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July 14 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PRICE OF DAIRY STOCK. 
Why is the price of purebred Holstein- 
Friesian cattle so much higher than Jer¬ 
seys or olher purebred stock? A young 
liolstein-Friesian cow is priced at $100; a 
Jersey at $60; bull calves, Holstein, $50; Jer¬ 
sey, $25. c. P. O. 
Lyman, N. H. 
The reason these cattle sell for so 
much more than the Jerseys in the West 
is the fact that they are much preferred 
by the general farmer and dairyman on 
account of their large size, hardy con¬ 
stitution, and ability to turn the cheap, 
rough feed into butter and milk. The 
old cows, when turned for beef, bring 
fully as much as the beef breeds, while 
the bull calves for veal are not equaled 
by any breed. The writer recently re¬ 
turned from a short trip through the 
dairy district of southern Wisconsin, 
and finds there is a great demand for 
the breed in that section, where Jerseys 
were once very popular. 
Hampton, Iowa. w. b. barney. 
It is a new idea to me that Holstein 
cattle as a rule sell for higher prices 
than Jerseys. Of course this may be 
true of the particular locality where 
C. P. 0. lives. But I think that no re¬ 
cent sales of Holsteins will show as high 
average pieces as the late Cooper sale of 
Jerseys. Both breeds sell for a mere 
fraction of what they did in their palm¬ 
iest days. The history of Jersey sales 
in the decade from 1875 to 1885 reads 
like a veritable romance. The fact that 
Holsteins are less widely distributed, 
less numerous and somewhat larger and 
later in developing, should perhaps make 
them bring at least a little more money. 
JARED VAN WAGENEN, JR. 
New York. 
Your subscriber has simply experi¬ 
enced tut a single instance, for it is not 
by any means a fact, that Holsteins are 
higher-ipriced than any other purebred 
stock. As you know, prices depend en¬ 
tirely upon the quality and other valu¬ 
able points, and if C. P. O. had been 
present at Mr. Cooper’s sale he would 
have paid a great deal more than $1,600 
for a young Jersey cow. I am unable to 
agree wiui your subscriber, that he can 
purchase a jersey for $60, and is forced 
to pay $100 for an equally good animal 
of the Holstein breed. I do not think 
such a condition exists in any country. 
Here about Maryland a Holstein would 
be sold with difficulty, as the milk de¬ 
manded by Baltimore consumers re¬ 
quires the use oi Jerseys or their equal. 
Maryland. asa b. gardiner, jr. 
On May 30, li-vO, Mr. T. S. Cooper sold 
at auction 98 Jerseys at an average of 
$340. There could not have been many 
$60 cows and $25 bulls in that sale. Bull 
calf under six months sold for $25? No, 
$800. At $60 for cows and heifers and 
$25 for bulls the sale would have 
amounted to $4,935. When and where 
have 98 Holsteins been sold for $33,390? 
On April 11 and 12 Ayer & McKinney 
sold 130 Jerseys at an average of about 
$100. When has a herd of 130 Hol¬ 
steins, including aged and defective cows 
and young calves, been sold for $13,037? 
How can we better judge of the present 
prices of cattle than what they will 
bring at public sale? Where has there 
been a sale of Jerseys at $60 and $25? 
It is true that an occasional scrub, dear 
as a gift, has been sold at such a price. 
Miller & S'ibley are extensive breeders, 
and advertise “No animal sold for less 
than $100.” “$600 will buy 10 yearling 
Holstein-Friesian heifers.” See adver¬ 
tisement in Hoard’s Dairyman. Mr. S. 
Hoxie, Superintendent of Advanced 
Registry, gives Holstein tests reported 
in May. Official tests made by 37 cows 
average estimated in butter 13 pounds 
four ounces at 85.7 per cent fat. This 
is certainly not the reason that Holsteins 
sell higher than butter-producing cows. 
20 of these 37 cows, if they were Jerseys, 
would not be considered worth report¬ 
ing. Without expensive advertising, I 
have sold the increase and surplus of a 
herd of 120 Jerseys. With an occasional 
advertisement in The R. N.-Y. and a 
'few other papers, I have had no difficulty 
in obtaining buyers, and have not sold 
a single animal, including bull calves, 
for less than $50, in the last four years. 
Landenberg, Pa. s. e. niven. 
The price of Holsteins and Jerseys is 
owing entirely to and governed by lo¬ 
cality. In my State there is quite a dif¬ 
ference in tne price of the two breeds. 
Where the Jersey would make a basis of 
$100, the Holstein would not bring $40; 
in fact, will not sell for any price. I 
bought a few in a trade for other cat¬ 
tle, and had to ship them to Texas to 
sell them, and I have no trouble in sell¬ 
ing Jersey cows at a good price, and 1 
cannot keep heifers; there is more de¬ 
mand, and a as been for yeans, at good 
prices, if your subscriber will study the 
sale of Mr. T. S. Cooper’s stock, and see 
the prices that the Jersey cows sold for, 
and then point out a recent sale of Hol¬ 
steins for anything like one-half the 
prices, I will have no more to say, so 
the only way to answer his question is 
the locality. j. t. henderson. 
Auvergne, Ark. 
Retention of Afterbirth in Cows. 
'The usual cause, if not the exclusive 
one, is the want of vigor and thrift in 
the cow, as in nearly every case those 
that are strong, hearty and thriving are 
free from this trouble; consequently, all 
cows, as well as every other animal, 
should have extra care and feed as this 
important time approaches. If a liberal 
feed of wheat bran is given each day for 
two weeks or more before this, in which 
a large tablespoonful of wood ashes are 
mixed, and the whole wetted with warm 
water, I have always found it a sure pre¬ 
ventive. Another point in my experi¬ 
ence is the advisability of not having the 
afterbirth removed unless it can be done 
by a thoroughly competent veterinary, 
which is often hard to get in the coun¬ 
try. Most of the so-called “cow doctors” 
who practice it only remove a part, leav¬ 
ing the remainder for Nature to remove, 
thus being of no benefit. Unless a well- 
known specialist is at hand, it is better 
to feed the cow liberally, giving plenty 
of hot bran mash, with a liberal infusion 
of boneset tea, and await results. 
Avoca, N. Y. a. c. 
Donkey Meat.— The English Pall Mall 
Gazette tells of a Frenchman in Paris 
who lost a very fine donkey. Search 
was made and the animal was found 
near a horse-butcher shop waiting his 
turn to be slaughtered; 
There is a special slaughter-house at La 
Villette for the despatching of these ani¬ 
mals, and a special staff of inspectors to 
see that none but healthy beasts are put 
on the market. The retail horse-butchers 
are fairly numerous in the populous dis¬ 
tricts, and their shops may be easily recog¬ 
nized by the gilded horse’s head that al¬ 
ways serves them as a sign. The fact that 
flesh of donkeys is also turned to account 
as meat has come, however, as a surprise 
to the majority of Parisians. In reality, 
connoisseurs in the matter—it seems that 
there are such—affirm that donkey’s flesh 
is superior to horseflesh. In any case, the 
horse-butchers eagerly purchase donkeys, 
and complain that they cannot procure 
enough of them. 
The arguments in favor of vegetarian¬ 
ism certainly pile up. 
“Moon Blindness.” —In my opinion 
moon blindness or ophthalmia amongst 
horses is very much more prevalent in 
the United States than in Europe, and 
cannot have been imported from that 
comment. In Great Britain uae disease 
is practically unknown, and of the im¬ 
ported horses which have had the dis¬ 
ease and which have come under my 
notice I should say nine-tenths were 
French houses. The causes assigned 
are excessive heat and too much corn¬ 
feeding. The disease is distinctly 
hereditary, but as showing you how rare 
it is amongst British horses I may state 
that out of 1,000 stallions of the various 
British breeds I nave imported and 
owned—Clydesdales, Shires, Suffolks, 
Cleveland Bays and Hackneys—I have 
only had one genuine case of moon 
blindness and this horse developed it 
several years au,er he had «een owned 
in central Illinois, where corn is chiefly 
fed. ALEX. GALBRAITH. 
Wisconsin. 
A Forgetful Hen. —We had rather a 
peculiar incident with one of our biddies, 
which was quite a new thing in our ex¬ 
perience. Among the sitting hens was a 
Wyandotte, which was very much in 
earnest. They are taken off regularly 
for food and water each afternoon, and 
one day this Wyandotte, when placed on 
the floor, drank with her head moving 
in a circle, and gave every appearance 
of vertigo. In fact she was too ill to be 
again placed upon the eggs, and there 
was a hurried doubling up to care for 
her eggs. She was placed out doors, 
drooped for a few hours, clucked just a 
little, and the next day was better, but 
to all appearances she had forgotten en¬ 
tirely about her broodiness, or that she 
had been sitting, and in a few days com¬ 
menced laying, and has not clucked a 
cluck since. If that isn’t lapse of mem¬ 
ory, what is it? f. c. c. 
Belgian Hare Business. —-The Lel- 
gian-hare industry has been profitable in 
breeding stock that has an ancestral 
pedigree and a slick talker to enlarge on 
the quality of his stock, but now all that 
has been changed; every person who 
owns any is trying to sell, for I believe 
that they are a nuisance. People may 
be fond of wild game, but are not ac¬ 
customed to eating tame rabbits. There 
is no sale for them for meat supply; 
when they are sold for that purpose the 
price ranges about two cents less than 
chicken meat; that is, eight cents per 
pound, and they average about four or 
4 V 2 pounds. A doe will raise eight lit¬ 
ters or more in a year; they are easily 
fed, will eat almost anything, grain or 
green forage. There is talk of building 
a factory in Los Angeles for dressing 
the skins; that would improve the in¬ 
dustry. They expect to sell skins for 40 
or 50 cents to the factory. In your part 
of the States it might pay at least for 
two or three years, until the market 
would get overstocked; where there are 
children it is a big inducement for them 
for each to have his own rabbits to look 
after, but they must be kept outside the 
limits of the house or barnyard, for they 
are almost as bad as skunks if not well 
looked after. p. h. 
Anaheim, Cal. 
Pea Lice and Chickens.—As I sat down 
to read The R. N.-Y. of June 16, the first 
thing which met my eye was the account 
of the Green pea-louse. As I read its his¬ 
tory and its great destructive powers I felt 
very thankful that we had escaped this 
year, as last year I did not have a pea to 
pick. When I finished reading I went out 
and looked at mine, and found the lice had 
struck them. One end of the rows was 
all alive with the pest. At the other end 
of the rows I found but very few lice. A 
small flock of chickens was picking at the 
vines. June 18, I commenced picking the 
peas, and shook off the lice, and the chick¬ 
ens followed me all the time, picking up the 
lice as fast as ever a hen would corn. For 
three hours at a time they kept at it, and 
every time I went to pick peas they were 
on hand. How many they ate I know not, 
but think millions! The chicks have kept 
the lice in check so far. How the battle 
will end I do not know, but It is rare sport 
to me to see the chicks go for the green 
chaps. M - H - K 
Madison, Conn. 
R. N.-Y.—This is a case where lice are 
a help to poultry. 
Breeders’ Directory. 
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Prices right. Smith's Potato Farm, Manchester. N.Y. 
Chester Whites, Holsteins and Choice E^s. 
A fine lot of young sows bred for Fall litters. 
liolstein-Friesian Bui 1 Calves of extra breeding 
Light Brahma and B. Rock Egus; 15 for 75 cents. 
('HAS. K. RECORD. Peterboro. N. Y. 
PIICDIICEVC Fi ne young Guernsey Bulls 
(JUCIlUdE I o and Heifersfor sale, from the 
celebrated herd at Elkdale Stock Farm. 
D. L. STEVENS, Prop., Elkdale. Pa. 
Some GOOD young 
JERSEY BULL CALVES 
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talkcd-of Pauline Paul and DeKol cross. Our Herd 
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sexes for sale from Advanced Registry cows. 
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$5 each when they are eight to ten weeks old. 
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