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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
March 28, 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Indigestion in Mare. 
I have an eight-year-old mare that I am 
feeding six quarts of corn and oats with 
hay three times a day, but she is always 
hungry and poor; works little. I have had 
teeth examined ; no indication of worms. 
New York. f. p. 
Have her clipped; then see to it that 
she is well exercised or worked every¬ 
day. The stable should be kept clean 
and well ventilated, and it would be best 
to allow her a box stall. Stop feeding 
corn, and substitute a mixture of three 
parts whole oats and one part wheat 
bran. Always give the drinking water 
before and not soon after feeding. 
Allow free access to rock salt. If the 
trouble continues dilute one quart of 
black strap molasses with hot water; 
then mix it among cut hay, bran and 
cornmeal and feed twice daily with 
whole oats at noon and long hay at 
night. Molasses will not cause scours 
or colic and quickly plumps a thin horse, 
as it is easily digested and assimilated. 
It has been successfully used by the 
New York Sugar Refining Company for 
the feeding of work horses. 
Heifer with Hacking Cough. 
I have a three-year-old heifer with a 
slight hacking cough. She is due to 
freshen May 15. I have been feeding her 
good clover hay, millet hay and cut corn 
stover steamed, with one quart bran and 
two quarts of ground corn, oats and bar¬ 
ley, morning and night. She eats well and 
feels well. What can I do for her cough? 
New York. J. J. M. 
Just as soon as the heifer has- calved 
and got well over the effects of calving 
have her tested for tuberculin, or ad¬ 
minister the test yourself. We advise 
this as it always is' well to make sure 
that a cough is or is not due to tuber¬ 
culosis, unless there is some reason for 
considering it is certainly not due to that 
disease. Otherwise when a cow has a 
hacking cough it often is due to poor 
ventilation in the stable and lack of at¬ 
tention to the removal of manure and 
liquids, which decompose and give off 
irritating gases. From half to one 
ounce of glyco-heroin, given two or 
three times daily, is effective for cough, 
but in obstinate cases it is often neces¬ 
sary to blister the throat with a mixture 
of equal parts turpentine, aqua ammonia 
and raw linseed oil, or a mixture of 
one dram each of biniodide of mercury 
and powdered cantharides in an ounce 
of lard. a. s. Alexander, v. s. 
THE FAMILIES OF JERSEY CATTLE. 
Part II. 
In 1850 and subsequent years several 
American men of wealth began making 
importations of Jerseys to the United 
States, and it is believed that the aver¬ 
age quality of these early importations 
has not been excelled in later years, as 
the Americans induced the Jerseymen to 
forfeit their prizes by offering big sums 
for their decorated cows and bulls. In 
the year 1868 Colonel George E. War¬ 
ing, Jr., Samuel J. Sharpless, Charles M. 
Beach, Thomas J. Hand (who recently 
died in New York) and a number of 
other Jersey breeders held a meeting in 
Philadelphia which resulted in the or¬ 
ganization of the American Jersey Cattle 
Club, with about 40 members. The num¬ 
ber has since been greatly increased, and 
it is believed to represent more wealth 
and intelligence than any other similar 
body of men in the world. Up to that 
time many Jerseys and Guernseys were 
called “Alderneys,” although the two 
breeds are very unlike, and neither of 
them was associated in any way with the 
island of that name, except that Alder¬ 
ney has a mongrel mixture of the two 
breeds which are not imported to this 
country. No animal can be registered as 
imported from Jersey which is not iden¬ 
tified by certificates from the agent of 
the club of the island, and no American 
animal can be registered which is not 
certified as being the offspring of 
animals already registered. The Herd 
Register is the standard of pedigree in 
the United States and Canada, and con¬ 
tains a record of all transfers of owner¬ 
ship, with the names of owners, and is 
a complete history of every animal re¬ 
corded. At present there have been 
about 213,000 cows and 78,900 bulls re¬ 
corded in this herd book. 
So far I have tried to describe what 
the Jersey animal is, and why they came 
to be as we find them. But there are 
many different types of Jerseys which 
have been produced by the art of man. 
The object of the breeder is to produce 
at will, not by luck or chance, speci¬ 
mens that shall combine the qualities 
desired. The best families of Jerseys 
have been made by method, and it may 
be well here to study some of the laws 
of breeding. The most prepotent force 
in procreation may revert to some an¬ 
cestor five, 10 or 20 generations distant, 
so as to produce in all their force of 
individuality the features of one noted 
for great merit or marked inferiority. 
This peculiarity is termed atavism. To 
avoid the bad influences of atavism and 
utilize the good is the effort of the skil¬ 
ful breeder. That peculiar power which 
is possessed in a very marked degree by 
a few animals of either sex, of trans¬ 
mitting to their progeny all the striking 
individual characteristics of the parent, 
so that the descendants have a uniform 
resemblance and quality, is called pre¬ 
potency. It is a faculty which implies 
a special accumulation of vital force in 
the generative system. This element of 
prepotency may consist of the ability 
to transmit inferior qualities as well as 
superlative ones. The breeder desires 
animals to overcome atavism by pre¬ 
potency of the highest order. Atavism 
is usually the result of crossing two ani¬ 
mals of the same species, or, if it oc¬ 
curs in purebred, it is through inhar¬ 
monious union. The easiest and surest 
way to produce a prepotent animal is 
through in-and-in breeding, and there 
is no subject upon which current no¬ 
tions are so far from the facts as in 
the mating of near kin. For the first 
twenty-five hundred years the closest 
consanguinity was practiced in the 
human family, and this was the period 
of the longest-lived people. The Jews, 
since the Mosaic law, have frequently 
married cousins, and are the best va¬ 
riety of human species to illustrate the 
principle of thoroughbred quality. For 
ages they have been persecuted in east¬ 
ern countries, and have suffered more 
hardships than any other people, yet 
they are possessed of greater viability 
than any other race, and thrive in 
every climate of the earth; where other 
European people would perish the Jew 
flourishes and grows rich. 
Mr. Phiiip Dauncy, of England, was 
probably the first man to take advan¬ 
tage of the possibilities presented by 
intelligent in-and-in breeding with Jer¬ 
sey cattle. He began in 1826, and for 
40 years he worked with three distinct 
objects in view; first, a high butter 
yield; second, constitutional vigor; and 
third, uniform color unbroken with 
white. His plan was that of coupling 
half brother and sister and using an 
occasional out-cross from the Island of 
Jersey. “Pope,” his first bull, was pur¬ 
chased from Mr. Michael Fowler in 
1826, and he obtained another bull, 
“Fowler,” from him 30 years later, and 
the blood of these bulls was combined 
in the famous bull Stoke Pogis, in 
whose pedigree we find the bull Pope no 
less than 11 times. Mr. Dauncy orig¬ 
inated the Rioter family of Jerseys, and 
the most famous animals were the bull 
Stoke Pogis and the cow Eurotas. The 
blood of Stoke Pogis was probably the 
prepotent factor in establishing the St. 
Lambert family. This family was orig¬ 
inated by Mr. S. Sheldon Stephens, of 
Montreal, Canada. The animals com¬ 
prising the herd were imported in 1868, 
and comprised the following: Bulls— 
Defiance 196, bred at the Queen’s Show 
Farm, Windsor, England, and Victor 
Hugo 197, bred by J. De Vealle, St. 
Clements, Island of Jersey. The cows 
were Victoria 411, Pride of Windsor 
483, Amelia 484, and Juliet 485, all bred 
by the Queen, and Alice 488, Hebe 489, 
Berthe 490, Bonnie 491, Lisette 492, 
Ophelia 493, Pauline 494, Lydie 495, 
Portia 496, Fancy 1318 and Beauty 1319. 
In 1871 Mr. Andrew Allan, of Mon¬ 
treal, imported Taffy 5523, and she and 
Topsy of St. Lambert (imported in her 
dam Taffy) were added to the Stephens 
herd. Later on Stoke Pogis 3d 2238 
was purchased from his breeder, Peter 
Leclair, of Winooski, Vt., and added to 
the herd. The above comprise all of 
the original St. Lambert herd of Jer¬ 
seys, and a technically pure St. Lambert 
must trace to some of these animals, 
and to no others. 
Some people think that any “Rioter” 
animal is a “St. Lambert,” but this is 
not the case. For example, Stoke Pogis 
5th was a full brother to Stoke Pogis 3d, 
yet Stoke Pogis 3d was a St. Lambert 
and Stoke Pogis 5th was not, and an 
animal carrying his blood cannot be con¬ 
sidered as a pure St. Lambert. 
J. GRANT MORSE. 
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Hundreds of cases of long standing 
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5-pound package Dr. Weare’s Heave 
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You Can’t Cut Out 
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