1894 
THE RURAL, NEW-YORKHR 
79 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Cow Tail Bolder —I think the most 
sensible and humane way would be to 
put a blanket on the cow or keep the 
stable dark. e j. d. 
Cross-Bred Eggs —In reply to the 
question on page 31 about the color of 
the eggs of the hens produced from a 
cross of Dominique Leghorn cock and 
Barred Plymouth Rock hens, I would say 
that the eggs are either a light cream or 
light brown color as happens. I never 
had any mud colored eggs, or any trouble 
in selling them at the highest price for 
fresh laid eggs. w. c. s. 
Laurens, N. Y. 
A Tongue Holder —In The R. N.-Y. 
of January 6, E. L. S asks if it is worth 
while, in regard to his mare that keeps 
her tongue over the bit. I had a horse 
that had the same habit. I took a wire 
as heavy as baling wire, put it around 
the bit about twice, then made a loop to 
lay back on the tongue. I then passed it 
around the bit and fastened the end of 
the wire in the ring as at Fig. 28. He 
never got his tongue over the bit again. 
Wood County, 0. n. c. d. r. 
Dishorning Heifers. —How young can 
a cow be dishorned and not have the 
horns grow ? Some of my neighbors 
have dishorned heifers coming two years 
old next spring. Will not rough, irregu¬ 
lar knobs grow on their heads ? 
Hammond, N. Y. c. r. k. 
Ans —Age has nothing to do with suc¬ 
cessful dishorning. If the hoin be not 
sawed or clipped off close enough to the 
head, that is, if some of the cartilage be 
left, the cartilage will continue growing 
and form an irregular bony excresence. 
Simply remove the horn below this car¬ 
tilaginous growth and that is the end of 
it. M. H. c. G. 
A Whimpering Cow. —Brevities asks : 
“ If you had a whimpering cow would 
you try to stop her ?” If I understand 
the term, I wouldn’t, because it gives me 
pleasure. I have two cows of that de¬ 
scription, my best ones, only we call it 
“begging” Both are pets, and when 
one of the family gets in sight or hear¬ 
ing they “beg” for some dainty morsel 
or a caress. The one will go so far as to 
follow me like a dog and “beg” to be 
milked when her udder begins to get 
full. As I have never allowed a calf to 
suck her, and as I take pleasure in milk¬ 
ing her myself, she knows of no other 
source of relief. The attachment be¬ 
tween us being mutual, I need scarcely 
say that her “whimpering” (begging) is 
music to my ears. Abuse is the only 
thing that would probably “ cure” her, 
but none of that for me. j. F. s. 
Ore Bank, Va. 
A Poultry Record. —I send The R. 
N.-Y. my poultry account for the year 
1893. Though there is nothing remark¬ 
able about it, yet the balance in their 
favor gives a fair return for the labor 
and care, and keeping the buildings in re¬ 
pair. I keep nothing but common fowls 
but they have been well cared for. The 
turkeys, ducks and guineas were kept at 
a loss, the entire income from them not 
covering the cost of feed. The eggs and 
fowls used in the family were all esti¬ 
mated at the regular market price at the 
time of using. 
Dr. 
To 45 hens and 5 cocks at 30 cents.$15.00 
4 turkeys at $1.to. 6.00 
2 guineas at 30 cects. 6) 
2 ducks at SO cents. 60 
43 onshels or wheat at 63 cents. 27.95 
7 bushels of Corn at 60 cents. 4.20 
Bran and other feed. 7.75 
18 dozen eggs for hatching . 3.24 
Total.$65.34 
C'r. 
By poultry sold. .$12.17 
poultry used in family. 3.80 
4,122 eggs gathered during year. 78.40 
12 bushels nnanure at 20 cents. 2.40 
3 ducks at 30 cents. 90 
3 turkejs at $1. 3.00 
70 hens and 5 cocks at 30 cents.22.50 
Total.$123.17 
Debits. 65.34 
Profit.$57.83 
Dunbar, Pa. t. h. s. 
Killing Sheep Ticks. —When the wool 
is long, fine snuff scattered through the 
wool will destroy a great many of them 
and keep them in check, although it 
may not exterminate them. h. o. 
McKean, Pa. 
Mules Higher than Horses. —The 
census statistics show that the average 
p^ice of a mule is $7 more than the aver¬ 
age price of a horse. The South Carolina 
mule is now worth about $90 ; the aver¬ 
age price of a horse in the same State is 
$79. The Texas mule is worth $41, or 
nearly twice the value of a horse. In 
Missouri mules are worth about $7 more, 
and in Kentucky about $3 more than 
horses. Oregon is the only State where 
an average horse sells for a higher price 
than a mule. The ordinary horse out 
there is worth $51, while the mule brings 
$46. California horses sell for $46 and 
mules for $67. Pennsylvania mules— 
used a great deal in the coal mines— 
bring about $86, their horses only $67. A 
New York mule is now worth $91, and a 
horse $76. The New Jersey mule aver¬ 
ages about $105—the highest in the 
United States—or $30 more than the 
horse. Illinois has more mules than any 
other Western State—140,000. 
Tank Heaters —We have water run¬ 
ning through our stable from the dairy 
above to a trough in the barnyard. This 
water, in winter, hovers about the freez¬ 
ing-point. We had also set up in the 
yard an iron kettle, holding 100 ga 'ons, 
used for boiling feed for the hogs. It 
has been unused lately, so in December 
we took it into the stable and hung it up 
to the ceiling in a convenient corner 
with a post under the center for support. 
The water in this tank, filled at night 
from the pipe, will be within 10 degrees 
of the temperature of the stable in t6e 
morning. The draft up beside the tank 
is such that there is little danger of con¬ 
tamination from foul air. If we can get 
water at 50 degrees without the trouble 
of warming, will it pay to go to the 
extra trouble, expense and risk from fire 
for a rise of 10 or 20 degrees more ? 
Twenty-one head of catlle in the stable 
will drink the tankful at nine o’clock in 
the morning, after having been fed cut 
feed with meal at 5 a. m. and long hay 
at 7 A, M. They will drink a little again 
at night. This may not be a perfect 
system of watering, but it is the most 
favorable compromise we’ve been able 
to make between what we had and what 
we ought to have. - e. c. birge. 
If Youa Throat Feet.s Sore or Uxcomfori- 
ABLE. use promptly Di. Jayne’s Expectorant. It will 
relieve the air-passages of all phlegm or mucous, 
allay Inflammation, and so give the alTected parts a 
chance to heal. No safer remedy can be had for all 
Coughs and Colds, or any complaint of the Throat or 
Lungs, and if taken in time, a short trial will prove 
its elHcacy.—Adv. 
HIRHESS and SAOOLERY Price list includes 
harness from a cheap machine mane to an extra 
quality, band made, rubber trimmeu harness. Horse 
collars, bits, snaps, etc Price list sent free on ap¬ 
plication. C. B. DUNNING, Lyons, N. Y. 
URlVlfflJ STILL LEADS THEM ALL. 
Q'lV ITWILLOONTROLTHS MOST 
oi l VICIOUS HORSa. 
75,000sold In 1891, 
100,000 sold In 1892. 
THEY ARE KING. 
Sam pie mailed XC for ^ I Ofl 
Nickel, Si. SO. 
Stallion Bits 50 cts. extrtL. 
RACINE MALLEABLE IRON CO. 
KEEPERS 
CLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 
A Handsomely Illustrated nUF CIIDDI ICC 
Magazine, auu Catalog. ofuCu OUriLICO 
FKJEli. 4. 1. UOOT, Medina, 4), 
Horse Owners! Tr> 
GOWIBAULT’S 
Caustic 
Balsam 
A Safe Speedy and Positive Cur« 
The Safest. Heat BLISTER ever used. Takes 
the place of all liniments for mild or severe action. 
Removes all Bunches or Blemishes fiom llorwes 
SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTERY 
OR FIRING. Impossible to produce scar or blemislL 
Every bottle sold is warranted to give satisfaction 
Irrice $1.50 per bottle. Sold by druggists., OJ? 
cent by express charices paid, with full dire 
Aor its use. Send for descriptive circulfcAS. 
THB LAWRBNCE-WILLIAMS CO .. CieTei^rffl, 0. 
FRENCH GOACHERS AND 
rclieron Horses. 
BARE OVAEIT 
Purebred stock all apes, 
at prices to suit cverv 
purchaser, to close estatb 
of JOHN W. AKIN. 
Send for t'iriuilar. 
ELIWOOnf^TOCKFARM 
E. S. AKIN, Executor. 
SCIPIO, N. Y, 
BARREN COWS CURED. 
ThefollowlnK Is from Hon. VVAYNK MacVHAGH, 
Ambassador to Italy : 
Bkookkiki.I) Kaihi, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
“ You can quote f.om this note inv assifance that 
your medicines always gave me tne greatest satis¬ 
faction ” 
Book Free. MOORE RROS., Albany. N. Y. 
HENS PAY 
83 to 86 a year each when given a fair chance and 
the right sort of nests. 8end stamp for Information. 
F. GRUNDV, Morrlsonvllle, 111. 
INVINCIBLE HATCHER.TheBEST 
, ———.,rc^3r"Incubator&Broodcr 
IS 
2500 *** 
I and not n single 
-—— plaint. Send 4 cts. In_ 
stomps for No.33Catalog. to 
BUCKEYE INCUBATOR CO., SPRINGFIELD, O. 
INCUBATORS! 
In-Door and Out-Door Brooders. 
94 FIRST FRK.illUMS. 
Send for 104-pBge Illustrated catalogue 
Pialrle State Incubator Co., Homer City, Pa. 
Brooders only $6. Best and eheapeet for 
raising chicks; 40 first preminmt; S.OOO 
testimonials; send for catalogue. 
G. S. SINGER, Box 574t Cardington, 0. 
' wllWll IbLi.MI, The Most Perteo3 
INCUBATOR MAOB 
Quick and certain ; Hatch« 
every egg that a hen coul 
hatch; Uegulateslteelfautc 
malically; Reduces the cos 
of poultry raising to a min: 
mum. Best In every way- 
lowest in price. Send fo 
Ulus. Catalogue. SIMPLE: 
HATCHER CO.. QUIMC'i IM 
The Improved Monitor Incubator. 
Hundreds of testimonials as to 
its mer.‘*3 over all other makes. 
MEDALS and DIPLOMA AWARDED 
AT THE WORLD’S FAIR. 
Large book with cuts for stamp. 
BUY THE BEST. 
A. F. WILLIAMS, 54 RACE ST., BRISTOL, CONN. 
OrtfV COCKKRKLS FOR .SALK. - Barred 
Plymouth Hocks, Brahmas, Cochins and 
Langshans are my specialties. Circular with price 
list free. HY. C. ECKEKT, Belleville, Illinois. 
PrYIN nilPIfC for Farmers and Fanciers. Etrgs, $1 
ilMH UUUKj) per setting Satisfaction guaranteed 
BUOOKSIDE POULTRY FAUM, Columbus, N. J. 
E AOP PUCAD From choice selected Pure Bred 
lUu Un uMl I Poultry, of the most noted prize 
winning strains. Stamp for fine 
HI istrated catalogue. B. H. GREIOER, Florin, l*n. 
S C A For Poultry. Best Grade, $1.25 bbl., ?00 lbs, 
tiri ■ o Circular Dls. “amples 4c. Orders tilled 
HELLS promptly. F. P. Knowles, Guilford, Conn 
J>Jersey Eodand Poland Chii 
‘PIGS. Jersey, Guernsey ai 
Holstein Cattle. Thofoughbn 
Skeep. Fancy Poultry. Huntii 
and House Dogs. Catalogue. 
and House Dogs. Catalogue 
A V,^llITU.X'J?ErunviUe. Cheater Co.. Peru 
Dm AMfl p u fl II A ft— to Record. 
rULHtlU UnlllHD The most proHtanie 
hog for the farmer. Fifty head of summer and fall 
rigs for sale. J. L. VAN DOREN. Crestvue, Ohio. 
Iniprovsd Yorkshire Swine for Sale. 
One utter of 12 from an Imported Sanders Spencer 
sow. One litter of lO from a sow whose dam was im¬ 
ported and bred bv .1. Walker Jones. They are very 
typical and well grown, now five months old. Price, 
$12 each, or $20 a pair. Address 
RICHARD GIBSON, Delaware, Ont. 
M E ]rj K E V S T O Nl 
^l?^,DEh0RNlNG CLIPPER 
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JERSEYS. 
The Sweepstakes Dairy Itreed at the World’s 
Fair Contests for Milk, Cheese and Butter. 
Ida Marigold 32615, Bred by Miller & Sibley. 
Her World’s Fair Record Is Sweepstakes Prize In 
Jersey Snow Ring; Sweepstakes i*rlze In Cheese Con¬ 
test (three breeds); Hlgnest Butter Record for the 
7 days ending July 1; Hlgnest Single-Day Jen ey 
Ml k Record; Greatest'I’otal MUk Record (all tests 
May 11—September 27) o/any coM/s noiv living of the 
“Rest Five Cows of any Breed “ (Jers.ys) Greatest 
net profit of any cow now living, for tne combined 
periods of the lb-day Cheese Contest and 90-day 
Butter Cl ntest. 
16 daughters of Miller & Sibley’s bull Ida’s Rioter 
of St. L. 13656 (the sire of Ida Ma'Uold) test from 
14 los. 14 oz (a three year old) to 15 lbs. oz. of 
butter in seven days ; average over 19 lbs. 
Highest.weekly, monthly and yearly milk records 
In Jersey breed held by our Herd. 
Stock for Sale. Superior cows In calf to Ida s 
Rioter of St. L. In general, no animal less than $200. 
No Inferior ones ottered. No general catalogue of 
Jerseys. Write for what you want ; but oetter silll, 
come and see. 
Mention this Paper. 
MILLER & SIBLEY, Franklin, Venango Co.. Pa. 
High-Class Shropshires 
75 yearling rams that will weigh 250 to 300 pounds 
and shear 12 to 15 pounds at maturity; and 150 year¬ 
ling ewes, to weigh 175 to 2L0 pounds, and shear 9 to 
12 pounds at maturity. Just arrived, recorded in Eng¬ 
land and America. “A grand lot.’’ Send for cata¬ 
logue. THE WIL1.0W8, 
GKO. H. Bbkck, Prop. Paw Paw. Mich 
Why don’t you buy 
Improved Chester Whites 
OF 
WILLIS WHINERY, WINONA, OHIO, 
He pays the express. He ships C. O. D. 
He wll. send you circulars, giving the 
Wonderjul Shotv Record and particulars 
of this herd. 400 head for sale. 
CHESHIRES, BEAGLES AND LEGHORNS 
young Sows due to farrow March and April, and 
fail pigs not akin. 
Beagles, eight months old. R. C White and 
Brown and H. C. Brown Leghorns, S. S. Ham- 
burgs. Sallsiactlon guaranteed 
H. .1. BROWN, Harford, Cortland Co., N. Y. 
PROFIT 
IN 
SHEEP. 
There is probably no branch of 
farming or stock-raising that Is 
so sure to return a profit as the 
flock of sheep, and there Is prob¬ 
ably no branch so much neg¬ 
lected. A well-kept flock would 
restore the fertility to many run 
down farms, and put their own- 
e 8 on the road to prosperity. 
But every man doesn’t know how to care for sheep, 
though be can easily learn " Sheep Farming’’is a 
practical treatise on sheep, their menagement and 
diseases. It tells In plain language how to select 
and breed them, and how to care for them. It Is a 
little book worth three times Its cost to any farmer 
who raises sheep. Sent postpaid for 25 cents. 
Address THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
Cor. Chambers and Pearl Sts., New York 
TH YMO-CRESOL 
I II I III U Uilll-UUl. Mange; all skin dis¬ 
eases; all parasitical troubles; Non-poisonous; Needs 
no preparation; Mixes instantly with cold water;sam- 
Dle by mail soc. LAWFORD BROS., Baltimore. Md. 
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, from the handsomest and most noted 
milk and butter herd in the world. 
RARE BARGAINS in choice show animals, and cows with {jp^eat records. 
STATE JUST WHAT YOU WANT AND SAVE! TIME. 
