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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 29 
Live Stockand Dairy 
THE BREEDER’S WAYSIDE. 
What About Rams for Grade Merinos? 
A reader who has a flock of grade 
Merino sheep, who has been using a 
grade Shropshire ram, wishes to know 
whether it would be a good policy for 
him to head his flock with a first-class 
Dorset ram. The result of mating his 
ewes with the Shropshire has not been 
satisfactory. 
A grade male is a “scrub.” It has a 
pedigree, as has every living thing, but 
it is the sort of pedigree that does not 
stand for anything. His characteristics 
are not well fixed, and plenty of experi¬ 
mental work has amply demonstrated 
that scrub or crossbred males, for this 
reason, are very undesirable for heading 
a herd or flock. This clearly accounts 
for the poor results from using the scrub 
ram. The purpose of this crossing I 
assume to be the production of Spring 
lamb or mutton later on. For this pur¬ 
pose a well-built purebred Dorset ram, 
weighing 225 pounds or more, that was 
thick-fleshed, broad-backed, with supe¬ 
rior legs of mutton, broad chest and 
short legs, should give very good re¬ 
sults. If he was a satisfactory ram, his 
lambs would show the Dorset blood, and 
be very salable. The Hampshire or Ox¬ 
ford, however, should mate well with 
the Merinos, and as these breeds are 
larger than either Shropshire or Dorset, 
somewhat more growthy offspring 
might be expected. In fact, both Hamp¬ 
shire and Oxford males have been con¬ 
siderably used to produce lambs for 
early market. If one wish to carry the 
offspring over for a year or more, and 
selling for mutton, then I should prefer 
these two breeds, or the Shropshire to 
the Dorset, on account of the heavier 
wool clip which will be sure to come 
from their half breds. One of the great¬ 
est weaknesses in our American breed¬ 
ing, is using inferior males. If more 
high-class, well-bred males were bought 
on merit instead of farmers using males 
because they could be bought cheap, it 
would be a boon to our live-stock in¬ 
terests. And so a first-class male, mated 
to a bunch of grade ewes, will nearly 
every time improve the female parent 
stock, and may be used to advantage, no 
matter what the breed. But in mating 
one must remember that as the Merino 
is a flne-wooled, lean-bodied type, it will 
be necessary in securing improvement in 
offspring, to use a highly-developed 
well-wooled mutton type of male. 
c. s. PLUMB. 
9 
Little Pigs and Clover. 
I have a bulletin from one of the experi¬ 
ment stations which states that young pigs 
will not do well on clover till they are three 
months old. If this is so they can be kept 
in a pen till that age, and save considerable 
fencing, as the pasture fence would not 
need to be nearly so close. What is your 
opinion? J ‘ R ‘ 
Derby, Wash. 
The young pigs will have little appe¬ 
tite for clover before they are six or 
eight weeks old, though they may nibble 
at it a bit from time to time. The clover, 
however, will not hurt them. In the 
West it i's a common practice to let sows 
suckling pigs a few weeks old run in 
pasture, where there often is some clover 
to eat. The use of such a succulent food 
promotes digestion and activity of the 
bowels, and under ordinary conditions is 
desirable. It would not be good judg¬ 
ment, however, to turn a sow and pigs 
into a field rank with clover, unless for a 
short time per day, for there would be 
a chance for bloat to occur, but on short 
second crop, or on a field sparsely cov¬ 
ered, what the pigs ate would be to their 
advantage. It is not necessary, how¬ 
ever, to turn the pigs on to pasture. The 
writer has raised many in small lots 
where no succulent food was available, 
and they have done well, but on gen¬ 
eral principles, succulent food is desir¬ 
able for pigs at any time from shortly 
before weaning on. c. s. plumb. 
STORING AND FEEDING MANGEL 
WURZELS. 
This is the third year I have grown 
mangels and put them in store for Win¬ 
ter feeding. The first year I feared re¬ 
sults from feeding them early, as writ¬ 
ers on the subject claimed that they 
would cause the animals to scour, but 
before I gave instructions as to when 
they should be fed, some were pulled 
and fed at once to the cows without any 
bad results. Several feeds were given 
before I stopped the feeding, and put 
them in store. This year the crop, about 
700 or 800 bushels, was stored November 
7 above ground. I commenced to feed 
them at once, and have now been feed¬ 
ing them for a month to fattening lambs, 
cows and an occasional feed to the hogs. 
One lot of lambs came directly from the 
pastures to the barn, and had not been 
tempered to grain or hay. They had the 
mangels fed to them with the grain and 
hay and scoured to a considerable ex¬ 
tent, but the change from pasture to 
grain may have had as much to do with 
it as the mangels. Lambs that had been 
fed grain and hay and were accustomed 
to dry feed were not scoured by the ra¬ 
tion of mangels. Those that scoured 
had the mangel ration withheld for a 
few days, when they were again given 
them without injurious results. One lot 
that has been on full feed for a month 
or more have about all the mangels they 
will eat without waste. The others are 
fed a little more than a half pound each 
per day. We feed them with the least 
possible preparation. They are cut 
lengthways, about twice, with a corn- 
knife, more to make an even distribution 
in the troughs than as an aid to the 
lambs in eating them. The remainder 
of the slicing, pulping and mixing with 
other feed the lambs do themselves. 
I have them fed to the cows without 
•cutting. The cows crush and break them 
so that they can chew them. When they 
do this they never choke, as there would 
be danger of their doing if the roots 
were chopped for them. 
The impression seems to prevail that 
mangels to be first-class must be ripen¬ 
ed in the pit and that they are not fit 
to feed till after midwinter; that they 
must have pit storage to retain their 
plump, brittle qualities. If not stored in 
pits the same results must be had by 
cellar storage. This matter of cellar 
storage does not suit farmers like my¬ 
self, who have no cellar about the farm 
buildings, and do not want any; farm¬ 
ers who have their barns above the level 
without cellar or basement. If the roots 
can be stored above ground in such a 
way as to prevent heating, and the con¬ 
sequent wilting, the same results are 
had as from cellar or pit storage. 1 
think I have secured this in a cheap 
structure, double-walled, 12x18 feet out¬ 
side measure; seven feet high. Inside 
measure, 10x16 feet; the space between 
the outer and inner walls packed with 
clover chaff, and straw as left by the 
clover huller. For roof we used about 
a foot of the clover chaff and straw, and 
covered with bundled fodder. We placed 
ventilators in the corners, at center of 
ends and sides, and three in center. 
These are strips of plank in corners 
placed so that the roots could not close 
in the space entirely. In center we use 
two pieces of lx6-inch plank with two 
or three strips nailed across, making an 
open-sided box. In one instance we used 
4x4-inch posts to support the roof. By 
placing the roots by hand we made a 
ventilator up one side of this post. The 
roots have been in the house one month, 
and I can see no signs of heating or 
wilting. 
Another matter of considerable im¬ 
portance in handling the roots is that 
unnecessary care adds to the expense. 
Some say handle carefully so as not to 
bruise them; others say bruising from 
rough handling does no injury. I am 
going to test this matter. When storing 
these mangels we hauled uiem from the 
field in the wagon as we do ear corn, and 
threw them from the wagon over the 
sides of the house into the store room, 
putting the roof on after the store room 
was filled. By this rough handling many 
were bruised, and some broken. If they 
heat to any considerable extent I shall 
expect the bruised ones to show decay; 
otherwise I do not expect much loss from 
this rough handling. For the lambs and 
other stock, there is no need of mixing 
with ground feed to make them more 
palatable. Feeding as near whole as I 
do makes a root-slicer or pulper un¬ 
necessary, and saves a money outlay and 
labor. John m. jamison. 
Ross Co.. O. 
An immense silo capable of holding 14,40fl 
pounds of beet seed has been built in 
Russia. That country will become a large 
sugar producer. 
Worms in Hogs.—D r. Peters, of the Ne¬ 
braska Station, names this powder for hogs 
with worms: Copper sulphate, one-half 
pound; gentian root, one-half pound; lico¬ 
rice root, one-half pound; wood charcoal, 
one-half pound; hyposulphite of soda, two 
pounds. Give a teaspoonful to each hog 
once a day; or in very bad cases about 
five grains of calomel should be given to 
each hog, either in the feed or by dropping 
a five-grain tablet into the mouth. 
• 
Heifer Fails to Breed.—I f a heifer 
formerly came regularly in heat, and now 
has ceased to do so, without having been 
served, it is very likely due to idleness 
or to her being too fat. There is very little 
one can do medicinally to bring a heifer 
in heat, unless there is some reasonable 
cause that can be discovered and treated. 
Daily exercise and a moderate ration suf¬ 
ficient to keep her in good thrifty growing 
condition, is about the only medicine to be 
given. The most natural season for a 
heifer to come in heat is after going to 
pasture in the Spring, and she may then 
come in heat, if she does not before. 
F. L. K. 
n Disease and death often lurk in a continuously 
neglected cold, when itmight be speedily eradicated 
with a fewdosesof Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant— Adv. 
may "‘throw a curb,” ‘‘start a 
splint,” “sprain a cord,” “de¬ 
velop a spavin, thrush, or 
grease heel.” etc. They are all 
bad, but don’t be alarmed. 
Get a bottle or two of 
Tuttle’sElixir. 
It cures all these troubles and Colic, 
Distemper,Founder,Pneumonia,&c 
Used and endorsed by Adams ExpressCo. 
Dr. S. A. Tuttle. Wolcott, Vt., July 15,1898. 
Dear Sir:—I have doctored horses for the la6t 25 years, and I 
think your Elixir the best liniment I have ever uesd, and I would 
recommend it to any one, C. M. GUYER. 
TUTTLE S FAMIIY EtlXIR cures rheumatism, spraing, 
bruises, etc. Kills pain instantly. Our 100-page book, 
"Veterinary Experience,” FREE. 
Dr. S, A. TUTTLE, 30 Beverly St., Boston, Mass. 
Reware of so-called Elixirs—none genuine but Tuttle’s. 
Avoid all blisters; they o er only temporary relief if any 
Breeders’ Directory. 
■JUQQIJTQ—First-class stock. W. J. WOOD 
rCnnC I O Box241, New London. Ohio. 
Afinn FERRETS. First-class stock. Some 
£UUU Trained. New price-list free. 
N. A. KNAPP, Rochester, Lorain Co., O. 
Rod PnpriKMre— slx Cows; two 2-year olds, bred; 
RCgi uUClllovjj three 13 months’old Heifers; two 
6 and 8 months’ old Heifers; two Bull Calves, 2 and 5 
months. A. J. SNYDER, Plumsteadville. Pa. 
PRICE OF MILK 
is largely due to quality. Use a GUERNSEY bull 
and breed a HERD. Will sell bulls of different ages 
at farmers' prices. WILLSWOOD HERD. 
Wills A. Seward. Budd’s Lake, N. J ~i 
FOR SALE 
—THOROUGHBRED HOLSTEIN 
_ __JLL CALVES. Weil marked 
and of best breeding. Will be sold at farmers' price. 
Write at once. W. W. CHENEY, Manlius, N. Y. 
a H o 1 s te i n - Friesian 
Bull Calf? 
a Chester White Pig 
either sex, pair or trio ? 
If yon do, and want the best breeding at a fair price, 
write to-day to CHAS. K. RECORD, Peterboro, N.Y 
Do You Want 
SOME GOOD YOUNG 
JERSEY BULL CALVES 
FOR SALE at fair prices. No PLUGS nor un¬ 
registered for sale at any price. 
R. F. SHANNON. 907 Liberty St.. Pittsburg. l*a. 
ISO Dellhurst Holsteins 
for sale, Including young Cows, Heifers and a 
great lot of BULL CALVES—several now ready 
for service—sons of “DeKol’s Butter Boy”, and 
the famous “ Royal Paul ” out of advanced Re¬ 
gistry cows. Catalogue. 
DELLHURST FARM, Mentor, Ohio. 
"Por Sale—White Holland Turkeys: W. P. Rocks; 
W. Guineas, in their highest grade of purity, at 
farmers’ prices. JASON ELLARS, Bookwalter, Ohio 
rnriTRRPT Choice W. Wyandottes, P. Rocks, 
vvvAuIVIjLvj Brahmas, Cochins, Leghorns, from 
prixe-winning stock. 23 varieties of land and water 
fowls. Satisfaction guaranteed. Big Catalogue 
free. PINE TREE FARM, Box T.Jamesburg, N. J. 
8" 0 Soo“ oil POULTRY 
and Almanac for 1001. 160 p*g««, over 
100 illustration* of Fowl*, Incubator*, Brooders, 
Poultry Houses, etc. Howto raise chickens success¬ 
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with full descriptions of Poultry house*. All 
about laenbaton. Brooders and thoroughbred 
Fowls, with lowest prices. Price only 15 cents. 
C. C, SHOEMAKER. Box ll>9, Pre-port, III. 
Reg. P. Chinas. Berkshires 
and O. Whites, Choice Pigs, 
8 weeks old, mated not akin. 
Bred Sows and Servioe Boars. 
Poultry. Write for hard times 
prices and free circular. 
HAMILTON & CO., ltosenvick, Chester Co., Pa. 
rrro tucii at it hm» mu«* uy *n ; «i 
aLCr InClTI Hi I I • round to be profitable. 
Feeding plenty of root* and vegetables will do It. On- 
BANNER junior root and vegetable cutter 
cut* ail root* and vegetables fast and fine. Easily con- 
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