1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
79 
COWS AND UDDERS.—Continued. 
dieted to this vice, and blows are often 
rained upon them in the vain attempt 
to “ break ” them of the habit. This 
can rarely be done, and the value of the 
cow to her owner is lessened with every 
stroke ; so it may better be abandoned, 
and if the animal is sufficiently valuable 
to warrant the very slight amount of 
time and trouble required for treating 
her as I have described, fix up a rope or 
strap with buckle or snap at the end and 
hold the right foot back, thus insuring 
against loss of milk, temper and milk 
stools, to say nothing of the cow’s feel¬ 
ings. But this cow’s udder was funnel- 
shaped, deep, narrow, and very much 
covered with dark red hair like the rest 
of her body ; yet she made from 10 to 12 
pounds of butter right along for months 
at a time. That was before the day of 
the Babcock test, but she was tested by 
the churn sufficiently to prove to us her 
value, and “ Old Shelton ” was kept until 
her 16th year, allowing her to have been 
no older at the time of purchase than 
the seller represented. So you see that 
here is another case which proves ex¬ 
ceptional, where a funnel-shaped udder 
was a profitable one to own. 
She never had a heifer calf in all the 
years during which she was bred, and 
this occurred regularly once a year, and 
by different males nearly every time. 
Fig. 18 surely illustrates an ideal udder, 
such as is often seen upon Jersey cows. 
Fig. 20 is good, too ; not overly large for 
a Holstein, yet showing heavy milk 
veins to feed it. We have seen many 
such as Fig. 21 in our own herd of young 
Jerseys, and are breeding from them 
right along. Your experienced dairy¬ 
man may be able to pick out good cows 
by looking them over and selecting ac¬ 
cording to type from a promiscuous lot, 
yet it is far safer to know something of 
their ancestry for the novice. Like may 
not beget like every time, but it is in¬ 
clined tO do SO. W. C. KOCKWOOD. 
Genesee County, Mich. 
THE LEAN-MEAT HOG. 
I have tried many different kinds of 
hogs to satisfy myself as regards the best 
breed, and have come to the conclusion 
that there is a great difference in hogs 
as regards the larger proportion of lean 
meat. The Duroc-Jerseys are par excel¬ 
lence, in that respect. As to feed, the 
hog is the best judge ; I think that 
Nature has endowed him with intelli¬ 
gence enough to know what he likes, 
and if given the privilege to roam in 
good clover—Crimson or Red—he will 
show the most skeptical that he knows 
what he likes. Then give him the or¬ 
chard, and he will eat apples until he 
is so full that he is uneasy, and will go 
and stretch himself out on the ground 
in the shade and lie there until he wants 
more. If fed wheat middlings with the 
clover and apples, it will make a great 
difference as regards the growth of lean 
meat. This is my experience for the 
last number of years. Then, when I 
wish to harden his lard the last few 
weeks, I scalded corn meal with the ap¬ 
ples and middlings, and always have my 
lard almost as hard as tallow. 
I have private customers who paid me 
seven cents a pound for my dressed pigs 
last fall, because they knew that they 
were getting just what they desired. In 
regard to the cost of feeding this fall: 
Clover, apples and milk, middlings at 
$11 a ton, and corn meal at $15, to make 
pigs at five months weigh from 150 to 
200 pounds, are very expensive at seven 
cents a pound for dressed pork. 
I have found that a boar pig that is to 
be kept for service, should never be pet¬ 
ted, for after he has served a few times, 
he will get ugly and vicious, show fight 
and be dangerous to handle. The one I 
have at present is 14 months old. I used 
to pet and handle him and talk to him, 
but now when I let him out to serve, he 
will come at me with all the force of his 
brute nature, and I have to keep him at 
bay with a pitchfork, and drive him 
back in his pen. Give the hog exercise 
to give him muscles and lean meat. 
Albany Co., N. Y. A. m. lAgbange. 
SOME HORSE NOTES. 
For 30 years, I have used and recom¬ 
mended to others for “scratches” a mix¬ 
ture of gunpowder and lard, about equal 
quantities of each, thoroughly rubbed 
together with a knife on a plate, mak¬ 
ing a smooth ointment and applying 
with the hand, rubbing well in. One 
application is usually enough. 
Several years ago, I drove and had the 
care of an excellent horse that became 
very lame from sweeny. I then knew 
nothing of the disease, but was advised 
to rowel the horse. This was done by 
passing a tarred rope yarn under the 
skin from one side to the other of the 
diseased part. This was left in two or 
three weeks, occasionally pulled back 
and forth, and a permanent cure fol¬ 
lowed. Of course, the horse rested while 
under treatment. 
When living far from druggist or 
veterinary, simple remedies are useful. 
After 20 years of constant handling and 
observation of horses, I can almost in¬ 
variably trace the cause of colic, and I 
find that it is more frequently the result 
of a sudden cold than anything else. 
Sometimes our horses come in from the 
city just at night with manure. Just as 
surely as they are not blanketed, while 
unloading, just so sure are they to take 
cold, and have more or less severe 
attacks of colic, if the air is at all cold 
or chilly. We now seldom have a case 
of this kind, but once in a while get 
careless or think by quick work to avoid 
bad results ; a case of colic follows. For 
the past 15 years, I have used as a 
remedy, one to two heaping tablespoon¬ 
fuls of black pepper or one or two table¬ 
spoonfuls of extract Jamaica ginger in a 
pint of warm milk. The result is always 
satisfactory. b t. w. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
They Fail to Agbee. —Having seen in 
The R. N.-Y. several items about the 
alternate heat theory and its effect on 
the sex, I will give my experience which, 
perhaps, may be of interest to some 
readers. It seemed to me to be the only 
theory which had any common sense in 
it, and for the past 13 years, I have acted 
upon it. As I keep only two cows, I 
have always had them served with a 
view to a heifer calf, and in all that 
time, I have never failed, after the first 
one, in getting a female, and I have 
raised at least one every year. w. c. B. 
Bridgewater, Vt. 
For the benefit of L. M., Hammonton, 
N. J., I will say that controlling sex by 
theory of alternating heats is a fake. I 
have tested it thoroughly for the past 
two years, and found that there is no 
truth in it. j. q. 
Smethport, Pa. 
A Jebsey Butteb Record. —I see in 
The R. N.-Y. of December 12, in Jersey 
Notes, a record of D. A. K.’s herd of 
Jerseys, and I can go him one better. I 
kept four Jersey cows, one eight, one 
nine, one four, and one two years old, 
from November 10, 1895, to November 
10, 1896 ; they made 1,409^ pounds of 
butter, that is, 352 pounds for each cow, 
almost a pound a day the year ’round. 
We used milk in the family of two, and 
sold one quart of milk every day after 
April 1, 1896. I see a number of articles 
about prize butter, but I think that I 
am safe in saying that I have taken 
more prizes on butter in the last 10 
years, than any other man in this 
county ; I like very much to read of all 
the methods of making it. j. si. p. 
Hornellsville, N. Y. 
A great many Coughs originate in the throat. Be¬ 
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Expectorant will often effect a cure. 
Easy to take and. effectual, Jayne's Painless Sana¬ 
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Cows barren 3 years 
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