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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October 4 
HOLSTEINS AS DAIRY CATTLE. 
The present high price of beef cattle 
in my judgment, has had no perceptible 
effect on the trade in Holsteins. This 
trade, however, is very much better 
than it was a year or two ago, owing to 
the higher price of dairy products. 
Prices of dairy products have been grad¬ 
ually increasing for some time, and it 
gives an added earning power to every 
dairy cow. The Holstein is a most de¬ 
sirable dairy cow at all times. She is 
the largest producer of milk and butter 
in the world, and valuable not so much 
for her beef qualities as for her produc¬ 
ing capacity. The milk from the Hol¬ 
stein cow is not an entirely satisfactory 
milk for retail trade, being too low, as 
a general thing, in butter fats; but we 
allow our own farmers to keep a certain 
proportion of Holstein cows in their 
dairies with others of the higher testing 
breeds. This gives them a large flow of 
milk, and also produces a milk of suffi¬ 
cient quality for retail trade. I am not 
THE ANGORA GOAT. 
On page 667 we printed an article oy 
E. Erskine Hahn. We now show, at 
Fig. 277 a picture of an Angora buck, 
seven-eighths bred. In a recent short 
bulletin from the Maine Experiment 
Station we find the following references 
to Angoras: 
“The first problem we met was suit¬ 
able fencing. We soon found that while 
they do not jump they are good climb¬ 
ers and that they will go over any fence 
the top of which they can reach with 
the fore feet. The horns on some of the 
ewes point backward in a V shape. In 
the case of a woven wire fence with 
square openings even with four-inch 
mesh they will push their heads througn 
the openings and get hung by their 
horns. With this kind of a fence it was 
necessary to visit them two or three 
times a day to release the prisoners. 
The Ellwood poultry fence (not poultry 
netting) with small diamond-shaped 
openings has proven perfectly satisfac- 
growth of underbrush. The small un¬ 
derbrush of birch, maple, hazel bush, 
etc., have been cleaned up so that where 
there are no alders or evergreens the 
ground under the trees is as clean as 
though it had been burned over. Sweet 
fern they do not like very well, but they 
have cleaned all of the hardhack out of 
this piece. Ferns and brakes have been 
eaten to some extent. They have eaten 
the leaves and young sprigs of bushes 
in preference to grass. Birches two 
inches or more in diameter they have 
not injured, but they have stripped the 
bark from every maple. Even maple 
trees six inches in diameter have been 
thus killed. We have found them to be 
fond of the bark of apple trees, even 
eating the bark from old trees. To 
clean up birch or evergreen woodland 
they have proven very effective. There 
has been practically no cost for the 
Summer’s keeping. The 12 goats have 
been kept without other food on one 
acre of young woodland. They have 
required no care other than an occa¬ 
sional visit to see that they are all right 
and that they have water. Salt was 
given occasionally.” 
Breeders’ Directory 
Registered Jersey Bull Calves 
from Imported Golden Lad at fair prices. 
R. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty Street, Pittsburg, Pa. 
A Foundation Herd of 10 or 20 young registered 
HOLSTEIN COWS Is offered at a special price 
by DELLHUR8T FARM, Mentor, Ohio. 
^ « - I- - PUREBRED HOLSTEIN- 
rOl OalB FRIESIAN BULL CALVES 
and SCOTCH COLLIE PUPS from registered stock. 
W. \V. CHUNKY, Manlius, N. Y. 
FOR SALE 
The high-bred herd of Holstein-Frieslans at 
the MAPLES STOCK FARM, Binghamton, N. V. 
Address WM. ROOD, Proprietor. 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS. 
Pietertje. De Kol, Hengerveld strains. Young 
bulls and bull calves only. Best butter-producing 
Holsteins. Send for pedigrees. Prices reasonable. 
Wocdside Farm. Princeton, Worcester Co., Mass. 
JOHN B. MARCOU. 
DAIRY SH0RT-H0RNS7S=i Z; 
winners. FLORA V. SPENCER, Spring Creek, Pa. 
IMPROVED LARGE YORKSHIRES STSSS 
dog. Pigs of all ages from imported stock for sale. 
MEADOW BROOK STOCK FARM, Rochester, Mich 
Apple Pomace for Cows.—The Vermont 
Experiment Station reports successful feed¬ 
ing of the refuse from cider presses as fol¬ 
lows: “The experience of four years with 
apple pomace silage at the Vermont Sta¬ 
tion. using over 20 cows, is a unit in af¬ 
firming the nearly equivalent—if not, in¬ 
deed, quite equivalent—feeding values of 
apple pomace and corn silage. No unde¬ 
sirable results whatsoever have followed 
its use. Cows continuously and heartily 
fed have not shrunk, but on the contrary 
have held up their milk flows remarkably 
well. Neither does the milk nor the butter 
seem injured in any respect. A satisfac¬ 
tory ration used by the station has been 
hay, silage (one-third corn silage and two- 
thirds apple pomace silage by weight) and 
from four to eight pounds grain, the latter 
varying according to age, stage of lacta¬ 
tion, etc. Fifteen pounds of pomace per 
cow has been fed daily with entire satis¬ 
faction. Inasmuch, however, as reports of 
severe shrinkage occurring coincident with 
(he use of apple pomace arc current, care 
and watchfulness are advised in feeding it 
at the outset. Apple pomace needs no 
special care in silaging. If leveled from 
time to time as put into the silo and left to 
itself uncovered and unweighted it (Joes 
well ” _ 
Keg. P. Chinas, Berkshires and C. Whites. 
8 wks. to 6 mos., mated not akin. 
Service Boars, B ed Sows. Write for 
prices and description Return if not 
satisfactory: wc refund the money. 
HAMILTON & CO., ltosenvick, Chester Co., Pa. 
Oorset Ram Lambs 
of highest type 
____and breeding, 
ready for delivery now, at tlo to 115 each. Regis 
tered In purebaser'suame. 
M A m FMAVT Q A RfiTTMT Alhnnr Vt 
1 -^ a MS If choice lot of Delaine and 
I^T f\ |\/| Black-Top Rams and Ewes 
L\XJLlf J.VJ to se.ect trom. will be sold 
^_ cheap. Correspondence 
solicited. M. C. MULK1N, Friendship, N. V. 
IlIPnDI ISO I TO are handsome, hardy and 
AllUUIfA UUA I O profitable. Prize stock. 
Low prices. Large cir. E. W. Cole & 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, Wls. 
Celtte Pips 
—Spayed Females. Circulars. 
DECKER, South Montrose Pa. 
SILAS 
SEVEN-EIGHTHS BRED ANGORA BUCK. Fig. 277. 
a believer in combining the dairy and 
beef qualities, although I do think the 
Holstein-Friesian has more of the beef 
quality than any of the other dairy 
breeds. I do not think that the Holstein- 
Friesian breeders are even attempting 
to develop a beef quality in their cattle. 
This, in my judgment, would be a mis¬ 
take. What they are developing in the 
breed is a higher tendency to secrete 
butter fat in their milk. 
,T. H. COOLIDGE, JR. 
Belle-Vernon Farms’ Dairy Co., Ohio. 
tory. In 1901 we gave them too exten¬ 
sive a range and they did but little 
clearing up. In May, 1902, six ewes, one 
buck and five kids were put in an acre 
of young woodland of a mixed growth, 
most of the trees three to six inches in 
diameter. There was a quite thick 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you will get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See our guarantee 8th page. 
QUALITY 
For Sale. A. J. C. C. Bull Calves, lit to heart any 
herd. Their dams have yearly milk records of from 
7,000 to 9.000 pounds averaging over live per cent fat. 
These oaives will be sold now at prices any one can 
For particulars address 
E. W. MOSHER, Aurora. N. Y. 
pay. 
onnn ECDBCTC Some trained. Book 
&UUU rcillic I O and price-list. free. 
N- A. KNAPP, Rochester, Ohio. 
—Choice stock for sale at all 
r CrrCXS times. Book and price-list free. 
W. J. WOOD, New London, Ohio. 
Death to Lice 
on HENS and CHICKS. 
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D. J LAMBERT, Box 307, Apponaug, R. I. 
THE SHEEP BUSINESS. 
Has the high price of meat had any 
particular effect on the sheep business? 
I think it has to some extent. This year 
we have been getting for our lambs, 
weighing 40 pounds, from $3 to $3.50 
per head at home. This, I think, is 
somewhat higher than last year. I also 
notice the Chicago quotations are much 
better. Owing to a plentiful crop of 
grasses and Fall feed, the farmers are 
purchasing sheep to use up what they 
have. But as to a boom in the sheep 
business I cannot just see it; while it 
may be different in other sections it is 
not so here. One reason for it may be 
dogs. I am sure that in this section the 
dog has broken up a great many flocks, 
and sheep raisers have given it up as a 
loss. It is my judgment though that at 
the present time it is as favorable for 
one who wants to get into the sheep 
business as any period for the last 10 
years. Wool is bringing a much better 
price the last year or two, and will, 1 
think, go still higher. I have had my ups 
and downs in the business, and when 
one has to sell at 18 cents a head he 
can feel and appreciate prices which 
we are getting now. r. a. m’clelland. 
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