L^NTR'i' hO 
MEW YORK. SEPTEMBER 25, 1886 
PRICE FITE CENTS, 
$2.00 PEP. YEAR. 
Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 18S6, by the Rural New-Yorker In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 
provide 25,000,000 cattle and 50,000,000 
sheep, Australia, New Zealand and the Cape 
2,500,000 cattle and 20,000,000 sheep, the 
United States and Canada 9,375,000 cattle and 
9,750,000 sheep, the Argentine Republic and 
Uruguay 6,000,000 cattle and 24,000,000 sheep, 
and Central America 4,250,000 cattle and 
1,250,000 sheep. Hasn’t this scientist shown 
himself a pretentious humbug in these figures? 
According to the census of 1880, there were iu 
this country, six years ago, 993,841 working 
oxen, 12,443,120 milch cows, and 22,488,550 
other cattle, or a total of 35,924,511 cattle, 
and the number has largely increased since 
then, yet this “eminent statistician” allows to 
the Union and the Dominion only about one- 
third the number of cattle in the former. 
rounds” of the papers, even the grave, statis¬ 
tical Bradstreet having given them last week 
without a word of comment. 
G-rass is very rich and luxuriant, affording 
pasturage for sheep at the rate of 30,000 per 
square mile. Formerly the cattle were hunted 
down merely for their hides and tongues, the 
carcasses being abandoned to the wolves and 
vultures. Now they are slaughtered in abat¬ 
toirs where every part of the animal is made 
available, almost as carefully a3 iu Chicago. 
Except the comparatively small amount ex¬ 
ported fresh, the meat is salted or jerked for 
exportation; the tallow is boiled down, and 
the trade in hides is great and growing. In 
1872 the Province exported 203,610,000 pounds 
of wool; 72,970,000 pounds of sheep skin and 
1,121,756 pounds of ox and cow hides. 
LIVE STOCK IN BUENOS ATRES. 
Scarcely a week passes without sales of 
choice pure-bred English cattle for the im¬ 
provement of the herds of Buenos Ayres. A 
large number of English and Irish men have 
settled there, and most of them are engaged in 
stock-raising—the chief industry of the Prov¬ 
ince. Lately some experimental shipments 
of dressed meats have been made to England, 
and the prospect of a profitable trade in this 
line is stimulating cattle owners to im¬ 
prove their herds; for it is only high-grades 
or prime stock that can pay when exported as 
THE SCRUB. 
specimens of her race. Place the two side by 
side and observe the contrast. It is well to 
keep the appearance of 
our friends in mind, yet 
it is also useful to know 
how the enemy looks, 
that we may know him 
on all occasions. Such 
cattle as this old scrub J 
are the enemies* of all 
successful stock grow- <[| _ 
ing. It is the duty of 
all good farmers to unite '' ;. r 
in breeding and butcher- r ; . ^ 
ing them out of exist- 
ence. This old cow can . A.y A 
be seen any day on the ' "‘ ... . ■. - ' ; 
Hoboken flats. There is - - ’ 
something pitiful in the ,\ ■ t •- ■ . 
scarred face. It tells a 1 ’ I•. 
*. i , /• ».v - , v * 
sad story of abuse on the ; 
part of some cruel ow- ‘ v 
nor. With decent care • 
and feeding, warm shel- . ' c * 
ter and attention, this d, ‘ . . 
poor old wreck might tV^V Vj' ylC' 
have made a respectable 
cow, but hardly ever a 
profitable one. It is not 
the cow so much as the 
years of abuse on the , 
part of her master, and i \V »*• V? 
the generations of - . - / 
wretched ancestors, that '- V ^ 
look out so mournfully • ■ 
at usi. Could there l>e a v V JtvSs 
more striking illustra- t 1 sVh. 
tion of what man’s cru¬ 
elty and hereditary un- 
gaiulinoss may lead to? \ \; 
The lesson is repeated V? 'c v . 
over and over again. : 'v\ 
There is much in breed, . 
but there is still more m ^ \ \jv£ s 
care and feeding. Turn % ’ 
the beautiful “Golden \\'i 
Thistle” out on the bleak j 
ilats and subject her to 
the treatment this old 
scrub has endured, and 
how much better than 
this pitiful old creature 
would her grandchildren 
be? Give this old cow 
proper feed and care, let 
her run with pure-bred 
cattle, and her grandchildren, if their pareuts 
were equally well treated, could easily lay 
claim to respectability. 
CAUTION TO STOCK BUYERS IN LARGE VATt 
KETS. 
Within the last week 
we have noticed an¬ 
nouncements of out¬ 
breaks of various conta 
J gious diseases among 
live stock in different 
parts of the country— 
' chiefly hog cholera, 
| Texas fever and glanders 
f —owing to the careless 
introduction of stock 
brought in large mar- 
kets, like Chicago and 
St. Louis in the West, 
andBoston andPittsburg 
in the East. Here is a 
specimen: A fortnight 
S '-p, . ago S. S. Snodgrass, a 
jra farmer of Lancaster 
County, Pa., “bought 
^ Durham steers” 
N(mostly grades probably) 
at Chicago, brought 
them home and sold 
some to his neighbors. 
Within the first week 
four of them died, a 
number of others were 
sick last Monday' (when 
the case was reported) 
and several deaths had 
occurred among stock 
sold iu the neighbor¬ 
hood. The disease is 
said to be splenic apo¬ 
plexy. If so, it is a form 
of anthrax in which 
death is usually very 
sudden. The purchased 
cattle, we are told, are 
quarantined, as “the 
disease is very' contag¬ 
ious.” After death the 
flesh rapidly putrifies 
and becomes black, as 
in black-quarter or 
blaek-lcg (an analogous 
form of blood poisoning), 
and is totally unfit for 
human food. Even 
dogs aud hogs that have 
fed upon it have died 
within a few hours, and 
butchers who, in handling the animals, have 
been tainted iu cuts or scratches on their per - 
sons, have died in great agony. The carcass¬ 
es should be buried deep at onpe or, better, 
burned. Too much care canuot be taken iu 
buying stock “promiscuously” in large mar¬ 
kets. It frequently happens that unscrupu¬ 
lous owneis rush their stock to such markets 
ou the first appearance of disc iso among them, 
and it takes more or less time to become de¬ 
veloped. Thou, again, disease is sometimes 
contracted ou the road by contagion, either 
from infected cars, fodder or yards in which 
the stock are temporarily confined. Is it ever 
generated by hardship and cruelty? 
THE SCRUB. Drawn from Life, Hoboken Flats, .New Jersey. Fig. 366 
This eouutry had iu 1880, 35,192,074 sheep, 
nearly three times as mauy' as he assigns 
to the United States aud Canada. The figures 
for other countriesare just about as "correct.” 
After an elaborate array of figures of live 
stock, the genius computes that the world’s 
annual consumption of beef is 7,930,000,000 
kilogrammes—2 1-5 jxmuds—or 17,446,000,000 
pounds, aud of muttou, 10,550,000,000 kilo¬ 
grammes, and thou apportions to the inhabit¬ 
ants of each county a consumption of a certain 
number of kilogrammes mutually per head; 
but as his foundation is grossly false, his 
superstructure is, of course, a farrago of error. 
But we notice the figures are “going the 
fresh meat in view of the competition from 
this and other countries iu the British mar¬ 
kets. In 1876 the population of Buenos 
Ayres—the most important Province iu the 
Argentine Republic—was about 600,000, 
aud according to the latest returns, the 
immigration is between 60,000 aud 70,000 
a year. Area 440,000 square miles. 
There are about 45,000,000 sheep, which yield 
186,000,000 pounds of unwashed wool, 5,500,000 
cattle and 1,500,000 horses, or 200 sheep, 20 
cattle and 6 horses for every man, woman and 
child in the Province. The sheep farms 
cover 40,000,000 acres, and there are about 
30,000 shepherds—mostly' Irish aud Scotch. 
STOCK JOTTINGS. 
A STATISTICAL HUMBUG. 
Mr. P. S. Lamas is “au economist of great 
repute" in some parts of the world, especially 
in South America, from which he hails. He is 
certainly a tremendous compiler of figures; 
but we more than doubt their correctness. 
According to bus computation there are ou the 
surface of the globe 47,500,000 head of cattle 
and 105,000,000 of sheep. Europe aud Algeria 
