[Entered according’ to Act of Congress, in the year 1881. by the Rural New-Yorker, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
and then it should be accompanied by a dose 
of two ounces of Epsom salts mixed with it. 
From two to four ounces of salts may be given 
with great benefit once a week until the cow 
calves. Coativeness is to be avoided with the 
greatest care and the bowela should be kept 
free and loose under all circumstances. The 
food in Winter should be hay ; and two quarts 
of chopped potatoes twice daily will be useful. 
It is a great mistake to try to induce a large 
development of udder in the hope to procure a 
large milk yield afterwards. The milk should 
come after calving and not before. If it ap¬ 
pears before the calf, and the ndder is found to 
be full, the milk should be drawn in the usual 
way, but this is only advisable in case of an 
emergency, becanse the milking will only help 
to further stimulate the production of milk. 
It would be better to give a cow in this condi¬ 
tion an ounce of saltpeter, which will act as a 
diuretic and have a cooling effect on the blood 
and thus relieve the ndder greatly. If the cow 
is in good condition, this course of treatment 
is all the more necessary to avoid any danger. 
The cow should be kept quiet and free from 
disturbance. In the Winter the drinking wa¬ 
ter should be slightly warmed and never given 
cold for ten days previous to calving, and the 
cow should be kept from exposure to cold. 
The separate pens previously mentioned will 
be found of great use. Wheu the calf is ex¬ 
pected it is well to visit the cow frequently, 
but not in such a way as to disturb her. At 
such a time will be found the advantage of the 
previous training of the 
cow to habits of gentle¬ 
ness by kindly treatment. 
__ If the presentation of 
:——the calf is right, there 
-—~ is no necessity for dis- 
4 Ei--V turbing the cow in aBy 
the calf iB 
England to compete for the prizes of money 
and renown to be won on the British turf. 
There his two-year-old career w»« of a some¬ 
what chequered description. Out of twelve 
races in which he ran he carried the American 
colors to victory in only four. He came out 
with a great reputation at the Newmarket 
Second Spring Meeting where he won the Two- 
Year Old Plate vety easily. In bis next three 
essays, however, he was only once successful, 
and on that occasion, at the Epsom Summer 
Meeting, he had only a single opponent, and 
that a second-rate one, althoagh the odds were 
three to one against him Shortly afterwards, 
at the July MeetiDg at Newmarket, he fairly 
astonished everyone by running the famous 
racer, Bal Gal, to a head in the July Stakes, 
and cantering away with the Chesterfield 
Stakes the next day, defeating nine speedy 
competitors. His next winning appearance 
was at Goodwood where be carried off the Le¬ 
vant Slakes; but he was defeated in his last 
four contests last year. As a two year-old his 
total winniugs amounted to $13,210. Before 
his late crowning triumph he had been out 
only three times this year, running second to 
Peregrine for the Two Thousand Guineas, cut¬ 
ting down Lennoxlove for the Newmarket 
Stakes and *■ walking over” for the Bnrwell 
Stakes. 
As teen by the accompanying likeness, 
Iriquois is a handsome animal though a trifle 
light and Binall, standing a shade under four¬ 
teen hands three inches. He is a brown colt 
THE DERBY WINNER 
HENRY STEWART 
Among all the. world’s annual horse races 
the Derby is easily first. It was founded as 
long ago as 1780 by the Earl of Derby, and Is 
run by three-year-old horses, on the Wednesday 
preceding Whitsuntide, upon the downs near 
Epsom, asm-til town a drzen miles southwest 
from London, rendered famous bv this and 
other races, the foremost of which is the Oaks, 
for three-year-old fillies, aud also by the manu¬ 
facture there of the medicinal salts which 
bear the place’s name. Situated within 
such a short distance of the most populous 
city on the globe, a city with a population of 
about four millions, the attendance at this 
great race always numbers from a hundred 
thousand to a quarter of a million people. On 
the Derby Day Loudon holds a holiday, and 
even both houses of Parliament adjourn to en¬ 
able the members to attend the race. On that 
day all the roads from the mighty metropolis 
to the race-course are thronged with all sorts 
of vehicles, from the coster-mongers’a donkey 
cart to the prince’s four-in-hand drag, while 
mo’-niug and evening and far into the night the 
side-walks are densely packed with curious 
spectators of the going and returning crowd. 
It is the only day the whole year round in 
which sober England witnesses a specimen of 
the gay excitement of 
the continental carnival.- 1 
It is hardly possible, 
outside of Great Britain, 
to form a j ust idea of the 
prestige and fame at- 
iVIanngement of n Calving Cow. 
It may be good fortune that in the course of 
more than 25 years of keeping cows, I have 
never had any sort of accident with a calving 
cow ; never lost a calf; or had a cow with a 
more serious attack of garget than could be 
overcome by the simplest remedy in the course 
of a few hours. But I do not believe in for¬ 
tune or luck so-called excepting so far as that 
it is the result of timely cautions, and careful 
prevision of, and provision for, any possible 
danger. It is Bafe to avoid risks and to begin 
to avoid them in time. The man who never 
goes into a boat will never fall overboard ; and 
the dairyman who is ever on the watch for 
neks and dangers, and contracts a habit of 
cautiously avoiding them, will be insured 
against accidents. But to avoid dangers, it is 
requisite to know what they are and how they 
come; and with regard to incoming cows it 
may be well to refer to the most common 
Bonre.es of mischief, and consider how they 
shouj.1 be averted- 
The most frequent trouble is with the udder. 
This either becomes congested and hard, or 
seriously inflamed. The most serious trouble 
frwm P|V ; way until 
"' \ Jpglsljtfw dropped ; when the cow 
' 3 better “P ln tbe 
fty, usual manner. It is a 
natural instinct for the 
cow to devour tho pla- 
•k*? eenta; aud some persons 
^ think it right to defer to 
I this inductive desire; 
4\ SKI? | : 't. for what reasons it is 
a ItfL l' 1 !'; 1 j ||l; difficult to comprehend. 
* V 111 I I | The whole management 
!I and training of the dairy 
^1 cow * s a strife against 
ber natural proclivities 
and in this respect it is 
uffiu n better to adhere to our 
■' 1 j. j| artificial training than to 
n ijuf) IW |l permit her to follow her 
y. ra B jjii.'lij/' ■! instinct. For this rea- 
son it is better to tie up 
^ the cow ' leav ^ n £ tbe c& i f 
. at her head. 
« There is a difference 
of opinion as to the pro¬ 
priety of permuting the 
calf to suck the cow. 1 
believe it is better to 
prevent it, and therefore 
always take away the 
calf as soouas the cow 
has cleaned it and before 
it has sacked. It should 
be removed to a distant pen, provided es¬ 
pecially for the calves, where It can be kept 
in quiet, and warm and comfortable, with 
plenty of room to gambol when it feels in¬ 
clined. The cotv may be milked in six hours 
after calving, and by that time will have be¬ 
come oblivious of the calf, if it is out of hear¬ 
ing. Many a cow has been so nervous by the 
worry of having her calf near her or with her 
that an attack of milk fever has been brought 
on by it. This disease is especially a nervous 
one and quiet will prevent It, if there has been 
a judicious management previously. In an 
hour after calving a pailful of bran slop with 
IROQUOIS, WINNER OF THE DERBY—Fig, S24. 
is puerperal or milk fever. Both of these are 
easily prevented, but not so easily cured. A 
few days before calving the udder becomes en¬ 
larged and full and the more so with cows that 
have beeu highly fed or are large milkers. 
Precautions are necessary some time before 
this happens. As soon as the cow has become 
dry, or if she is a persistent milker, at least 
four weeks before the calf Is due, the food 
should be reduced and a cooling medicine 
should be given. No meal whatever is to be 
given; a bran mash may be useful occasion¬ 
ally if the bowels appear to be costive, but this 
Is to be avoided unless in this medicinal way, 
with a narrow blaze on the face and a little 
white on the near fore heel. He has a good bead, 
and though his neck is just a trifle light, it is 
well eet on Probably his strongest point is 
his shoulders, which are unusually deep and 
well set. He is light in the flanks, however, 
and his quarters though muscular are certain¬ 
ly not massive. His feet could hardly be bet¬ 
ter aud his legs, splendidly shaped, are sound, 
free from blemish and as hard as Iron. The 
soundest of legs, wind and frame could alone 
speed him like a flash over the mile and a 
half course, under 122 pounds, and give him 
the proud position of being a Derby winner. 
