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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 1 
October 15 
\UVE STOCK! 
m AND DAIRY. 
HORSE BREEDING IN N. Y. STATE. 
Is it profitable for the average farmer 
to raise horses for the New York market, 
and what breed shall he raise ? This 
question must be settled by the market 
he would be most liable to find for his 
stock. The horse that brings the farmer 
a ready market with the least fitting up 
and extra expense, in my mind, is found 
in the Percheron and his crosses. The 
purebred Percheron finds a ready market 
in our cities for heavy work, and the 
crosses make a general-purpose horse or a 
horse for all work. I would not encroach 
upon the interest of any breed, but bring 
out the facts as they may appear. The 
Percheron is very hardy and rugged, an 
easy keeper, long-lived, generally free 
from blemish and of the best disposition. 
The crosses on Hambletonian make fine 
coach stock and find a ready market. 
Overproduction of horses brought 
them below the cost of production, con¬ 
sequently there was a rfalling off in 
breeding. Still, at the present time, 
there is a marked demand for horses at 
an advanced price. With the general 
prejudice against the western horse, he 
comes east under the name of Canadian, 
or any other name whereby he may find 
a market. The western horse is raised 
for market the same and fed the same as 
the steer—all the corn he can eat from 
the time he is weaned till he is ready for 
market—and when he is put to work and 
fed on oats, as the eastern farmer feeds, 
he simply can’t stand it. His feet are 
not as good as those of the eastern horse, 
because of the continuous feed of corn, 
which produces fever in the extremities. 
The race horse or the trotter, as some¬ 
times called, is a horse that the general 
farmer should not attempt to raise. He, 
as a rule, has no means to develop the 
trotter, and the man that has the facili¬ 
ties to develop him gets the profits which 
belong to the farmer or the man that 
raised him. Horses at the present time 
are 25 per cent higher in the New York 
market than one year ago, and the ten¬ 
dency is upwards. I drove 125 miles last 
season through the country, and saw 
two sucking colts on my journey, while 
10 years ago, I would have seen 100 on 
the same journey. I look over my neigh¬ 
bors’ horses and, as they average, find 
them from 8 to 20 years old and no young 
horses to take their places. Where shall 
we fill their places when they are gone ? 
Wayne Co., N. Y. geo. h. westcott. 
C0RN-AND-C0B MEAL. 
Good fob Cattle. —Central Kentucky 
cattle feeders and farmers have a con¬ 
siderable amount of husked corn ground, 
cob and all, for feeding to cattle and 
milch cows. It is rather largely fed, 
and proves very satisfactory. The work 
is usually done on crushers, and the corn 
is not strictly ground. As for horses, 
it is not considered suitable, though I 
have fed it some with no bad results, 
and I might say, with satisfaction. For 
hogs, it is undoubtedly of value over 
grain of the same value. I mean that 
$100 worth of corn-and-cob meal is worth 
more as a feed for hogs than $100 worth 
of shelled or ground corn. I think, how¬ 
ever, that the former should be made 
into a thick slop and allowed to stand 12 
hours ; the larger pieces of cob are thus 
softened and more easily masticated and 
digested. The trouble is usually that 
the crushers are not rapid enough in 
their work, when the corn and cob are 
not crushed fine enough for the best re¬ 
sults in hog feeding. Coarsely-ground 
corn and cob will do for cows and feed¬ 
ing cattle, but calves and hogs should 
have it ground at least as fine as rice. I 
have fed crushed corn and cob to all 
kinds of stock, with an undoubted sav¬ 
ing of money, and found no bad effects 
resulting. j. m. gabrett. 
Fort Garrett, Ky. 
It Hurt Hogs.—A few years ago, I had 
six shotes that would dress over 100 
pounds each, that I was feeding off late. 
Running out of meal, bran and mid¬ 
dlings, I concluded to feed them cob 
meal as I did the cows. Probably a 
couple of weeks after I began it, I noticed 
that one or two of them did not eat right, 
and in a few days, one died and one or 
two more showed signs of sickness. Being 
cold weather, the dead hog was not 
buried, but laid aside for a post mortem; 
but before that operation took place, 
two more died, which hastened the ex¬ 
amination, and we found in each case 
that the small intestines were red and 
inflamed almost throughout. In each 
case, the stomachs contained a quantity 
of the cob and the chaff of the corn, but 
no corn or meal. The remaining three 
seemed, by this time, very sick. I gave 
them linseed oil in liberal doses, and 
they got well. Then I started in again 
to feed them the same meal, but not un¬ 
til I put it through a sieve and took out 
all the cob and chaff. They thrived on 
it and fattened. There seems to be a 
husk or chaff surrounding the grain on 
the cob, that is very thin, hard, and 
sharp, and this husk I found predomi¬ 
nated in the contents of the stomachs of 
the ones I examined. At all events, no 
more of our hogs will die from being fed 
cob meal. f. e. l. 
Northbrook, Pa. 
With Oil Meal. —I believe that grind¬ 
ing cob and husk with corn in this section 
is going out of practice. Many farmers 
used to do this, but they have come to 
believe that the cob clogs the stomach 
and prevents proper digestion, and many 
such other theories are entertained by 
farmers, so that they are discarding the 
practice. Yet some feeders are still ad¬ 
vocating it largely, where they feed 
heavily on oil meal in connection. I be¬ 
lieve that steers in the feed lot get more 
value out of corn and cob ground together 
than any other class of stock. I believe 
that it is not fed much to hogs or horses. 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. w. l. de clow. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
An English dog, a white terrier, was kept in 
England for the purpose of collecting money for 
widows’ and orphans’ fund. He was in tbe habit 
of running after coins that were thrown to him. 
When he died, 6 pennies, 11 half-pence and sev¬ 
eral stones, were found in his stomach. 
A Prolific Ewe.—A. M. S., Morrisville, N. V., 
says: “In March, one of my ewes dropped four 
lambs. She raised only one; the others died. 
Early in September, she had two more, which are 
both doing finely. This makes six lambs in as 
many months, and it strikes me as an extraordin¬ 
ary occurrence.” 
The English Agricultural Gazette mentions the 
case of a valuable young horse that cannot pos¬ 
sibly be made to stand still while at the black¬ 
smith shop. He will fight with all lus strength 
whenever his feet are touched. They even go so 
far as to suggest a dose of 114 -ounce of laudanum 
in a pint of cold water to keep him quiet while 
being shod. 
A Pennsylvania man, while walking along a 
country road, discovered a large snake that had 
horns three inches long. On examining further, 
he found that the horns came from either side of 
the snake’s mouth. After killing the reptile and 
continuing the investigation, he found that the 
supposed horns were the hind legs of a big frog, 
which the snake was trying to swallow. 
The Indiana Farmer reports a case where a 
calf was so shut into a burning barn that it 
could not be rescued. Finally the spectators 
were surprised to see the calf rush out through 
the mass of flames, the stall having been burned 
away around it. Its hair was singed off and 
its skin badly blistered, but it lived, and is now 
in good condition except that its hair has been 
entirely removed. 
It takes a Yankee to tell a big story, and then 
requires an Englishman to polish it off. An Eng¬ 
lish paper says that a Yankee has invented a 
patent hen’s nest, which has a spring trap in the 
bottom. The hen proceeds to lay and the vio¬ 
lence of her cackle causes the trap door to open 
so that that the egg rolls out of sight. The Eng¬ 
lishman says this is particularly valuable for 
Minorcas, and this is what he says the hen does: 
“ With a look of astonishment on her face, as 
though she said, ‘I could swear I did something,’ 
she cackles again and lays another. This also 
disappears. Once more she looks, gets angry, 
and lays another. In this way you get six times 
as many eggs out of your poultry. Of course, it 
wears the hens out in two years or so, but you 
can always sell them for Spring chickens to the 
hoarding houses. Yes, there is a lot in science, 
no doubt; well nigh as much, indeed, as there is 
in American ‘ cackle ’!” 
The difficulty of breathing, which is an unpleasant 
accompaniment ot Asthma, can be speedily relieved 
with Jayne’s Expectorant. 
The Family Pill—Jayne’s Sanative.— Adv. 
ON THE BIAS. 
That’s the secret of the £>/A. Bias Girth Hors* 
Blankets. The girth is on the bias—that means 
crossed. It works automatically. The blanket 
can’t slip. If you pull one side, the othur side 
keeps the blanket from sliding, and yet it doesn’t 
bind the horse. He couldn't displace it if he 
rolled in it. 
® Bias Girth 
i Horse Blankets arc made in all ■tyle®—to fit any 
I horse—to suit any purse. Ask yonr dealer for 
' 5|\ Bias Girth Blankets, and look for the trade 
mark. A book on the subject sent free. 
W M. AYBE8 A SONS, Philadelphia. 
vL AGENTS 
everywhere to sell our great acci¬ 
dent preventer and life prenerver 
The Automatic 
Grip Neck Yoke. 
Prevents all accidents in case of break¬ 
down or runaway. Grips the tongue in¬ 
stantly and holds till danger is past. Is 
strong, handsome, dui-abie and will last 
indefinitely. Everybody buys It. 
Plain unnickeled, $1; Nickeled Loops and 
Acorn Heads. *1.50; Nickeled Tips and 
Centers, *1.75; Nickeled Center and Tips without Yoke, 
*1.25; Centers without Yoke. 65c. Made in three sizes, to 
fit pole tipslM to \ Also farm wagon size to grip pole 
2 % to 3X in size. Write to-day for circulars and special 
CONFIDENTIAL TERMS TO AGENTS. Better write at once. 
AUTOMATIC GRIP NECK YOKE CO. 
78 Iluri'.ing Street, Indianapolis, Ind. 
GUERNSEYS. 
225 purebred Guernseys of the best American 
and Island breeding. Batter average, whole 
herd, 318 pounds per head. No catalogue. Come 
and make your own selection. 
ELLERSLIE STOCK FARM, 
KHIN’ECLIFF. N. Y. 
AT FARMERS’ PRICES! 
Two Registered Jersey Bull Calves 
from superior dairy cows. 
B. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty Street, Pittsburg, Pa 
Clearview Stock Farm. 
JERSEY Bull and HeiferCalves, all ages. 
BERKSH1RES, all ages, both sexes, for SALK. 
J. S. CAMPBELL, Butler, Pa. 
GUERNSEYS 
‘—8 cows; 1 heifer, now due; 4 
__ heifer calves, from 4 to 8 mos.; 
1 bull 5 weeks, and 1 bull 12 mos., and 1 bull 10 mos 
A. J. SNYDER. Plumsteadville, Pa. 
C HENANGO VALLEY STOCK FARMS, Greene, N 
Y.—Dutch Belted and Jersey Cattle; Dorset and 
Rambouillet Sheep; Poland-China, Jersey Red and 
Suffolk Pigs; White and Bronze Turkeys. Peafowls, 
and Blooded Chickens. Seed Wheat, $2: Rye, $1; best 
in the world; bags free. 
FOR SALE. 
WA-WA-NUND REG. SHROPSHIRES. 
Bargains in Canada-Bred Rams; also good yearlings, 
Address J. C. DUNCAN, SUPT.. Lewiston, N. Y. 
BLOODED LIVE STOCK 
Sheep — Oxfords, Sliropshires, South- 
downs. Fancy Poultry. Pig.— 
Berkshires, Poland-Chinas, Chester 
Whites, Yorkshires, Catalogue free. 
H. L. HOLMES, Harrisburg, Pa. 
LARGE 
ENGLISH 
BERKSHIRES. 
Send for Catalogue. 
C. FRED. BOSHART, Lowville, N. Y. 
Reg. P. Chinas, Berkshires 
and Chester Whites. Choice 
Marge strains. 8 week Pigs not 
akin; Service Boars and Bred 
jSows. Poultry. Write for hard 
_ ’times prices and free circular. 
Hamilton & Co., Cochranville. Chester Co., Pa. 
Before Buy ing a If e w Harness 
Send 4c In stamps to pay postage on 
116-page Illustrated Catalog of Custom- 
Made Oak Leather Harness,sold direct 
to the consumer at Wholesale prices. 
100 STYLES TO SELECT FROM. 
We manufacture our own work and 
can save you money. 
KING HARNESS CO., 82 Church St., Owego, N. Y. 
Trade 
Hark 
LUMP JAW 
NOW CURABLE. 
Surely, quickly and for good. 
Fleming Bros., chemists, Un¬ 
ion Stock Yards, Chicago, , 
have a remedy that quickly , 
cures the most ohstinato . 
cases. Supplied by mail under 
a positive guarantee. Price, ‘ 
* 2 . 00 . Valuable information 
.J and full particulars Fit FE. 
Cows barren 3 years 
MADE TO BREED. 
Moore Brothers, Albany, N. Y. 
.OVER A MILLION 
I chickens hatched in our incubators 
I last season. Our 148-page illustrated 
1 catalogue contains description and 
prices of the most perfect egg 
7 Hatchers and Brooders made. 
' Mailed on receipt of 6c. in stamps. 
..■ |- Better send for it at once. r 
)£S MOINES INCUBATOR C0„ Box 90, Des Moines, la. 
’T SWEAR 
that you willbuy an Incubator and then 
as you 
did last 
___not do it. 
Nothing like starling right. 
If you want to start right 
ana stay right buy the 
Reliable Incubator. 
Made so the veriest novice can’t fail 
with it. Light the lamp, the Reliable 
,jdoes the rest. We send a 224 page 
book for 10c in stamps that tells all 
S^Se^about it and the Reliable Poultry Farm. 
RELIABLE INCB. & BROODER CO. Box B 181. Quincy, Ill. 
PURE POLAND-CHINAS 
quicker than others; low priced enough to be in reach 
of all. F. H. GATES & SONS, Chlttenango, N. Y. 
IMPROVED CHESTER WHITES 
of the best breeding and all ages for sale at reason¬ 
able prices. Pamphlets and prices free. 
CUAS. K. RECORD. Peterboro, N. Y. 
POULTRY 
We keep everything in the POULTRY LINE, 4 ► 
Fencing, Feed, Incubators, Live Stock, Brooders 
—anything—it’s our business. Call or let us 
send you our illustrated catalogue—it’s free for 
the asking—it’s worth having. 
Excelsior Wire and Poultry Supply Co., 
+ 28 Vesey Street, New York City. 
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BONE MEAL FOR POULTRY 
Crushed Oyster Shells, Calcite, Crushed Flint, Granu¬ 
lated Bone. Ground Beef Scraps. Send for Price List. 
YORK CHEMICAL WORKS. Box 691, YORK, PA. 
DESTROY MITES ", 
with LAMBERT’S DEATH TO LICE. 
SPECIAL eample, will kill nmilllon, 3-Oc. poet paid. 
Book on Poultry Keeping FKKE with every order. 
D. J. LAMBERT, Box307, Apponaug, R. I. 
chlorO-NAPTHOLEUM 
KNOCKED IT OUT 
Inthe First Round. 
Microbes are responsible fc* 
lots of misery. They cause the 
HOC CHOLERA, 
CHICKEN ROUP, 
SHEEP SCAB and 
FOOT ROT. 
CbloroKaptboleum 
PUTS MICROBES TO SLEEP 
to they will never wake up. Will heal sores and braise* 
quickly. We have direct branches in the principal cl tie# 
of the U. S. from whence goods are shipped. We will 
send you a sample gallon, freight prepaid, $LBO, 
Agency is wortn having. Write for full particulars. 
WEST DISINFECTING CO., 212 E. 57th St, New Yoti. 
LOTS OF ECCiS me>wslots ° f money. 
MANN’S NEW BONE CUTTERS 
! » .are the difference between profit and loss in the poultry business. C “ til ne, 1 astu ad easy. 
Clover Cutters, Granite Crystal Grit and Swinging Feed I rayii make the 
I Screw Worms 
and Ticks . . 
Are Instantly Killed when 
SLOAN’S LINIMENT 
1 1 ; ,4a 
is used. Also kills a Spavin, Curb or Splint. 
Cures a Cut, Kick or Bruist, and Foot Hot in 
Sloan’s Liniment is an invaluable remedy for man 
as well as beast. Taken internally, it cures Cramps 
Best Antiseptic Known. 
Every bottle iswarranted. Sold by druggists and dealers 
generally. Family size, 25 c. Horse size, 50 c. and $ 1 . 00 . 
Prepared by DR. EARL S. SLOAN, Boston, Mass, 
