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NEW YORK, AND ROCHESTER, N. Y„ JAN. 13, 1872 
VOL. XXV. NO. 2. 
WHOLE NO. 1140 
[Entered necordine to Act of Congress, In the year 1872, by D. D. T. Moore, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.] 
ratio of the sexes for their propagation is 
maintained. But in transplanting the stock 
of Alderneys to this country, either the 
climate or treatment does not suit their 
natural wants, and nature says the breed 
must either run out or degenerate, and she 
stops the production of females, and conse¬ 
quently the reproduction of the race. The 
highest type of excellence among all domes- 
N0TE8 FOR HERDSMEN 
Booth blood flowing in his veins. His dam, 
April Rose, has been quite a matron, and 
produced Flower Girl and Village Rose, two 
noted prize heifers. 
From a calf he has always been a good 
" grubber,” and even when down with foot- 
and-mouth disease, a year ago, kept his ap¬ 
petite well through It. Six pounds of oil¬ 
cake and four pounds of meal, with roots 
Garget. — J. J. Huffman writes:—“I 
have a Short-Horn hoifer that gives bloody 
milk occasionally. Can you give cause or 
remedy?” 
It may be that the udder has been in¬ 
jured in some mauner or that the cause is 
garget. If the latter, dig some poke ( Phy- 
ENGLISH PRIZE ANIMALS. 
Herewith we present engravings of some 
of the Prize Animals exhibited at the Smith- 
field [England] Club Show, recently. The 
and hay at pleasure, and Thorley's food as 
a sweetener, have been his daily portion, 
and wet or dry, he hasuever missed his half- 
hour constitutional. In four years and three 
months his gigantic frame has evenly swelled 
out to 22 ewt., aud his measurements are; 
9 feet C Inches in girth; 5 feet 5 inches In 
length from shoulder to tail; 5 feet in bight. 
His grandest parts are well developed back 
and ribs, and an immense rotundity of chest 
and very full thighs. 
The sheep on the right is one of Mr. A. 
Morrison’s first pen of Hampshire Downs; 
that on the left is one of Messrs. Wheeler's 
prize Cotswolds. 
Why do not the butchers of New York 
City get up an annual Christmas Show, and 
offer prizes therefor? True, there is always 
a good show of fat cattle in the yards at 
Christmas time, but liberal prizes would in¬ 
crease the number aud improve the quality. 
red steer in front was bred by her Majesty, 
Queen Victoria, at the Prince Consort's 
Norfolk Farm, Windsor, and is (saya the Lon¬ 
don News) a particularly neat, well-trained 
young animal, two years and throe aud a 
half months, live weight 10 cwt. 1 qr, 10 lbs. 
He was exhibited at the Birmingham Fat 
Show, where he won the first prize of £20 in 
class 1, there beiug seven competitors, the 
Prince of Wales coming third in the class. 
The same paper adds that “ the large 
white oxwith the sweet head and gracefully 
curled horns was the 1 lion of the show.' " 
He not only won t he first prize of £30 in his 
class, but took the £40 silver cup for the 
best steer or ox, or the £100 plate for the 
best beast exhibited. He was bred by the 
late Mr. R. Stratton, aud exhibited by his 
son, Mr. Joseph Stratton, of Atson Priors, 
Wilts His sire, Bude Light, was also a son 
of a Smithfield gold-medal cow, and has the 
Cow with a Hard Lamp.—I have a cow 
with a hard lump between the hind legs on 
the upper part of the bag. It is as largo as 
a quart cup. It seems to be loose under the 
skin, with fever occasionally. It made its 
appearance about four months ugo. Will 
some one tell me what to do? 
A Subscriber. —Bathe the bag frequently 
with cold water and keep the animal quiet. 
Stanchions for Stock.—In answer toC. 
F. Carter, the Rural New-Yorker as¬ 
serts that it never knew a cow or other ani¬ 
mal to be injured when fastened by stan¬ 
chions as heretofore described in this jour¬ 
nal. Some herdsmen prefer chains and 
large stalls. But when room must be econ¬ 
omized stanchions are the best inodes of 
fastening. We gave in our last volume sev 
eral forms of stanchions ; we Bhould be 
glad to give illustrations of any improve¬ 
ments of which our readers may be aware. 
I Sex in the Offspring of Alderney 
1 Cows.— s. B., Greencastlo, Mo., discussing 
the statement that Alderney cows produce 
more male than female calves, gives the fol¬ 
lowing us a reason therefor:—“When ani- 
j mala are in a normal condition, with regard 
! to climate and treatment, they are in har- 
1 mouy with the laws of nature, and a proper 
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