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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
5i<* 
MANCHESTER'S DAIRY AND FARM 
NOTES. 
Drudgery is what a good many men 
find in the work about the barn; this 
constant milking, feeding, watering cat¬ 
tle and cleaning stables. Yet to the man 
who wishes this may become pleasant, 
profitable work, and work in which a 
man can grow, and we all want to grow 
in every way. Suppose you begin to think 
about your animals a little differently, 
and study them to find their habits, pecu¬ 
liarities and possibilities. Weigh each 
cow’s milk morning and night, and keep a 
little record of it. It takes but very little 
time. Then if you are feeding a mixture 
of grain weigh an average basinful and 
note down from time to time the different 
amounts you are feeding the different 
cows. You will soon notice that some 
cows give you a much larger amount than 
others from the same food. This will 
open your eyes to study the individual 
cow, and the different types of cows. 
You will note cows of certain form seem 
to make milk cheaper than others. There 
are some who put the food upon their 
backs instead of into the pail. Then there 
are the cows that are always hungry, eat¬ 
ing up every scrap in the manger, coarse 
or fine, the dainty cow, whose food must 
be just so, who perhaps at some time 
was overfed and now is not able to han¬ 
dle food well. You will notice the manure 
from the cows; how its character changes 
with certain foods, and all this study will 
create in you a different view of things. 
The work will lose its drudgery, and will 
become interesting, and it will pay. You 
will take better care of the cows, be more 
kind to them, more regular in all your 
work with them. See that they are prop¬ 
erly fed on palatable food, and in right 
quantity. iou will be learning how to 
judge cows by their outward appearance, 
and will find it a big help in buying cows 
to have sue., a knowledge. You will not 
be content witn “boarders” or low-grade 
cows, but your ideal of the “best” cow 
will gradually rise, and we will guarantee 
a change in your farming. 
We find that our repair bill at the 
blacksmiths for a year or two has been 
about $6 per month, and this does not in¬ 
clude horseshoeing. The work is well 
done and at a reasonable price, but the 
amount is larger than it seems as though 
it ought to be. We are careful of tools, 
wagons and machinery, but our location 
is against us. The land is rough and 
hilly, the roads are not asphalt or ma¬ 
cadam, and this accounts for many repair 
expenses. The fields we till are cleaner 
of stones than many of our neighbors’, but 
chains, plows and harrows break, and 
much machinery that is now upon the 
market is not adapted to our land. 
“What do you feed your cows to fatten 
them?” we asked a dairyman who handles 
some 80 or 90 cows. “Just the same food 
we do for milk. If they are good feeders 
they will either turn that food into milk 
or beef, and if they get fat we don’t want 
them, and they go for beef.” 
We believe this is correct, if one is 
feeding a fairly well-balanced ration, but 
if you are feeding a wide ration, that is, 
one with too much carbohydrates, they 
may put on fat that they might turn to 
milk were there more protein in the ra¬ 
tion. We also believe we can fatten a 
cow cheaper on cornmeal or hominy, with 
some protein feed added, than with a 
well-balanced milk ration. A good many 
farmers, when asked what their money 
crop is, will hem and haw, and finally 
say that they raise a little of this and a 
little of that, but not much of anything. 
We believe every farmer ought to have 
at least one special money crop; some¬ 
thing that he can raise or produce, or put 
in better shape than his neighbors. Then 
he will get a reputation for this, and a 
market will come much easier. Let hint 
have as many side issues as he can han¬ 
dle, but at least one special money crop, 
and know more about this crop than any 
one else for 20 miles around. 
When you put up your ice in the Win¬ 
ter, did you cover it at once with sawdust, 
or did you wait one or two months, as we 
have seen several this Spring? When 
you filled the ice house in the Winter you 
packed it carefully and filled the cracks 
with snow, but there were lots of warm 
days came on, and the snow melted enough 
to ler air begin to circulate among the 
cakes, and they melted and froze enough 
to be in a solid mass, so that when you 
want to take out ice they do not separate 
well. The cakes all break up, and are 
mean to handle. If you had covered the 
ice at once the snow would have remained 
in the chinks, and each cake would sep¬ 
arate almost as easily and nicely as a pile 
of brick. Your cakes would be of the 
original size and keep much better. 
“lie will buy anything if you will only 
give him time,” and it seems to be about 
so. It is much easier to sell to some men 
if you do not want the cash. They know 
that the day of reckoning is coming, and 
notes will fall due, but they always expect 
to have more money on hand then, but 
they have no reason for their expecta¬ 
tions. Most of the things he buys he 
hasn’t a real need for, but they were of¬ 
fered cheap, and so he bought them. We 
counted Hi different wheel vehicles with¬ 
out any sheds over them as we passed 
his place the other day. 
H. G. MANCHESTER. 
EXPERIENCE WITH SHEEP. 
It was my former custom to have lambs 
dropped in February and March. I had 
a market for them nearby, usually at six 
cents live weight for the lot without 
shrinkage. The butchers began using 
them about June 1, when I could supply 
all they wanted, weighing on an average 
about 85 pounds. They usually took from 
two to five per week till November, when 
if I had any left I usually sold for the 
New York market. I began with native 
ewes, always using a purebred Hamp¬ 
shire ram, and saving a few of the best 
ewe lambs every year, on which I was 
careful to use a ram not related. I fed 
the lambs grain before turning to pasture, 
building a creep for them; gave them 
whole oats, bran, cracked corn, linseed- 
meal and cotton-seed meal. I consider 
the business profitable, but I think I can 
see where many people would fail to 
make it profitable from lack of knowledge 
and attention to details, and unless a man 
is especially well adapted to the business 
T should advise having lambs come from 
April 20 to May 20, as nearly as possi¬ 
ble ; have a good patch of early-sown rape 
to turn them cn as early as possible. I 
am speaking now for this northern cold 
climate. Too much cannot be said con¬ 
cerning the value of rape as feed for 
sheep and lambs. I found it extremely 
profitable. I have never had any experi¬ 
ence with other breeds of sheep than 
the Hampshire; they are good enough for 
me in every way. I have said nothing 
about the raising of purebred sheep; that 
is quite another matter, so far as market¬ 
ing is concerned, but the care and feeding 
are practically the same. I might add 
that I had a very warm basement for my 
sheep, with lots of light, pure running 
water and plenty of good corn silage. I 
looked after them myself, and it means 
but very little sleep, especially in lambing 
time. It isn’t a business calculated for 
the man looking for a soft snap. 
Altamont, N. Y. h. l. c. 
The Outi.ook for Draft Horses. —Good 
draft horses are scarce and very high. The 
outlook Is good prices on top of scarcity for 
10 years, both for eoachers and draft horses. 
As soon as can be had cheap enough all Eu¬ 
rope wants them badly, but it will be years 
before they can be cheap. Demand is very 
good; prices the same. Our farmers are get¬ 
ting from $150 to $250 each for good draft 
horses four years old and over, 1,500 to 1.800 
pounds. Buyers are all the time looking for 
good horses larger. The average life of a 
large horse In the city is three to five years. 
A very small proportion of the horses sent to 
the cities are purebred. Nearly all are 
grades. The cities are now getting many 
high-grade draft horses. We have nearly as 
much size from our liigh-grades as the full 
bloods from bin rope possess. In five genera¬ 
tions the full blood sires have for use and 
practical purposes, with America's good feed, 
almost accomplished a full blood draft horse 1 
This I mean is for work purposes, but not foil 
breeding as sires. a. b. holbert. " 
Greeley, Iowa. 
Feeding Chicks.—I notice so many people 
are having a great deal of trouble with their 
small chickens. I have been feeding cracked 
corn and coarse cornmeal, slightly moistened 
with water, with an occasional feeding of 
stale bread slightly moistened, and I have not 
lost any chickens with disease, and have had 
no gapes in my flock this year. This was the 
old-fashioned feed used in our grandmothers' 
days, and it seems to hold good yet. I have 
no experience with incubator chickens, so 
cannot speak in regard to them. e. jr. 
Highland, N. Y. 
FLIES, 
LICE, 
STOCK 
FOOD, 
POULTRY 
CONDITION 
POWDER, 
PHOSPHATES. 
Why pay express, mfg’s, 
and middlemen's BIG 
PKOFITS, etc., for in¬ 
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to pay advertising.prtntlng, 
raallexpenses.etc,, forfour 
valuable receipts for your 
personal use only, for mak¬ 
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gallon, the best and most 
lasting FLY KILLER 
and UKIVEK In the 
world. Milk In peace. 
Everybody delighted. Kills 
cattle and hen lice. Ticks, 
at shearing or in wool and 
all kinds of insects. Easily 
made on scientific princi¬ 
ples. Sprayed or daubed in 
nests or on roosts will kill 
all lice on hens or chicks. 
Cures mange, sores, etc. 
Improves hide and hair. 
A powerful disinfectant. Kills all disease germs. 
Keep pigs healthy by spraying pens. etc. Best STOCK 
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others for all kinds of stock. POULTRY CON¬ 
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fast, lay early and in winter. Special or general 
purpose PHOSPHATES from $3to$15a ton. Easily 
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Positively no deception in the above adv. 
NEWENGilAND CHEMICAL GO..Andover,Mass 
Shoo-Fly 
j-.r-.v the 
ANIMAL’S 
&:• FRIEND 
No. 1 
Beginning of 
Fly time these 
cows we re 
equal in every 
respect. No. 1 was sprayed 
and she continued to give 20 qts. milk daily 
through Fly season ; No. 2 lost so much milk 
i and flesh were obliged to use “Shoo-Fly” 
to keep her alive, half cent’s worth of which 
wouldhavo made No. 2 as profitable os No. 1. 
Rhoo-Fly is the original stock protector used by same dairymen 
since 1885 after testing imitations, because it protects cows much 
longer in pasture. It prevents contagious abortion and other dis¬ 
eases, cures all sores, scratches, skin diseases, hoof ailments, etc. 
NiO MCE in poultry houseorany placeit is sprayed. Beware of 
imitations that lastonlv afew hours and mukesores. Ifyourdealer 
does not keep Shoo-Fly (made in Philadelphia, Pa.,) send $1.00 
for latest Improved Three Tube Sprayer and enough Shoo-l* ly 
to protect 200 cows. Cash returned if cows are not protected. 
SHOO-FLY MF'G. CO. 1005 Fairmount Ave. Phila.,Pa. 
MfHICVI Cows will give 15 to 20 per 
IV UNcY 1 cent more milk if protected 
1 1 * from the torture of flies with 
CHILD'S SO-BOS-SO KILFLY. 
Kills flies and all insects; protects horses as well 
as cows. Perfectly harmless to man and beast 
Rapidly applied with Child's Electric Sprayer. 
30 to 50 cows sprayed in a few minutes. A true 
antiseptic; keeps stables, chicken houses, pig 
pens in a perfectly sanitary condition. 
Ask dealer for Child’s 80-BOS-SO or send $1 special 
price) for 1-gal can aud Sprayer complete by express. 
CHAS. H. CHILDS & CO., Sole Manufacturers, 
24 LaFayette Street, Utica, N. Y. 
CREAM SEPAR ATORS 
If you have not got one yet, why delay 
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It would likely save its cost before the 
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twenty years to come. 
Don’t delay making so wise and profit¬ 
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