1894 
THE RURAL NEW-^/ORKER 
259 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFTJIiS OF FACTS. 
What Hex Food?— I think M. D. C., 
page 227, would get better results if he 
fed his fowls all the cut bone they would 
eat at noon in place of the wheat, and at 
night scattered a variety of grain, corn, 
wheat, buckwheat, etc., in cut corn 
stalks five or six inches deep, so that 
they have to scratch for it. Always 
aiming to feed no more than they will 
eat clean each time. The corn stalks 
cut in one or two-inch lengths make the 
best and cleanest scratching material, as 
the grain goes down in them readily and 
they do not pack down with the sand. 
Brookside Poultry Farm. j. e. s 
A Remakkable Cow.— In “ Sayings of 
New York Dairymen,” page 3, Mr. Matti- 
f>on says he has “a heifer one year old last 
.lune, which, though never having a calf, 
has been giving milk ever since before she 
was one year old.” He must have said 
that after dinner. We have been looking 
for that kind of a cow up here in Wiscon¬ 
sin for a long time and are looking yet. 
Perhaps she is related to the Irishman’s 
cow. He said: “ She was a grand cow, 
an extraordinary cow ; she would give 
milk year after year without having a 
calf. In fact, she came from a cow that 
never had a calf.” e. o. s. 
Reedsburg, Wis. 
To Cure Hard Mibkers.— Some time 
ago, I saw an inquiry in The R. N.-Y. 
for a cure for hard-milking cows. I have 
used the following successfully : Take a 
medium-sized three-cornered file and, be¬ 
ginning at the small end, grind the sides 
until the corners are sharp for about two 
inches from the point. It should be 
edged up on a fine stone. Grasp the teat 
with one hand just fimly enough to hold 
it in its natural position. Insert the point 
of the file in the end of the teat and 
gently push it up. It should not enter 
the udder. Care should be taken not to 
cut too much the first time; better repeat 
the operation. I have not tried this on 
dry cows, but on those having a good 
flow of milk it is just the thing, e. s. g. 
Dilley, Ore. 
BREEDING SWINE. 
I recently read an article in which the 
writer urges that sows should be left 
alone, as much as possible until the pigs 
are two or three weeks old. I do not 
think so. I prefer to keep my sows so 
gentle that they are not afraid and will 
always permit my getting into their 
pens without disturbing them. My four 
breeding sows seem to appreciate kind 
treatment, and readily come to me to 
have their backs scratched or their ears 
gently rubbed. When my pigs are very 
small, the mothers make no objection to 
my picking up their little ones, for they 
seem to realize that I will not hurt them. 
In writing to advertisers, please always mention 
Thb Rcbal Nkw-Yorkbb. 
r OOEL MILKCOOLE!) 
PAr.INT’O 1893, 
M.W.aAZLk'f, 
CORTLAND, N.Y. 
DAIRYMEN SAY 
THE KODEL HII.K ('U01.EK 
A.NI) AEKATOK 
Has no equal. Is low 
down, Klves the best re¬ 
sults, has smooth sur¬ 
face, airs and cools at 
the same time, less work 
to clean, made of copper 
or heavy tin plate, witn 
iron c.'ad bot¬ 
tom. they will 
not rust. 
A/^eniswant- 
ed. Send for 
large cut and 
price list to the Inventor and Maker. 
H. W. 6AZLAT, Cortland, N. Y. 
-YES, THE- 
Champion KEilk Cooler and Aerator 
DRIVES OUT mi FOUL ODORS 
from milk. It's useful In other ways. too. Do you 
want particulars ? Weil, send for folder to the 
CHampion Milk Cooler Co., 
No. 80 Main St., Cortland, N, Y, 
I remember one occasion when I had a 
litter of pigs farrowed when it was very 
cold. One of the pigs soon seemed to he 
lifeless. Of course I thought it of no 
value, but my son had more faith and 
took the little fellow to the kitchen fire 
and warmed the life into him, so that, 
in a day or two, he was one of the best 
of the,litter. 
I now have a farm boiler located in my 
hoghouse where I can cook food, heat 
water or warm the building if necessary. 
When it becomes necessary to castrate 
the males, I entirely separate the little 
ones from the mothers, so as to disturb 
the latter as little as possible. By doing 
as I have intimated, I can always catch 
the little ones when they need warming, 
if they get hurt or for any purpose. I 
don’t love swine, but I think it profit¬ 
able to keep them and more profitable to 
treat them kindly. When a stranger 
comes near my breeding sows they 
always show signs of disturbance. 
About eight inches above the floor on 
the sides of the pen, I nail common poles 
or rails three or four inches in diameter 
in the “bed-rooms.” This makes a place, 
under them, for the little fellows so the 
mothers are not liable to lie on them. 
I do not care to keep my sows very 
fat, but it is seldom I find them hungry 
enough to eat turnips or clear bran. 
They will eat mangels very readily, and, 
by putting a handful of meal with the 
bran, stirring well together in their 
drink, they will eat that, I think corn 
or meal is the cheapest food to keep up 
a certain degree of fat, but bran and 
roots, especially just before parturition, 
are the best. I recently learned that my 
sows would eat boiled parsnips very 
readily. I could never get them to eat 
raw ones. b. t, w. 
Rochester, Mass. 
Ephraim W. Bull living on charity— 
and you are enjoying the fruits of his 
labor I 
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•V 
2 a 
J? w 
Full Description Free. Address 
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H 
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p, r* 
“ £ 
» 
UENTOV HARBOK. MICFI 
Butter keeps hard without Ice 
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testimonials ; send for catalogue. 
G.S. SINGER, Box f,74, Cardlngton, 0 . 
The Improved Monitor Incubator. 
Hundreds of testimonials as to 
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'IhermositMtic Jfars. Manufactured by 
L. H. OAKES. Bloomington, Ind. 
J. P. LUOAS, Western Agent, Topeka. Kan. 
Send for circular and mention The Rukal. 
Buckley’s Waterine Device 
FOR WATBRINQ STOCK IN THE STABLE 
C. E. BUCKLEY & CO., 
Patentees and Manufacturers, Doybb Plains, N. T 
KINGSTON FOUNDRY AND MAGHINB 
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facturers for the Dominion of Canada. 
tW RELIABLE AGENTS WANTED. 
CAKED UDDER AND GARGET 
is positively cured by the use of 
SCOTT’S Arabian Paste. 
Guaranteed. Will not scatter or 
reduce the How of milk. Sent by 
mail on receipt of jn-ico. % lb , 
f)0c.; 1 lb., $1.00. SCOTT'S ARABIAN 
PAStE CO.. Rochester, N. Y- 
Self-Gleaning Stable. 
Invented by Prof. E.W. Stewart. 
Keeps cows clean,saves all manure, 
all Deciding, lasts a lifetinie, and 
^ives universal satisfaction. Send 
for circular. 
J J. STEWART, 
Snccesssorto 
- STEWART PROS , 
- Lake View, Erie Co., N. Y. 
GUERNSEYS! 
The QBANDEST of DAIBY Breed*. 
Combining the rlohnesB of the Jersey with the size 
approximate to the Holstein or Short-horn, but 
standing Alonb and unbqualbd In producing the 
richest colored bntter In mid-winter on dry food. 
Gentle as pets, persistent milkers and hardy In con¬ 
stitution, they combine more quallQoatlons for the 
dairy or family cow than any other breed. In the 
‘ ‘ Old Brick Guernsey Herd ” 
are daughters and granddaughters of the renowned 
Sqnlre Kent, 1504 A. O. C. C. and of the finest strains 
on Guernsey or In America—Gomns, son of Squire 
Kent and Statelllte, son of Kohlm head the herd. All 
partlonlars In regard to Breed and EUrrd cheerfully 
given. S. P. TABER WILLETTS, 
“ The Old Brick,” Roslyn, L. I., N, Y 
JERSEYS. 
The Sweepstakes Breed at the World’s Fair Dairy 
Contests for Milk, Cheese and Butter. 
2 SWEEPSTAKES PRIZES 2 
Won by Ida Marigold, bred by Miller & Sibley, Hi 
daughters of her sire, Ida’s Rioter of St. L. 13fi5<i, 
average over 1!) pounds of butter apiece per week. 
Highest Jersey weekly, monthly and yearly milk 
records held by our herd. 
Only superior stock for sale. 
In general, none lees than $‘2U3; occasionally a bull 
or heifer calf cheaper. Write fur what you want. 
Mention this paper. 
MILLER & SIBLEY, BTanklln, Venango Co., Pa. 
JERSEYS. 
Coomassie. —A.J.C.C-— St, Lambert 
ROBT. F. SHANNON, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
B utter STOCK AT low prices.-a j.c. 
Club Sf. I. ainbert Bull and Heifer Calves 
of the best butter blood, tracing several times to .Stoke 
l^ogjis III,, sire of Mary Anne of St. L., 807 
pounds butter in oueyear. Young Bulls sold from our 
herd have sired 20-pound cows, such as Pride of 
Ingleslde .84545. ao pounds ounces, and Gypsy’s 
Pride ’’nd 2;13(i5, a7 ponnds la ounces of hutUr in 7 
dttj/ii for Miller & Sibley. K. L. CLARKSON, 
14 West l!)th Street. New York. 
Refer by permission to Thk Rukal New-Yokkkk. 
We are nreoared to sblpeggs from ouriarge Brorze 
Turkeys. $3.00 per 13; Cayuga Duck eggs. $‘2 per 13: 
Black langsban eggs, $1 50 per 13. Also CHBSIJ1 RE 
PIGS, ready to ship May 15, at $6.00 each. Address 
for Catalogue, C. R. WHITE, or 
O. II. WHITE & SON, Miller Corners. N. Y. 
Choice Rose Comb Brown Leghorn and Buff 
Cochin Eggs, $1..50 per 15. A few Leghorn 
Cockerels, $1.50 each. Healtsv farm-raised 
stock. Thos. T. Morils. Seba, Wash. Co., Ind. 
EGGS 
for setting from Mammoth Bronze 
Turkeys. Pekin Ducks, T. Geese, Hon- 
dans and Gaae Bantams. Cir free. 
O. R. BAXTER, Hillsdale, Mich. 
26 
Single Comb Brown Leghorn Kggs, *1.25. 
EDWARD LAFOT, l.akefield, Minn. 
prviu niipv^ FI 
ruMn UUUkO per setting Satisfaction guaranteed 
BROOKSIDE POULTRY FARM, Columbus. N. J. 
PKKIN DUCK eggs for hatching 
from stock that won all of the First 
Premiums at the New York Poultry 
Show in 1893. Fertility and safe 
_ delivery guaranteed. Send for cir¬ 
cular. A. J. UALLOCK. Speonk, N. Y. 
MIMMOTH BRONZE TURKEY 
Langsban, P. Rock, Buff and Brown Leghorns. Illus¬ 
trated Circular. 8. J. B. DUNBAR, Blkhorn, Wls. 
White Holland Turkeys, 
$6 per pair, $9 par trio. Pure bred and healthy stock 
enly. O. F, FELLOWS, Lyons, N. Y. 
New 64pageCatalogue torl8g4 
Is now ready. The most complete book 
ever published on Fancy Poultry and 
Standard seeds. Send 4 cts. In stamps. 
John Hauscher Jr., Freeport, 111. 
m 
from pure WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
The best farmers’ fowl. 
Eggs, $‘2.00 per 30. 
WM. J ONDERDONK, Mount Ivy, N. Y 
WyckofF’s White Leghorns. 
AMERICA’S BUSINESS HEN. 
Eggs for hatching, $2 00 per 15; $3.75 per 30; 11.00 
per 45; $10.00 per 100. Illustrated and Descriptive 
Circular free. C. H. WYCKOFF, Groton, N. Y. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES. 
The fowl for the farmer. Great winter layers. Prize 
winning blood (Knapp’s); uollmltea range. Honest 
dealing. Eggs, $l 50 per 15; $2.50 per 28. 
D. C. BASSETTE, Farmer, Seneca County, N. Y. 
Dominique Leghorn Eggs, $1.25 per 15; 
$2.00 per 28; D. L. and Plymouth Rock 
cross eggs. $1 00 oer 28. 
W. C. STRONG. Laurens, N. Y. 
BEWARE the TEMPTATION, to buy low-priced 
breeders. 
^^Willswood Herd” 
Recorded Berkshire Swine, 
Sells only good stock, at prices low as possible, 
when bred from choicest strains in the WORLD 
Order at once’to secure selections fre m tbeetriy 
itters. WILLS A. SEWARD, Rudd’s Lake. N. J. 
Hie:h-Cla88 8hrop8hire8 
76 yearling rams that will weigh 250 to 300 pounds, 
and shear 12to 15poands at maturity; and l&O year¬ 
ling ewes, to weigh 175 to 21J0 pounds, and shears to 
12 pounds at maturity. Just arrived, recorded In Eng 
land and America. “A grand lot.” Send for oata 
logne. THE WILLOWS, 
0*0 . E. Bbiege, Prop. Paw Paw. Mich 
SOUTH DOWN SHEEP. 
CASSIUS MAUCKLLU8 CLAY. White Hall, Ky. 
D UKGU-JEKSEY pigs,-F arrowed March 2 
- Sire U.vxi.D Ch A MPION 3249, out of Red Qaee n s 
Daughter 8036 and other retfistere*! dams; *5 each 
at eight weeks old. B. L. CLABKSoN, 
14 West 19th Street, New York. 
Why don’t you buy 
Improved Chester Whites 
OF 
WILLIS WHINERY, WINONA, OHIO, 
He pays the express. He ships C. O. D. 
He will send you circulars, giving the 
Wonderful Show Record and particulars 
of this herd. 400 head for sale. 
CHESHIRES 
From Foundation Herd. I have now shipped 408 
times to men I had sold to before. Fur quietness, 
iesn meat and quick growth, get tbe Cheshire. 
E, Wi Davis, Torringiord, Cjnc., 
Formerly Oneida, N, T. 
