VOL. XLIX. NO. 21 x i. ' NEW YORK, JULY 12, i 89 o. 
PRICE, FIVE CENTS. 
$ 2.00 PER YEAR. 
A SHORT-HORN DAIRY. 
A great deal is being said nowadays about the possibility 
of breeding good dairy herds of Short-horn cattle by select¬ 
ing good animals from milking families and breeding and 
feeding them for milk rather than for beef. Many of our 
best cattle authorities have always insisted that the best 
dairy cow for the Middle West is a Short-horn grade or 
cross. The sort of agriculture demanded by the natural 
conditions of that region must, for the present at least, be 
based partly upon beef. This is why Illinois farmers de¬ 
mand large cows, even for their dairy herds, so that the 
bull calves may be fed for beef. In view of the interest 
now being taken in the breeding of milking Short-horns, 
The R. N.-Y. is glad to give a picture (see Fig. 157) of a 
three fourths Short-horn. No. 6, whose hind-quarters only 
are shown, is six years old, red In color, and is now giving 
48 pounds of milk per day, which make two pounds of 
butter for eight months of the year. In ordinary flesh she 
weighs 1,400 pounds, and is seven-eighths Short-horn. 
No. 7 is three-quarters Ayrshire and one quarter Jersey, 
and eight years old. She gives 32 pounds of milk per day, 
which will yield 1 % pound of butter for eight months of 
the year. No. 8 is a two-year old heifer, dark-red in color. 
She is an offspring of No. 7, the spotted cow on her right. 
She was sired by a full-blood Short-horn bull, and gives 26 
pounds of milk per day. Her butter capacity has never 
been tested, but we know that her milk is of good quality. 
Of course, the above milk statistics are for the summer 
FEEDING BEEF CATTLE AT THE EAST. 
1. Does The Rural New-Yorker consider that the 
chances for profitably feeding cattle, cows oi steers, 
for beef, are any better for next winter than for the 
past few years t 
2. Js it at all probable that this industry will ever again 
pay In the East ? 
Stall-Feeding Will Not Pay. 
Cattle cannot be stall-fed or fattened on grain at any 
profit in New York. They never can be with competition 
from the fresh-meat shipments. In the back towns where 
the fresh meat cannot be hawked about as it will not keep, 
one to two-year-old cattle will pay grown on grass and 
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A SHORTHORN DAIRY HERD. Fig. 157. 
herd of Shorn-horn cows owned by Mr. E. T. Mather, of 
Shelbyville, Ill. Mr. Mather writes the following account 
of his cows: 
“ My thoroughbred Short-horn bull, Frederick, is about 
one year old. He is of the Young Mary family, and weighs 
830 pounds. He has never been extra fed ; but has been 
kept so far only In fair condition. He is entirely red in 
color. His position in the picture is on the extreme right, 
where he is held by the young man. On the right is a 
seven-year-old three quarter Short-horn and one-quarter 
Jersey cow. She yields only about 24 pounds of milk per 
day; but this quantity will make a little over one pound of 
butter. No. 3 is a three-quarter Short-horn, eight years 
old, and dark red in color. She gives about the same 
amount of milk as No. 2, but it is not quite so rich in butter. 
No. 4, only partly shown, is a red roan in color, and gives 
at present 42 pounds of milk per day, which yields about 
pound of butter. She is eight years old. No. 5 is four 
years old, and gives 43 pounds of milk per day, which make 
nearly pound of butter. She is one-fourth Jersey and 
when the cows are on good grass. In addition to good 
grass they are each fed per day eight quarts of wheat bran 
and oats equal parts, mixed, and are watered from a well 
of pure, cold water as often as they wish to help them¬ 
selves, and they have access to salt as often as they like. 
They have also an abundance of good tree shade when the 
weather is hot. Their winter rations consist of fine ground 
corn and-cob-meal to the amount of half a bushel per day 
(except the two-year-olds) in two meals, and they are 
stabled in a good warm stable at night, and bedded down 
either with sawdust or straw. They are given all the 
green-cut clover or Timothy hay they can eat night and 
day, and are allowed to run out in the barnyard when the 
weather is flue. Their flow of milk is not nearly so heavy 
in winter as in summer; but the yield of butter is greater 
in proportion to the yield of milk. They are dry from four 
to six weeks. Their average weight is about 1,200 pounds 
each when in good flesh, except No. 6, whose weight in 
good flesh is 1,400 pounds. No. 8, the two-year-old on the 
extreme left, Is not counted in the average weight.” 
wintered on silage or cheap food, and kept growing rap¬ 
idly. In favored sections they could be wintered for two 
winters, and sold the following summer. The rearing of 
sheep for lamb-mutton, and of large-sized colts is better. 
Saratoga County, N. Y. COL. F. D. curtis. 
Improvement Is Possible. 
1. No. It does not appear that there will be much im¬ 
provement although the rise in beef by the cwt. may 
stimulate some feeding which would not otherwise have 
been undertaken. As a rule, our farmers seem to have 
become discouraged, as well they may, at the loss of their 
market for beef, and in the majority of cases which have 
come under my observation they have failed to bring their 
animals to a high condition and have thus been forced to 
take less than might have been realized. Many feeders of 
store cattle have been able to realize some profit beside the 
manure, which is prized according to the feed of the cattle, 
and a few regard this item alone as a fair profit. A few 
years ago two head of cattle were well fitted for beef and 
