1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
627 
Live Stock Matters. 
FOBKFTJXS OF FACTS. 
Hebe is a pig record reported by Ed. 
S. Hill: “ My herd of Cheshires the past 
season gave me litters averaging 13 each, 
running from 9 to 17.” 
Shipping Little Chicks. —In our re¬ 
port of the Pine Tree Poultry Farm last 
spring, we spoke of Mr. Ordway’s having 
orders for large numbers of young ducks 
and chicks directly from the incubators. 
The question has been asked as to how 
he ships these small birds He says that 
they travel better when first hatched 
than later. He uses low boxes holding 
about 50 chicks, and covers close to the 
chicks with burlap, making a sort of 
mattress of feathers in cold weather. 
Cut Green Bone. —It was for years 
my practice to buy cheap waste cuts of 
beef for my fowls. I always kept pans 
of ground dry bone in the yard, but 
found when cutting the meat that in 
spite of tbe dry bone always before 
them, the hens were greedy for any sliv¬ 
ers of bone which might fill. I there¬ 
fore pounded, split and cut the bones as 
well as I could with an ax. Of course, I 
• could reduce but a small fraction of the 
entire bone to the desired fineness ; but 
for this green bone, the dry oone pans 
were entirely rejected until I gave up 
the use of dry bone altogether, and 
found my eggs increased. When I found 
a machine which would cut green bone, 
I knew the cost of eggs was reduced one- 
half. It is absolutely necessary for 
fowls to have something in the form of 
sharp grit, and ground bone will not 
supply this need; so poultry keepers 
wonder why they have few eggs in win¬ 
ter when their hens have plenty of 
ground bone. But the cut bone, with 
its sharp, clean-cut edge, supplies this 
want and at once furnishes grit, lime 
and food. The dry bone contairsve y 
little except lime, which is only a shell 
forming material; but to produce eggs, 
one must feed for the interior of the egg 
as well as for the shell Corn is not an 
egg producing fcod, as its elements are 
chiefly taken up in forming fat, and 
when given exclusive of other food, the 
fowls invariib’y stop laying ani take on 
fat, until we say they are too fat to lay. 
Green cut bone, with tbe adherence of 
meat and gristle, contain all the ele¬ 
ments found in the chicken, hence are a 
natural egg producing food, compound ?d, 
as may be said, by Nature herself, e. b 
Wheat fob Dairy Cows. —Prof. C. S. 
Plumb gives, in The Jersey Bulletin, the 
following account of how they fed wheat 
at the Indiana Experiment Station: 
“ This summer we have been feeding six 
milch cows coarse ground wheat. The 
ration was pasture, green corn fodder, 
and two pounds of coarsely ground 
wheat, fed morning and night at first. 
This amount was soon increased to three 
pounds at a feed, and this was main¬ 
tained until in August, when the wheat 
ration was just doubled, 12 pounds a day 
being fed. The wheat was most satis¬ 
factory in the influence on milk secre¬ 
tion and the physical condition of the 
cows. At the time the increase to six 
pounds of wheat was made, the milk 
supply was falling off, so the extra food 
was given to keep up the flow, and its 
beneficial influence was felt almost at 
once. This experience has been so sat¬ 
isfactory that we shall feed ground 
wheat to our milch cows to the exclusion 
of some other concentrated feeds. It 
may be of interest to some to state that 
for two or three days we fed the whole 
wheat. This was quite unsatisfactory; 
the cows at once fell off in flow, and the 
grain was not so fully digested as 
when fed coarsely ground. For cows in 
full flow of milk, it would appear that 
*‘Thc Life of an Iron Rooi 
or how long will it last ?” is the title of 
an instructive little book upon the pre¬ 
servation of iron roofing, sent free by the 
Cincinnati Corrugating Co., B. lfl,Piqua,0 
satisfactory returns are secured on a 
feed of six pounds per day of ground 
wheat. I would prefer to grind medium 
fine, and have procured new burrs for 
one mill to grind finer than we have so 
far.” 
Soup for Cattle —The following note 
from The London Live Stock Journal, 
states facts that will be new to most of 
our readers : “At the recent summer 
meeting of the Yorkshire Veterinary 
Medical Association, held at Leeds, one 
of the speakers, Mr. S. Chambers, who 
took part in a discussion on the ‘ Feed¬ 
ing of Sick Animals,’ said that in his dis¬ 
trict he heard of many farmers who ob¬ 
tained sheep’s liver, lungs, heart, etc., 
boiled them down, and gave the soup to 
cattle inclined to be tubercular, wasting 
or thin ; and he was told such treatment 
acted very well. Animal soup for ani¬ 
mals in case of illness, or of wasting, is 
doubtless beneficial. Soup is a great 
recuperative food for man. It is easily 
digestive, nutritive and invigorating. 
It seems well suited to the stomachs of 
cattle, horses and sheep, and its admin¬ 
istration in case of general debility and 
emaciation might well be more fre¬ 
quently adopted. Indeed, Prof. Brown, 
in his ‘ Domestic Veterinary Treatment 
of the Animals of the Farm ’ reprinted 
in pamphlet form from the Journal of 
the R. A. S. E , says that ‘ wonderful 
effects’ have been produced by feeding 
animals on soup made by boiling pieces 
of any kind of meat.” 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS AT THE FRONT. 
While the remarkable irregularity and 
unseasonable hours of milking, as well 
as the unfavorable conditions and weath¬ 
er, were such as to exclude all possi¬ 
bility of large records, yet the butter 
test just completed at the New York 
State Fair, under the supervision of 
Prof. Van Slyke and his assistan's from 
the experiment station of Geneva, proves 
three things: 
First, that the Holstein-Fru s'ans far 
surpass all other breeds for butter. 
Second, that the Lakeside herd stands 
at the front for the production of butter 
cows. 
Third, that the Clothilde family still 
stands at the head in public butter tests. 
In this test were entered six Holstein- 
Friesians, one Guernsey and two Jerseys. 
The six former surpassed all the others. 
The first prize was awarded to a Clo¬ 
thilde cow, “ Intje von Holingen,” which 
Mr. Wilbur bought a short time since, 
from the Lakeside herd, she having 
made, in four days, 6 765 pounds of but¬ 
ter. “Clothilde 6th,” of the Lakeside 
herd, made virtually the same, 6.683 
pounds, being a difference of less than 
1}^ ounce in four days. The next lar¬ 
gest amount was made by “Idene 
Rooker,” also entered by the Lakeside 
herd, and which made 6.476 pounds, 
which was but a trifle less. Next in 
o der came “Alwina Lorea Neko 2d.” 
6.419 pounds ; “Craddock,” 5.558 pounds; 
“Executrix Netberland,” 5 509 pounds. 
Next in order came the great Worli’s 
Fair Guernsey cow, “Purity,” from G. 
Howard Davison’s herd, 4 740 pounds. 
This cow, we understand, led all cows of 
the breed for the 30-day test at the 
Columbian Exposition, and was fifth in 
the entire show. The folio xing in order 
was “Flossie” (Jersey), from the Wheeler 
Stock Farm, of Rome, N Y., 4 358 
p unds, and the lowest was be ‘ Van de 
Mackness” (Jersey), 4.149 pounds, from 
E, Bodie’s, Freehold, N. J. It wi 1 thus 
be seen that the highest Holstein-Frie- 
sian cow exceeded the Guernsey, which 
made the highest of any of the other 
breeds by over 40 per cent. 
It will also be seen that the highest 
record made by a Holstein-Friesian ex¬ 
ceeded the highest record made by a 
Jersey by over 55 per cent, and that the 
average of the two highest records made 
Try the Nickel Plate Road when you 
gQ West.— Adv- 
by Holstein-Friesians exceeded the high¬ 
est record made by a Jersey by over 53 
per cent, while it will also be seen that 
the average records of the Holstein- 
Friesians exceeded the average records 
of the Guernsey and Jerseys by over 40 
per cent. 
As this test was made in public, and in 
charge of such men as Prof. Van Slyke 
and his assistants, it seems to us to be a 
very great victory for the Holstein- 
Friesian breed, and as breeders we are 
personally very proud of the fact that 
cows from the Lakeside herd have won 
the two highest prizes at the great dairy 
show at New York, the two highest 
prizes at the Buffalo Exposition, as well 
as the three highest prizes in this test; 
and all were owned at time of tests by 
us, excf pting one cow in this test, which 
we sold to Mr, Wilbur. Four of the win¬ 
ners denoted above were of the Clothilde 
family. smiths a powell co. 
BARREN COWS CURED. 
The followlnsr is from Hon. WAYNE MacVEAGH 
Ambassador to Italy : 
Brookfibt.d Farm, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
" You can quote from this note my assurance that 
your medicines always (tave me the greatest satis¬ 
faction.” 
Book Free. mUUKB liKOS., Albany, N. Y. 
Aberdeen-An^us Cattle 
J. F. HINB. Shinrock, Erie Co., O. 
HIGH-CLASS 
Registered Jersey Cattle. 
KOBT. F. SHANNON, Plttsburffh, Pa. 
FOR SALE. 
Jersey Bull. “ Pride of Peconlc ’ 32944, A. J. C. C.. 
three years old, vjry handsome and well grown; an 
Inbred St. Lambert. Sold only to prevent further In¬ 
breeding. A bargain to a quick buyer. Also one 
thoroughbred cow. four years old. Pedigrees on ap¬ 
plication to PECONIO FARM, Sag Harbor, N. Y. 
FOR SALE. 
One Thoroughbred Bed PoMod Bull-registered In 
First Volume of Red I’olled Register Book. 
Pedigree furnished on application. 
M. M. DICK. West Newton, Pa. 
The Personai. Discomfort, and the worry of 
a Constant Cough, and tbe Soreness of Lungs and 
Throat which usually attend It, are all remedied by 
Dr. D Jayne's Expectorant, a safe medicine for Pul¬ 
monary disorders and Throat affections.—Adw 
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Hi^h-Class Shropshires 
75 yearling rams that will weigh 260 to 300 pounds, 
and shear 12 to 15 pounds at maturity; and 160 year- 
1 Ing ewes, to weigh 176 to 21^0 pounds', and shear 9 to 
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Clienan^'o Valley Stock Farms, Greene, N. Y., 
J. I). VAN VALKENBUUGII, 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 grad ing up flocks 
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at farmers' prices. L. B. FREAK, Ithaca. N. Y. 
COTSWOLO 
J. HARRIS CO., Moreton Farm (P. O.), N Y. 
FOR SALE. 
Large, Thrifty. 
Thoroughbred 
Poland-China Hogs 
of all ages. 
F. H. GATES & SONS, Chlttenaiiffo, N. Y. 
CHESHIRES 
Pigs In pairs, not akin. 
YoungSows bred. 
Young service Boars. 
ED. S. HILL, Tompkins County, Peruvllle. N. Y. 
DURflO-JERSEY 
PION 3249, out Of Ked Queen’s Daughter 80.3B 
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Lectures will begin OCTOBER 2, 1894. For 
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Cockerels and Pullets. 
Black Minorca, S. C. Brown Leghorn, B. Plymouth 
Rock and White Wyandotte Cockerels and Pullets 
for sale, at *1 each, if taken before November 1. My 
birds are all standard stock. 
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