1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
249 
LIVE STOCK MATTERS. 
(continued.) 
cows—four new milch, one stripper. I 
was making !}■£ pound of butter a day 
per cow*. I thought that I would try 
feeding raw potatoes, and gave the five 
cows one bushel per day at one feeding, 
milking before feeding. After feeding 
potatoes for a week, my cows fell off 
one-half pound of butter a day. I stop¬ 
ped feeding potatoes, feeding the same 
grain ration, and my cows came back to 
one pound per day. I trust that by an¬ 
other week, I can get them to their old 
weight, lJi pound of butter per day. I 
have one purebred Jersey. I think that 
if the other four were Jerseys, I could 
make two pounds per cow. The others 
are common stock. j. k. l. 
Elnora, N. Y. 
Wanted ! A Bull. —Can E. A. Powell, 
or anybody else, put us on the trail of 
that young bull of any breed whose an¬ 
cestors on both sides show records of 
25,000 to 28,000 pounds of milk for 12 or 
more generations ? What ought he to 
cost in these days of “ cheap blood” ? 
Delevan, N. Y. c. m. t. 
Ans. —Such a bull has never yet been 
known. If one of the kind should be pro¬ 
duced, he would be cheap at $10,000, to 
head any first-class large herd. The 
largest showing within my knowledge, 
for an equal number of ancestors, is in 
the pedigree of the Holstein bull, “ Sir 
Clothilde Duke,” whose 16 nearest female 
ancestors, extending in every line, have 
made butter records which average for 
the whole number, 23 pounds 2 ounces in 
a week, and yearly milk records which 
average 17,655 pounds 4 ounces, while 
his 20 nearest female ancestors average 
21 pounds 1334 ounces in a week, and 17,- 
247 pounds 11 ounces in a year. This in¬ 
cludes every ancestor which has been 
imported to, or bred in America. If any 
bull can make a better showing for both 
milk and butter, we have failed to see 
his pedigree. This bull is owned in the 
“ Lakeside” herd. There may be others 
which can make an equal showing for 
both milk and butter for the same num- 
bei* of direct female ancestors, but I 
have not heard of them. If there be 
such, I would be glad to have their re¬ 
cords given in The R. N.-Y., for the 
benefit of myself, as well as that of other 
breeders, who will be glad to know the 
facts. E. A. POWELL. 
Exercising a Bull.—N. B. White 
tells, in the Massachusetts Ploughman, 
of the following singular method of ex¬ 
ercising a bull : 
A few years ago, I had a fine Jersey bull three 
years old. He was kind, but at times when I took 
him out, he was rather hilarious. I became sus¬ 
picious of him, as he had no ring in his nose, and 
thought that I must, in some way, give him exer¬ 
cise. Finally I adopted the following plan: I 
rolled into his stall, in front of him a stone, 
nearly round, that weighed about 300 pounds. It 
seemed to be just what he wanted. He attacked 
it as he would another bull—he rolled it over and 
over; he went down on his knees and rubbed his 
head against it, then up and went at it again. He 
had very slim horns, and he wore them off over 
an inch; he worked at it until he became thor¬ 
oughly exhausted, and laid down to rest. Ever 
after that, when he needed exercise he would 
play with that stone. He had it for a year and 
always exercised himself in that way. I had no 
trouble with him, and he kept his horns well 
worn off. 
Bad Time With Hogs. — I started with 
four old sows and five young ones, one 
Cheshire boar, and 16 four-months-old 
pigs. In the middle of January, 1895, 
one of the old sows miscarried. The last 
of January, another one of the old sows 
farrowed her pigs all right, but she 
would not have anything to do with 
them; she seemed all right, but she 
would not nurse them. February 22, 
another one farrowed seven pigs ; she 
had done all right, raised her pigs, and 
seemed well until May 29, when I noticed 
that she would not eat her supper. The 
next morning, she was dead; I don’t 
know what was the matter with her. 
June 7, the other old sow was about to 
farrow when she died. The five young 
sows all farrowed between March 22 and 
April 3, but I raised only 12 pigs from 
the five sows. Between September 23 
and 28, the five young sows had 35 pigs 
and all were doing well, until the middle 
of October, when I had 71 of the nicest 
pigs I ever saw all together. I had 
started to kill some of them, when hog 
cholera got among them, and I lost 42, 
and what I did not lose became so poor 
that it seemed as though it would have 
been better to bury them with the rest. 
I have seen accounts in The R. N.-Y. 
about how well some men have done 
with pigs, but I am not one of them. 
Vineland, N. J. A. p. 
Rye and Bran.— How can I make up 
a ration of the following: The rough 
fodder will consist of rye straw and 
some Timothy hay cut in a cutter. I 
have rye of my own, and the rest of the 
grain I shall have to buy. I can sell rye 
for 35 cents per bushel. I shall have to 
pay 30 cents for corn, 28 cents for oats, 
and other grains as follows : Bran, $13 
per ton; middlings, $14.10; corn meal, 
$13.50 ; corn and oats, $15 ; mill feed, 
$14. This is to be fed to work horses 
and cows. The cows will get some 
bean pods. j o. t. 
Brighton, Mich. 
R. N.-Y.—Briefly stated, our advice 
would be to feed the rye to the horses. 
Buy bran and feed half and half rye and 
bran to the horses, and all bran to the 
cows, using as much grain as you can 
afford. 
A Deep-Seated Cough, cruelly tries the Lungs 
and wastes the general strength. A prudent resort 
for the afflicted is to use Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant, 
a remedy for all troubled with Asthma, Bronchitis, 
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