VOL. XLVII. NO. 2019 
NEW YORK, OCTOBER 6, 1888 
PRICE FIVE CENTS. 
$2.00 PER YEAR. 
'[Entered According to Act of Congress,‘.in the Year 1888, by the Rural New-Yorker, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.] 
WORK-HORSES AT CORNELL UNIVER¬ 
SITY. 
At au early day in the history of Cornell 
University, Mr. L. G. Morris, of Fordham, 
N. Y., who was interested in the breeding 
of horses, presented to the University a fine 
stallion—a grandson of Lexington. He was 
not a very successful stock-getter, but two 
mares of his get were raised and kept for 
breeding purposes on the farm. They were 
small—about 800 pounds each—and their limbs 
were somewhat imperfect. They were bred 
to Raspail, a thoroughbred Percheron import¬ 
ed by Hon. Howard G. White, and three 
animals of this cross are still on the farm— 
the team of brown geldings, shown at the 
right of the stallion in Fig. 331, and the gray 
mare in the team at the left. This mare, 
being bred to Genitor, a thoroughbred Perch¬ 
eron, owned by J. W. Akin, of Scipio, N. Y., 
produced the mare shown at the right in 
the cut, now three years old, and the mother 
of the colt the head and shoulders of which 
show in the cut. 
The stallion shown at the center of the pic¬ 
ture is Spartacus, an imported Percheron. 
He is the property of Professor I. P. Roberts, 
and was imported from France when a colt. 
The breeding of good work-horses suited 
for general farm work is a profitable and 
pleasant business. The Percheron grades 
shown m the picture are excellent types of 
a class of horses needed on large farms. They 
are special-purpose horses, designed for farm 
work alone and not for riding and driving 
as well. Such horses must possess weight, 
strength, intelligence and patience. A fast 
walk is all that is desired of them in the way 
of speed. Farmers who use such horses have 
enough work to keep them constantly em¬ 
ployed, so that there is no occasion for using 
them for other purposes. On such farms, a 
roadster will be kept for rapid driving. 
On page 493 we called attention to the fact 
that old and clumsy systems of plumbing are 
fruitful sources of disease and death. There 
are plumbing fixtures that are stronger, less 
clumsy and far safer, that are not more gener¬ 
ally adopted because large interests are center¬ 
ed in the manufacture of the old kinds, and 
the change to the new fixtures would involve 
a considerable outlay. Since that note was 
published, several subscribers have requested 
us to illustrate the newer and better plumbing 
fixtures. Many farmers are fitting their houses 
with water-closets and other similar contriv¬ 
ances. It is absolutely necessary that they 
should guard against any possible breeding- 
place for disease. The few appliances that 
they use should be of the best possible con¬ 
struction. 
In the Popular Science Monthly for July 
there is an excellent article entitled, “ Safety 
in House Drainage.” By the courtesy of the 
editors, we are permitted to re-engrave some 
of the illustrations for the Rural. They will 
doubtless answer many of the questions our 
subscribers have sent us. 
It is concluded that a water-seal—that is, a 
body of water held in the pipe between the 
vault or cess-pool'and the closet proper—is the 
best resisting medium against poisonous air of 
any kind. In 1877 an Austrian scientist con¬ 
ducted a series of experiments to prove that 
disease-germs can never be given off from a 
liquid at rest in any ordinary temperature. 
In 1880, the United States National Board of 
Health carefully investigated this subject, 
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