JVol XLI. No. 1707. 
NEW YORK, OCT. 14. 1882. 
PRICE FIVE OENT 
£2.00 PEH YEAR, 
[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.] 
But I hare never feared one of my own bulls 
because I have them trained—to know the 
taste of a raw hide across the nose. This will 
tame any bull, and if a bull should never go 
from his owner’s yard he never need be ringed, 
if he hag been taught tne touch of the rawhide 
and his owner never goe-i to hitn wuhout it in 
his hand. The most foolish thing that can be 
done is to teach a bull to play, even when a 
calf; the bull’s training should be begun when 
a month old, and it should be brought into 
subjection then and taught to fear its owner, 
and kept in that fear always. Jersey bulls 
are not naturally vicious; they are made 
vicious because they aro petted and spoiled 
and made playthings of by their owners. Un¬ 
fortunately, the owner of a calf for which he 
has paid #1,000 thinks it sacrilege to put a 
rawhide on the brute, but the animal has no 
such foolish notions. 
cow consist ? This peculiarity is the produc¬ 
tion of very rich milk in small quantity. 
A cow, Oonan, 11 years old, and her recent per¬ 
formances, exemplify the Jersey cow’s peculi¬ 
arity. 8he has lived 11 years and has never 
been found out until lately, when she was 
tested. She was fed 16 pounds of “feed meal” 
(corn meal, probably), two quarts of cotton¬ 
seed meal, and a bushel of chopped oats daily t 
and was richly pastured besides. This is most 
extraordinary feeding, certainly. On this 
feed she made a little more than three pounds of 
butter daily from about 29 pounds or 13 quarts 
of milk. Now the yield of butter is scarcely 
so wonderful as the power of this cow to digest 
all this food without becoming sick and 
diseased. The test lasted only two weeks, 
and, if continued, would probably have lasted 
but little longer, as the cow could scarcely 
stand such high feeding more than a few days. 
Now, who knows what heretofore unheard of 
cow might not do as well on a test of this kind 
if it were tried ? But it is something like the 
The accident at the Rural Farm, in which 
the bravery and heroism of a woman no 
doubt saved her husband’s life from the feroc¬ 
ity of a Jersey bull, brings again into promi¬ 
nence the desirability of dishorning cattle. 
This operation, which is practically painless, 
or at the most, not more painful than the 
lancing of the gums of a teething child, an 
operation which is performed without any 
hesitation for the good of the infant, is the 
most effective means of averting all danger 
of that kind. The young h>rus, when first 
becoming conspicuously prominent under the 
skin, can be removed with the greatest ease. 
The skin over the horn is not the horn but the 
covering which, by its luture growth, forms 
afterwards the outer and insensible casing of 
the boru; that, in fact, which is called the 
horn. The ti U9 horn lies under this, and can 
easily be removed when in embryo by raiding 
a flap of the skin and cutting it out. It is done 
in a moment, a little plaster of tar over the cut 
protects the slight wound which soon heals. 
OUR ANIMAL PORTRAITS, 
The profitableness of breeding and rearing 
horses is very apparent when the figures are 
* considered. If ths Chicago 
market, for instance, is taken 
as an average one, we find 
that a draft team, weighing 
3,000 pounds, sells for #475, 
and one weighing 2,SOO for 
#450. A road horse of 1,000 
pounds brings #500, and a 
fair family horse #300. But 
a “ plug” sell» for #75. Now, 
any one can perceive that 
the difference between the 
cost of rearing a plug and a 
good horse is very little in 
the way of feed and chiefly 
in the service of the sire, a 
matter of say #50. The road 
hnr e, then, leaves behind it 
#450, and the team 1375, even 
at this high figure fer the 
sire. But 3,000 pounds of 
beef will not bring #875, and 
the horse flesh costs no more, 
but less than the beef; for 
the horse has earned its keep 
and has paid fur itself in 
work before it is six years 
Ik the Hou.Gideon Pitts, 
of Vermont, knows himself 
—and doubt less he does— 
the sheep breeding associa¬ 
tions herd-bot k>, flock- books 
or pedigree records as they 
are tn n&lity, are doing a 
misohief to the sheep while 
they aro advancing the 
breeders’ personal inter¬ 
ests. He is reported to 
have intimated that “ the 
great bulk of the pedigree 
business is undoubtedly 
crooked.” 
NOTES BY A STOCK 
MAN. 
A CORRESPONDENT of the 
Albany Cultivator and 
Country Gentleman states i'j) 
that the cruel, iuhuman and • ;*, 
if.-. 
injurious practice of over- 
stocking cows, which iske=p- 
ing the milk in the uddei s 
to give the appearance of a 
large yield, has lieeu charged i 
against *' some breeders of 
Jerseys at the late auction 
sales in New York.” It is a 
pity the names of the breed- fe 
ers accused of tins crime (for 
it is a crime against the cow 
and the deceived purchaser) * jgp 
are not given, so that the 
accused might have an op* 
portunity of clearing them¬ 
selves if Innocent, or of being 
exposed to public odium if guilty, 
the odium now sticks to all alike, 
ever, a trick nf the spaculative trade every¬ 
where, and must be expected. 
: * ' 
Query: Do the Guernsey 
brv eders—w ho are now busy 
getting up a boom and 
talking of the great neces¬ 
sity fora herd book—know 
that an American Guernsey 
Herd Record has been in 
existence for some years 
as the property of the 
Guernsey Breeders’Associa¬ 
tion ? 
AMERICAN BUYERS OF 
ENGLISH CATTLE. 
JERSEY HEIFER, PRINCESS OF ATHOL (10.833). (From a Photograi>ii.)—Fig. 340, 
Mississippi racing bo»t3 which are forced 
through the water by burning oil and bacon 
under the boilers. It lasts an hour or tw'o, 
and sometimes the boilers burst in the effort. 
But the successful one is a very fast boat, 
when she doesn’t blow up. 
Bulls are always worth watching. I have 
been laughed at more than once for getting 
out of the way of a young bull—a strange an¬ 
imal—when outtiug up “ didos ” in the yard, 
and put ing the fence in front of me. No 
stockman need be foolhardy in this respect. 
it may saieiy oe said that in consequence 
of the repeated purchases and large importa¬ 
tions for the past ten years alone, by American 
breeders of improved stock from Great 
Britain, this has been the means of increasing 
the price of choioe domestic animals of al 
In what does the peculiarity of the Jersey 
