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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
NOV. 29 
Live Stock Notes. 
STAMBOUL has lowered his trotting 
record to 2:11>£. 
Secretary Young, of the Northwestern 
Poland China Club, has resigned. 
The Short-horn breeders in the Argen¬ 
tine Republic have started a herd book. 
The eighth annual meeting of the Iowa 
Jersey Cattle Club will be held at Iowa 
City, December 9. 
The Texas Live Stock Journal says that 
the current year will be known as the be¬ 
ginning of the hog era in Texas. 
The American Game Club will meet at 
the New York Poultry Show in February,as 
will the American White Wyandotte Club. 
The New Jersey Game and Fish Pro¬ 
tective Society recently elected Geo. W. H. 
Sterling, W. H. Egbert and R. M. Stelle 
members of the Board of Directors. 
A Scotch half bred ewe is said to have 
produced two lambs in April last, which 
she has reared ; and on October 6 she again 
lambed two lambs which are doing well. 
The American Association of Importers 
and Breeders of Belgian horses has elected 
D. B. Stubbs, Fairfield, Iowa, president, 
and J. D. Connor, Jr., Wabash, Ind., sec¬ 
retary. 
The milk of Hereford cows is not rich in 
butter fat, nut milk fever after calving may 
be said to be unknown with them.—London 
Live Stock Journal. 
The first class dairyman prefers a cow 
that will make enough butter-fat to bring 
on milk fever. He would rather trust to 
his skill in curing the disease. 
Now that, less than a year after his sale, 
two stallions have beaten the 2:12 of Axtell, 
people are beginning to realize that when 
the innocent-looking Mr. Williams from 
Iowa took $105,000 for the stallion and 
placed the money carefully in his inside 
pocket, he knew exactly what he was do¬ 
ing.—Breeder’s Gazette. 
How much less is Axtell worth now ? In 
other words, what is the value of a “ re¬ 
cord ? ” 
In Scotland we have such a large number 
of farms better suited for breeding than they 
are for feeding that, if turned to that pur¬ 
pose, they would supply all, or almost all, 
the store cattle required for the feeding 
farms.—Farming World. 
The “abandoned farms” of Vermont are 
well adapted to breeding dairy cows. With¬ 
in 100 miles of them are great dairy districts 
where it does not pay to raise milch cows. 
Cows can walk to these dairies! 
As a well known Short-horn man said to 
me one day when speaking of the merits of 
cattle: “ When everything is said and done, 
I must admit that a good deal of their 
breeding goes down their throat.” Wel¬ 
lington said once, “ Where hard work is to 
be done, an army is an animal that walks 
upon his stomach.’’—The Farmers’ Gazette. 
In other words, most of the good things 
of life, “ mental, moral and physical,” come 
from good food. 
Killing Old Horses.— On page 754 we 
are told that a serious problem confronts 
all kind-hearted people in the disposal of 
old family horses. My plan is to give a man 
$2 and let him take the old servant out in 
the field, shoot him in the forehead and bury 
the carcass three or more feet deep. Such a 
mode of disposal of him is much more 
Christian-like than keeping him around for 
three or four years, dying an inch at a 
time. An animal suffers less than half a 
minute when dispatched in my way, in¬ 
stead of several years. We should not send 
our old friends to strange and in most cases 
cruel masters to spend their last days. 
Monroe County, N. Y. j. D. harroun. 
Tuberculosis at the Maine College. 
—Prof. W. H. Jordan sends the Country 
Gentleman the following corrected state¬ 
ment of the “outbreak” of tuberculoses in 
the college herd: “ In the spring of 1888, a 
committee of trustees visited Massachu¬ 
setts and purchased three Holsteins and 
five or six Guernseys. One of the Guern¬ 
seys was a two-weeks old heifer calf at the 
time the animals came here. Several weeks 
ago this heifer, upon coming to the barn 
from the pasture, was noticed to be in poor 
condition. An examination showed her to be 
badly diseased, and she was subsequently 
killed. The Cattle Commissioners of the 
State were at once notified, and the veteri¬ 
narian of the commission has since made a 
careful inspection of the herd and has 
found only one other case, that being the 
mother of the diseased heifer. The disease 
was undoubtedly brought to us from Mas¬ 
sachusetts, but so far as we can now tell it is 
confined to two animals, both of which 
have been killed. There is very little doubt 
that the remainder of the herd, consisting 
of 30 or 40 animals, is in good health.” 
Early Canadian Lambs.— D. McCrae, 
president of the American Galloway Asso¬ 
ciation, has this to say about early lambs 
in Canada:—“The price of lambs has been 
going up gradually and steadily. Fairly 
good ones bring from $3.50 to $4.50 during 
the season, from local butchers. The bulk 
of our surplus lambs have, for many years, 
gone to the States, mostly by way of 
Buffalo. The returns for last year, as 
given to the customs, averaged $3 per 
head. This seems to be rather under the 
mark. Farmers who buy up lambs during 
the early fall and winter, and keep them 
till Christmas, make much more than this 
price. The McKinley Bill does not bear 
heavily on this trade. Some shippers claim 
it is more favorable than formerly. Under 
it sheep are $1.50 per head, and lambs 75 
cents, instead of 20 per cent on the value, as 
formerly charged. There will, therefore, 
be an increased demand next year for good 
shipping lambs to the States. The British 
market has also been tried with lambs and 
with success. Our exported sheep to Britain 
last year were valued at $6.50 per head. 
With such prospects for mutton, farmers 
should therefore keep more and better 
sheep. For the British market, quality is 
needed to bring the best price. The same 
is true in regard to the lamb market in the 
States. Keep sheep. Keep good sheep. 
They pay better than wheat or barley.” 
The McKinley Bill and Cattle.— The 
Mark Lane Express has the following to say 
about the McKinley Bill: “ After all the 
talk that we have heard from the United 
States on the subject of the refusal of this 
country to allow living animals to be 
landed on our shores from the United 
States, a country in which contagious dis¬ 
eases exist largely, it is curious to note 
that one of the clauses of the McKinley Act 
enacts a similar law for the United States. 
It is even more forcible than our own. 
Section 20 enacts that ‘ the importation of 
meat cattle from any foreign country into 
the United States is prohibited.’ To this 
is added, however, the following proviso : 
* Provided that the operation of this sec¬ 
tion shall be suspended as to any foreign 
country or countries, or any part of such 
country or countries, whenever the Secre¬ 
tary of the Treasury shall officially de¬ 
termine, and give the public notice thereof 
that such importation will not tend to the 
introduction or spread of contagious or in¬ 
fectious diseases among the cattle of the 
United States.’ Then follows the authori¬ 
zation to the Secretary of the Treasury to 
issue such notices and to send them to the 
proper officers. We would call special at 
tention to this fact, as, practically, the 
United States has at this moment the same 
law as this country. And we think they 
are wise in having such an enactment; but 
it is a curious commentary on the violent 
language which a few owners of scraggy 
range cattle at Chicago have of late in¬ 
dulged in.”_ 
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THE CHICAGO FAT STOCK SHOW. 
On the whole, this exhibition seems not 
to have been quite equal to former ones. 
The numbers of fat cattle and pigs were less 
than in former years while there were more 
sheep. The show of dairy goods and im¬ 
plements was good. The following list 
shows how some of the prizes for fat stock 
were taken: 
Shorthorns: Three years—1. W. H. 
Reuick, Austerlitz, Ky., Nonesuch; 2. 
Milton E. Jones & Bro., Williamsville, 
111., Col. Mills; 3. J. C. Frasier, Bloom¬ 
field, Iowa, Jerry. Two years— 1. Joues 
& Bro., Confident; 2. N. P. Clarke, St. 
Cloud, Minn., Lady of Meadow-Lawn- 
lette; 3. C. S. Barclay, West Liberty, 
Iowa, New Gold. One year— 1. N. P. 
Clarke, Amelia’s Hillhurst 3i; 2. W. A. 
Harris, Linwood, Kan., Daisy; 3 J. H. 
Potts & Son, Jacksonville, Ill., Captain. 
Calf —1. Jas. M. Turner, Lansing, Mich., 
Romulus; 2. J. M. Turner, Bruno; 3. 
Jones & Bro., Nutcracker. 
Herefords: Three years— 1. C. M. Cul¬ 
bertson, Newman, Ill , Bowdoin 11th; 2. 
Adams Earl, Lafayette, Ind., Earlington 
8th ; 3. Gudgell& Simpson, Independence, 
Mo., Bellman. Two years— 1. C. M. Cul¬ 
bertson, Hindoo; 2. Adams Earl, Merry 
Boy ; 3. J. R. Price & Son, Williamsville, 
111., Coupon. One year— 1. Thos. Clark, 
Beecher, Ill., Abel; 2. C. M. Culbertson, 
Pathmaster; 3. Adams Earl, Edison } 
Calf —1. Adams Earl, Earl Wilton 43d; 
2. Tom C. Ponting, Moweaqua, Ill., Att- 
wood ; 3. Adams Earl, Eiffel. 
Devons: Two years— 1. J. W. Morse & 
Son, Verona, Wis., Perfection. One year 
—1. Morse & Son, Prince. Calf — 1. 
Morse & Son, Farmer’s Review. 
Holsteins: Three years — 1. Martin L. 
Sweet, Grand Rapids, Mich., Ben John¬ 
son; 2. B. Waddel, Marion, O., Rattler. 
Two years—l. B. Waddel, Tom: 2. M L. 
Sweet, Madolyn’s Leader. One l'ear — 
1. B. Waddel, Spot: 2. M. L. Sweet, Yon 
Asmus. Calf— 1. B. Waddel, Daisy; 2. 
M. L. Sweet, Alpine Boy. 
SWINE. 
Berkshire— Cass & Burns, Buffalo Hart, 
Ill. 
PolandChina— J. C. Shaw, Plattville, Ill.; 
F. M. Strout, McLean, Ill.; Stone & Har¬ 
ris, Stonington, Hi.; W. T. Linn & Son, 
Yorkville, ill.; Cass & Burns. 
Chester White— J. R. Price & Son, Wil¬ 
liamsville, Ill. 
Essex— M. H. Walworth, Hillsdale, Mich.; 
Frank Wilson, Jackson, Mich.; F. M. 
Srout. 
Duroc-Jersey— Thos. Bennett, Rossville, 
Ill. 
Yorkshire —A. P.Chapman, Sugar Grove, 
111., Frank Wilson. 
Victoria — M. H. Walworth; Stone & 
Harris. 
Other Breeds— Thos. Bennett (Tamworth); 
Frank Wilson (Suffolk). 
Grades and Crosses— W. T. Linn & Son, 
F. M. Strout. 
Sweepstakes —1 year —Linn & Son, Poland¬ 
China; 6 mos. —Stone & Harris, Poland¬ 
China; under 6 7nos.— Linn & Son, Po 
laud-Uhina. 
Brand Sweepstakes— F. M. Strout, Nasby, 
Poland China and Essex cross. 
Heaviest— E. J. Hollenbeck, Rock Falls, 
Ill., Welch, Chester-White, 1,673 days, 
981 lb. 
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