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July 21 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Live Stock and Dairy 
AFTER THE MILK ADULTERATORS. 
The daily papers recently gave an ac¬ 
count of the work done hy the m'illt in¬ 
spectors in this city. Eight of them 
started out early in the morning to stop 
the milk wagon© coming over the Pa- 
vonia ferry from the Erie railroad. Two 
policemen went along so that no driver 
should escape: 
The old way was to empty the entire load 
into the street when it was found to be 
below the legal standard, but many mis¬ 
takes occurred, and the custom now is to 
till two eight-ounce bottles with the ques¬ 
tioned fluid, seal them and give one to the 
driver of the wagon and turn the other 
over to chemists employed by the State for 
analysis. The object of the duplicate bottle 
is to give the milkman an opportunity to 
have an independent analysis made with 
which he can confront the State experts 
when he is brought into court, for that he 
will surely be if the work of the official 
chemists confirms the suspicions of the in¬ 
spectors. The only tools of the inspectors 
are a lactometer and a pair of nippers to 
open cans that have been wired. The lac¬ 
tometer is fitted with a small thermometer, 
which records the temperature of the milk 
at the same time that it shows its specific 
gravity. 
A reporter thus describes the opera¬ 
tions: 
They took their positions on the street 
corner a few minutes before midnight. 
First came a solitary wagon with 20 cans. 
Inspector Gentes quickly had half a dozen 
cans open and the milk from them was 
poured into the lactometer cylinder. The 
reading was 110.50—a quite normal gravity. 
Lifting out the instrument he showed the 
fluid clinging to it in a thick, uniform coat¬ 
ing. “That shows a good, proper amount 
of butter fat,” he said. “That milk is all 
right,” and Mr. Cook’s representative drove 
on. Next came three loads consigned to 
an ice cream factory, and a big tank wagon, 
drawn by four horses, which was go¬ 
ing to a big condensed-milk firm. “Their 
milk is always up to mark,” said Mr. Gen¬ 
tes, but he looked at it just the same. Then 
another boat came in with seven wagons. 
Two tried to get away, but were driven 
back. The first one showed milk reading 
120.36 on the scale of the instrument, and 
that lay on the glass in watery strings, 
dropping off in small globules. The driver 
was made to tell all about his employer, 
and give the history of the milk so far as 
he knew it. Then he received his sealed 
sample of the milk, and the other went 
into one of the great valises which the in¬ 
spectors carry. “That man will hear from 
the Commissioner, if I am not very much 
mistaken,” said the inspector, who sealed 
the bottles. More and more wagons ar¬ 
rived with every boat, and at one o’clock 
there was a double line drawn up against 
the curbs beneath the electric lights and 
extending from West to Washington Street, 
while the inspectors, bare-headed and in 
overalls, were running from one to the 
other, and a dozen or so of the ominous 
bottles were lying in their grips, each one 
I of which is likely to make the State richer 
by from $25 to $100, the usual range of the 
fines imposed. 
MY FRIEND, THE COW. 
How We Gained Her Friendship. 
After an eight-year close association, 
the dairy cow and myself (I put the 
dairy cow first, seems her natural place) 
have so changed and improved the old 
wornout farm that we ourselves can 
hardly remember 'how really bad con¬ 
ditions once were. The first year there 
were five cowls, but by the time the tree 
buds started to swell, the hay and straw 
and it took a good walking cow to gather 
a daily ration. It really does not pay 
to have a cow walk fast all day to gather 
her living; she can give so little atten¬ 
tion to manufacturing milk that the 
chances are that you will mutually agree 
to stop. At least, that was the case with 
us. I agreed to bring her a good daily 
ration right to her house and set it De- 
fore (her, and all she need do was eat it 
and rest, and incidentally give me from 
7,000 to 9,000 pounds of milk per year, 
from which I can churn from 300 to 400 
pounds of butter. If she fulfilled her 
part of the contract, all was well; if not, 
the result often was a fat cow, and her 
career ended in the butcher shop, or pos¬ 
sibly she went to some neighbor who 
could afford to keep cows because they 
were nice, sleek and fat. A cow that 
takes 25-cent butter fat and lays it on 
her ribs in the form of fhree-cent tallow 
is not the one I keep. They are gen¬ 
erally nice to look upon, but they are ex¬ 
pensive ornaments. 
“Handsome is she Who handsome 
does,” and an annual profit of $45 per 
year on a cow smooths down many of 
her rough features. East year I kept 24 
cow© and growing stock, and four horses, 
and the old farm fed them all, with 
many tons of feed left over. There are 
wonderful possibilities in many a so- 
called wornout farm, and the dairy cow 
is one of the great factors in realizing 
some of the possibilities. I doubt very 
much whether there is any other method 
by which a poor farm and dilapidated 
place can be transformed more econom¬ 
ically and with tso little capital into a 
good farm and a delightful home, than 
by properly utilizing the dairy cow. In 
future chapters I will tell how this work 
is being accomplished on Spring and 
Meadow Farm. L. w. lighty. 
Adams Co., Pa. 
DORSET SHEEP AND DOGS. 
Since May, 1891, when we made our 
first importation, we have constantly 
kept Dorsets on our farm, which is lo¬ 
cated within one mile of the corporate 
limits of a town (Washington, Pa.), 
which has a population of about 20,000. 
Our farm adjoins on three sides sub¬ 
urban villages, near a large tube and 
pipe mill, which employs several hundred 
hands. The country around is also 
thickly populated, and I feel safe in 
stating that the number of dogs owned 
(and disowned when the assessor makes 
his official calls) will equal any other 
section in the grand total of canines. I 
can stand on our farm, and from one 
spot look over farms where, a few years 
since, thousands of sheep were kept; on 
these same farms to-day, not a single 
sheep. This fact is largely the result of 
ravages by dogs. As stated above, we 
have kept Dorsets in this same vicinity, 
with a population doubled, and of course 
the dogs in same ratio, with but one suc¬ 
cessful raid of dogs. We had 60 Dorset 
ewes pasturing on an adjoining farm. 
In the flock was one Cotswold yearling 
ewe; two dogs attacked the Sheep, and 
at once killed the Cotswold. This, I 
presume, made them more ferocious, and 
they tackled the Dorsets, with only a 
partial victory. We were told by an eye 
witness that the ewes actually defended 
themselves. One was wounded so that 
it died, another was also wounded, but 
recovered. Perhaps the next year, a 
little fice, or small dog, got among our 
ewes at home, and near the house, 
which merely brought blood on some of 
the ewes’ ’legs, very slight marks; it 
was during dog days, and three or four 
died. This little dog had symptoms of 
rabies, and in the effort to kill it. vic¬ 
iously attacked one of the boys, who, 
with a timely blow with a club, ©topped 
proceedings suddenly. 
I have very frequently been amused in 
watching Dorset ewes drive dogs from 
the pasture, especially if they have 
young lambs; they show a very deter¬ 
mined disposition to protect themselves. 
We have a large German mastiff, which 
weighs over 150 pounds, that has had 
sufficient experience to say, if he could 
talk, that he would prefer not to be shut 
up in a tight enclosure with Dorset ewes. 
Notwithstanding the facts stated above, 
I would not wish to mislead anyone, or 
convey the impression that Dorsets are 
dog-proof, so much depends on the dog, 
but I have no hesitation in stating that 
in my opinion, no dog will ever achieve 
any reputation as a sheep killer 'if he 
takes his first lessons in a Dorset flock. 
This is expressed rather ambiguously, 
but a sheepman will readily catch my 
meaning. J. l. itenderson. 
Washington, Pa. 
“Moon Blindness.”—I have never seen a 
horse in this country troubled with his 
eyes in any way, not even from wolf teeth; 
my experience has been from 1880. But 
horses raised in the corn States, where corn 
is plentiful and cheap, and colts are allowed 
to run in the cornfields and eat all the corn 
they want from the time they can eat it, 
are the animals that go blind. I have been 
in districts where every other horse was 
blind of one eye and some both; corn and 
hot weather the cause, in my judgment. 
Wyoming. e. boice. 
In the California hay markets grain hay 
is always quoted above Timothy. This 
grain hay, as most farmers know, is oats, 
wheat or barley cut when the grain is soft 
and in the milk stage, and cured the same 
as grass. It makes a coarse, strong hay, 
greatly liked by horsemen. We have been 
in correspondence with eastern hay deal¬ 
ers to learn whether tins sort of fodder 
could be sold in the East for feeding pur¬ 
poses. Replies seem to indicate that such 
baled grain could be sold, but it probably 
would not bring better price than Timothy. 
The best season dealers have for selling 
it would be in the Winter, but it would 
take some time to create a demand for it, 
as little of it is ever seen in the East, ex¬ 
cept when brought on from California, as 
it frequently is to feed the race horses 
brought from that State. 
Horse Owners! Use 
G OMB AULT’S 
Caustic 
Balsam 
A Safe Speedy and Positive Cure 
The Safest, Rest BLISTER ever used. Takes 
the place of all liniments for mild or severe action. 
Removes Bunches or Blemishes from Horses 
and Cattle. SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTERY 
OR FIRINC• Impossible to produce scar or blemish. 
Every bottle sold is warranted to give satisfaction 
Price $1.50 per bottle. Sold by druggists, or 
sent by express, charges paid, with full directions 
for its use. Send for descriptive circulars. 
THE LAWRENCE-W1LLIAMS CO.. Cleveland O.. 
Breeders’ Directory. 
Shropshire Lambs.—Ewes and Rams, high grades. 
^ extra good, blocky. well bui t, for Breeders, August 
delivery. Price, ¥7 to $10 ea. W. A. Lothers, Lack, Pa 
Chester Whites, Holsteins and Choice Eggs. 
A fine lot of young sows bred for Fall litters. 
Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves of extra breeding 
Light Brahma and B. Rock Eggs; 15 for 75 cents. 
CHAS. K. RECORD. Peterboro. N. Y. 
FOR SALE 
A THOROUGHBRED HOLSTEIN 
_ BULL CALF. Well marked and of 
beBt breeding. Will be sold at farmers’price. Write 
at once. W. W. CHENEY, Manlius, N. Y. 
PIIEDIICEVC~~Fine young Guernsey Bulls 
UUCVUldC I w and Hcifersfor sale, from the 
celebrated herd at Elkdale Stock Farm. 
1). L. STEVENS. Prop., Elkdale. Pa. 
C HENANGO VALLEY STOCK FARMS, Greene N. 
Y.—Hutch Belted and Jersey Cattle; Dorset and 
Ramboulllet Sheep: Poland-Chlna, Jersey Red and 
Suffolk Pigs. Land and Water Fowls. Hens' 
Eggs, 60c. per dozen; 10 kinds; standard bred. 
ST. LAMBERT and Combination. For sale 5 Cows, 
7 Heifers, 16 Bulls. S. E. N1VIN, Landenburg, Pa, 
Some GOOD young 
JERSEY BULL CALVES 
FOR SALE at fair prices. No FLUG8 nor un 
registered for sale at any price. 
R. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty St., Pittsburg. Pa. 
DELLHURST FARM, 
MENTOR, OHIO, 
has nearly 30 Holstein Hull CalveR to select 
from, and offers sons of DeKol's Butter Boy No 
19210, Royal Paul 22979 and others, having tbe much 
talked-of Pauline Paul and DeKol cross. Our Herd 
now numbers 150 head. Stock of all ages and both 
sexes for sale from Advanced Registry cows. 
Dm AWn PUIW AQ“ LarKe strain ’ purebred 
I ULAN U"U run Ho Poland-China Pigs for sale 
$5 each when they are eight to ten weeks old. 
F. H. GATES & SONS, Chittenango, N. Y. 
COLLIE PUPS 
from registered stock. 
Spayed females. Circulars 
nr ITU Tn I IDE on RHNS and CH1CKBNB 
UtAin IU LIUL 64-page book freb. 
D. J. LAMBERT, Box 307, Apponaug. R. I. 
SH00-FLY 
The only positive protection fur Horses and Cow* 
NO FLIES, TICKS, VERMIN OR SORES 
Prevents Ohnrbon and Texns Cuttle Fever, becanse 
these diseases are spread by flies and ticks. Thou¬ 
sands duplicate 10 gallons. /lewarr. of imitations. One 
cent’s worth saves 3 quarts of milk and much flosh. 
Don’t wait till cows are dry and horses are poor. If 
your dealer does not keep it, send us 20 cents for sam¬ 
ple. Money refunded if cows are not protected. 
SHOO'FLY MFG. CO.,1005 Falrmount Ave., Phila. Pa. 
KENDALL’S SPAVIN CURE 
,e old reliable remedy for Spavins, Ringbones, Splints, 
rlis and all forms of tameness, ltcures without ablem- 
l because it does not blister. Price $1, Six for *5. Asa 
liment for family use it has no equal. Askyourdrug- 
3 t for Kendall’s Spavin Cure, also “A Treatise on 
WILDER’S 
Swing Stanchion. 
Improvement over Smith’s. 
8 cel latch; Automatic 
lock. Adjusts itself when 
open so animal cannot turn 
it in backing out. Safest 
and Quickest Fastening 
made.Scnd for testimonials 
J.K. WILDER & SONS, 
Monroe, Mich. 
The WILLARD KNAPP COW TIE 
is the most humane, Inex¬ 
pensive, practical and dur¬ 
able device for fasten ng 
cattle. Appkovkd by all 
up-to-date dairymen. 
Send for illustrated pam¬ 
phlet.describing tbe lie and 
giving statements from our 
customers. 
VV ILLA R i) H. KNAPP & CO 
Groton St., Cortland.N.Y 
was all fed. I cut fence-row brushes 
and pruned the old wild-grown fruit 
trees; those brushes furnished roughage 
for the cows until the blades of grass 
were big enough to nibble. That was 
“roughage” truly, hut the cows 'ate the 
finer portions of 'it with a relish. From 
the heavier limbs they simply ate the 
hark. Those were “just cows.” I have 
since learned that there is a difference 
between “just cows” and “daiiry cows.” 
The former eat to live, the latter live to 
eat. The farm consists of 60 acres, and 
was composed of gul'lies and barren hills. 
The blade© of grass grew very far apart, 
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It contains 183 large 
cost us $3000. We 
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