1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFTJIiS OF FACTS. 
Wants Ferrets. —Why dcn’t some of 
The R. N.-Y. readers advertise ferrets if 
they have them ? If not, will The R. 
N.-Y. give the address of some of those 
breeders at Rochester, Ohio, mentioned 
some time ago ? j. s. o. 
Hughey, Tenn. 
R. N.-Y.—Write to John P. Skier, 
Rochester, Ohio. 
Setting Turkeys. —I generally set a 
turkey and a hen at the same time, giv¬ 
ing the turkey 16 eggs and the hen nine, 
then let the turkey have all the poults 
hatched. By this method I let only part 
of the turkeys sit, the rest go to laying 
in a short time, and I get more broods. 
I have been quite successful, so I like 
the plan well. m. h. c. g. 
Orange County, N. Y. 
A Prolific Sow —Following is the 
record of my Berkshire sow. Champion 
Beauty 26304: Farrowed, April 9, 1892, 
II pigs, raising 9 ; November 16, 1892,9 
pigs, ra’sing 9; April 18, 1893, 13 pigs, 
raising 9; Sept-^mber 29, 1893, 14 pigs, 
raising 12 ; April 9, 1894, 13 pigs, raising 
10 ; October 13, 1894, 12 pigs, raising 10. 
Seventy-two pigs in six litters, raising 59, 
Mannsville, N, Y. geo staplin, jr. 
That Hard Milking Cow. —By the ad¬ 
vice of an old man who kept 20 or more 
cows, I took the old saw, cut off a strip 
about three-eigbths of an inch wide, and 
ground a diamond point on it, leaving the 
point dull so that it would follow the 
orifice in the teat, the front edges sharp 
and the back edges dull. When the teat 
was full of milk and a small stream flow¬ 
ing, I ran this knife into the teat, and I 
had an easy milker. c. G. l. 
Seneca Castle, N. Y. 
Pumpkins for Peed. —I would like to 
know if pumpkins are good to feed to 
milch cows. I have heard that cows 
would go dry if fed pumpkins. Does 
The R N.-Y. know of any remedy for 
squash bugs ? s. ii. d. 
Berthoud, Col. 
R N.-Y.—Certainly they are. If you 
have back numbers of The R. N.-Y. turn 
to page 232 and read about how pump¬ 
kins served a New York dairyman. We 
have published much about squash bugs, 
and will give more when it is more 
seasonable. Meanwhile, burn all squash 
vines and trash about the squash patch, 
this fall. 
Pumpkin Seeds. —Are pumpkin seeds 
injurious to cows or other stock as a feed. 
I have been informed that they would 
dry up a cow’s milk. G. w. B. 
Lynn, Va. 
R N.-Y.—When fed to excess, it is said 
that pumpkin seeds act on the kidneys 
too freely, and to that extent are in¬ 
jurious. Given in such quantities as they 
would be in feeding pumpkins as ordi¬ 
narily broken or cut up, there will be no 
trouble. The seeds are often injurious 
to ducks and other fowls if .eaten in any 
quantity. 
Bleaching Butter. —Some weeks ago. 
The R. N.-Y, had a symposium on the 
color and flavor of butter. Prof. E. H, 
Farrington stated that butter will bleach 
or lose some of its color by exposure to 
the light for a few days. A writer in the 
Jersey Bulletin tried this experiment: 
“ I put some butter in a closely-covered 
glass dish, and set it in a window where 
it had direct sunlight from about 10 
A. M. to 1 p. M It bleached slowly, so it 
stayed there four or five weeks, and is 
still in the dish. The color is not that 
of cotton, of course ; it is more nearly 
like that of wool. It smells and tastes 
like tallow. I hardly suppose any one 
would think it had ever been butter. 
There is no shade of a rancid or acid 
taste to it, just simply tallow.” 
“The 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. 16,Piqua,0 
Tough Feed. —J. D. Smith, in Hoard’s 
Dairyman, gives this curious bit of ex¬ 
perience : “ Some years ago I had a cow 
that, during the summer, would have 
occasional attacks of scours, and seemed 
to be running down. Along in the fall 
she got quite poor, and I saw that there 
was no use trying to winter her, so I 
killed her. In searching for some cause 
for her decline, my knife struck some 
hard substance in the stomach, and upon 
examination I found a good double hand¬ 
ful (I did not weigh them, a fact I now 
regret) of nails of all sorts. There were 
tenpenny, eights, shingle nails, and 
quantities of broken or stub nails. I 
think instead of 4 3^ ounces there must 
have been fully eight ounces Their 
presence in the stomach no doubt caused 
the trouble. The same year I killed a 
beef cow that had a good single handful' 
of gravel stones in her stomach. These 
did not seem to harm her, and I supposed 
she sucked them up with the water 
when drinking.” 
Concerning Feeding Corn Stalks — 
I had some corn stalks left over last 
spring, and as I wanted them out of the 
way, I commenced a month or two since 
to feed about a bundle each day to my 
horse, together with some hay and a 
little bright rye straw. My horse is de¬ 
cidedly improved, without increasing his 
supply of grain. I have heretofore sold 
what corn stalks were not needed for 
my family cows. I shall sell no more, 
but shall feed them to my horse. A 
miller living near me fed an abundance 
of grain to a horse which he kept for 
light driving, but as he wished him to 
have a nice barrel shape, and not be pot¬ 
bellied, he scanted him in hay. He kept 
him in a box stall, and it was a sight to 
behold ; the woodwork was so gnawed, 
that he took it all out and put in new 
and covered it all over with sheet zinc. 
If he had placed some nice sweet corn 
butts in the manger, his horse would not, 
probably, have gnawed the pine wood¬ 
work of his stall. A horse that is un¬ 
employed, wants something to amuse 
himself with, and it is interesting to see 
how much of the butts he will eat. If 
the corn is cut, as it should be, before it 
is dead ripe, there is really some nutri¬ 
ment in the butts. j. r. 
Bad Teeth in Horses. —Bulletin No. 
36 from the Virginia Experiment Station 
(Blacksburg), deals with “The Horse’s 
Teeth” and is a very interesting publi¬ 
cation. The following extract will show 
the importance of attending to the 
horse’s mouth : “It frequently happens 
that a horse will refuse to eat his food 
when there is nothing wrong with him 
but his teeth. In most instances, how¬ 
ever, he will not absolutely refuse to eat, 
but minces at his food as if nothing 
suited him. Such horses are usually 
treated with doted remedies, such as con¬ 
dition powders and other “ shot gun” 
preparations, the owner thinking that 
the “kidneys are out of order.” The re¬ 
sult is plain ; the horse eats his food no 
better and the druggist sells another 
package of “condition” or “horse pow¬ 
ders.” Nothing can be more simple than 
the only proper remedy, which requires 
but a few minutes of the veterinarian’s 
time to rasp off the edges of the teeth 
which have worn sharp and constantly 
gouge the cheeks and tongue. As soon 
as this is done, the horse returns to his 
food with a vigorous appetite and devours 
all that is placed before him, much to 
the astonishment of his owner. In more 
aggravated cases the horse wads his hay 
and spits it out of his mouth, swallowing 
but little of it. The grain is swallowed 
whole and as a consequence is imper¬ 
fectly digested. The animal loses flesh 
rapidly, which no amount of high feed¬ 
ing will replace. The digestive organs 
finally become deranged, and the animal 
has periodic attacks of colic, causing his 
owner to torture him with all sorts of 
remedies for ‘ bots.’ ” 
Iceland Agriculture —The London 
Live Stock Journal gives two interesting 
691 
quotations from a book called “ A Girl’s 
Ride in Iceland,” which will give a new 
idea of the live stock industry of that 
country. 
“ Outside, drying in the sun, were 
pieces of peat, in size about 2x3 feet, 
and about two inches thick. They were 
doubled, tent fashion, to enable the 
sun to pass through, and were standing 
in a row along a turf wall. On inquiring 
their use, we learned that they were in¬ 
tended as a species of saddle-cloth for 
the pack ponies, to protect the vesta-box. 
The peat being placed on the animal’s 
back, the loads are attached on either 
side by a rope made of the mane and tail 
hair of the ponies, plaited neatly in three, 
either black and white or brown and 
white, and mixed with a little flax; they 
really form quite a pretty adornment to 
the trappings The loops through which 
the ropes pass are of carved sheep’s 
horns, in the most fantastic shapes.” 
The national dish of the Iceland folk is 
‘ ‘ skyr,” which takes the place of porridge 
to a Scotchman. “ It is nothing more or 
less than sheep’s milk, and like German 
‘ dicke-milk,’ is eaten with sugar, to 
which cream is added as a luxury. As it 
is rather sour, we fought shy of it at first, 
fearing future consequences; but this 
was unnecessary. It is really excellent, 
and the natives eat it in large quantities. 
Huge barrels of this skyr are made dur¬ 
ing the time the sheep are in full milk, 
and stored away for winter use. It is 
agreeable to the taste, satisfying, and 
wholesome.” 
BARREM COWS CURED. 
The followlntt Is from Hon. WAYNE MacVKAGH 
Ambassador to Italy : 
Brookfibt.d Farm, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
" You can quote from this note ray assurance that 
your medicines always gave me the greatest satis¬ 
faction.” 
Book Free. IVIOOKK BKUS., Albany. N. Y. 
Aberdeen-Angus Cattle 
J. F. HINE, Shlnrock, Erie Co., O. 
FOR SALE. 
Jersey Bull. “ Pride of Peconlc ” A. J. C. C.. 
throe years old, vjry handsome and well grown; an 
Inbred St. Lambert. Sold only to preyent further In- 
breeding. A bargain to a quick buyer. Also one 
thoroughbred cow. four years old. Pedigrees on ap¬ 
plication to PECONIC FARM. Sag Harbor, N. Y 
ICPCCV Dill I Blooded Jersey Bull can 
UClIwkI DULL be bought for $40. A per¬ 
fect beauty. Is fourteen months old. and large for 
his age. Sire Orange Stoke Pogls dam Daisy 
l:t203. IJox 377, Kay City, Mich, 
High-Class Shropshires 
76 yearling rams that will weigh 250 to 300 pounds, 
and shear 12 to 15 pounds at maturity; and IM year¬ 
ling ewes, to weigh 175 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, 
GBO. E. Brkck, Prop. Paw Paw. Mich. 
Imported and Home-bred, 
both sexes, all ages. Also 
Barred Plymouth Rock 
ces. State just what you 
want, and address 
FRANK MCELHENY, Box I), Black Creek, N. Y. 
Shropshires 
Chicks. Earmers’ prl 
Croup is Quickly Rblieved, and Whooping 
Cough greatly helped, and its duration shortened 
by Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant, the old family stand 
by for Coughs and Colds, and all Lung or Throat 
affections.—Adp. 
A Complete Creamery 
IN ONE MACHINE. 
The Butter Accumulator 
CHESHIRES 
FROM FOUNDATION HERD. 
I have now shipped 419 times to men I had sold to 
lie/ore. For lean meat, quick growth and quietness 
get the Cheshire. B. W. DAVI3, Torrlngford. Conn. 
Formerly Oneida, N. Y. 
CHESHIRES 
Pigs in pairs, not akin. 
YoungSows bred 
Young service Boars. 
ED. S. HILL, Tompkins County, Peruvllle, N. Y. 
QIMA Fancy Chester White Pigs, registered 
a 11 ages, for sale. Satisfaction guaran- 
1 1 W w# teed or money refunded. 
G. U. FOULKE, Bala Farm, West Chester, Pa. 
BULL CALVES FOR SALE. 
Prices low. One to fonr 
weeks old, one half Jersey 
and one-half Guernsey,from 
registered sire and dam. 
Breeders of nice 
POLAND CHINA HOGS. 
E. H. GATES & SON.S, Chlttenango, N. Y. 
14 price. Brookslde Poultry Farm, Columbus, N. J 
Has now been Thoroughly Tested and the 
following facts fully proven ; 
It gives more batter and better batter, 
skims cleaner and rans smoother. It is sim¬ 
pler In constraction and easier cleaned than 
any other machine of its kind in existence. 
It will Save its Own Price either lu Redaction of 
First Cost, in its Increase in Yield, or in its 
Saving; of Labor. 
CREAMERY PACKAGE MFC. CO., 
I, 3 &; 5 Washington St., Chicago, Ill., Sole Agts. 
County and State Agents wanted In 
every part of the United States. 
Swedish Cream and Butter Separator Co., 35 William 
Street, New York. 
c^Trell’oS YETERINiRY SURGEONS 
Lectures will begin OCTOBER 2, 1894. For 
Circular, address H. D. GILL, V. S.. Secretary, 
332 E. 27tb Street. New York City. 
ORSE BLANKETS 
ARE THE .STIIONGE.ST. 
Made in 1450 .Styles. 
For either road or stable u.se. 
AM shapes, sizes and qualities. 
Wm. Ayres <fc .Sons, Phii.ada. 
Burlington “Stay-On”l^rf^ 
STABLE BLANKET fits nice a tailor-maderti ^ 
coat* Ask your dealer for the BURLINGTON." 
Write for handsome illustrated catalogue—sent free. Ii jB* 
BURLINGTON BLANKET CO.,Burlington,Wis. 
Hoof Ally 
Fouls and Foot Rot 
cannot exist where Wine of Copper Is applied. 
It Instantly destroys, without Injury to flesh or hair, 
all microbes, germs, and parasites that cause the 
disease. By mall, postpaid, .50 cents. Warranted. 
Write for circular and testimonials. Address 
THE COPPER CURE CO., Cortland, N. Y. 
Hens Lay“S" 
eggs—hard shell and double * the number 
when fed on tcIlRKN CUT BONE. 
-You can save-in money: 
D ollar ste,”.;. 
bushels of grain by using 
Mann’s Bone Cutter. 
Best and cheapest. Price $10 and upward. 
Illus.Catalogue Free if you name this paper. 
F. W. MANN CO.. Milford, Mass. 
HAND BONE, SHELL AND 
CORN MILLS^orPoultrymea. 
-- Circular and testimonials Free. 
WILSON BKO.S., Ea.stuii, Pa. 
INGUBATORS&BROODERS 
Brooders only S.5. Best&Cheai)e.st 
for raising cliicks. 40 1st I’remiu ms 
4000Testlmonlal«. Send forCat’l’g. 
G. S. SINGER, Box 714 Cardington, 0. 
World’s 
Fair > 
Highest 
Award 
THE KEYSTONE 
Dehorning Clipper, 
The most humane, rapid and durable 
knife made* Fully warranted 
CIRCULARS SENT FREE. 
.C. BflOSIUS,<=°p«ll5f«,kf- 
FEEDING ANIMALS. 
This Is a practical work of 560 pages, by Professor 
E. W. STEWART, up«n the science of feeding Ip 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 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, 93.00. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
Corner Chambers and Pearl Streets, New York. 
D f” C A ! *■ 1853 -* 
U a I kU U k. Mange; all skin dis^ 
eases; all parasitical troubles; Non-poisonous; Needs 
no preparation; Mixes instantly with cold water;sam- 
ole by mail 50 c. LAWFORD BROS., Baltimore. Md, 
TICKS 
ELLIOTS PARCHMENT BUTTER PAPER. CDCB 
To dairymen or others who will use It, we will senihalf aream, 8x11, free, if they ■ Ilk Ih Ell M 
will lorward 30 cents to pay postage. Why not try the Best Butter Wrapper sMvwMwsmarvHMt 
A. G. ELLIOT & CO., Paper Manufacturer^, Phlladelplila, Pa. 
