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MY FAVORITE BREED OF STOCK. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 7 
•WHY I KEEP IT. 
Give Me Berkshire Swine. 
Accepting the invitation given in. The 
I t N.-Y., I will give you my reasons for 
Keeping Berkshires : 
1. Early maturity. My pigs are hogs, 
in the sense of ham, shoulder, and loin 
development, from the time they are far¬ 
rowed till they are full grown. 
2. They are sellers. My butcher tells 
me that my pork is more desirable 
than that of any other breed because of 
the large development of the parts de¬ 
manded in his trade, viz., hams, shoul¬ 
ders, etc., while the small bone, head, 
etc., give the minimum of waste. 
3. Meat texture and quality are un¬ 
surpassed. My best advertisement is to 
get a prospective customer to eat of the 
meat. 
4. They are quiet, never squealing 
around the trough. My neighbor owns 
Chester Whites, and they let every one 
within a radius of a mile know they are 
hungry by their incessant sqealing. 
5. They are docile. Among all the 
Berkshires I have ever owned, there 
has not been one that was breachy, 
cross, or addicted to eating chickens. 
0. They are good mothers. Not one 
of my brood sows has ever eaten her 
pigs, or lain on them unless they were 
chilled to inactivity. 
7. They are good breeders. My sows 
average from 9 to 12 even-sized pigs per 
litter. 
8. They are easy keepers. I know 
from past experience that my Berkshires 
will keep in good order on less feed than 
any other breed I have tried. 
9. They are hardy. I have never lost 
a Berkshire from any cause. They resist 
cholera the best of any known breed. 
10. They are short-legged, long-bodied, 
active-moving, strong-limbed hogs. Now 
there is a difference in Berkshires, but 
I believe that, by careful selection for 
breeders, and by avoiding inbreeding 
and by giving proper care, any man can 
have Berkshire hogs that will be a pride 
and a source of profit to the owner. 
Ashville, N. Y. F. R. s. 
Ho/steins Good Enough for Me. 
I venture to give my opinion in favor 
of the Holstein, as an ideal producer of 
milk, for the wholesale or retail trade. 
Before settling on this breed, I had no¬ 
ticed that, when one of the old farmers 
had an unusually good milker in his herd, 
upon a visitor admiring her good quali¬ 
ties, he would tell him with some degree 
of pride, that there was some Holstein in 
her. I have found the Holstein to be a 
large, hearty cow, of hardy constitution, 
capable of consuming large quantities 
of feed, which is conducive to a large 
flow of milk. She has a large, well- 
formed udder and teats, as a rule, being 
a free and easy milker, which is a feature 
to be recommended in particular on 
large farms where the help is mostly 
hired. Some would be likely to become 
careless about.milking cows that milked 
a little hard, causing the cows to dry 
up sooner than they ought to. Some 
complain that the Holstein gives them 
watery milk. I have in mind a herd of 
this breed, in which there were several 
cows that made all the way from 60 to 
63 pounds and 5 ounces of butter in a 
month. It appears that milk with so 
much butter fat in it, could give no cause 
for complaint. Set a standard, then use 
the scales and Babcock test, and weed 
out all cows that do not come up to the 
mark. In this way, we soon have a herd 
of cows that does not take one to pay 
for what the other eats, and should we 
Send us your neighbor’s subscrip¬ 
tion to The R. N.-Y. with his dollar 
and we will send him the paper to 
January 1,1898, and send you your 
choice of these books: 
First Lessons in Agriculture, 
American Grape Training, 
Toe Business Hen, 
The Nursery Book, 
The New Potato Culture. 
feel disposed to sell the calves, we can 
get more than $1 or 52 apiece for them. 
Strafford County, N. H. h. m. h. 
Hurrah for the Jersey. 
While there are, without doubt, many 
others better qualified to plead the cause 
of the Jersey cow, for fear they will 
not, I will undertake to do so. In the 
first place, I made up my mind that the 
place to make up ones milk is at home. 
“ Too many cooks spoil the broth”, is 
very likely to apply to creameries and 
factories, as well as other things. There 
may be 25 good, honest and cleanly 
dairymen taking milk to a factory, and 
one dishonest, filthy one, and this one 
will spoil the product of the whole. 
While every one will admit that there is 
an overproduction of butter and cheese, 
there is always a call for more first-class 
goods than are offered. 
My farm being a small one (60 acres) 
and two miles from a shipping station, I 
turned my attention to making butter. 
After carefully looking into the ques¬ 
tion, I came to the conclusion that the 
Jersey cow will not only make the best 
butter, but also the largest quantity out 
of a given amount of feed of any cow in 
the world. A dairyman should regard 
a cow as a machine to manufacture milk, 
cheese or butter from the raw material 
of his farm. If a manufacturer wish to 
buy an engine to run his machinery, he 
will try to find the one that will perform 
the largest amount of labor at the least 
cost. That is, use the least coal to pro¬ 
duce a given amount of steam. A man 
would be considered lacking in sense 
who would buy a 10-horse engine to run 
a Baby separator, and he should be, if he 
would buy a 1,400-pound cow that would 
make but a pound of butter a day, when 
an 800 one would do as well. 
It is claimed and, probably, truthfully, 
that the Holstein cow has made more 
pounds of butter in a year than any 
other. But it has never been even 
claimed by any honest man that she can 
do it as economically. I claim that the 
Jersey cow will make the best butter, 
because it is of firmer texture and higher 
colored on winter feed. The firmness of 
texture is a very strong point with the 
farmer who supplies a private trade, for 
the butter may be delivered in better 
condition, and will also “ stand up” on 
the table where other butter will be¬ 
come soft and unsightly. I am furnish¬ 
ing a hotel with butter on contract, at 
25 cents per pound, this year, and with¬ 
out my Jerseys, this would be impossible. 
Tne breeders of Jerseys are placed at 
a very great disadvantage by the law 
requiring milk to be three per cent fat 
to be standard, and just as good as six 
per cent if only up to that requirement. 
If this law were abolished, and one made 
requiring milk to be sold on what it 
tests, the same as the farmers have re 
quired of the fertilizer manufacturer, 
then the Jersey would be queen of the 
shipping station as well as the creamery, 
and the Holstein would have to go for 
just what she is worth. 
I do not claim that the Jersey is a per¬ 
fect cow, and wishing to be honest, 1 
will also show up her one disadvantage; 
at least, it is the only thing with which 
I can find fault so far, and that is, that 
she is not as robust as some other breeds, 
like the Devon, Ayrshire, and some 
others. I do not think that she is more 
prone to disease, but that she will not 
stand poor care as well as some others. 
The Jersey is the careful, painstaking 
dairyman’s cow, but if a man w.sh to 
winter his cow on the south side of the 
straw stack, he would better buy a 
Devon. She may not make any money 
for him, but she will be likely to live. 
“Forewarned is forearmed,” and know¬ 
ing of this disadvantage with the Jersey, 
I have provided against it by procuring 
animals for foundation stock that were 
from long-lived, robust families, as well 
as heavy milkers. The bull at the head 
of my herd is Old Hickory G. 43108, a 
grandson of Cocotte 11958, who- made 
All | 
for \ 
$ 1 . 00 . 
17 pounds 7% ounces of butter in seven 
days, at 14 years old. He is strong in 
the blood of Stoke Pogis, and took first 
prize at the Chenango County Fair this 
year (the only time he has been shown), 
and was pronounced by many the largest 
Jersey bull of his age they had ever seen. 
My heifers combine the blood of 
Cocotte, Rissa F. S. 16014 (record 19 
pounds of butter in seven days) and 
Cypres F. S. 2545, a grand old cow now 
owned by me, and in her nineteenth 
year. She gave me a fine calf last 
March, and is now a good, profitable 
dairy cow. 
Another point I should mention is the 
value of a purebred calf over that of a 
native. While the native or scrub calf 
is worth little or nothing, a purebred is 
worth from $10 up to almost any sum, 
according to its breeding. This makes 
quite a difference with the income from 
a dairy. 
And last I must speak of the beauty of 
the Jersey cow. Surely no one will 
question her claim of being the most 
beautiful of all cattle. Her color rang¬ 
ing from rich chocolate with white 
muzzle and golden under markings to a 
soft squirrel gray or delicate cream 
fawn; her head decorated with small, 
incurving horns, tipped with amber 
above a golden base ; her great, soft, 
liquid eyes which appeal to her owner 
to give her the care which she will so 
bountifully repay, all go to make up the 
daintiest and handsomest cow on earth. 
Hickory Hill Farm, N. Y. j. a. m. 
Can't Beat Berkshires. 
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I am raising Berkshires. I keep this 
breed because they suit me, and appear 
to be as near perfection, for a farmer, as 
pigs are likely to get. First, they are 
fair breeders and good mothers and, like 
the Holstein cow, appear to have confi¬ 
dence in their keepers. They don’t run 
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