1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
339 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Duroc-Jersey Hogs.— In answer to J. E. M., on 
page 15, we have been breeding registered Duroc- 
Jersey swine 12 years, and have found them to be 
in great demand. Young sows usually farrow 
from 8 to 12 pigs at a litter; the pigs are strong 
at birth, and the sows good sucklers. A test 
made upon Poland-Chinas, Berkshire3 and Duroc- 
Jerseys at the experiment station of the Agri¬ 
cultural College of Michigan, consisting of two 
farrows of each, showed that the Duroc-Jerseys 
fattened the quickest, required the least amount 
of grain, and their meat was considered the best. 
At the Iowa Interstate Fair held at Sioux City, 
October 6 to 14,1894—one of the largest hog shows— 
the Duroc-Jerseys won the Grand Sweepstakes 
Herd Prize of $100, open to all breeds. 
Tivoli, N. Y. E. L. CLARKSON. 
Bad Air and Consumption.— One of the D. L. 
<fe W. milk lines runs through this county— 
Cortland—and within a few years the farmers 
have been making milk for the New York market. 
Almost every one of them has built or remodeled 
his barns with a view to the production of winter 
milk, for which warm stables are imperative; 
but no thought is given to ventilation. Is it not 
the extreme of folly to slaughter whole herds of 
valuable cows, because of incipient tuberculosis, 
which might yield under better conditions of 
health, and the diseased tissues heal again ? But, 
be that as it may, how can the disease be stamped 
out by killing affected ones, when the ranks are 
continually being filled from the hotbeds for the 
propagation of the disease all over the State ? 
Should not a commission be appointed by the 
State for the abatement of this great evil ? and 
should not it have the power to compel every 
dairyman to ventilate his barns in the most 
thorough and scientific manner? In my judg¬ 
ment, the remedy is ventilation with power to 
compel it. d. c. 
Homer, N. Y. 
Corn Fodder for Sheep.— Mr. A. O. Fox, of 
Wisconsin, told the American Sheep Breeder how 
he substituted cut corn fodder for hay for his 
sheep last winter. “ When I first put the ewes 
into winter quarters upon the dry fodder, I feared 
that they would not relish it; but I soon found 
that they took to it even more kindly than to good 
hay. They ate it ravenously, and would fill them¬ 
selves to perfect satisfaction, and lie down in con¬ 
tentment to sleep. I am now satisfied that they 
have done better on the corn fodder ration than 
they would have done on good, bright mixed 
clover and Timothy hay. The corn fodder did not 
have the slightest constipating effect. I have fed 
the lightest grain ration this year that I ever 
gave my ewes, and they are in line bloom. Their 
fleeces are much cleaner than if they had been 
fed hay, and as for lambing, we are now well into 
a very successful lambing season. My method of 
securing this cut fodder is somewhat crude, and 
I am quite certain that it is not the best. I had 
some 75 acres of shocks husked out early in the 
fall, bound into bundles, and put into large double 
shocks. These I hauled and stacked near the 
sheep sheds when in proper condition before the 
heavy storms. We then set our engine and cut¬ 
ting machine so as to run the carrier into the 
shed lofts, delivering the fodder into the lofts over 
the sheep, so that in feeding it would merely have 
to be pushed down into the racks below.” 
Killing Tuberculous Cows.—At a meeting of 
the Board of Trade of Minneapolis, Minn., to con¬ 
sider the question of inspecting milk, Dr. Rey¬ 
nolds, Veterinarian of the Minnesota State Uni¬ 
versity, said, among other things : “ I, for one, 
am very decidedly not in favor of any radical 
method of extermination that shall sweep over 
the whole country with a view to immediate eradi¬ 
cation as pleuro-pneumonia was eradicated in 
the Eastern States. I think I can show you, in a 
moment, how utterly absurd and how impossible 
such a movement would be of successful results. 
To illustrate : In 1893, there were in the United 
States, 16,424,000 milch cows, and 35,954,000 other 
cattle, making a total of 52,378,000 cattle, valued 
at $905,520,000. Suppose that four per cent of 
these cattle are tuberculous, and are to be con¬ 
demned; this would amount to $36,220,800—so 
much property destroyed. It would require 422 
barrels of tuberculin to give all these animals one 
test each, and one test is frequently not sufficient. 
Now let us see how many veterinarians it would 
take to do the work, and what the cost of profes¬ 
sional services would be. Suppose each man is 
at liberty to work 150 days a year, and is paid $10 
per day for services. This would be $1,500 per 
year for each veterinarian. Each man can test 
15 cattle per day. This would require the services 
of 34,919 veterinarians, saying nothing of the 
assistance that would be required. This would be 
an average of 794 veterinarians in each State. 
Minnesota, probably, has 150 intelligent, compe¬ 
tent veterinarians—and here we are. Besides all 
these, there are not Kochs and Schweinitzes 
enough in the world to manufacture tuberculin 
as it would be needed. So any radical war of ex- 
GLUTTONOUS HORSES. 
Some horses are like men, they are greedy feed¬ 
ers—gluttonous and, like men, become sick. Dr. 
Sloan tells about them in his little book, Treatise 
on The Horse, and he also gives a chapter on feed 
for sick horses, and upon almost all the diseases 
and ailments of the horse, and how to cure them. 
All this is told in plain language, so that you can 
understand it. If you own a horse, the Doctor 
will send it free, provided you mention The R. 
N.-Y. Address Dr. Earl S. Sloan, Boston, Mass.— 
Adv. 
termination that would sweep over the whole 
country, is an utterly absurd consideration at 
present. But what can we do ? ” His plan is first 
to begin with city dairies and others that supply 
milk to townspeople, and then with breeders. 
A Good Guernsey. —Our friend Chas. Solveson 
of Wisconsin, thus describes his Guernsey cow 
Fantine 2nd, which gave in one week 300 pounds 
of milk and 18 pounds of butter, two weeks after 
dropping her fifth calf. She was fed a daily ration 
of 20 pounds of cut corn stalks, 16 pounds of hay, 
three of straw and 15 pounds of a grain mixture 
of equal parts corn, oats, bran and dried brewers’ 
grains: “ Fantine is a large cow, will weigh 1,050 
to 1,100 pounds. Has a long, lean, clean-cut face; 
small incurving horns; is decidedly wedge-shaped 
from all points of view; has a large, prominent 
backbone ; a long tail, switch reaching to the 
floor; is very broad across the hips; the udder 
and milk veins are all that could be desired. The 
barrel, though very large, would score a few 
‘points off’ from lack of depth. In lieu of this, 
however, she has an enormous appetite, eating 
anything and everything given her. As you will 
notice, the above is a large ration and not as 
palatable as it might be, yet it was apparently 
well digested and assimilated, and I believe could 
have been so fed that she would have made 20 
pounds of butter in the above test. Two weeks 
later I opened the silo, and on several days she 
milked 46 pounds. Then, too, she is such a gentle 
and motherly looking animal that somehow one 
cannot help but treat her with respect. When out 
in the yard, she has repeatedly come to me for 
protection when the younger cows had bo.hered 
her. It seems she has no time or desire to romp 
and play.” 
ELLIOT’S PARCHMENT BUTTER PAPER. CD B E 
To dairymen or others who will use it, we will send half a ream, 8x11, free, if they ■ I fill K 
will forward 30 cents to pay postage. Why not try the Best Butter Wrapper? 
A. G. ELLIOT & CO., Paper Manufacturers, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Feeders of Stock 
Kindly Stop a Minute 
FOR SALE. Best Butter Strains. 
Wo wish to remind you of the 
importance of using liberally 
ELLERSLIE STOCK FARM 
RHINKCIJFF, N. Y. 
Granddaughters of 
Why does our product have 25 per cent more albumi¬ 
noids and carbohydrates than the other ? Because 
presses necessarily take from tho seed much of the 
mucilage with tho oil, and wo take oil only. 
Many feeders And cake meal more laxative, there¬ 
fore prefer our meal. Address 
DETROIT LINSEED OIL WORKS, 
DETROIT, MICH. 
FROM BOTTKIt COWS. $45 and upwards. Express 
charges paid. 
ROUT. F. SHANNON. Pittsburgh, Pa. 
SOUTHDOWN SHEEP T&SSkS'fiS 
Just right for Winter Lamb raising. Como and see or 
write. fj. B. FREAR, Ithaca. N. Y. 
The IDEAL, breed ! Because all others endeavor to got 
the same characteristics. Order young pigs at once. 
Willswood Herd 
Recorded Berkshire Swine. 
WILLS A. SEWAItl), Budd’s Lake, N. J. 
For sale, And extra good ones at six weeks old, for 
$7 each; registered and transferred. 
W. S. CUTlIBEUT, Hammond. N. Y. 
THOSE CONNECTICUT JERSEY COWS. 
There Is not the least doubt about Jersey cows 
being better than native for butter, and not the 
least doubt that my Jerseys are most excellent 
for butter, as I have tested them by saving a 
day’s cream and churning it by Itself I also 
know by personal experience in feeding cows, that 
I cannot make butter in winter successfully with¬ 
out feeding grain. But what puzzles me is that 
the creamery finds it so different. Some friends 
who have taken milk there for 10 years, found 
that feeding meal, for instance, to their cows, 
would reduce the percentage of butter fat, while 
bran would increase it. They also found that 
farrow cows’ milk would test the highest of any. 
When I took milk to the creamery, it was re¬ 
ceived only every other day, so that four milkings 
were mixed for sampling. Three of these milkings 
had, of course, cooled and were not in the state 
of a perfect emulsion, but contained the cream 
which had risen in the cans, mixed imperfectly 
with the skim-milk. The fourth milking was not 
cooled, and was, therefore, the only one tit for a 
perfect sample of the milk. These milkings were 
all poured together into a tank to be weighed, and 
sampled by dipping a little tin dipper in it which 
probably holds about a teaspoonfui of milk. I 
claim that the sample so taken would hardly con¬ 
tain more than three parts of skim-milk to one of 
whole inilk, because it is not likely thatthey would 
allow a big lump of cream to get into that little 
dipper. I don’t know whether this is the way all 
the creameries test their milk, and whether the 
Babcock test is really such an excellent one after 
all, and whether it would not be better to churn 
the accumulated samples In some small vessel 
for the purpose of a test. 
As for figures, they are rather hard to give for 
just six days’ milk, but as I am keeping a full ex¬ 
pense account now, I can let you have some fig¬ 
ures by next year, just to show how little or how 
much one can make on one of New England’s 
farms. K- 
Georgetown, Conn. 
From First-I’rlzo Winners. Also A. J. C. C. Butter 
Hull Cat} at a low price. E. I,. CLARKSON, 14 W. 19th 
St., New York. Refer by permission to The K. N.-Y. 
Most Penetrating Remedy 
in Existence. 
WARRANTED SATISFACTORY. 
Horse Sizes, 50c. and $1.00 bottles. 
Sold by Druggists and Dealers. 
CHESHIRES! ti "-h'e l ro- rm 
la the Dnnner Herd of the world. Awarded 
more than three timet at many Fint Premi¬ 
um! (at the World’* Fair, Chicago) at all the 
reft of the Cheshire exhibitors put together; 
17 First Premium* and Special Mention. 
Lion’* share of First Premiums and Cold 
Medal at N. V. State Fair, 1894. Why not 
buy the best! Prices low. Correspondence 
solicited. 
B. J. HURLBUT, Clymer, N. Y. 
-PREPARED BY- 
Dr. EARL S. SLOAN CO 
BOSTON, MASS., U.S.A. 
CHESHIRES 
Dr. Sloan’s Now Book “Treatise 
on the Horse,” sent Free. 
from Foundation Herd. / have now shipped 432 times 
to men I had sold to before. 1 challenge any breeder In 
the world to give as good a record. E. W. DAVIS, 
Torringford, Conn., recently Oneida, N. Y. 
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none so Invigorating, and, when mixed with a little 
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Dr. D. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge. Dose for grown 
persons one to two tcaspoonfuls, and for children, 
smaller In proportion to age. As a worm medicine 
for children, It Is of the greatest efficacy. Small 
bottles, 35 cents, double size, 50 cents each. Buy of 
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the place of all liniments for mild or severe action. 
Removes all Bunches or Blemishes from Horae* 
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sent by express, charges paid, with full directions 
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17 Varieties of POULTRY 
Fine 32 Page Catalogue FREE. 
CHESTER WHITES 
with broad dished face, straight bucks and growthy, 
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You won’t be disappointed. He is the onlv breeder 
guaranteeing satisfaction or freight paid both ways. 
BARREN COWS CURED 
Every Horseman Should Try 
“Tuttle’s Elixir,” 
Reg. Poland-Chinas 
The following is from HON. WAYNE MacVEAGH 
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- 
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Young Sows from choice 
blood ready forservlee; some 
bred. Boars of ail ages. Hard 
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postage. 1 y 
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Address Dr. S. A. TUTTLE, 27 Beverley St, 
BOSTON, MASS. 
LARGE 
Poland-China Hogs 
Send for circular. 
F. H. GATES & SONS, 
Chlttenango. N. Y. 
for hatching, $1 per 
setting, purebred B. 
Minorcas, G. Wyan- 
dottes, Buff and S. 
C. B. Leghorns. 
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PASTE ) will not scatter or re¬ 
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SCOTT'S SPECIAL FEVER REMEDY cure, 
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Scott’s Hoof Paste Co., Rochester, N. Y. 
Eggs that Hatch 
Cayuga Black Duck, $1.25 per 13; fine Black Lang- 
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