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VOL,. XXIX. No. 9 
WHOLE No. 1257. 
[Entered ncconlins to Act of CongreRs. tn the year IgH, by the Rural Pu blUtiing Company, in the office of the Eibrarinn of Congress at Washington.] 
their antecedent history as milkers we see 
mm. no reason why they would not [trove a valu¬ 
able cross upon our best dairy cows. 
Herewith we give, ns a type of the best of 
IATTLE. the animals, a portrait of “Cup Bearer,” 
calved in 1850, ami who was a prize-taker of 
J to u f r0 * ardlug great repute in Scotland. 
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DRYING OFF COWS 
A Vermont farmer Bays that at the, period 
of drying off cows he has found, “particu¬ 
larly with such cows as are in the highest 
condition, that clotted milk is very apt to 
collect in one or perhaps all the quarters of 
the bag, after milking lioa been discontinued, 
and sometimes even much later, after I have 
supposed the How of milk to be entirely 
arrested and the bag quite dry. As this 
secretion goes on, unless the clotted matter 
is withdrawn, the teat and udder become 
more and more distended, inflammation 
ensues and putrefaction of the contents 
sets in. 1 make no question but that neg¬ 
lect, of this matter is the cause of perma¬ 
nent mischief to the udder, and particularly 
of that contracted condition of the muscles' 
which regulate the passage of the milk from 
the bag into the teat, a condition discovered 
not unfrequentJy, and witli surprise as well 
as regret when cpws come into milk in the 
spring, and which over after renders the 
milking of such cows very irksome.” 
INVERSION OF VAGINA IN COWS 
1 was much pleased t,o And iu your issue 
of January 10 an inquiry and reply on the 
inversion of the vagina of cows and the 
mode of treatment recommended by (Ji.ateu. 
As this disease is generally misunderstood 
and supposed to be a protrusion of the womb 
instead of the vagina, the error may easily 
be disproved by passing the finger forward 
and upward under the tumor till it enters 
the mouth or opening of the bladder, point¬ 
ing backward Into the middle of the tumor, 
and this readily evacuates the urine and, by 
reducing the size, of the tumor, renders it 
more manageable. Then, for its reduction 
to its proper position, the directions are well 
stated and need only this suggestion, viz: 
To support the mass with one baud and press 
the upper portion to enter lirst and allow 
the hand to follow to the extent of the elbow 
at least. 
For the benefit of your many sensible and 
interested readers 1 will uow attempt to de¬ 
scribe a cheap and simple mechanical imple¬ 
ment, or pessary, which I have never known 
to fail of a permanent cure—sometimes after 
erally admitted to be the best, alike for j 
weight and quality”—as compared with 
crosses of Bhort-Horn crosses on Ayrshire, 
Devon or Hereford. 
You att says there have always been some 
Polled cattle in Angus—at any rate their in¬ 
troduction is so remote ' hat no account of it 
can be obtained from the oldest farmers or 
breeders. They early attracted the atten¬ 
tion of breeders because of their peculiar 
quietness and docility and the easiness with 
which they were managed ; also because of 
ths few losses incurred from their Injuring 
each other in stalls and the pow--r of dis¬ 
posing of a greater number of them in the 
same space than of the horned breeds. They 
also have proved to have a natural fitness 
for stall feeding by their quiet habits and the 
taking on of fat readily. 
They resemble the Galloways and are 
sometimes mistaken for them by the inex¬ 
perienced ; but they are described us larger, 
somewhat longer in the leg, thinner in the 
shoulder ami flatter in the side. The Gal¬ 
loways have ft more robust appearance, 
thicker skin and a rougher coat, 1 he iliflei - 
euce is attribut ed both to climate and treat¬ 
ment—the Galloways having a moist climate 
and the Angus cattle a drier one, and being 
kept in straw yards during six months of the 
year and being fed 
turnips and fodder 
every day, grazing in 
summer on warm, dry 
The Angus Polled 
cattle are, the greater 
part of them, black, jSsSj sHjBitaj 
occasionally showing aW H 
The next general color 
heading the brindled, 
dark red and silver- 
the Lowland counties 
of England they have ftfl| 
become far more nu- JrWEgg 
in e r o u s than the E el 
horned breeds. ^ Lat- /jw 
for beef, their milking M y MmS 
qualities have depre- Ml 
ciated ; but not many |MI 
years ago in the hilly Jjim, IB 
districts the cows gave /|ImU 
two to three gallons ' z 
of milk per day, and |M| ^ 1 
in the Lowlands five - jjj 
they were once re- ^EpSOj 
garded as among the 
Scotland, they lxave 
uow lost that repute 
for the reusou above- 
stated. Judging by 
RED POLLED CATTLE 
The English breeders of this stock have 
resolved to establish a Herd Book, and have 
appointed an Editor—The standard descrip¬ 
tion of a “ superior animal ” was agreed upon 
aa follows :—“Color, a deep red, with udders 
%i' the same color, but the tip of the tail may 
be white ; nose, not dark or cloudy. Form, 
a neat head anti throat; a full eye; a tuft or 
crest of hair should hang over the forehead *, 
the frontal bones should begin to contract 
a little above the eyes, and Bliould terminate 
in a comparatively narrow prominence at 
the summit of the head.” 
The minimum standard, also agreed upon, 
admits a variation from the above, so far as 
to include those having the under part of the 
belly and the udder white, but there must be 
uo horns, slugs or ebortive herns. “ Auy 
animal answering to the essentials, and cer¬ 
tified to have been in existence on January 
1 st, 1873, may be entered in the first wane of 
the Herd Book ; calves of the present year, 
NOTES FOR HERDSMEN, 
Milch, ('oxen la the United Staten. — The 
■Monthly Report of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture says thut nearly all the States report 
the number of cows as equal to or in excess 
of last year. Texas declines 7 per cent. 
Delaware and Florida, 4 per cent.; Louisiana, 
3 per cent.; Massachusetts, New York and 
Alabama, 2 per cent. ; Rhode Hand, North 
Carolina and Ohio, 1 per cent. A number 
equal to the previous year is found in Ver¬ 
mont, Connecticut, New Jersey, Marylund, 
Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, 
Kentucky and Michigan. In the remaining 
States an increase varies from 1 per cent, in 
Arkansas to 15 percent, in California. 
Mode, of Hearing Calve*. — Mr. Hutch¬ 
inson, at a recent 
meeting of New 
the cows immediately 
milk with warm water 
and adds shorts and 
oil-cake meal; when 
six weeks old cuts the 
milk down to one 
quart and soon gives 
them nothing but the 
shorts and oil - cake 
stirred iu sufficient 
water to make a drink. 
Self-Milking Coven. 
—The following mode 
of preventing this dis¬ 
ease is recommended 
- - - - in the Prairie Farmer: 
put a strap around her 
~ £ ‘' r -~ _ ——. neck, another around 
[j 0 ([y about mid- 
way. Take a slout stick 
—o-*.~ about the size of a hoe 
handle, long enough to 
- —reach from one strap 
to the other. Pass the 
stick between the fore 
legs and fasten It to 
both straps. 
