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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER: 
September 8 
Live Stockand Dairy 
EARLY CARE OF THE HULL. 
May Offset His Pedigree. 
One of our readers in New York State 
sends us the following question with re¬ 
gard to a bull: “Do you think that an off¬ 
spring of a bull that has not been properly 
cared for from a calf is as valuable and 
profitable as it otherwise would be? Some 
people claim that a purebred animal, one 
that is ‘royally bred,’ although he may be 
dwarfed and stunted and not in his best 
condition, is as liable to transmit the de¬ 
sired qualities of his ancestors as though 
the reverse were true.” 
I do not think, as a general rule, that 
a bull that has been stunted when 
young, whether royally bred or not, 
transmits as strong, vigorous, growthy 
and healthy stock as one that has been 
kept growing from the very first. There 
are exceptions to this rule, I know by 
experience. Seven years ago I bought a 
purebred Brown Swiss bull, one year 
old, but badly stunted in growth. I be¬ 
gan to feed him lightly, and he began 
to grow, and continued to grow. When 
at three years of age I sold him, he 
weighed 1,500 pounds. I have now 
three generations of his stock, and they 
all retain his qualities in a marked de¬ 
gree. But I consider this one of the 
exceptions, for I believe that to have a 
bull, or any other stock, at its best, it 
should never be allowed to stop grow¬ 
ing, and, furthermore, I believe that 
purebred stock is much more profitable 
at any time than scrub stock. 
GEO. W. HIGGINS. 
“Royally bred” certainly means coming 
from a royal line of ancestors that have 
made records entitling them to the dis¬ 
tinction of royalty. Animal pedigree is 
only valuable as a guarantee of what 
has been done, and, from the hypothesis 
of like producing like, a promise of 
what may be expected. Extraordinary 
performance is never an accident, and 
what has been accomplished by years of 
thought and hard work and infinite 
pains, assuredly may be largely undone 
in a stunted offspring, at least as far as 
his ability to transmit his inherited 
tendencies is concerned. True, he 
might, by the force of his inherited 
prepotency, give a fairly good account 
of himself, but who shall say how far 
his arrested development has squan¬ 
dered his birth, reverted to type and in¬ 
fluenced the purity of his transmission? 
I wouldn’t want to buy a stunted calf, 
nor the calf of a Btunted sire or dam. I 
never knew a stunted calf or heifer to 
make a good cow. In both the animal 
and vegetable kingdoms nature is 
shocked when she is arrested, and while 
it is very hard always to tell what 
might have been, in vegetable life, we 
can give a very good guess at it. Ask 
a tobacco grower how his leaf cures if 
the plant stops growing. You can 
measure the result of your stunt from 
the top of your corn-crib. We have all 
seen "scrub” ability, with blue blood in 
the pedigree. I venture to promise a 
tracing back will find a stunted ances¬ 
tor and a stinting feeder. Yes, indeed, 
keep the calf always doing his best. 
Furniss. Pa. w. f. m’spabran. 
We have a stallion, Ostrick, in this 
neighborhood, about 20 yeans old, who 
is very small, but well-bred. His dam 
died when he was two days old, and be¬ 
fore he was a year old he had the mis¬ 
fortune to break a leg. His colts, I am 
told (I know only a few of them), are 
of average Bize, some quite large. It is 
my belief, though, that if this small¬ 
ness, this stunted growth, did not make 
itself apparent in the first generation, it 
would be likely to in the second or 
third. It is evidently a weakness, if not 
inherited, developed by the lack of 
something essential to a complete de¬ 
velopment, and I believe that though it 
might not be apparent, to the casual ob¬ 
server, it will show its effects, some¬ 
time, somewhere; and that if such a 
thing could be as having the same 
animal in the two different states of 
development, the complete, fully de¬ 
veloped state would bring the best re¬ 
sults. I think that if taken from a prac¬ 
tical point, the best developed bull will 
be chosen by everyone. About 15 
months ago one of our very best cows 
brought us twin bulls, they were very 
near one size, but the larger one soon 
began to outstrip the smaller one, and 
at about five months of age was con¬ 
sidered by almost every one that saw 
them the best bull that we had ever 
bred, while few ever looked at the 
smaller one. Of course the results are 
yet to be seen. 
HERBERT HOOrER, V. M. D. 
Bynum, Md. 
The offspring of a bull that has only 
been moderately ‘fed from birth, is as 
valuable and profitable as though he 
had been kept fat and fed everything he 
would eat, for oftentimes the fat kind 
fail to breed, and the moderately-fed 
calf, if somewhat stunted and not kept 
in his best condition, is more liable to 
transmit the desired qualities of his an¬ 
cestors, as though the reverse were 
true. The bull being a purebred and 
well bred, we think the early handling 
has but little to do with his usefulness 
as a sire. Of course we like to keep him 
in a good growing condition, and allow 
him plenty of exercise. We have fre¬ 
quently got fat bull calves, 12 months 
old, for future use, and would turn them, 
with our calves, to run on grass, and we 
would, perhaps, not see one for three or 
four weeks, trusting to our men to look 
after him. He would go all to pieces. 
We saw afterward that we should have 
kept him up, or allowed to run in a 
small lot, and fed three times each day: 
three out of five of these bulls did no 
good, and we can say the same of the 
heifers. ison & litsey. 
Harrodsburg, Ky. 
We can first start in with the unde¬ 
niable fact that all modern breeds are, 
to a certain extent, an artificial produc¬ 
tion. They have arrived at their pres¬ 
ent perfection by skill in selection, 
breeding from the best types, and final¬ 
ly from skilful development and feed. 
There is a constant tendency, although 
one that is becoming less and less, to 
revert back te their original ancestors, 
and when these favorable conditions in 
the way of careful selection and devel¬ 
opment and breeding to one of the best 
types is withdrawn, they will rapidly 
deteriorate. Keeping the above in view, 
I should hesitate to use a bull, however 
well bred, who had not been properly 
developed, as there will be some small 
percentage of chance that the early ma¬ 
turity of his get may be slightly dimin¬ 
ished, and that they might not reach the 
same development as if their sire had 
been raised under better conditions. We 
know that the overfeeding, especially 
for the show ring, of young animals of 
the dairy families is apt, to a certain 
extent, to influence the quality of their 
get in the way of increasing their ten¬ 
dency to fat. We also know that his 
good and bad qualities in formation, and 
all the tendencies towards milk and in¬ 
dividual peculiarities of his ancestors, 
are apt to crop out in his get. It is, 
therefore, but reasonable to suppose 
that bad treatment during the most im¬ 
portant period of a bull’s life, that is, 
the period of his development, will quite 
probably have some injurious influence 
upon his progeny. geo. f. weston. 
Milk Strippings for Consumptives. 
The last quart of the milking, or 
“strippings,” taken immediately after 
milking before it has parted with any of 
the animal heat, is the most valuable 
thing known to build up a person who is 
thin and emaciated from any disease. 
My theory for years has been that the 
“strippings” were nearly all cream, 
which I have demonstrated to be a fact. 
I also believed that when taken imme¬ 
diately after milking, while it contains 
all the animal heat, and before any 
change had taken place, it would be ab¬ 
sorbed at once into the circulation with¬ 
out going through the ordinary process 
of digestion. This I have also found to 
be true. I direct my patients to begin 
with half a pint and gradually increase 
the quantity until at the end of a week 
they are taking a quart at a time, or as 
much as they can possibly drink without 
causing too much discomfort. This 
should be followed up regularly twice a 
day. I have known of many cases who 
could not drink the cold milk or even 
milk which had stood for an hour or 
two, and yet these persons could drink a 
quart immediately after milking without 
the slightest derangement of the diges¬ 
tive organs. In consumption the pa¬ 
tient steadily loses in weight, and al¬ 
though the old methods are used faith¬ 
fully to try and build up the strength, 
yet the patient steadily loses flesh. It 
is no uncommon thing for my patients, 
who have followed my instructions, to 
gain five pounds a week in weight. No 
other plan I have heard of has proved 
so successful. It should be remembered 
that it is very important to select a cow 
that is healthy and one that gives very 
rich milk. Then it is also of very great 
importance that the very last ot the 
milking, or “strippings,” should be 
taken, and of equal importance that 
this should be taken immediately after 
milking while it contains all the animal 
heat. No other food is so natural, and 
none has ever proved so successful. 
The consumptive w«»l soon find a change 
for the better if the above instructions 
are followed. I have tested this plan in 
hundreds of cases in the last few years, 
and I know that there are thousands of 
cases whose lives might be saved if the 
above instructions were followed. Of 
course in most cases a certain amount of 
medical treatment is also necessary. 
B. J. KENGAEL, H. D. 
Leg and Body Wash. 
Race horses often become sore 
an d sti ff f rom conti n ued st rain 
fj£Sa mgM on the hard tracks. Nothing takes 
rfr'TjjnYaL-W out this stiffness and soreness 
likoa wash compounded of diluted 
Tuttle’s Elixir 
C&ff fi aPP'y to the legs and put on light 
ran K bandagee-Sponpe the body and put 
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ik nil nr °dnce desired results or money 
Readvllle Trotting Park, Mass., March 23,1900. 
Dr. S. A. Tuttle, V. S. 
Dear Sir:—I have used your Elixir for the past ten years, in the 
diluted form for a leg ana body wash. I consider it the best wash 
for keeping horses from soiing up. Horses done up with this wash 
are much less liable to take co.d than when done up with witch hazel 
or any other wash I ever used. J. H. NAY. 
Our 100-page book, “Veterinary Experience,” FREE. 
Dr. S. A. TUTTLE, 30 Beverly St., Boston. Mass. 
Beware of so-called Elixirs— none genuine but Tuttle’s. 
Avoid all blisters; they offer only temporary relief If any. 
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Union Stock lards, Chicago, UL . 
Breeders’ Directory. 
A1 Fowls. Pigs, Sheep—varieties. Farm¬ 
ers’ prices. Cir. A. McClain (No. T). Delaware. N. J. 
F OR SALE—Fine - Bred HOLSTEIN- 
FRIESIAN Cattle, all ages and both sexes, at 
reasonable prices. Address WM. BOOT), 
Maple Stock Farm. Binghamton, N. V. 
Chester Whites, Holsteins anti 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. 
Some GOOD young 
JERSEY BULL CALVES 
FOK SALK at fair prices. No PLUG8 nor un 
registered for sale at any price. 
DELLHURST FARM, 
MENTOR, OHIO, 
has nearly 80 Holstein Bull Calves to select 
from, and offers sons of DeKol’s Butter Boy No 
19210, Hoyal Paul 22979 and others, having the 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. 
AVDCUIDCC tracing to Lord Bangor 4130 and 
A 1 nanmcd Duchess of Smithtield 4256. 
DCDkllDn at stud. Very large. Belated 
dla DCnNAnU to Champions. 
Imported French Coach Mare. 
B. LUTHEIt SHIMEK, B. 8., 
Mt. Airy Park Farm. Bethlehem. Pa. 
Registered Shropshires for SaleiKL* Sd 
ones. S. SHAFFER. Princeton, Lawrence Co., Pa. 
SHROPSHIRE 
Ram lambs, sired by England’s 
pri/.e winners: a few aged ewes. 
CHESTER WHITE SWINK.-A 
choice lot of young pigs. Fine 
stock a specialty. 
Sidney Sprague, Falconer.N.Y. 
RAMS and EWES of 
OOUtntiOWn the best quality. 
Address J. C. DUNCAN, Lewiston, N. Y. 
HAMPSHIRES. 
The Business Farmer’s Sheep. 
175 takes 10 ewe lambs; $60 takes six yearling ewes 
$120 takes 10 two-year ewes: $100 takes 10 One ram 
lambs. All registered or eligible, and sure to please 
Address W. A. BASSETT, Farmer. N.Y. 
\JkJ want to purchase two South- 
TV 311 l6U down Bams, one or two years 
old. SeDd price and description to 
GEO. W. BATES, Parslppany, N. J. 
(Indfira f Alte~ The handsomest, hardiest and most 
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circular address ED. W. COLE & CO., Kenton, Ohio. 
Aftl I ||“ DIIDC from registered stock. 
UULLIC rUlw Spayed females. Circulars 
free. SILAS DECKER, South Montrose, Pa. 
Ferrets for Sale 
—Address CHARLES SMITH, 
Mainesburg, Tioga Co., Pa. 
SCOTT’S 
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anil Self-Closing 
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Each cow shuts herself 
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irATII Tfl I IPC Oh HENS and CHICKENS 
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D. J. LAMBERT, Box 307, Apponaug, R. I. 
HENS LAY BEST 
—In fact they lay double the eggs winter 
and summer when fed Green Cut Bone. 
Mann’s New Bone Cutiers 
out all hard and soft bones, meat, gristle, 
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easy. Clover cut with our Clover Cutters 
helps wonderfully. Mann’s Granite Crvstal 
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P. W. MANN CO., Box 15, Milford, Mass. 1 
Death to Heaves, 
Coughs and Distemper, 
is NEWTON’S CURE. 
Best references. $1 can. 
Newton Horse Remedy 
, Co. (Y), Toledo, O. 
-Large strain, purebred, 
. _.. Poland-China Pigs for sale 
$5 each when they are eight to ten weeks old. 
F. H. GATES & SONS, Chittenango, N. Y. 
POLAND-GHINAS 
1SC)5 Thirty-Seven Years Ago 1900 
Worthington, Sllnn., June 12, 1899. 
L. B. SILVER CO., Cleveland, Ohio. 
Gentlemen:—My O. I. C. brood sows (purchased from you) will weigh 
upward of 700 lbs., in breeding condition now; 11 and 12 pigs by their 
sides. I think my 0.1. C.’S first-class. They take first premiums over 
all breeds wherever shown. Respectfully yours, WILSON AGER. 
we originated the now world 
famous O. I. C. hogs and 
established our present bus¬ 
iness. We are still in bus¬ 
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tinue as in the past, the best 
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They Are less liable to dis¬ 
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have constitutions. We send 
a sample pair of our 
Famous 
O.I.C. HOGS 
on time and allow you 
agency if you write prompt¬ 
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hogs weighed 2,806 lbs. Write 
today. _ 
L. B. SILVER CO., t 
135 Grand Arcade, 
Clevelarvd, - - Ohio. 
