1891 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
483 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Bit the Cow.— To prevent a cow suck¬ 
ing herself, put a bit in her mouth. This 
I know from experience will do it, and 
be no trouble or injury to the cow. 8. D. 
Oak Hill, N. Y. 
Roots and Sheep.— We grow both 
roots and ensilage for sheep. We feed 
roots to breeding ewes at all times, es¬ 
pecially when first put up in the fall, 
and after lambing. We have not consid¬ 
ered it a good practice to feed heavily of 
roots just before lambing. We have fed 
all kinds of roots to sheep, but have set¬ 
tled on rutabagas and sugar beets as the 
most economically produced, and, all 
things considered, the best class of roots 
for them. We have fed sugar beets to 
both breeding ewes and fattening lambs, 
and always with success. One of the 
most successfully fattened lot of lambs 
ever fed at this station, received a rela¬ 
tively light grain ration, supplemented 
by a liberal allowance of sugar beets. 
We have never experienced the slight¬ 
est difficulty from feeding ensilage to all 
kinds of sheep. We have repeatedly fed 
ensilage to breeding ewes in lamb, and 
to ewes with lambs by their side, and 
consider it a valuable addition to the ra¬ 
tion. F. B MUM FORD. 
Michigan Agricultural College. 
Western Dressed Beef.— In The R. 
N.-Y. of June 9, is an inquiry about the 
report that the Western beef that we get 
is embalmed at the time of slaughtering; 
and, if so, whether embalming hurts the 
beef. I have never seen any beef em¬ 
balmed, so I don’t know, but I do know, 
and I am an old butcher, having followed 
butchering all my life, that I will pay for 
good Eastern beef one cent a pound more 
than for any Western beef I ever saw. 
For my personal and family use, I would 
pay from two to three cents more, for a 
certainty. The statement, “ It is now 
next to impossible to sell a fat cow or 
steer to the local butcher,” allow me to 
say, is not true ; the most of our custom¬ 
ers prefer good Eastern beef. r. w. 
Collinsville, Conn. 
R. N.-Y.—The remark about selling 
fat animals is based upon personal ex¬ 
perience in northern New Jersey. Our 
butchers will not buy such stock at all— 
most of them have no facilities for 
slaughtering cattle now that the Western 
dressed beef has taken up the market. 
Doubtless there are localities where 
Eastern beef is in demand, but not in our 
part of the country. 
Colonial Dairy Products in Eng¬ 
land.— Dairy products from the British 
colonies are becoming an important feat¬ 
ure in the English markets. The first 
imports of this kind were of Australian 
cheese in 1887, when 13,100 pounds were 
brought in. In 1893 this amount had in¬ 
creased to more than 3,500,000 pounds. 
The trade in butter is increasing still 
more. During the season from October, 
1893, to June, 1894, there were landed at 
London 492,222 packages of butter, of 
which 373,876 were Australian and 118,- 
346 New Zealand, compared with 184,910 
Australian and 63,697 New Zealand in 
1892-3, and 92,999 and 56,436 packages 
respectively in 1891-2. From present in¬ 
dications, not only will future shipments 
be largely increased, but arrangements 
are contemplated for continuing the ship¬ 
ments during the entire year. To do 
this, cold storage will be utilized. It is 
said that the Colonial production natur¬ 
ally goes to the home country for a mar¬ 
ket, but the reflected influence upon 
other localities must, in the natural 
order of things, be quite pronounced. 
The Danish dairymen who have hereto¬ 
fore supplied the English people with 
their fresh butter during the winter, 
have so keenly felt the competition of 
supplies from below the equator that 
they are arranging as rapidly as possi¬ 
ble to have cows come in during the 
spring, hoping thereby to find better 
profit in summer service. The dairymen 
pf the United States and Canada must 
also find their position upon the English 
markets imperiled by this mighty com¬ 
petitor, and it behooves them to prompt¬ 
ly take such measures as may appear 
judicious for the purpose of holding their 
ground. 
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BEEFMAKING IN THE WEST. 
HOW DOES IT PROSPER ? 
1. Is the buslDess of fattenInK cattle as good as It 
used to be In jour neighborhood? 
2. What has made the change for better or worse ? 
3. What changes as regards shelter ? Grain feed¬ 
ing ? 
4. Do farmers raise most of their own steers? 
6. What Is the most popular breed for crossing ? 
6. Where do farmers get their bulls, and do most 
of them use full bloods? 
7. Do you think there will be as many cattle fatten¬ 
ed in your neighborhood next winter? 
Corn Higher and Beef Lower. 
1 and 2. The business of fattening cat¬ 
tle is not as good here as formerly be¬ 
cause corn is higher and beef lower. 3. 
There has uot been much change as re¬ 
gards shelter in the past 25 years, large 
bunches of steers being usually fed in a 
thick grove of timber. Ear corn is the 
principal feed; cf course hogs follow the 
cattle. Some feeders have used large 
quantities of bran the past two years. 4. 
Farmers raise few steers in comparison 
to the number brought in from Colorado 
and New Mexico. 5. Short-horns are 
the most popular for crossing with com¬ 
mon cows, but a great many prefer the 
Herefords. 6. Farmers get bulls from 
Kansas breeders and the best farmers 
use full bloods. 7. The number of cattle 
fed in this neighborhood next winter 
will depend on the corn crop. If the 
crop be good, many cattle from the West 
will be brought here to feed. The pros¬ 
pect for corn was never better at this 
time of year. f. d. y. 
Cahola, Kan. 
Better Methods Arc Coming. 
1. I think very much better. 2. The 
more equal distribution of stock over the 
country owing to the advent of home¬ 
steaders and the fact that the cattle 
are better wintered. 3, Formerly cattle 
were kept in large herds on the level 
country in summer, and in the broken 
country in winter. All the care that the 
ranchers took was “ not to overstock the 
range” and to preserve the “ winter feed” 
from being fed down in summer. All 
this is rapidly changing. Now the cattle 
are kept in smaller bunches and are most 
of them sheltered during storms and fed 
hay in severe weather. There are some 
exceptions, of course. Since being here, 
I have known some ranchers to lose one- 
half their herds in bad winters, but I 
don’t look for that to occur again unless 
by criminal carelessness. We don’t feed 
grain as yet. Our county has imported 
grain during five of the past six years, 
and after paying freight West on grain 
and East on fat cattle, there is no profit, 
but rather a loss. 4. Yes, but very few 
farmers feed their own steers. Most 
farmers have from two to twenty cows 
and keep their steers until one to two 
years old, when they are sold to some 
ranchman, who keeps them until three 
or four years old and they are then 
bought, most of them, to be fed in east¬ 
ern Nebraska, Kansas or Iowa. 5. 
Polled Angus or Galloway, Red Polled 
and Short-horn in the order named. You 
could not give a ranchman a Holstein or 
Jersey bull if his hair was silver. Free 
silver men, too, most of them. 6. Those 
who are able, buy good full-blood calves 
from importers and breeders. Those 
who cannot do that, do the best they can 
with grades. 7. Yes, because as Sa¬ 
mantha Allen says, “ An ort from an ort 
leaves ort,” and if you put nought and 
nought together you have nought still. 
However, we are not altogether hopeless 
in regard to fattening cattle here. More 
corn is being raised every year, and the 
farmers are much encouraged with the 
prospect this year; so we may have 
something to add to the “ort” yet. 
Rushviile, Neb. e. e. b. 
Ups and Downs of the Business. 
It is only recently that steers have 
been fattened for market in this neigh¬ 
borhood. Two years ago, quite a large 
number were fed, and I think the ex¬ 
periment proved quite satisfactory; so 
much so that the same parties tried it 
again last year, with the opposite result, 
nearly all sustaining a loss by the opera¬ 
tion. Two reasons were given for the 
unfavorable result: The low price for 
fat cattle and the high price paid for the 
stock to feed. The steers are fed corn 
exclusively, and run behind groves— 
either natural or artificial—under sheds 
open to the South. Formerly the steers 
were sold to feeders from southern Iowa 
and Missouri; now they are sold to 
neighboring farmers to fatten, the feed¬ 
ers themselves not raising many, but 
buying of smaller farmers who have not 
the conveniences for feeding. The Short¬ 
horn of high grade gives the best satis¬ 
faction. The farmers use full-blood 
bulls in many cases, and in others high- 
grades. The bulls are bought in the 
county from breeders of full-blooded 
stock. J. J. H. 
Cresco, Iowa. 
Cattle Feeding a New Industry. 
1. Yes. 2. This country has been set¬ 
tled only about 10 years, and when peo¬ 
ple first came here they confined them¬ 
selves almost entirely to raising wheat. 
The condition of the wheat market for 
the past two or three years has caused 
farmers to turn their attention to other 
things. The climate and native grasses 
in this region are particularly adapted 
to stock raising, many of our winters 
being so mild that stock can be carried 
through very cheaply. This condition 
of affairs naturally caused people who 
were looking for some new line in farm¬ 
ing to drift into cattle. 3. The tendency 
is toward better shelter, decidedly. 
Very little experimenting has been done 
in a scientific way in feeding, corn on 
the ear being used mainly, though other 
grains are used to some extent. Consid¬ 
erable wheat is being used at present, 
with much better results than many 
looked for. 4. Yes. 5. Short-horn and 
Polled Angus to some extent. 6. A good 
many full bloods are used, coming main¬ 
ly from Illinois and Iowa. The larger 
proportion, however, are native crosses 
as yet. 7. Indications now are that there 
will be more then ever before, c A. w. 
Hay Springs, Neb. 
Poor Results In a Hilly Country. 
1. Fattening cattle has not been profit¬ 
able the past three or four years. 2. The 
low price of fat cattle as compared with 
the price of com. 3. Cattle are all fed 
in what is known as dry lots and fed on 
corn. Feeders do not provide shelter for 
them. 4. Farmers raise their own steers, 
also buy calves from neighbors who do 
not feed cattle. 5. Short-horn grades are 
the most popular breed, though Here¬ 
fords seem to be preferred by local 
butchers. 6. The bulls owned by farm¬ 
ers are mostly grades, bought in the 
neighborhood, of breeders who buy full 
bloods East. 7. There are about as many 
cattle in our neighborhood as usual. 
That portion of our county in which we 
live (the eastern half) borders on the 
Missouri River and is very broken and 
hilly, and not so well adapted to raising 
corn, as the heavy rams in summer wash 
all loose soil away. The greater portion 
is put in wheat. The past five or six 
years a great many orchards have been 
planted. N. G. B. 
Doniphan, Kan. 
A Safe Cuke fob Worms, an efficient Tonic be- 
Bldes, may be had In Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge. 
It utterly destroys Worms, and acts beneficially In 
the Dyspepsia and General Debility of either chil¬ 
dren or adults. Sold by all Druggists.—Adi;. 
Olinn ri V Dairymen and Horsemen 
NHI||Lrl I millions D*. No Files or Sores. 
UlJUUILI ^ more milk. Agents 190 month. 
Shoo-Fly Mfg. Co., 1005 Falrmonnt Aye., Phlla., Pa. 
MAKE HENS LA> 
by feeding green bone cut In 
3r.\NN’S HONE UlJTTEIf. 
Price $111.1111 and upward Warranted Catalog 
free if this paper is named 
F. W. MANN CO., Milford, Mass. 
MUST SELL 
150 Mammoth Pekin Breeding 
Ducks to make room for young 
stock. They go at half price if 
sold quick Will satisfy you or return your money. 
BKOOKSIDE POOLTHV FARM, Columbus, N. j. 
JERSEYS, 
From Miller & Sibley’s herd, will be tuberculin tested 
before sale if desired. 
Out bull, Ida’s Rioter of St. L., has 19 daugh¬ 
ters tested, ayeraglng over 19 lbs. 3 oz. of butter 
apiece per week, among them Ida Marigold, who won 
two sweepstakes prizes and many other honors at 
the World's Fair contests. 
Major Appel I’ojfls won first prize at Pennsyl- 
yanla State Fair in 189.3. Sired by Stoke Pogls 5th, 
who bad 21 daughters and 51 granddaughters tested. 
Highest Jersey weekly, monthly and yearly milk 
records held by our herd. Only superior stock for 
sale. In general none less than J'lOO. Specify what 
you want. Mention this paper. 
MILLER & SIBLEY, Franklin, Venango Co., Pa. 
GUERNSEYS! 
The QBANDEST of DAIBY Breed*. 
Combining the richness of the Jersey with the size 
approximate to the Holstein or Short-horn, but 
standing alone and cnequalud in producing the 
richest colored bntter In mid-winter on dry feed. 
Gentle as pets, persistent milkers and hardy In con¬ 
stitution, they combine more qnallfloatlons for the 
dairy or family cow than any other breed. In the 
“ Old Brick Guernsey Herd” 
are daughters and granddaughters of the renowned 
Squire Kent, 1504 A. G. C. C. and of the finest strains 
on Guernsey or In Ameiica—Comns, son of Sqnlre 
Kent and Statelitte, son of Kohlm head the herd. All 
particulars In regard to Breed and Herd cheerfully 
glyon. 8. P. TABER WILLETTS, 
" The Old Brick,” Boslyn. L. L, N. Y 
Aberdeen-An^us Cattle 
«!• F« HINK, Shlnrock, Krie Co., O. 
rilfl ADI r nine heifer calyes and one 
^ Jersey grades, three to 
eight months old, from a dairy that averages 300 
pounds butter; price. 812 .’lO per head. I’rice of cows, 
135 per head. One full-blooded Jersey bull, five years 
old, will work on tread-power: price, 835. 
D. C. SIMPSON. Jasper, N. Y. 
A I n P HULL CALF, dropped April, 1894, 
. U. U. U. Sire Nancy’s Stoke Pogls 25031, pure 
St. I.ambert; a bull of similar breeding sold at auc¬ 
tion for 81,700; calf’s dam one of our best cows by 
Lord Victor Pogls 14499. pure St. Lambert, son of 
Maggie Sheldon 23583 21 lbs 5 ozs. of Buster In 7 
days. It Is a large, handsome, extra good, solid fawn 
calf. Price reasonable. E. L CLARKSON, Tivoli, 
N. y. Refer by permission to Tub R. N.-Y. 
Hfg^h-Class Shropshires 
75 yearling rams that will weigh 260 to 300 pounds, 
and shear 12 to 16 pounds at maturity; and 160 year¬ 
ling ewes, to weigh 176 to 21,.0 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 WILLOWS, 
GEO. H. Brbok, Prop. Paw Paw. Mich. 
HaDipshire-Down Sheep. 
The best mutton breed In England or America. 
Yearling and ram Jambs; also Ewes and Ewe Lambs 
for sale. Prices 20 per cent below former years. 
JNO. I. GORDON, Mercer, Pa, 
SOUTH DOWNS. 
Rains, Breeding: Kwes. Ram Lambs and fine 
Kwe Lambs from the best strains of Imported 
Blood, for sale at reasonable prices. Special prices 
for ten or more. 
K, II. HOLCOMBE & BROTHER, 
Box 274. Lambertylllo, N. J. 
SOUTH DOWN SHE^P. 
CASSIUS MAUCELLUS CLAY. White Hall, Ky 
Chenango Valley Stock Farms, Greene, N. Y., 
J. D. VAN VALKENBURGH, Jr., Prop. 
For sale. Registered Dorset-Horn Sheep; also some 
fine grade Dorset Lambs, with many of the points of 
registered stock. Just the thing for grading up flocks. 
FOR SALE. 
A Registered Dorset-Ilorned Buck, two years old. 
No, 149. Price. 815. 
PKTER D, LANM, liamlngton, N. J. 
Now is Your Opportunity 
To select choice SCOTCH CUKVIOT SHEEP from 
fhe CRUMHORN Flock. The Cheviots are the breed 
—perfectly hardy—wool commands better prices than 
any other They are a perfect Wool and Mutton 
Breed. Reduction Sale at Special Prices for OO 
Days. 300 Head, both sexes from which to select. 
Also, animals, both sexes, various ages, from my 
World’s Fair Champion Herd of HOLSTEIN-FRIE- 
8IAN8 at Special Prices. Now Is your chance I 
Address D. c. WILBER. Oneonta, N. Y. 
GHESHIRES 
BYom Foundation Herd. I have now shipped 406 
times to men I had sold to before. For quietness 
lean meat and quick growth, get the Cheshire. 
E. W. DAVIS, Torrlnglord, Conn., 
Formerly Oneida, N. Y. 
enp CAI C —KeKlstered Berkshire Boars and 
run wHLVi Sows, and two Reg. South Down 
Rams cheap. PARK FARM, New Brunswick, N. J. 
FEEDING ANIMALS. 
This Is a practical work of 560 pages, by Professor 
B. W. STEWART, up«n the science of feeding 1 b a'l 
Its details, giving practical rations for all farm ani¬ 
mals. Its accuracy is proved by Us adoption as a 
text book In nearly ail A..grlcultural Colleges and Ex¬ 
periment Stations In America, it will pay anybody 
having a horse or a cow, or who feeds a tew pigs or 
sheep to buy and study It carefully. Price, «*3.00. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
Corner Chambers and Pearl Streets, New York, 
