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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 2 
Live Stock and Dairy 
THE BEST SHEEP FOR ORCHARDS. 
I have a small orchard of about an acre, 
and have been thinking of trying Mr. 
Woodward’s plan of putting sheep in to eat 
fallen fruit. What breed ought I to get? 
I want them to be quiet and peaceable, 
and, of course, expect them more than to 
pay their way. I started Alfalfa last 
Spring. If it should prove a success, how 
would it work to feed the sheep Alfalfa 
hay instead of bran? reax>kr. 
I should not attach much Importance 
to the breed selected for this purpose. 
Any one of the common middle-wool 
sheep, such as Shropshire, Oxford, etc., 
will do. Of course the Merino is more 
restless than the middle or long-'wool 
breeds. Gentle, quiet handling of sheep 
will nearly always result In the flock 
becoming very tame, and easily man¬ 
aged. The writer has had a small flock 
of sheep in an orchard all this past 
Summer, and it has been a decided ben- 
fit to both sheep and trees, for all fallen 
fruit has been eaten, and so insects have 
been des'troyed in large numbers. Al¬ 
falfa hay is largely fed to sheep in Colo¬ 
rado, they being fitted for the Chicago 
market. The Colorado Experiment Sta¬ 
tion reports that a lamb eats about 400 
pounds of hay and 120 pounds of grain 
The lamb is put on Alfalfa for about 
two months, after which grain is gradu¬ 
ally fed, until about a pound a day is 
given. Bran is ndt needed so much 
when Alfalfa is used, and cracked corn 
or wheat are used instead. Of the two 
grains, I Should give corn the preference 
over wheat. If the idea is to feed the 
Alfalfa hay in Winter, instead of bran, 
that will do, but to keep the sheep in 
the most profitable condition a light 
feed of corn should be fed beside, anl 
also a bit of oil meal will give good re¬ 
turns on the investment, c. s. plumb. 
No breed equals the common Ameri¬ 
can Merino for this purpose. The Eng¬ 
lish or so-called mutton breeds are not 
good scavengers; they have not been 
“brought up that way,” and put into an 
orchard 10 or 15 to the acre could hard¬ 
ly be fed enough to make them thrive. 
Besides this, they do not take as kindly 
to a diet of weeds, sprouts, fallen apples 
and bran as do the Merinos. There is 
another objection to the mutton breeds; 
they are far more apt to injure the trees 
by bunting and rubbing against them. 
Any sheep, if fed every day, will be quiet 
and peaceable, but the Merino excels all 
others in tractability. Where one feeds 
them regularly they will get so tame as 
to be all about the feeder and hard to 
keep from under foot. As a part of the 
supplemental food the Alfalfa would be 
first-class, but it would not be best for 
the orchard. The manure resulting 
would be too rich in nitrogen and 
would be deficient in both potash and 
phosphoric acid. While bran is high 
priced and seems a very dear food for 
sheep, yet to feed in the orchard there 
is nothing that can take its place. In a 
ton of Alfalfa hay there would be about 
46 pounds of nitrogen, about 10 pounds 
of phosphoric acid, and 29 pounds of 
potash, while in a ton of wheat bran 
53 pounds of nitrogen, nearly 58 pounds 
of phosphoric acid, and 33 pounds of 
potash, so although bran nowadays is 
pretty high in price, it is by far the 
most desirable supplemental food for 
use In an orchard. I would be glad to 
have our inquirer put 15 Merino ewes 
into that acre of orchard, provide them 
with an abundance of water, and feed 
them enough Alfalfa hay and wheat 
bran to keep them thriving, and next 
Fall report appearance of orchard and 
character of fruit. j. s. woodwamj. 
PROFITABLE PENNSYLVANIA HENS. 
Our hens are mostly B. P. Roclcs 
crossed with the Buff Leghorns. I think 
they make as good layers as we find for 
both Fall and Winter. One thing you 
must do if you expect a hen to lay is to 
take care of her, and do it from the time 
she hatches until she dies, just as you 
must do with anything you expect to 
make money from. From the time mine 
are hatched in Spring( and the earlier 
they are hatched the better) I see that 
they are well fed; not all they can pos- 
possibly stuff, but enough so that they 
will start off bug-hunting with that con¬ 
tented little peep that tells of a happy 
chick. They always have all the water 
they can drink. I take no special care 
of my pullets until the roosters are 
large enough to shut up and fatten; 
then I shut the roosters by themselves 
and let the pullets run. In the morn¬ 
ing I give them (the pullets) a light 
feed of bran and meal, about two-thirds 
bran to one-third meal, mixed with 
water or milk, but not too much milk. 
At night they get a feed of wheat, corn 
and oats, using buckwheat instead of 
wheat when I haven’t the w'heat, and 
when I nave both mix them. I feed one- 
half wheal, one-fourth corn and one- 
fourth oats; sometimes less oats, and 
more of the others. Some object to the 
oats, but I think It makes the hens 
stronger. This is what they get in Fall. 
In Winter they get about the same in 
feed, only more of it, and I usually feed 
the soft mash at night, and have it 
warm. I often cook them little potatoes 
or steam them a kettleful of oats, buck¬ 
wheat and wheat. They like that the 
best, and I fix It about three times a 
week, stirring in enough bran and meal 
to make it like their soft feed. We send 
to the meat markets in the city and get 
the steamed and dried scraps that are 
prepared for hens, and feed that two or 
three times a week, a quart for 20 or 25 
hens in their soft feed. My hen roost 
has two parts and as my hens all run 
together I use one part to feed them in 
and in the other put about six inches 
of chaff of some kind, in which I scat¬ 
ter all hard grain to make them scratch 
That is why I feed whole grain in the 
morning, so they will be busy all day. 
They only need to sit on the roosting 
pole at night. They have warm water 
to drink, all they want; oyster shells 
and a box of road dust to wallow in. At 
noon they get cabbage or some other 
raw vegetable to eat, and they will eat 
almost anything that is green in Win¬ 
ter. Don’t let them out on the cold 
ground or in the snow. 
I do not expect pullets to lay before 
they are 5^ or six months old, as they 
must have time to get their growth. My 
old hens get about the same care as the 
pullets. I always sell off all or nearly 
all of those that are two years or over, 
and keep only the yearlings and pullets. 
We find it pays better; as the hens get 
older there are always some that will 
not lay, and only eat up the profit of the 
others. We keep the roosts as clean as 
possible, well ventilated, but no drafts. 
The hens are as nearly healthy as we 
can keep them, and we trust to nature 
to do the rest. We usually get eg^, if 
not as many as we would like, but the 
pullets must have time to grow, and the 
old hens to moult. e. l. b. 
Hop Bottom, Pa. 
nine of them were selected for the test 
and driven to the Pan-American 
grounds. The cows and their products 
were as follows: 
Names and H. B. 
numbers. 
America 2d’s Pauline De- 
Kol 37096 . 574.1 
Kate Spray 33957. 
Plebe Queen 29065. 
Floa 3d 28564. 
Lyntje’s DeKol 25070.. 
Pauline Whitney 39946 
Orleans Maid 45008.... 
Clothilde Lunde Artis 
39867 
Altoana Pletertje A. 64656.. 
Bodora 2d’s DeKol 44418 
Shadybrook Gerben Par- 
thenea 46008 . 450.4 
Dirkje Von Holingen 
35256 . 
Woodland Iosco 39699. 
Total products 
Milk, 
Fat, 
lbs. 
lbs. 
. 574.1 
15.019 
. 441.3 
11.786 
. 419.8 
13.037 
. 436.8 
12.632 
. 388.5 
11.421 
. 366.4 
12.691 
. 375. 
s 
11.028 
. 407.4 
13.358 
.. 392.1 
11.239 
. 378.9 
U.430 
. 450.4 
a 
12.923 
. 395.6 
11.626 
. 355.6 
10.254 
.5381.6 
158.244 
8. HOXIE. 
Breeders’ Directory 
■DOZENDAIvK HERD Brown Swiss Cattle. 
^ Calves of both sexes for sale. Milk and butter 
strain. D. H. COOK, M. D., Albany, N. Y. 
Short-horn and Polled Durham 
Calves, mnstKO. Bulls, 126.50; Heifers, 118.60; crated. 
3 to 6 mos. SHOEMAKER & CO., Harrodsburj?, Ky. 
JERSEY BULL 
T«»rllng—rexlstered, from a prreat show cow; al¬ 
most faultless, by a produclnR sire Farmer's price 
R. F. SHANNON. 907 Liberty St., Pittsburg, Pa. 
TDerkshlre. P. China and C. White Pigs; all ages; 
ehgible toreglster, $5ea. andup. AlsoB. P.Rocks 
and W, Hsllaad Turkeys. W. A. bothers. Lack, Pa 
LARHE UPPlfyoung 
ENGLISH JjEIVlVOlllIVEO boars fit for 
service. W. DORMAN. R. D. No. 1. Stanley, N. Y. 
0.1. C. PIGS (Silver Strain) either sex. 
eight weeks old, $6 each. 
J. O. WADSWORTH, Wolcott. N. Y. 
Reg. P. Chinas, Bcrkshires and C. Whiles. 
Choice Pigs. 8 weeks old, mated not 
ak n. Bred Sows and 'Service Boars. 
POULTRY. Write for hard tlmts 
prices and free circular. 
HAMILTON A CO., Rosenwlck, Chester Co., Pa. 
SHROf^SHIRES, 
A few Yearling Rams left; they are bargains to 
quick buyers. Also in lamb Ewes at reasonable prices 
J. C. DUNCAN, Wawanund Farm, Lewiston, N. Y. 
RAMS 
ST. LAMBERT and Combination. For sale? Cows. 
14 Heifers, 25 Bulls. 8 E. NIVIN, Landenburg, Pa. 
123 HOLSTEINSirs'"^ 
DBLLHURST FARMS. Mentor. Ohio. 
Holstein-Frfeslan Bull 
ready for service, and a One lot of Bull Calves. Best 
of breeding, and from deep producing families. 
c. K. RECORD. Peterboro. N. Y, 
rnn Oil C— Ilolsteln-Frlesian Bull Sir Tanga- 
run OnLL noxle no .26210 U.F.U.B. First Prize 
Winner. Beautiful animal; good-natured. Age, 
two years nine months. ORMSBV HILL FARM, 
B. W. ScHUCiiABDT, Mgr. Manchester, Vt. 
F oe sale—T horoughbred 
HOLBTEXN-FBIEHIAN CATTLE 
of the best families. Also, 30 high-bred Bnlls at 
reasonable prices. Write the MAPLES STOCK 
FARM, Binghamton, N. Y., WM. Rood. Prop 
Fnr Cain— I’UREBREl) HOLSTEIN-FRIKSIANS 
I Ul udic from best families. Two registered 
bulls ready for service and bull calves. Also have 
purebred BERKSHIRE SWINE and SCO I CU 
COhLlB PUPS at low figures Write for breeding 
and prices. W. \V. CHENEY, Manlius, N. Y. 
A YRSHIRES, Oxford sheep and Cheshlres for sale 
^ Bull calf two weeks, heifer calves two weeks and 
six months, young boars, fit for service. Sows ready 
10 breed, pigs In pairs not akin. Ram and ewe iambs, 
olderewes. All stock eligible to registry. Reasonable 
prices. Stock tine. HOMER J. BROWN. Harford, 
Cortland County, N. Y. 
I—Wool-Mutton, Golden 
Fleece Shropshlres. Special 
low prices now. Catalogue 
47 free. Write to-day. 
MAPL,EW00U S'lOCK FARM, Maplewood, Mich. 
Cheviot Sheep. 
We have 60 Thoroughbred Cheviot Sheep for sale 
at reasonaole ptlces. both Ewe and Ram Lambs, 
yearlings and full-aged, thatonly need to be seen to 
be anpreclated. Gnod-sizeri and hardy; all registered 
in the American Sheep Society. 
Eureka Stock aod Poultry Farm, 
HENRY VAN DRESER, Proprietor, 
COBLESKILL, N. Y, 
j|yA||na Delaine Bucks, good 
AllllUnll UUA I w stock, low prices. Large 
circular for stamp. BD. W. COLE CO.. Kenton, O. 
^ Get my prices before buying. 
1“ Cl I “XS Illustrated Book free. 
O. E. UBMENWAY, Box R, New London, O. 
rrnnrT^J— CHOICE stock for sale at all times 
ILnilLlu New book sent free. Address 
W. J. WOOD, New London, Ohio. 
2000 
FERRETS. First-class stock. Boms 
I'laixiSu. New price-list free. 
N. A. KNAPP. Rochester, Lorain Co., O 
Collie Females. Circulars. BILAB 
DECKER, South Montrose, Pa. 
T bn HENS and CHICKS. 
DCaIH lU J—lvC nt-page book FREE. 
D. J. LAMBERT, Box 307, Apponaug, R. I. 
Wyan., P. Rocks, B:ah- 
I /III, Kill Ills mas. Cochins, Leghorns, from prlze- 
VDV/iiviv vJ vfinning stock. 23 varieties of land 
and water fowls. Satlsfaction guaranteed. Big cat¬ 
alogue free. Pine Tree Farm, Box T, Jamesburg,N..I. 
NO SPAVINS 
The worst possible spavin can be cured in 
4.5 minutes. Curbs, splints and ringbones 
just as quick. Not painful and never has 
failed. Detailed information about tins 
new method sent free to horst owners. 
Write today. Ask for paraplilet No. 34. 
FLEMING BROS., Union Stock Yards,Chicago. III. 
I FEED hens and pullets scorched wheat 
and cracked corn, with plenty of separated 
milk. Pullets that are expected to lay In 
Winter should have rood care from first 
start. If allowed to shift for themselves 
In Summer and Fall they will not lay In 
Winter. w. w. 
East Clarendon, Vt. 
Th« Holsfein-Friesian Test at the Pan- 
American. 
The arrangements for this test were 
made at short notice, as it was not de¬ 
cided to hold it until about two months 
before the week which was to be de¬ 
voted to the cattle exhibit at the Pan- 
American. It was evident that cows for 
such a test should be in fresh milking 
condition. No cows had been bred with 
this object in view, and it is well-known 
that all breeders avoid having their 
cows freshen during “dog days,” except 
for some special exhibit. The commit¬ 
tee finally found 16 cows, four of which 
had calved. They were all put in tem¬ 
porary quarters near Buffalo, where the 
remaining calves were dropped. They 
were kept there until September 9, when 
HIGHEST AWARD 
CREAM SEPARATORS 
BUFFALO EXPOSITION. 
Just as in the case of every representative exhibition or other 
contest since the invention of the Cream Separator twenty years a^o, 
the De Laval machines have maintained their supremacy at the Pan- 
American Exposition, Buffalo, having received the Gold Medal on 
Cream Separators. 
This is the highest and only award of its kind on Cream Separa¬ 
tors. One other make of machine has received a Silver Medal, and 
another concern a Gold Medal for its combined exhibit of cream 
separators, Babcock testers, churns and other apparatus. With 
characteristic advertising honesty, the latter concern is now claiming 
this Gold Medal to be an award to its separators. 
OTHER GREAT EXPOSITIONS. 
The supremacy of the De Laval machines at Buffalo is a contin¬ 
uation of their triumphant record at all previous great expositions. 
At the World’s Fair, Chicago, in 18951, they received the Gold and 
only medal awarded by the regular jury of awards and were the only 
separators used in the Model Dairy. At Antwerp in 1894 und at 
Brussels in 1897 they received the Grand Prizes or highest awards. 
At Omaha in 1898 they received the Gold Medal, and again at Paris 
in 1900 the Grancl Prize or highest award. 
DISGRUNTLED COMPETITORS. 
All kinds of lying and misrepresentation upon the part of dis¬ 
gruntled would-be competitors and imitators cannot change or 
detract one iota from any one of these facts. 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO. 
General Offices: 
74 CORTLANDT STREET. 
NEW YORK. 
Randolph tt Capal Sts., 
CHICAGO. 
1102 Arch Street. 
PHILADELPHIA 
108 & 105 Mission Street 
SAN FRANCISCO. 
327 Commissioners Street 
MONTREAL. 
75 & 77 York Street, 
TORONTO. 
248 McDermott Avenue, 
WINNIPEG. 
