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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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LIVE STOCK-Continued. 
Dosing a Cat. —A gentleman uptown 
has a very valuable Angola cat. She can¬ 
not be persuaded to take physic. It has 
been put in her milk, it has been mixed 
with her meat, it has even been rudely aud 
violently rubbed in her mouth, but never 
has she been deluded or forced into swallow¬ 
ing any of it. Last week a gremi Iri-h girl 
appeared among the household servants. 
She heard about the failure to treat the 
cat. “Shure,” said she, “give me the 
medicine and some lard, and I’ll warrant 
she’ll be ating all I give her.” She mixed 
the powder and the grease and smeared it 
on the cat’s sides. Pussy at once licked 
both sides clean and swallowed all the 
physic. “Faith,” said the servant girl, 
“everybody in Ireland does know how to 
give medicine to a cat.”—New York Sun. 
About the only “medical treatment” 
most cats receive is a chance to eat a dose 
of catnip, and this is generally enough for 
them when they have plenty of exercise 
out-of doors. House cats that spend much 
of their time under the stove are frequent¬ 
ly ailing. The R. N.-Y. cured a cat of a 
cold by “swabbing” the interior of its 
throat with a solution of carbolic acid and 
water and rubbing turpentine on the out¬ 
side. 
TnE Horse Blanket.—As to blanketing 
horses in cold weather, I do not think it is 
necessary in a warm stable, except that a 
horse looks sleeker when covered. But in 
cool or cold weather a horse needs protec¬ 
tion, when standing out of doors, especially 
if sweating or if a cold wind is blowing; aud 
when drawing manure or doing similar 
work where the animal has to stand most 
of the time, it is best to keep a blanket on 
him all the time, unless the distance from 
the manure pile to the field is considerable. 
As to the horse’s head, it is like a man’s 
face and does not need covering unless the 
weather is very cold and windy. The feet 
and legs of animals like deer, moose, etc., 
need only the protection of the hair though 
they stand on the snow all the time in win¬ 
ter. I do not remember having ever heard 
of a horse’s feet freezing, but I have often 
seen horses shiver in acokl wind; so I think 
a covering for the legs unnecessary. In a 
cold stable, it is best to keep the horse 
blanketed. J. w. newton. 
Breeding for Sex.— An English breeder 
has been collecting some curious statistics 
regarding the proportion of each sex in the 
calves dropped in different herds. Five 
herds of Guernseys numbering 71 head in 
all, gave the following figures : 
CALVES FROM PUREBRED SIRES AND DAMS. 
15 cows got 35 hulls ami 29 heifer calves. 
17 " " 30 “ 32 
12 •• “ 21 “ 20 “ 
24 •• “ 89 “ 45 “ 
8 *' *• 4 " 4 *• 
Total.71 “ " 129 •* 130 •* 
This shows a very even distribution for 
whole herds, but with individual cows the 
result is very different. For example, this 
table shows that some cows have a ten¬ 
dency to produce calves of one sex in a 
marked degree : 
AVKRAUE PROPORTION OF SKX TO EACH COW. 
14 cows gave 49 of one sex 15 of the other. 
15 - 85 " 11 
10 
*» 
29 
• 9 
24 
tl 
til 
• 21 
3 
It 
4 
‘ 2 
Total.... 
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177 
53 
The compiler of the above tables says: “The 
most extreme case was a cow which gave 
eight bull calves successively and uo heif¬ 
ers. Another cow gave five heifers and uo 
bulls. Seveu others gave three of one sex 
only, and several produced four to one, 
others three to one and so forth. There was 
no case of any cow having more than four 
calves in which one sex did not predom¬ 
inate.” 
To Our Readers. 
Responses to our call are coming 
In rapidly, but we want to hear 
from every town where THE R. 
N.-Y. Is taken. 
Please write us a postal card and 
tell us how your town stands on 
the Fence Question. Are USE¬ 
LESS fences coming down? Are 
USELESS fences being built? All 
answers will be acknowledged. 
THE EDITORS. 
OUR FENCES. 
Down They Come. 
Ten or twelve years ago our fences began 
to disappear, and they have been coming 
down ever since. Ours are mostly of rails 
and as soon as they get poor they are re¬ 
moved, and the places where they stood are 
cleared up and they are not replaced. If a 
field is needed for pasture a portable fence 
is built, and when it is no longer needed it 
is removed. After a few more years fences 
will be scarce. c. w. z. 
W. Millburg, Pa. 
Sentimentality Must be Squelched. 
Do we maintain useless fences ? They 
are not useless now, but would be were it 
not for our neighbors’ stock. I have tried 
for several summers past to have the law 
in regard to the running of stock at large 
more rigidly enforced. Here it rests with 
the road supervisors to take up the vagrant 
stock. When complaint reaches one of 
them he must see to it that the nuisance is 
abated. He has the power to take up stock 
running at large and fine the owners; but, 
instead of doing so, he informs the owners, 
and they tell pitiful tales and make profuse 
promises. Then they keep their animals 
at home for a few weeks or pretend to have 
the children herd them, aud then things go 
on the same as usual until one complains 
to the supervisor again, when the same 
performance is repeated. Thus two or 
three neighbors keep the whole neighbor¬ 
hood in a ferment, and make it necessary 
to maintain several miles of fences for their 
benefit. One neighbor claims that he 
would have to go to the poor house if he 
could not pasture the roadsides. Possibly 
he might; but I believe the time spent in 
hunting his cows and horses would more 
than pay his pasture bill, if profitably em¬ 
ployed at home. As things are now it 
would be much cheaper for the community 
to pay his expenses at the county asylum. 
What to do next we hardly know. We are 
not dead with regard to the matter, how¬ 
ever, but merely sleeping until a new 
election. c. H. R. 
Clark’s Hill, Ind. 
City Fences Doomed. 
In this city the good work against the 
fence nuisance is going forward and is 
gaining ground. The removal of front 
fences gives an appearance of greater depth 
to the yard, and causes the house, dwelling 
or cottage to stand out more prominently 
aud distinctly, and If the house is neat and 
tasty so much the better. In some cases a 
rough and rustic but symmetrical stone 
coping is substituted along the front bor¬ 
der of the yard, and improves its appear¬ 
ance where terraces do not exist. But 
shall the abolition of fences be confined to 
city and town lots f There are strong rea¬ 
sons why there should be fewer fences on 
farms. The cost is the first item, and this 
is continuous. A good fence once erected 
must be watched and repaired for ever 
afterwards. Then comes the waste of 
land, aud next look at the accumulation 
aud growth of weeds and bushes which 
must be cut at the right time or the farm 
will be populated with noxious weeds, 
and hedges will monopolize the fence rows. 
Moreover, the fence system leads to close 
pasturing, which is a great injury to pros 
pectlve mowing fields, and in fact to any 
field, as it deprives Nature in a great 
measure of her power to enrich the soil 
with those elements of plant food which 
are so essential to successful crop produc¬ 
tion. In this connection, so long as we de¬ 
pend mainly on pasturing to keep our 
milch cows going, we will not resort to 
soiling to any great extent, and conse 
quently the manure pile, which, after all, 
is the farmer’s best bank, will not be in¬ 
creased. I believe the successful farmers 
in the near future will have fewer fences 
and better soils. Cattle will be fed in 
stables throughout the greater part of the 
year, and the actual pasture fields will be 
merely play grounds for the cattle, and 
consist of only one or two lots kept for this 
special purpose. f. d. 
Trenton, N. J. 
Pickets. 
Useless fences are down and must stay 
down in our township. People must fence 
their own stock in and not other people’s 
out, so that a man who has no stock needs 
no fence. T. B. p. 
Goldsboro, N. C. 
This place is 12 miles west of the Hudson 
The farmers are removing many of the 
division fences, and in some cases dispens¬ 
ing with road fences. Barbed wire fences 
and tllbse of plain, twisted three-quarter- 
inch wire are growing in favor, w. c. H. 
Walden, N. Y. 
There is but one man hereabouts, besides 
myself, who thinks so many fences are a big 
drawback. I can remove a board fence in 
less time than would be required to keep 
the. brush and weeds down along a stone 
wall. DEW. p. 
Salem, N. Y. 
After some agitation a year or so ago we 
succeeded in getting an ordinance passed 
against stock running at large on our 
streets. It is well enforced and several un 
stghtly fences have been taken down. 
Lawns are more carefully kept, and more 
attention is given to sidewalks. This all 
adds much to the beauty of our town and T 
believe there is a growing sentiment in 
favor of taking down all useless fences. 
Rockville, Ind. GEO. w. b. 
Many farmers are removing some of their 
fences, leaving only the line fences and 
those around their pasture lands. They 
are making the line fences very substantial 
and the cross fences movable. A consider 
able number of fences have been already re 
moved. c. H. E. 
Avoca, N. Y. 
Some useless fences are coming down, 
but more are being built. * g. R. 
Poquetanuck, Conn. 
Bkkcham's Pills cure Bilious anil Nervous Ills. 
The Yorkshire Herald (England) tells 
of a Short-horn heifer, Yorkshire Rose, that 
gave, when six years old, a carcass weigh¬ 
ing 1,988 pounds. When 4)^ years old her 
live weight was 3,094 pounds. She was six 
feet high at the shoulder; her girth was 1! 
feet, and she measured 11 feet 3 inches from 
her nose to her rump. 
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