1894 
THI<: RURAL NEW-YORKER 
499 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
The Tuuerculin Test. —In buying a 
cow for my herd, I would use every 
available means in determining that she 
was entirely healthy, and certainly that 
she was free from tuberculosis. If tuber¬ 
culin is the safest and best test, I would 
want it used. I would be willing to 
guarantee healthy animals to a customer 
by giving him the option of a tuberculin 
or any other test he might wish to apply. 
O. J. BAILEY. 
Kbeeding the Wrong Houses. —Ac¬ 
cording to the Breeder’s Gazette, there 
are in this country now about 1,000 car¬ 
riages and buggies in use where there is 
one sulky. There are 1,000 men breed¬ 
ing to supply the sulky where one is 
breeding to supply the carriage. To the 
man who owns the sulky the supply is 
greater than the demand. To the man 
who uses the carriage the supply is not 
adequate to the demand. It is almost 
impossible to produce good suitable car¬ 
riage horses to-day in this country. 
Scour the country as you will, how often 
do you meet with the animal that will 
fully fill the purpose ? By a suitable 
animal is meant a horse of the proper 
conformation, of the necessary quality, 
with good, all-around action. By con¬ 
formation is meant smooth, square quar¬ 
ters ; straight back, the shorter the bet¬ 
ter ; good, deep-laid shoulders; strong, 
short legs ; tail carried high and set well 
up, and perfectly sound in every respect. 
A Fine Bull. — D F. Wilber, proprie¬ 
tor of the famous Crumhorn herd, sends 
the following note: “Among recent 
sales from the Crumhorn herd, is that of 
an extremely fine and promising young¬ 
ster, L .• Hartog Mechthilde, No. 20.576, 
H. F. U. B , to Adam Smith, of the firm 
of Arkell & Smiths, Canajoharie, N. Y. 
This young animal was bred at Crum¬ 
horn, and is not quite 11 months old. His 
sire is Tirania’s Sir Mechthilde (a grand¬ 
son of the celebrated old Sir Henry of 
Maplewood), that on the part of his dam 
and sire’s dam hold an average milk 
record of 101% pounds per day and an 
average butter record for one week of 38 
pounds 2% ounces—a combined record 
which has never been excelled. The 
dam is Grett Hartog, No. 13101, H. F. H. 
B., a member of the celebrated Hartog 
family, famous for their performance 
both at the pail and churn and of good, 
old Friesian breeding. Mr. Smith thus 
writes of his calf : ‘ The calf came last 
evening, and I am better pleased with 
him than when I saw him with the 
others. All who see him are delighted 
with him, and if he prove as good as he 
looks, I shall not regret buying him.’ No 
sale has yet been made from Crumhorn 
where the purchaser has expressed him¬ 
self other than satisfied with the animals 
bought.” 
Cheap Hogs. —My hog pasture is wood¬ 
land, dotted with butternut, hickory and 
burr oak trees. Blue grass forming the 
larger part of the grass. I have my 
brood sows farrow about April 1, and 
turn them out as soon as the pigs will 
follow them to pasture, always giving 
the sows as much slop or Skim-milk as 
they will drink. About the last of June 
the pigs are weaned and the sows shut 
up and fattened on corn and skim-milk. 
The pigs are allowed some liberty around 
tbe stable and fields. They follow the 
cows, which are fed corn the year ’round, 
consequently they derive considerable 
benefit from the droppings. They are 
given all the corn they will eat, all the 
skim-milk we have, and the free run of 
the woodland pasture as long as the 
grass grows, and sold about January 1, 
when they average from 275 to 295 
pounds live weight. By feeding them in 
this way, I have had my hogs weigh 
100 pounds apiece more than those of 
my neighbors, even if the latter kept 
theirs three months longer than I did. 
We raise the Poland-Chinas, and never 
keep old sows for breeding purposes. 
Considering the time and feed, my hogs 
do not cost nearly so much as do those of 
my neighbors, and for that reason I 
think mine is the best way. I attribute 
my success chiefly to skim milk. Am I 
right? G. R. 
Pella, Iowa. 
CHEAP PORK. 
VALUE OF AN ALFALFA PASTURE. 
I try to have my sows farrow as early 
in the spring as possible ; if one is pre¬ 
pared for them with dry, warm quarters, 
this may advantageously be done in 
February, March and April. Before far¬ 
rowing, the sows should be separated 
some time, placed by themselves and fed 
on slop which will not produce fat. If 
one has plenty of milk, a slop made of 
milk and shorts or middlings is a good 
food. After farrowing, this same food is 
given for some days, and then a few ears 
of corn are added. I feed three times a 
day. After the pigs are large enough to 
run around with the sow, I let them have 
the run of a pasture of Alfalfa, and still 
feed the sow and pigs with skim-milk 
and mixed feed. After the pigs are 
weaned, they have the run of the pasture 
of Alfalfa, and are fed besides twice to 
three times a day with a slop made of 
milk and water, mixed with either shorts 
or equal parts of low grade fiour and 
bran, with a little oil meal. 
I have in my Alfalfa pasture of 20 acres 
50 head of old hogs, 75 shoats and pigs 
and 6 to 10 head of horses ; and part of it 
I can almost cut for hay now. To my 
old hogs and large shoats I have not fed 
an ear of corn for over two months, and 
they are putting on flesh every day. For 
water I have a never-failing well with 
windmill and tank piping the water to 
the pasture, and the hogs have access to 
it by means of a float valve, so they 
always have cool, pure water to drink. 
The hogs will run on this pasture all the 
season. When the corn is ready to cut, 
I will feed it to them. They will eat the 
most of the green stalks. As soon as the 
cattle come into the feed lot, I let the hogs 
follow them ; for full fed cattle I turn in 
from two to three hogs each depending 
on size ; half fed, about one to a steer. 
I sell my hogs at from 9 to 15 months 
old ; they will then weigh 200 to 300 
pounds. 
Alfalfa and clover are the best green 
foods. Amber sorghum cane is good, 
and oats and field peas and even prairie 
grass will do during the summer. A 
great many, not having the pasture, will 
cut weeds, Alfalfa and clover to feed the 
hogs, and then corn, fed with these 
different green foods, will put on the 
cheapest flesh of anything of which I 
know. If pastured during the summer 
with a little grain, feed all the grain 
they can eat to fatten. From 30 to 90 
days will make them ready for market. 
Many wish to have stock hogs weigh 
about 100 pounds when they go in the 
feed lot behind their cattle, and when the 
cattle go out, are ready to sell their hogs 
weighing from 200 to 300 pounds, depend¬ 
ing on the length of feed. As a pure 
breed, I think the Poland-China hog is 
the best for this country. Either these 
or the larger Berkshires are best and 
for a good feeder, there is nothing better 
than the first cross of these two breeds. 
The cheapest pork is made with plenty 
of good pasture in summer, and 20 to 25- 
cent corn in fall and winter. 
Emporia, Kan. w. N. d. bird. 
A GIANT POLAND-CHINA. 
It is of the greatest importance to the 
hog raiser, to have the best thorough¬ 
bred sires and dams to start with. I 
think the Poland-China is the best for 
the following reasons : 1. They are quiet 
and easy to manage, rarely becoming 
vicious or unmanageable. 2. They are 
good feeders and are not rovers ; they 
will go out and get what feed is required 
and lie down and not take so much ex¬ 
ercise as to keep them reduced in flesh. 
3. They will fatten at any age, and with 
reasonable care and feed, may be turned 
off at any time after six months of age. 
A neighbor bred a good sow to a very 
fine boar that I owned three years ago ; 
the sow raised 13 pigs at a litter. He 
sold 11 of them at three months of age, 
and kept two of them, which were fat¬ 
tened and slaughtered at 12 months, and 
they dressed just 500 pounds each. He 
again bred the same sow to the same 
boar, and raised seven pigs; fattened 
and sold them at the age of six months, 
when they averaged 216 pounds. 
The boar that now heads my herd was 
sired by the same boar. He weighed, at 
10 months, 500 pounds; at 15 months 650 
pounds; at 28 months 870 pounds, and 
will reach 1,000 pounds this season. Hogs 
of this breed with sires and dams good 
animals, and properly cared for, will 
weigh at 8 to 12 months of age, from 325 
to 500 pounds. Our pasture for hogs 
should be clover; in the eastern part 
Red clover predominates, in the western 
portion of the State, Alfalfa. 
During the grass season, hogs should 
have, once a day, a fair feed of corn or 
wheat; if wheat, it should be soaked for 
24 hours. Young shoats and pigs should 
have a liberal feed of good rich slop 
twice a day, made of shorts, with a quart 
of oil-cake meal to each pail of slop, fed 
sweet. To put a finish on them, they 
should be shut up in a close pen or lot 
for nine days, and fed all the corn they 
will eat. Care should always be exer¬ 
cised not to allow the brood sows to take 
on too much fat in winter ; they should 
have warm, dry quarters. 
Kinsley, Kan. dr p. a pearson. 
TESTING COWS. 
More or less experience with the Bab¬ 
cock test since 1890, when the first ma¬ 
chine was brought into the State, to¬ 
gether with what I can learn from the 
various experiment station reports, has 
convinced me of its reasonable accuracy 
under even non-scientific manipulation, 
and of its almost exact comparative ac¬ 
curacy under favorable conditions. We 
do not need any other implement to test 
a cow (except a milk scales.) The churn 
test is relegated to the dusty garret of 
the past along with grandpa’s scythe and 
cradle. Any good separator will leave 
not to exceed 1-10 of one per cent of fat 
in the skim-milk, and a good butter- 
maker ought not to leave over 2-10 of 
one per cent in the buttermilk; so the 
Babcock stands perfectly secure as an 
umpire. Its value as a detective of poor 
skimming and churning is very great— 
in fact this is a very large part of its value. 
In testing cows, it should be used, say, 
a half dozen times in a season—throwing 
out results noticeably high or low. Prob¬ 
ably it is best to test the night and morn¬ 
ing milk of the same day if possible. 
In buying a cow, while I would consider 
a single test as indicative of probable re¬ 
sults, I would by no means regard it as 
conclusive. For some reason, the daily 
variation of cows may be very consider¬ 
able (see report of the World’s Fair test). 
It is only after three or four tests at 
some intervals apart, that I would feel 
confidence in my results. I have un¬ 
limited faith in the value of the test in a 
herd. All I protest against is the judg¬ 
ing of a cow by a single test. It may be 
unfair or more than fair to the cow in 
question. jared van wagenen, .jr. 
Hillside Farm. 
You MAY Escape all Dangbu from attacks of 
Diarrhea, Dysentery or Cholera Morbus, by a little 
forethouKht, In providing yourself with Dr, Jayne’s 
Carminative Balsam—an old remedy and entirely j 
safe —Adv. 
BARREN COWS CURED. 
The following Is from IION. WAYNE MacVHAGH 
Ambassador to Italy : 
Brookfield Farm, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
" You can quote from this note ray assurance that 
your medicines always gave me the greatest satis¬ 
faction.” 
Book Free. MOOKE ItKUS., Albany, N. T. 
Aberdeen-An^^us Cattle 
J. F. HINE, Shlnrock, Erie Co., O. 
r nine neirer calves and one 
" bull, Jersey grades, three to 
eight months old, from a dairy that averages .'iOU 
pounds butter: price, *12.50 per head. Price of cows, 
Iil5 per head. One full-blooded Jerscv bull, Uve years 
old, will work on tread-power; price, *.'15. 
D. C. SIMPSON. Jasper, N. Y. 
JERSEY RULE CAEVES. 
Grandsons of Ida’s Stoke Pogis 
From dams of Individual excellence, calves, one to 
six months old. *25 each, crated and registered. 
KOHT. E. SHANNON, IMttsburKli, F». 
Hlg^h-Class Shropshires 
75 yearling rams that will weigh 260 to 300 pounds, 
and shear 12 to 16 pounds at maturity; and 150 year¬ 
ling ewes, to weigh 176 to Vfi pounds, and shear 9 to 
12 pounds at maturity, Jnst arrived, recorded In Eng¬ 
land and America. “ A grand lot.’^ Bend for cata¬ 
logue. THE WILLOWS, 
GBO. B. Brick, Prop. Paw Paw. Mlob. 
Hampshire-Down Sheep. 
The best mutton breed in England or America. 
Yearling and ram Iambs; also Ewes and Eve Lambs 
for sale. Prices 20 per cent below former years. 
JNO. I. GORDON, Mercer, Pa. 
SOUTH DOWNS. 
Kama, Kreediiig: Ewes. Kain Lambs and line 
Ewe Lambs from the best strains of Import,e<l 
Blood, for sale at reasonable prices. Special prices 
for ten or more. 
E. II. HOLCOniHE * HKOTIIEK, 
Box 274. Ijambertville, N. J 
Chenango Valley Stock Farms, Greene, N. Y., 
J. I). VAN VALKBNBURGH, Jr., Prop. 
For sale, Registered Dorset-Horn Sheep; also some 
fine grade Dorset Lambs, with many of the points of 
registered stock, .fust the thing for grading np flocks. 
Now is Your Opportunity 
To select choice SCOTCH CHEVIOT SHEEP from 
fheCttUMUOHN flock The Cheviots are the breed 
—perfectly hardy—wool commands better prices than 
any other They are a perfect Wool and .Vlutton 
Breed. Reduction Sale at Special Prlnes for BO 
Days. SOO Head, both sexes from which to select. 
Also, animals, both sexes, various ages, from my 
World’s Fair Champion Herd of HOLSTEIN-FRlB- 
8 IANS at Special Prices. Now Is your chance I 
Address D. r. WILBER, Oneonta, N. Y. 
GHESHIRES 
From 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. 
K. W. DAVIS, Torrlnglord, Conn., 
Formerly Oneida, N. Y. 
MUNI nil I to make room for young 
iliUv I ULIaU stock. They go at half price If 
sold quick. Will satisfy you or return your money. 
BROOKSIDE POULTRY FARM, Columbus, N. J. 
SHOO-FLy 
Saves Dairymen and Horsemen 
millions I#. No Files or Sores, 
ow Agents I'JO month. 
Shoo-Fly Mfg. Co., 1005 Falrmonnt Ave., Phlla., Pa. 
FEEDING ANIMALS. 
This Is a practical work of 560 pages, by Professor 
B. W. STEWART, np«n the science of feeding li» a'l 
Its details, giving practical rations for all farm ani¬ 
mals. Its accuracy Is proved by Its adoption as a 
text book in nearly all Agricultural Colleges and Ex¬ 
periment Stations 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, Sli.OO. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
Corner Chambers and Pearl Streets. New York. 
PR There Is probably no branch of 
A AVVyA A X farming or stock-raising that Is 
so sure to return a proHt as the 
Hock of sheep, and there Is prob¬ 
ably no branch so much neg¬ 
lected. A well-kept Hock would 
restore the fertility to many run 
down farms, and put their own- 
„ , ers 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 worth three times Its cost to any farmer 
who raises sheep. Sent postpaid for 25 cents. 
Address TUB RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
Cor. Chambers and Pearl Sts., New York. 
IN 
SHEEP 
IHYIVIO-CRESOL-«?»®s 
Mange;allaklndis^ 
eases; all parasitical troubles; Non-poisonous; Needs 
no preparation; Mixes instantly with cold water;sam- 
ple by mail 50 c. LAWFORD BROS., Baltimore. Md. 
TICKS 
ELLIOTS PARCHMENT BUTTER PAPER. CRETE 
To dalrrmen or others who will use It, we will send half a reami^lLfree, It they will Ca iC ■ 
forward 10 cents to pay postage. Why not try the Best Batter Wrapper I 
O. KLUOT • 00 ., Paper Maunfactarersi Phlladelpbia, Ta 
