1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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CROSSm JERSEY AND AYRSHIRE 
CATTLE. 
I should like to ask readers of The R. 
N.-Y. whether any of them have had any 
experience in crossing Jersey and Ayrshire 
caltle, or grading up an Ayrshire herd on 
a Jersey foundation? Jerseys seem hardly 
rugged enough for northern Illinois. 
<:urne.e, 111. ' C. E. D. 
I have no personal experience with 
Jersey and Ayrshire crosses, but some 
observation. 1 have seen individuals of 
value from these crosses, but as a rule 
results have been very unsatisfactory. 
The strange part of this story seems to 
be that people are chasing after this one 
single exception, a sport, and not seeing 
the multitude of scrubs. Any combina¬ 
tion that is likely to produce a phenom¬ 
enon is also likely to give us the other 
extreme. It is much like the farmer 
raising trotting horses; occasionally a 
trotter is produced, and so he continues 
looking for what rarely comes. It is all 
purely a gambling operation. I wanted 
a bit ot this experience, and tried cross¬ 
ing a Jersey upon a Holstein. The ex¬ 
perience we had will be worth some¬ 
thing to others; I hope so, because we 
lost in the operation. When we come to 
study the question of breeding, why 
cross-breed? Is it to obtain the valu¬ 
able qualities of both breeds in the off¬ 
spring? It is the one case of a thou¬ 
sand. The 999 will inherit the weak¬ 
nesses of the parents. In my judgment 
weak constitution is largely responsible 
for so much cross-breeding upon Jer¬ 
seys. Are there not Jerseys of strong 
constitutions? Certainly. Then why 
not search out for them? Or if we want 
the Ayrshire quality and constitution 
why not breed them? Volumes might 
be written upon this question, and not 
make it more emphatic than to say sim¬ 
ply “Don’t.” When we have grades of 
doubtful prepotency success may be as¬ 
sured from the start with a bull of any 
breed, prepotent and vigorous. He will 
stamp his progeny and a good founda¬ 
tion will be secured. ii. e. cook. 
SOME OHIO DAIRY MATTERS. 
1 kept 45 cows for 10 years, and sold them 
five years ago because of the competition 
of the Capitol City Dairy Co., manufac¬ 
turers of oleomargarine, who not only man¬ 
ufactured imitation butter, but sold sweet 
cream at prices ruinous to honest pro¬ 
ducers, 40 cents per gallon. This cream 
would suit the manufacturer of ice cream, 
but when churned failed to make butter, 
and yet they sold it and were steadily in¬ 
creasing their sales. Another reason for 
selling was that it seemed impossible at 
that time to establish any organization 
among the producers of milk and cream 
which would help them to fight their com¬ 
petitor. But thanks to the agricultural 
press and our law-makers, the oleo indus¬ 
try has been placed where it belongs, and 
the dairy business has a more hopeful 
piospect. Much is to be overcome yet to 
put the dairy industry where it should be 
in Franklin County. We are learning that 
in order to be successful we must feed a 
balanced ration to our cows; we must raise 
.and buy animals of the dairy type to get 
best results; we must practice more clean¬ 
liness in our barns, be more sanitary in 
our methods of handling the milk; in 
other words, we are learning to use busi¬ 
ness methods in our work slowly. More 
cows are being kept in this county to-day 
than ever before. Inter-urban electric rail¬ 
ways are threading our county, and they 
offer cheap transportation to the dairy 
farmer. The city dairyman is being thin¬ 
ned down by objection to his ill-ventilated 
barn, foul yard and slop-fed cows. I be¬ 
lieve that to the Ohio State Univer.sity, 
agricultural department, belongs the largest 
share of honor for the improvement in 
the dairies of the State, and especially in 
the vicinity of Columbus. For a number of 
years they have been sending milk into the 
city. They have set an example of sani¬ 
tary handling of milk and balanced-ration 
feeding that has been copied and is still 
going out and spreading. Through their 
methods they have been able to take such 
cows as the average farmer may have, 
and make them produce more milk per 
animal than the average farmer does. By 
their method of handling they have re¬ 
ceived a better price for their milk. A 
company was organized the past year (I 
think it is known as the Columbus Sanitary 
Milk Co.), for which both the producer and 
consumer should be grateful, and for which 
they will be if they work together as they 
should. There are in this county between 
350 and 400 wagons supplying the city w'ith 
milk and cream. This is almost double 
the number necessary to serve the city if 
it were properly districted. Another 
item which could be corrected if properly 
organized which is by no means a small 
one, is the case of persons who buy milk 
as long as their credit is good and when 
they have frozen one milkman out hunt 
up another. The company which has or¬ 
ganized the past season hopes to give relief 
to these and other troubles. Another item 
of importance to Ohio dairymen is that we 
need some good rational legislation on 
tuberculosis. J. f. 
Grove City, O. 
HOW TO START LITTLE PIGS. 
How do you handle the little pigs after 
weaning—particularly if you have no milk 
to feed them? 
It is customary with us after the pigs 
are weaned from the sow to feed them 
wheat middlings; a little warm if the 
weather is cold; make it good, not too 
thick and don’t feed too much at a time. 
The pigs should have learned by the time 
they are weaned from the sow to eat a 
little corn. A little pen by itself contain¬ 
ing a trough with corn in it is very de¬ 
sirable. The pigs will learn to eat while 
sucking the sow and will grow more rap¬ 
idly and be able to take care of the wheat 
middlings better after they are weaned. I 
take it for granted the inquirer has no 
milk. Of course, there is nothing better 
than cow’s milk, and if this were mixed 
with the wheat middlings it would make a 
first-class feed. If pigs are allowed to run 
out all the time, even though the weather 
is cold, they seem to gather a great deal 
of growing material from the earth, and 
it helps them greatly. We never pen our 
pigs up. After they have attained the age 
of four months ground rye can be fed in¬ 
stead of wheat middlings, and I think 
makes a better feed. a. j. collins. 
Moorestown, N. J. 
Where pigs have no milk they should not 
be weaned till they are six or eight weeks 
old, and as much longer as you can. Where 
one wishes to raise two litters in a year 
they will neces.sarily need weaning when 
two months old. We have the best luck 
in feeding hominy meal with a little mid¬ 
dlings, say three parts hominy to one part 
middlings. Scald this and make a thin 
slop, put in your table scraps if you have 
any; it will not hurt it. Never put dish¬ 
water in for pigs or any swine where 
washing powders are used. One great mis¬ 
take in raising pigs without milk, with 
some, is that they do not feed their little 
pigs often enough. They should be fed 
four or five times a day, and only a little 
at a time. They should have good warm 
quarters with plenty of good dry bedding. 
Pigs raised without milk will not do as 
well as pigs with milk the first two or three 
months of their life, but if fed a good 
balanced ration will look as well and be 
as big as the milk-fed when six months 
or a year old. b. c. Newell. 
Rowe. Mass. 
We are raising and shipping pigs for 
breeding purposes, consequently we let 
them remain on the sow until they are 
past eight weeks old, and then get them to 
ea ting at the earliest opportunity. We feed 
our small pigs when they first commence 
with new milk right fresh from the cow, 
and gradually reduce it by adding a cer¬ 
tain amount of skim-milk and warming it 
for them, until we bring them down to a 
skim-milk diet. We also gradually add a 
small amount of wheat middlings with 
their feed. The main point is to get them 
to eat all that you possibly can and still 
retain a good appetite. If we do not have 
the milk for our young pigs, we would use 
wheat middlings, adding about a tenth part 
of oil cake meal and scald the rations ard 
feed it to them hot. They will take to it 
nearly as readily as they will to new milk, 
and then gradually bring them on till they 
come down to regular rations, as they 
grow older. Edward walker. 
West Chester, Pa. 
The youngest hired man on the farm can spray 
Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry or other Live Stock 
safely and easily with 
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And it acts just as beneficially on them as yotur 
bath does on you. A swine breeder who u.ses it reg^ 
ularly will never have Hog Cholera attack his herd. 
Don’t buy make-believes or imitations; 
they disappoint. One gallon costs $1.50, 
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Cherry Pectoral 
“I have used Ayer’s Cherry Pec¬ 
toral in my family for eight years. 
There is nothing equal to it tor coughs 
and colds, especially for children. 
Mrs. W. H. Brymer, Shelby, Ala. 
One dose of this standard cough medicine at bedtime 
prevents night coughs of children. They escape the 
croup. Run no risk from bronchitis. A doctor’s medi¬ 
cine for all affections of the throat, bronchial tubes, and 
lungs. Ask your own doctor about it. iudr®u®Kgi8!^.' Lwe1f,®M2Si: 
THE KNOWING FARMER 
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The one who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is simple. 
The one who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep. 
The one who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, and this farmer knows that 
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