THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
303 
1908. 
A CANADIAN ON THE CATTLE CASE. 
I want to congratulate you on publishing 
the best paper of its kind on the continent, 
and you can always count on me as one of 
your readers as long as I can raise the sub¬ 
scription price. The way you expose the 
frauds has won for you the admiration and 
respect of every honest man and woman 
who reads your paper. You have a whole 
army of sympathizers at your back in your 
pending lawsuit with Dawley, not only 
Americans but Canadians as well. The 
wonder to us is however that a man of his 
intelligence allowed the case to reach the 
stage it has. One would have thought he 
would leave no stone unturned to settle 
the thing on the start, and I would like 
to tell him that he has not only injured his 
own reputation and inflicted a serious and 
lasting injury on the A. ,T. C. C., but has 
cast a suspicion on every cattle breeders’ 
association in the United States. I noted 
in an article in one of our Canadian papers 
a short time ago that the farmers in our 
Northwest are getting suspicious that the 
same kind of game has been played on them 
on the stock they have been buying from 
American breeders for the purpose of im¬ 
proving their stock. They suspect the 
papers don't fit the stock. It's really too 
bad if the cattle breeders’ associations of 
the United States are going to be the means 
of injuring the very cause that they were 
instituted to protect and foster, that of the 
honest purebred cattle breeder of America, 
because if this sort of thing is permitted to 
go on the herd books are absolutely unre¬ 
liable and one is never sure that he is 
buying anything better than a grade. Let 
ns hope that your efforts in this case will 
be a warning to all cattle clubs in your 
country. it. easterbrook. 
Ontario, Canada. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Potatoes. —Prices on firm, well-stored 
stock are advancing. Some dealers in seed 
are asking as much as .$5 per barrel for 
standard varieties. Eating stock runs 
from $2.50 up. 
As Others See Us.—A party of Japanese 
newspaper men and others traveling in this 
country for educational purposes “took in’’ 
the hog slaughtering department of the Chi¬ 
cago stockyards recently. Their exclama¬ 
tions when translated into our language 
are said to have been : “My, what a hor¬ 
rible thing !’ and “Oh, how nauseous !” It 
is quite possible that as is often the case, 
their remarks lost some of their force in 
translation. They evidently thought that 
people who can look calmly on such a 
scene and show it as one of the sights 
of the town must be hopelessly soaked in 
brutality. Perhaps their point of view may 
not be far from wrong. The writer has 
long believed that a slaughterhouse is no 
place for any but those who have business 
reasons for being there. 
Ego receipts are heavy, 12,800,000 arriv¬ 
ing at this market in one day recently. 
This is considerably above the daily aver¬ 
age for a week, as some days less than 
5.000,000 are received. Igist year prices 
for fancy white did not run below 20 
cents during the Spring rush. Now a 
good many top grades are selling under 18 
cents, and good eggs of mixed colors below 
16 cents. Stock from the Southwest is 
going slowly, but western high grades bring 
nearly as much as the general run of near¬ 
by eggs. A good many East Side small 
grocers are trying to get eggs direct from 
the farmers. They get hold of lists of 
farmers and send them letters soliciting 
shipments of from one to three cases*per 
week, offering four or five cents above cur¬ 
rent market prices. The writer has looked 
up a good many of these men. Doubtless 
some of them are honest, but we have not 
yet found one that we could advise any 
farmer to do business with except on a 
cash basis. As a rule their trade is not 
of a class that will pay fancy prices. When 
one of these grocers who offers a farmer 23 
cents for his eggs at present is found 
selling 15 of his “best" for 25 cents, it is 
evident that he does not intend to pay the 
farmer 23 cents per dozen, lie will either 
default entirely in payment or claim break¬ 
age or defective quality enough to put the 
price down to 15 cents, and cover the 
transaction so that the shipper would have 
no redress by suit or otherwise. The chances 
are that the grocer is judgment proof and 
there is no way to get square with him 
except by the use of physical force, which 
the law will not permit. The risk of deal¬ 
ing with these small unknown retailers 
is so great that we consider it safer to 
sell through houses with ample capital and 
established reputation and pay them com¬ 
mission. This is a form of insurance that 
may be as good an investment as any 
kind. 
The recent failure of a certain large 
poultry enterprise calls to mind an incident 
noted sometime ago. This poultry concern 
was organized on the basis of selling every¬ 
thing at a premium above market prices. 
The manager was in New York trying to 
make arrangements for his output on this 
i'>asis, and found at least one dealer willing 
to give him some frank and sensible ad¬ 
vice, to the effect that no matter how good 
the products might be, there are times when 
they cannot be sold on a fancy-price basis 
because of a lack of demand. It is easy 
to figure on paper an enormous profit from 
the sale of so many thousand broilers and 
so many cases of fancy eggs if sold when 
in best condition, but suppose at just that 
time the market develops one of those 
unaccountable freakish fits of dullness 
which tradesmen so much dread, where for 
two or three days or perhaps a w T eek 
there is no life or snap in business? Yet 
the fancy chickens and eggs must be sold 
quickly or pass into that great class of 
“common to good," at corresponding prices. 
w. w. H. 
SELECTING A DAIRY BULL. 
I have purchased two bulls without 
seeing them, and they have both been 
very satisfactory. The first one-was 
used on common cows, and produced 
an excellent lot of grades for me. The 
first crop of calves brought enough more 
than ordinary stock to cover the cost 
of the bull. The second bull was a son 
of that great bull Pietertje Hengcrveld’s 
Count De Kol, and out of Edith Pres¬ 
cott De Kol; a 22-pound 10-ounce 
daughter of Paul Beets De Kol. My 
first purebred cow I went and selected. 
She is an A. R. O. cow with a record 
of 22.72 pounds butter in seven days. I 
am using my last bull on this cow and 
her daughters that were sired by De 
Kol 2d’s Butter Boy 3d, and also on my 
first grades. The result has been very 
satisfactory, the calves being long, 
straight and vigorous, and showing the 
strong breed of their sire. In the pur¬ 
chase of this last bull I think I did 
better than I should had I selected 
him personally. My choice of this one 
was based almost entirely on the A. R. 
O. record of his dam, nine months after 
calving, when she made 18 pounds but¬ 
ter in seven days. 
I think that most breeders will do as 
well by one if an accurate description 
of what is wanted is sent in as they 
would if a personal visit is made. I 
would, however, advise a personal visit 
when practicable, as one can usually 
learn enough to cover the cost of a 
trip, and if you have a well-defined ideal 
as to what you want you can in all 
probability find an animal to suit. I 
think, however, one is likely to be pre¬ 
judiced in favor of a sleek, symmetrical 
animal, as they are so much more pleas¬ 
ing to the eye, and in this way better 
breeding may be sacrified when a per¬ 
sonal visit is made. Production is of 
greater importance to the ordinary 
farmer than symmetry. 
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