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Live Stock Notes. 
Sam Emerson, a famous horse trainer, 
died last Wednesday aged 62 years. He 
owned the horse McGowan which did the 
fastest 20 miles on record. 
The American Association of Jack 
and Jennet Breeders met at Nashville, 
Tenn., June 25. Tne time for receiving 
pedigrees will be extended to December 1, 
1890. The contents of the stud book will 
be as follows: Constitution and by-laws, 
rules of entry, history of the organization, 
extracts from minutes, publications and ar¬ 
ticles, selected or otherwise, thought to be 
of interest to breeders; chapter on the dif¬ 
ferent breeds of jacks in this country; an 
essay on the old original jack stock and the 
pioneer breeders, to be prepared by Dr. L. 
W. Knight; index of owners and breeders 
and their post office addresses ; list of mem¬ 
bers and post-office addresses. W. H. Good- 
pasture, Nashville, Tenn., Secretary. 
Lawing Over a Bull.—T he celebrated 
Kentucky bull case of T. J. Megibben vs. 
E. G. Bedford, was reversed in the Court of 
Appeals last Saturday, and now comes back 
to the lower court for trial The two gen¬ 
tlemen bought, at the New York Mills sale, 
in 1873, the Short-horn cow Fourth Duchess 
of Oneida, for $25,000. Before her death 
she calved for them the Duke of Woodlawn 
and after he was one year old Mr. Megibben 
paid Mr. Bedford (who had all the time 
kept the cow and calf), $9,000 for his half 
interest, and aftewards brought suit for 
the recovery of his money, claiming that 
the animal w r as impotent. Mr. Bedford 
contended that the animal had bred while 
in his possession. The case was first tried 
in the Common Pleas Court in 1876, after¬ 
wards in Woodford County, Kentucky, 
and then taken to the Court of Appeals. It 
is now 14 years since the suit was brought. 
The lawyers in the case were Brant & 
McMillan, Cunningham & Turney, Senator 
Carlisle, Colonel W. C. P. Breckinridge and 
General John B. Huston. 
Those Triplet Steers.— The triplets are 
14 months old to-day. I have just had 
them weighed. They tip the beam as fol¬ 
lows: Shem, 565 pounds; Ham, 565 pounds; 
Japhet, 560 pounds. They drive m their 
chariot very nicely, wain, trot, or canter, 
as I choose to make them. 
Barnet, Vt. J. S KENERSON. 
The American Buff Cochin Club met 
in this city last February. The officers for 
the coming year are: President—Charles 
H. Crosby. Bridgeport, Conn.; Vice-Presi- 
dent.s—Philander Williams,Taunton, Mass.; 
Charles H. Johuson, Rushville, Ind.; Rob¬ 
ert Colgate, New York City; T. F. McGrew, 
Jr., Springfield, 111.; Newton Adams, Utica, 
N Y ; Charles Feldman, Hagerstown, Md. 
Secretary—G. P. Rev uaud,3 Bowling Green. 
New York City. Treasurer- J. H. L. Todd, 
New York City. Executive Committee— 
M. A. Sprouts, Carlisle, Pa.; M. M. Connor, 
Ada, Ohio; Franc C. Hare, Whitby, Canada: 
William F. M. Smith, Pine Hill, N. l r ,; E. 
J. Sanderson, Waltham, Mass.; Geo. E. 
Peer, Rochester, N. Y.; F. W. Gaylor, 
Quogue, L. I. 
Fast Walking Horses.—The R. N.-Y. 
has always advocated the encouragement 
of fast walking in draft horses. It is very 
glad to find the following in the London 
Livestock Journal: “We should like to 
see judges in the show-ring give a little 
more attention to good walking than they 
do at present. Our best brewers’ dray- 
horses have to get over 35 miles on an aver¬ 
age every day they are out, and in doing so 
a good, well-measured, well-balanced stride 
is of great benefit. Horses which walk 
short behind through faulty conformation, 
or weak hocks are of little use for such 
work; indeed, they act as a drag on the 
other members of the team. A long, free, 
launching step at the walk is all one ought 
to look for in our heaviest dray horses, as 
the drivers know that if caught trotting 
them by the stable foreman dismissal will 
follow. The concussion under trotting on 
the stones is very severe, and if a four and- 
a-half-mile pace can be maintained without 
it horses will keep their legs fresh for a long 
time.” 
Sex in Breeding.— A writer in the Lon¬ 
don Live Stock Journal says that in the 
new number of the Royal Agricultural 
Society of England there is a compressed 
translation of a paper recently read before 
the Veterinary School at Lyons by I rofes- 
sor Cornevin. He maintains that change 
iu the environment is one of the most 
potent causes in the determination of the 
sex; and that sires taken into countries 
widely different from those iu which they 
were reared beget more females than males. 
In the French Haras, whilst horses born iu 
Europe beget 103.1 colts to each 100 fillies 
imported, Arab stallions beget only 87.7 
males to 100 females, a very marked differ¬ 
ence. In Java among the children of 
Europeans girls are more than double the 
number of boys; and iu Yucatan more than 
four times as many. Yet of Europeans 
resident in Europe the proportion of male 
birtns is 105 to every 100 girls. Was it 
found that the American-bred bhori-horn 
bulls begot a larger proportion of heifer- 
calves ? 
The plea of the English for the exclusion 
of American live stock is the danger of im¬ 
porting disease. Sensational reports fre¬ 
quently reach this country of diseased ani¬ 
mals arriving out. These reports are gener¬ 
ally disbelieved on this side of tne water. 
It is reported that our Secretary of State 
has devised a plan, though, which he hopes 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
TULY 26 
will afford something of a test of their 
truthfulness. The idea is to station a veteri¬ 
nary inspector of the United States at 
Liverpool, one at London and one at Glas¬ 
gow, whose duties it shall be to carefully 
inspect every cargo of American cattle 
reaching those ports, and to report on the 
actual condition in which they are found. 
If (as the Secretary hopes) the cargoes are 
found almost uniformly in good health, it 
is understood that a very strong pressure 
will be brought from Washington to secure 
a removal of the onerous conditions now 
existing. 
Prof. Gleason, the great horse tamer, 
like all true horse-lovers, thinks the horse 
as made by the Creator is about as perfect 
in form as it is possible to make him. At 
one of his exhibitions, a plump, muscular 
horse was turned into the ring. It was a 
pretty animal, all but the tail which bad 
been bobbed off after the style so much 
affected by brainless dandies. Pointing 
his finger pityingly at the animal the pro¬ 
fessor said: “ There is as pretty an ani¬ 
mal of his class as can be found—if he was 
all there. I hope that there will come a 
time when the legislature of the State of 
New York, and, for that matter, of every 
State in the Union, will pass a law making 
it a penal offence for any one to disfigure 
his horse in this most brutal way. It 
pleases perhaps about a couple of hundred 
Anglomaniacs who drive in Central Park 
and displeases the humane and patriotic 
sentiment of 60,000,000 Americans. Let us 
show England that we have some original 
ideas of our own about horses, as well as 
about government.” 
The English nobility, from the Royal 
family down, are greatly interested in the 
breeding of blooded stock. This may ac¬ 
count, partially, at least, for the perfection 
attained in that country. The Farmer and 
Stock Breeder tells us that Lord Riddles- 
dale delivered a lecture on horse breeding 
in England before the members or the 
Craven Agricultural Society and Farmers 
Club, at Skipton, recently. He pointed out 
that the Government had wisely decided 
upon trying a wise experiment—to 8U ” 81 ' 
dize an industry valuable to the public 
with public money. The Queen’s Plates— 
a sum previously devoted to racing, And 
amounting to £3,360—Her Majesty elected 
to give to the encouragement of horse- 
breeding. The Government had made up 
that sum to an annual grant of £5,100, to 
be administered by a commission. Lord 
Riddlesdale reviewed the circumstauces 
wtiich led to the appointment of this com¬ 
mission, and to the good work which it bad 
accomplished. He claimed that what the 
commission was doing more effectually 
every day was in making the breeding of 
half bred horses possible and reasonable 
for the farming community. 
A GREAT many people think that a cow 
that gives a large mess of rich milk is 
just as good, if she is only a scrub, as an 
equally good cow of the best breeds. This 
may possibly be true so far as her own per¬ 
formances go. but how will she be as a 
breeder ? While better as a breeder than a 
poor cow, she will not equal an animal be¬ 
longing to an acknowledged dairy breed. 
The Jersey Bulletin very truly says that 
purity of blood is the key to all good breed¬ 
ing. However good an individual cow may 
be, her value for breeding purposes is but 
little if her good qualities are not inbred. 
To secure the transmission of her good 
qualities she needs to be bred to a bull pre¬ 
potent in like qualities. Purity of blood, 
therefore, means inherited qualities, such 
qualities as are transmitted from genera¬ 
tion to generation. The longer the line 
the purer the blood, and, other things 
being equal, the more valuable. 
English breeders of Dorset Horned sheep 
are establishing a herd book. What are 
American breeders doing about this ? 
Skim-Milk for Colts.— A correspondent 
of Wallace’s Monthly, writing on this sub¬ 
ject, says that every stock farm should 
have a number of good milking cows. 
Many mares are poor milkers ana cannot 
give their colts all the milk they need. A 
colt may be safely weaned when a month 
old and put on cow’s milk. It was stated 
that Smiths, Powell & Lamb utilize skim- 
milk from their Holstelns in this way. In 
reply to an inquiry, they write us as fol- 
^°‘‘Our milk is separated by the DeLaval 
separator, and we take it as soon as it is 
separated and feed it to our calves, gener¬ 
ally and when we have more than the 
calves will drink, we feed it to our colts. 
The amount varies according to the age 
and condition of the animal. A colt will 
drink from 15 to 50 pounds of skim milk 
per day depending upon its age and condi¬ 
tion We think well of the practice wnere 
the milk would otherwise go to waste, and 
are not sure but it would be an economic 
food. We have never seen any bad effects 
come from it. Of course, iu certain in¬ 
stances it is unnecessary, where the mother 
gives a large amount of milk, and sufficient 
lor the growth and nourishment ol the 
colt, but where a colt has just been weaned, 
or has not done well, we think i. a most ex¬ 
cellent food, and would very highly recom¬ 
mend it.” 
While wool is very slow of sale, good 
mutton sheep and lambs are selling readily 
at good prices. The supply of good mutton 
in this city is not equal to the demand. 
The wool buyer and the wool-grower are 
continually worried over the outcome of 
the work of the tariff tinkers. None of 
these things move the mutton feeder. He 
is safe no matter which way the case is de¬ 
cided. The wise breeder will breed for 
mutton. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday. July 19,1890. 
The farmers in the vicinity of Holly, 
Mich,, made arrangements for selling their 
wool direct through the hands of one per¬ 
son. The plan in brief is as follows : The 
agent gives bonds to the full amount of all 
wool coming into his hands. He will store 
the same free of charge ; go to all expense 
of sacking and delivering!hesameon board 
of cars, keep the same insured for 30 days, 
for a compensation of one cent per pound 
He will advance cash on all coarse washed 
wool to the amount of 25 cents per pound, 
unwashed merino 20 cents per pound. A 
charge of stveil per cent, interest on all ad¬ 
vances until final settlement. This wool 
will be sold in warehouse to Boston parties 
at the highest market price. Payment in 
full before going out of his possession. He 
is merely acting as agent in bunching and 
selling the product. A certain day was 
designated as delivery day, and an old wool- 
buyer was appointed to receive the wool 
and sort into grades, ready to be sold. A 
committee of three was appointed to con¬ 
sider all bids received by the agent, and to 
dechie the best time to sell and what offers 
to accept. 
It is said that Australia is contemplating 
the introduction of the coyote from Cali¬ 
fornia in the endeavor to abate her rabbit 
nuisance. The rabbits have increased in 
the latter State in proportion to the decrease 
of the coyote. 
The Society of American Florists will 
convene in Boston August 19, and remain 
in session four days. An address of wel¬ 
come by the Governor of Massachusetts 
and the Mayor of Boston will be responded 
to by Robert Craig. Essays will be given 
by tne following persons: The Growing 
Importance of the Easter Trade, Jas. 
Dean ; The Value of System in Business, 
E. B. Long; Hybridization, E. S. Carman, 
Editor R. N.-Y; Best Twenty-five Hardy 
Herbaceous Plants for Florists’ Use, J. W. 
Manning; Succulents, E. S. Miller; The 
Use of Special Fertilizers Under Glass, 
Prof. S. T. Mavnard. There will be num¬ 
erous discussions upon topics of interest 
The question-box contains the following 
questions, which, with others which may 
be put in the box during the sess’on, will 
be assigned to persons competent to answer 
them: 1. Berry bearing Plants for Fall 
Use? 2 Twenty five Plants Indispensable 
to the Extreme South ? 3. Acclimation of 
Southern Plauts to the North ? 4. Twelve 
Best House Plants for Window Gardening? 
5. How must Lilium Auratum be Handled 
to make it a Permanent Success in Open- 
air Culture ? 6. Can the Hellebores be 
Grown to Advantage by the Commercial 
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