aug 
week and warrant every egg, and get a trifle 
more than the market price.” 
Just at this moment Mrs. C. crossed the 
yard on her way to feed the poultry and 
gather the eggs: there were perhaps 50 chick¬ 
ens, old and young, running about her feet 
and more corning from all directions. 
"Well, I do declare !” soys Mr. P., "when 
anyone goes among our hens they run and 
fly as though a fox was after them. I had an 
idea that a hen was almost of no account at 
all, but it seems under Mrs. C.’s management 
she pays for her board, and also makes quite 
a display of affection for her mistress. But I 
must go now, and we will continue this here 
subject some other day.” “Cornplanter." 
Henderson Co., N. C. 
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Remedy for Chicken Cholera. 
Here is a remedy, or preventive of the 
chicken cholera, which I have successfully 
used for two years. While my neighbors 
have been losing nearly their entire flock 
mine have been healthy, and I have never had 
a case to my knowledge: Take a barrel, saw 
it asunder in halves, put about three quarts 
of unslaked lime in one of the halves, to¬ 
gether with half a pound or one pound (to suit 
the necessity) of alum; fill the half barrel with 
water; when slaked and settled take from one 
pint to one quart ( is the case require^) and put 
it in every pail of water given the fowls to 
drink. The litne will answer for a second half 
barrel of water, but the same quantity of 
alum should be added as before. It continued 
daily during the sickly season I can, from my 
experience, assure readers of the Rural that 
their fowls will not be troubled with the 
chicken cholera. 
Bchraalenbu'-gb, N. J. C. S. Cooper. 
SHORT-HORNED BULL HARRY HOTSPUR. 
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales 
is a famous farmer, after the fashion of his 
princely father. He spends a good deal or 
money in agricultural operations, stock 
raising, and donations to agricultural Socie¬ 
ties, and to enterprises undertaken for the 
benefit of agriculture. He also graciously 
consents to lend the glory of his royal 
presence to the choicest of the agricultural 
shows, and, as be always does elsewhere he 
sometimes delivers a graceful and sens’ble 
speech at prominent agricultural meetings. 
His Royal Highness’ cows, bulls, calves and 
pigs often contend with noble and vulgar 
beasts in the show-yard or pen, and do not 
bear off the honors oftener than such royal 
animals ought in fairness to do. At the late 
Royal Show at Reading bis two year-old bull, 
Harry Hotspur, for instance, took only the 
third prize in the class for Short-horn bulla 
calved in 1890, the first prize falling to the lot 
of Bright Helm, belonging to Mr. P. J. 8. 
Foljambe, M, P., and the second to Baron 
Sedgewick, the property of Mr. W. H. Wake¬ 
field, of Kendal. Hotspur is a very pretty 
roan, from the Prince’s farm at Sandring¬ 
ham, and all seem to agree that he real!}’ 
deserved his ttaira place among 12 competi¬ 
tors. 
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SOME NOTES ON ‘'NOTES BY A 
STOCKMAN." 
RICHARD GOODMAN, JR. 
Nobody reads "Stockman’s” contributions 
to the columns of the Rural with more in¬ 
terest and enjoyment than 1 do; nobody 
relishes more highly his fine edged criticisms, 
cutting away equally as they do tough old • 
knotty errors and the light cobwebs of mis 
ehievous speculation. 
But our friend must have been napping 
when he wrote ht3 contribution for the issue 
of July J-O.b—too many potato bugs or too 
many mosquito bites for even the strong con¬ 
stitution of our friend! For example, "Stock- 
man” calmly remarks of the Guernsey race 
•of cattle, “It is in every respect the equal of 
the Jersey and in some respects superior,’’ 
Let us look into this: The leading breeders of 
Guernseys while claiming more beef, and a 
deeper color for the milk and its products, 
have never claimed a higher flavor, an equal 
quantity, nor an approach to the quality of 
the Jersey butter. As I understand it, the 
popularity of the Jersey rests primarily on the 
firmness of the butter in dogdays and its ex* 
cellent grain the year round; and, secondly, 
upon their great annual butter yield. 
The color of the butter is the only point we 
Jersey men yield to the breeders of Guernseys, 
and as compared with the flavor, texture and 
annual product.this matter of color is of least 
importance, especially as it is easily imitated 
by the harmless and agreeable annatto. As to 
the flavor of the butter of Jerseys L have never 
heard any experienced person suggest that 
that of any other breed equaled it. Itstexture 
is not approached by the butter of any other 
breed. And the butter of the Guernspys is 
notoriously oily. And as to the annual and 
weekly product, Jersey men have not only 
taken the lead, but feel well satisfied that they 
will each year increase their distance. 
tine and attempts to make his readers believe 
that this gentleman sells his stock at lower 
rates than his neighbors. Misled evidently by 
the sentiment of “ Farmers’ prices are the 
rule,” he has never made any further investi¬ 
gation. 
Now I can give " Stockman ” a fact or two, 
good thing you know to keep the air stirring 
these hot days. 
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Lessening Risks from Horned Cattle. 
Though admitting that horns are ornamen¬ 
tal, I cannot discover their usefulness while on 
the animal’s head. It will probably be some 
years before we have a breed of polled cattle 
equaling in their peculiar sphere either the 
Short born or Jersey, hut we can do some¬ 
thing towards rendering the weapons harm¬ 
less. My little grade Jersey cows seemed to 
take especial delight in trying the effect of 
their sharp horns on the sheep, the hogs and 
one another whenever the opportunity occur¬ 
red. Accordingly I had wooden balls, two 
inches in diameter turned;these I fitted to the 
end of the horns, securing them in place by a 
small screw. Not only did they prevent 
goring but they had a marked effect on the 
disposition of the animals—they seemed to 
understand that their powers were limited, 
and it was dull working with blunt tools. 
M. B. P. 
pi) leal. 
OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY. 
THE DUKE OF RICHMOND AND GOR¬ 
DON, K. G. 
The Duke of R’chmond and Gordon K. G , 
who was elected on July lGth, President of the 
R^yal Agricultural Society of Englaud for 
the coming year to succeed Mr. W. Wells, the 
late efficient President, has, like his father 
before him, the late Duke of Richmond, been 
for a long time distinguished for his hearty 
interest in matters agricultural. Uis father 
was one of the earliest promoters of the So¬ 
ciety, and twice its President, and this is the 
second time the present Duke has been elected 
to that position. As great landowners liberal 
in tbeir dealings with their tenants and earn¬ 
est in their efforts for the best interests of na¬ 
tional agriculture, as they understood them, 
father and son have always been highly es¬ 
teemed by the farmers of Great Britain. The 
Agricultural Holdings Act and all the recent 
legislation against the importation of cattle 
disease?—only a small share of which has 
been directed against this country—have 
been largely due to his initiative and his 
labor in carrying the measures through 
the House of Lords The latest service 
he has rendered to British agriculture has 
been as Chairman of the Royal Commission on 
Agricultural Distress, of which our readers 
have heard a great deal withiu the last three 
years during which it has been engaged in a 
laborious inquiry into the matter, which has 
just been completed. The final report was 
signed by the Commissioners on Wednesday, 
July 12th, on which ocean'on these gentlemen 
presented the Duke with a handsome memorial 
appreciative of his services as their Chief 
The portrait, Fig. 252, re engraved from the 
English Agricultural Gazette, is said to be a 
fair likeness of his Grace. 
i^IbccUrtucci" 1 
CATALOGUES, ETC., 
The Farm yard Club of Jotham— There 
is hardly anything in which the "good” 
old times of our forefathers differed more 
widely from those of to-day than in their 
respective methods of imparting the va¬ 
rious branches of education. Formerly 
"learning,” asa rule,was confined to particular 
clashes, aud little or no attempt was ever made 
to diffuse it among the people at largo. The 
works that treated of it were written in a 
style and generally in a language which the 
"commonality” could not understand. In 
imparting instruction even to the compara- 
ively small number that received any bo 
yond the mere elementary branches,the "rod” 
was the teacher’s main reliance in urgiug 
his p ipil over the "hard” road to knowledge. 
Instead of making this road smooth and 
easy to young and old, teacners acted as if 
they thought the value of the lore sought 
would be enhanced by the obstructions piled 
on the way to it. Nowadays we have changed 
all that, much to the advantage and comfort 
of the rising generation aud to the benefit of 
their elders. The great object of contempo¬ 
rary touchers appears to be to make knowl¬ 
edge attractive and the means of acquiring it 
easy and pleasant. Astronomy, yes, and 
geology, b >tany and several other scieuees ai’e 
made delightful in tales of exciting idven- 
lure; political economy and statesmanship are 
made absorbingly mb renting in novels; his¬ 
tory is stu Ued with aruuzing relish in ro¬ 
mances, and agriculture is taught in the 
pleasantest mauner either in farm stories or 
conversational essays as interesting as they 
are instructive. 
Of this last kind is the "Farm Yard Club to 
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Short-horn Bull, Harry Hotspur. [After the Agricultural Gazette.]—Fin. 251. 
In fact the very claim of more carcass made 
for the Guernseys would seem to be the 
strongest argument against their value as 
butter producers. Fat on the carcass and fat 
in the udder will not go together. It is not 
possible to combine great strength with great 
speed. We do not cross the Clydesdale or the 
Percberon with the American trotter and 
expect to unite the speed of the one with the 
strength of the other. 
Again "Stockman” remarks that the Guern¬ 
seys have not been "boomed’’ yet, and that a 
good Guernsey can be bought for " a hundred 
dollars or go.” What will Mr. Norton, Mr. 
Beach, Mr. Bowditch, or Dr. Borland say to 
this? They who have roused so much interest 
in thi» breed that they willingly pay $000 
at public auction for a cow and calmly refuse 
to be tempted by an offer of $2,000 for a cow 
in their stables! If "Stockman” can get "good 
animals” of this breed for "a hundred dollars 
or so,” he would put money in his purse by 
which I think will at the same time show that 
Mr. Valentine is not only one of the leading 
breeders in this country, considering the time 
he has been engaged in farming, but that he 
is too wise a business man vo follow our friend 
"Stockman’s” Utopian theory of selling his 
stock at anything under, not to say at a tenth 
of, their market price. For example, Hough¬ 
ton Farm has recently sold to a friend of mine 
a young Jersey bull for $1 200—and the bull 
was worth this sum—but this is hardly the 
farmers’ price, $87 50, of friend "Stockman I’ 
I offered Houghton Farm $2,000 for a young 
Jersey bull last year, and they would not let 
me have him at that price—and they were 
wise in not taking this sum—butthisis hardly 
$S7 50, "the farmers’ price!” And 1 have yet 
to learn that Mr. Valentine has ever sold his 
sheep or horses or pigs at any lower rates. 
One point more and we will give "Stock- 
man” a chance. In quoting Mr. Le Brocq’s 
just criticisms of the scale of points of the 
Duke of Richmond and Gordon, Knight of the Garter.—Fig. 252. 
collecting a group for Mr. Herkness or Mr. 
Kellogg to sell for him. 
Then "Stockman” indulges himself in a 
fling at those breeders who are not willing to 
sell their carefully bred stock for less than 
market prices, and goes on to quote one name¬ 
less benefactor of his race who rattled off his 
Guernseys at an average of $87.50, each, old 
and youug! And then, to clinch this wild 
communistic theory, he drags in Mr. Valen¬ 
Island of Jersey cattle judges, he seems to be 
lahoriug under the impression that this same 
scale of points is in use generally in judging 
Jersey cattle in this country. I take pleasure 
in calling his attention to the scale of points 
adopted by the American Jersey Cattle Club 
in 1875, aud in use ever since, in which the 
cow may receive 27 points out of 100 for her 
udder, instead of 14, as in the Island Ecale. 
Now, friend Stockman, your turn. It is a 
