1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
523 
LIVE STOCK HATTERS. 
(CONTINUED.) 
taught to eat it, but it is contrary to 
their natures. These mashes have been 
devised and used principally to supply 
the necessary vegetable food. I find it 
better to supply the vegetable food green 
or raw, as Nature intended they should 
eat it. I try to furnish the same elements 
in the same condition in winter that 
Nature does in summer. The keynote 
is, variety. Their natural food is grain 
and seeds of all kinds ; bugs, worms and 
insects, with an abundance of green 
food, which is the foundation of vigor 
in poultry. Let the winter feed be 
whole wheat, barley and buckwheat ; 
use but little corn, and then at night 
only, and not to exceed a bushel per 
month for 100 hens. Remember that 
you wish eggs, not fat ! Keep the hens 
hungry except at night; send them to 
roost with full crops. Keep green food 
in the shape of cabbage, turnips, carrots 
or beets constantly where they can peck 
at them. Be sure that they can always 
find plenty of grit and sand. 
To taae the place of insect food, I feed 
granulated bone that is very rich in 
liypophosphites and lime, and a prepared 
dried blood which furnishes albumen 
and ammonia. The bone is placed where 
they can help themselves, but when I 
feed the blood, it beiDg a powder, I 
mash a few boiled potatoes and mix it 
in a very dry mass. I alternate the grain 
food, and scatter it in litter, where they 
must scratch to find it. Exercise must 
be kept up as well as food. Pure water 
in clean vessels is, of course, a necessity. 
Feeding Chicks. 
My experience leads me to conclude 
that bread and milk are the very best 
food with which to start a chick. It 
cleanses the crops and digestive organs, 
and prevents bowel trouble, which is 
ti e cause of much mortality among 
them. I feed this for a few days or a 
week, until I let the hen run with them, 
then I feed cracked wheat and corn, 
equal parts, and when three weeks old, 
whole wheat—on which they thrive as 
on no other food. 
My breeding rules differ from those of 
breeders who breed for feathers, and ex¬ 
hibition purposes. If a hen is unpro¬ 
ductive, off goes her head, no matter 
how many points she may score. If one 
is heavier than the maximum allowed 
by the standard, I keep her, as any large 
bird of its kind, is sure to prove strong, 
vigorous and productive. 
The Meat Side of the Question. 
Broilers can be made profitable if 
raised artificially. Eggs are more profit¬ 
able, and require no artificial conditions; 
but ducks for meat are more profitable 
than either. My specialty is raising 
Pekin ducks artificially for market and 
breeding purposes. The mortality among 
them is very light. They are very hardy, 
subject to no disease, and will thrive 
under conditions that would kill a chick. 
Lice never bother them. All they ask 
is plenty to eat and drink, and they will 
take on flesh at a rate that will astonish 
you. When you can make a duckling 
weigh from 43^ to 5 pounds in nine weeks, 
at a cost of 2)4 cents per pound in feed, 
and sell him for 40 cents per pound early 
in April or 15 cents in July, there is a 
larger percentage of profit in it than in 
any farm crop or any other legitimate 
business. In selecting my breeders, 
of which I have now 300 the 
same principle governs—utility. As I 
wish flesh, I select those with long 
bodies, wide and deep breast and keel. 
For quick returns and large profits, 
they have no rival in the poultry line. 
The demand for ducklings is always 
greater than the supply in nearly all 
markets. It is commonly believed that 
ducks must have water in which to 
swim ; this is true of puddle ducks. The 
Pekins have been raised for many gen¬ 
erations without it; the desire is virtu¬ 
ally bred out of them, and to admit 
them before they are full feathered 
would be in jurious. I can merely allude 
to the duck question when the subject 
of meat is being considered, but what I 
have said may demonstrate which is the 
most profitable branch of all in raising 
poultry. Our ideas may differ, but the 
proof of the pudding is in the eating. 
Missouri. H. E. MOSS. 
STOCK GROWING IN OKLAHOMA. 
I keep purebred Short-horn cattle to 
raise young stock to supply my neigh¬ 
bors here in the Territory. This is a 
stock-raising country ; no matter what 
the season is for other crops, there is 
always a bountiful supply of stock feed 
raised here. Last year, when hay was 
short elsewhere, hundreds of car-loads 
were shipped from here to Chicago, St. 
Louis and Kansas City. Wheat seems to 
do very well here, but most farmers 
raise fodder crops, corn, Kaffir corn, 
sorghum, millet—and some are starting 
Alfalfa, which, I believe, will do well. 
I have a milk dairy, and keep a num¬ 
ber of grade cows and some Jerseys for 
my milk supply, selling the milk in the 
city of Newkirk. I prefer to let the 
calves have the milk from my Short-horn 
cattle, believing that better calves can 
be raised by the cows than when fed by 
hand. The calves from my grade stock 
I do not raise, unless I have an over¬ 
supply of milk, but sell them to the 
neighbors at $2 per head when about 
three days old. The calves from my 
Jerseys are hard to get rid of, unless 
they are heifer calves. 
The reason that I prefer Short-horns 
is that I can do better with them than 
with a lighter breed. While milk sells 
here for only 15 cents a gallon, butter 
for six cents a pound, and cheese for 
eight cents, it does not pay farmers to 
keep cattle for the milk supply, except¬ 
ing for their own family use. The calf 
from a Short-horn makes a much larger 
veal than from any of the strictly dairy 
breeds, and when grown for beef, pays 
almost double for the amount of feed 
consumed, unless it be for the exception 
of the Hereford cattle, which are raised 
here also. 
With corn at 15 cents a bushel, it pays 
better for farmer's to sell it on the hoof 
than from the crib, and most of the 
well-to-do farmers keep either cattle or 
hogs to eat their corn. These farmers 
will not purchase any other than half- 
breeds of cattle, and among them, they 
get very many good milkers, sufficiently 
so, at any rate, for all home consumption. 
Newkirk, O. T. K. H. L. 
WESTERN STOCK NOTES. 
Prof. W. A. Henry, of Wisconsin, was 
recently “ caught on the fly,” and re¬ 
quested to bat at a few questions that 
were pitched to him : 
“ What seems to be the outlook for 
dairying in the West ? ” 
“ We have, in Wisconsin, at this time, 
about 2,500 creameries and cheese fac 
tories. As agriculture has declined, this 
has been a great help in our State. Our 
farmers are getting three-quarters of a 
million dollars a week for dairy goods. 
The present low prices are discouraging 
our people quite a little. We are feeling 
it in butter this year. With the low 
prices for pork, horses and grain, there 
is a considerable feeling of dissatisfac¬ 
tion. Our State is more prosperous than 
many of the western States. People stick 
closer to business, and attend to their 
knitting. We had, in Wisconsin, 100 
farmers’ institutes, and 50,000 farmers 
came to those meetings. Our mortgages, 
nine times out of ten, represent pur¬ 
chases. They represent ambition to 
own more land. The Germans are good 
farmers. They have more faith in the 
institutes and the schools than our Yan¬ 
kee farmers.” 
“ What is the tendency of the West as 
to breeds of cattle ? ” 
“ The Babcock test has done a great 
deal for the rich milk breeds. It has 
unduly stimulated this idea. A farmer 
will talk about his test regardless of the 
quantity of milk. If he has a cow that 
gives six-per-cent milk, and she is giving 
20 pounds a day, he will think her a 
greater cow than one that is giving five- 
per-cent milk and 50 pounds. I think 
that, for the farmer, the grade is the 
cow. Grades of Jerseys, Guernseys and 
Holsteins are among the best. We have 
some excellent Holsteins in our State, 
but, of course, there are some very poor 
ones. The average farmer likes the 
Short-horn, and that breed has formed 
the basis for many of our grade herds.” 
“Is the hog business in the West boom¬ 
ing now ? ” 
“ Southern Wisconsin is a good hog 
country, and our farmers have made a 
good deal of money on hogs. Southern 
Wisconsin is in the hog belt, which 
reaches into Iowa and Nebraska. It is 
an enormous industry in the West. Most 
of the hogs raised are black. The black 
hair and black skin stand our hot sun 
better.” 
“Do you know whether farmers are 
using dried blood, ground bone or tank¬ 
age for feeding hogs ? ” 
“I know of a little being used occa¬ 
sionally. It is usually used for show ani¬ 
mals, and the results are fairly satisfac¬ 
tory. I know of one of the most suc¬ 
cessful growers of hogs in our State who 
uses a little dried blood. I hear men 
say, in Nebraska, that they do not care 
to use it.” 
Killing the Horn. —I have been in¬ 
terested in what has been said about 
dishorning and preventing horn growth. 
The former I have never tried, but I 
have for two years, killed the coming 
horns with common concentrated lye, 
using that bought for soap-making. I 
am a veritable shut-in, having come 
here in 1890 for my health, and failed to 
find it. I have been to my stable but 
three times in considerably more than 
two years, so that what I have done has 
been by others, and when and where I 
could have no personal oversight of the 
matter. I directed that the calf, in every 
instance under 10 days of age, be fas¬ 
tened to a post so that its head would be 
immovable. The embryo horn was then 
clipped short of hair with scissors, 
moistened, and about the mass of a half 
of a grain of corn of the lye made into 
a paste and rubbed into each horn. Care 
was taken that the paste was not moist 
enough to run at all, but that it would 
remain where placed. In no case has a 
second application been necessary ; and 
in every instance, the horn has been per¬ 
fectly destroyed. My success under cir¬ 
cumstances where it had to be done by 
other hands, and beyond my sight, has 
prompted me to give my method. 
Clifford, Tex. o. f. r. 
INSTEAD OE TRIFLING WITH A BAD COLD, use 
Dr. D. Jayne's Expectorant, which will loosen the 
phlegm, subdue inflammation, and certainly save 
your lungs and throat much dangerous wear and tear. 
The best family Pill, Jayne's Painless Sanative — Adv. 
Horse Owners! Use 
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Removes all Bunches or Blemishes from Ilorsei 
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effectof “Sboo-Fly,” manufactured in Philadelphia, 
Pa., that I made duplicate orders in May. aggregating 
250 quarts. J. W. BUSHER. 
Kansas City, Mo. 
I have used Slioo-Fly two years on my cows. It 
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Fallsington. Bucks Co., Pa. H. W. COMFORT. 
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JERSEY CATTLE 
R. F. SHANNON, PITTSBURGH, PA. 
GUERNSEYS. 
Fifty bead choice Cows, Heifers 
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ELLERSLIE STOCK FARM, 
RHINECLTFF, N. Y. 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN Si^e . 1 T mSFco% 
from three to six years old; four Heifer Calves. Am 
retailing milk, and cannot raise calves. 
C. N. MURDOCK, Oneonta, N. V. 
There is a TIME for ALL. and NOW is that TIME 
to order choice young pigs from best strains. 
Wiliswood Herd 
Recorded Berkshire Swine. 
WILLS A. SEWARD, Budd's Lake. N.. I. .or 207 Broad¬ 
way, N. Y. Can supply you with THOROUGHBRED 
CATTLE from BEST HERDS. Write for particulars 
aud prices. 
CLOSING OUT FOR GOODtLCSS: 
SHIRES. The famous Boars: Lettcrblair 28063; 
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WE 
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W. &B. P. Rocks and W, Wyandottes 
Good March to May-hatched Pullets or Cockerels, $1 
One-year Breeding Hens. $1; six for $5. 
One-year Cocks, $2. Eggs, 75c. per sitting. 
Stock and Eggs guaranteed pure. 
DR. H. J. ASHLEY, - - Machiag, N. Y. 
rnD C AI C A Thoroughbred Guernsey Bull 
run vmLL Calf, 3 months old. All right in 
color, ancestry and show-ring points. Unsurpassed 
in any respect. M. SAGER. Orangeville, Pa. 
400 
SELECTED PEKIN DUCKS; extra stock. 
Brookside Poultry Farm, Columbus. N. J. 
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TRY THEM BSPORE YOU PAY FOR THEM. 
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100 gal. pkt. $2, 25 gal. pkt. 50c. 
Kills and 
Prevents 
Ticks, 
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If druggist cannot supply, send $1.75 for $2 pkt. to 
CYRIL FRANCKLYN. Cotton Exchange, N. Y. City 
Galled Horses 
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MOORE BROS. ALBANY N. Y. 
Ml AILING HORSE 
means loss of money. We < 
! cure him while he works < 
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