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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 26 
Wlive stock! 
rn AND DAIRY. 
THE BUSINESS DAIRY COW. 
WHERE SIIE PtjTS HER FAT. 
At the last m°eting of the Wisconsin 
Dairymen’s Association, a paper on The 
Business Cow seems to have stirred up a 
good deal of discussion. Mr. H. C. Taylor 
read this paper, and gave the following 
description of his ideal business cow : 
A good dairy cow la always broad between the 
eyes, and it is a long way from her eye to the top 
of her head; that makes a long, clean-cut, 
chiseled face of it. If she has a large, strong 
jaw, you may calculate that it was made to eat 
a lot of food. Her neck must be of some length, 
and clean cut; she will have something of a long 
body; the joints on her backbone will be quite 
•wide apart. No>v, that short neck is something 
found on a pretty good cow; the best cow I ever 
knew had a rather short neck, but she was wide 
between the ribs, and there is where you can tell 
it, because that shows she is wide between the 
joints, and that is desirable. You will find the 
pelvic arch, the point over the hips, wide and 
high; the organs of maternity are there. You will 
find that over the shoulders she is very thin and 
square, with a deep body, low down. 
The bony structure of the cow is seen in the 
leg, the horn, and the tail, more particularly. 
She should be a fine, well-made form, joints 
smooth and clean as those on a Thoroughbred 
trotting horse. The ear is an indication of the 
physical characteristics of the animal. It should 
be thin and delicate; it is plainly noticeable that 
an animal with an ear of that kind has anything 
but a flesh tendency. You know the dairy ten¬ 
dency is just simply the disposition always to 
perform as a cow and act like a cow and produce 
as a cow. The udder is large and full in front, 
and almost always is behind, and it should run 
well up behind. 
The thighs of the cow should be incurved from 
the rear, and wide apart, the flank well up, 
giving a large place for the udder. The udder 
should not be too deep. I w’ould rather have it 
up against the body, than to hang down away 
from it, for the business of a lively strong work¬ 
ing udder as an organ. You will notice the dif¬ 
ference in the structure of the beef cow- where, 
the udder is put on; indeed, there is no place 
there for an udder—it runs straight back.” 
When be finished, the question came 
up as to whether there is any differ¬ 
ence between a dairy cow and a beef 
cow, in the way the fat is deposited in 
the body. Ex-Gov. Hoard said that the 
dairy cow deposits fat almost entirely 
on the internal organs. Therefore, the 
caul fat or that on the intestines of the 
fattened dairy cow, will be thicker and 
heavier than that on the beef cow. The 
beef cow deposits fat on the outer tis¬ 
sues, and she is, therefore, better guarded 
against the cold. He said that he had 
seen steers go out and lie right down in 
the snow, in absolute comfort. 
Prof. W. A. Henry corroborated that 
statement. He said steers of various 
breeds, both dairy breeds and beef 
breeds, had been fattened, and it was 
found that this difference in the deposit 
of fat is not only true of females, but of 
the males. The steers of the dairy breed 
put their fat about the kidney, largely 
internally. The steers of the beef breed 
put it on through the muscular fibers, 
with less of it about the internal organs. 
This, he thought, was a partial explana¬ 
tion of why the dairy cow shrinks from 
the cold, and why the fat beef steer or 
cow delights in the cold, because it is 
covered with an exterior layer of fat. 
Other speakers corroborated these 
statements, and it seemed to be demon¬ 
strated that the dairy cow and the beef 
cow will make a widely different use of 
the surplus fat that is given them. The 
first effort of the dairy cow is to put the 
fat into her milk. The tendency of the 
beef cow, on the other hand, is to put 
that fat on her ribs. This tendency runs 
through both sexes, as steers from the 
dairy breeds show their mothers’ ten¬ 
dency to accumulate tallow, in the place 
where it is of least value; while these 
tendencies are largely bred into the ani¬ 
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mal, they may be fed into it as well. 
Start a Jersey calf on food that prompts 
it to become fat and lazy, and to a cer¬ 
tain extent, you destroy the tendency to 
put fat into the milk, or to accumulate 
it inside. The calf should be trained 
from its infancy to build fiber outside 
and fat inside, but probably many calves 
of good pedigree are so spoiled in their 
early feeding that they are not only poor 
buttermakers, but poor beefers as well. 
FUTURE OF AMERICAN SHEEP. 
IT IS A PROMISING ONE. 
The present outlook for the sheep 
owners of America is very promising. I 
do not mean by that statement that we 
are to have a repetition of the phenom¬ 
enal prices of wool that prevailed several 
years ago, but rather that the sheep in¬ 
dustry of America has gradually de¬ 
veloped into a permanent, substantial 
business. The present prospect is for 
rather better prices for wool in the next 
few years than for those just passed. 
There is, however, another side to 
profitable sheep husbandry that is more 
important to-day than that of fleece. It 
has been comparatively few years since 
the demand for mutton, in this country, 
was sufficient to establish a sheep market 
at the Union Stockyards in Chicago. 
The development of the taste for mutton 
since that time has been marvelous, 
especially during the last few years. 
During the rush, from 1893 to 1896, to 
get out of the business, not only did the 
market receive all of the enormous yearly 
increase, but the original flocks were dis¬ 
posed of to the extent of 20 per cent of 
their total numbers, within three years. 
Notwithstanding this enormous and un¬ 
precedented supply thrown upon the 
market, the demand kept pace with it to 
such an extent that the price of mutton 
held its own better than that of any 
other meat. What more convincing proof 
do we need of a good market for our 
mutton in the future ? The conditions 
and teachings have been such as to place 
a better quality of mutton upon the 
market, which in turn is stimulating the 
taste for the article. 
The time is more opportune now than 
ever before for the maintenance of a 
few sheep on every farm, to save the 
owner many hours of hard labor in 
eradicating noxious weeds, to maintain 
the fertility of the land, to furnish his 
table with a toothsome, wholesome and 
substantial article of food, and last, but 
not least, to furnish a never-failing 
source of income to exchange for other 
necessaries and comforts of life, and in 
case of necessity, to lift the mortgage 
from the home. That people are awaken¬ 
ing to these facts, is evidenced by the 
large number of small flocks now spring¬ 
ing into existence all over this country. 
If you have settled in your mind that 
you want a flock of sheep, do not refrain 
because you cannot, for some reason, 
purchase purebreds. If you cannot buy 
the best, buy the best you can. Remem¬ 
ber that good care, feeding and selec¬ 
tion will work wonders ; that a long 
pedigree is not to take the place of in¬ 
dividuality ; that lack of care and feed 
may, in a very few generations, make a 
scrub from the very best ancestry the 
world affords; that with the ordinary 
native sheep, you have much more to 
work upon than had the founders of our 
noble English breeds 50 years ago. You 
also have a much better opportunity for 
the improvement of such sheep than had 
they ; for while they were compelled to 
use the same grade of material for both 
branches of the ancestral tree, you with 
your average native on the one hand 
may use their most modern product for 
the other. Select ewes, of whatever 
breed or cross they may be, with an eye 
to as much uniformity as possible. They 
should be neither too fine nor too coarse, 
either in body or fleece. Have a care 
that the fleece is of good length, of even 
grade and not too loose and open. Do 
not allow petty whims in regard to color 
of face and legs (unless selecting pure¬ 
breds) to stand in the way of individual 
merit. In the selection of either males 
or females, do rot allow pedigree to take 
precedence of individuality. 
Iowa Agr’l College, j. J. kdgerton. 
A bad Cold, like a bad fire, bodes no trifling. It’s 
dangerous to life. Subdue it with Jayne’s Expec¬ 
torant. 
For constipation take Jayne's Rainless Sanative 
Pills.— Adv. 
LIVE-STOCK FEEDERS 
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325 purebred Guernseys of the best Americas 
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should see that a guaranteed analysis 
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It is the only safe way to avoid adulterated 
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Nitrogen. 7.00 “ 
Protein.43.00 “ 
Crude Fat and Oil.9.00 “ 
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Bora* Blanket* are made in all style*— to At ftay 
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