1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
THE DOGS OF " BUMTOWN.” 
It seems to me that one use for de¬ 
funct animals has been overlooked by 
The R. N.-Y. correspondents. We have, 
in Bumtown and vicinity, considerably 
over 200 dogs, the Bumtown Kennel Club 
alone being able to muster over 50 on 
big days. In a year’s time, principally 
in winter, more than a half hundred 
dead cattle and horses are collected and 
utilized as dog food. R. N.-Y. readers 
may be thoughtless enough to ask, Of 
what use are the dogs ? Ah, they don’t 
realize the great pleasure we get in the 
chase with these canines. We scour all 
the surrounding country for many scores 
of miles, after Reynard, not to destroy 
him—that would be cruel—but just to 
keep him in healthy exercise. True, the 
land owners growl and complain, and 
build strong fences of wood and wire, 
and post notices against trespassing ; 
but we soon break down the wooden 
fences, and with wire cutters for the 
special purpose, cut gaps through the 
iron ones, till we have a network of 
passages across country in all directions. 
A few pennies to some boy who does not 
attend school, but is in training for our 
vocation, causes the removal of all tres¬ 
pass notices. 
But we have little to fear from the 
law, for most of the lawyers and public 
officials are in sympathy with us, even 
the judges sometimes riding with us in 
the chase. Thus you see with these 
dogs and a little corn juice to keep our 
spirits up, we get a vast amount of 
pleasure and profit from what some of 
your correspondents would fain try to 
persuade your readers to convert into a 
few paltry eggs or cheap fertilizers. 
When the hunting season is through, 
we just turn the dogs adrift to shift for 
themselves, and they make a good living 
off of rabbits, ducks, turkeys and silly 
sheep that haven’t sense enough to 
climb a tree when they hear the dogs 
coming. Of course, the country people 
growl some, but they are chronic grum¬ 
blers any way, and we do not mind 
them. Our ancient village that used to 
be given over chiefly to trade, is now 
one of the grand centers of the sporting 
fraternity. The old tradespeople have 
either died or been sickened out, till we 
have things pretty much to ourselves. 
A. BUMTOWNER. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
The Clipped Horse.—W ith regard to 
clipping horses, I would say that the 
custom, no doubt, is on the increase. I 
would, by all means, clip a driving horse 
with a heavy coat. I would never clip a 
draught horse. I would clip before 
settled cold weather, and I do not think 
that a clipped horse is more likely to 
take cold if properly cared for. With 
reference to clipping horses, I am of 
opinion that it is a great advantage ; 
they work better after being clipped, 
are less liable to disease, and when sick, 
recover in a much shorter time. 
Now for the main point with a clipped 
horse: The man who cares for him must 
be kind, and love his dumb friend, and 
when stopping on the road, even for a 
short stop, see that his horse is well 
blanketed. When he reaches the stable, 
he must see that his horse is well cared 
for before he cares for himself ; then 
clipping is beneficial, d. w. s. lynch. 
Supt. Stables Adams Express Co. 
What 20 Albany Hens Did. — The 
Poultry Monthly contains the following 
note: 
for all the coal required to run three 
fires all winter. Not a cent from any 
other source was used. At the time this 
is being written, they are half naked 
from moulting, and are laying right 
along. 
“ How did he feed and care for them ? 
His two little boys have a small cart, 
and every morning, before the regular 
swill-carts get around, they start out 
and empty the buckets that are put out 
from the different houses, and play horse 
and have a good time, and come home 
with ‘ bread, meat, pie, cake and fruit’ 
for the hens. This is put in boxes with 
slatted fronts, and forms the larger por¬ 
tion of their feed. The room where they 
were kept has an alcove, in which are 
the roosts, and in front of this, on cold 
nights, a blanket is dropped, and water 
never freezes in there. The stovepipe 
from the stove in his shop passes through 
the large room where they spend their 
days. Could this man make any more 
money with purebreds ?” 
Would Pay to Raise Good Calves — 
I keep about 75 cows for milk, and do 
not raise any calves, but I have thought 
that I should do so, as it is hard to get 
good cows for my dairy. I want good 
cows, of 1,000 pounds weight, and giving 
8,000 pounds of milk per year that will 
average four per cent of butter fat. I 
think that such calves could be raised 
from my best cows and a good Guernsey 
bull. Such a calf could be raised here 
to 1,000 days old, for about $40, be 
ready to have her first calf, and would 
pay her way for the next year. A young 
cow such as described should, in our 
market, be worth $90. I would buy 
some at that price. s. d. u. 
Massachusetts. 
Buying or Breeding Cows. —In re¬ 
gard to the question discussed last week, 
I think that much depends upon the 
man and his surroundings ; some men 
are able to tell a good cow at sight in 
most cases. Such a man may safely 
buy his cows. More men can tell a 
good cow by milking her a year. Calves 
raised from such cows are likely to give 
good satisfaction as cows, with proper 
care as to the sire. The day has gone 
by when any profit can be expected ex¬ 
cept from the best of cows. 
The most successful dairymen in this 
section are raising their own cows. I 
know of a few dairies that average 
10,000 pounds per year per cow. Their 
owners have been raising for years from 
their best cows. I believe that it costs 
more to raise a good cow than to buy 
an average one. A young calf is, 
usually, worth $2 at three or four days 
old. Six quarts of milk a day for the 
first six weeks are none too much to 
give it a good start in life. With milk 
at 2% cents per quart, the expense at 
six weeks old is about $8, while a year¬ 
ling brings $12. 
It is a common practice to pasture out 
young stock on farms remote from mar¬ 
ket or unoccupied as dairy farms ; but, 
as a rule, they come home in the autumn 
in poor condition. The tendency is to 
overstock such pastures. The vital 
functions must be carried on from the 
moment of birth with unceasing regu¬ 
larity, and unless plenty of materialYf 
proper balance be constantly available, 
the best results cannot be expected. 
Orange County, N. Y. o. w. mares. 
Sometime ago my two nieces were taken with 
Whooping Cough. One was placed under care of our 
best doctor, but she oled. To the other, mother and 
I administered Jayne’s Expectorant. She got well, 
and to-day is robust. She was by far the worse of the 
two. 1 believe that had we given the same medicine 
to the other, she would have been living to-day.— 
(Mrs.) ALVIN B1XBY, Garden City, Minn.. Octo¬ 
ber 20.1895. 
Aid digestion with Jayne’s Painless Sanative Pills. 
— Adv. 
“On one of the most closely-built 
streets in Albany, and not far from the 
center of it, there is a full-sized lot, with 
a small house, leaving a large yard. The 
house is rented by a shoemaker. He 
keeps a few hens because he likes them 
and can make them pay. He has not a 
single purebred fowl on the place— 
nothing but first-rate dunghills. Last 
winter he kept 20. The money for eggs 
sold was put one side, to see what it 
would amount to. Those 20 hens paid 
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