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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
December 3 
[LIVE STOCKS 
P AND DAIRY . 
THE " DUAL-PURPOSE” COW. 
THEBE IS NO SUCH ANIMAL. 
Booming a Shadow. —There seems to 
be a spontaneous movement on the part 
of the breeders of beef cattle, to fill the 
agricultural papers of the country with 
their dual-purpose literature. It seems 
strange to me that the breeders of Short¬ 
horn cattle must take occasion,at periods, 
of bringing before the public the very 
best evidence that they can rake up that 
their cows are the elect of dairy and 
beef cattle. I do not believe that they 
have an idea of turning the heads of 
practical dairymen, but hope only to 
attract the ear of the fellow who thinks 
of taking up dairy work. Their high- 
sounding phrases read well and will 
prove an attraction to beginners. The 
idea of rearing a breed of cattle that 
will produce the finest beef on earth, 
and as much butter as most dairy breeds, 
looks like a mine of wealth before the 
vision of the unsuspecting novice, and 
he helps this loud-talking beef breeder to 
unload a surplus of stock at prices far 
above the markets, for him to go dairy¬ 
ing on. 
Fooling the Beginneks. —This new¬ 
fangled dairyman begins a new regime 
on his high-fed beefers. His intentions are 
honest, but he finds that the cattle have 
been taught to act differently from his 
purpose. If experience is worth repeat¬ 
ing, I have had it, and to my sorrow, too. 
I have had enough to know that the very 
interpretation of the phrase, dual-pur¬ 
pose, is deceptive, and has no business in 
a dairyman’s vocabulary. If we were 
after an all-purpose cow, we would not 
go to the Short-horns for her, as we 
could find her closer to the dairy type. 
Because an occasional Short-hom has 
kicked out of the traces, and made a 
fair butter record, it would seem that 
the breeders of them want the rest of 
mankind to think that all of them can 
be made to perform the same feat. 
Experience with Beef. —With the 
beef breed, we failed signally to get 
what we most wanted—butter. With 
liberal feeding for the purpose of pro¬ 
ducing milk, we found that our beef- 
type cow could handle the ration fed her 
contrary to our wishes, and instead of 
turning it into milk, put it on to her 
carcass, to be sold at 2 % cents per pound 
when dry. After a few years’ experi¬ 
ence along this line, we found that our 
large beefy cows were a menace to suc¬ 
cess in our aim to make money. In spite 
of all we could do, they consumed large 
quantities of feed, and of the nitrogenous 
kind, too, and made fat out of it almost 
as fast as they would out of carbohy¬ 
drates. In later years, we found that 
the Ohio Experiment Station fattened 
beef steers on gluten meal and bran as 
rapidly as on ground corn. Is not this 
sufficient to prove that the beef-type 
cow cannot change her habits any more 
than the leopard can change his spots ? 
To prove further the inconsistency of 
the case, after we cleared out our beef¬ 
ers at 2 to 2)4 cents, and obtained dairy- 
type cows, we did not dare to feed a 
contrary ration to them, but must bal¬ 
ance it out to a fair degree of correct¬ 
ness, or take the consequences. 
The Beef Argument. —One of your 
writers says that his Short-horn cow 
will give enough milk to raise her calf, 
and leave some for family use. I want 
to say that my dairy-type cow will give 
enough milk to raise two calves, furnish 
butter, cream and some milk for a good- 
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sized family, and sell some butter most 
of the year. If the beef cow's calf, if 
bred along beef lines, proves to be a 
heifer, it has been once more moved 
away from a dairy-cow basis, and con¬ 
sequently, is of less value than its dam 
in that direction ; hence its owner, to 
get his money out of it, must cram it 
with all it can eat, say to the age of two 
years, then sell it for 3% cents per pound. 
The heifer calf of the dairy-type cow, 
at the same age, will have cost hardly 
half so much as the other, and with a 
calf at her side, bred in the same direc¬ 
tion, will bring as much as the dry beef 
heifer. I confess that the male calves of 
the dairy kind, except those we sell for 
breeders, are not so valuable as those of 
the beef type ; yet we are able to make 
quite good veals from them with one-third 
whole and two-thirds skim-milk, with an 
addition of oil meal. But the proceeds 
from the dam have proved of such extra¬ 
ordinary dimensions over the beef cow, 
that when we summed up the proceeds 
of each, our dairy-bred cow left the beef 
cow far in the rear. I have known num¬ 
bers of cases where such a dam has made 
her owner $120 per year gross, besides 
her calf and the skim-milk produced, and 
since it takes double the feed to make a 
beef animal as it does a dairy cow, why 
not be honest and give the dairy cow 
credit for two calves for the year against 
the other’s one ? 
Stick to a Line. —The raising of beef 
is one kind of business, and the produc¬ 
ing of milk, cheese and butter another, 
and the science of one is diametrically 
opposed to the other. Our purpose is 
and always will be to breed as intensely 
as possible toward that profunctionary 
development which will produce the most 
and richest milk for the least possible 
cost to produce it, excluding every trace 
of a beefy tendency that crowds its pres¬ 
ence upon us, being careful to mate each 
individual cow with sires that have come 
from the most desirable of dams bred in 
the same direction. Frequently a dairy- 
type cow, when nearing parturition, will 
become fleshy, especially when running 
on good pasture, and sometimes dairymen 
will condemn such an individual ; but 
when such cows have been killed, the fat 
that they have acquired has proved to be 
only latent force laid by in such places 
and manner as to use it when needed to 
increase or maintain the flow of milk. A 
careful dairyman readily distinguishes 
the difference between a fat beefy cow 
and one that has thus stored such latent 
forces. geo. e. scott. 
Ohio. 
At the Kansas Agricultural College, experi¬ 
ments have been made with ether as a test for 
oleomargarine. Take a very smiill piece of but¬ 
ter and oleo, each about the size of a pinhead; 
place in separate spots on a clean piece of glass. 
Put a drop of ether on each. The butter will 
assume a wavy but somewhat regular outline, 
while the oleo will have a ragged outline, very 
much the appearance of a cog wheel with the 
cogs sharpened to a point. 
There’s no worse “ bargain ” than a drug bargain— 
especially in a cough mixture. It is frequently 
dangerous to life. Jayne’s Expectorant is a doctor’s 
prescription, and it cures. 
Safe and Sure. Jayne’s Painless Sanative Pills.— 
Adv. 
Horse Owners! Use 
GOMBAUIVT’S 
Caustic 
Balsam 
_ A Sift Speedj and Paiitiv* Can 
The lafeit, Beat BLISTER ever uted. Tikei 
the place of all liniment* for mild or severe action. 
Removes Bunches or Blemishes from Horse* 
and Cattle. SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTERY 
OR FIRINC* ImpotribU to produce tear or blemish. 
■very bottle sold is warranted to give satisfaction 
Price S1.50 per bottle. Sold by druggists, or 
■ent by express, charge* paid, with full directions 
for it* use. Send for descriptive circulars. 
THE LAWRENCE-WILLIAM8 CO.. Cieveland__0. 
Before Buying a New Harness 
Send 4c in gtampii to pay postage on 
116-page Illustrated Catalog of Oustom- 
* Made Oak Leather Harness,sold direct 
* to the consumer at Wholesale prices. 
MOO STYLES TO SELECT FROM 
■ We manufacture our own work and 
- can Bave you money. 
KING HARNESS CO., 82 Church St., Owego, N. Y. 
when fed with the things 
eggs are made of. Eggs 
are principally albumen, 
produced by the hens from 
the protein they absorb 
from their food. 
Bowker’s Animal Meal gives 
the hen more protein and other egg¬ 
making material than any other 
similar food. Always sold in yellow 
bags and yellow packages. 
For sale by dealers and by 
the manufa<5lurers. Large pack¬ 
age 25 <5ts. Pamphlet free. 
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tftlfc&W St-.BosW, 
LIVE-STOCK FEEDERS 
should see that a guaranteed analysis 
accompanies every bag of 
Cotton-Seed Meal. 
It is the only safe way to avoid adulterated 
Meal. Every bag shipped by the American Cotton 
Oil Company contains a red tag guaranteeing 
not less than the following analysis: 
Ammonia. 8.50 per cent. 
Nitrogen. 7.00 “ 
Protein.43.00 “ 
Crude Fat and Oil. 9.00 “ 
See that the name of Tub American Cotton-Oil 
Company is on the red tag attached to bag. 
Send your address for free information about 
cotton-seed meal. 
THE AMERICAN COTTON OIL COMPANY, 
46 Cedar Street, New York City. 
Sharpei your own Horse 
THE BLIZZABD 
the greatest of all 
HORSE ICE CALKS 
Agents Wanted. Address, 
S.W. KENT.Cazenovia.N.Y. 
MORE EGGS 
are laid by hens when kept free from 
vermin. LAMBERT'S DEATH TO 
LICE is the remedy. It costs but 10c. to 
try it. My 64-page Poultry Book FREE. 
1). J. LAMBERT, Box 307, Apponaug. R 1 
The Model Mill 
A hand mill for grinding grain, 
dry bones, shells, Ac., for feeding 
chickens, Ac. Three sizes, weight 
20, 34 and 62 lbs. The most rapid 
grinding, most durable anu 
cheapest mill made. If your 
dealer doesn’t keep it, address 
THE C. S. BELL CO., ’ 
Hillsboro, Ohio, U. 8. A. 
G et more eggs, how? 
Feed the hens on grcen cut bone. Ihey^ 
will lay doable the eggs 
right la the middle of the winter, j 
when eggs are worth most money. I 
DANDY C Gutters' 6 
with or without gear are the best 
machines for preparing bone for 
fowls. Cut luat, turn eaay. 
Catalogue and prices free. 
STRATTON A OSBORNE^ 
iiox 18, Erie, Pa. 
GUERNSEYS. 
226 purebred Guernseys of the best American 
and Island breeding. Butter average, whole 
herd, 318 pounds per head. No catalogue. Come 
and make your own selection. 
ELLERSLIE STOCK FARM, 
RHINE CLIFF, N. Y. 
nil |V * Dill | — 1 h »ve four fine 
U 1 r\ 19 U L* La calves registered 
Jerseys, Ida’s Stoke Pogls or Exile breeding at 
fair prices. 
R. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty St., Pittsburg, Pa. 
ir no rye st. lambert and 
T Combination, for sale 
5 Cows, 7 Heifers, 16 Bulls 
S. E, NIVIN, Landenberg, I’a. 
RIICDIICCYC- 8 cows ! 1 heifer, now due; 4 
UUIafillOC T w heifer calves, from 4 to 8 mos.; 
1 bull 5 weeks, and 1 bull 12 mos., and 1 bull 10 mos 
A. J. SNYDER, Plumsteadville, Pa. 
rnD CIl C~ 20 MCLAINE RAM8, a SCOTCH 
run dALC COLLIE PUPS. Correspondence 
solicited. M. C. MULKIN, Friendship, N. Y. 
BLOODED LIVE STOCK 
Sheep— Oxfords,Shropshires,South- 
downs. Fancy Poultry. Pigs— 
Berkshires, Poland-Chinas, Chester 
Whites, Yorkshires. Catalogue fret. 
H. L. HOLMES, Harrisburg, Pa. 
Reg. P. Chinas, Berkshires 
and Chester Whites. Choice 
large strains. 8 week Pigs not 
akin; Service Boars and Bred 
8 ows. Poultry. Write for hard 
times prices and free circular. 
Hamilton A Co., Cochranvllle. Chester Co., Pa, 
Large Improved 
White Yorkshire 
Hogs. Fine Boars, 
Breeding Sows and 
Pigs for Sale. Lead¬ 
ing Market and 
Grass-Eating llog. 
All stock Register¬ 
ed and Imported. 
A. Vrooman, B.153, 
Carthage, N. Y. 
PURE POLAND-CHINAS SrSS’ZtfZl 
quicker than others; low priced enough to be in reach 
of all. F. H. GATK8 & SONS, Chittenango. N. Y. 
IMPROVED CHESTER WHITES 
of the best breeding and all ages for sale at reason¬ 
able prices. Pamphlets and prices free. 
CHAS. K. RECORD, Peterboro, N. Y. 
Young Bronze Turkeys, 
from heavy set stock, pairs not akin. 
B P. Rocks. Chester Whites, either 
sex. Shropshire Sheep. Finestocka 
specialty. 8. Sprague, Levant, N. Y. 
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The Cyphers lncb. r Co. Box 101 Wayland, N.Y. 
50 Chicks from 50 Eggs 
Mrs. M. T. Duval, Old Church, Va. 
I hatched with Bantam 49, 50 and 48 
chicks each from 50 eggs, and never 
_(before »aw an incubator. You can 
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HOW MANY EGGS 
do you get! No matter, job will get twice as many if you feed the hen* Green Cut Bone. It 
double* the egg product In every Instance. It make* hen* lay In cold weather 
when eggs are worth tile most money. It makes early and long layers of tk* pullets. 
MANN’S NEW BONE GUTTERS 
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>eats the hen that wants to scratch or roost in the trough—prevents Waste. Mann’s 
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