking resemblance 
to the sire, so there is no doubt but what 
we can get up a car-load of matched 
horses every year after we get e tarted and 
then the buyers will come here after them. 
If it were not for exercising our horse, 1 
would advise standing him at home. 
Orleans, N. Y. w. d. severance. 
How the Thing is Done. 
Two years ago I formed an organiza¬ 
tion in my own town and county for the 
purchase of a French Coach stallion, as 
I felt we needed something to come in 
between the two extremes, viz , the 
heavy draft horse anti the light-limbed 
trotting animal—a horse which, crossed 
with the ordinary mares of the commun¬ 
ity, will produce colts with sizi and 
bone enough for the majority of places, 
and yet combine with those qualities, 
style and action sufficient to suit the 
taste of the most fastidious. For thd 
above reasons, a few of us formed our¬ 
selves into a company and purchased an 
imported French Coacher, as we thought, 
and still think, that a stallion of that 
breed will impart more of his good qual¬ 
ities to his progeny than one of any other 
breed. Our purchase is proving himself 
to be very satisfactory, as we are getting 
some very fine stock. We purchased on 
the cooperative plan, as none of us felt 
able to pay the price asked for a horse 
such as we would be suited with. The 
shares of stock were placed at 3100 
apiece and a stockholder could take one 
or more as he chose. However no one 
in our community took mere than one 
share, consequently none had more than 
3100 invested. The firm from which we 
purchased gave us three years to pay for 
•'ur horse—one-third in one year, one- 
third in two years, and one-third in 
three years from date of sale; so we 
have only 333% per year to pay, and as 
we have the use of thj horse a year 
before each payment is due, it is very 
easy to settle our account. Last year 
our stallion earned more than enough 
to make the first payment. We do not 
keep him permanently in one place, but 
hire a groom who takes him wherever 
his services are desired. The service fees 
to a stockholder are the same as to an 
outsider, but the advantage in being 
in the company is this : A stockhold¬ 
er’s money which he pays for service 
fees does two things : it not only pays 
for the colts he gets, but goes into the 
treasury of the company to pay for the 
horse, and, at the end of three years, his 
colts are not only paid for, but his share 
of the horse, too, after which his breed 
ing is free, while the outsider not only 
helps the company to pay for the horse, 
but he may breed as long as he chooses 
and he will have no more interest in the 
stallion than he had when he began. I 
have had considerable experience in 
forming companies of this kind in other 
places for the past two years, and my 
observation and experience tell me that 
this is the most feasible plan by which a 
first-class, purebred stallion (and I would 
breed to no other) can be placed in a 
community and be kept for the public 
benefit. If more of bhis were done, to 
the exclusion of scrub stock, which is fill¬ 
ing our country with a class of horses for 
which there is no demand, or if our leg¬ 
islatures would pass laws compelling the 
castration of all grade animals, and thus 
force the breeding to purebred sires, it 
would be only a few years before the 
standard of breeding would be far above 
i’s present level. j. f. antisdale. 
What is Moke Common or Distressing than a 
Bilious Attack ? Who is not familiar with the well 
known symptoms. Oppression across the Stomach 
and Chest, Low Spirits, Restlessness, Gloominess of 
Mind, Weariness, Dull Headache, Dirty, Greasy Ap¬ 
pearance of the Skin, Yellow Tinge of the White of 
the Eyes, Loss of Appetite and Costiveness? Few, 
Indeed, of the more ordinary ills of life are more 
widely prevalent than these Bilious Disorders, and 
yet they may readily be got rid of by UB'ng Dr. 
Jayne's Sanative Fills, by whose operation the Liver 
will be rapidly restored to healthy action, the vitiated 
secretions of the stomach changed, all costiveness 
removed, and the whole system assisted in recover¬ 
ing Its normal condition.— Adv. 
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