THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Live Stock Matters 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Somk Prolific Stkkrs. —W. A. Shafer, 
in The Hreeder’s Gazette, says that 15 
years ago, in Ohio, cross-bred Short-horn 
steers, with a little Galloway blood in 
them, always brought top prices. He 
says: 
My father raised six cross-bred steers that were 
very fine, and sold them to a Cincinnati butcher 
at a fancy price as Christmas beeves when they 
were three and four years old. The lot weighed 
11,950 pounds, averaging almost 2,000 pounds. 
The butcher who bought them paraded them 
through the principal streets of Cincinnati, and 
they were one of the attractions of Christmas, 
1881. He sold car-loads of beef “ from the six 
black mulley 8 ,” but soon after he “slaughtered ” 
them, we noticed an item about six black polled 
steers from Ohio selling in the New York market 
at the top price of the season. The weights were 
given, and left no doubt as to their identity. 
A Choked Cow. —A cow of mine choked 
one morning. We tried a probang, 
drenching with melted lard, and several 
other things, but could do no good. The 
cow was nearly suffocated, when an 
aged German, hearing of it, came in to 
see her. After a careful examination, 
he found the obstruction just back of 
the pharynx. Picking up a hammer, he 
put the handle under her neck and with 
his left arm over the cow’s neck took 
hold of the other end and pulled it up 
and back between the pharynx and 
obstruction. The third time, the ob¬ 
struction moved and passed down into 
the paunch, and the cow was cured. 
Marion County, Ind. u. j. hale. 
“ Gallant Roosters.” —F. H. Graves, 
in the Poultry Monthly, has this bit of 
observation concerning roosters : 
A writer in a western journal says that “gal¬ 
lantry in a rooster” can be carried to an extreme, 
and that some will deny themselves food to the 
verge of starvation in order that the hens may 
gorge. Such a cock—one that hasn’t brains 
enough to eat when hungry—is not fit to breed 
from. If “ like produces like,” it would not take 
ong to produce a strain of fowls, the cocks of 
which would have to be fed with a spoon, or 
“ crammed” in a manner similar to that in 
vogue for fattening poultry in certain districts in 
France. I don’t believe that Game cocks are 
troubled with gallantry to such an extent—at 
least, I have never observed it. I have seen cocks 
of the Pit kind that were sufficiently generous to 
share certain rare morsels with their consorts, 
but never knew one to “turn up his toes” for lack 
of nourishment when there was food within 
reach. On the other hand, I have seen Malay 
cocks, as well as Japs and Indians, that would 
drive every hen away from its food, until their 
own appetites were appeased. At other times, 
they were as attentive to their mates as could be. 
With them, gallantry was all right in its place. 
Their ability to draw the line at feeding time, 
showed a sagacity quite equal to their swinish¬ 
ness. Whether gallantry is a more marked char¬ 
acteristic in some breeds than in others, I have 
never understood. It may be that the early train¬ 
ing of the cockerel has much to do with his 
idiosyncrasies as acock. 
Late Feed for Sheep. —The work of 
growing “hothouse” or other lambs to 
the highest degree of perfection, de¬ 
pends largely on the quality and amount 
of food furnished the mother ewe, espe¬ 
cially during the period from the time 
of the lamb’s birth, until it is ready for 
market. In the absence of clover as a 
forage crop for this purpose, it may be 
safely said that no one will make a mis¬ 
take in arranging for a crop of oats and 
peas as a substitute. The fact that the 
pea is highly nitrogenous, and also one 
of the leguminous plants, should recom¬ 
mend it at once as one of much value. 
In connection with oats to be cut and 
cured at the proper time, it should com¬ 
bine qualities for feeding purposes of 
the highest order. Many others are 
adopting this same method. My first 
seeding of grain the present spring con¬ 
sisted of oats and peas mixed—two 
bushels of oats, and one of peas per acre. 
Many years since, I learned that Hun¬ 
garian grass made an excellent food for 
horses and cattle, and I have to-day 
(June 9), sown a plot of four acres, a 
portion of which I anticipate will be 
relished by our sheep. Of course, it is 
essential that it be cut at the proper 
time, as soon as the earliest heads are 
beginning to turn brown. A liberal 
allowance of beets may also be profit¬ 
ably fed to breeding ewes. 
While reference has been made to the 
feeding of ewes, it is well known that 
lambs, at an early age, begin, in a small 
way, to take food of a coarser nature 
than the mothers’ milk, and if a mixture 
of oats and corn meal and bran, be 
placed in a “ creep,” where they can eat 
whenever they choose, it will be at¬ 
tended with excellent results. But after 
all, it is the faithful and painstaking 
care of the ewe, that is the essential 
factor in lamb growing. 
Genesee Co., N. Y. ihving d. cook. 
THE DOINGS OF A POULTRYMAN. 
NEW SCHEMES BY O. W. MAPES. 
We have often told our readers about 
the “ Hens by the Acre” scheme of Mr. 
0. W. Mapes, of Orange County, N. Y. 
Some years ago, Mr. Mapes rather start¬ 
led the poultry fraternity by his scheme 
of keeping hens in small houses scat¬ 
tered all over his farm, and connected 
by means of an electric service which 
closed doors and opened feed boxes. 
The R. N.-Y. has visited Mr. Mapes’s 
place twice, and we have told all the 
details of this singular business, which 
has proved profitable from the very start. 
At first, Mr. Mapes’s argument was 
that it paid him better to have the small 
houses scattered about the farm. He 
thought that the hens would be more 
contented in this way, and that it would 
be much easier to fight an attack of dis¬ 
ease. The experience of two or three 
years, however, in caring for the hens 
in winter, has shown him that there is 
too much travel, especially in cold, 
snowy weather, and he has been con¬ 
sidering the scheme of concentrating 
the hens in one large building. In fact, 
his son is now building, on another farm, 
a house that will accommodate 1,000 
birds. This house is to be 1(3 x 33(5 
feet, divided by wire netting into pens 
that will contain 50 birds each. There 
will be no yards, and the hens will run 
in and out, and all over the farm. When 
this scheme is fairly started, it will 
prove a very interesting experiment in 
connection with Mr. Mapes’s old plan of 
small houses and wide range, and we 
shall all be interested to see how it turns 
out. When the house is built and stocked, 
we expect to visit the place and give a 
full description of it in The R. N.-Y. 
When asked how they expect to stock 
the house, Mr. Mapes said that they 
would buy all their birds as pullets in 
the New York market. In fact, they 
have already bought a few pullets and 
contracted for others. They will be of 
all sorts of birds and breeding, though 
most of them will, probably, be Plym¬ 
outh Rocks. The pullets will average 
10 or 12 weeks old, and will cost about 
16 cents per pound, or probably, less 
than 25 cents each. Of course, these 
birds are only for the first season’s work. 
No males will be kept with them, and 
they will not be used as breeders at all. 
As they fulfill their obligations at the 
nest and retire from active life, their 
places will be filled by well-bred birds 
from Mr. Mapes’s own flock of Brown 
Leghorns. 
Mr. Mapes, as our readers know, has 
had a long and severe struggle with the 
roup, and from his experience, he is 
satisfied that he can handle this disease 
in a big house as well as he can in many 
scattered houses, and certainly he ought 
to know what he is talking about, having 
fought the disease for two years and 
finally conquered it. 
In asking about breeds, for his own 
purpose, Mr. Mapes says that he would 
prefer the Mediterraneans, by all means, 
for layers. He has been experimenting 
with some of Mr. Wyckoff’s White Leg¬ 
horns, and they have given the very best 
of results thus far. He has crossed the 
Whites with the Browns, and made very 
good laying birds. Some of the Whites 
have already shown a disposition to sit. 
He says that he has a number of Black 
Minorcas, three years old, that have 
never shown the slightest disposition to 
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