1893 
5o3 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Feed at Pasture. —It is my custom to 
feed three to four quarts of grain and 
bran twice each day while my cows are 
on pasture; usually the grain is corn 
meal or corn and oat meal mixed. The 
amount of solids in milk can hardly be 
kept up to 14.50 per cent (my estimate 
per year) without the use of grain. 
Philadelphia, Pa. chas. s. taylor. 
Summer Ensilage. —Will ensilage keep 
forfeid all summer? I have a silo for 
winter feeding and think of building one 
for summer feeding. r. a. coleman. 
R. N.-Y.—Yes; quite a good many 
dairymen are feeding ensilage right 
through the summer. It seems to be 
difficult, with the ordinary silo, to pre¬ 
serve it in hot weather, but when ensi- 
loed in the fall, there is little difficulty 
in keeping it for summer feeding. 
A Good Sow.—I have a sow that had 
10 pigs about April 1, 1892, and had eight 
again the first week in the following 
October. About January 1, 1893,1 sold the 
first lot for $(5.50 per 100 pou ids and they 
averaged 246 pounds, making a total of 
$159.90. Of the second litter I sold about 
Janua y 1, 1893, two pigs for $4 50 apiece 
and could have sold all at that price, or 
for $3(5 or a total of $195.90 for both lit¬ 
ters and the sow was then with pigs 
again. No cow around here can come 
up to half that record. m. manders. 
Minnesota Lake, Minn. 
Matched Horses.— In referring to the 
horses at “ Lakeside Farm,” Smiths & 
Powell say: “This establishment has 
had a large demand this season for 
matched coach and carriage horses, of 
which it has sold a large number to New 
York and Boston parties. The firm has 
made quite a strong specialty of matched 
horses, and has a wide reputation for 
this class.” You see this firm not only 
sells horses for breeding but for driving 
as well. What better advertisement for 
their breeding stock could they possibly 
have than a team of well-matched driv¬ 
ing horses ? It is practical evidence of 
the possibilities of the blood of their 
breeding horses. 
Mrs. S. P. Taber Willets, of “ The 
Old Brick,” Roslyn, N. Y., tells us that 
Mr. J. Forsyth, of Owego, N. Y., pro¬ 
prietor of the noted Riverside Poultry 
Farm, has selected a herd of 10 of her 
choice Guernseys. She thinks she is 
qualified to say that Mr. Forsyth is an 
excellent judge of Guernseys, as he 
selected some of her choicest animals, 
and she predicts that he will walk off 
with the stakes in the southern tier this 
fall. Mr. Jose Duran, of Costa Rica, 
also visited the “Old Brick” on his way 
home from the World’s Fair, and is 
taking some choice youngsters back to 
Central America with him. 
Grain With Grass.— I consider good 
meadow pasture an almost perfect ration, 
but cows will seldom eat all they can 
assimilate to advantage without great 
waste of pasturage. I usually feed some 
through the entire year, and am now 
using bran and corn meal, about equal 
bulks, but prefer to use bran, corn meal 
and cotton-seed meal when the latter is 
not too high. I think the feed should 
have a preponderance of albuminoids 
when cows are on grass, especially early 
in the season. I give about six pounds per 
day. I’m opposed to brewers’ grains on 
principle, and will not use them, so can¬ 
not compare the use of dried or wet 
grains with that of bran and corn meal. 
New Jersey. wm, bishop. 
Inspected Bulls.— Chas. W. Garfield 
gives this bit of travel: 
At \\ aldshut, a little town near the 
German-Swiss border, we found a market 
about a quarter acre in extent, and 
here there were 250 bulls so nearly 
alike that one could scarcely be told 
from another. The next day there were 
two or three times as many. They were 
there to be inspected and graded, the 
grade fixing the price. Not one of them 
had a ring, and nothing but light ropes 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
was used to confine them. They stood 
in long rows, face to face, perfectly do¬ 
cile. We found they had been brought 
to this state of gentleness by the process 
of selection in breeding. After inspec¬ 
tion, girls and women led them off to 
the hotels—for hotels and barns were 
under the same roof. Here the country 
people live in the villages and go to 
their farms, perhaps 10 miles away, 
which really is not far over the roads 
they have there. 
A Stray Sow That Paid.— One morn¬ 
ing a few years ago I was at the home of 
a neighbor helping him to fix up some 
machinery, and while thus engaged a 
fine young Berkshire sow strayed into 
the yard. He expressed an emphatic 
opinion of any man who would allow 
pigs of that size to run at large and was 
about to set his dog on her. She was 
such a fine animal that I advised him not 
to do so, but to put her in one of his pens 
and breed her to a very excellent boar 
he owned, and when he found her owner 
to buy her if possible. He thought that 
was a good idea, and so we drove her 
into a pen. He asked quite a number of 
persons whether they had lost such a 
pig, but no one came forward to claim 
her. In due time she farrowed 11 pigs, 
all good ones. When these were about 
two months of age he bred her again, and 
that time she dropped 10 pigs. The first 
litter was sold when something over 
seven months old at six cents per pound, 
and brought him $166.32. At the end of 
the year the second litter were worth, at 
regular market prices, fully $10 a head, 
making the total value of this one sow’s 
product for 12 months $266 32. At the 
time we drove her into his yard we had 
a discussion over the value of such a pig 
to a farmer, and the value of her product 
for 12 months, and to settle the matter 
he promised, if he kept her, to keep a 
record and make a statement at the end 
of the year, and he did so. I have known 
a sow to give birth to 26 pigs within 300 
days, all of which did well. At recent 
prices 26 well managed pigs would bring 
some money. fred grundy. 
Christian County, Ill. 
Canadian Export Cattle Trade.—I n 
the present unprofitable plight of the 
Canadian export cattle trade, old-time 
dealers are looking back with regret to 
the halcyon times at the commencement 
of the trade, 40 years ago. Then the ex¬ 
portation of beef cattle to England was 
a new idea, and beeves could be pur¬ 
chased across the border for $16 per 
head. The first steamer chartered 
charged $10 per head from Montreal to 
Liverpool, and the shippers had to con¬ 
struct the necessary accommodations; 
but the venture, like most of its suc¬ 
cessors for some years, paid well, as the 
animals sold for £42, or $210 per head in 
England. Of course as shipments con¬ 
tinued prices steadily fell; but for many 
years, barring tempestuous voyages and 
other exceptional causes of mortality 
the trade was fairly satisfactory. Now, 
owing to the recent British embargo on 
Dominion cattle, on account of the dis¬ 
covery of a few cases of pleuro-pneu- 
monia among those landed, the busi¬ 
ness is in a very depressed condition— 
worse, apparently, than the trade from 
the United States. During the past season - 
shipments have been much smaller and 
fewer than in late years, before the em¬ 
bargo, and few have made money, while 
there have been many heavy losses. Sir 
Charles Tupper, the Canadian statesman 
now in England, lately cabled over that 
complaints had been marie in the Mother 
Country that some of the cattle sent 
over were too old to allow of a profit on 
their sale. Shippers sending such stock 
must be blind to their own interests, for 
not only will they fail to pay expenses, 
but they are specially liable to broncho¬ 
pneumonia in transit, and the inevitable 
result must be a suspicion on the other 
side that they are affected with pleuro¬ 
pneumonia contagiosa, and hence the 
restrictions are likely to be continued. 
Indeed, Canadians insist that of the sev¬ 
eral cases of this disease alleged to have 
been discovered by English veterinar¬ 
ians among Canadian shipments, not a 
single case has been of a genuine nature. 
Light on the Sunflower. — Under 
“ Brevities” The Rural asks “ Who can 
give us facts about growing sunflower 
seed for poultry or other stock.” I can 
simply give my experience for 1892. 
After planting my melon patch, the hills 
of which averaged about seven feet apart 
each way, I planted between them in 
the rows east and west from three to 
four seeds of a large sunflower, with a 
handful of fine bone to each hill. When 
about a foot high, I thinned to one plant 
in each hill. The growth surprised me, 
it was so rapid and vigorous. As the 
plants increased in size I stripped off the 
lower leaves and fed them to the cow, 
keeping up the stripping until, when the 
seed was nearly mature, the head was 
left on a bare pole. When I thought 
they were pretty well ripened, I cut the 
heads off with pruning shears and 
wheeled them to the house, a load or 
two at a time, and piled them edgewise 
behind the kitchen stove. When dry 
enough, my wife beat them against the 
sides of a tub and got most of the seed. 
Then we threw them in the chicken 
yards, and the hens picked them clean. 
The heads were afterwards used for fuel. 
The stalks I cut down with an old axe, 
cutting into the ground. These I wheeled 
to the wood pile and staked for kindling 
and fuel. Some were so large that 1 
sawed them up for firewood. I had 
about 3 ]/i bushels of seed, and have a 
good supply left yet. I feed them to 
the hens while moulting, and occasion¬ 
ally throw out half a peck during the 
winter. Some of the heads were about 14 
inches in diameter, and yielded nearly a 
quart of seed each. eben j. pearce. 
Suffolk County, N. Y. 
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