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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 8, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
THE FARMER’S HORSE AGAIN. 
On page 390 M. P. says New Jersey 
has set a good example for other East¬ 
ern States in expending $20,000 for the 
purchase and maintenance of foreign- 
bred draught and coach stallions, etc. 
I believe The R. N.-Y. prefers never 
to mislead its readers, and therefore 
beg to state that during an experience 
of over 50 years among horses in New 
Jersey we have witnessed the crossing 
of Cleveland Bay, French Coach, 
Clydesdale and Percheron stallions 
upon our native-bred mares and to 
date cannot recall a single instance 
where such violent ' crosses have re¬ 
sulted in any general improvement of 
our horses, while as a rule breeders 
of standard-bred horses have been con¬ 
tinually handicapped by such work in 
their efforts to produce more and more 
uniformly the best type of standard- 
bred horses such as are eagerly sought 
for by every civilized nation as being 
superior to all other equine breeds for 
the general uses of mankind. The 
writer well knows that an almost uni¬ 
versal demand for trotting-bred horses 
has too often resulted in selling the 
best and breeding from good, bad and 
indifferent animals, from which have 
resulted other culls that cause some 
thoughtless horsemen to condemn the 
entire breed. But if we consider only 
the offspring from our best bred and 
best individual sires and dams — they 
easily excel all other breeds in exist¬ 
ence for any purpose for which a horse 
is needful on our New Jersey farms, 
with the additional fact that a large 
percentage of all we breed command 
better prices for use on our city streets 
and boulevards than can be expected 
from the best draught horses we can 
produce—while a first-class individual 
with extreme speed readily commands 
more money than a carful of daught¬ 
ers. In fact with our higher priced 
feeds and more intensive New Jersey 
farming it is practically impossible to 
compete with many western sections in 
producing the cheaper grade of plain 
work horses—such as result from 
crossing coach and draught stallions on 
native mares, whose offspring as a rule 
only command from breeder's hands, 
from $100 to $175 per head, where it 
is questionable whether the commonest 
kind of a work horse can be reared in 
New Jersey for less than $200, while 
we have bred and sold many standard- 
breds right from the farm for from 
$300 to $1,000 each that could beat at 
our farm work any draughter or 
coacher that ever crossed the ocean, 
from running a marker to drawing a 
binder, or taking milk to the station. 
All may rest assured that instead of 
increasing the production of such ani¬ 
mals, the mixing of Clyde and Coach 
and Percheron blood with the blood of 
our standard - breds will reduce and 
lessen their numbers. We have now a 
pair of standard-bred mares, both with 
2:30 speed, that have never been to 
anything lighter than road buggies that 
on a hot harvest day will kill any team 
of draughters that ever worked a 
binder or potato digger, and then make 
them look like 30 cents on the road, 
and any New Jersey breeder who ex¬ 
ercises good common mother wit can 
duplicate them—but not by violating 
the immutable laws of nature in breed¬ 
ing minnows to whales, or vice versa. 
If the owner of a prime record Jer¬ 
sey or Holstein cow wants most surely 
to reproduce his favorite’s superior 
traits in her offspring he not only se¬ 
lects a sire of the same breed, but 
goes farther, and secures one from the 
same branch of the same breed that 
produced his cow, and yet when we 
know that far away the best horses 
ever tried on our New Jersey farms are 
trotting bred, we are asked, to be¬ 
lieve we can produce still better ones 
by a further heterogenous admix¬ 
ture of the blood of dozens of other 
highly distinct breeds. All past ex¬ 
perience tells us to breed standard 
breds to standard breds, French Coach- 
ers to French Coachers, Clydesdales to 
Clydesdales, Cleveland Bays to Cleve¬ 
land Bays, and Percherons to Percher- 
ons, while he who hopes to secure the 
best results must select sires and dams 
both from the same branch of our 
breed. Your correspondent also says 
“another good New Jersey law dis¬ 
qualifies mongrel stallions, etc.,” when 
the facts are that while all licenses 
were originally based upon registration, 
our commission was actually authorized 
to go abroad and buy and import at 
public expense 13 stallions of four dif¬ 
ferent breeds, not one of whose off¬ 
spring, from any of our 2,000 mares 
in New Jersey now registered, can ever 
be registered under any rule in exist¬ 
ence. Think of eliminating mongrels, 
and at the same time breeding only 
animals that can never be registered, 
and whose descendants must ultimately 
be classed as mongrels. 
Another bad feature of this remark¬ 
able law is its utter defiance of the 
Republican principle of protecting 
home industries, wherein after our 
home breeders have patiently contrib¬ 
uted all their lives toward enriching 
other home industries, they, after pub- 
lic-spiritedlv investing in improved 
stallions, are now confronted at public 
expense with competition of foreign- 
bred sires at fees that merely cover 
cost of keeping and care, in addition to 
seeing all their life-long efforts to im¬ 
prove and perfect our home breed nul¬ 
lified and undone by an ill - advised 
admixture of the blood of foreign-bred 
nondescripts, ostensibly because our 
State deems the latter superior to our 
home breds, when the entire move¬ 
ment seems to have arisen from a de¬ 
sire to create at public expense a few 
more soft places for politicians. 
Salem Co., N. J. claric pettit. 
Price For Hatching Eggs. 
What is usually charged for hatching 
eggs? I have two incubators and remark¬ 
able success with them and am importuned 
to hatch for others. Thus far I have bought 
their eggs and sold them the chicks. 
Oswego, N. Y. e. F. 
The usual price charged is five cents for 
each chick hatched Or, another method is 
to charge four cents for each egg put in 
the machine and give no guarantee what¬ 
ever. In this latter case all infertile and 
unhatched eggs are returned to the owner. 
c. f. n. 
When you write advertisers mention Tiie 
I t. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
"a square deal.” See guarantee page 10. 
IC/rlLK PRODUCERS for New York City market 
desiring information how to form branches 
of the Dairymen’s League, write to the Secretary, 
ALBERT MANNING, Otisville, N. Y. 
S COTCH COLLIES, Spayed Females, two to 
eight mos. Circ. SILAS DECKER, Montrose Pa. 
C AN FURNISH CLOSE SPRINGERS in 
car load lots, also young stock. F. B. DUTTON, 
Manager, Maplewood Farm, Woodstock, Yt. 
Large Berkshires 
Berkshlres exclusively. 150 head to select from. 
Matings not akin. Catalogue on application. 
WILLOUG11IIY FARM. Gettysburg, Pa. 
LARGE BERKSHIRES at Highwood 
SPECIAL —R 0 Masterpiece sows bred. Pins all ages: the type 
that weighs 700 to 800 pounds at maturity, with short, broad 
heads. Come and see them. If impossible, write for free book¬ 
let. H. C. & II. B. II APPENDING, Dundee, N, Y. 
nilROPC THK BIG DEEPFELLOWS, 
UUnUUd that grow and mature quickly. 
Pigs and Gilts for sale at all times. Address 
SHENANGO RIVEK FARMS. Transfer, Pa. 
TUNIS SHEEP—Both Sexes. 
Write your wants and let me quote you prices. 
J. N. MacPHERSON, 
Pine View Farm, Scottsville, N. Y. 
TUNIS FLOCK 
gain. W. I. WOOD. Williamsport, O. 
DEPOT FARM. 
Collie Po^s. Delaine Merino Sheep. 
Partridge, P. Hocks, Golden Barred 
Plymouth Bocks, Kouen and Mallard Ducks. Esgs for Hatching. 
J. H. I^KWIS & SON, lt.F.P.No.2. Cadiz, Ohio 
Choice Large Yorkshire and Chester White Pigs 
of either sex, this spring’s farrow. 
These pigs are from sows producing large litters 
and good herd boars. Also some select Chester 
White and Large Yorkshire Gilts, spring farrow 
of 1908. Prices reasonable. Address 
W. H. MINER, Chazy, Clinton Co., New York. 
HORSES 
Going Blind. Bary Co., 
FOR ALL KINDS OF LIVE STOCK 
STANDARBI ZED 
OFFICIAL FOR S 
KILL 
Kreso ni p ns 
5 Lice MITES TICKS 
MS 
ERADICATES MANGE ON ALL ANIMALS. 
HEALS LEG AND LIP ULCERATION. 
KILLS DISEASE GERM S. 
FOR SALE BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE. SEND FOR FREE DESCRIPTIVE BOOKLETS. 
PARKE, DAVIS & CO. 
Department of Animal Industry, DETROIT, MICH., U. S. A. 
THE WOODLAWN SHORT-HORN FARM 
Offers For Sale—Short-Horn Bulls. 
Broadhooks King, No. 307304, calved March 30th, 
1908. Sired by Whitehall King, No. 223724. Dam, 
Duchess 4th, vol. 57, page 583. Red Boy, No. 299744, 
calved October 25th, 1907. Sired by Gay Lad, No. 
244135. Dam, Lady Peerless, vol. 56, page 805. 
Also others sired by Cumberland Last, No. 223822, 
Whitehall Count and Orange Sultan, No. 263522. Of 
good type, size and quality. From four to eighteen 
months. For particulars and prices address 
C. P. WEST & SON, Box 86, Bloomingburg, Ohio. 
BAD LEGS-| 
made sound. Spavin, curb, splint, 
knotted cords, ring bone, etc., quick¬ 
ly yield to the unequaled curative 
powers of 
TUTTLE’S ELIXIR 
Considered a necessity on tbous&Dds of farms. 
^ Don’t experiment. Get Tuttle’s and be sure. 
•».$ Veterinary Bcolc Fret. Care of the horse 
!n sickness and health. Good as a Veterinary 
in the house. ‘Write for it today. 
TUTTLE’S ELIXIR CO. 
303everly Street, Boston, Mass. 
The BLOOMINGDALE HERD OF 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS 
are bred for large production. Good size, Strong 
Constitution, Best Individuality. 
If these are the kind 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 Bum, Calves. 
A. A. CORTKLYOU, Somerville, N. J. 
HOLSTEIN BULL CALVES 
Bred in the purple from Johanna Rue 3d’s 
Lad, Jessie DeBurke Lad a son of Sarcastic 
Lad, and Pontiac Chiron a son of Ilengerveld 
DeKol the greatest hull of the breed. 
PRICES LOW FOR THE QUALITY. 
W, W. CHENEY, Manlius, N. Y. 
Laurel Farm Jerseys 
Fehn’s Jubilee, No. 73852, at the head of 
the herd. Sire: Louisiana Purchase, No. 
68494. Dam: Fern of Fi-orence, No. 164625. 
Test 330 lbs. of Butter in 120 days. 
J. GRANT MORSE, - Hamilton, N. Y. 
REGISTERED JERSEYS 
Rich in the blood of Golden Lad P. S. 1242 H. C., 
Flying Fox P. S. 2729 H. C.. Courage P. 8.1813 H. C., 
The Owl P. S. 2195 II. C. Young Bulls and a few' 
Heifers for sale. Fair prices. 
M. S. BELTZHOOVER. 
Sunnyside Park, Irvington, N. Y. 
4 ST. LAMBERT BULL CALVES FOR 
SALE. Two to ten months old. Solid color. 
Breeding the best. 
J. ALDUS HERR, Route 4, Lancaster, Pa. 
Vmi PonH Affnrfl A Grade, when I can sell 
lUU Udll l rtllUlU you a re K . Jersey bull, best 
dairy stock, ready for service at farmer's price. 
R. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty St., Pittsburg, Pa. 
QUALITY 
F OR SALE : ( satisfaction guaranteed ) two high 
bred Jersey Bulls, one ten, one sixteen months 
old. Both out of Advanced Registry Cows, having 
authenticated yearly fat tests made under super¬ 
vision of the State Agricultural College, Cornell 
University. For description and prices address 
THOMAS ROSE, Mgr., “Brightside,’’Aurora,N.Y. 
The MOST MONEY for $1 Invested in 
Food has been secured in impartial trials 
from THE GUERNSEY COW. 
Reason WHY— by writing 
Guernsey Club, Box R. N. Y., Peterboro, N. H 
B rown swiss bull calves, three for 
sale, two to four months old, from extra good 
dairy strain, Grandsons of Hector No. 2191, imported 
from Switzerland. C. F. MAPES, Mapes. N. Y. 
SPRINGBANK HERD OF BIG 
BERKSHIRES. 
Am sold out of sows to farrow earlier than June 
10th. All stock registered and bred in fashionable 
lines. My hogs are the correct type of present day 
Berkshires, combining size, symmetry, grand feed¬ 
ing quality and prolificacy. Send for booklet. 
J. E. WATSON, Proprietor, Marbledale, Conn. 
Sound Horses 
made and kept sound the world 
over by 
)UINN’S 
OINTMENT 
Note the sigu. Price 9 1.00 per 
Bottle. Of druggists or by mail. 
Testimonials free for the asking. 
W. B. Eddy & Co., Whitehall, N.Y. 
P$ SORBINE 
Will reduce inflamed, strained, 
swollen Tendons, Ligaments, 
Muscles or Bruises, Cure the 
Lameness and Stop pain from a 
Splint.Side Bone or Bone Spavin 
No blister, no hair gone. Horse can be 
used. Horse Book 2 D free* $ 2.00 i 
bottle at dealers or delivered. 
ABSORBINE,JR.,for manklnd,$l. 
Reduces Strained Torn Ugaments.En- 
larged glands, veins or muscles—heals 
ulcers—allays pain. Book Free. 
W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., 88 Temple St., Springfield, Mass, 
Death tha Stomach 
Worms Guaranteed 
Wo will send you 100 lbs. of Dll. 
HOLLAND’S MEDICATED STOCK 
SALT on 60 days’ trial freight 
prepaid. If you derive no benelit, 
It costs you nothing; If you do, it 
costs you $6.00. Give us your or¬ 
der at once. 
The HOLLAND STOCK REMEDY 
COMPANY, Wellington. Ohio. 
18 REGISTERED PERCHERON STALLIONS 
From One to Five Years. 
Bred from the best imported stock, closely related 
to the most famous show horses of the breed. 
Several will make ton horses, and will be priced at 
their real worth. ROBINSON & UELJDEK, 
Kanona, Steuben Co., N. Y. 
COR SALE - I M PO RTEI) FRENCH 
COACH STALLION, Va-nn-pied No. 3532 . 9 
yrs. old. Solid Chestnut, 16 hands, weight 1400 IDs. 
A fine actor and good foal getter. Winner 1st prize 
N. Y. State Fair two years in succession. Will 
sell for less than half importers’ price or exchange 
for good thoroughbred Holsteins. Address 
LEWIS HICKS, R. D. 31, Ensenore, N. Y. 
BULL CALVES^ YOUNG BULLS 
ready for service, that are of good size and individ¬ 
uality. All are from officially tested dams, and are 
sired by Homestead Girl l)e Kol's Sarcastic 
Lad. We have sixty daughters of this Bull that 
will he kept in the Herd ami officially tested. 
Write for description and prices. 
WOODCREST FARM, 
Rifton, Ulster County, New York. 
FINE HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN BULL CALF SALE 
sired by “Sir Sadie Cornucopia,” No. 42152. whose 
average A ,R.O. hacking is 32.48 lbs. butter in 7days, 
Which is the WORLD’S RECORD. 
Bull Calf born January 11. ’09; Dam, choice young 
cow, “Princess Clothilde Johanna,” a nice young 
calf, well marked, sound and right in every way, 
and will be sold for $50.00 if taken soon. Have 
others if this does not suit you. 
For full information, address 
QUENTIN McADAM, Prop. 
Brotliertown Stock Farms, Utica, N. Y. 
the new york 
farmers hog 
Hardy, prolific, light, strong bones, mature early. 
Easy keepers. Young stock for sale. Address 
DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, 
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
GET OUT OF DEBT 
Grade up your herds with Holsteins, 
the mortgage lifters. Send for free booklets. 
Holstein-Friesian Assn.,Dept.E, Brattleboro,Vt. 
Kalorama Farm 
Has a Splendid Crop of Young 
BERKSHIRE PIGS 
ready fori shipment at reasonable j>rices. They 
were sired by imported hoars and are out of large, 
mature, prolific dams. Would be pleased to price 
them to you. 
CALVIN J. HUSON, Penn Yan, N.Y. 
BELGIAN, PERCHERON AND GERMAN COACH and a mares 
IMPORTED AND RAISED ON 
THE SHARON VALLEY STOCK FARM, NEWARK, OHIO. 
This great establishment has now become the leading importing establish¬ 
ment in America. Imports and sells more stallions and mares than any 
other three importing establishments in America. The proprietor. Col. G. 
W. Crawford, lias had a very busy and successful winter. Will start across 
the Atlantic in a very short time, and is determined to lay in the greatest 
stock that has ever been purchased in the Old Country by an American. 
He will not stop for price, but will have the quality regardless of price. 
The American people have found out where to come to find the good 
stallions and mares. And a man who is a judge will know that he is get¬ 
ting the good kind. My next sale will he in October. Write me and tell me 
what you want. All letters will be forwarded to me in the Old Country. 
COL. G. W. CRAWFORD, Proprietor, 
fharon Valley Stock Farm, Newark, Ohio. 
'Phones, Bell 651 W—Citizens 266. 
