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THE RURAL'NEW-YORKER.’ 
October 22 
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II ANDDAIRJT^^m^ 
SHORT-HORN CATTLE TO THE FRONT 
WHERE THEY PAY BEST. 
Some of our western readers write us that, in 
their section, beef-making pays, on the whole, 
better than dairying. For this reason, they seem 
to think that good Short-horn cattle would pay 
better than the special dairy breeds. It may 
be that such people are located where they can¬ 
not handle milk or butter to advantage, and 
thus they find it more economical to raise beef. 
We would like to get your idea regarding this 
proposition, as to the value of butter or beef. We 
would like to have you tell us under what con¬ 
ditions the Short-horn can be recommended, and 
whether it is likely to prove more profitable than 
the so-called dairy breeds. 
I think the Short-horn the best gen¬ 
eral-purpose cow, as she will make as 
much butter as a Jersey or any other, 
her calf will bring more money when 12 
weeks old, and the cow can be turned to 
beef when dry if desired. I am breed¬ 
ing for milk and butter, but at the same 
time, I can show some nice beef. 
Binghamton, N. Y. . 1 . K. INNE8. 
There is a great deal of labor connected 
with making butter, and I think, here 
in the West where land is cheaper than 
labor, we can produce beef much cheaper 
than butter. Our climate, water and 
grasses are especially adapted to beef 
producing. The Short-horns are very 
early to mature, good, quiet, easy feed¬ 
ers, well adapted to our climate, and 
make good dairy cows when bred and 
handled for that purpose. I have Short¬ 
horns that make 14 pounds of butter in 
seven days, and have made as high as 
17 pounds, while all other beef breeds 
are light milkers. Hence I consider the 
Short-horns best for us. H. F. BROWN. 
Minneapolis, Minn. 
The men who are making the most and 
the easiest cash are those who use an 
ail-purpose cow, a good milker and 
highly graded in beef lines (Short-horn 
is preferred), and are selling milk or 
making butter, separating, etc., also 
raising their calves for beef steers. They 
use a good beef bull from a milking dam. 
Such calves, at four months old, now 
bring $18 to $25 each. They can be made 
to weigh 1,500 pounds at 24 months, and 
then are worth $60 to $75. They are 
raised on skim-milk or separated milk, 
oat meal, corn meal, oil meal, grass, etc. 
I am speaking now for Iowa, Nebraska, 
Kansas and Missouri. Not all are doing 
this, but those who are making the 
easiest money are, at least that is my 
observation, and I am selling stock over 
a dozen States all the time. 
Lincoln, Neb. F. m. woods. 
I think the western readers who write 
that, in their section, beef-making pays 
better than dairying, are correct, and 
that their section covers most of this 
western country. They are equally cor¬ 
rect when they tell you that good Short¬ 
horn cattle are more profitable to them 
than the special dairy breeds, because 
good Short-horn cows furnish them all 
the milk and butter they want, and raise 
a good fat calf each year, for which 
there is always a market at a good price. 
In a country where good butter is so 
plentiful that it and axle grease sell at 
about the same price on the market 
(about 10 cents per pound), I would 
suppose that we cannot handle milk and 
butter to advantage. For the western 
man, I think a good Short-horn or grade 
Short-horn is the cow. With her, he can 
run a dairy if he desires to, and if 
dairying doesn't pay in his section, he 
can raise a good fat calf, and the sur¬ 
plus milk that the calf can’t consume, 
until it is a month or six weeks old, he 
can feed to his pigs. Meanwhile his 
wife and daughters (if he has any) are at 
the house fixing something good to eat 
or playing on the piano, instead of 
cleansing milk pans or milk cans from 
the dairy. For the eastern man, I would 
recommend the same kind of cow. With 
his economy and advantages, I can’t see 
why she should not prove more profit¬ 
able to him than any of the so-called 
dairy breeds. w. T. clay. 
Plattsburg, Mo. 
I visit Elgin, Ill., quite often, and most 
of the dairymen there use grade Short¬ 
horn cows. Many of them buy old cows 
of good weight, milk them as long as 
they can, feeding heavily all the time, 
and when the cow fails to give enough 
milk to pay, they sell her to the butcher. 
They tell me it pays them better to do 
that. The farmer in the West keeps the 
grade cow on account of her ultimate 
value for beef purposes, and the value of 
the male calves as compared with the 
value of the dairy breeds for beef pur¬ 
poses. At the present time, beef cattle 
are unusually high, and may shrink in 
price in the future; but I think beef 
animals will always command a good 
price, and the combination cow, as I 
would term the grade Short-horn, will 
always be sought for dairy purposes. 
Texas. h. c. wheeler. 
Without entering into any lengthy 
discussion of the subject, we will say 
that the Short-horn cow has long been 
known as the dual-purpose or combina¬ 
tion cow. Farmers in this section are 
beginningto find that the dairy business 
alone does not pay when they have to 
sell all their bull calves for veal, and 
their old cows for “canners”, as is the 
case when the dairy breeds are kept. 
Grade Short-horn bull calves at weaning 
time sell here now for from $20 to $25 
per head, for feeding steers, while an old 
Short-horn cow sells for about $1 per 100 
pounds more on the market than one of 
the dairy breeds. The demand now 
seems to be for both milk and beef com¬ 
bined, and as the Short-horns are the 
heaviest milkers of the beef breeds, they 
are most sought by the farmers of the 
Central West. w. h. Fulkerson & sons. 
Jerseyville, Ill. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
From Australia comes the report of a new dairy 
fraud. The Babcock test used in creameries 
eeeme to have put an end to the practice of 
bringing watered milk to be sold at the usual 
price. Now, however, certain farmers, when 
coming after skim-milk, bring their cans full of 
water, and slyly empty them into the vat, taking 
a larger quantity of the skim-milk home with 
them. In this way, they get not only more milk 
than belongs to them, but also leave for their 
neighbors, a very much poorer quality. 
The New Calf Law. —The dairymen here seem 
to take very little interest in this law. There is 
a good demand for all calves, when a few days 
old, from farmers who, instead of selling their 
milk, feed it to veals, and the demand is greater 
than the supply. The only opposition is from 
those buyers who ship bob veals to market. I do 
not think any effort to have the law repealed, 
will be made by farmers in this section. I found 
only one who thought the State had no right to 
pass such a law. e. p. 
Bainbridge, N. Y. 
In our experience, whole peas or pea meal 
make too heavy a feed for poultry when fed 
alone; when put in a mixture with one-fourth 
part of wheat and other grains, including some 
coarse wheat bran, it gives reasonably good re¬ 
sults. When fed alone, however, except to fatten 
stock, it is too liable to cause the fowls to lay on 
flesh, and will not be entirely satisfactory for egg 
purposes. It is a stronger food than either wheat 
or oats, but contains too large a proportion of 
oil or fat to make it a good egg food when fed 
alone. Mixed so that about one-fourth of the 
total mash will be pea meal, it will give good re¬ 
sults provided some coarse food like wheat bran 
is put with it. 
It seems too bad that the old legend about the 
human incubators cannot die out. Several years 
ago, we were told of the woman who was obliged 
to eaim a living for her consumptive husband, 
and rather than have him remain idle, she used 
him as an incubator, placing the eggs in bed 
beside him. Now our newspaper friends are 
going away from home and placing this with 
other things to be responsible for, upon the na¬ 
tives of the Philippines. This is what they say 
about it in the National Provisioner: 
“The Philippine natives never throw away any 
old thing. They do not let old age rust and be¬ 
come a drag. The active people do the active 
work, and the big, fat lazy older ones who can¬ 
not hustle are used for those things requiring in¬ 
activity. One of these lines of usefulness is the 
hatching of eggs. The old men are used as 
human incubators. They lie all day on a bed 
wrapped up in eggs, which they patiently await 
the hatching of from the heat of their bodies. 
These old people take great pride in their in¬ 
cubator abilities, and stick to the hatching pro¬ 
cess with commendable determination. The 
human rooster thus sets an example to the 
feathered male who raises such a disturbance 
when the hen announces a result.” 
It is said that negroes in Atlanta have picked 
up a shrewd scheme of teaching dogs to steal 
chickens. Hundreds of hens have disappeared 
from hen roosts and lawns, and it was found at 
last that these darkies had taught the dogs to 
catch the chickens and bring them back. No 
wonder there is a crusade against dogs in the 
city of Atlanta._ 
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