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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
June 24 
Live Stock and Dairy 
HICKORY HILL FARM NOTES , 
THE VALUE OP THE COW. 
What Is She Wobth? —How much is 
a good young cow worth ? Well, that 
depends very much on how good the cow 
is. In the great majority of cases, the 
poor cows are sold for more than they 
are worth, and the good ones for less. 
In the first place, why do we keep cows 
on the dairy farm ? To convert our grass 
and other products into a marketable 
form of more value than they were in 
the original state. Then the cow that 
can get most value from a given amount 
of food is the best one, of course, pro¬ 
viding that she consumes enough to 
make it pay for the trouble of running 
the machine, or in other words, feeding 
and caring for her. If the cow does not 
make returns above the value of the food 
consumed, plus the labor of caring for 
her, she is absolutely of no value on a 
dairy farm. Yet there are thousands of 
just such cows all over the country, and 
they usually bring within a few dollars 
of as much as those that make a fair 
profit for their owners. 
Kept in Repair —Another point that 
we should look to is whether our ma¬ 
chine (the cow) is in running order, or 
badly out of repair. The way good 
cows are often “got out of repair”, is 
like this: They are dried off in the Fall, 
“ to give them a rest.” Then they are 
but poorly fed during the Winter, be¬ 
cause they are bringing in no returns, 
and the owner, in a measure, loses 
interest in them. They spend the greater 
part of their time out-of-doors, so that 
a goodly part of the food they do get is 
used for fuel to keep up the bodily 
warmth. The result is that these cows 
are all run down in the Spring, and are 
more fit to go about as advertisements 
for a fertilizer company, than they are 
to go into a dairy. 
Nothing is gained by scrimping cows 
in Winter, even as far as food goes, be¬ 
cause cattle that have been wintered in 
this way will eat much more during the 
forepart of the Summer. I have often 
noticed that the well-fed cow will 
pick a while in the pasture, and then 
seek a shady place to chew her cud, and 
rest, while the poor one will eat raven¬ 
ously nearly all day. We should take 
these things into consideration when 
buying cows. I think that, perhaps, if 
one were made a present of such a cow, 
he might get her in shape and come out 
about even; but a good one already in 
working order would pay for herself, 
while the other one was being repaired ; 
yet these emaciated specimens usually 
bring within $5 or $10 as much as the 
other kind. 
What She Earns —How much is a 
good cow worth ? I will give the history 
of one I have been to see to-day, and 
then we will try to estimate on her 
value. Three years ago I made the land¬ 
lord of a hotel which I furnished with 
butter, the present of a Jersey calf, 
purebred but not eligible to registry. 
This heifer was raised on patent calf 
food, dishwater and refuse from the 
table. She grew well, and developed 
such a big paunch that her owner (who 
was an admirer of race horses) became 
disgusted with her, and sold her for $10 
in the Fall. She was wintered twice on 
the fresh-air plan, and sold in the SpriDg 
when two years old, for $1G, not being 
due to calve until the following Novem¬ 
ber. This gave her a chance to make 
repairs during the Summer, and last 
Fall, she was sold again for $36, just be¬ 
fore she became fresh. She came in and 
fattened five calves during the Winter, 
and supplied two families with milk and 
cream while she was doing it. These 
calves sold for $40, which paid for the 
calves and the cow, too. 
By the time the last calf was fat, the 
cow had won such a reputation in the 
village as a rich milker, that there was 
a demand for all her milk at four cents 
a quart. She is now giving 17 quarts a 
day, which makes the nice little sum of 
68 cents. Her owner estimates that she 
is clearing, above her feed, 50 cents every 
day, and says that she will much more 
than pay for herself over again before 
she becomes fresh in the Fall. I think 
that a three-year old cow ought to be 
worth, at least what she will produce in 
a year, regardless of her feed, so who 
will say that this $36 cow was not worth 
$100 when she was sold ? 
I shall have to agree with H. W. C 
that Mrs Biddy Layman is ahead of the 
average cow, but “ there are others.” 
Madison Co., N. Y. j grant mouse. 
HORSE BREEDING IN NEW YORK . 
WILL IT PAY ONCE MORE ? 
Western horses are increasing in value. Is it 
probable that this will induce New York State 
farmers to breed horses once more? Do most 
farmers use western horses now, and are they 
satisfactory ? Are more mares being bred this 
year than in former seasons ? 
There seems to be a tendency among 
farmers here to commence breeding 
again. Good horses, about 1,100 or 
1,200 pounds, are selling for $100, and 
they are not very plentiful. I should 
think that the last three or four years 
50 or 75 per cent of our horses came 
from the West. e. f. p. 
Lindley. 
The horses raised in this section are 
largely roadsters or fast ones. Of heavy 
business horses, many are brought from 
Kansas and sold for less than they can 
be raised for here. A pair of drivers 
sold for $700 ; two single drivers $300 
A No. 1 pair of young farm horses sold 
for $260. But few good farm teams 
about here, and few horses raised here. 
West Winfield. n. d. t. 
Nearly every one is returning to horse 
raising owing, no doubt, to the great 
advance in the price of horses. Western 
horses, if they are broken, are worth 
about the same as natives, and bring all 
prices. A good, well-broken team of 
horses of good age is worth from $200 to 
$300, and sometimes more. E. c. 
Tully. 
My experience and understanding in 
regard to horses is that fully 80 per ceut 
of all the young horses in this vicinity, 
excepting ordinary farm horses, are from 
the West. These western horses do very 
well, and are well liked. Very few 
horses are raised in this vicinity, al¬ 
though prices are higher, this year, per¬ 
haps 25 per cent above recent years. 
Good western horses bring $125 to $150 
this year, where $100 to $125 have been 
considered good prices in the past. It is 
probable that the advance in price will 
create interest in horse breeding to some 
extent, but it is not likely ever to be 
very considerable, owing to the satisfac¬ 
tion western horses are giving. j. B. 
Elmira. 
Good farm horses in this section are 
very scarce, and have increased very 
much in value in the last year. A good 
farm horse from five to nine years old 
will bring about $125 at the present 
time. No colts have been raised to 
speak of in the last three or four years, 
but the present season, many mares will 
be bred. The quality of our horses in 
general through this section has very 
materially deteriorated in the last 15 
years. Most people crossed our common 
mares with Percheron stallions, when 
the big-horEe craze was on, and the re¬ 
sult, as a rule, has not been a good 
class of horses; many of them are 
coarse-hipped, slab-sided, ungainly look¬ 
ing animals. About one-fourth of our 
horses now come from the West. Some 
of them are very good after they have 
been here two or three years and get 
acclimated, but all I have worked or 
known of being used as farm horses, 
have not proved very good the first 
year. I have one at the present time 
which I bought of a man who had used 
him one year, for one-half what he paid 
for him ; he was then seven years old, is 
now ten, and is very much better than 
when I first bought him. I have had the 
best success on the farm with horses of 
about 1 150 to 1,200 pounds in weight, 
in good working condition, not fat, 
standing about 15% hands high. I have 
a span now of about 1,150 pounds weight 
each, that will plow two acres per day, 
and when it comes to walking on soft 
ground with a drag, they will be ready 
to work long after a 1,500-pound horEe is 
tired out, unless he is different from any 
I have ever seen. l. g. u 
Darien. 
Oats and peas ground together, about equal 
parts, will make good feed for any class of farm 
stock. We would rather use this feed for cows 
than for horses, as we think the cows would 
give better returns from the fat contained in the 
peas. 
Thk killing of clover and wheat will, probably, 
increase the acreage of corn about 10 per cent. 
Burbank and Abundance plums will bear no 
fruit, while the Ben Davis apple comes up smil¬ 
ing; like Populism, it seems to thrive under hard 
conditions. o s d. 
Sidney, la. _ 
My wife had another attack of Lung trouble. 8he 
coughed incessantly and raised enormously Wc 
nearly despaired of her recovery. I)r. D. Jayne's 
Expectorant, by the bjessing of God, restored her. 
She is now well.—(Rev.) JOS. HOPKINS, West Ber¬ 
lin, N. J., February 18,1804. 
For constipation take Jayne’s Painless Sanative 
Pills.— Adv. 
Horse Owners! Use 
GOMBAULT’S 
Caustic 
Balsam 
i Safe Speedy and Positive Core 
The Safest, Beat BLISTER ever used. Takes 
the place of all liniments for mild or severe action. 
Removes Bunches or Blemishes from Iloraea 
and Cattle. SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTERY 
OR FIRING- Impossible to produce scar or blemish. 
Every bottle sold is warranted to give satisfaction 
Price $I.SO per bottle. Sold by druggists, or 
■ent by express, charges paid, with full directions 
for its use. Send for descriptive circulars. 
THE LAWBENCE-WILLIAM3 CO.. Cleveland O. 
Galled Horses 
Breasts, Backs. Mouths, etc., stained, 
healed, toughened and CURED WHIlt AT WORK. 
It’s the best. You will swear to this fact if you 
willtryCALL POWDER. GO cents by mail. 
_ MOORE BROS. ALBANY N. Y. _ 
Breeders’ Directory. 
White Wyandottes Exclusively.— 
Write wants. Spencer’s Poultry Farm, Ptaenix, R. I. 
Pigs— Eligible to Registry, and First- 
class stock at Reduced Prices. Chester White, 
Berkshire, Poland-China and Jersey Red. 
Also, Poultry. WM. B. HARVEY, West Grove, Pa. 
C HENANGO VALLEY STOCK FARM8, Greene, N 
Y.—Dutch Belted and Jersey Cattle; Dorset and 
Rambouinet Sheep; Poland-Chlna, Jersey Red and 
Suffolk Pigs; White and Bronze Turkeys, Peafowls, 
and Blooded Chiokens. J.D. VAN VALKENBURGU. 
I PHUDD NQ -White and Buff. 200 Hens for 
LLUnUmiO sale at $1 each. Show birds, 12 
and $3. DWLLHUKtT FA RMS, Mentor, Ohio 
Uni QTCIMC - 1 Phow animals, all ages, large rich 
lluLu I LI Nu milking Butter-Bred Herd. 
nm I ICC -black and tan 
bULLIkO or SABLE. 
SILAS DECKER, So. Montrose, Pa. 
SCOTCH 
Circulars free. 
GUERNSEYS. 
84 Cows averaged 399 pounds 
hritter each in 1898. Some 
choice young stock for sale. 
ELLERSLIE STOCK FARM, 
RHINECLIFF, N. Y 
Registered Guernseys. 
Seven cows ; four heifers springing ; three 13 
mos„ five 4 to 8 mos. Two bulls: One 1 mo., one 
ft mos. A. J. SNYDER, Plumsteadville, Pa. 
Registered Jersey Cattle 
For Milk and Butter. 
R. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty St.. Pittsburgh, Pa. 
WILLSWOOD FARM. 
BERKSHIRE SWINE. 
GUERNSEY CATTLE. 
Order all ages and both sexes swine. Bull Calves. 
Choicest selections to EXPAND your herds. Reason¬ 
able prices. WILLS A. SEWARD, Budd’s Lake, N.J. 
DIaaiIaiI C 1 aa L Registered Jerseys, Quern 
DIOOucQ OTQCK seys, etc. Swine, Sheep, 
Poultry. Hunting and House Dogs. Eggs In Season. 
Prices the lowest, quality considered. Write for cat. 
Henry Hathaway & Co , Bridgeport, Mont. Co., Pa. 
CONTINENTAL DORSET SHEEP. 
Of course the early lamp raiser must have Dorset.s, 
that's settled. ‘ Continental Dorsets’’ won the 
prizes last year, and they are as good or better th s 
year. VVrbe me for addresses of breeders nearest 
you. JOSEPH E. WING, Mechanlcsburg, Ohio. 
BLOODED LIVE STOCK 
Sheep —Oxfords.Shropshircs,South- 
downs. Fancy Poultry. Plg»— 
Berkshires, Poland-Chinas, Chester 
Whites, Yorkshires. Catalogue free. 
H. L, HOLMES, Harrisburg, Pa. 
LargeYorkshire Pigs 
THE ENGLISH BACON BREED. 
Healthy, hardy and most prolific of all breeds 
Have raised 147 pigs from four sows the past year 
Choice Boars, Gilts and bred sows for sale by 
HILLS & PRICE,CrystalSpringFarm, Delaware,O. 
nm Akin PUI W A Q—Large strain. Weigh from 
rULAnU-UmilMO 000 to 800 lbs. The business 
farmers' hog for sale at business prices. Write for 
information. F. H. Gates A Sons, Chittenango, N.Y 
SUCCESSFUL DAIRYMEN use 1 cents worth 
SHOO-FLY 
Saves 3 quarts milk daily if used in lime. 
NO FLIES, TICKS, VERMIN OR SORES ON COWS. 
Thousands duplicate 10 gallons. Beware of imitations. 
“ I have used several so-called ‘Cattle Comforts,' 
none equal to 'SlIOO-PLY. It is effective and 
cheap. Used 100 gallons.” H.W. Cokkokt, Falls- 
i ngton, Pa., President Pennsylvania Dairy Union. 
Send 25c. Money refunded if cow Is not protected. 
S1I00-FLY MFG. CO., 1005 Fainnount Ave., PHILA, PA. 
KILFLY. 
A harmless liquid applied to cows with a CHILDS 
ELECTRIC SPRAYER, that protects them from flies, 
increasing the amount of milk, making comfort for 
cows and milkers. Sample lot—One gallon can Kilfly 
and one Sprayer, securely packed, expressed to ar.y 
address (except in State of Maine), charges prepaid, 
upon receipt of Special pricesforgunulllj. AOKNTS 
WAN’rKI» KVKKVWKKK. 
CHARLES II. CHILDS A CO., Utica, N. Y. 
25 gallon packet, GO cents; 100 gallon, $2. If drug¬ 
gist cannot supply, send $1.75 for 100 gallon packet to 
CYRIL FRANCKLYN, 
Cotton Exchange, Hanover Square, New York-City. 
IMPROVED CHESTER WHITES 
of the best breeding and all ages for sale at reason 
able prices. Pamphlets and prices free. 
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LOUSY SITTING HENS 
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often die before hatching time. 
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