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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 6 
THE LARGEST AND SMALLEST COW 
Can any of your readers tell me where I 
can purchase the largest cow, also the 
smallest one? There used to be a breed 
of cows in Venango County, Pa., called the 
Creepers. I have seen them and they have 
very short legs. I presume they are the 
smallest cows in existence. Can anyone 
tell me where I can purchase one? 
New York. e. d. h. 
The smallest cow would be a Jersey 
naturally. There might be a runt of 
some other breed, and there might be 
a runt of the Jersey breed. The largest 
would be of the beef breeds, I think 
perhaps Short-horn or Hereford might 
be heavier, and there are monstrosities 
of either breed, the jersey bulletin. 
There are freaks—extraordinarily 
large and small cattle of every breed. 
There have been some very large Hol¬ 
stein cows exhibited in side-show tents 
at fairs, also large Texans. The Irish 
Kerry cattle are very small, as are also 
a small strain raised in the Shetlands. 
Highland cows are not large. In all 
probability your friend wants what are 
known as sports, and, of course, he 
would be more apt to find cattle of this 
description at some of ihe large live¬ 
stock centers than elsewhere. 
THE breeder’s GAZETTE. 
I have seen a few monster Holstein 
cattle in former years, but I do not 
know of any of these monstrosities at 
the present time. The largest Holstein 
I ever saw was in Holland, and was fully 
as tall as a good-sized horse. The di¬ 
minutive cow should be found among 
the Kerry cattle, some of which have 
been imported into the United States. 
In any case if E. D. H. will secure the 
tallest possible Holstein and then by 
feeding make it fat, and the smallest 
possible Kerry cow, he should have to 
all intents and purposes what he wants. 
I. P. ROBERTS. 
I think you will find the smallest 
among the Kerrys of Ireland. I saw 
some very attractive yet exceedingly 
small cows among that breed last year. 
As for the largest cows, I think you 
would be likely to find them among the 
old English type of Short-horn. We 
rarely see any representatives of that 
strain of the breed in this country, but 
a few of them have lately been brought 
over by some of the Canadian import¬ 
ers. They can be found in abundance 
in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, 
England. c. f. ourtiss. 
Iowa Agl. College. 
Some Illinois Dairy Frcbitms. 
I am much interested in the discus¬ 
sions of the various dairy topics The R. 
N.-Y. has contained of late, and hope to 
see some system adopted for marketing 
farm products that will shut out fraud 
on the part of both seller and buyer. It 
appears to me that prices of milk, but¬ 
ter, and in fact, all produce are too much 
in the hands of middlemen. They can 
combine to pay producer what they like, 
and charge consumers exorbitant rates. 
We have sold extra creamery butter as 
low as 15 cents per pound in Summer, 
and how can farmers be expected to 
milk cows on that basis? It should 
never be below 20 cents in Summer and 
30 cents in Winter. We get one-fourth- 
cent less than the going Elgin quota¬ 
tions for extras, net, for our butter from 
a Chicago firm; but at the present price 
of butter cows only just pay for the feed 
if one had to buy it. Our cows about 
here are mostly beef types, and I sup¬ 
pose a select lot of Jerseys would do 
better. But if everyone kept Jerseys, 
butter and milk would become more of 
a drug on the market than they are now. 
Some must raise beef. 
We have natural Blue-grass pastures, 
hills and valleys, good water, but nearly 
always a spell of heat and drought in 
Summer and Fall. At such a time a cool 
basement barn to keep the cows from 
the heat and flies I think would be a 
nice thing. But many of us are renters 
and others are in debt as much as they 
can stand without the added expense of 
building. We are eight miles from a 
ranroad and 130 miles from Chicago, so 
we haven’t much local market. Corn, 
grass, oats, hogs and cattle are the 
staple products, and what milk can be 
taken from the calves without injuring 
their future prospects goes to the cream¬ 
eries. As most of the cows come in 
about March to June we get the bulk of 
the milk in Summer, when butter is low, 
so when a cow brings in $20 during the 
year for milk it is probably a fair aver¬ 
age performance. If we weighed and 
tested each cow’s milk we would have 
to hire extra help, and help is scarce 
and high, especially girls for farmhouse 
and dairy work. w. s, s. 
Jo Daviess Co., Ill. 
The Health Officer and ihe Dairyman 
H. O.—I see you have a bad case of 
lumpy-jaw, Mr. Dairyman, and I must 
ask you not to sell the milk of that cow. 
D.—Oh, she is not very bad off, and 
she gives a fine lot of milk. 
H. O.—Nevertheless, her milk is not 
safe to use, and I must insist that you 
take this cow out of your herd. In 
mercy to the poor brute you ought to 
kill her at once, as she will eventually 
die of the disease. 
D.—I have two cows that will be fresh 
in a couple of weeks; can’t I milk her 
till they come in, as I will not have 
enough milk to supply my customers if 
I take her out of the herd now? 
H. 0.—You use milk in your family, 
do you not? 
D.—Yes. 
H. O.—Well, you may use this cow's 
milk in your own family, but you must 
not sell it. 
D.—Oh, heavens! I can’t do that! 
Dwarf Essex Rape. —Beyond all 
doubt this is the greatest forage plant 
for the sheep and shepherd known. 
Prepare ground as for any other crop, 
commence sowing April 15, and con¬ 
tinue up to August 15; four or five 
pounds sown broadcast covered with a 
light spike-tooth harrow in corn, last 
cultivation. Be sure there is enough 
moisture for the seed to germinate and 
come up. Then it will stand more 
drought than any other plant, and stand 
as much freezing as cabbage. I advise 
April, May and June sowing; get the 
plant growing before drought sets in, 
and then you have pasture when most 
needed, and by pasturing not too short, 
will last all Summer. When first turn¬ 
ing sheep on for pasture be careful to 
let them remain but 20 to 30 minutes at 
first until accustomed to the feed. It is 
so good that they eat too much, and 
bloat. Clover hay should be used, and 
better a sod field in connection to run 
on. In a short time they get accus¬ 
tomed, and all goes right. c. h. h. 
White Pigeon, Mich. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you will get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See our gruarante* 
It is very amusing to see how our “would-be competitors” now prate about 
TESTS AND TESTIMONIALS 
In the past they have been very fast to advocate tests, but they have been beaten 
so many times by 
The Improved United States Separator 
they are now trj'ing to cast slurs on all tests and discredit all testimonials. 
When they were competing with inferior separators and they could sometimes 
beat, then 
TESTS AND TESTIMONIALS 
were in great favor with them and they were advising everybody to “put it right in 
the contract,” but now that they are competing with a better separator they wish 
the public to believe that 
Tests are Fake and Testimonials are Bought 
claiming they are manufactured out of whole cloth and that it is impossible to locate 
the places or the persons. In this connection we call attention to the following state¬ 
ment and ask if they have any trouble in locating it. 
Three U. S. Separators to one of all other makes 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., October 23, 1900. 
Fourteen years ago this month we started our creamery on the co-operative plan 
recommended by your agent, fitting the building with machinery from your Company, 
and using the Cooley Creamers for the patrons. We have run on this same plan for 
all these years until a year ago last month we put in separators. Our patrons are 
using more than three to one of the tl. S. Separators over all other 
makes and we believe the U. S. Separator to be the best on the market. 
We arc still working the cream gathering plan and believe it to be the best for the 
rural districts, where unavoidably some of the patrons are a longdistance from the 
creamery. We are satisfied with it because we believe it to be the best and the 
cheapest. No farmer can afford to hitch up and carry his own milk, even if he live 
within a half mile of the creamery, if he can get it done, as we have this year, at the 
average cost to each patron per day of 8J5 cents. 
H. R. HOYT, President LaGrange Creamery. 
As the m.ain works of the DeLaval Separator Co. are located at Poughkeepsie, 
they are painfully aware that the LaGrange Creamery is right under their sh.adow and 
that there are so many more United States Separators than DeLavals used right 
around them. They tried hard to keep the U. S. out, having as many as eight men 
canvassing there in their endeavors to do so, but Mr. Hoyt’s letter shows how vain 
were their efforts. 
Merit is sure to win, which is why the U. S. is so popular. 
Readers will remember that these “would-be competitors ” advertised that the 
separator business “is perforce productive of fraudulent claims and misrepresentations 
of facts.” The dairymen can judge from this frank admission of theirs what they 
have been compelled “perforce” to do to get their tests and testimonials. 
We have never been compelled to resort to dishonest methods or make dishonest 
claims or claim a Grand Prize at Paris, as our “ would-be competitors” did, when tlie 
official lists of awards showed none was awarded them. How is this for a Fake Claim? 
The Improved United Stales Separator 
has merits sufficient to win without such dishonorable methods. It is acknowledged 
to lie 
The Standard Separat or of the World 
For further information and illustrated circulars, write 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., Bellows Falls, Vt. 
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Do not be deceived Into getting 
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LAND DRAIN TILE 
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Sizes, 214, 3-lncli and 
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1025 Liberty Avenae, 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 
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corn, separating cream, 
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