GOOD JERSEYS LARGE ENOUGH. 
After reading the articles under the 
bead, "What Bull for Large Butter 
Cows?” I cannot repress the desire to 
write you upon the subject. To my 
mind there is but one way to bring up 
the herd of your correspondent, and 
that is by using a good individual of the 
Jersey breed (because the Jersey is the 
best butter cow, and to introduce other 
blood is to breed downwards), and then 
to give the young animals the best 
chance possible, a good growing ration 
from birth to maturity. The feed has 
a great deal of influence on the breed. 
For instance, I attended an auction last 
Spring where high-grade (not high 
quality) Jersey cows and heifers sold 
for from $12 to $20, and some of them 
were so poor that they had to be drawn 
away in sleighs. The only thrifty ani¬ 
mal on the farm was a fine foxhound, 
and I noticed a half-dozen fishpoles and 
spears in the barn. Further explana¬ 
tions are unnecessary. 
At another sale cows of the same 
breeding sold at from $50 to $60, and 
there were not enough to fill the de¬ 
mand at that price. I think that the 
well-bred, well-fed Jersey cow is as big 
as she ought to be. That is, she is big 
enough to hold enough feed to make 
more butter than any other cow on 
earth. If anyone can prove to me that 
it is profitable, in New York State, to 
maintain 200 or 300 pounds of surplus 
carcass for 10 or 15 years, to be ulti¬ 
mately converted into old cow beef 
worth four or five cents a pound, I will 
discard Jerseys and breed anything he 
may recommend. As W. L. Carlyle, of 
Wisconsin, says: "Many Jersey breeders 
are now giving more attention to the 
size and vigor of these cattle,” because 
such cows are more profitable butter 
machines. Jersey cows weighing 1,000 
pounds and upwards are by no means 
uncommon, and a cow of tnis size that 
will make two pounds of butter in a day 
on ordinary farmers’ feed and care is, 
to use an old dairyman’s words, "an 
all-fired good cow.” While I do not 
pretend to be anything but a “scrub 
farmer,” I can boast the ownership of 
several such cows and submit the pic¬ 
ture and description of "Brownell’s 
Rissa” as one of them. See Fig. 54, first 
page. 
Brownell’s Rissa was dropped Decem¬ 
ber 29, 1892. She was the first daughter 
of her dam, Rissa (F. S. 2173, J. H. B. 
and 16014 A. J. C. C.). Rissa was im¬ 
ported by A. M. Herkness & Co., of 
Philadelphia, in 1882, and was sold to 
N. Brownell, of Hubbardsville, N. Y. She 
took first prize at the New York State 
Fair and made a record of 19 pounds of 
butter in seven days. The sire of Brow¬ 
nell’s Rissa was Cocotte’s Rioter, dam 
Cocotte 11958, an imported cow that has 
a record of 17 pounds 7% ounces of but¬ 
ter in seven days, made on grass alone 
at the age of 14 years. The sire of Co¬ 
cotte’s Rioter was Rioter’s Combination 
10363, by Stoke Pogis 3d and out of 
Pride of Windsor. When Mr. Brownell 
dispersed his herd in 1896, he reserved 
Brownell’s Rissa for a family cow, be¬ 
cause, as he said, she represented an 
ideal Jersey. She dropped three heifer 
calves. The first, Rissa of Jefferson 
111505, was sold to Dr. R. Hubbell, of 
Jefferson, Schoharie Co., N. Y., and the 
following two—Hickory’s Rissa 117093 
and Rissa’s Mary Hayden 128242—to the 
writer. In 1899 Brownell’s Rissa failed 
to produce a calf and Mr. Brownell sold 
her to me. She brought another calf in 
August, 1900, and gave over 40 pounds 
of milk daily for some time; but owing 
to sickness in my family, I was unable 
to test her. She milked steadily along 
all Winter and right up twice a day un¬ 
til she dropped another heifer calf, July 
28, 1901. 
1 he paroxysms of Whooping Cough are at once 
relieved by Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant, and If this 
medicine Is continued, It almost invariably effects a 
cure.—Adi’ 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER.. 
Stallion for Sale. 
151 
I began testing her August 14, and In 
seven days she gave 23814 pounds of 
milk, which was separated and produced 
14 pounds 3^ ounces of butter, at one 
ounce salt per pound, and worked ready 
for my private butter trade. She was 
fed four pounds bran and four pounds 
Buffalo gluten daily. A dry pasture and 
corn fodder made up her ration. Her 
actual weight is 1,040 pounds. During 
the month of August she gave 1,030% 
pounds of milk. Taking her week’s test 
as a standard this would make a little 
over 58 pounds of butter in the month. 
I intend to weigh her milk regularly and 
will test it from time to time. 
New York. j. grant morse 
Inbreeding for Swine. 
On page 90 a question Is asked about 
inbreeding hogs. We have had 30 years’ 
experience in breeding Cheshires, and 
have been told time without number, 
that it was ruinous to inbreed hogs. At 
the Chicago World’s Fair I was im¬ 
pressed with the very meaty type of 
swine shown, and it was my impression 
that the Cheshire must conform nearer 
to this type to be the ideal hog we were 
trying to produce. As the Cheshires are 
a registered breed, and we did not care 
to go outside the herd book for suitable 
sires, our choice was greatly restricted, 
and we bred such animals together as 
would, in our judgment, produce or in¬ 
tensify the ideal we had in our mind 
without regard to their relationship. 
We wished to produce a shorter head, 
shorter legs, and a better back, and if 
we believed that by breeding a sire to 
his get would aid, we did it We bred 
a sire that was especially strong in pro¬ 
ducing a neat tidy head and ear to his 
get, and again in second generation. 
Outside of several attacks of cholera 
(which we acquired with our premiums 
at the fairs), we have never found that 
our stock was growing poorer; in fact, 
we thoroughly believe we have made a 
decided improvement, and for the past 
two years have been assured by com¬ 
petent judges that we had improved our 
Cheshires. Yes, breed back to the sire 
twice rather than to a scrub. If you 
have a sire that produces a good litter 
of smooth even pigs, I would much 
rather use him than take the chances 
on one of unknown quality. 
Cottons, N. Y. R. D. BUTTON. 
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THE HORSE MARKET : 
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1 and are neither desirable for use or sale. The remedy 
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?■>■ ■** Enosburg Falls, Vt. | 
IF I HAD NOT 
SCALES 
of my own I would buy an 
800 lb. 
X 25 PLATFORM SCALE, 
ON WHEELS. 
With cast steel pivots, 
carefully tempered for 
$ 8.00 
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JONES OF BINGHAMTON, 
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JACKS FOR SALE. 
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BAKER'S JACK FARM, Lawrence, Ind. 
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Harder Mfg. Co., Cobleskill, N. Y. 
“ FROM COW 
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We furnish * 
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Milk and Its 
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GREEN MOUNTAIN 
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—Fit EE— 
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Straight Straw, Rye and Wheat Thrasher, 
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Combined with Spike-Tooth Oat 
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Eureka Potato Planter. 
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The “WeberJunlor” 
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Can also 
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Is all complete, ready to at* 
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■ erected, all connec¬ 
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In Olden Days 
men were broken on the wheeL, 
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Electric Wheel Co., Box 88, Quincy, lh 
NO SPAVINS 
' The worst possible spavin can be cured in 
45 minutes. Ringbones, Curbs and Splints 
just as quick. Not painful and never has 
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Write today. Ask for pamphlet No. 88 
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> 2.00 
and 
up 
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The Middleman’s 
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Makes the Fence No Better. 
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YVhy not save that amount by buying from 
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In fact, we depend upon the quality to hold 
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EXCUSE US, BUT 
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The 
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