PRICE FIVE CENTS. 
$2.00 PER YEAR. 
NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 20, 1886 
Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1886, by the Rural New-Yorker In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 
Hon. H. C. Adams contended that the dairy- veutions or read papers, is still an unsolved 
man should aim at the production of 300 pounds problem. By holding conventions at differ- 
of choice butter per cow every year. This will eut places, a few of these may be attracted 
afford twice the net profit of a yield of 200 and instructed; but there is such a multitude 
pounds. He thought that it cost about $10 to of them that the number benefited would be 
pasture a cow through the Summer, or five comparatively small. The man of experience 
cents a day. He recouuneuded the growing of in dairy matters is the man who is least posi- 
pumpkins, and recommended the removal of tive about what he knows, and the one most 
the seeds before feeding them. But they should desirous to learn. “Trifles light as air” are 
be cultivated by themselves, on well manured floating in the atmosphere, and often find 
ground, in hills eight feet apart. In this way, their way into the milk, to the discomfiture 
it is impossible for the bugs to keep up with °f the unlucky dairyman Knowledge and 
the procession. His cows are fed grain twice '-•are are necessary to guard against or over- 
a day, each time immediately after milking. come these occult difficulties. Milk is a very 
He would feed three, parts, by weight, of cut complex and sensitive compound, mixed both 
hay or stalks, with each grain ration. Corn chemically and mechanically, and is subject 
and oats, ground together, produce the best- to manifold influences that hasten decay from 
colored milk. No ration, exclusively of one the moment it is drawn until it is consumed or 
has gone into final 
decomposition. 
Mrs. C. V. Layton, 
in a paper on the 
dignity of labor, rid¬ 
iculed aud satirized 
the hypocritica 
twaddle on the sub¬ 
ject indulged in by 
orators and writers. 
Labor is a hard fact, 
useful, elevating and 
necessary, but often 
very far from being 
dignified, Martha 
Washington doing 
her own house work 
with her hands cov¬ 
ered with dough and 
her face powdered 
with flour, would be 
a very different-ap¬ 
pearing personage 
from Lady Washing¬ 
ton with powdered 
hair and clothed in 
fashionably-made 
dresses of silks and 
brocades. ‘‘The 
strength of the State 
lies in the welfare of 
its weakest members. 
May we not all be 
employed in welding 
this chain of brother¬ 
hood ? We are called 
to work with heart, 
head and hand—to 
work while the day 
lasts, ‘for the night 
soon cometh when no 
man can work.’ ” 
Mi*s. D. G. James 
took up the subject 
of amusements for 
Diunj ijiislniutin). 
A FINE HEREFORD COW. 
Wk show, at Fig. 73, a beautiful specimen 
of the Hereford breed of cattle. This cow, 
Lemou 2d, is an imported animal bred by Mr. 
B. Rogers, of Herefordshire, England. Since 
1881 she has occupied a place m the flue herd 
belonging to the Agricultural College of Michi¬ 
gan. She has won a large number of first 
premiums at leading fail's, and is, without 
doubt, oue of the best Herefords in Michigan. 
The cattle at the Michigan College are of the 
first order of merit. Under the skillful 
management of Prof. Johnson the herd has 
l*een greatly im¬ 
proved. 
Short-horns pre¬ 
dominate, yet there 
are specimens of all 
the popular breeds, so 
that students can 
study the character¬ 
istics of each. Stock 
growing is such an 
important feature of 
Western agriculture 
that it seems proper 
to push it to the very 
trout iu agricultural 
education. The stock 
at such institutions 
should be of the finest 
quality, so good that 
the surplus will al¬ 
ways be in demand 
among the farmers of 
the .Slate. The an¬ 
nual sales of stock 
from the Michigan 
College amount to 
$8,000, while the 250 
students are supplied 
with milk from the 
dairy herd. The 
Short-horns have long 
held full sway in 
Michigan, but the 
Herefords are now 
rapidly growing in 
favor. Oue man has 
established a “White¬ 
faced dairy herd" 
that bids fair to be¬ 
come famous. 
At a Farmers* In¬ 
stitute held a few 
years since, a success¬ 
ful breeder who had 
handled both breeds, 
uual convention, at Richland Center, January 
20th. It was well attended, and the talent 
present was of a superior order. The interest 
was kept up to the close. 
After the preliminaries were over, President 
Morrison read his opening address, bristling 
with suggestions aud good points. Among 
other things, he said that at this stage of pro¬ 
gress no oue should expect to succeed in dairy¬ 
ing who pursues it iu a mere routiue way. 
To be successful it must be pursued in a busi¬ 
ness way. He expressed the opinion that one- 
quarter of the so-called butter uow thrown 
on the market is bogus, and that uo law will 
ever afford protection to the best article of 
butter, which must be above all imitation or 
successful counterfeiting, So long as so much 
inferior butter is made, bogus butter has 
stated that in his 
HEREFORD COW, LEMON 2d. Fig. 73. 
the young; there is a 
opiuiou, a cross be¬ 
tween the Short-horn and Hereford would 
produce the finest breed the world has ever 
known. This seems possible when we study 
the pedigrees of many of the winners at 
recent fat stock shows. It is possible that 
some enthusiastic breeder with a fortune and 
a life-time to devoto to the enterprise, may 
reach results that will rival in importance 
those of the famous Coiliugs. 
WISCONSIN DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATE. 
(RITRAI. SPECIAL REPORT.) 
Attendance and interest good; In tans dairy 
products; selection of dairy stack; feed far 
dairy stack; roots far stack; ignorance in 
dairy matters; twaddle about the dignity 
of labor; amusements for the young; dis¬ 
criminating cows; effects of feed on the 
composition of milk; temperature in churn¬ 
ing; no gene rat -jju t'UOse caw in the dairy; 
experiments in feeding for mitkand butter; 
ensilage; Fanners' Institutes; annual profit 
for dairy cows; woman in the cheese room. 
This association met in its fourteenth au- 
eome to stay, for at least 60 per cent, of the 
butter in market is inferior to the products 
of (he Chicago grease-vats. He favored pro¬ 
tection of the consumer and the dairyman 
against fraud, by appropriate laws vigorously 
enforced. Those sentiments met, with the ap¬ 
probation of the convention. 
Fred. E. Carswell found careful selection 
of dairy stock the first and most important 
step to be taken by the dairyman. He would 
not favor any oue breed, because no oue will 
suit all tastes nml circumstances; but he 
would bo careful to select cows with all the 
dairy characteristics, ami breed pure or to¬ 
wn d purity for the purpose of keeping up 
aud improving the standard of excellence. 
The care of a dairy herd is important, but not 
as difficult to understand as is the selection. 
He recommended com and shorts for winter 
grain feed; corn and oats for spring, aud bran 
for summer food. Ho believes in so fettling as 
to keep up the flow of milk and the condition 
of the cow at all seasons. 
kind of grain, equals ground oats, but these 
are too expensive if they cost over 20 cents a 
bushel. A cow noeds change in her grain 
feed. A good alternation is from middlings 
•uid bran to corn meal and oil meal, or oat 
meal and middlings. Rye bran is good; but 
buckwheat bran is a nuisance. Malt sprouts 
are as nitrogenous as oil meal, but need soak¬ 
ing three days before they are fed. They 
weigh as light as bran, are sweet and relishable 
and easily digested. Clover cut iu full bloom 
is the best hay, and millet ranks uext. Corn 
fodder aud fodder corn should always be run 
through a feed-cutter. The indications are 
that the silo is assuming a shape that will 
make a half revolution iuour feeding proces¬ 
ses, for there is need of a succulent food for 
winter use. Good management still secures a 
uet profit to the dairyman,-even in these hard 
times of close competition. 
T. D. Curtis read a short paper ou the un¬ 
known iu dairying. How to reach the great 
uon-progressive moss who do not atteud con- 
pressing need for 
something that will cultivative a refined 
sociality and at the same time not lead to 
excess and dissipation. Exuberant youth will 
not consent to be chained down to the sober 
routino of Life that satisfies conservative old age. 
While the dangers that are encountered iu 
cities and villages are not so imiuiueut among 
a scattered rural population, there is hardly 
less danger in the isolation that makes the 
soul yearn for social intercourse, and fills it 
with u desire to mingle in the activities of the 
great outside world. There is danger iu both 
extremes, and how to strike a just balance 
that will lie satisfactory, aud avoid both 
Scylla and Charvbdis is the problem of the 
hour. This must be done by appealing to both 
head and heart, and subjecting all amusements 
to the guidance of reason and the dictates of 
virtue. None feel a deeper interest iu this 
problem than the mothers of our laud who have 
no voice through the ballot box in regulatiug 
the public places of resort, and guarding 
against the pernicious outside influences which 
