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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 2 
LIVE STOCKI 
AND DAIRY. 
There is much talk of war. a strong- pos- 
sibility, if not a real probability of such 
a deplorable event, but the possibility 
has started the Government into an in¬ 
creased buying of cavalry and artillery 
horses. The Cuban insurgents are also 
buying large numbers of horses and 
mules in the West. The Cubans have 
heretofore bought little but mules, but 
are now buying horses more largely. 
Horse breeders have had little encour¬ 
agement in the prices of the past few 
years, but this new development of the 
market is likely to help them somewhat. 
Experiments at the Wisconsin Experi¬ 
ment Station showed that 237 pounds of 
grain and 47.7 pounds of skim-milk fed to 
a sow while nursing her pigs, produced 
100 pounds of gain. After weaning, it 
required 288 pounds of grain and 576 
pounds of skim-milk to make the same 
gain. This shows what stockmen have 
often noticed, viz., that it pays to crowd 
brood sows with fcod while they are 
nursing the pigs. The milk of the sow 
is the best food the pigs can have, and 
they will gain faster on it than on any¬ 
thing else. Let the sow have all she 
can eat. It is no time to scrimp her 
while she is nursing. 
Great advances have been made dur¬ 
ing the past few years in methods of feed¬ 
ing stock. Feeders have begun to realize 
that their animals have legs, and can 
walk around after their food. Men who 
formerly kept their hogs shut up in small 
and filthy sties, now let them out to 
eat rape, sorghum, peas, or other crops 
grown in small, movable inclosures. 
The hog is stronger and better every 
way for the use of his legs. We know 
of one horseman who, last Summer, kept 
the brood mares and colts in a small pas¬ 
ture. Around it were fields of corn 
fodder. This was cut and thrown over 
the fence for the mares and colts. In 
this way, nearly three times the stock 
was carried, and the pasture will make 
fine corn ground this year. This fact of 
substituting cultivated crops for per¬ 
manent pasture grass is one of the chief 
reasons why Denmark and Sweden have 
been able to surpass England in dairying. 
The creamery shark puts a creamery 
in your neighborhood by hook or by 
crook. He doesn’t much care how it is 
done so long as he gets the contract at 
an exorbitant price. The creamery wolf 
comes into the neighborhood and makes 
a bargain for your milk. Nobody knows 
much about him, but he talks well, 
promises everything, and gets the milk. 
He pays up for a time, but first you 
know, he is a little behind, and then a 
little more. Some fine morning, you 
find him g - one—your money going with 
him. He will turn up at some other 
creamery later, and play the same game. 
Hunt him up and you will find that he 
is plastered all over with judgments. It 
is a question whether the creamery shark 
is more dangerous than the creamery 
wolf. It ought to be easier to beat the 
wolf, but farmers will let their accounts 
run behind in spite of all the warnings 
in the world. 
The feeding of oil meal to horses seems 
to be on the increase, as farmers and 
drivers understand the effect it has upon 
the animal. At most of the places 
where horses are boarded, oil meal is 
regularly fed. The object at such 
farms is to keep the horses in good 
condition with cheap roughage. The 
following note tells the story : 
For the past 15 years, I have used it constant¬ 
ly. We feed from three to six ounces with each 
feed of grain; we use oats whole, for old horses, 
and ground oats for brood mares and colts, and 
use some bran just before foaling and during 
nursing until turning out to grass. But with 
this ration, and for driving horses, we use the oil 
meal; it keeps the bowels healthy, and the coat 
glossy. I have had but one case of colic in the 
last 15 years, and that was a mare that had Just 
come into my possession. I kept her for years 
after, and she never had a renewal while I 
owned her. We feed no bran mashes to any 
horses unless they are sick. c. a. chapman. 
Vermont. 
Mr. Chapman makes a specialty of 
breeding family or driving horses. We 
have found that half a pound of oil meal 
per day fed from December until May 
gives the horses much of the appearance 
they have while at pasture. 
Four years ago, The R. N.-Y gave its 
opinion of the managers of the “ Horned 
Dorset Sheep Breeders’ Association of 
America”. The Dorsets are excellent 
sheep—peculiarly valuable for the pro¬ 
duction of early lambs. They were in¬ 
troduced at a time when there was great 
interest in Winter lamb raising, and had 
the association been properly managed, 
the breed would have attained great 
popularity. A few shrewd men secured 
control of the association, and by means 
of proxy votes kept themselves in power 
and ran affairs pretty much in their own 
way. People lost interest in the breed 
when its public affairs were managed in 
this way, and the breeders who wished 
for better things were powerless to effect 
a change. They have now done the 
right thing in breaking away from the 
old association and organizing The Con¬ 
tinental Dorset Club. The following 
officers have been elected : 
President: 
.T. Fremont Hickman, Wooster, O. 
Vice-Presidents : 
Jas. S. Buchanan, Hickory, Pa. 
Oliver Barnett, New Concord, O. 
S. B. Jameson, AUamucby, N. J. 
It. B. Arbuckle, Lewisburgh, W. Va. 
H. G. S. Codd, Westfield, la. 
Hugh M. Johnson, Massachusetts. 
R. H. Harding, Ontario, Can. 
Secretary: 
Jos. E. Wing, Mechanicsburgh, O. 
Treasurer: 
A. S. Eagleson, Washington, Pa. 
Executive Committee: 
Joseph B. Henderson, Washington, Pa. 
W. P. Wayman, Wheeling, W. Va. 
John B. Peelle, Bloomington, O. 
H. P. Miller, Sunbury, O. 
This is a first-rate move which ought to 
have been made two years ago. The old 
association did much to injure Dorsets in 
the eyes of general buyers, but the sheep 
are too useful to be ruined, even by such 
methods, and we feel sure that the new 
club will repopularize the breed. 
Cinderella’s 
fairy god-moth¬ 
er, with one 
touch of her 
magic wand, 
transformed 
the maiden’s 
rags and tatters 
into the richest 
silks and sat¬ 
ins. There are 
thousands of 
young women 
to - day who 
need a fairy 
god - mother 
who will touch 
them with the 
wand of health. 
A girl’s best 
gift Is her 
health. 
Every girl 
may be a 
healthy girl 
and become a 
healthy wife 
and a capable mother, if she will but take 
the proper care of herself In a womanly 
way. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is 
the best medicine for ailing women, young 
or old. It strengthens and invigorates the 
organs distinctly feminine. It promotes 
regularity of their functions. It allays ir¬ 
ritation and inflammation. It checks un¬ 
natural and exhausting drains. It puts the 
whole organism concerned in wifehood and 
motherhood into perfect condition. 
Almost all of the ills of womankind are 
traceable some form of what is known as 
“female complaint.” Troubles of this kind 
unfit a woman for wifehood and mother¬ 
hood. Thousands erf grateful women have 
been rendered healthy and happy by the 
use of this marvelous medicine. At their 
own request, the experience and testimony 
of many of them have been included in Dr. 
Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser. 
The “ Favorite Prescription ” is sold by all 
good dealers and an honest dealer will not 
try to induce you to take an inferior substi¬ 
tute for the sake of extra profit. 
Mrs. G. A. Conner, of Alleghany Springs, 
Montgomery Co., Va., writes: “ My daughter, 
aged 15 years, had a goitre coming on her neck 
and it disfigured her very much. I am happy to 
say that it has disappeared after the use of one 
bottle of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription.” 
In paper covers, 21 one-cent stamps; cloth 
binding, 10 cents extra. Dr. Pierce’s Com¬ 
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R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. 
TWO HUNDRED MILLIONS 
OF DOLLARS A YEAR 
More or Less 
T he improved united states separators 
have increased the products of the dairies of 
this and other countries, 6ince their introduc¬ 
tion three years ago, to such an extent that it 
is impossible to estimate this increase. It may far 
exceed the above sum, as many users state that they 
have increased their product from each cow more 
than $10.(0 to $20.00 per year. 
As the records at the Experiment Stations and in 
Creameries and Dairies show that they average more 
thorough separation than any other, it makes the 
Improved U. S. the 
STANDARD 
and all others are now striving to equal them. The 
manner in which they have advanced to the leading 
position in so short a time since their introduction 
is phenomenal, and proves what we have so often 
read : “The last shall be 
Price $44. 
FIRST’ 
Everyone admits that they are more substantially made than any other. 
The Improved U. S. Separators are made in more styles and sizes than any 
other and are adapted to all sizes of dairies and creameries. 
They are sold, as always, 011 the basis of their unqualified and guaranteed 
superiority over any separator. 
Send for Dairy catalogue No. 1 97 
Send for Creamery 1 94 
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Buggies, Phaetons, Surreys, Traps, Harness 
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Price $00. 
Cow Sense 
1 Branches: 
Elgin, Ill. 
Dubuque, la. 
Omaha, Neb. 
is as rare as any , 
kind, but the 1 
farmer who has 1 
it knows that a' 
Siiarples Farm 
Separator is the; 
best cow he can ! 
add to his herd. 
It eats nothing; 
yet it is equal to! 
»one cow for every ] 
four he lias. 
P. M. SHARPLES, 
West Chester, Pa 
THE USE OF 
Thatcher’s Orange 
Butter Color 
conveys no terror to the public, no 
dread of the courts, no fear of 
legislation, no doubt of the market, 
contains no Coal Tar. It is purely 
vegetable and harmless. 
Doubles 
Trade - j 
That’s what milk men say + 
who use a 
Champion j 
Milk Cooler 
and Aerator. 
Saves him time and labor } 
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