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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
September 21 
Live StockandDairy 
TRADE IN HOLSTEIN CATTLE. 
“Meaty" Beef is Desired. 
Has the high price of beef made a new 
demand for Holstein cattle? As these 
prices are likely to continue for some time, 
is it probable that dairymen will introduce 
more Holstein blood in the hope of securing 
larger and heavier animals? 
A Good Demand in Vermont. 
The trade in Holstein cattle in this 
section never was better, due, I think, 
to the dairy qualities of the good strains 
of the breed, the increased receipts from 
veals and an occasional beef sold, and 
also because there is at all times a more 
ready sale for a good-sized cow and 
young stock than for the smaller breeds. 
It would not be advisable for a breeder 
to make a specialty of beef with Hol- 
steins, as they are not as good as others 
for that purpose, yet they are away 
ahead of the smaller breeds. 
North Hero, Vt. w. b. dodds. 
Holstein Beef in Michigan. 
I can only say that there is a better 
demand for Holsteins this year than for 
many previous seasons; whether we 
should attribute it to the high price of 
beef or to the general prosperity of the 
country, which causes a larger consump¬ 
tion of dairy products I am unable to 
state. 1 hear the same story from all 
breeders, and especially in the East. I 
feed every year 10 to 20 head of purebred 
Holstein steers; these are from cows I 
do not deem good enough to sell their 
bull calves. I am now able to get a bet¬ 
ter price from these Holstein steers than 
I can from Short-horn grades which I 
buy and feed every Fall. To be sure it 
is from but two butchers that I am able 
to do this, and I had to educate them 
up to the fact that there was less waste 
and more desirable meat from a two- 
year-old Holstein steer than a Short¬ 
horn. It is a fact that the meat from a 
Holstein will suit the trade of 90 per 
cent of the butchers better than the 
Short-horn. The beef breeds suit better 
a hotel and restaurant, which demand 
extra fat cuts of meat, and a few of the 
extra well-to-do people who know and 
appreciate these extra fat cuts, but for 
the bulk of the trade they desire a meaty 
beef and only well covered, and I have 
been able to feed my Holsteins at a 
profit and dispose of them this way. 
Menominee, Mich. w. s. carpenter. 
Dairy Situation in Illinois. 
The present high prices for beef cattle 
have nearly exhausted the supply of 
marketable animals. It seems that every 
farmer who has a cow that he could 
possibly dispose of has done so. These 
small lots of cattle have been picked up 
by feeders mostly around here, who are 
holding them to fatten. The majority 
of farmers who disposed of their beef 
animals have turned their attention 
more to dairy cattle, as they are at pres¬ 
ent cheaper than the beef breeds. To 
prove this, there is nearly twice as much 
butter, cheese and cream on the market 
here as was ever known before. The 
market for dairy products has remained 
firm, but very few are receiving less 
than 25 cents per pound for their but¬ 
ter. During the year from September 1, 
1901, to September 1, 1902, we have sold 
more dairy cattle than any other year 
since we have been in business. I do 
not believe I could recommend to the 
average farmer to go into the purebred 
business, but I do know that the most 
profitable herd of cattle we can get here 
for both beef and milk is a combination 
of Holstein and Durham. To procure 
this we use grade Durham cows and 
cross on them a Holstein bull. This 
gives us a very large animal, a good 
milker, and one that feeds well for mar¬ 
ket. We have at present some cows in 
milk three to five years old that average 
350 pounds of butter per year. The 
calves from these cows we feed skim- 
milk, together with a little corn and 
gluten feed or dried grains, until they 
are about a year old, when we sell them 
to feeders who run them on grass one 
Summer and finish for market with corn 
the next Fall and Winter. In purebred 
Holsteins we have had an excellent 
trade, and inquiries have been received 
nearly two to one this year against any 
preceding one. irvin kowlan. 
Toulon, Ill. 
Holstein Beef Farms in New York. 
It is undoubtedly true that the de¬ 
mand for heavy beef for both home and 
foreign markets is on the increase, and 
prices are and will be higher than for 
years past, and for this reason farmers 
are turning their attention in that di¬ 
rection. There is an increased demand 
for Holsteins, and prices were never so 
high as at present. The Holstein is the 
ideal dairy cow; she is capable of using 
large quantities of feed and producing 
milk at a less cost per 100 pounds than 
any other cow. When on account of age 
or for any other reason she becomes un¬ 
profitable for the dairy she has the abil¬ 
ity to use the same amount of feed to 
put flesh on her bones and will do it at 
less cost than other dairy breeds. I do 
not know of anyone who raises steers 
for beef, but all our cows and bulls 
eventually go to the beef market, and I 
believe that a farm remote from nrilk- 
shipping stations which could be pur¬ 
chased at a low price could be made very 
profitable in the production of Holstein 
beef. E. IT. TAYLOR. 
Perrvville, N. Y. 
Facts from Ohio. 
The high price of beef has had a 
slight influence in the Holstein trade so 
far, while the demand is greater than 
has been for a number of years. Few 
figure on both milk and beef, but a beef 
breeder told me the other day he was 
going out of the beef breed into Hol¬ 
steins, and for this reason; the high 
prices for breeding animals are now on 
the decline, and you cannot afford to 
keep a cow a year to raise one calf. When 
the only return for keeping a cow is a 
calf a year it brings about $25, what the 
calf is worth for beef. He figures he 
can take a herd of Holsteins, sell milk 
to the creamery and have his calves left 
He can raise most bull calves and the 
poorest of the heifer calves for beef, so 
the cows will pay a double profit. While 
he does not claim they will make as 
much beef in the same length of time as 
a purebred beef animal, still they will 
return a profit. This idea is getting root 
in the West, and the Holstein breed is 
the only one of the milk breeds that 
has the needed size and constitution, 
and in fact is the only dual-purpose 
breed. w. b. smith & son. 
Columbus, O. 
SHOULD HOGS BE HERDED OR 
SEPARATED? 
Do you find it best to keep your hogs to¬ 
gether in one house, or do you keep them 
in small individual houses scattered about 
the pasture? 
Litters in Small Pastures. 
In my opinion it is not best to keep a 
large number of hogs in one place. I 
have one good-sized hoghouse 76x12 feet 
facing the south, divided into pens or 
stalls to accommodate 16 sows. The 
south side of this house has large glass 
windows, and there is an alley 3% feet 
wide to the north, back of all the stalls. 
The center part is 114 story, 14x12 feet, 
in which I have bins for feed and a 
stove for use in cold weather. I also 
use this as a farrowing house. When 
the pigs are 10 days or two weeks old, 
depending on the weather, the sows and 
pigs are then taken out into small pas¬ 
tures, two or three litters in a place, 
with small movable, floored houses of 
sufficient size to accommodate the two 
or three litters. After the pigs are 
weaned they are divided up into lots of 
20 or 30, as near the same age and size 
as possible, and given these small 
houses to sleep in. The large farrow¬ 
ing house is then used for a sleeping 
house for the' sows that have weaned 
their pigs, being connected with the 
large pasture. In this way I raise be¬ 
tween 200 and 300 pigs a year with bet¬ 
ter results than when large numbers are 
kept together. h. g. m’millan. 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 
One Long House in New Jersey. 
I have a hoghouse 90 feet long, 12 feet 
wide; an alley four feet wide runs the 
entire length of it. The pens are 8x10 
and 8x12 feet, which make them large 
enough for a sow and pigs or four or 
five pigs four to five months old. I have 
a large boiler with feed and water in one 
end; the troughs extend in the alley a 
little, so you see a man can soon feed 
the entire lot, while if the hogs were in 
different pens it would take some time. 
Each pen has a door (one that lifts up) 
to the alley, so with a small gate (mov¬ 
able) in the alley I can change a hog 
from one pen to another very easily. 1 
would not want a lot of hogpens. The 
long, large house is kept very clean and 
well whitewashed—this is not always 
the case with a lot of small houses. 
ARTHUR .1. COLLINS. 
Moorestown, N. J. 
A Nebraska Breeder's Plan. 
In 15 years of experience in raising 
hogs I find the best plan for hoghouse 
is to have one medium-sized, well-built 
house which will furnish room for 
about 10 to 12 sows at farrowing time. 
A house of this size should be well ven¬ 
tilated; also plenty of doors and win¬ 
dows to admit sunshine. It can be built 
and partitioned off to suit the one who 
has the care of hogs. A house this size 
can be kept clean with very little labor; 
in addition to mis I prefer a number of 
individual houses where I can put the 
litters after they are a few clays old. 
While I find it takes a little more labor 
to care for them if scattered about in 
different lots they will do enough better 
to pay for the extra labor. These indi¬ 
vidual houses should be portable so they 
can be moved from place to place; they 
should be 8x10 feet. Making the roof 
form the sides of the house would make 
the roof very steep, so it would shed 
water easily. Some prefer them without 
board floors, but I believe it will pay to 
put a good floor in them, as it is much 
easier to keep them clean. I believe 
nice clean quarters essential to success¬ 
ful hog raising. I find pigs do better if 
kept a litter in a place until old enough 
to wean; then they can be bunched up, 
putting about 25 together. 
Chester, Neb. n. woodford. 
I have about 100 promising R. C. Buff 
Leghorns, which variety will be one of the 
foremost in the Leghorn family. My sales 
in both stock and eggs have doubled any 
previous year. I have just had to refuse 
an order for 40 hens and three roosters 
from a large eastern breeder, and several 
others from 10 to 25 each. 
Battle Creek, Mich. d. e. lagassee. 
Saves 
Money. 
Saves 
Horses. 
Kendall’s Spavin Cure. 
BONE SPAVIN OF LONG STANDING 
CURED. 
Loring, Wyandotte Co., Kan., Jan. 15,1901. 
Dr. B. J. Kendall Co., Dear Sirs:—I have used 
your Spavin Cure on a horse that had Hone 
Spavin for 7 yearn and he is cured. Please 
send meyour “Treatise on the Horse.'’ 
Yours very truly, JOHN W. JAKNECKE. 
Thousands of others have had just each ex¬ 
perience. Cures Spavin, Ringbone, Splint, 
Curbs and all forms of Lameness. Price 
$l;6for$5. As a liniment for family use it 
bus no equal. Alldrugirists. Book“ATreat- 
lse on the Horse” mailed free. Address 
DR. B. J. KENDALL CO., EN0SBURI FALLS, VT. 
Breeders’ Directory 
Registered Jersey Bull Calves 
from Imported Golden Lad at fair prices. 
R. F. 8HANNON, 907 Liberty 8treet, Pittsburg. Pa. 
"QUALITY.” 
For Sale. A. J. C. C. Bull Calves, fit to head any 
herd. Their dams have yearly milk records of from 
7.000 to 9 000 pounds averaging over five per cent fat,. 
These calves will be sold now at prices any one can 
pay. For particulars address 
K. W. MOSHER, Aurora, N. Y. 
A Foundation Herd of 10 or 20 young registered 
HOLSTEIN COWS is offered at a special price 
by DELLHGRST FARM, Mentor, Ohio. 
For Sal© 
.— PUREBRED HOLSTEIN- 
FRIESIAN BULL OALV I- s 
and 8COTCH COLLIE PUPS from registered stock. 
W. \V. CHKNEV, Manlius, N. Y. 
The high-bred herd of Holsteln-Frleslans at 
the MAPLE8 STOCK FARM, Binghamton, N. Y. 
Address WM. ROOD, Proprietor. 
QHENANGO YALLEY STOCK FARMS, Greene, 
N. Y.—Dutch-Belted and Jersey Cattle, Dorset 
and Rambouillet Sheep. PolandrCMna and Jersey 
Red Swine; 15 varieties Land and Water Fowl. 
Eggs cheap in season. 
DAIRY SHORT-HORRStSS?, 
winners. FLORA V. SPENCER, Spring Creek, Pa. 
FOR SALE 
at Klkdnlo Stock Farm, three due 
Guernsey Bull Calves and two 
Heifer Calves, bred from choice strains of butter 
cows. Bulls good enough to head the finest, herds. 
D. L. STEVENS, Klkdale. Pa. 
IMPROVED LARGE YORKSHIRES £KK 
bog. Pigs of all ages from imported stock for sale. 
MEADOW BROOK STOCK FARM, Rochester,Mich 
Reg. P, Chinas, BcrKshires and C. Whites. 
Choice Pigs. 8 weeks old, mated not 
akin. Bred Sows and Service Boars. 
POULTRY. Write for hard times 
prices and free circular. 
HAMILTON & CO„ Uosenvick, Chester Co., Pa. 
Ffir Coin—Choice Rlack Top Ewes and Ranis; also 
rUI odib National Delaine Rams and Ewes; all 
registered; also a few registered Shropshire Hams 
and Kites. M. C. MULRIN, Friendship, N. Y. 
Dorset Ram Lambs 
ready for delivery now, at $10 to 115 each. Regis 
tered in purenaser’sname. 
MAPLE MONT SARGENT, Albany, Vt. 
ANGORA GOATS are handsome, hardy and 
Low prices. Large cir. 
profitable. Prize stock. 
E. W. Colo & Co.. Kenton. O. 
No Wall Street Tip Equals the Best Farm Tip. 
BUY ANGORA COATS. 
For Registered Stock address 
BOSWYCK FARM, RIDGEFIELD, CONN*. 
For Sale.—Scotch Collies, magnifi¬ 
cently bred. A. J. BENEDICT, Woodworth, Wis. 
Collie Pups 
—Spayed Females. Circulars. 
DECKER, 8outh Montrose Pa. 
SILAS 
onnn EEDBETC Some trained. Rook 
£UUU renne I O and price-list free. 
N A. KNAPP, Rochester, Ohio. 
Choice stock for sale at all 
CrrClb times. Rook and price-list free. 
W. J. WOOD, New London, Ohio. 
Death to Lice 
D. J 
on HENS and CHICKS. 
64-page Book FREE. 
LAmBERT, Box b07, Appouaug, K. I. 
STEELHORSEGOLLARS 
Are better nnd cheaper ; no hames; 
will not gall blltcure sore shoulders. 
Sensible, practical, humane. Agents 
make big money. Write for descriptive 
catalog and free territory. 
HOWELL & SPAULDING CO. 
The history of the famous O. I. 
hogs is summed up in the word success 
For breeding or fattening for market the 
O. I. C.’s are the hogs that pay. 39 years 
devoted to the perfection of this breed— 
without the loss of u single hog 
through disease. We will ship a sample 
pair of hogs on time, giving their lull pwll 
greeand allow you agency for your commu¬ 
nity. Two O. I. U.’s weighed lijSOti 
lbs. Write for particulars. 
L. II. SILVER CO., 135 Hog Building, Cleveland, 0. 
