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THE RURAL NEW 'YORKER 
July 24, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
THOSE GRADE DAIRY COWS. 
I think that the managers of the New 
York State Fair are “up against” a 
rather hard proposition if they wish to 
give premiums to the best grade cows. 
In the first place, if the rules for en¬ 
tering in this class are not of the 
strictest kind, the premiums are very 
apt to go to pure bred cattle masquerad¬ 
ing as grades. It is a great deal easier 
to show a purebred as a grade than it 
is to show a grade as a purebred, and 
if there is anything in breeding, the 
grades would stand a poor chance by the 
side of purebreds especially fitted by a 
professional showman. At first one 
would say that it will be very easy to 
pick out the best cows by simply milk¬ 
ing them and weighing and testing the 
milk, but in my opinion this would not 
be a fair way at all, for the best dairy 
cows are of a very high nervous tem¬ 
perament, and for this reason the best 
cow in the lot might make the poorest 
showing under such conditions as she 
would meet with on the State Fair 
grounds. A few years ago I sold a 
registered Jersey cow to a merchant in 
a neighboring village, under these con¬ 
ditions : I delivered the cow and told 
his man how to feed her. and at the 
end of a week I was to come back and 
either take the cow away or get my 
pay for her, as the buyer should decide 
as to her value. Well, at the end of 
the week T went back and the man paid 
me for the cow. But after he paid me 
for her he told me that if I had come 
back in the middle of the week he 
should have told me to take the cow 
away. The first day she gave a good 
flow of rich milk, but the next she began 
to go off, both in quantity and quality, 
and she gave only a very small mess 
of very poor milk. Then she began to 
get back to a normal condition, so that 
by the end of the week she had won 
her way back into the good graces of the 
family. So you see that this cow would 
have made a very poor showing in a 
public milk test. 
I think that the only practical way to 
judge these cows is by looking at them, 
and the man who does the judging 
should be one of wide experience with 
dairy cattle. He should not only under¬ 
stand cows as milkers, but he ought to 
be acquainted with the different kinds of 
purebreds from which they are graded. 
These cows should be judged by a 
score of points, but not the score card 
of any one breed. For instance, the 
Jersey score card calls for a cow with 
"dished face, wide between the eyes 
and narrow between the horns,” while 
these characteristics arc lacking in 
some other breeds. The shape of a 
cow’s head doesn’t have anything to do 
with her milking capacity in some peo¬ 
ple’s opinion, but I think that the head 
is the most characteristic part by which 
we may determine the possession of 
the high nervous temperament necessary 
in the best dairy cow. If I were going 
out after good dairy cows I should have 
in mind one with a long, deep barrel 
with well-sprung ribs. The shoulders 
would be thin, but she would be deep 
and wide through the chest. Her hips 
should be long and very wide, but her 
thighs should* be thin and devoid of 
much flesh. She should have a good 
shapely neck and a nice intelligent head 
devoid of much flesh. If she were fresh, 
I should expect a good big udder with 
large teats placed far apart, and her 
milk veins should be large and elastic, 
and should extend well up toward her 
front legs and terminate in large “milk 
wells.” With this conformation, I 
should want to find the cow with a 
bright, healthy-looking eye, and a gen¬ 
eral alert appearance, then if her coat 
looked thrifty and her skin had a soft 
nice feeling, 1 should think that I had 
found a good “milking machine,” in ex¬ 
cellent working order. Some men place 
much stress on the escutcheon, but I 
don’t take much stock in that. If I 
were judging two cows, and it was very 
hard to decide between them, I might 
give the prize to the cow with the bet¬ 
ter escutcheon, if everything else were 
equal. At the county fairs in this sec¬ 
tion they are in the habit of offering 
a prize to “the best dairy cow regardless 
of breed,” and I send you the photo¬ 
graph of a Jersey that has won at sev¬ 
eral of these fairs. Fig. 402. 
J. GRANT MORSE. 
LUMPY JAW AND STRANGLES. 
1. We have a heifer that has a swelling 
below her eyes. It looks as if it had been 
festering. Some think it lumpy jaw. The 
animal has been affected nearly a year. 
2. A colt running on same pasture has 
swelling under its jaw from mouth up to 
its neck. Is there any remedy? c. s. c. 
Pennsylvania. 
1. There can be little doubt that the 
heifer is affected with lumpy jaw (ac¬ 
tinomycosis), but there is no connection 
between that trouble and the one afflicting 
the colt. Where lumpy jaw has been pres¬ 
ent for a year it is about certain that 
the bones of the face will have become in¬ 
volved, and if that is so, treatment will 
not be likely to prove profitable. First 
examine the upper molar teeth, and if one 
of them is found to be diseased or split, 
it should be extracted and possibly then 
the disease of the face may subside. Treat¬ 
ment otherwise would consist in liberating 
pus, scraping away diseased tissues and 
affected bone, swabbing with dilute hydro¬ 
chloric acid, and then once daily applying 
tincture of iodine freely with brush inside 
and outside of sore. If the heifer is not 
in calf, she may be given a dram of iodide 
of potash in water twice daily until she 
slobbers, loses appetite and has scurfy skin, 
at which stage stop for a time, but give 
two or three of these treatments at inter¬ 
vals until a cure is obtained. This medi¬ 
cine, however, causes lessening or suppres¬ 
sion of the milk flow and great emaciation. 
2. The colt has in all probability an ab¬ 
scess forming under the jaw as a result 
or symptom of strangles (colt distemper). 
Stable the colt in a box-stall and poultice 
the abscess night and morning with hot 
flaxseed meal until it softens in the 'center 
between the jaw-blades, when it may be 
lanced, the pus evacuated and afterward 
flushed out once daily with a two-per-cent 
solution of coal tar disinfectant or per¬ 
manganate of potash. Feed soft food. 
a. s. A. 
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Aberdeen-Angus Cattle 
Bulls for sale from 12 to 14 mos. old. Sired by 
Hal of Meadow Brook, 84618, whose grandsire was 
Lucies Prince, the grand champion bull at the 
International for three years. These bulls are ex¬ 
ceptionally well bred, and are very fine individuals, 
smooth and low down. Good enough to head any 
herd. For prices, address 
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HARNESS L 
You can buy custom-made, oak-tanned harness 
direct from our factory, at wholesale prices. Save 
the dealers' profits- All our harness guaranieed. 
Money back if not satisfactory. Write for illus¬ 
trated Catalogue “F’ and price list. Every farmer 
should have this booklet. 
THE KING HARNESS CO., « I.nke St., Onego, Tlogri Co., N. Yl 
We have just received our second importation of 
Pure Bred Percheron Mares 
and they are the finest we ever owned. Write ns 
for description and prices. HIGHLAND VTEW 
STOCK FARM, O. N. Wilson, Proprietor, Kit¬ 
tanning, Pa. 
SPRING HILL 
STOCK FARM 
offers for sale the pure Scotch Shorthorn bull 
Lovet King 242270, weight 2,100, sired by imported 
First in the King 162100, and out of an imported 
dam. Ho is the sire of second prize junior yearling 
heifer at Ohio State Fair,1908. Price, F.O.B., $ 125. 
Poland China and Duroc Jersey sale at farm, 
Oct. 30, 1900. For particulars, address 
R. II. WEST <fc SON, Hillsboro, O. 
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 lie 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. 
WOOI)CREST FARM, 
Rifton, Ulster County, New York. 
The BLOOMINGDALE HERD OF 
HOLSTKIN-FJRIESIANS 
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 Bull Calves. 
A. A. COKTKLYOU, Somerville, N. J. 
H Afford A Grade, when I can sell 
l M11 UI U you a reg;. Jersey bull, best 
dairy stock, ready for service at farmer’s price. 
K. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty St., Pittsburg, Pa. 
REGISTERED JERSEYS 
Rich in the blood of Golden Lad P. S. 1242 H. C., 
Flying Fox P. S. 2729 H. C.. Courage P. S. 1813 H. C., 
The Owl P. S. 2195 II. C. Young Bulls and a few 
Heifers for sale. Fair prices. 
ML S. BELTZHOOVER. 
Sunnyside Park, Irvington, N. V. 
JERSEYS. 
For sale, one high-bred Jersey Bull, old enough for 
service. Dam an Advanced Registry cow, testing 
462 lbs. fat in 329 days. Also, eight bred yearling 
Heifers and ten Heiter Calves. Satisfaction guar¬ 
anteed. Address E. W. MOSHER, “Brightside,” 
Aurora, N. Y. 
Laurel Farm Jerseys 
Fern’s Jubilee, No. 73852, at the head of 
the herd. Sire: Louisiana Purchase, No. 
68494. Dam: Fern oe Florence, No. 164625. 
Test 330 lbs. of Butter in 120 days. 
J. GRANT MORSE, - Hamilton, N. Y. 
Reg. Holstein Bull $65 
Two years’ old, royally bred, fine individual, attrac¬ 
tively marked. Above is not half his value. 
We also offer fashionably bred cows and Jan. 
heifer calves at low prices. Write wants. 
RIVENBURGH BROS., Hillhurst Farm, Oneida, N. Y. 
M ILK PRODUCERS for New York City market 
_ desiring information how to form branches 
of the Dairymen’s League, write to the Secretary, 
ALBERT MANNING, Otisviiie, N. Y. 
A HIGH CLASS HOLSTEIN - FRIESIAN 
BULL CALF FOB SALE 
sired by Sir Sadie Cornucopia, 42152, whose average 
A.R. O. backing is 32.48 lbs. of butter in 7 days, 
which is the world’s record. Bull Calf born April 
8 th, 1909: Dam, Maple Ridge Pietje, 98965, a grand 
young heifer with an A. R. O. record at 2 years of 
between 17 and 18 lbs. of butter in 7 days. The calf 
is large, thrifty, sound and right, beautifully 
marked and will be sold for $100 if taken soon. 
Have others if he does not interest you. For full 
information, address QUENTIN McADAM, Prop. 
BROTHERTOWN STOCK FARMS, UTICA, N. Y. 
EXCELSIOR SWING STANCHION 
Warranted the Best. 
30 Days Trial. 
Unlike all others. Stationary when 
Open. Noiseless. 
THE WASSON STANCHION CO. 
Box 60, Cuba, New York. 
Reg, P. Chinas, Berkshires, C. Whites. 
Fine large strains; all ages, mated 
not akin. Bred sows, service Boars, 
Jersey and Holstein calves. Collie 
Pups, Beagles and Poultry. Write for 
prices & circulars. Hamilton & Co., Middletown,Pa. 
LARGE ENGLISH YORKSHIRES.^,V.U? 
istered Bull. A. A. BRADLEY, Frewsbnrg, N. 7 . 
Large Berkshires 
Premier Longfellow .Lord Premier and Masterpiece 
breeding. Matings not akin. Catalog on applica¬ 
tion. WILLOUGHBY EABM,Gettysburg;,Pit. 
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. 
FAD CAI C-Choice Large Yorkshire and 
run vHLL Chester White Pigs, of botli 
sexes. These pigs are from brood sows producing 
large litters, and from good herd boars. Also two 
selected Yorkshire boars ready for service and 
Yorkshire gilts old enough for breeding. 
W. H. MINER, Cliazy, Clinton County, New York 
Kalorama Farm 
Has a Splendid Crop of Young 
BERKSHIRE PIGS 
ready for shipment at reasonable prices. They 
were sired by imported boars and are out of large, 
mature, prolific dams. Would be pleased to price 
them to you. 
CALVIN J. HUSON, PennYan.N.Y. 
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