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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 31 
Live Stock and Dairy 
DAIRY AND FARM NOTES. 
Brief Bits of Dairy Experience. 
Is it fair for a farmer who has a family 
large enough to do all his work and not 
credit a labor account to each one, to com¬ 
pare his net returns with one who is 
obliged to hire the same labor and pay 
cash for it? 
High prices for beef will no doubt stimu¬ 
late meat growing in the East. I would 
like to see a few men interest themselves 
in choice Short-horn Angus, or Hereford 
stock. Why not? Don’t sacrifice the dairy, 
however. People are just beginning to 
know the value of milk, cream and cheese. 
Farmers think it extravagant to use cream, 
or rather a luxury. Mrs. Cook says it is 
cheaper than butter. 
Can anyone subscribe to a really good 
reason why farmers rent their farms and 
move to town, when the debts are paid, 
and a chance comes for rent and enjoy¬ 
ment for the family? Why not stay there; 
make improvements; beautify the farm; 
make it a center of attraction and employ 
good men and women, instead of moving 
to town, and there standing around, doing 
nothing? The business men have no re¬ 
spect for these people. In fact, they are 
out of their proper sphere. 
We have been feeding too much protein 
to one dairy, the milk record was running 
high, but the meat was coming off. A 
change of ration has lessened the milk 
flow, but will increase the fat on the body. 
The young chicks that are confined 
stormy days and have liberty pleasant 
days have indigestion and subsequent 
diarrhoea. Exercise every day means 
health. Why not feed brooder chicks all 
they will eat just the same as those under 
the care of an old hen? 
Are the dairy farmers working 16 hours 
a day, or do you get everything finished 
at 6 P. M.? If you do not quit at that 
time, just try it and put in two hours of 
thinking. Do you have trouble with hired 
men? Become absolute master of your 
business by having a carefully-matured 
plan and then work on time. We have had 
all the men needed without looking for 
them, and we are employing about 20 men 
and women all of the time. Perhaps you 
think they do not accomplish much. Come 
and see! 
Ten degrees below freezing has sickened 
a large acreage of fine clover. Will it come 
again? The only reason will be the ready 
available material under it. 
I had a long talk with a Chicago produce 
dealer yesterday. He was after one-poUnd 
skim cheese for a southern market just 
enough off so they would think they were 
full creams, and do you know he was will¬ 
ing to give nearly full cream prices? It 
was a temptation. We have a nice trade 
for all we can make of full creams. Why 
break up this trade? 1 am sorry to see the 
skimmer get into our northern fancy cheese 
and so prejudice the whole trade. Remem¬ 
ber the Herkimer County (N. Y.) experi¬ 
ences? 
Are your hogs doing well?’ Do they have 
exercise? For young pigs and breeding 
stock it is absolutely necessary. We had 
a nice litter recently that were getting too 
fat—outdoor exercise saved them! Are the 
shotes unthrifty? Feed them all the char¬ 
coal they will eat, and a ration of salt and 
ashes. One lot of 16 are eating whey and 
charcoal, and doing well. 
I did not feel satisfied with 7% cents for 
beef, but cows that are milked out do not 
make beef to compare with two and three- 
year-old steers of beef breeding. 
Cows are being turned to pasture. Don't 
take off all the barn fodder. In one dairy I 
suggested to the foreman that they would 
eat a ration of straw. He said: “What, on 
grass?” Yes, on grass, and they eat it 
with a relish. Dry feed seems to regulate 
the bowels and prevent severe purging. 
Don’t try to do everything at once, but 
do try to do at least one thing at once! 
I have tried to do many things at the same 
time and often failed! 
We advise an inventory of personal and 
real effects once a year. Why not take an 
inventory of our capabilities twice a year? 
Where is the profitable limit for our ener¬ 
gies? How can we conserve them? Study 
nature; where force is not wasted! 
I bought four pavement-sore cheap horses 
in New York this Spring. Three of them 
have worked hard every day and earned 
nearly as much as a $150 horse. The fourth 
horse is too sore yet for much active ser¬ 
vice. He will be turned to pasture. If he 
improves all will be satisfactory and there 
will be a clean profit of $100. if not, it was 
a safe trade. When the result is known, 
I will tell the experience, either good or 
bad. 
Here is a point that I have learned of our 
experiment station workers; to tell the 
result whether satisfactory or otherwise! 
Formerly I would explain in detail the suc¬ 
cesses and keep still about the reverses. 
In fact, my natural disposition is that way 
yet. Nine years of contact with station 
men and methods have been a prompting 
to tell the whole story. 
We w r ere about the first to manufacture 
very small sizes of American cheese in 
this northern section. We were ridiculed 
on every side. At times my courage was 
nearly gone. To-day these same sizes are 
"standard” in the markets, both east and 
west! The southern markets are particu¬ 
larly anxious to secure them. A recent 
letter from our Baltimore receiver says: 
“Don’t fail to send full order of ‘Picnics!’ ” 
These are a Cheddar form weighing 20 
pounds. 
It is so hard for dairy farmers to find 
time to “make garden,” the most profit¬ 
able piece of land on the farm! We hire 
a man at $1 per day and board to work in 
the garden, and no field labor pays better. 
We are seeding large areas this Spring, 
and it does the eye good to see every 
stone, large or small, out of the way. 
Every stone that will pass through a 
stone crusher is piled in a convenient 
place. "When the town crusher is ready 
we are ready, and otherwise unsightly 
stuff is turned to good use. The large 
stones are buried. We plow and scrape 
a ditch four to five feet wide and three feet 
deep; all done with horses. A stone-boat 
wagon does the hauling. A team, two men 
and a scraper do the covering and the 
trouble is ended. The time spent in work¬ 
ing around these big fellows, and the dam¬ 
age to tools in going over smaller ones, in 
a single rotation, will pay all cost of put¬ 
ting them out of sight. 
A great teacher is a pair of milk scales 
and a daily or weekly record of each cow; 
15 minutes extra time once a week will 
weigh the milk and record it. Can it be 
more wisely used? 
No inventor has yet put upon the market 
a pulverizer that will for a moment match 
the plow in effective work. We have re¬ 
plowed again this Spring where the soil 
was compact, and it is about as cheaply 
done. h. e. cook. 
The Guernsey Breeders Meet. 
The annual meeting of the American 
Guernsey Cattle Club was held at the Fifth 
Avenue Hotel, New York May 14. During 
the year 685 bulls, 1,240 cows and 1,573 
transfers have been recorded; 21 members 
have been added to the club and four have 
died. The financial report showed the 
total assets of the club, consisting of books, 
office furnishings and surplus in the treas¬ 
ury to be $8,450.89. The following officers 
were elected: President, James M. Cod- 
man; vice-presidents, A. J. Cassatt and 
Sydney Fisher; secretary and treasurer, 
Wm. H. Caldwell. The secretary an¬ 
nounced the following for the year’s record 
of cows for the Advanced Register: 
Butter Fat. 
Mary Marshall .477.48 
Elite of Maplehurst.472.06 
Dairymaid of Elm Place.473.47 
Cassiopeia .377.70 
Yega .361.37 
Great interest was shown in the -work 
of the club at Buffalo. 
Odds and Ends. 
Petroleum for Warts.— I find petroleum 
an excellent remedy for warts or cracks 
on cows’ teats. Apply it after milking and 
keep using until the warts are removed 
or the sores healed. h. w. a. 
New York. 
Killing Briers.— On page 341 we printed 
a letter from a reader in Auckland, New 
Zealand, who wants some way of killing 
blackberries. The Victoria (Australia) Ag¬ 
ricultural Journal, says that blackberries 
have spread all over the State—becoming 
a great nuisance. A butter-maker noticed 
the sulphuric acid left in his flasks after 
testing milk by the Babcock test. He 
used half a pint of this waste acid on a 
blackberry bush—throwing it so as to flow 
down the center stem to the main root. 
Each bush so handled died and soon be¬ 
came dry enough to burn. 
Weed Killers.— The Vermont Experi¬ 
ment Station people have tested various 
chemicals for destroying weeds. ft is 
found that roads, gravel walks, tennis 
courts and similar places can be kept 
clean in this way. The best chemical test¬ 
ed was arseniate of soda, one pound in 
eight gallons of water. This, sprinkled 
over a square rod of ground, killed the 
grass and weeds permanently. One quart 
of crude carbolic acid in eight gallons of 
water blasted the weeds but did not kill 
them. The carbolic acid would be best on 
a lawn where grass or weeds are to be 
killed in order to make room fer others 
as the arsenic poisons the ground for some 
years. _ 
If yon find a cold creeping on, keep a bottle of Or. 
D. Jayne’s Expectorant near at hand, and take a 
little dose occasionally. It will relieve at once, and 
soon bring about a cure.— Adv. 
GOMBAULT’S 
CAUSTIC BALSAM 
A safe, speedy and 
positive cure for 
Curb, Splint, Sweeny, Capped Hock, 
Strained Tendons, Founder, Wind Puffs, 
and all lameness from Spavin, Ringbone 
and other bony tumors. Cures all skin 
diseases or Parasites, Thrush, Diphtheria. 
Removes all Bunches from Horses or 
Cattle. 
As a HUMAN REMEDY for Rheu¬ 
matism, Sprulns, Sore Throat, etc., it 
is invaluable. 
Every bottle of Caustic Balsam sold is 
Warranted to (rive satisfaction . Price #il.SO 
per bottle. Sold by druggists, or sent by ex¬ 
press, charges paid, with full directions for its 
use. Send for descriptive circulars, testimo¬ 
nials, etc. Address 
THE LAWRENCE-WILLIAMS COMPANY, Cleveland, Ohio. 
" iu//7^ 
COOPER 
SHEEP DIP 
STANDARD OF THE WORLD for 6« 
yenra. Used on 250 millions nnntmlly. If local 
Irujrffl^t cannot supply, send $1.?5 for £2 (100 gal. i 
pkt. to WM. COOPER NEPHEWS, CHICAGO. 
Brightwood Silo Coating 
WATER ) 
AND 
ACID i 
Will not scale. Perfect preservat’ve for Inside of 
silos. May be applied to new or old wood. Crane’s 
Prolific Ensilage Corn <20 tons ensilage or 180 
bushels ears per acre). Write for prices. 
THE AGRICULTURAL STOKE, Springfield. Mass. 
Shoo-Fly IK 
THE 
ANIMALS' 
FRIEND 
Half cent's 
worth saves 
2 quarts 
milk and 
much flesh. 
Cures sores, hoof ail* 
Shoo-Fly is the original 
Kills 
every 
fly it 
strikes. 
Keeps 
off the 
rest. 
Harmless 
toman to 50 gallons seven consecutive years. Beware 
or beast, of imitations thatlastonly a few hours and make sores. 
If your dealer does not keep Shoo-Fly send us $1.00 for 
latest improved double tube sprayer and enough Shoo-Fly to 
protect 100 cows, or 25c for liquid. 
Quart FREE to those naming Imit ation they have used, 
and promising to pay express. To these will send Sprayer for 60c. 
stock protector used by same dairymen 
since 1885. Thousands have duplicated 10 
BUGOLEUM 
is the most 
effectual 
SHEEP DIP 
Kills all IJce, Ticks. Cures Scab, Mange, sores. The best 
known disinfectant. Prevents contagious abortion. Price$1.25 per 
gal. Add from 20 tolOO gals, water. Cattle dipped or sprayed in 
Rug-olcum (1 to 30) will be free of ticks and pass the quarantine. 
SHOO-FLY MFG. CO. 1005 Fairmount Ave., Phila.,Pa. 
Experience has proven Shoo-Fly to bo O. K.— EDITOR . 
Breeders’ Directory 
RE6ISTERED Jersey Hull CALVES 
from Ida Stokfi Poirls and Go'den Lad at fair prices. 
R. F. SHANNON. 907 Liberty St , Pittsburg, Pa. 
A 
by 
Foundation Herd of 10 or 20 young registered 
HOLSTEIN COWS is offered at a special price 
DELLHUKST FARM, Mentor, Ohio. 
Enr Coin— PUBKBBED holstein-friesians. 
rUl odlG Bargains In BULL CALVES at the pres¬ 
ent time. Also BERKSHIRE SWINE and SCOTCH 
COLLIE PUPS. W. W. CHENEY, Manllns, N.Y. 
T HE MAPLE HERD of High-Bred 
HOLSTE1N-FRIES1AN CATTLE are to be 
closed out as so°n as possible Animals of all 
ages and both sexes are offered for sale. Address 
WM. ROOD, Binghamton, N.Y. 
Young Registered Holstein-Fries¬ 
ian Bulls tor Sale Cheap. 
I have two bulls two years old and several yearling 
bulls for sale cheap. They are large, handsome, per¬ 
fectly marked animals, all sired by Dora De Kol's 
Oount No. 23757, and from best dams In herd. These 
animals are on McLennan Stock Farm, Ischua, N. Y. 
Inquire of P. B. MCLENNAN, Syracuse, N. Y. 
Pune—spayed Females. Circulars. SILAS 
vUlllG lUpa DECKER, South Montrose Pa. 
Pill I 1C DIIDC~ By fTli’e-WlnnlnpJniported 
UULLIC rUrO Sires and Trained Dams. Fit 
for Rencb, Ranch or Farm. Roth sexes: all ages. 
Also a Book on the Care and Traini' g of the COLLI K 
for all Practical Uses. Price, 50c. Book free to pur¬ 
chaser of Collie. Maplemont Sargent, Albany, Vt. 
IMPROVED URGE YORKSHIRES T.rS'Z 
hog. Pigs of all ages from Imported slock for sale. 
MEADOW BROOK STOCK FARM, Rochester, Mich 
Reg. P. Chinas, Berlisiiircs and C. Whites. 
Choice Pigs, 8 weeks old, mated nol 
ak'n. Bred Sows and Service Boar. 
POULTRY. Write for hard timet 
prices and free circular. 
HAMILTON & CO„ Rosenvick, Chester Co., P*. 
ANISflDI Bfi ITC sre handsome, hardy and 
HHUUnH uUH I 9 profitable. Prize stock 
Low prices. Large oir. H. W. Cole & Co., Kenton, 0 
= NO SPAVINS §= 
The worst possible spavin can bo cured in 
45 minutes. Ringbones, Curbs and Splints 
just as quick. Not painful and never has 
failed. Detailed information about this 
new method sent free to horse owners. 
Write today. Ask for pamphlet No. 88 
Fleming Bros., Chemists, Union Stock Yds., Chicago 
Hcwton’i lie..*, Cough, Dl», 
temper and Indigestion Core. 
A veterinary specific for wind, 
throat and stomach troubles. 
Strong recommends, $1 per 
can. Dealers, mail or Kx.paid. 
hewtop llorsc Remedy Co. 
< y ) Toledo. Ohio. 
UH UllilDIIP & PERFECT IN- 
llU nUlflDUU STRl’MKNTSIn 1 
Humane Swina V. Stock Marker andCalf 
Dehorner. Stopsswineof all ages from 
rooting. Makes 48 different ear marks, all 
sizes, with same blade. Extracts Horns. 
Testimonials free. Price $1.50 or send $1 
■ret i ton trial ; i f i t suits send balance. 
Pat'd Apr 23,100, 
FARMER BRIGHTON, Fairfield, Iowa. 
THE CHAIN-HANGING 
Cattle Stanchion 
The most practical and humane Fastener ever In¬ 
vented. G ives perfect freedom of the head. 1 Rustrated 
Circular and Price free on application. Manufactured 
by O. H. ROBERTSON, l'orestville, Conn. 
The BEST Cattle 
Fastening. 
SMITH’S Self- 
Adjusting Swing 
Stanchion. The only 
Practical 6Wing stan¬ 
chion invented. Thou 
sands in use Hlust'4 
Circular free. 
GLENORA MFG CO., 
Glenora, Yates County, 
N Y- Infringements 
will be prosecuted. 
n EXT WINTER it will be 
necessary for our farmers 
to study the question of 
stock foods. Corn, the great 
stock grain, will he high in 
price, and substitutes must he 
provided for it. Iiow can these 
substitutes he found ? Only by 
comparing other and cheaper foods with corn, and knowing beforehand 
how they will affect the animal. This comparison may he done by study¬ 
ing analyses, hut a farmer cannot afford to spend the Winter in experi¬ 
menting. He must know beforehand what others have found out. He 
can learn this by studying Prof. W. A. Henry's great hook. Feeds and 
Feeding tells you just what you ought to know about foods and how to 
feed them. It is full and complete, and easy to read. Price, $2. 
Sold by THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
PROF. W. A. HENRYS GREAT BOOK 
VW ▼ T 
FEEDS Arm 
FEEDING 
