1893 
535 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Guernseys and Jerseys. —Will The 
Rural please give me some information 
about Guernsey cattle ? How much but¬ 
ter will they make ? Will they make as 
much as Jerseys ? Will they give more 
milk than Jerseys ? I have seen numbers 
of Jerseys, but no Guernseys. I am told 
that they are larger than Jerseys, that 
the steers make better beef, and that 
they are not so cross as the Jerseys. 
Florida. G. t. g. 
R- N.-Y. -It is always difficult to answer 
such questions because no single cow can 
fairly be taken as a representative of the 
whole breed. The article in The R. N.-Y. 
for April 1 answers most of these ques¬ 
tions. The Guernseys are larger and 
quieter cows than the Jerseys, and make 
better barn feeders. That is, they will 
stand confinement and heavy feeding 
better. While there are phenomenal 
Jerseys that have given enormous yields 
of butter, there are also many worthless 
culls, so that on the whole the average 
Guernsey is better than the average Jer¬ 
sey. As a rule, they are somewhat bet¬ 
ter milkers than the Jerseys and have, 
usually, stronger constitutions and better 
dispositions. 
Skim or Butter-Milk.—H ow would 
creamery butter-milk compare with skim- 
milk to feed to hens at a cost of 25 or 30 
cents per barrel ? Hartford. 
Ans. —There is no exact way of tell¬ 
ing because skim-milk varies more than 
“phosphate” does. It depends upon how 
much of the cream is taken from the 
milk. A fair basis for comparison may 
be found in these figures : 
handling cows well know that the least 
thing abusive or cruel affects the flow of 
milk. In my case it was not in the least 
affected. I was at the time living in a 
great stock raising and dairying section 
of Iowa, and it was a rare sight t~, see a 
herd with horns. He only was consid¬ 
ered cruel who possessed too little energy 
to dishorn his cattle. It was found to 
require less feed to fatten dishorned 
steers, as the weak and timid ones fared 
equally with the stronger ones. It may 
seem a little cruel to the inexperienced, 
but the pain is of short duration, and, 
in my opinion, there is less cruelty in it 
than in having a fine cow torn half the 
length of her side and tbe blood trickling 
from the wound made by the ugly horns 
of the boss cow. I was not keeping cows 
to exhibit at the agricultural fairs, but 
for milk and butter. Depriving a lamb 
of his tail may, in the opinion of H., 
come under the head of cruelty to ani¬ 
mals, for surely our Creator gave it long. 
Amherst, Mass. n. d. c. 
THE COLUMBIAN DAIRY TEST. 
DEAD AND SICK COWS CREDITED. 
Carbo- 
Protetn. hydrates. Fat. Value. 
Skim-milk.a.50 5.00 .07 .23 
Butter-milk 3.00 5.60 1.00 .22 
These figures are comparative and 
mean that these substances are worth 
22 and 23 cents when clover hay is worth 
77 cents or corn meal worth §1.03. At the 
price given, the milk is a cheap food for 
hens. We should use it to mix with the 
grain and also to drink in place of water. 
Asks About Ensilage. —As New Eng¬ 
land farmers are driven to making milk 
and butter mostly, it being the best thing 
they can do to get a living, before they 
go to building silos it is important to 
know what to feed their cows to make 
choice butter. As ensilage milk is re¬ 
jected in Boston and among the cream¬ 
eries generally, and is perfectly worth¬ 
less for condensed milk, it is more than 
probable that no gilt-edged butter can 
be made from such fermented stuff. 
That ensilage is a cheap feed for young 
stock and perhaps dry cows is very 
probable; but every one knows that 
onions and turnips and such stuffs are 
not safe feeds for milch cows. The 
question is, can one make a pound of 
gilt-edged butter out of ensilage milk ? 
South Coventry, Conn. w. w. w. 
R. N.-Y.—It seems a little singular for 
a man to ask such questions after what 
has been said about the practices of 
dairymen all over the country. It is a 
fact that ensilage-fed milk is not wanted 
at the best condensed milk factories. 
We know, too, that many doctors con¬ 
demn milk made from ensilage as bad for 
infants or invalids. We have, however, 
never heard of a case where butter was 
condemned for this reason, and it is a 
fact that the great majority of those who 
make “ gilt-edged” butter use the silo 
and say they could not get on without it. 
The trouble is that a good deal of the 
ensilage that get3 milk into bad odor was 
poorly made. It is like clover hay that 
has become damp and musty. Neither 
is fit for feeding and should not represent 
the properly made article. 
A Dishorning Argument. —I may be 
allowed a few words not only in defense 
of dishorning cattle, but also in self- 
defense, as, according to the opinion of 
H., page 471, I am one of the barbarians 
who had no better business at the time 
than dishorning his entire herd. All 
, Three breeds of cattle are presumably 
r being tested before the world at Chicago 
through representatives of the respective 
breeds. It seems to the ordinary mind 
. a very simple and straightforward under- 
» taking to select a stated number of each 
breed, place them in equally suitable 
quarters, give the same treatment to all, 
subject them to the same inspection 
r under the same care-takers, and at all 
times allow the public free knowledge of 
the results in every point of each day’s 
work, requiring that only the tnimals 
being tested shall occupy the same build¬ 
ing, allowing no others besides them in 
it. If any animal is taken sick, discard 
her, and under no circumstances count 
an imaginary cow in her place. Neither 
credit the herd with milk that never was 
produced, but keep an honest reckoning 
of the actual product of each herd se¬ 
lected, and, at the expiration of the al- 
loted time, credit each herd with its ac¬ 
tual product. If one, two, three, or half 
the herd fall sick before the test is fin¬ 
ished, let that herd bear the burden of 
its weakness or mismanagement, lack of 
constitution or overfeeding, or whatever 
may be the cause of the calamity. Surely 
this is the only way of knowing what a 
breed or herd of cows is worth in the 
dairy. Constitution, ability to accom¬ 
plish as well as capacity, quality of 
product, etc., seem as necessary as any 
other requirements. 
Instead of this, we have a test in pro¬ 
gress at Chicago governed by rules which 
credit to a herd imaginary products of 
“ played out,” dead and absent animals. 
What a farce ! Because a cow gives 5, 
10, 20 quarts one day, she will, forsooth, 
give the same yield to-morrow, as well 
as the day after, and so on to the end of 
the test! I trust the honorable body in 
charge will find some way of propagat¬ 
ing these imaginary machines, even if 
they are pateoted and sell high. The 
great Columbian dairy breed, producing 
the glowingly and artificially colored 
butter (?) competing with the all power¬ 
ful oleo—’twculd be close competition. 
But to go back to this test, which began 
on May 31, in which three breeds are 
competing—Jersey, Guernsey and Short¬ 
horn. Under rule No. 11, “ no tonic, 
stimulant or drug of any kind shall be 
given any cow during the dairy test,” 
etc. Eminently just, and the rule should 
be adhered to, because in administering 
such articles fraud is easily perpetrated. 
Should an animal require tonics or the 
like, she is not in a proper or natural 
condition to compete with those which 
do not need or get it. To permit such 
things allows of overfeeding and forcing, 
and rule No. 8 allows of withdrawing 
the cow and still having her credited 
with what she did under forced circum¬ 
stances through the rest of the test, even 
if she be dead ! Is this honest ? Several 
cows have been taken sick, and some 
; have died. Indigestion or overfeeding 
is reported to be the primary cause, 
i and now rule 11 is changed to suit those 
parties whose animals can’t naturally en¬ 
dure the unnatural strain on the system, 
and drugs or medic'nes, etc., are allowed 
to assist. Is this right ? 
The scale for judging butter gave to 
flavor 55 points, grain 25, solidity 10, 
color 10 ; total, 100. After the test had 
begun, this scale was changed throwing 
out totally the color points (10 very im¬ 
portant ones) that might and probably 
would turn the scales in favor of one of 
the breeds—therefore favoring the breed 
deficient in natural coloring ability, and 
requiring all the hutter to be artificially 
colored : a fraud foisted on the public 
and a broken contract with those who 
entered for competition on 100 points— 
not 90—is much like the silver dollar, it 
may benefit some, but is it honest ? If 
so, why not flavor artificially and cast 
out those points ? With ice who cares 
for solidity ? And, indeed, why not give 
judgment on the expert manipulation 
of the scientific butter-maker who can 
color, flavor and manipulate the imag¬ 
inary product, or statistical computation 
of defunct or diseased animals, which 
ought to produce thus and so, colored 
and flavored to order, one who knows. 
IfUmUAttMUjisi 
In writing to advertiser* please always mention 
Tin Rural. 
Saddle-horse. 
For every degree of 
back-irritation, Phenol 
Sodique. A raw place 
takes on a proper scab 
in a night. For all flesh. 
HANCE BROTHERS & WHITE, Philadelphia. 
At druggists. Take no substitute. 
BARREN COWS AND MARES. 
A large percentage of animals that fall to breed 
can be cured. Valuable circular containing testi¬ 
monials from the most prominent breeders to this 
effect, sent free. Don’t you want it 7 
Crystal Lake Stock Farm, Belleville, N. Y. 
Messrs. Moure Bros.: 
Gentlemen— We are well pleased with the Invest¬ 
ment. Yours, &c., S. Mather & Sons. 
MOORE BROS., ALBANY, N. Y. 
KNOB MOUNTAIN POULTRY FARM. 
B. P. ROCKS and 8. C. BROWN LEG¬ 
HORNS a speo alty. Eggs and blrdB for sale. 
MAULON SAGER, Orangeville, Pa. 
FARM POULTRY. 
PINE TREE FARM, Jamesburg, N. J. 
Mil KING TIIPCQ COIN SILVER, for Sore 
miLIUnil I UDLU. and Obstructed Teats, etc. 
1H Inch, 60o.; 2% Inch, 80c. j Improved Instrument for 
Opening Obstructed Teats, 75c.; Lead Probe, 25c.—all 
postp’d. with Instructions. G. P. Pilling & Son, 115 
So. 11th St., Phlla., Pa. Circulars free. Agents wanted 
BUY A STALLION NOW. 
We will sell now (out of season) beautiful Imported 
Cleveland Bay Stallions at bargain prices rather 
than carry them over. 
ASSOCIATED FARMS, Skaneateles, N. Y. 
ATTENTION I 
Farmers and Cattle Raisers, J 
are you troubled with “THE TEXAN 
FLY?” If so, WE can help you. Our j 
Death on Cattle Fly | 
Is a sure remedy. POSITIVELY harmless f 
to cattle. The BEST thing yet produced. 
Write for descriptive circular and price. ' 
C. E. MILLS OIL CO.,Syracuse, N.Y. 
til M 
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, Solo Manu¬ 
facturers for the Dominion of Canada. 
S3?" RELIABLE AGENTS WANTED. 
High-Class Shropshires 
We now offer 10 Imported two-year-old rams from 
the flocks of Bowon Jones and Minton, that will 
weigh 300 pounds and shear 15 pounds or more. Also, 
40 home-biPd yearling rams from Imported stock. 
Our llrst ’93 Importation will arrive In July. 
'IHB WILLOWS, Paw Paw, Mich. 
HAMPSHIRE DOWN 
SHEEP. 
Mwes and Ewe Lambs, Yearling Rams and Ram 
Lambs for Bale. None better In America. 
Also Cheshire Swine. 
I!? All Stock Registered. 
JNO. I. GORDON, Mercer, Pa. 
GUERNSEY BULLS. 
Imported and home-bred, from two months to 
two years old Soveral eligible for Show-Yard 
honors. Address J. L. HOPE, 
(Supt. for 11. McK. Twombly), 
Madison, N J. 
DRIVING STILL LEADS THEM ALL 
(ft RIT ,T WILL OONTROL THI MOST 
-* VIOIOUB HOR8I. 
1^ ^- (t 75,000 sold In 1891. 
If 100,000 sold In 1892. 
T THEY ARE KIND. 
Sainplo mailed X C for ^ I ft If 
w, N Ickel, 3 i .50. yl'Ult 
Stallion Bits 50 cts. extra. 
RACINE MALLEABLE IRON GO./ASKS. 
B erkshire, chaster wmw, 
Jersey Rod and Poland China 
PIGS. Jersey, Guernsey and 
llolBtcin Cattle. Thoroughbred 
Sheep. Fancy Poultry. Hunting 
and House Dogs. Catalogue 
rim vllle. Cheater <Ju„ Pcsaa, 
a. W, MMITII. 
WILLIS WHINERY, WINONA, O., 
Breeder and Shipper of 
IMPROVED CHESTER-WHITE SWINE. 
Largest and finest herd In the world. Over 303 head 
on hand. Special Inducements for the next 30 days. 
Write at once for circulate. This herd will bo at tho 
World’s Fair Sept. 25 to Oct. 14. See it sure. 
WE GUARANTEE 
That one tablespoonful of 
GOMBAULT’S CAUSTIC BALSAM 
will produce more actual results than a whole bottle 
ot any liniment or spavin cure mixture ever made. 
It is therefore tho cheapest (as well as safest and 
best) external applicant known for man or beast. 
THE LAWRENCE WILLIAMS CO., CLEVELAND, OHIO. 
PP OPTT There 18 probably no branch of 
J- XLY3X JL X farming or stock-raising that Is 
m so sure to return a protit as the 
flock of sheep, and there Is prob¬ 
ably no branch so much neg- 
ni r T-y y-s -py leoted. A well-kept tlock would 
JS H H U. V* restore the fertility to many run 
A * down farms, and put their own- 
e s on the road to prosperity. 
But every man doesn’t know how to care for sheep 
though he can easily learn ’’Sheep Farming” Is a 
practical treatise on sheep, their management and 
diseases. It tells In plain language how to select 
and breed them, and how to care for them. It Is a 
little book wortli three times Its cost to anv farmer 
who raises sheep. Sent postpaid for 25 cents. 
THE RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 
Cor. Chambers and Pearl Sts., New York. 
HORSES - - - CATTLE. 
SMITHS & POWELL CO., Syracuse, N. Y., 
offer very superior FRENCH COACH, STANDARD, CLYDESDALE, PERCHERON, 
DRIVING and MATCHED COACH HORSES (many of them Prize winners) at 
very reasonable prices. 
Also HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE, faom the handsomest and most noted 
milk and butter herd in the wonL 
RARE BARGAINS in choice Bhow vrimals, and cowa with great record*. 
STATE JUST WHAT YOU WANT, AND SAVE TIME. 
^ T k-sl M % — / OKI)KltS TAKEN BY THE 
BREWERS’ GRAINS. 
