Vol. XL. No. 1G5G.} 
NEW YOKE, OCT. 22, 1881. 
(FRIOE FIVE CENTS 
l $2.00 FEE YEAH 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1S81, by the Rural New Yorker, in the oflQoe of tne Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
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OUR ANIMAL PORTRAITS. 
Dutch-Friesian Bull Mooie (26). 
Cattle of tht* “Dutch-Friesian” breed and 
those of the “ I to [stein” breed are so nearly 
related and resemble each other so closely, 
both in appearance and beef and milk-produc¬ 
ing good qualities, that- they have been gener¬ 
ally confounded in this country. The owners 
of cattle from the low-land districts of Fries¬ 
land and North Holland, however, claim that 
it is from the herds of that region that all the 
other varieties of Dutch cattle have desceuded, 
and that in several points they so far excel 
all of these other varieties, or at any rate dif¬ 
fer so far from them, that they are entitled to 
be considered a distinct breed. Accordingly 
they have given them the general name of 
“Dutch,” indicative of their being the funda¬ 
mental type of all the low-land breeds of cattle 
that extend through the Netherlands, Flanders, 
Holstein, Denmark, etc., and to this the word 
Friesian has been added, the more distinctly to 
locate the origin of the breed, and particularly 
to distinguish it from the other breeds of Dutch 
cattle. U nder this name are included imported 
black-and-white piebald dairy cattle of North 
Holland and VV r cst Fries land and their pure¬ 
bred descendants in this country. 
The distinctive sutlix has been added by the 
American Association of Breeders of Thor¬ 
oughbred Dutch or Friesian Cattle, which has 
lately published the first volume of the Herd 
Book of this breed. Of bulls this contains 44 
iu the Main Registry and 10 in the Appendix 
Registry; while of cows 
there are 185 iu the former 
er 15, this herd bore away all the honors iu 
the Holstein class at Peoria, after having car¬ 
ried off the §500 sweepstakes prize for the best 
dairy herd at the Minnesota State Fail’, at 
Minneapolis, after a sharp competition with 
18 other herds, including Jerseys, Ayrshires 
and Devons. It will also be seen by our re¬ 
port of the St. Louis Fair, in this issue, that 
this herd carried off all the premiums in its 
class at that grand show. 
In view of the fact that, for breeding pur¬ 
poses, the bull is half the herd, the importance 
of having a first-class bull can hardly be over¬ 
estimated when improvement is the object or 
the prevention of deterioration in a prune 
herd. As “scrub” and grade males are always 
uncertain in their "get,” the use of the best- 
formed of them is constantly resulting in 
worthless calves, owing to “ reversion” or 
“hulking back” to some poor progenitor of 
the sire. Thoroughbred bulls should therefore 
always be used, and these should be of that 
breed whose special characteristics it is desired 
to engraft upon the offspring. The Dutch- 
Friesian being, before all, a dairy breed, spe¬ 
cial care is takeu that the bulls admitted to 
registry should be only such as are most likely 
to produce deep-milking heifer calves. Accord¬ 
ingly, in additiou to purity of blood,each reg¬ 
istered male must have a well-developed es¬ 
cutcheon aeror ing to the Guenon system—a 
system which is considered particularly val¬ 
uable in aiding in the selection of a first-class 
bull. An excellent specimen of bulls of this 
breed is Mooie (20), imported and owned by 
the Unadilla Valley Stock Breeders' Associa¬ 
tion. He was bred by A. IV. Oosterbaum, of 
West Friesland, Holland, and calved March 
20, 1878; sire, Jan; dam, Durkje. In the Herd 
thigh ovals. Length, 68-28%; width, 20J£-20j>£; 
hight, 53-55; girth, 78. July 1, 1880.” 
OUR GOAT. 
L. S. HARDIN. 
I had taken a cottage near the city for the 
Summer, and among other novelties in posses¬ 
sion of my neighbors were innumerable va¬ 
grant goats, whose peculiar ways of eating 
brown paper and old rags, and lying on the 
soft side of large rocks in preference to the 
dust of the road or the soft green-sward, en¬ 
listed my amazed curiosity. 
There were no milkmen in our neighbor¬ 
hood, and buying milk of those who own 
but one cow is annoying and often disappoints 
ing, as no regularity of supply is guaranteed. 
They do not seem to know how to water regu¬ 
larly to keep the supply uniform. As an ex¬ 
periment I determined to buy a goat. As 
soon as this fact became known among the 
neighbors the price of gouts went up about 50 
per cent. From five dollars apiece good milk¬ 
ers immediately advanced to eight or ten dol¬ 
lars each. By cautious inquiry and adopting 
a knowing look, I finally got on the track of 
one that belonged to a poor man w hose 
house had burned down a few- days before. 
Being wit .out a home, a .d as his goat was 
slightly aged and about to go dry. he parted 
with her for three dollars. 1 concluded this 
would be no great loss if I had to give her 
away. She gave milk enough for tea and 
coffee for my little family, and that was all 
we asked of her. At first it required two to 
milk her, one at the head and the other at the 
teats; now, however, she is perfectly gentle. 
thirst. We keep a stall in the cellar for her at 
night, w hich only needs sweeping out occa¬ 
sionally, for she is a wonderfully clean animal. 
The amount of food she consumes is inconsid¬ 
erable. 
The quality of goat’s milk is not peculiar, as 
I was led to believe from the statements of 
many who were able to keep cows, having the 
conveniences for doing so. The only peculiar¬ 
ity about it in appearance and taste is its 
wonderful richness. For coffee it is far better 
than condensed milk, w'hich we had used along 
time, while the milk of uative cow's cannot 
compare with it in point of richness, nor do I 
think the full milk of the best Jersey equal to 
it, though Jersey cream is certainly richer. 
From the best information I can procure 
from those who have owned our goat in for¬ 
mer years, she must be close on to 14 or 15 
years old. Her front teeth are entirely gone 
—worn down to the gums. She has every 
appearance of lasting several years yet. 
The kid, a “Billy,” was wonderfully playful 
and affectionate, anti when the milker stooped 
down to milk his mother he w ould take a run¬ 
ning start and up the milkers back he would 
go until two feet rested on the shoulders and 
two on tup of the person’s head. Tills was his 
favorite position, and w hoever sat down with 
in his reach was sure to feel him clambering 
up his or her back. 
Take it all in all, we are delighted with our 
goat, and when one considers, first, the low 
price of the animal—from four to eight dollars; 
second, the rough and common food she w ill 
thrive on; third, her absolute cleanliness; 
fourth, the extra richness and nutritive quali¬ 
ties of the milk, all this along with the little 
care necessary, when compared with that 
needed by the cow, the 
wonder is that the goat is 
not more popular every¬ 
where. Goats breed in 
three months, which should 
give about three kids a 
year, and if a heavy milk¬ 
ing breed can be procured, 
or a new milking breed be 
created, they should pay, 
for the trouble of handling, 
a handsome pi’ofit near a 
city, where the poor people 
of the suburbs appreciate 
them far more than their 
more exalted neighbors. 
I notice that a Goat Club 
or Society has lately been 
organized in England, and 
l hope the members have 
turned their attention to 
establishing a breed of 
heavy milkers for city and 
cheese-dairy purposes. 
and 19 in the latter. The 
Appendix Registry is for 
youthful candidates for the 
Main Registry, to which 
they are transferred when, 
upon examination, it is 
proved that they have ful- 
filled the conditions for ad- '-'c' --i -' 
mission to it. The fulfill- 
ment of these conditions UB&qm 
guarantees a profitable cow; 
for, iu udditiou to their pos- flB ala ' ; J 
session of undoubted purity nEWuM 
of blood, only such females 
are admitted as the expert- : 
ence of the Association has '' ^ WKjff/M 
found to be capable, under --vL 
favorable circumstances, of pK Mill 
producing O.OUO pounds of Sm, JWktf 
milk in the two-year-old 
form; 7,000 pounds in the r y^ 
three-year-old form; 8,000 
pounds in the four-year-old 
form, and 10,000 pounds if 1/,‘j y-> /i;, , 
over l, 1 .; years old at the yj/M 
date of calving, aud there- /// f ! 
fore classed us “aged” m/JliilkMM:' /Mj 
cows. Moreover, the Herd npvffiwjm Nvfifiw 
Book tells us that in many '/ |W| 
instances from 8,000 to 5,000 ^ V5vSr, 
pounds of milk have been f|;,y/Vi'’’ 
produced in excess of this (/fos 
In view, therefore, of this I R- 
high requirement for entry » 
into the Herd Book of the 
breed, and of the careful 
maimer in which its fulfill¬ 
ment is ascertained, there is 
little wonder that the herds registered therein 
are gaining an exalted reputation as dairy 
cows wherever they become known. Of these 
herds the largest and most famous is that be¬ 
longing to the Unadilla Valley Stock Breed¬ 
ers’ Association, of West Ediniston, Otsego 
County, N. Y. As mentioned in our report 
of the Illinois State Fair, in our issue of Octo- 
Y ->/ -rr^, Thoroughbred Stock vs. 
Common Stock. 
■)/i' A great deal has been 
jJ/j said in our agricultural 
Wf? \ journals on this subject. 
Now I do not want to be 
v/V r ~\\ understood as being op- 
HO — posed to thoroughbred 
^Oi RU stock by any means, for I 
> v am satisfied that we owe a 
great debt of gratitude to 
our most enterprising men 
all over the country for 
introducing it; but it is a 
word of caution that I 
w-ant to give to good, houest farmers who, 
I fear, have been led astray many times 
by such flowery' speeches as we sometimes 
see in print. They may think if they pay 
$500 for a Short-horn, or $100 for a Berk 
shire or Poland-China, or $200 for a Soutl 
Down, that this will make their fortune. 
But let me tell them they must not stop 
DUTCH-FRIESIAN BULL, MOOIE.—FROM A PHOTOGRAPH.—Fig. 493 
After going dry about four weeks she dropped 
a kid, and from that time to the present, with 
plenty of grass, she has given regularly a pint 
of milk night and morning. We keep her 
tethered on the lawn, aud only three or four 
times this Summer, as hot as it has been, have 
we been able to induce her to drink any water. 
The succulent grass seems to satisfy her 
Book he is thus described;—“ Evenly vai-iega- 
ted, white face, throat, over shoulders aud 
over hips; head aud neck very fine; horns 
very small, waxy; shoulders low and finely 
formed: body very long and round; chine 
straight;hipssmooth; rump very broad; quar¬ 
ters heavy; crops well filled; limbs short and 
fine; handlin g best; escutcheon best, with 
