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T1IE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 21, 
THE GOOD DAIRY COW. 
Fig. 178, page 411, shows the type of 
a good dairy cow, spare in flesh, rather 
bony frame, good hips, ribs wide apart, 
so that two fingers may easily be put 
between them, thighs cut out, good barrel 
and good udder. Her feed goes to milk, 
and she is a very persistent milker, not 
wanting to go dry at all. She gives 20 
to 33 pounds daily of rich milk, and keeps 
right - at it if you only give her half a 
chance. She weighs not over 700 pounds, 
and gives her weight at least nine times 
over ever year. We need more of this 
type in our herd. Fig. 179 shows the back 
of a well-developed dairy cow. The hips 
are wide apart, the pelvis prominent, as 
is the backbone. Shoulders higher than 
in the rear of them. Note she is thin just 
back of the shoulders, so that you could 
easily lay your hand in the hollow. We 
like to see this sign, as it indicates her 
food goes to milk. As you stand behind 
this cow you notice her wedge shape, deep 
barrel, small neck and well-shaped head. 
H. c. M. 
THE CARE OF THE COW. 
I wish you would ask II. G. Manchester 
to tell us how to care for a cow, say two 
weeks before and after calving; how to feed, 
etc.; whether it is best to let the calf suck 
two or three times or not at all. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
This is our method of caring for cows 
at calving time. There may be better 
ones, but it works well in our .dairy of 
6 o cows, and we have, had but one case of 
milk fever in many years. If the cow is 
fleshy she gets nothing but hay, but if 
thin we give her two to four quarts of 
coarse bran daily. If she has not been 
dry long enough to suit us we give her 
until just at calving a little stronger grain, 
a mixture of bran, corn distillers’ grains, 
gluten feed and cotton-seed meal. We put 
her in a box stall two or three days be¬ 
fore we expect her in, that she may be 
wonted to it a little, and we note how 
pleased some of the older cows are to be 
in this stall. We use a purebred Jersey 
bull on our grade cows, and have no 
trouble with abnormal talves or those so 
large they injure the cows, as many do 
who use a Holstein or Short-horn bull 
on small cows. As soon as the calf is 
dropped we give the cow what luke-warm 
water she wants, and she will usually 
drink 20 quarts at this time, and perhaps 
will not care for more for 24 hours. 
They almost always clean well (when 
given water) within two hours. We give 
them what good hay they will eat and a 
little bran; no medicine of any kind, and 
everything goes on well. We let the calf 
suck for two days, and then instead of 
taking the calf from the cow we take 
the cow back to her stall, and she thinks 
the calf is always there, and does not 
mourn her loss as they will when the 
calf is taken from the cow in the box 
stall. Be especially gentle and kind to the 
cows at this period, and they will appre¬ 
ciate it. Give only bran for five days, 
and then a little of the grain ration; do 
not be in too much of a hurry to crowd 
them or you will throw them off their 
feed the first week and it will be a long 
time, if ever, before they get where they 
ought to be. Fet it be two weeks or even 
longer before they get full grain ration. 
We have actually seen a cow that was 
cruelly separated from her calf and driven 
to a new home shed tears. She never did 
as well as she,ought to have done, and it 
was a month before she acted rational. 
H. G. MANCHESTER. 
BREEDING LEGHORNS; WARMING 
HOUSES. 
Our experience with White Leghorns in 
the production of eggs for hatching is as 
follows: We use males two years old with 
pullets one year old, or cockerels one year 
old with hens two years, putting 25 
in a pen with one male, and the eggs are 
testing 90 per cent fertile this Spring, there 
being no difference in fertility between the 
old hens or pullets. We have had instances 
where one male in pen with 33 hens 
produced eggs 95 per cent fertile, while 
another pen of 16 gave 50 per cent fer¬ 
tile. We are unable to explain why this 
wide difference in fertility, as the stock was 
as healthy and vigorous in one case as the 
other. We feed our breeding stock a va¬ 
riety of whole grain, scattered in the straw 
of the pens, so they have to work for it; 
some green food, either beets, cabbage or 
apples and once a day a mash composed of 
one part cornmeal, one part bran or pea 
meal, one part ground oats, one part beef 
scraps and four parts cut clover. We can¬ 
not lay too much stress on the feeding of 
clover in the Winter to stimulate egg 
production. It is bulky, satisfies the appe¬ 
tite of the hen for green food, and lessens 
th© danger of getting them over fat when 
feeding a heavy grain ration. We have 
proven for ourselves, during the oast cold 
Winter, the value of artificial heat in lay¬ 
ing houses, and although much has been 
said against it, we are quite sure the 
poultrymen of the Northern States will 
think favorably of a plan which will en¬ 
able them to get eggs when the price is 
40 cents per dozen, and we attribute this 
price to the fact that most poultry houses 
are not warm or dry enough, no matter how 
well built, unless they have some artificial 
heat. 
We would recommend building houses of 
one thickness of matched lumber, covered 
with tarred roofing paper, and leaving them 
unlined. The interest on the cost of lining 
a poultry house will' buy fuel enough to 
keep the building warm. A fire need not 
be kept over half the time during the Win¬ 
ter months, for during a thaw no heat is 
necessary. We have all noticed how a sud¬ 
den cold snap for a few days in January. 
February or March will raise the price of 
eggs or rally a declining market. This is 
because no provision is made to hold the 
temperature on the inside of the henhouses 
from following the outside mercury. We 
have used $10 worth of fuel this past Winter 
to keep 500 hens warm. A temperature of 
about 40 is maintained and we have been 
getting about 50 eggs per day per 100 hens. 
Two of our neighboring poultrymen have 
been unable to get half this number of 
eggs, although their houses were lined, yet 
the inside temperature was far below freez¬ 
ing when outside it was near zero, which 
was about half the time last Winter. Every¬ 
one knows that hens should not have ice 
water to drink, and the water in a cold 
house is freezing a short time after it is 
given the hens, even if warmed at the time. 
Also, the cleaning of dropping boards is 
very inconvenient, if not impossible, when 
the manure is frozen. We cannot recom¬ 
mend curtained roosts, for the air is very 
impure if curtained closely enough to keep 
the poultry warm. A house warmed is al¬ 
ways dry, and can be ventilated better 
without freezing combs, and poultry well 
fed, hatched early, kept clean and in such 
a house not crowded will produce eggs in 
December, January and February, when 
eggs are worth lots of money. 
New York. zimmer bros. 
BLOOD MEAL.—I have been using blood 
meal and blood flour for over two years with 
such good results that 1 should not think of 
doing without it. We began using it as medi¬ 
cine to cure scours in the calves, and find it 
very efficacious. In most instances one dose 
cures. We give one teaspoonful in milk as 
a dose. Finding it good as a cure we tried 
it at a preventive, but find some difficulty in 
getting calves or other stock to eat it. All 
the calves we raise are Short-horns, and are 
given all the milk they will suck and all the 
feed they will eat from birth, so they are 
sometimes particular about what they eat. 
When they began to eat silage they usually 
like it so well that they will eat it with 
blood flour sprinkled over it, and the cows 
will also. We feed the cows a handful twice 
a day on their silage ; have done so all Win¬ 
ter, and never had the herd in thriftier, bet¬ 
ter condition. The ration is silage, gluten 
feed and blood flour. I doubt if blood flour 
can be fed successfully without silage or 
something the cattle eat greedily to make 
them take it. Gluten feed is our chief re¬ 
liance for protein, and our herd of purebred 
short-horns is showing a thrifty, vigorous 
calf each year for each cow in the herd. 
WM. HILL. 
“If you want to know how to raise 
Calves cheaply and successfully without 
Milk, write to J. W. Babwell, Wauke¬ 
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JERSEY CATTLE AT AUCTION 
PETER C. KELLOGG, Auctioneer, 
WILL SELL THE ENTIRE 
FORT HILL HERD 
of Registered Jersey Cattle. 
Rare of Quality and Highly Bred. 
THE PROPERTY OF 
MR. J E. DOANE, 
Wednesday, May 25, 1904, at 10 o’clock at FORT 
HILL FARM, Thompson, Conn. 
The catalogue contains one hundred head care¬ 
fully selected and purchased at high prices, in¬ 
cluding such famous cows as Sophie Hudson (19: 
12%),KofTee’s Winnie (16:3%), BrightSt, Jennaise 
2nd, Oonan 30th of Hood Farm, Brunette 4th of H. 
F. (15:00), Onwa (18:13%) Chroma 9th of H. F. 
(14:7) Oonan 14th of H. F. (14:3), Sophie IstofH. 
F. (17:2%) and many others. The bulls include 
Hood Farm Torono, and two sons of the great 
cow Sophie Hudson. The Herd is in Splendid 
health. All will be sold subject to tuberculin 
test. For Catalogues address: 
PETER C. KELLOGG, Auctioneer: 
107 John Street New York- 
L. E. ORTIZ, General Manager 
HIGHEST GLASS JERSEYS 
GOLDEN STREAMER 65000. 
Soi of Forfarshire out of Colder Stream 8th, 
born Feb. 22,1901,and considered the best Jersey bull 
that ever crossed the Atlantic as a two-year old. 
Specialty— Young Bulls and Heifers, all ages. 
Also Imp. CHESTER WHITES and BERKSHIRE 
PIGS. Standard-Bred BLACK MINORCA^ and 
WHITE WYANDOTTES. 
Correspondence solicited. 
GEDNEY FARM, White Plains, N. £• 
Shetland Stallion DICK 
12% hands high, and the ha ndsomest pony to be found 
any where, imported at great expense, will stand 
for a limited number of pony mares at Red Hook, 
Dutchess County, N. Y , at $10 per service, with re¬ 
turn privileges. For further information apply to 
J. S. ARMSTRONG, Red Hook, N. Y. 
nriTII Tfl I IOC onJHENSand CHICKS* 
UCA Ifl I U LIUC 64-page book FREE. 
D. J. LAMBERT, Box 307. Apponang, R.I. 
N O MORE BLIND HORSES.—For Speciflo Oph¬ 
thalmia, Moon Blindness, and other Sore Eyes. 
BARRY CO., Iowa City, Iowa, have a sure cure- 
THE STANDARD CATTLE COMPANY, 6 ",,^ 
two-year-old Steers and Heifers to sell from Its 
ranch In the Sand Hills Country of Nebraska. Address 
STANDARD CATTLE COMPANY, Ames, Nebraska. 
For Sale.—Scotch Collies, magnificently 
bred. A. j. BENEDICT, Bristol, Wls., R. F. D. No,2, 
Var’s Poultry, Pigeons, Parrots, Dogs, Cats, 
Ferrets, etc. Eggs a specialty. 60 p. Dook, 10c- 
Rates free. J. A. BERGEY, Box 8,Telford,Pa 
SQUABS PAY HSS 
Easier, need attention only part of 
time, bring big prices. Raised in one 
month. Money-makers for poultry- 
men, farmers,women. Send for FREE 
BOOKLET and learn this rich home 
industry. PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB 
CO., 4A Friend Street, Boston, Mass. 
WYCKOFF VAN DRESSER 
Single-comb White Leghorns, fresh hatching eggs; 
quickshlpments; 15for$l; 50for$8; 100 for $5. From 
pick of 300 selected hens. Northern grown, farm 
raised, unlimited range,disease unknown, no inbreed¬ 
ing. Circulars free. F. E. GORDON. Chazy, N. Y. 
C fifirrfnn Box Charleston 4 Corners, N.Y., will 
■ UUIUUII) spare a few Light Brahma Eggs,$1 for 15 
J" gj— Rhode Island Reds, Light Brahmas^ 
hLlVIW Barred Rocks. Hardy, prolific, 
pure stock, bred on separate farms for eggs to hatch 
at 6 cents each. Write to WALTER SHERMAN, 
25 Boulevard, Middletown, R. I. 
EGGS 
BY HUNDREDS AND SETTINGS, 
White and Brown Leghorns, Barred 
Rocks, White Wyandottes, R.I. Reds' 
Pekin Due k. Catalogue free. 
ARTHUR McCAIN & CO., Delaware, N. J. 
E Qfje at 85 p. e. Reduction.—Buff Orpingtons, 
uUO Wyandottes. W. & B. Rocks, Leghorns, Min- 
orcas, Pit Games,Guineas, Bantams, and all other 
breeds. Mt. Blanco Poultry Farm, Mt. Blanco, O 
Wyandotte, Plymouth Iiock and Pekin 
duck prize winning stock. Prizewinners 
at leading shows. Write for prices. 
MONRO BROS., Cranbuiy, N. J. 
A T BARGAIN PRICES—20 W. Wyan., 50 W 
Rocks, 14 W. Leg. Eggs, $1.50 for 26. Incubator 
eggs also: stamp. Mrs. J. P. Hellings, Dover, Del. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES, EXCLUSIVELY! 
Breeding stock and eggs for hatching. At right 
prices. _ E. FRANKLIN KEAN, Stanley, N. Y. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES 
iL, Oa 
per 100. 
C A. HALL, Oak Hill, N. Y. 
EGGS 
F—Fertility guaranteed. By the sit¬ 
ting or hundred. 23 varieties of 
prize-winning land and water 
fowls. Big catalog free. Our guarantee means some¬ 
thing. PINE TREE FARM, Box T, Jamesburg, N.J. 
™ HOLSTEIN CATTLE 
Good ones, and all ages. Fine Yearling Balls 
ready for service. 
RAMBOUILLET SHEEP. 
BERKSHIRE SWINE. 
Write PELLHURST FARMS, Mentor, Ohio. 
HOLSTEIN - FRIESIANS. 
Choice young stock of the best breeding for sale. 
Prices reasonable. Every animal registered. 
WOODCIIK8T FARM. Rifton, Ulster Co., N. Y. 
REGISTERED HOLSTEIN-FRTESIAN BULL 
Ready for service. $45. Improved Chester White Pigs; 
all ages. CHARLES K. RECORD, Peterboro, N. Y * 
HULSTtIN-rRIESIAN BULLS 
„ FOR SALE CHEAP. 
Several very large, handsome, perfectly marked, 
registered Holstein-Frlesian bulls for sale at far 
mer’s prices. From a year to 18 months old. Selected 
from bestdamsin herd of over forty head. Allsired 
by Dora DeKol's Count. No. 23,757, or CoronaSpofford 
Pietertje, No. 30,160. Kxtended pedigree furnished. 
Inqdtv® J*- B. MCLENNAN, Syracuse, N. Y., or 
Mclennan bros. stock farm, 
Dell McClueb, Manager. 
B. F. D„ Ischua, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. 
YOUNG JERSEY BULLS 
FOR SUMMER USE. 
Of these but four remain and to close them out 
before putting into pasture a special price will be 
made. Three are St. Lamberts, the other inbred to 
Eurotas It will repay any one in need to investigate 
this offer and to do it quickly before sale elsewhere. 
Ask for Special List B 19. A booklet relating to 
improving your herd may also be had for the asking. 
W1NTBBGREEN HILL FARM, Scottsville, N. Y. 
Jersey Bulls, Berkshire Boars 
Good Ones—Registered—Cheap. 
R. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty Street, Pittsburg. Pa. 
ANGUS & HOLSTEIN CATTLE 
Registered and grades, all ages and sexes, 
and of champion blood for the l»eef and milk 
strains and at moderate prices. Also Nursery 
stock of all descriptions. 
MYER dfc SOKT 
BricigevIJLle, Delaware. 
f 
Reg. P. Chinas, Berkshires and C. Whites. 
8 wks. to 6 mos.. mated not akin. 
Service Boars, Bred Sows. Write foi 
prices and description Return if not 
satisfactory: we refund the money. 
HAMILTON & CO., Erclldoun, Chester Co., Pa. 
Large English Berkshires of choicest breeding 
for sale, males and females. Write for prices, etc. to 
NUTWOOD FARMS, R. F. D.,No. 4, Syracuse, N Y. 
LARGE ENGLISH BERKSHIRES. 
25 fall boars fit for service. 10 sows bred to farrow 
within 30 days. 20 sows bred for August farrowing. 
Largest and best herd of pedigreed swine in the State. 
RICHARD H. STONE, Trumansburg, N. Y. 
SPRINGBANK BERKSHIRES 
10 Fall farrowed sows, 2 yearling Boars, and Boar 2 
years old next Sept; 6 Sows bred to farrow in May 
and June for sale at prices that no man in need of 
Berkshires can disregard. First-class individuals In 
all respects. J. E. WATSON, Marbledale, Ct. 
LARGE, IMPROVED YORKSHIRES 
The best hog; white, easy fattening, prolific. Both 
sexes for sale. E. E. STEVENS, R. D 2, No. Madison, 
Lake County, Ohio. 
LARGE YORKSHIRE 
SERVICE BOARS and 
Spring Pigs, from imported stock at right price*. 
W. H. FISHER, Spahr Building, Columbus, O. 
IMPROVED LARGE YORKSHIRES SC 
hog. Pigs Of all ages from imported stock for sale. 
MEADOW BROOK STOCK FARM, Rochester, Mich 
THE FAMOUS 
O. I. C. SWINE, 
SPRING PIGS, 
SERVICE BOARS 
Good ones bred from registered stock. Prices reason¬ 
able. S. T. WITMER, Union Deposit, Fa. 
PUEQUIQEQ Spring and Fall pigs. Sows bred 
UIILOII111LO Berkshire boar. Eight Barred Rock 
pullets for $8.00. SARA A. LITTLE, Clyde, N. Y. 
The Elwood Farm Herd 
of Chester White Swine have in it a few boar pigs 
yet for sale. Breeding Stock Registered. 
C. L. WALLS, Whitesboro, N. Y. 
IENS 
bred 18 years for EGGS. Barred Rocks 
up to 273 eggs a year. Catalog free. 
The New System of Hatching and rais- 
g chickens PAYS the best of all. Try it. 
rftpp Nelson's famous egg-prodncmK swains of Burred Rn<-1* 
LwUw and8.C. Brown Leghorns, 15$1,50 $3. Hatch K'laranteed. 
The J. F. Nelson Poultry Farm, Grove City, Penn." 
White Plymouth Rock Eggs 
50 cents per 13. J. M. 
Thorniley,Marietta,O 
Barred RoGks 
exclusively, Ringlet strain. Eggs 
from prize winners, 15 for $1.00; 
50 for $3.00. Satisfaction guaranteed. Circular free. 
J. W. COX, New Wilmington, Pa., Box H. 
S.C.White Leghorns 
Blanchard and Van Dreser strains. Eggs'for 
hatching, $3.50 per 100. Hilandale Farm, Brooklyn, 
Ohio. R. F. D. 2. 
LAKEWOOD FARM LAYERS^*,, 
B red for business.—single-comb white 
LEGHORNS. Eggs. $2 per 15; $4 per 50; $7 50 per 
100. Breeding birds lor sale which are bred for Eggs 
as well as Feathers. LAKEWOOD FARM COMPANY, 
P. O. Burrsvllle, Ocean County,N. J. 
1200 S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Eggs for hatching from ouregg-type strain. We have 
Bele cted 500 of our best stock for breeding. Send for 
circular. WHITE & RICE, Box A, Yorktown, N. V. 
WHITE LEGHORNS. Forestside, Oak Hill,N. Y 
EMPIRE STATE WHITE LEGHORN FARM^ 
Cockerels, $2; Pullets, $1; Eggs,$1 for 15; $5 per 100. 
Heavy Winter layers. Catalogue free. 
ZIMMER BROS., R. D. 41, Weedsport, N. Y. 
BUFF White Leghorns, Eggs 75c per 15, $1.25 per30,$2 
per 60. Cir. free. JOHN A. ROTH, Milford Square,Pa. 
