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VOL. XXIX. No. 22. 
WHOLE No. 1*270. 
; NEW YORK, AND ROCHESTER, N. Y., MAY 30, 1874. j 
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j PRICE SIX CENTS. 
1 $2.50 PER YEAR. 
AN IRISH PRIZE SHORT-HORN. 
Our sole object in reproducing the accom¬ 
panying engraving of the Irish prize Short- 
Horn bull, King Richard 20, (31,514) is to 
show what sort of animals took prizes at the 
Royal Dublin Society’s recent show and give 
our readers opportunity to compare the 
form and style of the animals with the 
prize animals of our American herds. 
This animal was calved Nov. 1, LSG'J. An m, 
English paper says “ King Richard 2d’s 
success must be held to be due to the H 
remarkable fore-quarters and ribs which 
he inherits. His hinder pats were com¬ 
paratively poor, and Ids condition by no 
means high ; and lie was so lame of 
one hind foot as hardly to be able to drag tk 
himself along.” The same writer calls 
him an “admirable specimen of the O 
Teeswuter breed as modified by Irish 
breeders and Irish climate” us such, I HU ;) 
therefore, we present him to our readers Saw 
to criticise or commend for their own 
edillcsdjiou. 
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IS GARGET HEREDITARY? 
This question was referred by a local 
Dairymen’s Association in this State to 
Mr. L. B. Arnold, who returns the fol¬ 
lowing answer: — “Garget is a local 
rather than a constitutional disease. This 
will be apparent from ft brief statement 
of its nature and origin. It Is not peculiar 
to the cow ; it occurs in sheep and swine as 
well. It comes from inflammation and con¬ 
gestion of the udder, brought on by a variety 
of causes, such as external violence, undue 
retention of milk, and whatever else tends to 
inflame the udder. Whenever inflammation 
occurs in that organ, t he tendency to coagu¬ 
lation and decomposition in the milk con¬ 
tained in it is so very much increiased that 
actual curdling and separation of the ele¬ 
ments of the milk vary Boon take place. The 
presence of curdled milk chokes up the tubes I 
and tends to increase the inflammation. The 
glandular substance and tissues of the udder 
become congested with blood, expanding and 
hardening the whole bag, and thus tending to 
aggravate and prolong the inflammation and 
swelling, making the difficulty a chronic, one. 
This condition may continue till the glands 
and tissues break down into pus, or it may 
abate and disappear before suppuration oc¬ 
curs. It is the slate of the udder thus de¬ 
scribed that is called garget. It might be 
appropriately styled an inflammation and 
induration of the udder, more or less chronic. 
“ It will be seen that it is local and not 
constitutional; and it is therefore not hered¬ 
itary in the ordinary sense of that term. Yet 
in a state of the disease so chronic as to oc¬ 
casion a permanently altered structural con¬ 
dition of tire udder, that altered condition 
may be transmitted, and thus carry the dif¬ 
ficulty of the parent to the offspring, just as 
it is said colts inherit spavin from the con¬ 
tinued presence of spavin in its ancestors. 
But spavin, though always involving a struc¬ 
tural change, is not reckoned as a hereditary 
disease, because it is local instead of consti¬ 
tutional. In regard to raising heifer calves 
from gargetty cows, it may be remarked 
that the cows which have fleshy bags are the 
ones most troubled with garget. It rarely 
troubles any others. 
“ Fleshy bags are not necessarily the cause 
of garget ; but it is so much easier for them 
to become clogged and inflamed than those 
not fleshy, that they are generally the ones 
that become the victims of unfavorable cir¬ 
cumstances. It is hardly safe, therefore, to 
raise heifer calves from cows habitually af¬ 
flicted with thiamisfortune, not because they 
transmit any disease, but l»ecau-o they trans¬ 
mit a structural condition that renders their 
progeny liable to suffer from slight provoca¬ 
tion.” 
after having been worked till only five or six 
years old or four or five years, and prepared 
for the great Christmas show in London, 
would bring extravagant prices. I recollect 
Mr. Hknuy Roberts of Paxford (who bred 
from Mr. Guo. Prior’ s herd) selling 23 six or 
seven years old oxen for £72 each to Mr. Gtl- 
i.et, then u famed butcher in Bond street, 
Loudon, Mid who used to take all the chief 
prizes for the best show of Christmas meat. 
The only superiority claimed for the Short- 
A.7ST IRISH PRIZE SHORTHORN. 
ALDERNEYS, HEREFORDS, SH0RT-H0RN8 
AND DEVONS. 
The food eaten by milch cows has a great 
deal to do with the color nud the quality of 
the butter ; but there is not the least doubt 
about the Alderneys, as a breed, giving milk 
which has a darker, richer shade, anil pro¬ 
ducing butter the same. I can remember 
thi3 characteristic when I was a little boy, as 
my mother was a very clever dairy mana¬ 
ger and she always induced my father to 
have a pure-bred Alderney cow to about 
every six or eight grade Short-Horns; and 
the influence was astonishing, which shows 
it is useless to dispute about this long-known 
peculiarity. This was nearly 50 years ago, 
when the Alderney was a very lean, hollow- 
hacked, ugiy-looking beast; but the quantity 
of milk given was much greater than now, 
although the cows were less. I well remem¬ 
ber them, and that their udders were so large 
they nearly reached the ground and the hind 
legs "of the cows were obliged to be wide 
apart till they were milked and then the 
“bag,” as we called it, looked like a “rag” 
shriveled up. 
At the time referred to my father fanned 
in Gloucestershire, adjoining county to Here¬ 
ford, and I was then and afterward well ac¬ 
quainted with Hereford cattle, for it was 
only about 30 miles from Mi*. George Prick’s, 
who was at that time champion breeder, and 
I was at his noted sale, and recollect that 
two years or so prior to the sale he advertised 
a challenge for £200 ($1,000) to show 50 dairy 
cows against any 50 in the world ; and that 
challenge, though alluded to and freely com¬ 
mented on by every agricultural journal in 
England, never was accepted. There was a 
wonderful rivalry between the Herefords 
and Short-Horns at that time, the meat of 
the former being admitted to be the best and 
the oxen, as draft animals, were more pow¬ 
erful than the Devons ; and when fattened, 
Horns was an earlier maturity and a larger 
frame for the cows. At that time the Devons 
stood third in estimation the cows being 
very small and the breed altogether slow of 
growth ; but the meat was given the palm 
over the then two breeds as regarded fineness 
of grain, &c. A Working Farmer. 
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NOTES FOR HERDSMEN. 
New Method of Slaughtering Animals .— 
Killing animals by the so-called boutrole, 
first used in Paris, and recently introduced 
into Vienna, seems preferable to the old 
method, since an animal can be instantly 
killed by a single blow with an instrument, 
weighing scarcely five pounds, instead of the 
10 to 15 blows with the heavy hammer usual¬ 
ly employed. The instrument is simply a 
very convenient form of ax, with a hollow 
cylinder (like a gun-wad punch) about six 
inches long and oue inch In diameter, with 
its edge ground sharp, on the end opposite 
the blade. A single blow with this end cuts 
a round hole in the forehead, and produces 
instant death. 
Abortion in Coivs. —Wm. Cugzikr writes 
to the Country Gentleman :—“ The causes of 
abortion are had keep, careless men, bad 
water and irregular feeding. If one of the 
herd aborts, T send her away from the byre 
as far as I can—so far that no smell or taint 
from her can be found. No one should use a 
bull on abortive cows for a long time after it 
happens, nor use the milk or butter from 
sucli cows, as it is impure.” 
Retention of After-Birth.—A correspond¬ 
ent of New York Tribune says:—My remedy 
for retention of after-birth is to give a strong 
dose of tansy tea, say three pints every 1:2 
hours ; have never known the second dose 
given without effecting the desired result, 
and have used the prescription for thirty 
years or more. 
CARBON FOR HOGS. 
There is no doubt in our mind of the bene¬ 
fit, from feeding crude carbonaceous matter 
to swine when they are kept in close pens. 
The avidity with, winch hogs eat rotten 
wood is well known. Charcoal is but an¬ 
other form of carbon. Bituminous coal 
is still another form. The utility of 
feeding wood and coal has long been 
recognized. We, some years since, sub¬ 
stituted the ordinary Western stone coal 
with the host results, where from two 
<• to five hundred hogs were kept inclose 
pens and fed on the refuse of city hotels. 
Something of the kind seems as neces¬ 
sary to them as salt to strictly herbiv¬ 
orous animals. We have known them 
to consume a pound in the conrse of a 
day, and again they would not seek the 
coal for some t ime. Just what particular 
use tlm coal is in the animal economy is 
not so cosy to answer. Swine are 
especially liable to scrofulous and in¬ 
flammatory diseases. Carbon, in the 
shape of .coal, is an antiseptic, and the 
probability is that it acts in this way in 
purifying the blood.— Western Rural. 
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PIG PEN PAPERS. 
Kidney Worms in Swine. —A writer 
in the Prairie Farmer says:—“Kidney 
worm ” is not a common disease in hogs. 
| Occasionally one or two in a number of hogs 
suffer from the presence of one or more worms 
in the kidneys ; but the ailment is not often 
fatal, and becomes so only after a long time 
of suffering and consequent disease or de¬ 
generation of one or both kidneys. In a 
strong pig two drams of turpentine may bo 
given in four ounces of linseed oil and a little 
gruel. Great care should be exercised in not 
killing the pig by drenching it improperly. 
Besides this the pigs should have sour food, 
or a little brine of herrings mixed in the 
food. When in season, sourkrout, radishes, 
unripe fruit, cucumbers, celery - tops, and 
©specially acorns. Wood ashes should oc¬ 
casionally be mixed in the food. Hogs 
should have access to clean and fresh drink¬ 
ing water. 
Buttermilk and Scurvy. — The Colorado 
I Agriculturist says : — A correspondent in¬ 
forms us that he finds buttermilk to be an 
j almost unfailing eui’e for scurvy in hogs. To 
prove the fact, among* other cases which 
liave come under liis noticed, he says ha 
owns several pigs which, a few weeks since, 
were suffering terribly from the effects of 
the disease, and that a speedy cure was 
effected by merely pouring the buttermilk 
over them a few times in the pen. Readers 
will do well to remember this simple remedy. 
Sows Ealing IHgs.—A Veterinarian in the 
Prairie Farmer thus advises a correspondent: 
Watch the hog the first few days after the 
pigs are born, and if she evinces a desire to 
eat her pigB, give her an emetic composed of 
tartar emetic, three grains; powdered ipe¬ 
cacuanha and powdered white hellebore of 
each eight grains; mix and throw dry into 
the mouth of the hog. 
i Remedy fo r Scours in Pigs and Calves. —A 
perfectly reliable remedy is said to be mixing 
I yellow elay in the water trough or vessels 
from which the animals drink. 
