1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
291 
Live Stock and Dairy. 
(CONTINUED.) 
no Red-top, and rarely any clover. The 
plants most extensively used for hay are 
Johnson grass, German millet, Crab 
grass, sorghum, and best of all, cow-pea 
vines, alone or mixed with Crab grass or 
sorghum, or German millet. In some 
localities, Bermuda grass, Lespedeza 
striata, and Melilotus alba furnish con¬ 
siderable hay. 
On the larger dairy farms, silos are 
usual. They are generally filled with 
corn, but Milo maize, or some other 
member of the sorghum group, or cow- 
pea vines are sometimes placed in the 
silo. In the smaller herds the silo gives 
way to soiling, chiefly with rye. Rye 
sown from August to November is ready 
to be cut always in March, and often in 
December. For this purpose, rye of 
southern origin is indispensable. It is 
cut two, three, or four times, according 
to circumstances, and on rich land, af¬ 
fords a large yield, while succeeding 
better than most other grains on poor 
land. 
The most general pasture plants are 
Lespedeza, Bermuda grass, and Carpet 
grass, all available from March to No¬ 
vember. Winter pastures are easily pro¬ 
vided with such plants as Orchard grass, 
Texas Blue grass, Rescue grass, a mix¬ 
ture of Hairy vetch and Winter oats, and 
rye. Winter pastures do not receive 
sufficient attention, because of turning 
live stock into the fields in Winter. 
While running at large, the cattle make 
a fair living on the corn fields, the rem¬ 
nants of the crop of cow peas, and the 
native cane that continues green all 
Winter along the watercourses. Pastur¬ 
age for every month of the year can be 
provided. j. f. duggar. 
Alabama Experiment Station. 
AN AYRSHIRE HORN BLOWN. 
1 see the Jerseys very highly spoken 
of in a recent R. N.-Y. Will the writer 
send me a yearly record of his Jersey 
stock, as a herd ? I do not care for a 
week’s test; I can find weekly tests often 
in the agricultural papers. What I wish 
to see is what a dairy herd can do in a 
year, for the amount of food consumed. 
That isthe kind of test I want, and what 
every farmer should have. As I under¬ 
stand him to say, the Jersey milks up to 
the end of lactation. Is that a practice 
among Jersey men ? Now he tells us 
there is hardly any other stock that 
pays, except the Jerseys. I will name 
the Ayrshires; he may not have heard 
of that kind of stock. Here are some of 
their records: Rena Myrtle, owned by 
the Vermont Experiment Station, gave 
more milk and made more butter than 
any one of the 30 Jerseys at the Station, 
in one year ; and that was not all, she 
made a better record than any other 
animal they ever had at the station, in 
milk and butter. There was the test at 
the New Hampshire Experiment Station, 
where there were four llolsteins, four 
Short-horns, four Jerseys, and four Ayr¬ 
shires. In that test, the report will show 
that the Ayrshires are the most profit¬ 
able of all four breeds, as dairy cows. 
Three years ago, our experiment station 
offered $30 for the best butter test. I 
entered a cow, Printsteps 2nd, who took 
first prize over three Jerseys. Now I am 
ready to concede that the Jerseys are 
excellent dairy cows in every respect, 
but I must insist that there are other 
good cows, and some can be found among 
the Ayrshires. I think you spread the 
Jerseys on pretty thick. 
Last year, my herd of 19 Ayrshires, 
varying from four to 12 years old, made 
the following record: Average, 6,678 
pounds of milk as a whole ; average, 317 
pounds of butter as a whole; first 12 
averaged 7,515 pounds of milk; first 12 
averaged 355 pounds of butter by the Bab¬ 
cock test; average of each cow as a 
whole. 289 days in milk. On grass alone, 
from May 20 to November 1. Last Win¬ 
ter, one-half bushel ensilage, two quarts 
of meal, and two quarts of brrn ; hay at 
noon and evening. u. s. drew. 
Vermont. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Guinea Hens with Young.—How can I prevent 
guineas from tiring out and losing their young ? 
Westtown, N. Y. e. v. k. g. 
The most practical way to raise young guineas 
is with common hens, as the guinea fowl does 
not bear confinement well, and will lose the 
young, especially in cold or wet weather. If they 
are to be raised with the guinea hen, she may be 
confined in a coop with a board bottom for a 
few days, until the young get strong enough to 
keep with her. 
A. X. Hyatt, in The Breeders’ Gazette, tells of 
feeding oats in cases of abortion in cattle. He 
says: “ Oats are a complete food. Oats are the 
best single ration of grain. Oats develop bone 
and muscle perfectly. Oats give nervous energy, 
and if fed whole, have a mechanical effect. I 
have long given whole oats in double quantities 
to a cow after she calves, if I feared she would 
retain the placenta. Oats have been fed in other 
herds, as I have directed, enough to convince me 
that they deal out destruction to abortion germs.” 
He also says: “I have nsed ‘hot drops’ as a 
tonic. The prescription is as follows: Tincture 
capsicum, one ounce; tinctui'e myrrh three 
ounces; tincture ginger, one ounce; tincture 
peppermint, one ounce; tincture opium, one 
ounce; rhubarb, one ounce. I gave this mixture 
once a day in double the amount your veteri¬ 
narian or family physician would call a dose. I 
do not claim that this medicine stops abortion. 
I claim that it helps to warm their blood and 
put them in a normal condition.” 
Dohsets in America.— From an early period, 
sheep husbandry has been the mainstay of Eng¬ 
lish agriculture, and one of the potent factors in 
English commercial supremacy. In England, 
we are told that the Dorset has preserved its 
breed unmixed from a very remote period, in the 
country adjacent to Dorchester. As far back as 
1749, Win. Ellis describes the West Country sheep 
as having “white faces, white and short legs, 
broad loins, and fine curled wool.” The same 
authority says that those farmers living in Hert¬ 
fordshire, Bedfordshire, Middlesex, Surrey aud 
Kent, and would be masters of a fine kind of 
sheep for folding, fattening and breeding lambs, 
cannot have a better breed. Mr. Parkinson, who 
wrote as early as 1793, said that he regarded the 
best Dorset ewes as more correct in their shape 
than many of the improved breeds of England. 
Their introduction into the United States and 
Canada commenced in the Fall of 1885, when 
Messrs. E. & A. Stanford, of Steyntng, England, 
entered port at Quebec, Canada, with 50 ewes and 
six rams. A selection from this flock was exhib¬ 
ited at the Fat Stock Show, at Chicago, in a few 
days after their arrival. While on their way 
from Markham, Out., to Chicago in a crowded 
car, five of the ewes dropped 11 lambs and cared 
for them all. These sheep were purchased by 
Mr. Burleigh, and taken to Vermont. It is a mat¬ 
ter of history that Mr. Burleigh owned the first 
flock of Dorsets in this country. I have investi¬ 
gated the matter, and obtained sufficient proof 
to establish the correctness of the statement. 
m. a. cooper. 
The Last Pound 
of a well-balanced ration 
is what yields the profit. 
It takes a given number 
of pounds of food mater¬ 
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economy. All food over 
and above that required 
amount is converted into 
profit. It takes so many 
ounces of butter fat to 
pay the running expenses 
of a dairy. Every ounce 
above that amount Is 
converted into profit. 
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you get from a given quantity of milk the 
more profit you make. You get all the profit 
when you get all the butter-fat. You get all the 
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