1898 
273 
Beef Bull in a Dairy Herd. 
(CONTINUED.) 
milk record yet, but it will be light. 
She came in too soon, but with her rapid 
growth and vitality, we hope to see a 
good cow after a couple of years. 
In April, 1895, two more calves were 
dropped by Milly and Brindle respect¬ 
ively, which, in turn, calved in March, 
1897. Both are very promising heifers, 
a little coarser than their dams. 
May 24, 1895. we had our first inbred 
calf, Pansy, out of Black Tail, by her 
own sire. The fineness and nervous tem¬ 
perament of dam and grandam here 
disappear, and the coarseness and easy¬ 
going disposition of the sire predom¬ 
inate. So far. she has proved a light 
milker, but as she is laid out for a big, 
late-maturing cow, we hope more for 
her future. She has a good constitu¬ 
tion, and there is nothing about her to. 
indicate loss of vitality from inbreeding. 
March 24, 1897, Black Tail dropped 
another inbred sister—Arbitration—to 
Pansy. This is the worst-looking runt 
in the whole lot, and is a standing argu¬ 
ment against inbreeding even once. But 
sbe is but a single fact, and we are let¬ 
ting her grow, and awaiting develop¬ 
ments. She is the last of the bull’s 15 
which were saved from 80 or 100 of his 
total calves. Some good calves were 
vealed for want of milk. Three, which 
were saved in late '90 and early ’97, have 
not befen described in detail. These are 
now in the yearling class, and promise 
as well as their older sisters. 
Before reaching this stage of the ex¬ 
periment, we were convinced that we 
were on the wrong track in trying to 
breed dairy cows with a beef bull. In 
November, 1895, we bought a pedigreed 
Holstein calf, with a good dairy record 
behind him. In the Fall of 1897, his 
calves began to appear. The first two are 
of excellent dairy type, and in striking 
contrast to the other 15, excepting Black 
Tail, Amy and Henrietta. The third 
one, however, which has just arrived, 
and whose dam is of good dairy type, is 
a little chunk, a picture of the old bull 
himself. So while I was ready to gen¬ 
eralize from the first two of the latter 
facts, thq, last one seems to be thrown 
in as an exception to prove the rule. 
It is the common advice now to dairy¬ 
men to buy good thoroughbred males, 
and breed up their stock. I believe the 
advice to be good along all lines of animal 
breeding. But even when it is advisable 
to climb a ladder, we must watch out for 
loose and rotten rounds. The adjectives 
above used to qualify the bull are “good” 
and “ thoroughbred ”. The first thought 
is that it would be less difficult to 
select the “good” bull than to find the 
“thoroughbred”. In practice, it works 
the other way. All that is necessary 
to get a thoroughbred is to make use 
of the “ mail order department,” and 
you will find your barnyard choked with 
crates of calves from $10 up, and all other 
sizes in proportion. While, therefore, 
the “thoroughbred” part is necessary 
to insure ability to hand down to his 
descendants the valuable qualities shown 
in the records of his ancestry, the diffi¬ 
cult part is to combine a good record and 
good individual qualities in one animal. 
Here is where the skill of the buyer 
comes in. 
The beef bull differs from the dairy 
bull, both in pedigree and personal 
makeup. The beef bull is a snug chug 
of a fellow that has been a chronic piece 
of beef from the day of his birth. He 
fills the eye of the amateur. There is 
meat all over him. His hams are thick, 
his back is broad, his barrel is snug-, 
causing him not to dress away too much 
in paunch. His brisket is beefy, and his 
neck short and thick. On the other 
hand, the dairy bull has higher hips and 
a bigger belly and thinner thighs. He 
will never carry a calf himself, but his 
heifers will have room for greater mater¬ 
nal function than those of the above- 
described beef bull. The dairy bull will 
have a mellow skin, and hair as fine as 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
you please, but long rather than thick 
set. He will never make butter himself, 
but remember all the time that the 
heifers will “ take after their dad.” If 
the bull has a good digestion and keeps 
his manger clean without much regard 
to the quality of the fodder, his heifers 
can be shoved for records with greater 
safety than if of a dainty, sweetmeat 
family. Some of these points of vitality, 
of course, apply equally to a good beef 
breeder and a good dairy breeder ; but 
keep in mind, in choosing the dairy bull, 
those qualities which you would like to 
see reproduced in the daughter, and make 
her a business cow. It is not to be said 
that the beef bull or the dairy bull is the 
handsomer or more valuable animal; 
each is handsome and each is valuable 
for his own uses. But do not try to chop 
wood with a scythe, or mow grass with 
an ax. e. c. birge. 
Connecticut. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Oi.eta 15625, a California Jersey, 17 years old, 
made 15 pounds 12 ounces of butter in seven days. 
Her mother was killed at 19years, and her grand- 
mother at over 20 years. 
Lice on Hogs.—W hat is the best way to exter¬ 
minate lice on hogs ? j. w. 
Ancrarn, N. Y. 
One of the best ways to exterminate lice on 
hogs is by making several applications of butter¬ 
milk, covering a period of 10 days or two weeks. 
The testimony isn’t always unanimous for dis¬ 
horning. Here is what au Ohio man says in The 
Breeders’ Gazette: “ I will never dishorn in the 
feed yard again. The first man with the extreme 
temerity to tell me it will not set cattle back to 
dishorn them, will see a No. 11 boot sailing 
through the agitated air and landing with vehe¬ 
ment force in the vicinity of his pistol pocket.” 
Question of Breeding.— Would it be advisable 
to keep a bull for stock raising, with one of his 
testicles two-thirds diminished and the other its 
natural size ? h. r. b. 
Elkdale, Pa. 
Animals have been repeatedly used with good 
results with one testicle entirely removed, and 
we see no reason why the bull in question should 
not be used with success, if he is otherwise strong 
and vigorous. 
Trials of the Creamery man. —Says C. Ahlness, 
in the New York Produce Review: “ The manager 
of a creamery may be to blame for keeping a 
poor, lazy and dirty buttermaker, but what a 
manager of a cooperative creamery dreads more 
than all else is a row among his patrons, and no 
matter how incompetent and shiftless a butter- 
maker may be, he always manages to have 
enough friends among the patrons to make it hot 
for the manager if he tries to discharge him.” 
Weight of Baby Pigs.— At the Wisconsin Ex¬ 
periment Station, 10 litters of pigs—72 in all— 
were weighed at birth. These little pigs ranged 
from 1.3 to 3.1 pounds, with an average of 2.2 
pounds. It was found that, in general, the indi¬ 
vidual pigs in large litters were somewhat 
smaller than those of small litters. It is some¬ 
times claimed that the last pig to be farrowed is 
a “runt” or “teatman” always smaller and 
weaker than the others. In this investigation, 
the last pigs were often the largest. 
L. S. Hardin, in the Jersey Bulletin, says: 
“ Let us follow a mouthful of grass through the 
cow and see whether we can locate the end of 
the cow that does the most work. The jaws tear 
it off and chew it; the stomach and intestines 
digest it; the duets then carry it to the heart; 
that sends it to the lungs and back again to 
the heart, whence it is driven to the udder, 
where it is turned into milk. If that is the true 
history of a bite of grass, it looks as though 
mne-tenths of the work was done ‘ for’ard of 
’midships,’ as they say at sea. What the pelvic 
arch has to do with all this may be plain enough 
to the faithful, but it is beyond my comprehen¬ 
sion.” The fat is put into the milk in the udder 
not in the lungs or heart! 
Holstein Butter.— Secretary Hoxie, of the Hol¬ 
stein Breeders, says that the standard of aristo¬ 
cratic butter in England used to be Holland but¬ 
ter before the Dutch ruined their reputation by 
making “ oleo.” He says: “The aristocratic con¬ 
sumers in Englaud object to American butter as 
too heavy flavored. The flavor depends on the 
milk and not on the manufacture. Cows produc¬ 
ing butter at a low ratio of milk produce heavy- 
flavored butter, while the Holland cows, the Dan¬ 
ish and our American Holsteins produce butter 
of a more delicate flavor. Allow me to suggest 
in a tentative way that it would be good policy 
for Secretary Wilson in his next shipment of but¬ 
ter to open the aristocratic English markets, to 
include a quantity of well-made Holstein butter.” 
When “ catching cold ” it is safest to get a doctor's 
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Expectorant. 
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