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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
September 23 
A PRECOCIOUS COW CALF. 
We occasionally hear of heifers that 
begin to give milk before calving. In 
such cases, we think the precocious ani¬ 
mals are usually Jerseys. Frank D. 
Conet, Kennedy, N. Y., recently report¬ 
ed to the Jersey Bulletin the fact that 
three heifers of his herd came into milk 
before having calves. Two of them 
were yearlings, which last year gave 
rich milk eight months before dropping 
their first calves. They are large, and 
proved excellent cows this last Summer. 
But neither Mr. Conet nor his cows 
are satisfied with this conduct and he 
reports a calf dropped January 6 last 
that, early in July, began giving milk 
that, he says, “Looks nice, tastes nice, 
and has good cream.” He wishes to 
know whether any readers have ever 
before heard of such a case. This 
heifer is shown at Fig. 252. She has 
been named Virgin Queen, and will be 
registered later. Her sire is Clover 
Baron Pogis, 42908. dam Nora Clive, 
16159, a cow with a record of 21 pounds 
of butter in a week. Virgin Queen now 
weighs nearly 600 pounds, and has a 
good udder, with teats 2y 2 inches long. 
Mr. Conet says that, on August 15, they 
churned the cream from two days’ milk 
(not quite four pounds), and produced 
one-quarter pound of as solid, nicely- 
grained, yellow butter as any they ever 
made. The butter came in six or seven 
minutes, was of fine flavor, and there 
was less than one-half teacupful of but¬ 
termilk left. 
Mr. Conet says that he has never 
single-tested any of his cows, but that 
for the last three years they have aver¬ 
aged over $105 per head, and that he 
has never done any high or mixed feed¬ 
ing for milk or butter tests. Judging 
from the results he has obtained, his 
animals would certainly seem to be good 
ones, judged from me dollars and cents 
point of view. 
A number of questions are suggested 
by this early muk-giving which it 
might be well for dairymen to discuss. 
Will it prove beneficial, or otherwise, 
for a heifer to give milk at such an early 
age? Will the milking proclivities be 
more highly developed by tnis pre¬ 
cocious habit? On the whole, is it ad¬ 
visable or otherwise to encourage this 
practice? 
WESTERN BEEF CATTLE. 
Rosy Views from Iowa. 
I have, in the last two weeks, talked 
with cattlemen from several different 
parts of the State, and they all report a 
shortage of good cattle suitable to go 
into the feed lots this Fall. The dry and 
empty feed yards have fully convinced 
me that there is really a shortage, and 
while there is a shortage of feeding cat¬ 
tle, there appear to be fully as many 
calves being raised as common; but one 
hopeful thing I observed was that the 
farmers, as a rule, are using better bulls 
than heretofore. They seem to have 
awakened to the fact that, in order to 
compete with the western and south¬ 
western range stock, they would have to 
get more registered bulls, and quit using 
grades and dunghill scrubs. Stockers 
and feeders were quoted in Chicago, 
September 1, at prices ranging from 
$2.40 to $4.50, or a difference of $21 per 
head on a 1,000-pound steer. This is 
the difference between using a good bull 
and a scrub. The moral is obvious. 
Don’t be a scrub raiser! Iowa is pro¬ 
ducing one of her “bumper corn crops” 
this year, and when her feeders go into 
the markets at Kansas City, Omaha, and 
Chicago, the demand will, undoubtedly, 
be felt in those markets. We must have 
cattle to eat a good share of this corn. 
When it is taken into consideration that 
the average price for the last 20 years 
at Chicago has been $4.80, it doesn’t look 
to us westerners as though the beef 
trust was to blame for the present high 
prices, as some New York capitalists 
seem to think. The war has, undoubt¬ 
edly, had some effect, but the people of 
the United States are beef-eaters again. 
As to how long present prices will last, 
who can tell when the western farms 
will get to producing cattle to their full 
capacity? Who can tell how long pros¬ 
perity will last? Do not grumble at the 
price of your sirloin and porterhouse 
steaks while it means prosperity to the 
farmer. The price on registered breed¬ 
ing stock is fully 25 per cent higher than 
it was six months ago, and i believe it 
will go as much higher in the next six 
months. The demand is excellent. 
Oelwein, Iowa. berky lucas. 
HOMEBRED HORSES. 
Fourteen years ago, when I com¬ 
menced market gardening, I found great 
difficulty in buying good horses for the 
business, so I determined to raise a 
team. I had a very intelligent mare, 
which I bred to a good strong stallion. 
The result was a fine bay mare. I broke 
her at 2M> years old, and use her prin¬ 
cipally on the farm for plowing and cul¬ 
tivating. She so thoroughly under¬ 
stands cultivating my truck that I sel¬ 
dom have to touch the lines, even in 
turning at the end of the row, as she 
seems to know as well as I do which row 
to turn in, and no matter if the corn, 
peas, etc., are just coming through the 
ground, she will seldom tread on the 
row. 
I also bred a black mare, now four 
years old. She was sired by a trotting 
stallion, and I use her to my market 
wagon, and for driving. They make me 
a good team, and cost me only $30 apiece 
up to the time I broke them. I know 
them from A to Z, and would advise any 
one wanting a good team, to go and do 
likewise. wm. perkins. 
Mercer Co., N. J. 
Cow Peas in the Silo. 
Are cow peas worth anything to put in 
a silo with corn? I have not enough corn, 
so I thought of putting the peas in with 
it. c. p. N. 
Wayland, N. Y. 
Ans. —From our own experience, we 
would not advise putting the cow peas 
in the silo with corn. With us, the cow 
pea has not been quite satisfactory as a 
fodder plant. We advise its use for fer¬ 
tilizing entirely. Mr. E. H. Bancroft, of 
Delaware, has a large round silo in 
which he cuts green corn and cow pea 
vines, mixing the ensilage all together. 
This ensilage had a strong smell, but 
the cattle ate it well, and Mr. Bancroft 
is well satisfied with it. Most of those 
in the North who have tried clover, 
beans or peas mixed with corn in the 
silo, advise against this practice. 
Bone Food in Wheat Bran. 
What part of the wheat hull, the outside 
or inside shell, contains the phosphate of 
lime? What is this part of the shell named 
and sold under after it leaves the mill? 
Is it shorts, bran, mixed, or fine feed, or 
what? v A - s - c - 
Brighton, Mass. 
Ans.—M ost of the phosphoric acid 
found in wheat bran is contained in the 
outer coating which, when the wheat is 
ground, is sold as bran. Average wheat 
bran contains about 2 y 2 per cent of 
phosphoric acid, while wheat middlings 
contain about 1% per cent. A ton of 
wheat bran, therefore, contains about 
49 pounds of phosphoric acid, a ton 
of middlings about 25 pounds, while 
wheat flour contains about one-third of 
one per cent, or not quite seven pounds 
to the ton. Shorts are much the same as 
middlings. Wheat bran contains more 
phosphoric acid than any other of our 
grain feeds, cotton-seed meal coming 
next; it, therefore, makes the best of 
feeds for young stock. It is supposed by 
many farmers that oats or oat meal is 
stronger in bone-forming materials, but 
analysis shows that wheat bran contains 
more. Animals prefer oats to bran, in 
fact, we have often found it difficult to 
induce young stock to eat bran. Yet, 
when they can be started on it, it will 
prove one of the best of growthy feeds. 
Diluting Cream.— This is what the Ver¬ 
mont Experiment Station says about the 
rogues who try to collect a royalty on the 
so-called dilution separators: 
“If any farmer wants to waste his cream 
by the dilution process, he can do so with¬ 
out paying a royalty to anybody. On the 
contrary, any farmer who is approached 
by these royalty collectors would be doing 
his fellow-men a good turn if he should 
report the matter at once to the proper 
authorities and have it looked up. Such 
men are, doubtless, subject to action at 
law for obtaining money under false pre¬ 
tences.” 
One evening a society in Jefferson need¬ 
ed a gallon of cream. The committee 
called up by telephone the proprietors of 
a milk farm two miles north of the town, 
and asked if they could furnish it. The 
reply was that they could as soon as milk¬ 
ing was done. In 30 minutes from the 
time the call was made, the cream was 
delivered. The milk had been drawn from 
the cow, put into a separator, the cream 
extracted and sent to town by a man on 
a bicycle. A few years ago the commit¬ 
tee would have had to send a boy in the 
afternoon, “yesterday’s milk” would have 
had to be skimmed, and if the boy had not 
treed too many chipmunks on the way, he 
might have got back in time for the fes¬ 
tival. 
Empire State Poultry.—A number of 
men interested in poultry -met at the 
Globe Hotel, in Syracuse, during the State 
Fair session last week, and organized 
what is to be known as the Empire State 
Poultry Association. The temporary of¬ 
ficers elected are: D. Lincoln Orr, Orr’s 
Mills, president: T. F. McGrew. Utica, 
vice-president; H. P. Quilhot, Johnstown, 
secretary and treasurer. The board of di¬ 
rectors includes, besides the above of¬ 
ficers, John H. Santee, Hornellsville; N. 
S. Gardner, Philadelphia; J. H. Dreven- 
stedt, Johnstown, and W. C. Denny, 
Rochester. The directors constitute a 
committee to draft constitution and by¬ 
laws. The next meeting is subject to the 
call of the president. 
Breeders' Directory. 
White Wyandottes Exclusively.— 
Write wants. Spencer’s Poultry Farm. Phenix. R. I. 
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 
DeKOL’S BUTTER BOY JS25.T 
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herd of over 100 Holstelns. Sons ready for servic 
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Hampshire-Down Sheep 
Polled Durham Cattle ’“‘i" 1 
All registered stock. 
JNO. I. GORDON, Mercer, Pa. 
SCOTCH COLLIES tan 
Circulars free. SILAS DECKER, So. Montrose, Pa 
GUERNSEYS. 
84 Cows averaged 399 'pounds 
butter each in 1898. Some 
choice young stock for sale. 
ELLERSLIE STOCK FARM, 
RHINECLIFF, N. Y 
Registered Jersey Cattle 
° For Milk and Butter. 
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Sheep —Oxfords.Shropshires.South- 
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