1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
487 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
A Big Egg. — I am only 8% years old, 
but have a nice flock of ducks and have 
had about 360 eggs this year, and write 
to tell you I got one to-day that measured 
9x7 inches in circumference and weighed 
5 % ounces. How is that for a big egg ? 
Brookland, Pa. john a. dent. 
R. N.-Y.—That is a rouser and no mis¬ 
take. 
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Fat from Figs. —The California method 
of doing things is a little too rich for the 
blood of some of our Eastern farmers. 
For example, the following story is said 
by the Pacific Rural Press to be substan¬ 
tiated by reliable citizens : 
Mr. Balaam, of Farmersville, used to 
have a pet pig that ran under the fig 
trees near the house. When the fruit 
began to drop, he ate figs and rested in 
the shade until he finally grew too fat to 
move about to gather the sweet morsels. 
By this time his owner became so much 
interested in the case as to carry him his 
regular figs three times daily. Gradually 
he grew so fat that his eyes closed en¬ 
tirely and he was blind and helpless. 
Dishorning Fluids. —The Agricultural 
Department has been testing the fluids 
sold for removing the horns on young 
calves. It selected the most effective 
one and then prepared a preparation of 
its own to test against it. The home¬ 
made mixture had 50 per cen' of caustic 
soda, 25 per cent of kerosene and 25 per 
cent of water. The soda and kerosene 
were made into an emulsion by heating 
and vigorous stirring and this was dis¬ 
solved in water. This mixture was iust 
as effective as the purchased article. 
In order to do the best work the kerosene 
emulsion should be put on the button of 
the horn before the calf is 30 days old. 
If applied to the horn button and not on 
the adjacent skin, but little pain is felt. 
The Horn Fly. —This insect is reported 
as worrying cattle in many parts of the 
country. We therefore give the follow¬ 
ing circular sent out by the Mississippi 
Experiment Station : 
The treatment for the Horn Fly is 
mostly preventive in its nature and con¬ 
sists of the application to the cattle of 
odorous substances which will keep the 
flies from the animals. For this purpose 
a great many substances have been rec¬ 
ommended, but most of them have proved 
of but little value. The following, how¬ 
ever, have given the most satisfactory 
results at our hands. 
First. “Gnat oil,” made as follows: 
Crude carbolic acid, one ounce; Penny¬ 
royal, one-half to one ounce; sulphur, 
one-quarter pound; crude cotton-seed 
oil, one gallon. Mix well and apply 
with a brush or cloth to the back and 
shoulders of the cattle. The crude cot¬ 
ton-seed oil is cheaper than the other 
oils, although fish oil or lard oil is equally 
good in making the above. 
Second. Fish oil and tar mixed and ap¬ 
plied as above is equally effective. The 
tar is mixed with the fish oil so that the 
odor may last longer and thus keep the 
flies away from the animals a greater 
length of time. Either of the above will 
keep the flies away from the animals for 
several days, after which the application 
should be repeated. 
Third. The flies breed in fresh manure. 
It is thus important that the barnyards 
be kept as clean and free from manure 
as possible. Lime placed upon the man¬ 
ure will kill the larvae. 
NOTES ON COWS, CURS AND COFFEE. 
A late R. N.-Y. has some interesting 
reading on the report of the Cornell Ex¬ 
periment station to any one interested 
in butter making. I think the scrub 
cow has had about enough mud thrown 
at her. As I understand the word 
“scrub, ” it means anything not high-bred 
or full-blood. Now I believe there are 
more No. 1 butter cows to the 100 among 
the scrubs than among all the full- 
blooded ones. We hear very little about 
good scrubs and less about the culls of 
full-bloods. "The Rural’s idea of charg¬ 
ing five cents a day to each cow for milk- 
mg and care seems to be reasonable, but 
I think a good many do not get it or the 
five cents a pound for making the butter. 
On page 432 we are told to make the 
cows come up to that standard or not to 
k^ep them. There are cows that can 
and will do it; but very few out of the 
whole lot. A good many city people 
would not eat any butter in a good while 
if all the cows in this country that did 
not come up to that standard died to-day. 
The best substitute for coffee I ever 
drank to suit my taste was made of Ever¬ 
green sweet corn roasted and ground 
coarse, but it was no real substitute for 
me. 
There is a good deal of complaint in 
all the papers about dogs. I know of but 
one sure remedy and that is a good re¬ 
peating Marlin rifle in the hands of a 
boy 18 or 20 years old who knows how to 
use it. I have both and am not often 
troubled with stray curs. 
Good luck to The R. N.-Y.! Hurry up 
those new potatoes! The White Ele¬ 
phant has paid me a big profit, but is get¬ 
ting tired and the R. N -Y. No. 2 is no 
good, bearing hardly an average. 
Harkness, N. Y. s. h. c. 
R. N.-Y.—Webster defines a “ scrub ’ 
as “one of the common live stock of a 
region, of no particular breed or not of 
pure breed, especially when inferior in 
size, etc.” When we speak of scrub stock 
we mean inferior animals—those that 
scrub the profits off the farm. The Cor¬ 
nell experiments certainly show that 
pure blood is not necessarily sure blood. 
GARGET TREATMENT, CHURN & SCALES. 
There are occasionally cases of spoiled 
udders in cows, caused by milk caking 
in the udders, or what is called garget. 
I have generally been able to overcome 
the trouble by rubbing the udders with 
linseed oil until the hardness has been 
removed. But this month I have had a 
cow with which the usual remedy has 
failed. After rubbing for several hours, I 
found I had made no ’’mpression, and could 
not get a drop of milk. The trouble was 
confined to one teat, which was shrunken 
to less than one-third of the size it would 
be in a healthy condition. I had no knit¬ 
ting needle that I thought would be suit¬ 
able to open the teat, and, instead, used a 
piece of No. 12 wire filed round at the 
point. It passed through the teat very 
readily, but considerable pressure was 
needed to get it into the udder. It sur¬ 
prised me that the animal did not flinch 
in the least on account of the strong 
pressure required to pass it through the 
obstruction. On withdrawing the wire, 
milk would flow, but not continuously ; 
it would come out a full stream for one 
or two pressures, and then issue only in 
a very small stream, but by passing the 
wire into the udder again, the flow would 
come full again. I used the wire more 
than 50 times in that way. No doubt 
the udder would have been spoiled in part 
if I had not drawn the milk away. The 
remedy is simple, and no doubt would 
prevent many a cow from being spoiled. 
In my case it would perhaps have been 
best to get the udder in good condition 
by milking the cow a week before she 
had her calf. 
The result of the Cornell experiment 
with 20 cows induces me to add some¬ 
thing in the way of testing cows. I 
have no Babcock tester and so had to 
rely on the churn and scales. A grade 
or scrub cow gave 1.50 pound of butter 
from 23.25 pounds of milk, which is 
about 6.45 per cent of butter. A half 
Jersey, whose great-grandmother was a 
14-pounds-a-week cow, from 23.50 pounds 
of milk gave 13 ounces of butter, or a 
little more than three per cent. It will 
not pay to keep the “critter,” although 
she is descended from such superior an¬ 
cestry. About 15 years ago I got from a 
dairyman a calf which he said was from 
the best cow in his dairy, and my pres¬ 
ent herd is descended from her, and 
we have had a good many good cows 
rich in butter fats. We know now that 
there is a great difference in the butter 
production of cows, but I doubt whether 
we shall be able to get our cows to yield 
seven or eight per cent of butter fat in 
their milk. 
We may pick from a tree a dozen or 
two of very superior apples, that will do 
to go to the fair, but the 5 or 10 bushels 
on the rest of the tree are nothing more 
than passable, and no amount of care 
and cultivation will make the whole crop 
equal to the dozen or two brst. This, 
however, is no reason why the best care 
should not be given to the orchard. 
Good care will not make all the apples 
equally good, but it will raise the stan¬ 
dard of the orchard generally. So in 
breeding cows, I don’t think we should 
get animals so good that the general 
average of the country will yield six or 
seven per cent of butter fats, but by care 
and selection we can raise the average 
very considerably. s. b. hoefgen. 
ItteeUrnttinwi 
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REGISTERED JERSEYS FOR SALE. 
Aliases; both sexes; very choice stock and lowest 
prices. E. E. * M. C. IIakuinhton, Watertown, N. Y 
cSfr4l r METERINARY SURGEONS 
Lectures will begin OCTOBER 2, 1893. For 
Circular, address II. D. GILL, V. S., Sec., 332 E. 27th 
Street, New York City. 
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Buckley’s Watering Device 
FOR WATERING STOCK IN THE STABLE. 
C. E. BUCKLEY & CO., 
Patentees and Manufacturers, Dover Plains, N. Y 
KINGSTON FOUNDRY AND MACHINE 
CO., Limited, Kingston, Ont., Canada, Sole Manu¬ 
facturers for the Dominion of Canada. 
tW~ RELIABLE AGENTS WANTED. 
KNOB MOUNTAIN POULTRY FARM. 
B. P. ROCKS and S. C. BROWN LEG¬ 
HORNS a speo alty. Eggs and birds for sale. 
MAIILON SAGER, Orangeville, Pa. 
FARM POULTRY. 
PINJK THEE FARM, Jamesburg, N. J. 
High-Class Shropshires 
We now offer 10 imported two-year-old rams from 
the flocks of Bowen Jones and Minton, that will 
weigh 300 pounds and shear 16 pounds or more. Also, 
40 home-bred yearling rams from Imported stock. 
Our first '93 Importation will arrive In July. 
'1 TIE WILLOWS. Paw Paw, Mich. 
SUFFOLK SHEEP. 
Highly Important Sale of the Celebrated Snatlwell 
Flock of the late Mu. Edward Gittus. 
SALTER, SIMPSON & SONS 
A RE favored with Instructions from the Executors 
(in consequence of the Farm being relinquished 
at Michaelmas next,) to SELL by AUCTION, at the 
MANOR FARM. SNAILWKLL (three miles from 
Newmarket), on THURSDAY, AUGUST 3d, 1893, the 
Entire Flock of PUREBRED BLACK-FACED SUF¬ 
FOLK SHEEP, comprising— 
000 Shearling, 2-Shear. 3-Shear, and older Ewes, 
200 Ewe Lambs, 
40 Grand Ram Lambs, and 
10 Shearling Rams 
(Fully registered In the Suffolk Flock Book). 
The sale will afford to flockmasters nnd ram breed¬ 
ers an exceptional opportunity of procuring sheep 
of the highest merits of this popular breed. The 
strain of Sailor, 1112 (by Sailor Prince), winner of 
first prizes at the Plymouth (Royal), Suilolk and 
Essex shows, 1890, and which was reserved at the 
1890 sale, largely predominates In the flock. 
The ram lambs promise to compare favorably with 
any shown In previous years. 
Further particulars In future advertisements, or 
on reference to the Shepherd, Manor Farm, Snail- 
well, or to the Auctioneers, Bury St. Edmund’s 
and Attleborough, England. 
SOUTH DOWN SHEEP. 
CASSIUS MARCBLLUS CLAY, White nail, Ky. 
GUERNSEYS! 
The GRANDEST of DAIRY Breeds. 
Combining the richness of the Jersoy with the size 
approximate to the Holstein or Short-horn, but 
standing ALONE and unbqualed In producing the 
richest colored butter In mid-winter 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 the 
“ Old Brick Guernsey Herd” 
are daughters and granddaughters of the renowned 
Squire Kent, 1504 A. G. C. C. and of the flnest strains 
on Guernsey or in America—Cornua, son of Squire 
Kent and Statellite, son of Kohlin head the herd. All 
particulars In regard to Breed and Herd cheerfully 
given. 8. P. TABER WILLETTS, 
“ The Old Brick,” Roslyn, L. I., N. Y. 
Recorded Berkshires. 
Why pay high expressage ? You can buy the 
best direct Imported blood near home. The 
“ Willswood Herd ” will have about 10(1 pigs 
to select from. Order at once. Prices lowest 
for the best. Catalogue on application. 
WILLS A. SK WARD, Build’s Lake, N. .1. 
WILLIS WHINERY, WINONA, O., 
Breeder and Shipper of 
IMPROVED CHESTER-WHITE SWIHE. 
Largest and finest herd In the world. Over 301 head 
on hand. Special Inducements for the next 30 days. 
Write at once for clrculais. This herd will be at the 
World’s Fair Sept. 25 to Oct. 14. See It sure. 
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