1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
647 
THE GUERNSEY CATTLE. 
I wish to congratulate you on the stand 
you have taken in the Jersey cattle case. 
It makes a man think twice before invest¬ 
ing his hard-earned savings in a pedi-J 
greed animal when this pedigree may not 
be worth the paper it is written on. Why 
are not the Guernseys more popular? 
As I understand, they are in most every 
respect similar and the equal of Jerseys. 
Illinois. chas. hines. 
R. N.-Y.—A man may well think three 
or four times before he pays a large 
price for a pedigreed animal. When the 
pedigree is true and the animal traces 
back to noted ancestors a cattle owner 
cannot do better than introduce pure 
blood into his herd. There are plenty of 
honorable men in the business who would 
no more think of substituting an inferior 
animal for a good one than they would 
of committing forgery. We can name 
plenty of them, but many honest men 
must suffer while any suspicion rests 
upon the methods of keeping the records 
pure. We hear every week of people 
who arc buying Guernseys or Ayrshires 
rather than Jerseys in consequence of the 
present scandal. There is a picture of a 
good Guernsey bull on our first page, 
lie is an imported animal, and when 
photographed was two years old. lie is 
well marked and colored—a fine specimen 
of the breed. The Guernseys are very 
popular with those who know them. 
They have never been imported as largely 
as the Jerseys and their owners have not 
attempted to “boom” them by spectacular 
nfethods. The island of Guernsey is 
smaller than that of Jersey, with fewer 
cattle on it. The Guernsey is a larger- 
framed cow than the Jersey, .with a 
quieter disposition and averaging even 
better as a butter producer. The Guern¬ 
seys have remarkable power to give high 
color to milk and butter fat. In many 
Holstein herds where milk is sold a few 
Guernseys are kept to give a good color 
to the product. As the Guernseys are 
often spotted it is easier to identify speci¬ 
mens by their markings, and the Guern¬ 
sey Cattle Club is very careful of its 
records'. 
UNREGISTERED CATTLE AT FAIRS. 
if asked for, and never have I known an ani¬ 
mal to receive recognition unless it was a 
purebred animal and recorded. You will find 
this rule is practiced in all the leading and 
National shows, and should be at every coun¬ 
ty, as well as State fair. If grade animals 
were allowed to be shown in competition 
with purebreds, there would l>e no incentive 
for a man to breed and produce purebred 
animals. It is true there are many grade ani¬ 
mals that possess great qualities; that is why 
purebred animals should be appreciated, be¬ 
cause the crossing of purebred animals on 
grade, procure animals for the market and 
the packer, and the higher the grade, the 
better the individual. In no case should 
grade animals be recognized at any show, un¬ 
less it might be a stock show for packing 
purposes. o. G. council. 
Vandalia, Ill. 
It is the custom to demand certificate of 
registration in all classes of purebred animals. 
Usually an exhibitor is prepared to show the 
certificate of registration. In case he cannot 
do that, and can give the name and number 
of the animal he should not lie allowed to 
compete. If his entry is protested the money 
should be withheld until lie produces his 
certificate, or for 10 days. In case the ex¬ 
hibitor cannot produce the name and number 
of his entry he should be barred from com¬ 
petition in all classes for purebred breeds. 
The secretary of all our leading fairs will not 
receive an entry in classes for purebreds 
unless the name and register number accom¬ 
pany the entry. If an exhibitor substitutes 
an unregistered animal for an entry made 
for a recorded animal in classes for purebred 
breeds his entry should be protested. If an 
exhibitor has good reason to believe such 
substitution lias been made it is his bounden 
duty to protest. It is a duty he owes to his 
own exhibit and to himself and all other ex¬ 
hibitors. Not only that, but it is a duty he 
owes to the fair association as well as to the 
general public. Speaking directly to your 
question, I am free to say that it is an insult 
and an outrage to the owners of recorded ani¬ 
mals to ailow-an unregistered animal to com¬ 
pete in classes offered for recorded stock, 
.and all the more so to give him the first 
prize. h. c. tayloil 
Orfordville, Wis. 
Preventing Cattle Bloat.— Our plan 
lately is to have a piece of rubber hose (114, 
1% or even one inch, 3(4 to four feet long), 
handy and in case a cow bloats put the hose 
down her throat and let the gas out. We 
also use the hose when giving medicine, or 
in case the cow chokes on potatoes. It is 
the easiest and surest way we have found of 
saving the cow, and we leave the cows on 
the clover all the time after first few days, 
as then they only eat a little at a time. 
We keep 10 to 30 cows and have for 25 
years or about that length of time. 
Waupaca, Wis. s. s. c. 
Would it be customary in your State at tho 
largest fairs to give first prize to an unregis¬ 
tered bull of one of the prominent breeds? 
We take the position that such practice 
should not be followed, since there is no way 
of making sure that the animal is purebred 
unless the certificates of registration are pre¬ 
sented. 
The premium tests of our leading fairs all 
call for satisfactory evidence of purity of 
breeding of all purebred stock, but I am sorry 
to state that it is practically a dead letter, 
as in all my experience in exhibiting I 
have never been called upon by any judge 
or fair official to produce certificate of regis¬ 
tration or any other proof. This I believe is 
all wrong, as I hold that no animal should be 
eligible to compete unless accompanied by 
proper certificate of registration. 
Winchester, N. H. a. f. peikce. 
I have known fairs to allow cattle to 
show when they had not been registered, but 
of course were eligible, dams and sires being 
registered. I quite agree with you that no 
stock should be shown unless the owner 
shows the registration papers, or the stock 
are old in the circuit and are known by 
everyone to be registered. I am a crank 
about rules regarding the recording of pure¬ 
bred stock. I think they should be reported 
when calved, at once, and all markings, etc., 
given. I think that the fee for registering 
animals over one year old should be very 
heavy, say $50 or $100, so the stock would lie 
registered young when it can be pretty well, 
proven that it is what it is represented to be. 
Then, too, the heavy charge after one year 
would cut out a great many cheap cattle and 
lessen the production and at the same time 
improve its clasSj as an animal would have 
to be first class in order for its owner to 
pay $50 to register it. I believe you will do 
a good work if you can urge the breeders of 
purebred stock not to try to register every 
poor thing that can get in, but to make the 
rules strict and register only good ones, and 
those that are young, where the identity can 
unquestionably be established. 
Shelbyvilie, Ky. hart Wallace. 
I have exhibited all kinds of stock for the 
last 20 years in all the leading State and 
National fairs, and it has been a custom and 
a practice that no animals should be shown 
unless registered, and the papers produced 
Tell the man with bloated cattle that to 
dash a bucket of cold water from head to 
tail will take out the bloat as fast as done. 
It will also take the cramp out of horses’ 
limbs equally well. l. g. 
Paralyzed IIogs. —I have been interested 
reading on page 598 of the sow partly para¬ 
lyzed, because of my own experience some 
years ago with a similar case. I had two 
fine hogs affected that way in the early 
Fall. I tried some of the remedies men¬ 
tioned, if not all, and many others, without 
effect. A physician told me he had a colt 
the previous year afflicted in like manner, and 
no treatment had any effect until he gave the 
animal calomel and jalap, which cured him. 
I procured a large dose of each drug, gave 
the calomel in the swill in the evening and 
the jalap in the morning. The cure was 
speedy, and I never butchered two finer or 
healthier hogs. j. b. d. 
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