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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February IS, 
Live Stockand Dairy 
STRENUOUS COWS-WITH A HIS- 
'JORY. 
The picture on page 115, Fig. 51, 
shows a type of cattle raised here in 
Fairfax Co., Va., along the Potomac. 
A century and a half ago, away back in 
Colonial times, the vessels that went over 
to England from Alexandria (Belle 
Haven) laden with tobacco from the plan¬ 
tations of George Washington—the Ma¬ 
sons, Alexanders, Fitzhughs and other 
great planters of this section—came back 
bringing cows, hogs, and other animals 
and it goes to show that what Mr. White 
said is true. Evidently that hen, on being 
confined in the small coop, had begun to 
absorb the eggs that were in process of 
development. While she had to lay the 
egg that was being shelled, she wouldn’t 
have laid again for quite a while. So I 
consider it a fact that “a hen doesn’t 
have to lay if she doesn’t want to.” Con¬ 
sequently the necessity of keeping hens 
comfortable, interested and happy, and 
“in the humor” to lay is quite evident. 
C.F.O. A. COSGROVE. 
DR. DAVID 
ROBERTS 
CATTLE 
SPECIALIST 
OFFERS THESE BOOKS FREE 
No. 1. Abortion In Cows. No. 2. 
Barren Cowb. No. 3. Retained 
Afterbirth. No. 4. Sc on ra in 
Calves. No. 5 Howtoniakoyour 
OWN STOCK FOOD at home. 
Dr. David Kobcrls, Cattle Specialist 
431 Grand Avo.,Waukesha,Wls. 
Standard bred pigs for sale. 
Honest dealing my motto. M L. 
Uowersox.R.3; Bradford, Dk.Co,0 
POLAND CHINAS 
Write and describe what you want, for I am in posi¬ 
tion to fill your order with up-to-date breeding; 
order a Sow bred at once for Spring farrowing 
JACOB B. MILLER. Bradford, Ohio. 
Will grow into money quickly if well fed a 
PAIR OF JERSEY 
RED PIGS 
A cheap way to start in the pig business. 
Get free booklet 
ARTHUR J. COLLINS, Moorestnwn, N. J. 
STAR FARM HOLSTEINS. 
First Mid-Winter Offering! 
20 Twenty Service Bulls 20 
About, one year old sired by the great Mercedes 
Jullp s Pietertje’s Paul, whose dam Mercedes Julip's 
Pietertje was the I'.HIU world's champion butter 
record cow, A R. O. 29 5 7 lbs. in seven days. 
Also by Belle Korndyke Beryl Wayne, a son of 
Belle Korndyke. A. R O. seven day record 25.12.3 Ids. 
She also has produced three daughters with greater 
combined official butter records than any other cow 
in the world. These bulls are from official tested 
dams, one with a t hree year old record of 21.67 lbs. 
butter In seven days, official average per cent, of 
fat4.44 Circulars sent on application. 
HORACE L. BRONSON, Dept. D.. Cortland. N Y. 
THE BLOOMINGDALE HERD OF 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS 
are bred for large Production, Good Size, Strong 
Constitution, Best Individuality. 
If theseare the klad you want, write or come to see 
them. 125 to select from. Animals of both sexes 
and all ages to offer at prices that will please you. 
A special offer on some nicely bred Bull Calves. 
A. A. CORTELYOU, Neshanlc, N. J. 
Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves 
FOR SALE. 
for the colonists. Soon the cattle were 
found to be able to take care of them¬ 
selves, being turned on the native grasses 
and cane of the river and creek bottoms. 
Thus as time went on in spite of scant 
shelter, and often short pasture, they 
throve and multiplied, holding well up to 
this present day, showing plainly the les¬ 
son of the survival of the fittest. I think 
some of these strenuous cows and hogs 
with a history going back two hundred 
years would be just the thing for our 
Hope Farm man to turn in to those back 
fields; for they could browse and root, 
get their living with very little help, 
while their owner in the meantime could 
take his annual outing to the sunny banks 
of the Suwannee River. b. r. s. 
Washington, D. C. 
COSGROVE'S HEN NOTES. 
F. Q. White says, on page 30, “always 
remember that a hen doesn’t have to lay 
if she doesn’t want to.” Now, I have 
frequently heard the remark, “If the eggs 
are in ’em they have got to lay ’em.” 
But that is not true, and Mr. White is 
right, with this exception ; if the hen has 
commenced to deposit shell on an egg, 
that egg has got to he laid. I have often 
moved a lot of hens from one coop to 
another, and would get as many eggs 
the next day as usual; then a less num¬ 
ber each day for several days, and would 
not get the usual number until the hens 
had become wonted or familiar with their 
new quarters. Mr. White breeds Leg¬ 
horns. and they are more nervous and 
excitable than my White Wyandottes. 
I have never noticed any difference in 
the number of eggs when “company” has 
been visiting the coops, while lie claims 
that it always lessens the output of his 
fowls. 
Detective Work. —A short time ago I 
noticed for three or four days in succes¬ 
sion an empty eggshell in a certain nest; 
it had a hole in it not much larger than 
my thumb nail, and the entire contents 
were sucked out. As the egg was the 
same size, color and shape each time, it 
was evident that a hen was eating her 
own eggs as fast as laid. As over 60 
liens roost in that house, it was not such 
an easy job to determine which hen it 
was. So I set out to watch the nest; 
got an easy position under shelter, where 
1 could see the nests, and with five hens 
on 1 watched a half hour or so; those 
five hens could see me, too, and not one 
of them would lay or make a movement. 
They all squatted as low as possible on 
the nests and kept one eye constantly on 
me. Then I gave it up, and went to ex¬ 
amining the beaks and neck feathers for 
yolk of egg, with no success. Next day 
another egg was eaten, and I found two 
hens with beaks that were coated with 
something that might be yolk, hut was so 
dirty I couldn’t be sure. I shut them up, 
and one laid and ate the egg, shell and 
all, the second day. I killed both hens, 
and haven’t lost any eggs that way since. 
What I have related all this for is this: 
On opening the hen that laid I found 
that the yolks of the two eggs that would 
have come next had begun to shrink, 
did not fill the skin out round and plump, 
as did the third-sized yolk. The differ¬ 
ence in appearance was very noticeable, 
ARRANGEMENT OF HOGPENS. 
Will some one who has a hogpen containing 
four pens give a description of it? 
Suffolk Co., N. Y. j. s. w. 
The great difficulty in planning a hog- 
house is to get it so that it will be dry 
and clean. In this plan, 10 x 20 feet, I 
have four sleeping—or nest—pens, and 
four feed pens; close partitions between 
them, except passageway between the 
nest pen and the feed pen. Each feed 
b 
YARD 
fs j£ST. ^ 
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S x 6 Ft. 
ALLEY 
4-xzorr 
and nest pen is to be 5 x 6 feet, and the 
alleyway 4 x 20 feet. The building should 
stand east and west, with pens on south | 
side, and alley on north side, and have 
a yard on south side as large as desir¬ 
able. I would make a double doorway at 
two of the partitions, and make the doors 
so they will close tight. As arranged, 
the sows can make their nests in corners 
away from doors, and the wind will not 
blow on them when the doors are open. 1 
The pens next to the alle}' can be used 
to feed in, when the weather is had, and 
when good, the feeding can be done in 
lots outside. The more feeding done 
inside, the more work required to keep 
the house clean. 
I would lay the floor with cement con¬ 
crete, making the alley floors level, hut 
the pen floors I would slope from the 
south wall towards the alley, about three 
inches in the 12 feet. This will tend to 
cause all water to flow towards the alley, 
and keep the nests and feed stalls com¬ 
paratively dry. The bedding from the 
nests, when soiled, can go into the lots 
or alley, just as the feeder wishes, when 
he cleans out the stalls. The yards ’ 
should be kept clean by throwing in 
straw, or other coarse material. Over this 
floor plan the builder can put such 
building as suits him best; a shed in 
form, the roof sloping one way, or a 
comb roof. In either case, if he wishes, 
a room for bedding and feed above the 
pens. The building should he located on 
an elevated point of ground, so the water 
will flow away from it in all directions, 
and the roof spouted, to keep water 
from making it wet about the building. 
Make doors at the ends of the alley. If 
the doors are cut in half, it will often 
be an advantage in airing out the pens. 
There should also he plenty nf windows 
on the south side, for sunshine is a very 
important factor in the health and com¬ 
fort of swine. john m. jamison. 
“I trust, Miss Tappit,” said the kindly 
employer to his stenographer, “that you 
have something in reserve for a rainy 
day?” “Yes, sir,” answered the earnest 
young woman, “I am going to marry a 
man named Mackintosh.”—Credit Lost. 
Springbank Berkshires. 
I have some grand 11 months old Service Boars. 
Some Spring Gilts and Boars, and some Yearling 
Sows, will breed them for Spring litters. All first- 
class individuals 
J. E. WATSON, Proprietor. Marbledale, Conn. 
From choice A. R. O. Dams, and by such sires as 
Beryl Waynes Paul DeKol and Sir Korndyke Manor 
DeKol. We will make attractive prices on these 
youngsters as they must be disposed of to make room 
for our crop of Winter Calves. Write for prices on 
anything needed in Holstein-Friesians. 
WOODCREST FARM, Rifton, Ulster Co.. N.Y, 
uni CTFIN Rill 1 ? from 3 to 18 months old. A 
llULOlLlli DULL0 few choice young Cows; 
Improved Chester Whites of all ages Prices right 
CHARLES K. RECORD, Pcterboro, N V 
BERKSHIRES 
of the HIGHEST BREEDING at reasonable 
prices. WILLOUGHBY FARM, Gettysburg,Pa. 
rnn 0A| C -Purebred Holstein-Friesian Bull 
lUn OnLL Calvesand Scotch Collie Pups from 
registered stock. Prices moderate; write promptly. 
W. W CHENEY, Manlius, N. Y. 
MEADOWBROOK BERKSHIRES. 
CHOICE ANIMALS of all ages and both sexes for 
sale. Representatives of the best English and Amer¬ 
ican strains. Prices reasonable, quality considered. 
MEADOWBROOK FARMS, Bernardsville, N. J. 
HOLSTEINS. 
High-Class Advanced Registry Stock ouly. Best 
butter families. Stock for Sale. 
WOODSIDE FARM, 
Princeton, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. 
JOHN B. MARCOU. 
Reg. P. Chinas, Berkshires and C. Whites. 
■jw— 8 wks. to 6 mos.. mated not akin. 
service Boars, Bred sows.'. Write for 
liQr prices and description. Return if not 
satisfactory; wo refund the money. 
HAMILTON & CO., Ercildpun, Chester Co., Pa. 
LTOLSTEIN BULL CALVES. Scotch Collies,Spayed 
** Females. SILAS DECKER, South Montrose, Pa. 
Kentucky Jack Farm, Jk 
A fine lotot Kentucky bred yWjfcflL 
and big black Spanish jacks 
and jennets. Also one and 
two-year old jacks Young 
stock for sale at all times w * 
Write or see me before you W W* — 
buy. Come to Kentucky if M Wro 
you want a good jack. / a 
JOE E WRIGHT, 
Junction City, Kentucky. |W 
WHITE STRINGS EARM, 
GUERNSEY HERD. 
Headed by PETER THE GREAT OF PAXTANG, 
No. 6346 and BLUE BLOOD, No. 6310. 
Such Cows as Imp. Deanie 7th, 502.9 lbs. of butter 
in one year. Sheet Anchor’s Lassie, 4 745.2 lbs of but¬ 
ter in one year. Aza lia of Florham. 400 lbs of butter 
in one year. Lucretia 3d, 508.4 lbs of butter in one 
year. etc., etc. 
The herd numbers about forty carefully selected 
animals Registered and tuberculin-tested Breed¬ 
ing stock for sale at all times, including the choicest 
of heifer and bull calves of all ages. The winnings 
at the New York State Fair for 1904 comprised 13 
first anti second prizes, and one champion¬ 
ship out of 17 entries. Prices very reasonable. 
For further information and catalogue, address. 
ALFRED G. LEWIS, Geneva, N.Y. 
Please mention Rural New YORKER in writing. 
Note. 15 choice two year old heifers for sale at 
from SHOO to #1300, also several mature bulls 
JACKS FOR SALE. 
The tinest lot of JACKS and JENNETS 1 ever 
owned. Some special bargains. Address. 
BAKER’S JACK FARM, 
Box 1, Lawrence, Inti. 
FIFTY MAMMOTH !L 
jacks 
Some nice jennets and saddle 
stallions. Write for catalog and R 
rnn CAI C— Two pure bred Guernsey males, 3 
run OHLt an( j 9 nios old. great grandsons of 
the famous Mary Marshall; Also Foxhound dogs and 
pups. 
MELVIN THOMAS, R F D„ No. 1, Wayville, N. Y. 
come to see us before you buy -s J 
J. E. COOK As CO., Union Stock Yards, Lex¬ 
ington, Kentucky. 
guernsey Cattle—Two registered Guernsey Rulls. 
one 2 yrs. old, other 2 mos. old. Extra individ¬ 
uals, backed by best of breeding. Write for prices 
and pedigree. THE LINDHURST FARM, Bolivar, O. 
tfWOv SQUABS PAY HSS 
/ \ Easier, need attention only part of 
\ 1' jl time, bring big prices. Raised in one 
ff -v \ II month. Money-makers for poultry- 
k men. farmers,women. Send for FREE 
vaBOOKLET and learn this rich home 
\ / industry,.PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB 
- - CO., 289 Atlantic Ave., Boston, Mass. 
JERSEYS 
Highest honors at World’s Fair, Chicago, and Pan 
American, Buffalo, were won by us. Can furnish 
young bulls of the very best breeding, and Splendid 
Individuals, at reasonable prices. 
BEECHLANDS FARM 
East Aurora New York 
\\/YANDOTTES.White, Ruff, Silver L andGold. 
Yy LEGHORNS. Brown. White and Buff. PLYM. 
ROCK8, Barred. Buff and White. Brahmas Cochins, 
R.l. Reds, Minorcas and other breeds in Cockerels 
und Hens. Mt. Blanco Poultry Farm, Carpenter, 0. 
■ ■ Combination and 
kUWIi V V f Golden Lad. For 
U LmU I * * ■ sale 11 cows, 11 keif 
■ ers and 23 bulls. 
S. E. NIV1N, lANDENHE It G, 1’ A . 
WHITE WYANDOTTES EXCLUSIVELY! 
FOR SALE—Extra fine White W yandotte Cockerels 
for breeding purposes. B. F’ Kean. Stanley, N. Y. 
YOU CAN’T AFFORD A GRADE, , 
when 1 will sell you a registered JERSEY Bl LL, 
best dairy stock: ready for service: at farmer’s price. 
R. F. SHANNON, 905 Liberty St., Pittsburg. Pa. 
PkUSTON’S W. Wyandottes, Blanchard’s W. Leg- 
horns, 8. C. & B. P. Rocks. Eggs $1.25 per 15. Or¬ 
ders booked now for incubator eggs $0 per 100. HILL¬ 
TOP POULTRY FARM, Livingston Manor, N. Y. 
“QUALITY.” 
Registered Jersey Calves and Yearling; Heifers, 
bred right, raised ‘right, and for sale right. Ask for 
pedigrees, and for prices delivered at your station 
Satisfaction guaranteed. Ft. W. Mosher, Aurora.N.Y. 
n lioice Stock for Sale.—Rocks,Wyandottes, Leghorns, 
U Minorcas. Turkeys, Ducks and Guineas Also Lice 
Killing Nest Eggs’ sample mailed. 5c.; dozen. 50c. 
Agents wanted. Pine Tree Farm, Jamesburg, N. J. 
DELAWARE HERD 
Aberdeen-Angus 
Herd headed by prince Barbara, a son of the 
Imported $9,100 Highland Champion Bull Prince Ito. 
Ail leading families represented. Males and Females 
for sale at business prices, that cannot be duplicated 
anywhere in the East, some of them sired by such 
noted bulls as Prince Ito and Elflock. 
MYER & SON, Bridgeville, Del. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
won two first premiums at New York State Fair. 1904. 
Trios, $5; Eggs, $1 per 15; $5 per 100. Catalogue free. 
ZIMMER BROS., K. D. 41, Weedsport, N. Y. 
MANOKIN WHITE LEGHORNS SATISFY 
Greatest Egg Producers; used exclusively on 
all large egg-farms. Stock and Eggs at Farmers’ 
Prices. K. it. PUSEY, Princess Anne, J\ld. 
Ppfl Pnllpfl Cattle—Young Bulls For Sale. For 
I\CU rUIICU particulars address 
DR. D. F. BAKER, 484 The Arcade, Cleveland, 0. 
A A Var's Poultry, Pigeons, Parrots, Dogs, Cats. 
U 11 Ferrets, etc. Eggs a specialty. 60 p. book, 10c. 
Ratesfree J A. BERGEY.Box 8, Telford.Pa. 
IMPROVED LARGE YORKSHIRES 
hoe Pigs of all ages from imported stock for sale. 
MEADOW BROOK STOCK FARM, Rochester, Mich 
porn PAH CfilJC —Our Barred Rocks lay 256to 
DllCU rwll btlUOi 278 eggs a year. Pricelist 
with facts about better methods in Breeding, Hatch¬ 
ing and Feeding free F. GRUNDY. Morrlsonville, 111 
O. I.C. PIGS. 
September farrow, registered stock, prolific strains, 
large litters, pairs and trios not akin Prices low 
FJ SCHWARTZ, East Pharsalla.N Y. 
COR SALE—Thoroughbred Scotch Collie Cow dogs. 
• WM. WILDGRUBE, No. Franklin. Del. Co. N. Y 
mm FT it CO percheron and french 
H LI 1 i |,/\a Coach Stallions Scotch Collie 
VlulUvJ Pups. E.S. AKIN. Auburn. N.Y, 
■ ■ ■■» 1 I|r> F Q-Young Boars, 
11 CL ^9 11 1 CL Op Sows and 3-month 
Pigs of Individual merit and from tlie best families 
K. 8. HILL, Freeville, N V 
C00 Holstein-Friesian Bull $69 
BERYL WAYNE’S SON No. 3, Born February 20, 1904, 
Sired by Beryl Wayne’s Son. whose dam has au official record of 27% pounds, and his sire's two nearest 
dams, official seven day butter records averaging over 24 poundseacb, This Bull is a tine one, ami is 
certainly a rare bargain at the price we name. The first order at #(>9 takes him. 
BROOKSIUK HEK1). The Stevens Brothers-Uastings Company, Laeoua, New »orlt. 
