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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
December 24 
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THE “JACK OF ALL TRADES’’ COW. 
A “ DAIRY TYPE” MAN TALKS. 
As most of our readers doubtless know, there 
has been a good deal of discussion lately about 
the dual-purpose cow. The chief argument for 
this cow was made by Prof. Thomas Shaw, of 
Minnesota, who takes the ground that the best 
cow for the average farmer is an animal like a 
Short-horn grade that gives a fair yield of milk 
or butter, and after service at the pail, makes a 
good carcass of beef. The advocates of special 
dairy cattle take this as an attack upon their 
theory that the best cow for the dairyman is one 
specially bred along dairy lines. The following 
lively article well expresses the views of a good 
many Jersey breeders: 
Jack of All Tkadks. —It would seem 
to me that the people of the United 
States are running' to extremes too much. 
Jly this I mean that there are too many 
specialists and specialties. Why cannot 
every farmer be his own blacksmith, 
carpenter, mason, etc., just as well, also? 
You may say that it would take too 
much time for one man to learn all of 
these separate trades, but let him spend 
but a short time on each, and become a 
dual-purpose man, ora Jack of all trades. 
Then again, we spend too much money 
on tools and implements. Let us buy 
less wagons and tools. For instance, a 
mowing-machine may be rigged out with 
a platform, and used to cut our grain. 
Right here I would say, let us get the 
heaviest one we can find when buying, 
for, in a few years, when it is worn out, 
it will bring quite a lot more for old iron, 
and I assure you that it will run just as 
easily, and do just as good work, as any 
other. So give us a dual-purpose ma¬ 
chine. 
Then again, why buy a light buggy or 
dog cart ? A nice platform spring wagon 
will draw just as easily, and will carry 
ever so much more. Besides, when it is 
worn out, it will make more old iron and 
kindling wood. 
Special Live Stock. —The road horse 
is a great nuisance, and the trotter, also. 
It seems strange that men will be de¬ 
luded with the idea that a little horse 
weighing only 800 or 1,000 pounds, and 
with light, boneless legs, can trot faster 
than a great big nice Norman weighing 
1,600 or 1,800 pounds. Why, the Norman 
is a great deal stronger; of course he 
can trot faster, and the men who have 
spent a few hundred years developing 
race horses, have all been deluded idiots. 
The horses remind me of cows. Cranks 
all over the country are breeding special- 
purpose cows—cows to give milk and 
make butter. They think that they can 
“breed’’them in that direction. Just 
as though cows wouldn’t breed just as 
they want to, and be all alike ! 
The Two Brothers. —For instance : 
two brothers will start out, each with 
50 cows ; one goes West, and raises beef. 
He selects the bull from his biggest, fat¬ 
test, heaviest-hammed cow, and raises 
his calves from him. Then he selects 
the beefiest calves to raise for cows, fol¬ 
lows this plan all his life, and in turn, 
his sons do likewise. Wise, thoughtful 
men ! 
The other brother—the foolish one— 
stays in the East where milk and butter 
bring good prices, where villages are 
numerous, and business men and me¬ 
chanics are many. This young man is 
deluded with the idea that some one of 
his cows will make more butter than an¬ 
other, and as butter is what he is after, 
he raises a bull from this cow to head 
his herd. He also saves the heifer calves 
from his best butter cows (he thinks 
some are better than others), and keeps 
on in this foolish way all his life. As 
his sons are foolish, also, they think their 
father was a wise man, and they do like¬ 
wise. 
After many generations, a wise son is 
born to one of these families, a mere 
freak or sport, we must admit. He sees 
that the cows his father raised are big 
in the paunch, thin in the ham, and ewe- 
necked, also, that they are thin and 
small, not nearly so large as those of 
his fourteenth cousin who has been rais¬ 
ing beef all his life. This young man 
sees the mistake that his forefathers 
have been making. He also has a revela¬ 
tion that he is the one to bring about 
the change for the better. So he goes 
to work with a will, and gets an educa¬ 
tion, even until he becomes an agricul¬ 
tural college professor. When he has 
done this, he is ready to fulfill his des¬ 
tiny. He astonishes the dairy world 
with the fact that they are all fools, and 
were born of fools, even for many gen¬ 
erations. They have followed a will-o- 
the-wisp, and have let their cows get 
small and thin so that, after they have 
made $800 or $1,000 worth of butter, 
they will bring only $15 or $20 for beef, 
when they might have brought $25 or $30. 
But now the fact is known. The papers 
are publishing the testimony of hundreds 
of men (who have beef bull calves to sell) 
that a beef cow will make just as much 
butter as a dairy cow. In fact, the 
buttermaking qualities are spontaneous. 
These cows that have been bred for beef 
have kept right along gaining in butter¬ 
making qualities just as fast as their 
sisters th^t have been bred with that 
idea. The fact is now become known that 
we can breed beef on to cows, but we 
can’t breed butter out of them. So let 
us all hasten to get a Short-horn bull to 
use on our little Ayrshire, Guernsey and 
Jersey cows. No matter if the big calves 
do kill the cows ; we will have a nice big 
beefy calf, and the old cow would have 
brought a merely nominal price for 
“ canning ” any how. Hurrah for Shaw, 
and his dual-purpose cow ! 
j. grant morse. 
PORK MAKING IN CANADA. 
A reader in Ontario says that he wants 
to make the cheapest and best pork that 
can be made in Canada. This is his plan : 
1. A warm and clean house. 
2. A good breed of hogs. 
3. Winter feed to consist of ensilage, 
roots and ground grain. 
4. Always avoid over-feeding. 
5. For Summer, feed clover, ensilage, 
and ground grain. 
He wants to know whether it would 
pay to cut clover, and feed in the pens, 
rather than to pasture the pigs. Would 
it pay to cook roots, or to cut clover fine 
and steam it ? These questions have 
been submitted to some Canadian hog 
breeders, and the answers agree fairly 
well. 
H. George & Sons, of Crampton, say 
that a warm pen kept clean is necessary, 
as well as plenty of exercise in a small 
yard. Without a good breed of hogs, it 
is impossible to grow cheap pork. The 
ordinary pigs should have, at least one 
pure cross, either with Tamworth or 
Yorkshire sires. Such hogs suit the ex¬ 
port trade, as they give a long, lean 
bacon. For Winter feed, they like en¬ 
silage and roots and a grain mixture of 
barley, peas and oats, with an equal 
part of bran and shorts. Always avoid 
over-feeding, they say. Never give pigs 
more than they will clean up in an hour 
after feeding. Always have them hungry 
and ready for the next feed. They 
would, by all means, pasture the pigs 
rather than to cut clover and feed in the 
pen. Hogs will grow on clover alone, 
and by feeding ground grain also, the 
pigs will keep in good health, and be 
always ready for feed. Mr. George 
would prefer roots cooked, but does not 
like cooked grain. His hogs always do 
better on raw grain. 
In regard to houses, Mr. George says 
that a large number of stone and brick 
hogpens are being built in this country. 
Everyone knows the ex¬ 
pense and annoyance of lamp- 
chimneys breaking. 
Macbeth’s don’t break; and 
they make more light. 
Write Macbctb Pittsburgh Pa 
He says that they are a curse to any 
farmer, as they are too damp. For sows 
farrowing in the Winter, they would 
seem just the place, but the young p : gs 
get thumps, and dwindle and die. Put 
the same litters into double-boarded 
houses, with tarred paper between the 
boards, and they will prove far more 
ambitious, and soon drop their dull ap¬ 
pearance. Mr. George says that he would 
not take a stone or brick hogpen and 
keep pigs in it, if a man gave him one a 
mile long. _ 
When It comes to Croup or Whooping Cough, 
prompt, vigorous action is required, and Jayne’s 
Expectorant. 
The Family Pill—Jayne’s Sanative.—Ad®. 
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 Thk 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 7 , 
46 Cedar Street, New Y T ork City. 
Meat smoked in a few hours with 
KRAUSERS’ LIQUID EXTRACT OF SMOKE. 
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Cows barren 3 years 
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A hand mill for grinding grain, 
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Batches Chickens by Steam. Absolutely 
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GUERNSEYS. 
225 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, 
RHINECLIFF, N. Y. 
PI IV A DIM | — I have four fine 
DU I M DULL calves registered 
Jerseys, Ida’s Stoke Pogls or Exile breeding at 
fair prices. 
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GUERNSEYS 
'—8 cows; 1 heifer, now due; 4 
__ heifer calves, from 4 to 8 mos.j 
1 bull 5 weeks, and 1 bull 12 mos., and 1 bull 10 mos 
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Kambouillet Sheep: Poland-Chlna, Jersey Bed and 
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White Yorkshire 
Hogs. Fine Boars, 
Breeding 8ows and 
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Grass-Eating Hog. 
All stock Register¬ 
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50 
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