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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER.' 
August 25 
Live Stock and Dairy 
A TALK ABOUT CATS 
The Angora, with its long silky hair 
and tail like that of a fox, is a favorite 
house cat. Some people breed them 
for market, while others keep a small 
cattery just for their own pleasure, sell¬ 
ing the surplus stock from time to time. 
In a New York suburb I called at two 
places where 30 cats are kept, some be¬ 
ing fine Angoras. In one place the 
backyard and porch are covered over¬ 
head and sides with wire netting, giving 
a large shady run and playground; and 
in the other a barn has been fitted up 
connecting with a fenced yard. It is risky 
to allow cats worth $10 to $25 each to 
run at large, as they may be stolen. The 
most valuable animal kept by one of 
these people got away and was gone for 
three weeks, being finally recovered 
through an advertisement. A liberal 
reward was offered, as the cat, a big 
shiny-black fellow, was prized as a pet 
§ven more than his real value as a 
breeding animal. 
Characteristics. —In disposition the 
Angora is more gentle and trusting than 
the ordinary cat—not suspicious. Two 
kittens, one a mixture and the other a 
purebred Angora, were sitting on a box. 
As we approached, the mixture ran, but 
the other sat still, having no fear of 
strangers. The Angora is a more deli¬ 
cate and finer-grained cat than the or¬ 
dinary mongrel. Probably this and 
their lack of suspicion may be accounted 
for by the fact that for generations they 
have been pets, not seeing much of the 
rough side of life. The average old yel¬ 
low tiger, spending eight of his nine 
lives in dodging shoes, bullets, brick¬ 
bats, etc., becomes suspicious of human¬ 
ity; and exposure to snowstorms, zero 
weather, rains and torrid heat, makes 
him so tough that the various cat dis¬ 
eases do not trouble him. He quickly 
adjusts himself to all sorts of condi¬ 
tions, and thinks nothing of trading 
residences by being put into a bag and 
dropped from it a dozen miles away. 
On account of its long hair, the Angora 
is liable to pneumonia, if allowed to run 
around in the wet grass, and care in 
feeding is necessary, as too much meat 
may cause skin eruptions. 
The Mixture makes a desirable cat. 
Its fur is finer than that of the ordinary 
animal, and it does not need so much 
care as the purebred. In looking at two 
families of kittens, it was noticeable' 
that the pure Angoras were not nearly 
so strong or lively as the others, and it 
is said that nearly two-thirds of all thei 
Angoras born die before they are a year 
old. One of these people lost 12 kit¬ 
tens last Winter through spinal menin¬ 
gitis, a common complaint for which 
there seems to be no remedy. While 
the Angora will not care for any kittens 
but her own, the mixture has a mother¬ 
ly feeling for all. I saw one which was 
a foster mother to the whole cattery. 
She had an eye on the different nests, 
going here and there and nursing the 
strangers as though they were her own. 
Good Hunters. —Rats and mice, squir¬ 
rels and birds have to look out for the 
Angora. The big black one, mentioned 
above, climbed a tree in which was a 
robin’s rest. The eggs were not yet 
hatched. He looked into the nest and 
started to come down the tree. Then 
he changed his mind; went back to the 
nest; took out one of the eggs; brought 
it down in his mouth, and gave it to his 
mistress. The egg was not cracked or 
scratched. 
Odd Notes. —Cats are said to dislike 
getting their feet wet, but at least one 
in Brooklyn ought to be used to it by 
this time, as he has an involuntary bath, 
evry wash day. The laundress, a, 
young German woman, with radical 
ideas of cleanliness, puts him into the 
tub every week; and, after being thor¬ 
oughly scrubbed and mixed with the 
suds, he is held up by the back of the 
neck, while the cook rinses him off with 
clean water. I knew a big yellow feline 
that belonged to the whole neighbor¬ 
hood. He would walk into the kitchen, 
lie down beside the stove and stay for 
a week or a month, just as he pleased. 
As he kept his fur clean, was good na- 
tured, and “rough on rats” and mice, 
his visits were welcome. He earned his 
board and apparently enjoyed this 
wholesale visiting contract, w. w. h. 
THE SLED CORN CUTTER. 
Is It Practicable ? 
I would like the opinion of some of your 
readers on the value of the sled corn cut¬ 
ter. How many acres can be cut in a day? 
What is make and price of best machine? 
La Fox, Ill. a. h. g. 
For the past three or four years the corn 
has been blown down too much for the 
use of the sled corn cutter. When the 
corn stands up it is useful. J. J. e. 
Riggston, Ill. 
The sled corn cutter is of no practical 
value. It leaves too much corn scattered 
over the ground that is cut off and drops, 
or else is not cut off, so that the field has 
to be gone over the second time, making 
that much extra work. e. b. b. 
Roberts, Ill. 
The sled corn cutter has been in use for 
10 years in this county, and is a decided 
success, and is growing in popularity. Last 
Fall I had my corn cut with the sled cut¬ 
ter, paying my hands $1 a day and board, 
and five cents an acre for use of cutter, 
and my fodder cost me 1% cent per shock 
(of 100 hills) less than the customary price 
when cut by hand. g. l. j. 
Gaston, Ind. 
I have had no experience with the sled 
cutters, but about five or six years ago I 
heard a good deal about them, mostly fa¬ 
vorable, and saw quite a number in far¬ 
mers’ wagons going out, and some at work. 
The last year or two I have seen none 
at work, and I was told by the leading 
farm-implement dealer that he has sold 
none for two years. The corn binders, he 
thinks, have supplanted them. A neighbor 
who has used the sled cutter for several 
years says of it: "If the corn stands up 
well, you have a slow steady horse, and 
two men who will work, you can put a lot 
of corn in shock in a day, but it’s mighty 
hard ■work. And if your horse is not 
steady you stand a good chance of being 
thrown in front of the knives and getting 
yqur leg cut off.” So far as I can learn 
they are not used nearly so much as a 
few years ago, and I judge are only of use 
where the corn stands pretty straight. 
Rosemond, Ill. G- w. b. 
Regarding the sled corn harvesters, I 
consider them very good, but very dan¬ 
gerous tools,. to the men working them, 
and to the horses drawing them, especially 
if the horses are spirited. The machinery 
we have are sleds on wheels, one of them 
was built as such originally, and the other 
was different. After watching the work 
of the two, side by side, I took the last- 
named one to the blacksmith shop, put a 
shaft through the back end of the runner, 
and put on a small belt pulley. This 
lessened the draft fully one-half. In the 
saving of labor—two men will cut fully 
one-third to one-half more than two men 
with hand cutters in the same time, but 
it is exceedingly hard work. Two men 
with hand cutters, in our large heavy corn, 
will ordinarily do well to cut from 22 to 25 
shocks per day, say in corn running from 
60 to 65 bushels per acre; in smaller and 
lighter corn they will cut a larger num¬ 
ber. With the sled cutter two' men will 
cut from 60 to SO shocks per day, or 30 to 
40 shocks per man, with greater ease than 
the hand cutters can make their less quan¬ 
tity. I have known two men working by 
the job, with a machine cut from 150 to 160 
shocks per day—the shocks representing 
14x12 hills. I would not advise buying or 
using these machines on account of the 
danger to man and beast. One of our 
neighbors had a leg cut off last Fall; an¬ 
other had a horse so badly cut in the leg 
that he had to be killed. There is a sled 
cutter that receives and cuts the corn by 
revolving knives which are protected, and 
consequently are used without danger, and 
are to be preferred over the others. The 
corn comes into a forked cutter, drops back 
on a table and is picked up by men and 
carried to the shock. The men do not ride, 
and in walking along they can pick up 
broken-off ears and thus save enough t- 
pay half their wages. w. t. mcc. 
Ross Co., O. 
“Brain Work” in Animals 
I have a Dorset ram, two shears, which 
when he wishes to get out of his pen, 
goes to the door and butts it down or 
open if possible to do so and walks out 
with the other sheep. My barn lot is 
covered. The door leading from the lot 
to the field is so arranged that it will 
remain closed without fastening and 
shuts at the bottom against a short post, 
and opens from the outside. When the 
ram wants to go in he backs up and 
makes a good charge at the door, the 
door strikes the post with sufficient force 
to spring back and open, and the ram 
walks in. If his mates do not get in be¬ 
fore the door closes he turns about and 
butts the door wide open from the in¬ 
side, so ail can come in. Within the 
last hour he has brought his mates, four 
ewes, up and gone in out of a heavy 
rain. Is that brain work? I have what 
is known here as a fine horse. I have 
often seen him when overloaded, after 
trying to move the load and failing, 
turn his head over his shoulder and 
shake it as a person does in saying No, 
as much as to say, “No, sir, I can’t pull 
that load!” Is that brain work? 
Agassiz, B. C. g. w. b. 
A Connecticut Hen. 
A report of a remarkable hen has bean 
printed. This famous bird belongs to Mrs. 
R. J. Leonard, of Ellington, Conn., who 
states that the hen laid 302 eggs in 13 
months. Mrs. Leonard, at our invitation, 
tells the story: 
We bought the hen with a brood of 
chickens the last week in April, 1899. 
She left the chicks the first week in 
June, commenced to lay, and in the 
months of June and July she laid 48 
eggs; then she wanted to sit (the first 
and last time she wanted to), then 
moulted; did not lay for six weeks, then 
commenced laying September 16, and 
from then until July 9, 1900, she has 
laid constantly, only missing 41 days in 
42 weeks and one day, the exact amount 
being 254 eggs, making in all 302 in the 
space of 13 months. I had no trouble 
in knowing her eggs, as she was the 
only hen we owned through the Sum¬ 
mer of that breed. Her age now 
is two years. I had taken care of 
hens in my younger days, but never 
had one with a record before like unto 
this, so of course we all felt such an 
interest in her that we marked every 
egg for several weeks, and kept them by 
themselves also. 
Baled Fodder.—As to a demand for baled 
grain hay or millet, we think that there 
are very slim chances of it selling to ad¬ 
vantage on our market, although if it were 
introduced among the dealers and con¬ 
sumers, it may sell as well in our eastern 
markets as anywhere else. In the West 
prairie hay is regarded as superior to Tim¬ 
othy; and in the East we consider prairie 
the poorest hay, and use it chiefly for ship¬ 
ping or packing purposes. Baled grain 
hay or millet could not be shipped from the 
West to eastern markets, and be profitable 
to the shipper, as the freight rates would 
be too high. It would not bring over $10 
per ton in New York City, and would prob¬ 
ably sell for $7 to $8 per ton in Chicago and 
other western cities. 
New York. alex. f. fisher & co. 
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splints.contracted cord,thrush, 
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Breeders’ Directory. 
JERSEYS. 
ST. LAMBERT and Combination. For sale ft Cows, 
7 Heifers. IB Bulls. 8. E. N1VIN. Landenourg, Pa, 
Some GOOD young 
JERSEY BULL CALYES 
FOR SALE at fair prices. No PLUGS nor un 
registered for sale at any price. 
R. F. SHANNON. 907 Liberty St., Pittsburg. Pa. 
DELLHURST FARM, 
MENTOR, OHIO, 
has nearly 30 Holstein Bull Calves to select 
from, and offers sons of DeKol’s Butter Boy No 
19210, Royal Paul 22979 and others, having the much 
talked-of Pauline Paul and DeKol cross. Our Herd 
new numbers ISO head. Stock of all ages and both 
sexes for sale from Advanced Registry cows. 
FRONTIER HERD HOLSTEINS. 
At Ogdensburg Fair, 1899. this herd was awarded 
the following prizes: First Prize on Yearling Bull: 
First Prize for Best Cow: First Prize for Best Bull 
Call; First Prize for Best Cow in the Sweepstake 
class, all breeds competing, there being 19 entries, 
and many other prizes. A Show Bull, two years old. 
for sale cheap. Also Bull and Heifer Calves for sale. 
VViite for prices. FRANK W. AMES. Morristown,N.Y 
: —A THOROUGH BREI) HOLSTKIN 
BULL CALF. Well marked and of 
best breeding. Will be sold at farmers priee. Write 
atoree. W. W. CHENEY. Manlius. N. Y. 
FOR SALE 
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Maple Stock Farm, Binghamton, N. Y. 
Chester Whites, Holsteins and Choice Fggs 
A tine lot of young sows bred for Fall litters. 
Holsteln-Frlesian Bui' Calves of extra breeding 
Light Brahma and B. Rock Eggs: 15 for 76 cents. 
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SHROPSHIRE 
Ram lambs, sired by England's 
prizewinners: a few aged ewes. 
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J URYMEN AND STOCKMEN 
realize more and more each year the mil¬ 
lions of dollars lost by the shrinking, of 
LK and FLESH in their cattle by the torment of 
s. Numerous preventives have been tested and 
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jompare with the original ” Shoo-Fly,” which has 
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