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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
September 9 
Live Stock and Dairy 
SOME GENTLE JERSEYS. 
On our first page is shown a very sug¬ 
gestive picture, entitled, “Our Jersey 
Pets,” reproduced from The Jersey Bul¬ 
letin. A recent writer in Tiie R. N.-Y. 
told of a man who never knew until his 
heifer dropped her first calf, that she 
had but two teats. Evidently, he was 
not at all on familiar terms with his 
cattle. Possibly he belonged to the class 
that believe coddling bad for calves; 
that it spoils them for cows, and makes 
them ugly. Probably, too, his cows are 
of the kind that need to be “broken” 
before they can be milked, and which 
make their owner all sorts of trouble 
before he succeeds in getting them 
tamed. 
But we don’t believe that anything of 
this kind will be necessary with the 
calves shown in the picture. They aren’t 
being brought up that way. The hand 
of gentle woman is being exercised in 
their training—they are being trained, 
mind you, and will not need to be 
“broken” later. From appearances, they 
might be accused of trying to eat their 
benefactor. If so, it is not because of 
any ill-feeling toward her. It seems to 
be calf nature to want to chew some¬ 
thing after being fed, and they generally 
chew each other. Evidently, these have 
found something better. Notice the 
beatific expression on their faces! 
There’s satisfaction for you! The way 
to keep animals thriving is to keep 
them happy and contented. Confidence 
begets confidence, in animals as well as 
in humans. The heifer that is treated 
kindly, that is handled and made to feel 
that she is in the hands of friends, is 
not likely to be troublesome, and will 
give far better returns as a cow than 
one that is beaten and ill-treated. Kind¬ 
ness pays, even as a matter of dollars 
and cents. “The merciful man is merci¬ 
ful unto his beast.” 
THE COW AT THE FAIR. 
How to Dress Her Up. 
Snow Good Points. —It will soon be 
time for the fairs, and the cows and 
other stock will need a little extra fix¬ 
ing up. I think the fairs the best adver¬ 
tising medium we have, and always 
make it a point to take in all those near. 
I have learned a few things about show¬ 
ing cattle since I began, and one of them 
is that it is not always the best cow that 
takes the premium, but the one showing 
the most good “signs.” The object of 
the fair is supposed to be the education 
of the farmer, therefore, in showing cat¬ 
tle, we should aim to bring out all the 
good points possible. It matters not 
even if these points are, in a measure, 
artificial, if we are able to show a per¬ 
fect animal. 
Please the Crowd. —We should, also, 
aim to please the crowd as much as pos¬ 
sible, without hurting the appearance of 
our animals in the eyes of the judge. By 
this I mean that we should have them in 
good flesh, but not too fat; their coats 
should be perfectly clean and sleek, their 
horns should be polished, and switches 
combed out. To polish the horns, we 
first take off all wrinkles and roughness 
with a coarse file, after which they are 
sandpapered, then rubbed down with 
flour of emery, and finished off with 
pomace stone and oil. In brushing their 
coats, one should take care not to dis¬ 
turb the yellow, waxy dandruff around 
the udders and roots of tail, and inside 
of the ears. This is supposed to denote 
richness of the milk, and of course, we 
should not obliterate any of the “signs.” 
A month or so before the fair, it is well 
to clip the tails close down to the brush. 
By doing this a while before, the hair 
starts slightly, and hides the artificial¬ 
ity of the thing. A nice slim tail gives 
a cow' a smart appearance, and is an¬ 
other good sign. 
The Udder. —We come now to the day 
the cow is to be exhibited, and about all 
we can do is to see that her stomach is 
properly filled, and her udder in good 
shape. The animal should look nice and 
plump, but not over filled. The judge 
does not like to handle animals “blown 
up like a bladder.” The scale of points 
requires that the udder in front should 
be “full in form and not fleshy,” hind 
udder “full in form and well up behind,” 
“teats rather large, wide apart, and 
squarely placed.” I always manage to 
bring the cow into the ring with a full 
udder. Some showmen prefer to bring 
her in milked out clean, but'this leaves 
a doubt as to how much the udder will 
fill up, and the judge is not likely to 
allow too much in this direction. Some 
very excellent cows give much more 
milk out of their hind teats than their 
fore. If the cow is too bad in this re¬ 
spect, she is best left at home; but if 
only slightly so, she may be improved 
by drawing part of the milk from the 
hind teats, and thus squaring up the 
udder. Some may say that this is per¬ 
petrating a fraud, but they should re¬ 
member that we are only striving to 
show the crowd what a perfect cow 
should be, and not trying to sell an ani¬ 
mal for more than she is worth. 
Madison Co., N. Y. j. grant morse. 
"SHEEP STORIES 
Clark Allis, page 603, tells some re¬ 
markable stories of prolific sheep. Six 
lambs in one year are not impossible, it 
is even possible that they might all live 
and be nearly up to average in quality. 
Yet, in general, such things do not pay. 
It is the ewe that drops her lamb, or 
her twins, when wanted, that has plenty 
of milk for them, that pushes them to 
the top notch in the shortest time, that 
pays. One can well afford to let her 
rest until the next year to drop her next 
lamb. There won’t be any loss in let¬ 
ting her have the rest. I speak of this 
because some inexperienced Dorset 
breeders let their rams run with the 
ewes at all times, and their ewes are 
dropping lambs at seasonable and un¬ 
seasonable times, and two crops a year, 
or just as it happens. That is not the 
way to get the most out of a Dorset 
ewe. She will not yield so much wool, 
the lambs will not be so good, and she 
will not live so long under such treat¬ 
ment. 
The ideal way 'is to have the lambs 
dropped in September and October, that 
is from ewes whose progeny one wishes 
to retain on the farm. These lambs will 
run with their mothers on a bit of fresh 
grazing, maybe a clover aftermath, with 
the run of some rape; they will thrive 
and go into Winter strong and fat, and 
all Winter, be pushed with good hay 
and a little grain. When Spring comes, 
they will be great, strong fellows, ready 
to go to grass and able to withstand at¬ 
tacks of stomach-worms. 
The grade Dorset ewes, on the other 
hand, ought to drop their lambs in No¬ 
vember, and from that time on to Feb¬ 
ruary. These lambs will be pushed for 
all they are worth with grain, their 
mothers urged to the greatest milk- 
flow, and when a few weeks old, they 
will go to the Winter lamb market. One 
cannot take another crop of lambs from 
these ewes without sacrificing the pros¬ 
pects of another November lambing. 
I am sure that it often pays to give 
away superfluous lambs, if one is not 
prepared to feed them by hand. The 
ewe with three lambs would raise two 
so much better, that it is a waste to per¬ 
mit her to raise three. One can often 
find a bright neighbor’s son who can 
raise the lambs, and sell them back 
when they are grown, and these pet 
lambs often make the best sheep. 
In the Summer is the time when sheep 
come to grief in most men’s pastures. 
Compelled to gnaw to the roots the dry 
grass, compelled year after year to graze 
on the worm-infested land, filling their 
systems with stomach worms, tape¬ 
worms and all the rest, what a boon to 
them would be a little attention at this 
time. Pastures are best rotated with 
cows one year, sheep the next. Old 
sheep and lambs should not run to¬ 
gether; the lambs should have the 
choice bits of grass, where there is no 
danger of infection, josepii e. wing. 
This season an unusual number of 
cattle have been killed by lightning, es¬ 
pecially while standing near wire fences. 
It has been proposed to diminish the dan¬ 
ger by means of ground wires, which 
would, during a storm, conduct the elec¬ 
tricity from the fence wires to the earth. 
A creamery at Portland, Ore., is report¬ 
ed to be shipping butter to Manila. It is 
packed in glass jars, hermetically sealed, 
and the whole packed in salt. It is said 
that the first shipment made sold rapidly 
in competition with Danish butter sup¬ 
plied to Manila, and it is expected that 
this market will supply a valuable outlet 
for Oregon dairymen. 
The Relative Virulence for the Do¬ 
mestic Animals of Human and Bovine 
Tubercle. —This is the somewhat extend¬ 
ed title of Bulletin No. 57, of the Arkansas 
Experiment Station (Fayetteville). It is 
in two parts, embracing a bibliographical 
review' of the subject, and giving the re¬ 
sults of experimental researches. The 
latter will be of interest to cattlemen who 
have been following up the experiments 
with tuberculous cattle. 
Breeders’ Directory. 
Whit* Wtajidottbs Exclusively.-— 
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C hoice Delaine and Black-Top Ewes and Rams for 
sale cheap. Smooth bodies: no wrinkles: all reg’d. 
Correspondence invited. M.C.Mulkin, Friendship,N.Y 
For Sale — 10 Purebred Short-horn 
Heifers, good Reds, three to four months old. and 
four Bulls. Price, $300 for the lot crated. Balls, 
ready for use, $85. Also, seven Polled Durham 
Heifers, good sine and color, bred to registered bull 
Prioe, $36 each. Cut rates for all shipments. 
ISON & LITSEV, Harrodsburg, Ky. 
I EnUnDNQ—White and Buff. 200 Hens for 
LLUnUmiO sale at tl each. Show birds. $2 
and $3. DKLLDDRHT FARMS, Mentor, Ohio. 
■ mi PTCIUQ—Bhow animals, all ages, large rich 
nULo I LlnO milking Butter-Bred Herd. 
SCOTCH COLLIES TAN 
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GUERNSEYS. 
84 Cows micraged 399 pounds 
butter each in 1898. Some 
choice young stock for sale. 
ELLERSLIE STOCK FARM, 
RHINKCLIFF, N. Y 
Registered Jersey Cattle 
For Milk and Butter. 
R. F. SHANNON. 907 Liberty St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
SHROPSHIRE SHEEP. 
CHESTER WHITE SWINE. 
Good recorded stock. Rams and 
Lambs. Will offer a few ewes 
bred to best imported rams. Prize¬ 
winners in England. 
Sidney Sprague. Falconer, N. Y 
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