1895 
NEW-YORKER. 
233 
THE RURAL 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Big Ayrshire Calf.— March 18, 1895. The Ayr¬ 
shire bull calf, Angus, is one year old to-day. He 
has been weighed three times, as follows : Sep¬ 
tember 21, 1894, he weighed 540 pounds; Novem¬ 
ber 21, 1894, 670 pounds, and to-day 820 pounds. 
Oneonta, N. Y. n. m. Campbell. 
Castrating a Colt.— 1. What is the best to put 
on the clamps when castrating a colt ? 2. How 
long shall I leave the clamps on ? e. c. d. 
Ghent, Minn. 
R. N.-Y.—1. It is not necessary to put anything 
on the clamps, and most operators now use noth¬ 
ing. A few use some caustic preparation, but it 
is not considered good practice. Carbolated vase¬ 
line is probably as good as anything that can be 
used. 2. Not less than 36 hours, nor longer than 
three days. If left on too long, there is danger of 
strangulated cord from its not being retracted 
after the removal of the clamp. F. l. k. 
Cotton-Seed Meal Feeding.—I heard a cotton¬ 
seed meal and cow story to-day, worth repeating, 
and heard it from the “ proprietor.” Mr. ,T. G. 
Thompson of this place, is an all ’round hustler. 
He keeps a country store, a herd of milch cows, 
runs a stable of 10 horses, makes his own hay, 
etc. Several years ago he bought six tons of 
cotton-seed meal which had been wet in salt 
water. Some was sold and used in the cow barn, 
but it seemed unsuited for feeding, and about four 
tons were hauled out and thrown in a heap in the 
pasture, bags and all. Soon the cows showed a 
great increase in milk production, and were much 
relaxed. After some time, a visit to the pasture 
showed that they were feeding on the cotton-seed 
meal. As no harm had been done, they were 
allowed to continue. By autumn, they were very 
fat, the milk production had been remarkable, 
and the pile of meal was reduced to what ap¬ 
peared to be about a load of manure. 
Cape Cod. e. l. small. 
PORK MAKING IN OREGON. 
Most of the farmers in this county think that a 
fall pig kept until the next fall, is the most profit¬ 
able. I have tried both fall and spring pigs, and 
have concluded that a February or March pig kept 
growing through the summer, is the hog that 
brings in the most clear profit. A year ago last 
November, I bought the best boar I could get—a 
halfbred Poland-China. No full blooded hogs were 
to be had at that time. I bred my sows to pig in 
February and March. Their feed consisted prin¬ 
cipally of rutabagas and mangels with a small 
feed of barley. When the pigs came, they were 
big and strong, and I commenced feeding ground 
wheat and a good feed of roots each day. I never 
saw sows or pigs do any better, until they were 
three weeks old. I had my breeding pens built 
under a big straw shed, and when the thaw came, 
the beds got wet, and the pigs commenced to jerk 
and die. I lost 30 head in two days. I moved the 
hay in one side of the barn, and hustled the whole 
outfit—sows and pigs—to a dry place, and I never 
lost any more pigs. 
When the crops were in, I found that the grain 
was about gone, so I made arrangements with our 
mill to let me have so much mill feed every week. 
I figured on feeding $1 worth to each pig until 
harvest time. They were running on a rye pas¬ 
ture, and were fed twice a day with mill feed wet 
at feeding time. As soon as turnips were big 
enough, they had a good feed of turnips once a 
day, and they did well up to the time barley was 
ready to cut; then a streak of economy came over 
me, and that was my first mistake. I quit the 
mill feed, and fed unthrashed barley, and I don’t 
think they gained a pound in the month during 
which I kept them on the barley. When the thrash¬ 
ing was done, they had the run of the field ; also 
of a potato patch which was planted for their 
benefit. After the field was pretty well gleaned, 
I put them in a seven-acre lot of Alfalfa that I 
sowed last spring; it had been mowed once, and 
irrigated once after the Alfalfa was six inches 
high. When I turned in, they were fed all the 
whole barley they could eat ; that was mistake 
No. 2; the grain should have been chopped. As it 
was, they did well. The first of November, I put 
them in the fattening pen, and fed them all the 
chopped barley they could eat. They had plenty 
of salt to run to, and also all the turnips they 
could eat. The last day of November, they were 
sold and they averaged 231 pounds. 
In summing up my experience, I think the mis¬ 
takes have been a profit instead of a loss. If I had 
kept on with the mill feed up to thrashing time, I 
am satisfied that the hogs would have weighed 
over 300 pounds. As it was, I distanced all of my 
neighbors. I expect to do much better this year, 
as I have a better grade of pigs to start with. I 
have a No. 1 Berkshire boar at the head of my 
scrub hogs, and if any one thinks there isn’t a 
difference between scrub hogs and pure breeds, 
let him get a purebred, and he will never make 
the mistake of trying to get along with a poor 
h °g- R. A. SHINN. 
CRUDE PETROLEUM 
Kills, Exterminates and Prevents Lice 
on all Farm Animals and Buildings : 
Is a good medicine for man or beast; preserves tim¬ 
ber, and makes a good paint when mixed with Vene¬ 
tian Ked. Prince Metallic or Iron Ore. Also prevents 
and often cures Hog Cholera, and keeps Hies away 
from stock. 
In 5-gallon cans.#1.25 
In 10-gallon cans. 1.75 
In 1 barrel lots. 4..00 
Barrel lots, or small orders must be accompanied with 
cash draft or Post-oflice order. Make club orders 
when you can. It will save freight. 
Send stamp for circular to A. A. SCOTT & CO., 
Producers and Shippers, Lima. O. 
We are also prepared to drill oil. gas and artesian 
wells. Correspondence solicited 
TAmR’sFUMA c sr; 
For klllingWootlchucks, Prairie Dogs,Gophers 
and Rats, Insects in Grain, Seeds, etc. Shipped 
in 50-pound cans bv the manufacturer. 
EDWARD R. TAYLOR. Cleveland,Ohio. 
Horse Owners! v Try 
GOMBAULT'S 
Caustic 
Balsam 
A Safe Speedy and Positive Core 
The Safest, Best BLISTER overused. Take3 
the place of all liniments for mild or severe action. 
Removes all Bunches or Blemishes from Horse* 
and Cattle. SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTERY 
OR FIRING. Impossible to produce scar or blemish. 
Every bottle sold is warranted to give satisfaction 
Price $ 1.50 per bottle. Sold by druggists, or 
Bent by express, charges paid, with full directions 
for its use. > Send for descriptive circulars* 
THE LAWRE NCE-WILLIAMS CO., Cleveland O. 
BARREN CUWS CURED. 
The following is from Hon. WAYNE MacVBAGH 
Ambassador to Italy: 
Brookfield Farm, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
“ You can quote from this note my assurance that 
your medicines always gave me the greatest satis¬ 
faction.” 
Book Free. MOORE BROS., Albany. N. Y. 
CABGET, MILK FEV ER. 
SCOTT’S ) Positively cures caked 
ARABIAN udder and garget; 
PASTE ) will not scatter or re¬ 
duce the flow -yf milk. r>Oc. & $1.00 
SCOTT’S SPECIAL FEVER REMEDY cures 
milk fever; $1.00 by mail. Ask Drug- 
ajlgist or Saddler. Send for circulars. ' 
~cott’s Hoof Paste Co., Rochester, N. Y. 
IF YOU ARE SELLING 
PURE MILK 
You cannot afford to do without Whiteman's Patent 
Standard Indicating Milk Jars. Every jar shows the 
quality of milk it contains. Prices and particulars 
on application. A. V. WHITEMAN, 
144 Chambers Street, New York City. 
MflRV? RIITTFR than y° u ever marketed 
lliunc DU I I Ell before and more money 
per pound than it ever 
brought. That s the result of owning a 
CRYSTAL CREAMERY. 
Glass cans instead of tin—cools from the 
top. Write for our free book. • Good Butter, 
and How to make it.” Agents Wanted. 
Crystal Creamery Co.. 3 Concord St., Lansing, Mich. 
If CCDCD Q SEND FOR 
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CLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 
A Handsomely Illustrated DCC CilDDI ICC 
Magazine, and Catalog, of DLL. OUllLlllO 
FREE. THE A. I. ROOTL’D., Jlcdina.O. 
Invincible Hatchei 
Highest Award at World’s Fni 
Self-Regulating anil (i.iarai 
teed. Send 4c. stamps for N< 
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SLOAN’S TREATISE OX THE HORSE. 
This is the title of an illustrated book recently 
issued by Dr. Earl S. Sloan of Boston, Mass. It 
tells about the horse in language that you can 
understand, and avoids the technical terms found 
in most books of the kind that only students and 
veterinarians understand. For a short time, this 
book will be sent free to any reader of The R. 
N.-Y. who writes for it. If you own a horse, get 
one while the offer lasts.— Adv. 
HATCH CHICKENS BY STEAM 
WITH THE MODEL 
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Thousands in Sue* 
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Lowest priced 
First class 
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[ larger percentage o, 
rertile eggs, at less cost, 
than any other Incubator. 
Send 6c. for Illus. Catalog. 
Circulars Free. 
ELLIOT’S PARCHMENT BUTTER PAPER. FREE 
To dairymen or others who will use it, we will send half a ream, 8x11, free. If they “ B wL lam Dm 
will forward 30 cents to pay postage. Why not try the Best Butter Wrapper ? naaMnamm 
A. G. ELLIOT Ac CO., Taper Manufacturers, Philadelphia.. T’a. 
GROUND LINSEED OIL CAKE, 
FOR CATTLE AND ALL STOCK. 
SEND In YOUR ORDERS before BRICE ADVANCES. ONCE 
USE IT, ALWAYS USE IT, 
Write for Prices and Descriptive Circular to 
SPENCER KELLOGG, Ganson, near Michigan Street, BUFFALO, N. Y. 
Lowest Price on Record. 
ALMOST. GIVEN AWAY. 
Price about same as Bran—Feeding 
Value Three Times as Much. 
PURE OLD PROCESS GROUND LINSEED OIL CAKE. 
No other feed for farm animals will produce so satisfactory results as our linseed meal. It supplies the 
most essential elements in which all other feeds are deficient. We do not percolate or cook our Oil Meal. 
NATIONAL LINSEED OIL CO., 61 Eric Bank Building, BUFFALO, N. Y. (A. C. Abbott, Manager.) 
Feeders of Stock 
Kindly Stop a Minute. 
We wish to remind you of the 
importance of using liberally 
Granddaughters of 
Ida’s Stoke Pogis. 
FROM BUTTER COWS. $-15 and upwards. Express 
charges paid. 
ROOT. F, SHANNON. Pittsburgh, Va. 
OUR LINSEED OIL MEAL. 
Why does our product have 25 per cent more albumi¬ 
noids and carbohydrates than the other ? Because 
presses necessarily take from the seed much of the 
mucilage with the oil. and we take oil only. 
Many feeders find cake meal more laxative, there¬ 
fore prefer our meal. Address 
DETROIT LINSEED OIL WORKS, 
DETROIT, MICH. 
fiBERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE. 
J. P. HINE, Shlnrock, Erie Co., O. 
THOROUGHBRED AYRSHIRESJ?LK: 
nearly one year old, of choice breeding, and from the 
best of stock. Price here, registered and crated, for 
the three, $75, to a quick buyer. 
D. M. CAMPBELL, Oneonta, N. Y. 
“Willswood Herd” 
INCUBATORS 6 BROODERS 
Brooders only *5. Best & Cheapest 
for raising chicks, 401st Premiums 
4000 Testimonials. Send forCatTg. 
G. S. SINGER, Box 714 Cardington, 0. 
Recorded Berkshire Swine. 
WILLS A. SEWARD, Budd’s Lake, N. .1. 
jhe “ p, & g a nnaADmimn m 
for Live Stock. Send for circular and sample. 
INCUBATORS !o^.T.' 
Brooders. 112 First Premiums. 
SenC for 114-page Illustrated Catalogue 
PRAIRIE STATE INCUBATOR CO. 
Homkh City, Pa. 
D ON’T I*AY #30 TO #50 FOR AN INCU¬ 
BATOR when you can make your own for less 
than $6. Send $i to McCOIlMAC & CO.. New CONCOBD, 
Ohio, and get their full instructions how to make and 
run an incubator. Brooder instruction, $1. 
THE HYDRO SAFETY LAMP 
For all Incubators and Brooders. Ther¬ 
mostatic Bars, Regulators, Brass Boilers 
and Tanks; Thermometers and all Incu¬ 
bator Supplies. Send for catalogue to 
L. It. OAKES, Mfr., Bloomington. Ind.; 
J. P. Lucas, Western Agt., Topeka, Kan. 
DUCK EGGS 
Pekin,Rankin's Strain^ 
Eggs now ready. Per 
sitting (10), 75c. 50 eggs. 
$2.25. 100 eggs, $4.25. Address JOSEPH HARRIS 
COMPANY. Moreton Farm (P. O.), N. Y. 
COD Oil C kive registered Berkshire Sows 
rUn vHLI. with pigs, and eight boars; vary¬ 
ing ages, cheap. PARK FARM, New Brunswick, N. .1. 
CHESHIRES! ’’“her""" 
la the Banner Herd of the world. Awarded 
more than three tiinca a8 many First Premi- 
uma (at the World’* Fair, Chicago) aa all the 
reet of the Cheahlre exhibitora put together; 
17 First Premiums and Special Mention. 
Lion's share of First Premiums and Gold 
Medal at N. Y. State Fair, 1894. Why not 
buy the best! Prices low. Correspondence 
solicited. 
B. J. HURLBUT, Clymer, N. Y. 
CHESHIRES 
from Foundation Herd. I have now shipped 432 times 
to men 1 had sold to before. I challenge any breeder In 
the world to give as good a record. E. W. DAVIS, 
Torringford, Conn., recently Oneida, N. Y. 
EGGS CHEAP, 
and best strains of pure bred fowls. I will mail you a fine 36-page 
Catalogue and Calendar for the year of 1895, got up in the best 
style, full of useful information, just what everybody wants, for 
only 4e. in stamps. Address, H. 11. It KID Kit, KLOitlM, l’A 
Great Layers 
catalogue free. T 
My Strain of Leg¬ 
horns and Plymouth 
Rocks. Interesting 
T. HIBBEN, McKeesport, Pa. 
W, P. Rocks 
—Very large Cockerels and Eggs. 
H. H. BONNELL, Waterloo, N. Y. 
P f \ €> Golden Wyandotte, Buff’ and 
Kh X^l R. C. B. Leghorn, $2 for 15. 
SCOTCH COLLIE PUPPIES for sale. Illus. circular 
free. C. W. BEMAN, Port Dickinson. N. Y. 
ALMANEL GARDEN’S SSSSStK 
Large Hock; large range. Eggs, $1 per 13; $2 per 28. 
ELSIE & VINNIE GOOD.Waynesboro. Franklin Co., Pa 
EGGS 
culars. L 
for Incubators my specialty. From vig¬ 
orous crosses at $4 per 100; also 12 varie¬ 
ties purebred stock at $2 per 15. No cir- 
. H. MYERS, Bethlehem Centre, N. Y. 
CHOC for hatching that will hatch. B. & W. P. Rocks, 
tUUO W. Wyandottes, Indian Games, B. Minorcas, 
and P. Ducks. Satisfaction guaranteed. Send for cir¬ 
cular. BROOKS1DE POULTRY FARM. Columbus, N.J 
Barred and White Plymouth Rocks, 
Silver and White Wyandottes, 
PRIZE STOCK. Kggs and 
Fowls. Catalogue of America’s 
great HEN FARM. free. 
A. C. HAWKINS, Box 2. Lancaster, Mass. 
ROSE HILL POULTRY YARDS. 
S. C. B. Leghorns exclusively. Over 60 per cent of 
my June Incubator-hatched pullets now laying. Fine 
markings and excellent layers. Selected Kggs, $1.50 
for 13; $2.50 for 26. Reasonable hatch guaranteed 
W. P. TATE, Curwenville, Pa. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES EXCLUSIVELY. 
Great winter layers and models for general pur¬ 
poses. Eggs from high scoring, vigorous stock at 
$1.50 per 15; $2.50 per 30. 
D. C. BASSETTE, Farmer, Seneca County. N. Y. 
Reg. Poland-Chinas 
Young Sows from choice 
blood ready for service; some 
bred. Boarsof all ages. Hard 
time prices. Mention paper 
HAMILTON & tU., ( orliraII, ]IIr, I’ll. 
11II111 - 1 C 1 I.UI itesi.spring Boars 
UIIIU and Sows bred. Write for bargains; must go. 
Summer and fall pigs. E. Weir & Son, Reinersville, O. 
Seed Potatoes; Cheshire Hogs; Duck and 
Hens’ Eggs. Send for illustrated circular. 
C. E. CHAPMAN, Peruvllle, N. Y. 
EGGS 
for hatching, $1 per 
setting, purebred B. 
Minorcas, G. Wyan¬ 
dottes, Buff and S. 
C. B. Leghorns. 
LARGE 
Poland-China Hogs 
Send for circular. 
F. H. DATES JU SONS. 
Chlttenango, N. V. 
America’s Business Hen still in the lead. Eggs for 
hatching, $2 per 15; $3.75 per 30; $5 per 45; $10 per 100. 
Illustrated and descriptive circular free. 
C. H. WYCKOFF, Groton, N. Y. 
WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS. 
I must close out entire stock in next 30 days. Good 
birds now cheap. One and two-year-old Toms, $2 to 
$3; Hens. $2.50 each. G. F. FELLOWS, Lyons, N. Y 
Green Bone Cutter.^ 
Nothing on Earth will make Hens Lay a«-d 
Little Chicks Grow uke Green Cut Bone. 
Warranted to double Egg Yield 
and reduce Grain Bill One-half. 
Our Green Jione Cutters are the best on 
earth, and the ONL Y ones receiving 
, an Award at the World’s Fair. 
Send for Catalogues and valuable 
article on Feed, free. 
Webster & Hannum. 107 A'.tany Sr., Cazenovia, N. Y. 
