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NEW YORK, OCT. 7, 1882 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1882, by the Rural New-Yorker, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
abundantly, and this is the main food to be 
depended on for the stock. A few horses, 
together with some thousands of sheep are 
reared here. We are not advised as to their 
breeds; but as they, too, have to get their 
living in the open, they muBt be as hardy as 
the cattle. Pigs are not kept. The island is 
famous for its breed of dogs—a Skye terrier 
with its long, soft, silky hair, being quite 
they can be easily caught. Meat they seldom 
if ever eat, having a positive dislike for it. 
Their farming implements are of the rudest 
and cheapest kind, of the same fashion as cen¬ 
turies ago, with few exceptions. 
The people are robust, health}*, sober, in¬ 
dustrious and contented; and upon the whole 
may be said to live a reasonably happy life. 
They do not know what luxuries are, and 
OUR ANIMAL PORTE AITS, 
THE DAIRY SITUATION—PROSPECTS 
AND PRICES. 
JERSEY COW, PROSA, 
X. A. WILLARD. 
The September-make of cheese begins to 
come upon the market about the 
_ first of October. September 
cheese is always sought after by 
shippers and exporters. It 
generally proves to be the best 
of the season’s make, because 
the milk has a larger propor¬ 
tion of fat in its composition, 
while the fresh afterfeed im¬ 
parts flavor, and the Summer’s 
heat now being passed, the 
weather is favorable to manu¬ 
facture and curing. At this 
season the factories are usually 
in condition to hold their goods 
for a time, and the question of 
selling on the market from week 
to week, or holding in expecta¬ 
tion of better prices, is one that 
always agitates the dairy public 
and upon which there is a wide 
difference of opinion. 
The dairy business is now so 
extended, and there are sb many 
elements liable to occur to af¬ 
fect prices, that it is extremely 
difficult to forecast the market, 
and the shrewdest operator often 
fails or is disappointed in his 
calculations. The safest guide 
ative Stock 
(/V§\) Farm, Freder¬ 
ic V icksburg, Va. 
Prosa was drop¬ 
ped March 14th, 1879—sire, the 
celebrated premium bull Pros¬ 
pect (2,047), which won prizes 
both at the Maryland and Vir¬ 
ginia State Fairs; dam, Vashti, 
of Baltimore (3,269), a noted 
butter cow, with the high rec¬ 
ord of over two pounds of but¬ 
ter per day, tracing to the fa¬ 
mous imported bull Clement 
(115), and to the well-known im¬ 
ported cow Victoria (1,505), the 
foundation stock ofthe Clark & 
Jones’s, Baltimore County, Md., 
premium Jersey herd—to which 
cow, it is said, there can be 
traced more tested butter cows 
of 14 pounds per week and over, 
than to auy other single Jersey 
cow known, whether imported 
or not. Prosa dropped her first 
calf when two years old, and 
on grass alone gave 3% gallons 
of very rich milk per day. When 
she fully matures, she will be 
tested for butter, when, it is 
thought, she will exceed the 
high record of her dam. 
CATTLE OF THE ISLAND 
OF SKYE. 
Skye is the largest Bland 
which lies close to the mainland 
of Scotland on its we.-t side. 
It is about 14 miles long, and 
has an average bread th of uea rly 
It rains here on the 
four mile! 
average nine days out of every 
12, and the fall is 130 inches 
annually. There is consequently 
an abundance of grass even in 
Winter. It is the home of the 
West Highland or Ky loe cattle, 
which are among the hardiest of 
the bovine species, as fine in 
form as the Devon, though a 
fifth leas in size as bred here. 
Their beef is of first quality. All 
except cows in calf—which are 
stabled only on Winter nights 
—run out the whole year ex¬ 
posed to the weather. Their 
long, thick, shaggy coats of 
hair protect them well, even 
from the sleet and snow, w hich 
alternate with rain in Winter. 
They thrive on the poorest fare,-- 
and when nearly full-grown, 
fatten rapidly on a little addi¬ 
tional good feed, thus making 
them profitable aulniula to rear even in that 
moist,tempestuous climate. The cows give small 
messes of milk, but to make up for the smallness 
in quantity, it is us rich in quality as that 
drawn from tho famous Channel Island cows. 
Aside from oate, the only crops that can be 
cultivated in Skye are potatoes, beets and 
turnips. Grass, of course, grows wild and 
a favorite with the fanciers. The in¬ 
habitants live in low cottages of very 
thick, uncemented stone walls. The roof is 
thatched and held down with ropes of twisted 
heather, otherwise the fierce winds would 
blow It away. The food of the people is 
oatmeal, potatoes, turnips, with a little milk 
and and a few eggs as a rarity, and fish when 
therefore do not crave them—or follies of 
any other kind. The area of the island is 535 
square miles and its population under 20,000. 
The surface is mountainous; the soil is poor 
and the prt ducts scant. Large plantations of 
trees have lately been planted, which will 
help to moderate the severity of the w eather. 
Skye is the largest of the Hebrides. 
000 pounds, 
