1907. 
THE RURAL' NEW-YORKER 
5i3 
THE EVIDENCE ON THE HORN. 
“The most remarkable Jersey cow 
That ever yet was born. 
With -five years on her pedigree 
And eight years on her horn!” 
We address ourselves to Prof. Henry S. Redfield, 
whom we understand to be the man behind the “resolu¬ 
tion.” We were told last week that he supplies the execu¬ 
tive committee of the A. J. C. C. with “opinions both 
legal and moral.” 
Now, among the cattle which Mr. Dawley sold to 
Rogers is a cow which Dr. Samuel Barber and Mr. C. 
I. Hunt swear is eight years old. The investigating 
committee looked at this cow and made the following 
report: 
Cow Marked “03.” 
This is the animal called Matilda Naiad hy Rogers and 
alleged by him to have been tagged Kitty d’A., and identi¬ 
fied by Dawley before the Committee, April 3, 1907, as 
Queen Carey. She is indelibly marked “03” in her left 
ear. When examined by the Committee April 3 and 4, 
1907, at the Rogers farm, she showed a full mouth; left 
corner tooth showed irritation of the gum and no wear; 
right corner tooth showed wear; middle incisors peculiar 
in the fact that they have a large longitudinal ridge on 
their surface; right middle incisor showed slight groove on 
the left side of the tooth; molars all up; horn shows one 
ring; no tag in ear. 
It is stated by Rogers that she dropped calf December 
4, 1905. This calf was examined by Mr. Carpenter and 
Dr. Dick on the morning of April 4, 1907, and his mouth 
showed eight temporary incisors, showing wear; four 
molars, first permanent molar up. 
In the judgment of your Committee this animal is five 
years old, and is the cow Dotshome Queen Carey, corre¬ 
sponding to the registry papers. 
Notice that the committee call this cow five years 
old, and find one ring on her horn. This report of age 
does not satisfy those who claim she is eight years. 
One of her horns has been cut off, and we show at Fig. 
248 the exact size taken from a photograph. We have 
this horn here, and the other is still fast to the head of 
the live cow! We have marked in ink figures showing 
just where the five rings are found. The upper two 
have been polished and scraped off, but it is still easy 
to see what and where they were. This is a small cow 
and could in the past easily have been exhibited as a 
heifer—with these rings polished down. But there are 
the five rings, and any cattle man will know what they 
mean. Prof. Redfield may not pretend to be an expert 
in such matters. For his benefit, therefore, we give 
this extract from “The Ages of Domestic Animals,” by 
Dr. Huidekoper: 
From three years on, the growth of the horn Is marked 
by a groove or furrow, much deeper and so distinct that 
they show between them a decided elevation or “ring” of 
horny substance, which forms an accurate basis for esti¬ 
mating the age of the animal. In an animal over three 
years of age we count all of the horn beyond the first groove 
as indicating three years, and add one year to its age for 
each groove and “ring” which is present toward the base 
of the horn. 
Many causes, however, tend to diminish the value of the 
“rings” and grooves in the estimation of age. In “show” 
cattle and in herds of cattle kept for show, the horns are 
frequently sandpapered, scraped, and polished to give them 
the fine appearance of delicate texture, which, with that 
of the other integument, indicates the similar condition of 
the mammary gland for secreting milk and of the con¬ 
nective tissues for forming fat. Dealers scrape the horns 
to destroy the evidences of age in the animals which they 
have for sale. In old cows there Is an atrophy of growth 
and am apparent contraction of the base of the horn; the 
rings and grooves are much less distinctly marked and may 
be indistinguishable. 
This cow has five rings on her horn, two of them 
scraped down. She is therefore, according to Dr. 
Huidekoper, eight years old, and if so cannot be the cow 
known as' Dotshome Queen Carey, which was dropped 
November 30, 1901. Now, we don’t know whether Prof. 
Redfield will feel moved by this horn to give a moral 
or a legal opinion, but we hold the horn up before him 
—and it seems to be a horn of plenty so far as trouble 
for the A. J. C. C. is concerned. 
We have Mr. Dawley on record as saying that Dots¬ 
home Queen Carey was a black heifer with rings in her 
nose. Mr. Rogers has such a heifer, but at this investi¬ 
gation Mr. Dawley gave her another name. We also 
ask Prof. Redfield if it is not a true statement that 
Dawley transferred Dotshome Queen Carey as a farrow 
cow? Yet the cow which he fitted to this name dropped 
a calf 14 days after Rogers bought her! 
Our readers are now prepared to see the point in the 
following letter which Mr. Rogers has sent to the A. J. 
C. C. He takes the calf of the cow which the com¬ 
mittee settles as Dotshome Queen Carey, gives the nec¬ 
essary statement from the records, and send it in for 
transfer: 
We enclose herewith application for the bull calf dropped 
by the cow latest identified by F. E. Dawley as Dotshome 
Queen Carey, this being the fourth name given for this 
particular cow since we purchased her, and the application 
Is made according to the accepted records of F. E. Dawley. 
This calf was dropped according to the service given to 
me by Ray Dawley, who had charge of the herd during th» 
time, and of which I have the proof. This particular cow 
was dried off ready to calve! when received from JP. B, 
Dawley, and the calf was dropped in 14 days after we 
bought her. If this calf cannot be registered according to 
the accepted records of F. E. Dawley, we demand that the 
American Jersey Cattle Club straighten out this tangle. 
Here follows a reproduction of the application. See 
what nonsense the actual records make: 
In reply to this the following note was received: 
In regard to the application for the registry of the bull 
named Kitty’s Czar, dropped September 4, 1905, we beg to 
say we have to return said application, as we cannot accept 
an entry upon which the dam is stated as not having been 
served for the calf In question, besides which, in this partic¬ 
ular case, tho dam, Dotshome Queen Carey, has not been 
transferred on our books to you by Mr. F. E. Dawley, he 
not having sent in the certificate of transfer for record. 
J. J. HEMINGWAY. 
Here the tangle gets worse than ever, for the Club 
refuses to acknowledge its own records. The cow was 
identified largely upon Mr. Dawley’s' testimony, and 
now it seems she has never been transferred to Rogers! 
We understand that Prof. Redfield is professor of 
law at Columbia University. We should think that the 
question involved in registering such an animal and giv¬ 
ing it legal pedigree and standing would make a good 
subject for a lecture to his students ! 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—A verdict for six cents damages was re¬ 
turned by a jury in the Circuit Court in Newark, N. .T., June 
12, In the case of Frank W. Meeker, a dairyman, of Livings¬ 
ton, against the city of East Orange. Meeker brought suit 
for $10,000 damages, claiming that springs on his farm 
had run dry after East Orange had caused artesian jvells 
to be driven jiearby for the operation of a municipal water 
supply plant. The case was important, and had been 
watched by every municipality in the State owning its own 
water supply. The verdict sustains the contention of Meek- 
“AND EIGHT YEARS ON HER HORN!” Fig. 248. 
er that a land owner has right to the use of subterranean 
streams. The case went to the Jurors June 11, but they 
were unable to arrive at a settlement during the night, and 
they were locked up until the next morning. The city will 
appeal. . . . June 10 the Cunard liner Carmania while 
westward of the Grand Banks, picked up a dory containing 
a French fisherman, Louis Vollet, who had been adrift 15 
days. Yollet and a companion lost their ship while put¬ 
ting out trawls May 27, during a sudden gale and fog, fol¬ 
lowed by snow. The other man fell overboard when numb 
with cold, apd Yollet found himself alone in an open boat, 
with one oar, and 48 hours’ rations for two. He had been 
without food for six days when found, but will recover. 
. . . Nine men were killed and several more badly burned 
in an explosion June 18 in the Dunmore vein of the John¬ 
son No. 1 mine of the Scranton Coal Company at Priceburg, 
a small borough abutting on Scranton, Pa. There were two 
heavy explosions of gas. . . . The Government is con¬ 
templating a movement against the Standard Oil Company 
Unless the concern agrees to furnish certain Information 
demanded by the Bureau of Corporations It is to be brought 
into court and forced to answer. The information which 
the company declined to furnish is needed by the bureau to 
complete a general investigation begun by Commissioner 
Garfield and continued by Commissioner Smith. Two re¬ 
ports relating to the Government’s investigations have been 
made, but some of the most important features of the in¬ 
vestigations are yet to be covered. Until recently the com¬ 
pany showed a disposition to answer all questions pro¬ 
pounded by representatives of the bureau. It is now declin¬ 
ing to furnish any information. Commissioner Smith con¬ 
tends that the bureau has ample power under the act creat¬ 
ing the Department of Commerce and Labor to force the 
company to answer. . . . The New York City Railway’s 
car barn at Madison avenue and Eighty-sixth street. New 
York, was destroyed by fire .Tune 16. Deputy Chief Binns 
placed the loss on the building at about $150,006. Four 
cars used on the Madison avenue line were destroyed, and so 
were fifty or more electric automobiles belonging to the 
New Y’ork Transportation Company, which were stored on 
the second floor. Altogether the loss was figured at about 
$200,000. . . . Representative Frank W. Mondell of 
Wyoming, has relinquished claims to a homestead of 160 
acres near New Castle, Wyo. Mondell’s action follows aD 
investigation made by agents of the Interior Department to 
establish whether in filing his claim he had violated the laws. 
When Mr. Hitchcock was Secretary of the Interior he started 
an investigation of the charge that the homestead taken bv 
Mondell was described as agricultural land, when as a matter 
of fact there was coal on the land. It was also alleged that 
Mondell never lived on the place as the law requires. . . . 
A dozen firemen were overcome by smoke. 200 finished pianos 
were burned and $250,000 damage was done in the fire that 
destroyed thp piano factory occupied by Winters & Co. and 
Heller & Brooks at 138th street and Southern Boulevard, 
New York, .Tune 13. . . . United States District Attor¬ 
ney Thompson filed in the Circuit Court at Philadelphia 
June 12 the petition in equity which has been some time in 
preparation against all save two of the hard coal carrying 
roads in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Coal Companies 
are also made defendants. The general charges made in th» 
petition are discrimination in restraint of trade and violation 
of the Sherman anti-trust act by the creation of a monopoly 
to oppress independent coal operators in the anthracite 
region. The defendant corporations are the Reading Com¬ 
pany, the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, the 
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, the Delaware. Lackawanna 
and Western Railroad Company, the Central Railroad Com¬ 
pany of New Jersey, the Erie Railroad Company, the New 
York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad Company, the 
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, the Le¬ 
high Valley Goal Company, the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal 
Company, the Pennsylvania Coal Company, the Hillside Coal 
and Iron Company, the New York. Susquehanna and Western 
Coal Company, and the Temple Iron Company, in all repre¬ 
senting a capitalization of many hundred millions of dol¬ 
lars. . . . The Olympic Theatre. Randolph and Clark 
streets, Chicago, was burned June 14: loss $100,000. . . 
Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz of San Francisco was found guilty 
June 13 by the jury in Judge Dunne’s court at San Fran¬ 
cisco of extorting monev from keepers of French restaurants 
In that city. This is the first formal conviction in the anti¬ 
graft campaign begun several months ago. Abe Ruef. who 
was indicted for similar offences, pleaded guilty to the 
charges and appeared as a witness against Mayor Schmitz 
Mayor Schmitz was formally removed from office by the Board 
of Supervisors June 17. as the first move on the part of the 
graft-hunters to establish good government in San Francisco. 
The Mayor was removed on the ground that because of his 
imprisonment in the county jail, which followed his con¬ 
viction for extortion, he is no longer able to perform the 
duties of his office. . . . Formal complaints instigated 
by the National Union of Railway Trackmen and signed 
by S. J. I. Sheppard, secretary of the organization, were 
mailed June 18 by Sheppard to the Board of Railroad Com¬ 
missioners of Kansas and to the State Board of Railroad and 
Warehouse Commissioners of Missouri. The complaint sets 
out that by its long continued practice of not furnishing 
sufficient material to keep its tracks in repair the Missouri 
T’acific has in use on a large part of its lines in Kansas 
and Missouri rotten and decayed ties and old worn-out rails. 
Instead of employing the proper number of men on each sec¬ 
tion it has on most of its sections only a foreman and one 
or two men. It provides. It is declared, no trackwalkers for 
day or night. As the results of these conditions the Missouri 
Pacific, it is alleged, is operating its trains over tracks that 
are dangerous and unfit for the transportation of passengers 
with reasonable safety.The longshoremen’s strike 
in New York ended June 14, the men going back to work at 
their old wages. The last day of the strike was marked bv 
rioting, and many men were injured. . . . The launch 
of the battleship Minnesota which was sunk .Tune 11 with 
six midshipmen and five seamen aboard was raised June 15. 
Only one body was found inside, that of G. W. Westphal. 
the fireman. Several other bodies were found afloat later. 
The launch showed signs of having been In collision. There 
was a hole about four feet deep and two feet wide in her 
starboard side, and the iron hoops which supported her 
canvas canopy top were bent down as If a great weight had 
been laid upon them. 
thirty years secretary of the Utica Dairy Board of Trade, 
died at his home in CTayville, N. Y„ June 7. Mr. Gilbert was 
born in Albany, November 21, 1835. He graduated from Ham- 
II ton College in 1857. For many years he was secretary of the 
II 1 t J c ?^ Da A ry 7 Jen s Boar d of Trade, which position he held up 
till the Spring of this year, when poor health forced him 
to abandon active service. For fully 25 vears he was the 
Utica dairy correspondent of the “Commercial Bulletin” and 
the Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, his report 
on that market always being considered the highest author¬ 
ity- From 1,892 to 1897 Mr. Gilbert was secretary of the 
New York State Dairymen’s Association. Aside from his 
wide knowledge of the dairy business Mr. Gilbert had made 
a lifelong study of ferns, and his collection of nearly 1.300 
species is ope of the largest and most valuable in this 
country. Mr. Gilbert was highly respected by all with whom 
he carnie In contact, not only for his personal character, but 
also for his yaried abilities. Mr. Gilbert is survived bv his 
an " 0Iie s<w - Benjamin Thorn Gilbert, of New York' citv. 
The Pacific Coast Nurserymen’s Association will hold its 
fifth annual meeting at Salem. Oregon. July 10. 11 and 12, 
T00< : in connection with the Salem Oherrv Fair (under the 
auspices of the Marjon County Horticultural Society!. Many 
prominent agriculturists will attend, and there will be the 
finest display of cherries ever seen on the Pacific Coast: 
a large number of silver cups having been offered as pre¬ 
miums. The cost of annual membership is $2. Special rail¬ 
road rates have been granted. Those Intending to be pres¬ 
ent should address either C. A. Tonneson. Tacoma, Wash., 
W. Power Oregon Nursery Company, Salem, Ore., 
president of the Association. ’ 
Fruit prospects rather poor here. Apples 30 to 50 pe* 
cent, early ones best: pears fair crop of most varieties; 
plums light crop; peaches half crop; cherries five per cent; 
strawberries half crop or possibly a little more. Currants 
full crop, and raspberries a failure. w w p 
Waterville, Ohio. 
Thanks to Providence Spring has come at last, though two 
or three weeks late. For a wonder we haven’t had a cold 
night for near two weeks, and the sun is shining and we all 
feel glad. Work is very backward, corn is only just going 
into the ground and oats make but a poor showing. Winter 
wheat cannot be over 30 per cent of a moderate crop. Apple* 
have a good show for fruit where trees have been treated for 
scale. Peaches do not amount to anything except in the inn 
mediate lake shore region. Sweet cherries very light but 
sour ones make a fair showing. Pears very light and this 
means all kinds, Bartlett, Duchess and even Kieffer. 
Niagara Co., N. Y. j. g, woodward. 
