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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
July 4 
COOD POINTS OF SHORT-HORNS. 
Will you toll us some of the good 
points you claim for the Short-horn cattle 
as beef animals? Some of our eastern 
farmers are thinking seriously of seeding 
down i)arts of their farm and pasturing 
■cattle, as the farm labor problem is such 
that tliey are quite discouraged over rais¬ 
ing farm crops. These men will, we 
think, look over various breeds of cattle 
with some care, and will want to get the 
animals which will respond quickest to 
good pastures and feed. 
You ask me why I prefer Short-horn 
cattle to other breeds. The primary rea¬ 
son is that a Short-horn is good in every 
way you want him; good for beef, good 
for milk, good for butter, and good for 
cheese. Short-horns are the only breed 
of cattle that 1 know anything about 
combining all these good qualities. 
Plattsourg, Mo. w. t. clay. 
I think Short-horn cattle are the best 
for the general farmer. They are pre¬ 
eminently a beef animal, a large per 
cent of them, and will respond to good 
care second to none. Should you want 
a good milch cow, plenty of them are 
fine milkers, and when dried off will lay 
on flesh rapidly and put it in the right 
place. E. C. ITOEEAND. 
Milton, Iowa. 
The Short-horns will undoubtedly im¬ 
prove any breed of cattle that they may 
be crossed on. They respond quickly 
to good feed and attention, and while 
they are as hardy as any of the beef 
breeds they will more than repay any 
extra feed or attention that is bestowed 
upon them. The cows, as a rule, are 
heavy milkers, and when dry and turn¬ 
ed on good grass quickly fatten and 
often without other feed get fat; they 
are good mothers, kind and gentle. 
Marshall, Mo. j. k. kino. 
The Short-horn breed is the oldest and 
most widely known of all the beef 
breeds. There are over four times as 
many of them recorded every year as 
there are of all other beef breeds com¬ 
bined; more than four times as many 
of them pass through the sale ring an¬ 
nually, and usually at better prices. Not¬ 
withstanding the fact that the friends of 
the other breeds blow their horn long 
and loud the above facts clearly prove 
the great popularity of the Short-horns. 
Using the language of Senator W. A. 
Harris: “Rival breeds may come and go, 
the recipients of a short-lived fancy, but 
the Short-horn goes on forever.” Our 
claim for the Short-horns is that they 
are fully equal to any other breed for 
beef alone, and in addition to this they 
are most excellent milk and butter cat¬ 
tle, thus making them preeminently the 
farmer’s cow. They are also more docile 
than any of the other beef breeds. 
Morning Sun, la. a. Alexander. 
It would be very hard for farmers in 
New York State to get accustomed to 
keeping a cow for no other purpose 
than to raise the calf. They have fol¬ 
lowed dairying too long for that. Then 
why not try a dual-purpose cow? No 
other breed can stand against the Short¬ 
horn for one moment in that capacity. 
I am willing to admit (but very few 
Short-horn breeders will) that for a 
butcher’s beast pure and simple there is 
no perceptible difference between the 
Short-horn, Hereford and Angus. Each 
has won over the others in the beef 
market, and in the show ring of the 
various fairs over the country. But in 
the dairy department the Short-horn 
stands supreme; the only breed among 
the beef breeds that had the nerve to 
compete with the dairy cattle at the 
World’s Fair, and there with everything 
to content against, It made a very credit¬ 
able showing, As regards beef aai beef 
only I will »ay perhaps (thou^ I will 
not admit it) the Hereford may surpass 
in the arid districts of the Southwest, 
the Angus in the bleak hills and moun¬ 
tains of Montana, but in the good rich, 
succulent pastures of old New York no 
breed on earth will equal the Short¬ 
horn. You will get more flesh, more 
size, more milk from the Short-horn 
than from any other breed. And I would 
advise your friend not to go fashion 
crazy in pedigree, but buy good indi¬ 
viduals that have come down through 
good hands, whether Scotch Butes or 
the good old American sorts. Be care¬ 
ful in the selection of a bull to head the 
herd; the best is none too good. 
Webster City, la. f. a. Edwards. 
COMBINING SHEEP AND DAIRY. 
I think this combination an excellent 
idea, easy and profitable, if you leave 
the cows out entirely. Why be tied to a 
cow eight days in the week, when life 
is so short and the hired help question 
is so perplexing, and good wives are 
worth too much to be made into dairy 
maids? From the standpoint of the 
sheep I think it all right, for they will 
grow fat and rob the cows when pas¬ 
tured together. If sheep are used as 
bush and weed killers after the cows I 
think it a good way to keep the farm 
clean and looking nice. As to breed, 
any grade, coarse-wool, with a Tunis 
(of course), and raise Winter lambs. I 
do not know the average size of dairy 
farms, but if one must keep cows 20 or 
25 sheep to 100 acres, but they require 
almost as much attention as 200, so sell 
the cows and keep the sheep. 
Orleans Co.. N. Y. clark allis. 
The farm 1 now live on, and all of the 
farms in this county, were farmed with 
cattle and sheep at same time back in 
the sixties. Now there are scarcely any 
sheep to be found here. Two reasons 
may be given; most of the fences are 
poor, rail fences and barbed wire, or all 
fencing has been built for cattle. The 
greatest trouble has been with dogs 
killing, wounding and destroying the 
flocks late in the Fall. I would advise 
putting small flocks of sheep with cov/s 
or put a few Jersey heifers with horns 
on with sheep to protect from dogs. 
The kind of sheep I have had with cat¬ 
tle were the fine-wooled or half-blood 
Merino, as they stand all kinds of 
weather better than open-wooled sheep. 
Some would want a larger sheep, as the 
money is in lambs, but there is one 
thing sure; the farmer and his land will 
be richer with a small flock of sheep of 
either coarse or fine-wooled breeds. 
Pennsylvania. n. 
My advice would depend upon the 
man. The person who likes to care for 
sheep and lambs is sure to succeed. The 
profits of the business are in the in¬ 
crease of the flock. It is here where 
the shepherd’s good attention and kind 
care count in dollars. The hilly or 
rough farm is best adapted for sheep 
pasture. A person not accustomed to 
the care of sheep would be surprised to 
see the difference in the fleeces of the 
same breeds pastured on high hilly or 
low flat land. Limestone soils, while 
for many reasons peculiarly suited to 
sheep raising, have a tendency to pro¬ 
duce more harshness in wool than that 
from sheep pastured on clay or gravel 
soils. The sheep is the plant scavenger 
of the farm, through its dainty nibbling 
of herbage. We might suppose its likes 
were few and dislikes many, yet every 
plant at some period of its growth seems 
palatable. If sufficient number of sheep 
are kept on one field for any length of 
time every species of bush and brier is 
entirely destroyed, I think that the 
gra4« Southdown is beat tor wool gad 
early lambs; the fleeces average seven 
pounds, the weight of lambs at birth be¬ 
ing IVz pounds. Cows and sheep should 
have separate pastures in Summer; in 
Winter sheep should have dry cold quar¬ 
ters with a run in an open shed. A 
warm stable that is suited for cows 
would be injurious to sheep. At the 
birth of a lamb care should be taken to 
see that the weakly lamb has nourish¬ 
ment and dry feet; he will stand and 
thrive if the quarters are cold. The 
butcher pays fancy prices for the March 
lambs. The rule is five sheep will eat 
as much as one cow; one man will do 
the work of caring for 100 sheep easier 
than two men can care for 20 cows. 
There is one risk In the sheep business 
that is hard to overcome, that is loss 
from dogs worrying or killing sheep. 
This Summer I shall try this plan; in¬ 
stead of trying to collect damages from 
owners of dogs I shall notify the town 
assessors, then perhaps the taxpayers 
will help to shoot roaming and tramping 
dogs. Sheep are subject at all times to 
attacks of ticks. Wherever these ani¬ 
mals are kept there should be a dipping 
tank ready for use at any time. At 
shearing time the ticks leave the sheep 
and pass to the iambs. The lambs 
should then be dipped. The late Col. 
Curtis, who 20 odd years ago was a 
worker in the farmers’ institutes, recom¬ 
mended shearing sheep in the month of 
April. I have followed his advice with 
good results. Opinions with regard to 
the amount of water necessary for sheep 
vary more than with any domestic ani¬ 
mal I know. Mr. Miller, of Canada, 
who has had large experience with Eng¬ 
lish mutton sheep writes (in Wisconsin 
Bulletin No. 7), that wherever sheep are 
fed so that they will not drink water 
they are fed in nearly the proper man¬ 
ner; as with horses and cows so with 
sheep. The eye of the master fattens 
his cattle, says a German adage. 
Oneida Co., N. Y. d. w. miller. 
Some Virginia Methods.— We secured a 
line crop of Crimson clover hay, part 
mixed with oats and part with wheat. I 
like the wheat best, as it holds up the 
clover better. Clover was two feet high, 
wheat three. 1 think it cut all of three 
tons per acre. We have enough hay to 
winter our stock and the ground all 
plowed and planted except the part that 
we ke^ for late potatoes to be planted 
about July 1. By plowing as soon as hay 
was off 1 was able to take advantage of 
the first rain and plant corn, cow peas and 
peanuts, and get them in nearly as soon 
as the man who left his land bare all 
Winter, and it is better than it was in 
spite of two to three tons of clover re¬ 
moved, but I find one must put on the 
chemicals to keep land in heart with this 
heavy cropping. I make one acre of my 
land worth two, but it makes lots of work in 
May; haying, plowing, planting and berry¬ 
picking all at once. a. f. a. 
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