1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
787 
UVE STOCK MATTERS. 
(continued.) 
gone by, and never did make any par¬ 
ticular difference in the breeding of Jer¬ 
seys. About a year ago, in “Brevities” 
we find this: “ Size cuts no figure in a 
butter cow.” Now the Jersey Island 
breeder recognized this fact, and bred 
only for butter and beauty. And who 
that has once had them would exchange 
the keen, intelligent, quick-to-perceive, 
easy-to-learn Jersey for the thick¬ 
headed, pig-eyed animal representing a 
breed 20 years or more behind the Jer¬ 
seys as shown in the illustration on 
that page. 
The Devons are a nervous breed and 
“high strung,” but the hardiest and most 
intelligent cattle in the world. Note 
the trained oxen from Connecticut at the 
Columbian Exposition. What the first 
buyers demanded, the public still de¬ 
mands—an active, high strung, intelli¬ 
gent animal, giving the greatest average 
profit for good care and feed. Jersey 
heifers turned to pasture and not giving 
milk, will get as fat and keep as easily 
as any Short-horn, native or other breed 
that runs with them. When they are 
giving milk, that is their business, and 
for this reason, no breed has broken any 
records over them, weekly, monthly or 
yearly, of salted and worked, market¬ 
able butter. In fairness to the breed 
that has done more to improve the dairy 
interests of the country than all others, 
and to its many patrons and lovers, give 
this a place in your columns. N. B. w. 
Chautauqua County, N. Y. 
A TALK ABOUT CORN FODDER. 
Since corn fodder harvesters are coming into 
vogue with a rush, also shuckers and shredders, 
we want to know how long we may continue har¬ 
vesting corn fodder. Formerly we rushed at it 
and cut in a few days what we needed for rough¬ 
ness to supplement hay. Now we wish to cut the 
whole crop. What damage does fodder, ripe to 
cut, receive from one or more killing frosts ? 
What damage from a wetting rain, also from a 
drenching rain after frost? Cattle eat fodder 
well after bleaching till midwinter. Last winter 
we had light rains, and my cattle ranging on a 
field of corn stalks, refused good clover hay and 
kept fat. I suppose that they wanted feed rich 
in carbohydrates. Does this show that coin 
stalks cut two weeks or a month after they are 
dead, have a good feeding value ? Can you give 
us an approximation of such value and the dam¬ 
age from bleaching when standing uncut ? 
Mt. Carmel, Ind. e. h. c. 
Prof. W. A. Henry in Breeder’s Gazette. 
It is quite certain that freezing in it¬ 
self is injurious to forage plants gener¬ 
ally. We know how it affects human 
food articles, and it is reasonable to ex¬ 
pect that not only is the palatability of 
many substances injured by freezing, 
but the nutritive qualities suffer also. 
A study of the losses of corn stalks 
due to weathering was made at the Wis¬ 
consin Station by our chemist, Mr. 
Short, several years since. Samples of 
corn from the field were cut, weighed 
and analyzed, to determine how much 
nutriment a given area contained at the 
usual time of cutting corn. Adjacent 
to the cut portion, an equal area of corn 
stalks was left standing to weather and 
lose nutriment, just as uncut corn does 
in the stalk field. The original samples 
were cut September 21 ; those that were 
allowed to stand outdoors and weather 
in the usual way, were cut November 14, 
about two months later. It was found 
that in this time by one sample there 
was a loss of 13 per cent dry matter, and 
60 per cent protein; in another instance, 
23 per cent dry matter and 72 per cent 
protein were lost because of the weather¬ 
ing of the fodder. 
All of these losses could not have 
been saved, however, by cutting and 
shocking corn, for there is loss in shock 
corn due to slow changes which are 
steadily going on, and also to some of 
the material being blown away from 
the shocks and otherwise wasted. Woll, 
as the result of many experiments at 
this station, found that the loss of dry 
matter for shock corn averaged 17 per 
cent, while the loss of protein was only 
10 per cent. It must be remembered that 
Woll’s shock - corn experiments run 
through the whole winter, while Short’s 
experiments with exposing corn stalks, 
covered a period of but two months. 
Cattle men from Colorado and California 
know that rains greatly change the feed¬ 
ing value of the dry herbage of the 
plains and mountains, and they all dread 
the effects following continued rains. 
Our farmers, in making greater use of 
corn stalks, must regard this giant grass 
just as they do smaller grasses of our 
meadows. In order that the last of our 
hay crop may not be too tough and 
woody, as well as washed out by the 
rains, we begin cutting hay a little 
early, and then crowd right along. So 
with the corn stalk harvesting ; let the 
cutting begin just as soon as there will 
be no marked shrinkage of the grain 
on the cob. If the harvest can be com¬ 
pleted before frost, all is well; if the 
frost kills the leaves, they dry out rap¬ 
idly and break up and rattle off in «i ry 
weather. To manage this, care must be 
used, and by cutting early and late in 
the day in moist times, a great deal of 
forage can be saved. 
That cattle will do quite as well in the 
stalk field, is probably explained by the 
statements that it undoubtedly takes 
two or three times as many acres of stalks 
so to maintain them, as it would were 
this forage properly harvested and fed. 
Let us come to look upon our corn fields 
as meadows carrying a giant grass. Just 
as we believe in harvesting our meadows 
at the proper time, so let us hereafter 
harvest the corn fields. Because a 
meadow would furnish considerable feed 
unharvested to cattle roaming over it in 
fall and winter, it is no argument that 
this crop need not be harvested at all, or 
should not be cut at such season as to 
give the most palatable food in the larg¬ 
est amount to cattle. 
Croup is Quickly Relieved, and Whooping 
Cough greatly helped, and its duration shortened 
by Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant, the old family stand¬ 
by for Coughs and Colds, aDd all Lung or Throat 
atfections.— Adv. 
What a Lot of Eggs 
the hens lay when fed on Green 
Cut Bone! With a dozen hens 
Mann’s 
GREEN BONE 
Cutter 
will pay for itself in a short time in the Increase of eggs. 
$5.00 buys one. 
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Catalogue free if you name this paper. 
F. W. MANN CO., MILFORD, MASS. 
Springfield and Worcester. 
WE ARE FURNISHING 
Poultry Supplies 
From our factories in each of the above cities. Our 
O. K. FOOD is still the leading brand, fresh made, 
dry and right. If your grain dealer does not keep it, 
send to the factory nearest you. CUT GREEN 
BONE a specialty. Send for catalogue to 
C. A. BARTLETT, Worcester, Mass. 
Hors© Owners! v Try 
GOIYlBAULT J S 
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Balsam 
_ A .Safe Speedy and Positive Cure 
The Safest, Best BLISTER ever used. Takes 
the place of all liniments for mild or severe action 
Removes all Bunches or Blemishes from Horses 
and Cattle. SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTERY 
OR FIRINC Impossible to produce scar or blemish. 
Every bottle sold is warranted to give satisfaction 
Price $1.50 per bottle. Sold by druggists, or 
sent by express, charges paid, with f ull directions 
for its use. Send for descriptive circulars. 
THE LAWRENCE-WILLIAMS CO., Cleveland 
3A HORSE FOR 25 CENTS. 
“Same thing—When your best horse is laid 
up by agalled shoulder and you can put him 
to work and cure him at same time by using 
Bickmore’s Call Cure- Also for Cuts, Scratches, 
bore leats on Cows. Sample mailed for lOcts. 
Bickmobe Gall Cube Co., Box '.05. Old Town, Maine. 
BARREN COWS CURED 
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 satisfac- 
Book Free. MOORE BROS., Albany, N.Y. 
Do Yo u 
Feed your Hens? 
What do you feed them with ? 
Do you give them food to make 
eggs with and grow strong on, 
or to just keep them alive? 
Eggs are full of meat, and to 
produce them the hens should 
be fed on meat or its equivalent. 
Bowker’s Animal Meal furnishes 
just this kind of food. 
It makes hens lay; 
It makes chickens grow. 
Enough for 10 hens i months, $ 1 . 
Four times as much for $ 2 . 25 . 
Ask for our little book, “ The Egg. 
The BOWKER COMPANY, 
43 Chatham Street, 
Boston. 
Kindly Stop a Minute. 
We wish to remind you of the 
Importance of using liberally 
OUR LINSEED OIL MEM. 
And, furthermore, that the present is the most, 
favorable time to lay in a stock for fall and winter 
use. Prices are exceptionally low. and must advance 
with activity in demand now so near at hand. 
If you delay too long, please remember that we 
gave you fair notice. Address 
DETROIT LINSEED OIL WORKS, 
DETROIT, MICH. 
UNSEED 
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Process) 
^ “ *For Horses. Cows, | For House, Barn.' 
Sheep, Hogs, Fowls, etc. I Fence, etc. Is the life 
Health, Strength, Produc- I and quality of any Paint 
tive Power to animals. I or White Load. 
Ask for “Thompson’s Oil or Oil Meal.” a reliable pure 
brand.or address Manu facturers.TiinLinpnij 0 pn 
11) W.Diamond St..Allegheny, Pa. > nUnflrOUli Ou UU, 
S>£T Hand Bone, Shell, and 
vJ Corn Mills for Poultryrnen. 
Daisy Bone Cutter. Power Mills, 
Circular and testimonials Free. * 
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SIDE POULTRY FARM, Columbus. N. J. 
BEST BREEDS OF POULTRY. 
Fay better than j-raln or vegetables. 
Better than horses, hogs or cows, too. 
Secret—Pure stock and learn how. 
My circular of information costs not hing. 
!M y stock costs something, but not much 
Address M. SAGER, Knob Mountain Poultry 
Farm. Orangeville. Pa. 
Herd. 
MlWuTHWIltl CLOTHILDE 13081. 
CLOTHILI)E II. II. It. 1308. 
Milk record 28.021 pounds 2 ounces in a year, 
ter record, 28 pounds 234 ounces in a week. 
We have 1(H) of this cow’s descendants for sale, 
this is the class of cattle you want, write to 
SMITHS & POWELL CO., Syracuse, N.Y 
But- 
lf 
HIGH-CLASS 
Registered Jersey Cattle. 
KOBT. F. SHANNON, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
UADDV DCUICD P. Pfl Breeders & shippers 
nAnni nLLUtn 6l> uU« of imported stock, 
cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, house and hunting dogs. 
Illustrated catalog free. Tiiorndai.E, Chester Co.,Pa 
REGISTERED SOUTH DOWNS 
for Sale. Yearling Rams, weight, 175 to 185 pounds. 
Also, a few choice lambs of both sexes. Address 
F. 8 . CORLEY, Farm Superintendent Massachusetts 
Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass. 
COME one ! COME all! LARGE and SMALL! 
to see exhibit at Madison Square Garden, 
New York City, November 25 to 80, of 
Willswood Herd 
Recorded Berkshire Swine. 
WILLS A. SEWARD, Budd’s Lake. N. J. 
CHESHIRES! Th ”-K 
Is the Banner Herd of the world. Awarded 
more than three times as many First Premi¬ 
ums (at the World’s Fair, Chicago) as all the 
rest of the Cheshire exhibitors 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. 
Great AUCTION Sale 
300 HEAD OF 
IMPROVED CHESTER WHITE SWINE | 
From tbe“World’a Champion Herd” 
See them at your own Express Of¬ 
fice. Buy them at your own price. 
Pay for them in your own time. All 
bids by mail. Bids close Nov. 11. 
Catalogue and Particulars free. 
WILLIS WHINEBY, Salem, Ohio. 
C HESTER WH ITES-Haveyou been disappointed 
swindled in buying pigs ? If so, try the old true 
type Chester Whites, bred by G. R. Foulke, West 
Chester, Pa. Have broad, dished face, lop ear, straight 
hair and back, good body, bone and ham; aregrowthy, 
not coarse. Only breeder guar, satis orfrt. both ways 
30 
FINE CHESHIRE PIGS 
Highly bred. Ready for October shipment 
Not akin in pairs. Catalogue. Address 
C. E. CHAPMAN, Peruville, N. Y. 
Sows with pigs; Service 
Boars. Thirty 8 -weeks 
Pigs. ISed rock prices. 
W. E. MANDEVILLE, Brookton, Tomp. Co., N. Y 
CHESHIRES 
W. E. MANDEVILLE, Br 
Cheshires from Foundation Herd 
I have now shipped 446 times to men I had sold to 
before. E. W. DAVIS, Torringford, Conn. 
PUCCUIDCC PURE AND CHOICE. 
U n LO n I II LO ED. S. HILL, Peruville, N. Y. 
8. W. SMITH. 
B erkshire, Chester White, 
.Jersey Red <k Poland China 
Pigs. .Jersey, Guernsey & Hol¬ 
stein Cattle. Thoroughbred 
Sheep, Fancy Poultry, Hunting 
and House Dogs. Catalogue, 
ochranvllle. Chester Co., Pa. 
m AQ-Prize Chester Whites, Berkshires 
VS Jersey Calves; pure Collies, Beagles; 
D’owls. 61st year. F. MORRIS, Norway, Pa. 
Poland-China Pigs 
from the GATES HOMESTEAD STOCK 
FARM are always right. Send for photo of pig. 
B'. H. GATES & SON, Cbittenango, N. Y, 
Reg. Poland-Chinas 
Berkshires and Chester 
Whites. Choice large strains, 
8 -week pigs not akin. Boars 
and Sows all ages. Hard 
time prices. 
HAMILTON * CO., CocbranvUIr, Pa 
Half Wild Turkeys 
J Trios. fi.00 
Special prices on larger lots. Cur old Gobblers were 
hatched from Wild Turkey eggs found in the woods. 
1$ E It K s II I R E PIGS, eight weeks old, from 
recorded stock per pair. $ 10 . ... 
M. B. ROWE & CO , B’redericksburg, Va. 
ELLIOT’S PARCHMENT BUTTER PAPER. 
HALF A 
REAM. 
To dairymen or others who will use It, we will send half a ream, 8x11, free, If they 
will forward 30 cents to pay postage. Why not try the Best Butter Wrapper ? 
A. G. ELLIOT <fc CO., Paper Manufacturers, Philadelphia, Pa. 
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O I ADLC DLAIVAC I ■ hau .smooth and glossy. No surcingle 
■■■- ■ ^ ■■■ ■ a required. No tight girth. No sore backs. 
No chafing or mane. No rubbing of tail. No horse can wear it under his feet. 
No Come Off to Them! Your Harness Dealer Keeps Them. 
If not, write us for Free Catalogue and prices. The “Stay On” Burlington 
protect our patents. BURLINGTON BLANKET GO. Burlington. Wis. 
