1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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ARGUMENTS FOR ANGUS CATTLE. 
How do Angus cattle compare with 
Herefords and Short-horns as beef pro¬ 
ducers? Our experience with this breed 
covers a period of 17 years. We started 
our Kansas herds in 1885, and, like most 
eastern people, believed “good cattle” 
must be red. So we selected Short¬ 
horns, and good ones. My uncle, on an 
adjoining ranch, preferred the Here¬ 
ford, and purchased four fine imported 
bulls at a long price. Our ranches were 
located only 14 miles from that of 
George Grant, the first importer of 
Angus cattle to America. In purchas¬ 
ing our young steers in the Fall, we 
chanced to get quite a few “blacks,” 
sired by his bulls. Spring found these 
“Doddies” in better condition than the 
other cattle. They were the first to 
reach the feed wagon in the morning, 
and the last to leave the feed at night— 
regardless of weather. Fall found them 
fat and fine, and, being hornless, we 
decided to try them. So in 1887, we 
purchased two imported heifers and a 
bull, and from this small beginning 
have continued to increase our purebred 
herd till it now numbers 125. In the 
meantime, we used the purebred bulls 
on our Short-horn cows. This proved 
a grand cross, the offspring being black 
and hornless, with fine size anu quality, 
frequently weighing over 500 pounds 
on the average at weaning time, and 
selling at $5.50 per 100 on the farm. 
We are thoroughly convinced that we 
made no mistake in this selection, and 
a number of our neighbors think the 
same way, as there are now about 30 
of them using purebred Angus bulls. 
An enumeration of a few of their good 
qualities may not be out of place. A 
purebred —not a grade —Angus bull dis¬ 
horns the calves and makes them one 
color and type. The calves when born 
are very small, making the loss in calv¬ 
ing, especially in heifers, practically 
nothing, while with the Short-horns it 
was large. They are very prolific; our 
imported heifers never missed a calf in 
15 years; they are good mothers and 
sticklers. They weigh equal to the 
Short-horn, and heavier than the Here¬ 
ford under same conditions. Flies do 
not bother them as they do red cattle. 
A comparison of the number of each of 
these breeds show that there are omy 
about 40,000 purebred Angus cattle of 
breeding age in America, while there 
are hundreds of thousands oi Herefords 
and Short-horns. These figures alone 
show that the Angus bull has no equal 
as an improver, for the fact that the 
great beef markets are “topped” oftener 
by Angus bullocks than by both the 
other breeds combined cannot be dis¬ 
puted, and this has been accomplished 
in the past 15 years. The fat stock 
shows of America, as well as England, 
prove these statements, the Angus 
breed having won 75 per cent of the 
“championships” for several years— 
both alive and on the block. In Eng¬ 
land last year the Angus made a clean 
Sweep. CHARL.ES E. SUTTON. 
Russell, Kan. 
DRY NURSES FOR BABY PIGS. 
I have just been reading an article by 
C. S. Plumb in February 1 issue on rais¬ 
ing pigs by hand. He asks for reports 
from others. One cold day last Winter 
my husband brought me in two little 
pigs a few hours old. It was snowing 
and blowing hard, and the rest of lit¬ 
ter had perished before found. I took 
skim-milk diluted with water, warmed 
it, and putting my finger in the pig’s 
mouth poured the milk in with a tea¬ 
spoon, just a little at a time the first 
day. 1 fed them before going to bed, 
about 10 o’clock, and again as soon as 
I got up in the morning, and before they 
were 24 hours old they would drink 
from a tiny howl. I had to keep them 
in the house for two weeks, the weather 
being very cold and stormy. Then 1 
moved them to the wood house and fed 
them when I first got up and in the mid¬ 
dle of the forenoon, at noon, middle of 
afternoon, and at night, always giving 
them the warm milk before retiring. I 
never saw pigs do any better, but right 
then I made a mistake by letting them 
have all the undiluted milk they could 
drink at a time. It was too strong and 
killed them. If I had limited the quan¬ 
tity or diluted it they would have got 
along all right, for I never saw finer 
looking nor livelier pigs. I have raised 
them when older, and had no trouble; 
also have brought to life when almost 
dead and kept them till strong enough 
to give back to the mother. I think Mr. 
Plumb’s mistake lay in feeding too 
often and not diluting the milk. 
Illinois. farmer’s wife. 
If C. S. Plumb had left out the sugar 
and put one-tenth buttermilk in the 
cow’s milk, then, instead of giving the 
little pigs all they would eat, had let 
them have only a little at a time (per¬ 
haps from one to three tablespoonfuls 
at first, giving more as they grew older) 
I think he would have had better suc¬ 
cess with them. A good way to keep 
them warm is to have a barrel sawn in 
two; put some straw in the bottom, then 
a two-gallon jug or jar filled with hot 
water for warmth set in the center. If 
a jar is used lay a hot soapstone over it 
to hold heat; if very cold a piece of old 
carpet may be thrown over the top of 
the barrel at night, taking care not to 
exclude all the air. MRS. j. j. j. 
Michigan. 
A few years since I lost a fine sow 
that left a dozen motherless pigs about 
two days old. Thinking it would be 
more trouble to raise them than they 
would be worth I gave several of them 
away to neighbors. We fed the little 
pigs with new milk, while yet warm 
from the cow, or else warmed it for 
them on the stove. After trying to 
teach them to suck a quill with a soft 
rag around it with no success, we fed 
them with a teaspoon from a small cup. 
After being fed two or three times they 
learned to drink, and the second day 
they were eating from a small trough 
as well and better than some pigs that 
I have bought, when four weeks old. 
The neighbors to whom we had given 
some of the pigs were all successful in 
raising them to be good hogs above the 
average. We gave them new milk about 
a week, and then gave them warm skim- 
milk, and in fact, they would eat any¬ 
thing that is usually fed to a pig four 
weeks old. I know of several instances 
where pigs a few days old were raised 
by artificial means with little trouble. 
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