1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
325 
Conditions in Michigan —The same 
conditions you mention as existing in 
the eastern States, are very apparent 
here; that is, the long-continued low 
price of beef cattle, and the compara¬ 
tively higher prices for dairy products 
induced the people of this State to 
abandon, in large measure, the use of 
males of the Short-horn and other of the 
beef or general-purpose breeds of cattle, 
and to use in their stead males of the so- 
calltd special-purpose dairy breeds of 
cattle, Ayrshires, Holsteins and Jerseys. 
The last are by far most numerous, so 
far as my observation extends, with the 
result that the cattle stock of our State 
has, in general, become a mixed, non¬ 
descript mass, wholly unfit for feeders’ 
use, and admittedly not as satisfactory 
in the dairy as the grades of cattle that 
preceded them 15 or 20 years ago. 
There is here a marked change of 
sentiment among farmers, and they are 
returning, so far as possible, to the use 
of males of either the beef or dual-pur¬ 
pose breeds, more especially the Short¬ 
horn and its grades. The reason for the 
Short-horn being most used may be be¬ 
cause it is better known than most 
others and more numerous and acces¬ 
sible. The Red Polled cattle have many 
advocates. The number of cattle has 
been much reduced, and it will require 
some time and much care and attention 
to supply the number required to meet 
the natural demand. 
As to the results of the change from 
the use of one class of sires to another 
and its influence on the dairy interests, 
I do not think it will be largely felt here, 
because I believe the Short-horn and Red 
Polled grades will develop into a class of 
animals better suited for the feeders’ 
use in the production of meat, and will 
be found just as good at the pail, as pro¬ 
ducers of dairy products, as those at 
present on hand. 
With the return to, and increase in 
numbers of, the dual-purpose cow, the 
people of this State will be better able 
to follow the demands of the market, so 
that, when dairy products seem to return 
best profits, the energies of the cow will 
be turned in that direction. Or should 
with cattle more of the beef type, or are 
buying Short-horns or other beef bulls 
to use on their dairy herds, with the 
intention of raising the steers for beef. 
This practice we believe to prevail to a 
greater or less extent all over the coun¬ 
try, and it can have but one result, a 
diminution in the milk supply, with a 
corresponding rise in the price of but¬ 
ter, and of course, an augmented beef 
supply with a decline in prices. When 
this change will be accomplished, of 
course, it is impo sible to discern, but in 
our opinion, beef will hold its own 
for years to come. 
There is likely to be a still further ad¬ 
vance in prices in the near future, as 
there is an undoubted shortage in the 
present supply which will take longer 
than we are likely to think to overcome, 
as it took many more years for the pen¬ 
dulum to swing from extreme low prices 
to remunerative ones than the leading 
stock papers and conservative thinking 
stockmen ever dreamed. On the other 
hand, we believe the advance in the 
price of milk products will be felt much 
quicker, as the dairy business is so irk¬ 
some and confining to many that, as 
soon as it is not bringing good returns, 
they will drop it like a hot potato, leav¬ 
ing a good market for the product of 
the progressive dairyman relieved from 
the plethora of overproduction. Not¬ 
A COW WORTHY OF OHIO. 
Fig. 131, showing Mr. John Cox, of 
Piqua, 0., and his famous cow, is a most 
unique one. The looker-on will be in 
doubt as to where the honors thould go, 
to the old gentleman With his four-score 
years, and that pleased expression that 
plainly says, “ This cow is mine, and 
she ken beat your new-fangled cows out 
of sight,” or the cow with her look of 
quiet content, pleased with the half 
caress of her owner, a fine exhibition of 
cow possibilities, and as a whole making 
a study of a phase of rural life rarely 
depicted. 
This famous cow is now eight years 
old, weighs a trifle over 1,200 pounds, 
and is of mixed breeding—characteristic 
of Ohio dairy cows — with Short-horn 
blood quite conspicuous In the year 
1897, this cow made 086 pounds of butter 
sold, and the skim-milk was fed to her 
calf, which was sold for $25, making the 
income for the cow $102. In 1898, she 
made 700 pounds of sold butter, $152, 
and the calf was sold early for $8, mak¬ 
ing her income $160, not including the 
skim-milk for the greater part of the 
year. 
Mr. Cox owns only this one cow, ard 
her keep, in addition to the hay and 
grass, amounted to $38 for 1897, and $35 
for 1898. The grain ration for the year 
is made up of 20 bushels of wheat, 55 
bushels of oats, and 25 bushels of corn, 
all ground together. This cow at her 
best gives over 50 pounds cf milk per 
day, and has made 20 pounds of worked 
butter in seven days. As con be im¬ 
agined, Mr. Cox is very prcudof his cow, 
and is a little inclined on occasion to ask 
the owners of high-blooded cows, ‘What 
amount of butter is your Piide of But- 
termillc Farm No 450783, a-dewin' this 
season?” john gould. 
O. P. Goodrich says in the Prairie Farmer that 
there is no remedy fcr a cow that holds up her 
milk, except getting the good will of the cow. 
Rough usage will not accomplish this; nothing 
but kindness will Many of our be 9 t cows, those 
with a highly-wrought nervous organization, 
such as our greatest milk producers have, are 
very particular as to who milks them. No cow 
ever held up her milk from her calf, and if the 
milker can only take the place of the calf in the 
cow’s affections, she will always give her milk 
down freely. 
Breeders’ Directory. 
This column Is reservod for small oards of live 
stock, including poultry, breeders. No cuts. Kates 
on application. 
P rize Winner Berkshlres. Sows bred to Carlos Lee 
^8992. Select stock. Address F. S. Amoss, Amoss,Md. 
want, and raise a big fine calf that will 
top the beef market at from 18 to 24 
months old. 
As to the record of Short-horns as 
dairy cattle, I refer you to their records, 
both in England and America. I see no 
need of being scared about the butter 
and cheese supply, if dairymen should 
conclude to make the change. We live 
out here in God's country, where most 
of the people make a living without 
much work. We let the calf do all of 
the dairying, and as long as calves are 
as high in price as they are now, Mr. 
Calf will continue to do the dairying in 
the West. w. t. clay. 
Plattsburg, Mo. 
There is a local union of the F. S. M. P. A here, 
of which most of the milk producers are mem¬ 
bers. I wish we would get notice for the Five 
States not to sell a quart of milk for the New 
York market till we could make contracts at two 
and three cents. We are producing 200 quarts 
per day, and would be willing to shut down any 
day, if we had to throw the milk to the hogs. 
Pennsylvania. e. p. b. 
Guernsey Cattle for Sale.—H ighly 
bred and registered J. P. WELSH, Rloomsburg, Pa. 
£*HENANGO VALLEY STOCK FARMS, Greene, N 
^ Y.—Dutoh Belted and Jersey Cattle; Dorset and 
Kamboulllet Sheop; Poland-China. Jersey Ked and 
Suffolk Pigs; White and Bronze Turkeys, Peafowls, 
and Blooded Chickens. J.D. VAN VALKKNBURGH, 
The Finhst Herd of Red Polls in the 
great State of Pennsylvania. A limited number for 
sale. D. L. 8TEVENS, Klkdale, Susq. Co., Pa. 
Pigs —Eligible to Registry, and First- 
class stock at Reduced Prices. Chester White, 
Berkshire, Poland-China and Jersey Red. 
Also, Poultry. VVM. B. UARVE Y, West Grove, Pa. 
SSTWI^KS 4 Registered Jersey Bulls 
from 9 to 12 months old, sired by Imported Bull Le 
Brocq of Clearview. J. S. CAMPBELL, Butler. Pa. 
103 HOLSTEINS 
FOK SALE—Two Pauline 
Paul-De Kol Bulls ready for 
service. Butter-bred Bulls as low as $50 Calves sired 
by our famous Royal Paul, and rich-milking cows and 
heifers bred to him. Dellhurst Farms, Mentor, Ohio 
Woodland Short-horns heifers'(bred) for sale 
W. 1. WOOD, Williamsport, Pickaway Co., Ohio. 
YOUNG Qfl\A/Q bred at 115, all sold. Have some 
1 U U li U 0U if 0 line ones that have had one lit¬ 
ter, and are safe with pig now at $20. Good value. 
F. U. GATES & SONS. Chlttenango, N. V. 
IMPROVED CHESTER WHITES 
of the best breeding and all agea for sale at reason 
able prices. Pamphlets and prices free. 
0HA8. K. UNCORD, Peterboro. N. Y 
withstanding we are Short-horn men, 
and are sincere in advocating the use of 
our favorite breed by the farmers of 
this part of the country, we think it 
would be folly for the dairyman in the 
East, at least, to sacrifice his herd which 
has taken years of thinking, patient toil 
to build up, for the alluring prospect of 
raising five-cent beef. mclay bros. 
Rock Prairie, Wis. 
Calves do the Dairying. —There is no 
question in my mind that there will be 
a scarcity of good high-grade beef cattle 
for several years. While this has never 
been a dairy country, the people here 
got the Jersey and Holstein crazj. They 
sold all the good cows in the country for 
baef; even whole herds of registered 
Short-horns, that cost from $500 to $1,000 
per head, went to the butcher at two 
cents per pound. The owners of these 
fiie herds bought two or three Jerseys 
so as to get a little butter and cream for 
family use, intending to quit the cattle 
business. But they see their mistake, 
and are disposing of the Jerseys and 
Holsteins as fast as they can, and are 
getting Short-horns or grades that will 
furnish all the milk and butter they 
BACK TO BEEF BREEDS. 
the high price of beef will break up 
dairy herds. 
£ It seems evident, at this end of the country, 
that there will be a dearth of teif cattle in the 
next two or three years. The chances are that 
many dairymen who have been breeding Jerseys 
and other smaller stock of late years, will be 
ikely to turn their attention to Short-horn9 
and other large breeds of cattle. What does 
your observation teach in this matter? Do 
you think that this result is likely to follow ? 
If so, do you think it will have any particular 
effect upon the dairy business, relieving, to any 
extent, the present immense production of but¬ 
ter and cheese ? 
A Texas View. — The very severe 
weather of the past Winter has killed an 
unusual number of cattle on the ranges, 
both South and West, and a compara¬ 
tively large number of cattle have been, 
and are still being shipped to Cuba, 
Porto Rico, etc. To offset that the dairy¬ 
men of the West seem to be raising most 
of their calves, and when that is the case, 
cattle in those sections increase very 
rapidly. In sections that I know about 
north, the grade Short-horn cow is the 
most used for dai-y purposes, on account 
of the value of the carcass and calf. 
Here the Jersey i9 more used than North, 
but breeders seem to want Holsteins and 
Short-horns here now more than for¬ 
merly. Wheat, corn, oats, cotton and 
feed stuffs are all cheap, as well as but¬ 
ter, and my judgment would he that 
there will not be any material advance 
in dairy products. The price of calves 
helps the dairyman out, as he raises them 
on skim-milk. h. c. wheeler. 
llamshire, Texas. 
the people tire of butter and cheese, and 
demand veal and roast beef, then it will 
be in order to feed the milk to the calves, 
and thus develop it, and them, into the 
much-sought and highly-prized baby 
beeves. 
In my judgment, your dairy people 
need entertain no hope that the use of 
the Short-horn or Red Polled miles on 
the common stock of cattle through this 
country will have a tendency to check 
the flow of milk, or decrease the output 
of dairy products in the least. 
Highland Sta., Mich. A, d. degarmo. 
The Dairy Short-horns — In our 
opinion, the present large demand for 
beef breeding cattle cannot fail to have 
an effect upon the supply of cattle of the 
milking breeds. In our State, immense 
numbers of farmers who have had the 
milking breeds of cows or tbeir grades, 
are disposing of them to replace them 
