VOL XLVI1I. NO. 2050 
NEW YORK, MAY 11, 1889. 
PRICE FIVE CENTS, 
$2.00 PER.YEAR. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, In the Year 1889, by the Rural New-Yorker, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.] 
£}0rsfm<m. 
HEAD OP A WELL-BRED HORSE 
S OME two years ago the R. N. Y. gave 
pictures of two widely different types 
of cettle. One picture represented a 
Short-horn heifer— probably one of the most 
beautiful animals in the country. This was 
designed to show what skill and care, coupled 
with scientific breeding, might accomplish. 
The other picture gave the head of a poor, old 
scrub cow, bruised, battered and neglected. 
It was a very powerful object-lesson, show¬ 
ing that kindness and care in the handling of 
cattle pay, as the fact was never shown 
before Now the R. 
N.-Y. repeats its for¬ 
mer lesson, only taking 
two types of horses 
this time. The picture 
shown at Fig. Ill is 
drawn from life. Our 
artist tried to find the 
most intelligent-look¬ 
ing animal possible. 
He has chosen a coach 
horse that does daily 
service on Fifth Ave¬ 
nue in this city. This 
horse is half Clydes¬ 
dale and half French 
Coach and is magnifi¬ 
cently formed in every 
respect. His face iB 
almost human in its 
intelligence. He may 
well stand as the rep¬ 
resentative of intelli¬ 
gent breeding and 
faithful care. Next 
week we shall show an¬ 
other picture—that of 
a poor, broken-down 
wretch of a horse, 
driven by inhuman 
treatment aud careless¬ 
ness to a ghost of his 
former self. It will 
make a powerful con¬ 
trast; it will teach a 
mighty lesson, and 
may be the means of 
ending some of the 
cruel neglect that 
shows itself far too fre¬ 
quently on our streets. 
It is one of the keen¬ 
est enjoyments of the 
appreciative man to 
own and care for 
an intelligent aud sen¬ 
sitive horse. It is one 
of the most aggravat¬ 
ing and discouraging 
phases of farm life to 
be obliged to work 
with a “luuk-head,” 
a poor, dispirited, 
wretched beast that 
has been cowed and 
maltreated until he 
has lost all respect for 
himself. For horses 
can lose their relf-re- 
spect, though good 
usage and kindness 
will bring some of it 
back ugaw. A good 
horse or a vicious 
horse will reflect, In 
its temper aud be¬ 
havior, many of the 
characteristics of its 
owner. 
Burfil dofics. 
A FARMER’S FARM NOTES. 
Old-time Veterinary Delusions.— It is 
surprising that so many farmers who ought 
to know better, stick to the old notion that 
when the end of a cow’s tail is soft it ought to 
be cut open. Some time ago a farmer came 
to see my stock, aud on going behind the cows 
took bold of their tails, and said they were 
soft and ought to be slit open. I told him I 
guessed they would be all right when they 
were older. He came to a Guernsey bull 
which is called a fine animal, and taking hold 
of his tail, said: “That is a handsome bull; 
but if his tail had been slit open a year ago, he 
would have been twice as large.’’ Said I: 
“ How old do you think he is V He said : “A 
year and a half.” I could hardly keep from 
laughing, and said: “ He is just nine months 
old.” You never saw a cheaper-looking man 
than he was, and he had nothing more to say 
about soft tails. A few days after this, I was 
in a neighbor’s barn. He and his son were 
there and I told them what this man had said. 
He said the man was right and that their tails 
ought to be cut, and the son went along to 
their cows, and taking up the tall of one of 
them found it soft. He said the blood ought 
to be let out, and took his knife and slit it 
open. Since then I was in the same barn and 
the man told me they had a cow that had gar¬ 
get, and was giving bloody milk. They had 
cut a hole in her breast and put a piece of 
fLOO,, 
HEAD OF A WELL-BRED HORSE. Fig. Ill 
garget root under the skin, and the cow’s 
breast was badly swollen. 
Fastenings for Cows in the Stable.— 
A few years ago I gave up the pole and chaia 
for tying cows, and put them in stanehions, 
and like them very much. I know the cows 
do not have a chance to move their heads 
very much, but if they are bedded and kept 
as clean as they should be, I think they are as 
comfortable as when tied by chain and not 
receiving any better care than most of the 
farmers give their cows. I have an old-stylo 
barn, but have fixed it up so that the manure 
never freezes, except perhaps when it is very 
windy and the mercury goes down to 15 or 20 
degrees below zero. Then the manure which is 
hoed back from the cows about 8:30 in the 
evening will be slightly crusted when I look 
in to see that all is right in the morning. The 
cows and bull are 
carded every day, sum¬ 
mer and winter, from 
head to heels, and kept 
dry and clean. They 
are fed three times, 
and watered twice a 
day, and on pleasant 
days they stay in the 
yard an hour or so. 
Churning Butter. 
—I see by the Rural 
that some persons have 
trouble in churning, 
and have hard work to 
get any butter. My 
cows are Guernsey and 
Jersey and are fed 
good hay and three 
quarts of meal and two 
quarts of bran daily, 
and have salt nearly 
very day. The milk 
is set in shallow pans 
where the temperature 
is from 55 to 65 de¬ 
grees. I skim when the 
milk has turned sour. 
The cream is kept down 
cellar in a room made 
for that purpose until 
just before churning, 
and then warmed to 64 
degrees. 1 do not 
churn longer than five 
to eight minutes. I 
use a Blanchard churn 
and Reid butter- 
worker. I never use 
any butter color, and 
the butter sells for a 
good price. 
Hen Manure an 
Overrated Ferti¬ 
lizer. —There seems to 
be a great difference 
in opinion in regard 
to the value of hen 
manure as a fertilizer. 
Some say that a bar¬ 
rel of it is as good as 
a barrel of any ferti¬ 
lizer, and others say a 
barrel is enough to top- 
dress an acre of grass 
land. I have tried it on 
different crops, and 
have received very lit¬ 
tle benefit from it. 
Last season 1 planted 
three rows of fodder 
corn, using hen manure 
mixed with its bulk of 
loam, and three rows 
with twice as much 
manure, and the hog 
manure gave a g< od 
deal better results than 
the hen manure. 
r. n. h. 
