1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
759 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Hogs or Chickens —We are two part¬ 
ners, and wish to engage in either the 
h<~g or chicken business. One of us has 
had experience with chickens, the other 
with hogs. The chances are good here 
for either. We wish your opinion as to 
which you consider the most profitable 
Oceanside, Cal a. 
Ans —We can see no reason why the 
two should conflict. Why not both hogs 
and chickens ? By selling hogs in the 
fall, the two kinds of stock will provide 
an income all the year round. We do 
not know how to estimate the relative 
profits in hogs and poultry. 
More About Cut Bone. — I use a Mann 
bone cutter, and commenced making 
and selling about the first of last 
March and continued until hot weather 
at the rate of 1,500 pounds per month. 
I can safely guarantee to sell at 
retail a ton per month all through 
cold weather. I sell it only during cold 
weather. Every one using it says that 
it is the best food for egg production 
he has ever used, especially during 
cold weather when the hens are shut 
up and cannot get insect food. I sell it 
at retail for 2% cents per pound. Dogs 
are very fond of it. One must judge for 
himself whether there is a chance to de¬ 
velop a trade for this raw cut bone. I 
think there is. h. m. barrett. 
New York. 
Gnawing Calves. — I have two Jersey 
calves four months old which want to be 
gnawing wood all the time. They have 
all the salt th y want and are weaned. 
What is the cause and treatment for the 
habit ? How should young calves be fed 
to do well ? j. o. w. 
Ans. —Such a depraved appetite is 
usually due to constipation or a lack of 
phosphates in the food. Both may be 
due to feeding on short rations of hard 
and woody hay or dried up pasture. If 
constipated, give a dose of Epsom salts 
and feed more laxative food like roots, 
pumpkins or good hay. Bran is rich in 
phosphates and is the best grain to give 
such animals. Such calves should have 
milk every day with a little oat meal or 
linseed jelly mixed with it. Never try 
to raise calves on poor hay, stalks or pas¬ 
ture. They need the best and most 
digestible food. 
Selling Butterine. —Edward Davis, 
in the Creamery Journal, shows how the 
trade in bogus butter hurts the sale of 
the legitimate article. As we have often 
s ated, the harm is done in the retail mar 
ket in selling the bogus article for real 
butter. Mr. Davis says, speaking of the 
Chicago market : 
A retailer’s license will not allow him 
to sell in larger quantities than 10 pounds 
at a time, yet do you imagine for a 
moment that any of them hesitate to 
supply a restaurant or hotel with a 40 or 
even a GO-pound tub ? If you do you a ? e 
laboring under a delusion, as they will 
jump at the chance, and consider it no 
risk whatever. 
“ Even the conservative ones, who have 
some fear of moving in the direct face of 
the law, are up to the sharp little tricks 
which they think will protect their sl-irts 
in case of prosecution, as for instance, 
the law holds that butterine shall be 
delivered in a plate or package plainly 
branded. 
“ One grocery man explains his meth d 
as follows: In the spring when he be¬ 
gan using pure butter, he purchased a 
large number of wooden plates, and 
branded them all plainly ‘ oleomargar¬ 
ine’; these he used all summer, while 
selling nothing but pure goods, and if 
any of his customers inquired why the 
plates were so marked and what he was 
giving them, he assured them that it was 
pure butter, but that he was using up a 
lot of plates so branded that he had 
bought cheap. Consequently, new that 
he is using butterine, his trade is not 
suspicious and so asks no questions. So 
the deal goes on, and the factory-man 
sits and wonders why his commission- 
man does not move his goods more 
promptly, and at better prices, the same 
as he has been doing all summer; and 
the commission-man stands and grumbles 
at the lack of demand which is prevent¬ 
ing him from making the sales to appease 
the complaints of the shipper. Until the 
scales fall from the eyes of both, and 
herculean efforts are employed to uproot 
the evil both interests will be crippled if 
not destroyed.” 
Mange on a Dog. —What will cure my 
dogs of the mange ? w. h. c. 
Ans —The R. N.-Y.’s remedy for all 
sorts of insects on the dog is a mixture 
of one pint of cotton seed oil, one gill of 
kerosene and a tablespoonful of sulphur. 
Rub the dog thoroughly with this from 
tip of nose to tip of tail. Do not let it 
touch his eyes. 
A Fine Young Stallion. —The young 
stallion Lakeside Norval, 15401, by Nor- 
val, 2:14%. by Electioneer, and his dam 
Mattie, 2:22%, by Hambletonian 10, has 
recently distinguished himself by trot¬ 
ting a mile in 2:15%, which we consider 
quite remarkable for a four-year-old, the 
sixth time he was ever started in a race, 
or even in company with other horses. 
This young horse was sent to the Rome 
Agricultural Meeting about three weeks 
ago, where in the first race, in the four- 
year-old class, he made a record 'of 
2:22%. In the fourth heat of the same 
race he made a record in exactly 2:20, 
but he was set back on account of break¬ 
ing. We then sent him to Hornellsville, 
where he was put into the 2:24 class, 
which was a strong one, having a large 
number of entries, and the third heat he 
won in 2:19% The fourth heat he won 
in 2:18%, but, owing to a break, he was 
set back. H ; was next entered in the 
four-year-old class, where he won the 
race, and in the third heat made the 
above record. We fully believe that he 
is capable of trotting now in 2:12, but we 
have decided to give him no more work 
this season. smiths & powell. 
WHAT BLOOD WITH MERINO EWES 
TO make a mutton cross ? 
In regard to the best cross for the 
flocks of ewes of Merino blood, I have no 
pract ; cal knowledge, therefore I do not 
consider myself as competent to advise 
others as those farmers who have had 
experience in that line of sheep farming. 
From observation, I consider the Down 
cross a good one, and preferably, the 
South Down, or Shropshire, as the sire 
to be used, as tt ey are not so large as 
the Hampshire, or Oxford cross, hence 
would be more suitable for the common 
farmer. My advice would be to use a 
purebred male in all cases, and to select 
the best ewe lambs as breeders for the 
future flock. By so doing and by chang¬ 
ing :he sires, the flock will soon approxi¬ 
mate to the breed of the sires used, and 
the flock be increased in value in propor¬ 
tion to the care and feed given them by 
their respective owners. j. talcott. 
I would use a Shropshire ram on Me¬ 
rino ewes to produce lambs for market, 
or for mutton sheep. I consider the 
Shropshire a very hardy sheep, with 
good thick fleece of salable wool. They 
are well covered, and should make a 
good cross on Merino ewes, both for 
wool and mutton, j. horatio earll. 
Sec N. Y. State Merino Breeders. 
Five Good Arguments. 
My choice would be the Shropshire for 
the folio wing reasons: First. Thisis, inmy 
judgment, next to the South Down, the 
best mutton sheep we have. Second. It is 
larger than the South Down and will 
therefore give greater size with almost 
equal compactness to the cross. Third. The 
Shropshire-Merino cross produces a mod¬ 
erately heavy fleece of a quality widely 
sought for and -therefore very market¬ 
able. My fourth and best reason is that 
this cross has proven a great success and 
is highly esteemed by many expert sheep 
breeders. A fifth reason of some weight 
is that the Shropshire is evidently adapted 
to a wide range of conditions in this 
country, as shown by the fact of the 
general and great popularity of the 
breed. You are doubtless aware of the 
fact that the Shropshire Registry Asso¬ 
ciation has outstripped every other sheep 
breeders’ association in the number of 
imported and home-bred sheep registered 
in recent years. Without being able to 
speak from actual experience, I incline 
to the belief that the larger Down breeds 
and the long wools are almost too large 
for the purpose indicated in your letter 
of inquiry. It seems to me that the 
Shropshire is the golden mean for this 
purpose and the results that have been 
reached by those who have made this 
cross of the Shropshire upon the grade 
Merino, indicate this to be a fact. 
Indiana Ag’l College. w. c. latta. 
Reason for the Shropshire. 
As I am a Shropshire breeder, I would 
first say cross them with a purebred 
Shropshire. 1 have seen some of that 
cross lately that were really fine mutton 
lambs; they mature quick’y and are 
solid, blocky sheep. If mutton is the 
only thing in view, there would be do 
mistake made in taking any of the 
Downs except the Hampshire. I would 
not advise their use because the Hamp¬ 
shire lamb is very large and r >ugh when 
first dropped, and Merino ewes would 
surely have trouble in lambing. If, for 
any reason, a breeder should have to 
keep a part of his flock for a year, he 
would get more wool and of a quality 
that brings the best price by breeding a 
Shropshire. It is claimed by those who 
have killed lambs of this cross, that the 
meat is better mottled than from any 
other sheep, but I can’t see why this 
should be so any more than with any 
other one of the Downs, especially the 
South Down. Taking the size and build 
of the Merino ewe into consideration, I 
would not advise breeding to any other 
than a Shropshire or South Down. 
DARIUS ROSS 
Don’t be misled by the advertisements of Cheap 
Butter Color. Don't take your chances with Aniline 
Color, when you can procure a pure and relable 
vegetable Co.or, such as Thatcher’s Orange Butter 
Color, which Is In seven-etghths of the Highest 
Scores at the World's Fair, capturing the Gold Medal 
offered by the State of Minnesota, and highest points 
In New York, Ill., Vt., N. H , Mass., Iowa and Wls. 
Scores from other States yet to be received. This, 
after winning the Gold Medal and Sweepstakes at 
the National Butter and Cheesemaker’s convention 
held at Dubuque, Iowa, February, 1893, should con¬ 
vince any one that where perfect results are to be 
obtained there Is no safety or certainty In using any 
other Color. Always reliable, uniform, strong, a 
perfect butter shade, and pronounced perfection by 
experts In every State of the Union. Manufactured 
by The Thatcher Mfg. Co., Potsdam, N Y.-Adv. 
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. 
iP?“ RELIABLE AGENTS WANTED. 
Crystal Lake farm. Uiati-ct,Ass I 
Holstein-Kriesians, Ravenna. O. ( 
“ U ave used ' Injectlo Vaginal’ with great success, 
every animal so tar. getting with cat.f that we nave 
used it on. ’ W. R. Duonheiuien, Manager. 
Book F'ree MOORI! DUOS., Albany, N. Y. 
HIGH-CLASS 
R. SHANNON, Box 752, Pittsburg, Pa. 
Percheron ffiares for Sale. 
Several tine Registered Mares and Mare Colts, 
weanlings to three years; also grades all ages 
Brices reasonable. Writs wants .1. M. 11 AM, Ly n- 
leid Farm, Washington Hollow, N. Y. 
High-Class Shropshires 
75 yearling rams th t will weigh 250 to 300 pounds 
and shear 12 to 15 pounds at maturity; and 150 year¬ 
ling ewes, to weigh 175 to 21,0 pounds, and sheer 9 to 
12 pounds at maturity, Jujt arrived, recorded In Eng¬ 
land and America. “A grand lot.” Send for cata¬ 
logue. THE WILLOWS, 
Guo. E. Breck, Prop. Paw Paw, Mich 
H AMPSHIRE down sheen, of all ages and 
either sex, for sale at half the cost of Imported 
animals. At Wort ’s Fair my sheep were awarded 
seven tirst, six second and lour third premiums - 
more than any other exhibit' r received. 
JSO. I. GORDON, Mercer, Pa. 
#3 to **(> a year each when given a fair chance and 
the right sort of nests. Send stamp for Information 
F. GRUNDY, Morrlsonvllle, Ill. 
Got circulars and 
valuable testimoni¬ 
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G K E E N BONE 
C U T T E R on the 
market. It’s cheap, durab'e, practical and war¬ 
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Brookslde Poultry Farm, Columbus, N. J. 
§& E RELIABLE HATCHER. 
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CHESHIRES 
From Foundation Herd. I have now shipped 397 times 
to men 1 had said to before. I challenge any breeder 
In the world to give as good a record. Lean meat 
and quick growth. E. W. DAVIS, Oneida, N. Y. 
WILLIS WHINERY, WINONA, O., 
Breeder and Shipper of 
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Largest and finest herd In the world. Over 309 head 
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Write at once for circulars. This herd will be at the 
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PIGS. Jersey, Guernsey and 
Holstein Cattle. Thoroughbred 
Sheep. Fancy Poultry. Hunting 
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CHESHIRES AHD BEAGIES.S™ rs 
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one Bitch, three years. HOMER J. BROWN, Har¬ 
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FEEDING ANIHHAL8. 
This Is a practical work of 500 pages, by Profes 
E. W. STEWART, upon the science of feeding lr ai 
Its details, giving p actical rations for all larm am 
mais. Us accuracy Is proved by its adoption as a 
text boos In nearly all Agricultural Colleges and Ex¬ 
periment Stattons In America. It will pay anybody 
having a horse or a cow, or who feeds a few pigs or 
sheep to buy and study It carefully. Price, flCi.OO. 
Address THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
Cor. Chambers and Pearl Sts., New York. 
HORSES - - - CATTLE. 
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Also HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE) from the handsomest and most noted 
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