835 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Hig Southern Eggs.— In reply to what 
W. H. Ordway, page 77(5, says about 
small eggs at the Soiith, I do not think 
he knows much about it. I have lived 
in Ohio, and I never saw any larger eggs 
there than we have here. Our hens are 
Plymouth Rock and Rlack Leghorns 
crossed, and he will find a very large 
number of Plymouth Rocks in this coun¬ 
try. I do not know how it is farther 
Soiith. i{. X. 
Sweetwater, Tenn. 
Ol.UTKN M EAR OR CoRN ClIOP.— Would it 
pay to buy Iluffalo gluten feed at .$19 per 
ton (when corn chop and bran can be 
bought for the same price) for fattening 
cattle ? I have plenty of corn fodder. I 
find it more convenient to use the gluten 
feed, as the bin can be filled now for the 
winter. Again, it is so uniform that 
cattle cannot so easily be overfed. 
Lancaster, I’a. j. n. g. 
R. N.-V.—We would not care to feed 
gluten meal for the entire grain ration. 
'I’hree poiinds a day are enough of it for 
any animal. We would feed that quantity 
if it agreed with the animal, and use 
.some corn with it. 
That Heroic Moui.ting.— What do I 
think about “ heroic moulting,” as prac¬ 
ticed by P. M., Nankin, ()., page 7.55 ? 
It seems to me that when one tries to 
beat Nature like that, she will have her 
2 -evenge in some way. Even if P. M. 
succeeded in getting his hens in full 
dre.ss and laying November 1, there must 
have been a period of about four months 
that they did not lay, as this moulting 
by hand must have stopped their laying 
vei-y soon. Hens properly fed and cared 
for, should lay many eggs during the 
time P. M.’s plucked hens were idle, and, 
going through their moult naturally, be 
ready to begin laying again in four to 
six weeks after his hens begun. It is 
po.ssible that plucking the greater por¬ 
tion of a hen’s feathers so early in the 
season, before Nature intended she 
should part with so many, would result 
in a decreased number of eggs for the 
year. I would not attempt to forestall 
Nature in this way, but would assist her 
by proper feeding and care and, all other 
things being equal, breed from the hens 
that moult and get in full feather again 
first. H. ,J. RLANCHARD. 
Tompkins County, N. Y. 
Feed Out the Feathers.— I would 
not care to practice the heroic moult¬ 
ing” process of plucking the feathers 
from the fowls. I have no doubt that 
the feathers would come in all right, as 
1 have noticed that when chickens or 
pigeons have their wing feathers pulled 
to prevent fiying, there will be a new 
growth of feathers in a few week.s— 
about four weeks for pigeons. I have 
not noticed in particular the time re- 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
a HtCKEL-PLATED ROAD. 
“ Are the rails and engines all nickel- 
plated ? ” is asked, time and time again, 
by parties who are contemplating a trip 
West, over this, now famous and popular, 
route. If not, where did it get its name 
of Nickel Plate ? That is the question ! 
Where did it get its name ? It has justly 
earned its great popularity by reason of 
its smooth road-bed, elegant equipment, 
superb dining cars, fast time, and, above 
all, by its giving to the public the lowest 
rates of any firstrclass line, between the 
East and West. Popular low-rate ex¬ 
cursions are of frequent occurrence, and 
every attention is shown its patrons for 
their comfort and pleasure. Through 
palace and .sleeping cars are run between 
Roston, New York and Chicago, over the 
Fitchburg, West Shore and Nickel Plate 
roads. All information as to low rates, 
through sleeping cars, etc., may be ob¬ 
tained of your nearest ticket agent, or 
by addressing F. J. Moore, General 
Agent, Nickel Plate Road, 33 Exchange 
Street, Buffalo, N. Y,— AO/v^ 
quired for chickens. I would think it 
too hard on the fowls to pluck most of 
the feathers, and they would be likely 
to sunburn and be very uncomfortable 
in general. I would think the feathers 
left on would be shed at the usual moult¬ 
ing season. Pid P. iVl.’s fowls shed those 
left ? It would be much better to feed 
them in such a way as to encourage early 
moulting. Why don’t some of the pro¬ 
fessors give us a formula for making the 
fowls shed their feathers ? The new 
ones will come in all right if they can 
be induced to shed the old. I would 
suggest feeding oil meal and salt in as 
large quantities as it would be safe, and 
would be glad to have others’ opinions 
on the .subject. .i. k. 8teimien.son. 
The Ayrshire Cow.— Mr. C. L. Peck, 
Coudersport, Pa., makes this statement 
regarding the merits of the Ayrshire : 
Havinf? been for *inany peiieratioii-s bred and 
reared in a hilly and mountainous eountry, with 
a climate and .soil much like our own, that have 
had a marked influence in her development and 
oi'fjanization, she is by nature pre-eminently 
ad.apted to most parts of our own country. The 
Ayrshire is pre-eminently the farmer’s cow ; pos¬ 
sessed of unusual hardiness, she readily re- 
•spond.s to good treatment, and at the .same time, 
under iess favorable circumst.ances, does surpris- 
iwRly well; a cold storm or sudden e.vposure 
seems to affect her le.ss than other of the dairy 
breeds. There is no dairy breed that for per- 
si.stent, liberal flow, and quantity of yield under 
rough usage, can e(iual her, or under unfavor¬ 
able surroundings, surpass her in condition or 
ability to stand hard.ship. Eor the care received 
in the ordinary country dairy, there is no dairy 
cow that is her equal. The average flow of the 
Aryshire cow is from 6,000 to 10,000 pounds of milk 
per annum under reasonably favorable condi¬ 
tions, sometimes going as high as H,(X10 or more 
pounds in a single year, and the quality of the 
milk is such that from 18 to 25 pounds of milk 
will produce a pound of butter, the average being 
about 21 pounds. Prof. Sheldon, author of “The 
Milk Pail and the Cow That FilLs It,’’ in s])eaking 
of the Ayrshire says : “They are wonderful milk¬ 
ers, doing well in milk where most other breeds 
would hardly live ; more comijletelv than most if 
not all other l>reeds converting into milk the 
elements of food. They are hardy enough to stand 
severe climates, while they have the faculty of 
adapting themselves to altered conditions.” The 
milk is scarcely inferior to the Jersey or (Tuernsey, 
while in steadiness and ijersistency of flow, they 
are surpassed by no other dairy breed; rarely 
going dry over four or six weeks. Their average 
weight at maturity is 1,(X)0 pounds. 
The Ayrshire more than any other of the dairy 
breeds combines the supposed incompatible 
qualities of milk and beef. When not in milk, 
she takes flesh readily, and makes beef of the 
finest quality. They are wonderful foragers, and 
are never idle, and, like the omnibus, there is 
always room for more, if there chance to come a 
choice morsel within their reach. 
Bv Tuiki.ixg with a Cold, many a one allows 
himself to drift into a condition favorable to the de¬ 
velopment of some latent disease, which thereafter 
takes full possession of the system. Better cure your 
Cold at once with Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant, a 
good remedy for Throat-ails and Lung Affections.— 
Adv. 
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BERKSHIRE PIGS 
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of.young litters now at low i)rlces. 
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CHESHIRES 
Pigs In pairs, not akin. 
Young Sows bred. 
Young Service Boars. 
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CHESHIRES 
Two Boar Pigs, 10 weeks 
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CHESTER WHITES 
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Cockerels, at 7.7 cents each. Apply to tAJgnorn 
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Your 
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'ure Longshans 
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