1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
827 
FEEDING CALVES. 
The method of feeding calves by the 
oest stock raisers iD this part of the 
country (and among them is one man 
who has a fancy herd of Red Polled 
Angus and who, therefore, aims to have 
fat, sleek, thrifty calves), is to take the 
calf away from its mother within 24 
hours after birth. Feed it whole milk 
for one week, and then gradually change 
to warm skim-milk. If the milk has 
been set for creaming, care must be 
taken to skim it before it gets sour ; for 
it would be better for the calf to go 24 
hours without food than to be fed, while 
young, a mess of sour milk. 
When the calf is two weeks old, begin 
to give it whole shelled corn. Give it in 
a box to which it can have access at any 
time. Right after drinking its milk, a 
calf always wants to be sucking or eat¬ 
ing something, and if corn be given it at 
that time, it will soon learn to eat it. 
Where there are a number of calves, 
stanchions should be made for each calf, 
with a box for corn by each one, then 
each calf can be fed separately and get 
its share of the milk, and after drinking 
its milk, it will go to eating the corn ; 
this will also prevent them from acquir¬ 
ing the habit of sucking each other. 
Corn is better than meal. They will 
learn to eat it gradually, and it will not 
physic them as meal is liable to do. It 
is, also, better than flaxseed meal, as 
the fat has been taken out of that, and 
fat is what is wanted to supply that 
which has been taken from the milk in 
skimming. The skim-milk will furnish 
the muscle-makers and the corn will 
furnish the fat-formers. Give it all the 
corn it will eat, with hay or grass and 
skim-milk, and at six months old, it will 
be just as large and fat and sleek as 
though fed on new milk. j. R. 
Burr Oak, Iowa. 
ANGORA GOATS. 
A real fine male Angora is most grace¬ 
ful in his bearing and general appear¬ 
ance. He carries his head high. He 
will generally get on the highest spot in 
the pen, so that he can overlook his 
herd ; if he observes anything strange 
or dangerous, he will give a warning by 
a keen snort. His horns are gracefully 
curved and not as heavy as those of the 
common goat. His back is straight, his 
legs proportionally short, but very strong 
and active. When in full length of fleece 
of 12 months’ growth, the wavy, fine, 
silky hair reaches below his knees, and 
just as low behind as in front; his breast 
is well covered with the same long, silky 
hair. His ears are either very large or 
very small. I like the large-eared An¬ 
goras better, although the small-eared 
ones often are good shearers. I never 
saw an Angora ram with average sized 
ears, that was worth keeping for breed¬ 
ing. Most of the Angoras have a nar¬ 
row strip of coarser hair on the middle 
of the back over the backbone, but a 
really fine Angora male should not show 
a coarse hair on his body, except on the 
tail and his beard, and the short, smooth 
hair on the lower part of his legs. Many 
of the best Angoras I have, have beauti¬ 
ful bangs of fine wool in their foreheads. 
It is quite a beautiful sight to see a 
bunch of these animals with their grace¬ 
ful bearing and active motions, espe¬ 
cially the young kids ; the latter can 
make the most surprisingly active 
motions in climbing and jumping. It is 
amusing to watch these pretty little fel¬ 
lows playing. If there is a high stump, 
pile of rocks, rails, or any high object to 
climb, they will surely all get on top and 
jump down, and do it over again and 
again. 
The wool or hair of these animals is 
used in making fine dress goods ; it is 
generally mixed with fine sheep’s wool, 
to give it luster, softness and durability. 
We have made many extra fine shawls, 
socks, etc., out of this hair. Out of the 
hair of half-breeds, three-quarter-breeds 
and seven-eighth-breeds we have made 
over 500 saddle girths which we sold at 
from 50 cents to $1.25 each, but since 
my Angoras are all fine shearers, I sell 
their hair (mohair) at 40 and 45 cents per 
pound. I always shear in April and in 
September (twice each year) ; it is a 
pretty good flock that will average from 
three to four pounds per head per year, 
The meat of these animals is the most 
healthful and best tasting of any that 
can be found. I sell a great deal of 
Angora mutton every year, and every¬ 
body who has once tried this kind of 
meat will surely want it all the time. 
Texas. h. t. fucus. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Jersey Notes. —Our herd of 19 grade 
Jerseys of our own raising, gave, from 
November 1, 1895, to November 1, 1896, 
339 pounds 7 ounces of butter each on 
an average, reckoning one cow for family 
use, and two two-year-olds as one full 
cow. We are tilling one of the aban¬ 
doned farms we read of. d. a. k. 
Vermont. 
Jerseys are Great Producers.—I 
keep Jerseys, purebred and grades, be¬ 
cause they are great producers and 
small consumers. If a 700-pound cow 
will make 300 pounds of butter per year, 
why keep a 1,200-pound cow that will 
make no more ? I have a Jersey 16 
years old, that, as a seven-year-old, 
made a record of 16% pounds in seven 
days. She will make 300 pounds per 
year now, and is as hearty and vigorous 
as any cow in the herd. When fresh, at 
present prices for feed, she will make 
butter at a food cost of six cents per 
pound. j. o. w. 
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Breeding for Sex. —The reading of 
the opinions of those that have answered 
the inquiries about breeding for sex, 
brings to mind an incident that hap 
pened in Mead County, about 30 years 
ago. It was at that time the custom to 
have a round-up of all stock in the 
spring, have the same marked, castrated 
and spayed by some one that made it a 
business. At one farm, a young sow 
was spayed, and only the ovary from 
one side was taken. In six or seven 
months, she had five pigs, all males. 
She had five other litters before she was 
killed, each time seven pigs, always 
males. If that plan would always work, 
the breeding for sex would be accom¬ 
plished. by having the ovary from one 
side or the other taken from the female. 
Fern Creek, Ky. j. g. s. 
Cows “ Shrink” in Cold. —The after¬ 
noon of October 10. was rainy, and it 
seemed quite cold for the time of year. 
When milking was done in the evening, 
it was still raining a little, and it seemed 
too bad to turn the cows out into the 
wet and cold. But the stable was not 
fixed just as I wanted to have it before 
the cows stayed in all night; besides, it 
seemed too early to begin to stable them, 
so out they went, with the hope that it 
would soon quit raining. The result 
was that every cow shrank in her milk. 
To find how much the shrinkage was, I 
have just added the milk yield for the 
three days ending with October 10 and 
the next three days. The yield for the 
first three days, for the 11 cows, was 
546 % pounds; for the next three days, 
it was 499 pounds, a shrinkage of 8.7 
per cent. The 47 % pounds in three days 
is not all the loss, for the cows have not 
yet got back to their old yield, and 
never will. The spring balance, record 
sheet and Babcock test were fixed up 
with the idea of testing the cows, but 
the record is also useful, as in this case, 
in noting the effects of feed and care on 
the cows, and is well worth all it costs 
for that alone. e. b. watson. 
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