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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER. 
Live Stock and Dairy 
INJURED HORSES FOR FARM WORK. 
I read with much interest the “Horse 
will work out, and if not lost from the 
tub will be absorbed by the tub. When a 
“test” is made this surplus moisture is 
lost, causing the shrinkage in weight. 
New York. s. s. long & bro. 
; ;; . While there is usually a little shrink- 
\\ rangier s notes on page 449, and his a g e j n W eiglit there should not be as much 
reference therein to the “two-legged” as the correspondent claims. Of course in 
horses which are bought by Long New York here we have no half pounds 
T , i , ,] , , r or three-quarters. If a tub of butter 
Island farmers and tinkered up for . , _ . * , - ,, , . ,, 0 
1 . weighed 62% pounds we w r ould only get 62 
farm horses, puts me in mind of my pounds, as the buyer generally claims this 
experience here in northern Vermont on account of the soakage. The way we 
in attempting to solve the farm motor usually do on a lot of say 100 tubs of 
ii A i , r butter is to test five that are turned out, 
problem. A nice young sound team of , ... . . . . , . „ ... _ 
. and get the actual net weight. Sometimes 
heavy horses is worth $500 to $600, and the tubs vary in weight, but there should 
it has seemed to me like tying up too not be a shortage of over one pound, or 
much money for a poor man to buy in case o£ Striking heavy tubs more than 
this d a sc of horses for ordinarv farm two P° unds 0,1 a shipment. We think the 
L ‘ Y trouble lies with the creamery weighing 
work. these half and three-quarter pounds. A 
Being one of the before-mentioned buyer here will not stand for it, and he 
poor men myself I have spent much generally gets the benefit of anything over 
a pound. They generally weigh in the 
Treat the calves before they are a 
month old, especially the males. Part 
the hair over the button, moisten it and 
rub quite hard with the stick of caustic 
until the skin is red. Hold the caus¬ 
tic with a piece of paper or corn husk 
if you value your fingers. Do not con¬ 
tinue the rubbing until the hair comes 
away, for that will cause unnecessary 
pain, and the head may be deformed 
into an unsightly pointed shape. 
Mrs. Uptown : “I trust that we shall 
get along very nicely, Nora. I am not 
at all difficult to suit.” Nora (the new 
maid): “No, ma’am; that’s what I 
thought the blessed minute I set eyes 
on the master.”—Harper’s Bazar. 
time and thought on the subject, and 
have solved it to my satisfaction by 
purchasing horses from the lumber 
woods north of us. These horses work 
at logging and hauling lumber, etc., 
while snow lasts, and are sold out to 
farmers in the Spring for very reason¬ 
able prices, and' if carefully handled 
through the Summer can often be sold 
back to the same men who sold them 
in the Spring, sometimes at a neat 
advance in price. 
One pair of mares weighing 2,800 
West with salt and cloth on tubs; when 
weighed here this all has to come off. Along 
with what shrinkage there is on the tub 
sometimes the tub is soaked with water 
and when the actual butter is turned out 
it runs off, thereby causing another slight 
deduction in weight. 
Wo do not know of any method of cor¬ 
recting this evil unless it be for the ci'eam- 
ery men to weigh the actual butter and 
allow a certain amount for shrinkage of 
moisture contained in the actual net 
weight. JOHNSTONE & COUGHLAN. 
New York. 
We receive a great many different cream- 
pounds I purchased two years ago for eries £rom dlfferent States - Man y of thPm 
, . , show no shortage in weight whatever. 
$240, and a truer, more honest, more others> a verv sligUt sI)ortagc . We be . 
faithful and willing team never looked lieve the trouble to be on account of the 
through a bridle. One of them bad an 
eye missing, and her mate had a 
moisture content. The more moisture the 
butter contains the greater shrinkage in 
. ... ... . weight, but butter that is closely made and 
strained tendon in foreleg which caused so jxtl loses very little in weight. There is no 
a slight limp at first, but they broke method of packing that we know of that 
up 15 acres of stony ground, fitted it will lessen this trouble excepting to keep 
and harvested the crop, filled silo, etc., out the moisfure and t0 bave the butter 
and put in the hay on two big farms, 
cutting and drawing 135 loads with no 
help except that the raking, and most 
of the cultivating of corn and pota¬ 
toes was done by lighter, quicker ing to the size of the shipment are taken, 
closely made and solid packed. 
New York. James Rowland & co. 
At first the tubs are all weighed gross 
and a uniform tare of 16 pounds is 
adopted; then three to 10 pounds accord- 
horses. This team was sold two weeks 
after the corn was in silo for what 
they cost in the Spring before. Last 
year I bought a team of white horses, 
sound and excellent workers at $265. 
The lumber business was dull last Fall, 
and money scarce, so not having a satis¬ 
factory offer I kept this team over for 
this season’s work. With good horses 
so high in price and the present prices 
of grain one is led to consider the 
honest, old-fashioned ox as a source 
of power, and much of the heavy, rough 
work of the farm can be performed 
by these plodding yoke people, with 
satisfaction and profit to their owner. 
the covers removed, the cloth and salt also, 
and the net butter is dumped on the scale, 
and any shortage is deducted from the 
entire shipment. For illustration, suppose 
five tubs weigh gross 73 pounds each. They 
therefore should weigh 63 pounds each net, 
but if three of these tubs only weigh 62 
each, a deduction of three pounds on every 
five tubs the shipment contains is made. The 
weight question is such an Important mat¬ 
ter that we are inclined to believe every 
house in the trade here returns accurate 
and actual weight to the shipper; but the 
trouble is that the shipper buys tubs sup¬ 
posed to contain 63 pounds of butter; these 
tubs are not all filled uniformly, some are 
more loosely packed than others and do 
not contain the same amount of butter, 
which the average shipper makes no allow¬ 
ance for, taking it for granted that each 
This is especially true on large farms tub lh P acked uulfoini 'y> "inch is not the 
, , , case and can be demonstrated very readily, 
where two or more teams must be kept 
for the regular work. 
Vermont. l. c. litchfield. 
SHRINKAGE OF WEIGHT IN BUTTER. 
We have a farmer’s co-operative cream¬ 
ery here in northwestern Minnesota. As 
ve cannot always sell all our product at 
home we are selling in the New York mar¬ 
ket. There is not a shipment to New York 
but what we lose a pound and a half to 
two and one-lialf pounds to the tub. When 
we sell at the home market we get the full 
weight. We want to know the I’easons for 
this. The last shipment to New Yoi’k was 
23 tubs, and two pounds on each tub less 
weight makes it 46 pounds at 29 cents, a 
loss of $13.34 on such a small lot. You 
see it amounts to a great deal through the 
year. o. j. H. 
liendrum, Minn. 
Where the moisture is excessive it makes 
a difference of two pounds on every tub; 
natural moisture, one pound. Western peo¬ 
ple as a rule, weigh the butter gross, then 
deduct the weight of the empty tub to 
ascertain the net number pounds of butter. 
Here the butter is emptied out of the tub 
and weighed net, without the moistui'e, of 
course, which has evaporated in transit. 
Buyers will not pay for a fraction of a 
pound and again the scales may not agree. 
At certain seasons of the year, especially 
in the Spring, the first grass is always 
more or less watery and the butter will 
shrink more as this moisture runs off. 
Many shippers will weigh a tub immediately 
after the tub is packed, and then weigh it 
again before shipment, but the moistui’e 
which has oozed out of the butter remains 
in the tub, consequently the weight is not 
effected, but if they would strip it and 
dump the net butter on the scale they 
would be convinced that the shrinkage is 
no greater than what the returns call for. 
It is possible that some houses are not 
over-scrupulous in this matter, but we are 
firmly convinced that the reputable mem¬ 
bers of the trade give this featui’e careful 
attention, and account for every pound re¬ 
ceived. ZIMMER & DUNKAK. 
New York. _ 
DISHORNING YOUNG CALVES. 
I desii’e some information regarding 
methods commonly used for preventing the 
growing of horns on young calves. Can 
you inform me what the common method 
is in accomplishing this purpose? I believe 
there are dishorning pencils to be had. Are 
they a successful means of accomplishing 
this, and is there any objection to their use? 
Boston, Mass. w. s. s. 
In the West dishorning pencils are 
We have the same experience with butter carried by hardware and other dealers, 
shipped from nearby places. The mer¬ 
chants here as a rule are very careful, 
and work hard for the shippers’ interests. 
New York. e. b. woodward. 
With many years’ experience our obsei’- 
but in such cases one is pretty sure to 
pay 10 times the actual value of the 
chemical. Ten cents’ worth of caustic 
potash, secured from a druggist who 
DAIRYMEN HAVING 10 OR MORECOVVS NEED 
MENRING’S FOOT POWER COW MILKER. 
Milks 2 cows at a time, 20 cows per hour. 
Send 2 cent stamp for circular. 
W. M. MEHKIN6, York Road, Maryland. 
WILL 
FLIES 
Give your stock and poultry 
a chance to pay a profit in¬ 
stead of fighting insects. Try 
I# 11 I “Will-Kill-Flies.” the new 
K II I ■ liquid spraying preparation, 
and watch the yield of milk 
and eggs increase. Costs little 
to try; gives quick results. 
Get it of your dealer, or send 
us his name if he does not already handle it. 
EUREKA MOWER COMPANY, Utica, N. Y. 
Fall line of Sprayers for all purposes. 
vation has been that we have not found can be trusted for pure goods, will dis- 
a lot of butter, several days in transit, but horn all the ca i ves from a j herd 
what will lose in net weight. All butter . , ° 
contains more or less moisture, in the form 0r se \ era y ears 'f kept carefully stop- 
of a pickle or brine, and this naturally pered in a colored bottle after using. 
VILLAGE FARM 
JERSEY HERD 
H. V. PRENTICE, Prop., Worcester, Mass. 
HERD HEADED BY 
THE GREAT FONTAINE FERN BULL 
GOLDEN FERN’S 
GREY FONTAINE 
A son of GOLDEN FERN’S LAD. 
Dam Fontaine of St. Saviour, with a butter 
test of 16 lbs. 12 ozs. This herd contains nine 
daughters of Golden Fern’s Lad and several 
daughters of Eminent 2d, Blue Bell’s Blue 
Fox.Caiest, Maple’s Poet, Stockwell and other 
noted six - es. 
JERSEY BULL CALVES AND YOUNG BULLS 
Grandsons of Golden l ad, Eminent, and 
King of St. Lambert. Over 2U0 head of Regis¬ 
tered stock to select from. ST. LAMBERT 
DAIRY CO., Georgesville, Ohio. 
JERSEY CATTLE, 
BERKSHIRE HOGS, 
R. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty St., Pittsburg, Pa. 
A Few Gilts For Sale, 
due 
anc 
Spx 
Wr 
due to farrow between now 
and September 15,1908; also 
Spring pigs of both sexes. 
Write for prices to John 
Good wine Jr*,Potoinac,Yer.Co.,Ill. 
num FARM Berkshire Hogs and Jersey 
UniU I Hnill Cattle; stock for sale; always 
on hand. M. L. BENHAM, LeRoy, Ohio. 
OCOTCH COLLIES, Spayed Females, two to 
^ eight mos. Oirc. SILAS DECKER, Montrose,Pa. 
C OLLIE PUPS from imported Stock. Females 
cheap. NELSON BROS., Grove City, Pa. 
flip PIGS, Mar. and April farrow. Mated not 
v. i. w. a ki n- Bred sows. All Registered Silver 
Premium Stock. F. J. Schwartz, E. Pharsalia.N.Y 
LARGE IMPROVED ENGLISH YORKSHIRES. 
from best Importation. Address 
A. A. BRADLEY, Frewsburg, New York. 
DOLAND CHINA PIGS, best breeding. Pro- 
Mific, quick maturing. March and April Pigs for 
sale. C. O. CARMAN, R. 33, Trumansburg, 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. 
Perfection Swing Stanchion 
With Frame Fitted to Stable. 
Warranted the Best, Easiest 
to Operate and most Durable 
made. Stationary when 
Open. Noiseless. Does not 
Wear the Plate. 
BATES & SWIFT SPEC. MFG. CO., Box 5, Cuba, N. Y. 
July 4, 
BULL CALVES-YOUNG BULLS 
ready for service, that are of good size and individ¬ 
uality. Ail are from officially tested dams, and are 
sired by Homestead Girl De Kol’s Sarcastic 
Lad. We have sixty daughters of this Bull that 
will be kept in the Herd and officially tested. 
Write for description and prices. 
VV OO DC REST FARM, 
Rifton, Ulster County, New York. 
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 pleaso you. 
A special offer on some nicely bred BuiJ, Cai.ves. 
A. A. CORTKLYOU. Somerville, N. J. 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS 
GENIE CLOTBILDE, one of the world’s 
official record cows with 30.05 lbs. butter in seven 
days and 110.45 lbs. butter in thirty days. 
PONTIAC CHIRON, one of the best sons of 
Hengerveld De Kol. Out of a dam with a record of 
25.7 lbs. butter in seven days and with two sisters 
oji the dam’s side with records of 26.39 lbs. butter at 
four years and 20.59 lbs. butter at three years of age. 
W. W. CHENEY, - Manlius, N. Y. 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN HEIFERS 
For Sale at FARMERS’ PRICES. 
I have six two-year old Registered Heifers for 
sale; large, handsome, and perfectly marked. Due 
to calve in May; all bred to the great BULL, Sir 
Segis Inka Posch, No 38406; also four heifers 14 
months old, all bred to same bull. Also a number 
of bull calves from one to six months old, sired by 
same bull. Pedigrees and full descriptions fur¬ 
nished on request. 
P. B. McLENNAN, Syracuse, N. Y. 
THE STEVENS HERD 
OFFERS 
20 REGISTERED HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN 
COWS from 2 to 6 years old. These cows are 
large producers, well bred and perfect in every 
way, some recently fresh, others due soon, others 
bred to freshen in the fall. All have A.R.O. backing. 
PRICE REASONABLE. 
Write at once for particulars, or better come and 
see them. 
HENRY STEYENS & SON.BrooksIde Stock Farm.Lacona.N.Y. 
HOLSTEIN BULL FOR $50. 
Born Nov. 14, ’07. A splendid individual, 3 4 black, 
beautifully marked. SIRE—King Segis Pontiac, a 
son of King Segis (whose first 4 daughters to fresh¬ 
en have made official 7-day butter records, under 
2*e yi-s. averaging over 19 lb. each), and Pontiac 
Clothilda DeKol 2d, our 28.72-lb 4-yr.-o!d, full sister 
to the noted 31-lb. $8,000 4-yr.-old Pontiac Rag 
Apple. DAM—A daughter of Toitilla Artis DeKol 
(18.12-lb. A. R. O.). and by a grandson of Nether- 
land Hengerveld (World’s Champion several years, 
26.66-ib. A. R. O.) First check for $50.00 takes this 
bull, with all papers. THE stevens bros.-hast- 
INCS CO., Brookside Herd, LIVERPOOL, N. Y. 
Holstein Bull Calves. 
$20.00 to 925.00 
Cheaper than you can purchase elsewhere, quality 
considered. Write for Photographs & Pedigrees. 
We also offer special bargains in cows and heifers 
bred to our great Sir Kormlyke Manor DeKol 
Jr. UIYlNBUUGH PROS., Illllhunst Kami, Oneida, N. Y 
ALL ABOUT HOLSTEINS 
Send for free illustrated pamphlet desci-ibing 
this great breed of cattle. 
^^L^JflOU^ITOhL^sec^^Brattleboro^^^^ 
RED' POLLS 
Are the Most Profitable 
Cattle on Earth. 
As fine herds of Red Polls and Guernseys as any 
in the state of Pennsylvania at Uniondale Stock 
Farm. A limited number for sale. II. L. Stevens, 
Proprietor, Uniondale, Susq. Co., Pa. 
KALORAMA 
BERKSHIRES 
A limited number of young sows bred to a grand 
imported boar for March and April fai-row. 
Also a fine lot of fall pigs of the highest quality 
and breeding at very attractive pi'ices. 
CALVIN J. HUSON, Penn Yan, N.Y. 
SPRINGBANK HERD 
LARGE BERKSHIRES^ 
A fine bunch of Sows coining a year — 
old by Grand Premier, No. 8U005,bi-ed to Baron Duke 
85th, No. 91215. A son of Premier Longfellow, No. 
08600, Grand Champion at St. Louis in 1904. Booklet 
on application. J. E. WATSON, Marbledale, Conn. 
Large Berkshire Swine 
Breeding herd of 150 animals to select from. 
Botli English and Amei'ican breeding. Breeding 
herd largely the get of Lord Premier 50001, Premier 
Longfellow 68,000 and Masterpiece 77,000. 
Correspondence solicited. 
H. C. & H. R. Harpendiug, Dundee, N. Y. 
Large Berkshires 
American and English Breeding. Matings not akin. 
Catalogue on application. 
WILLOUGHBY FARM, Gettysburg, Pa. 
LOCUST HOME BERKSHIRES 
Direct Premier Longfellow, Lord Premier and 
Masterpiece strains. Young stock for sale. 
S. C. FRENCH, Atwater, N. Y. 
Duroc Jersey Red Pigs and Collie Pups. 
We have a fine lot of Red Pigs we must sell. If you 
want some nice Pigs write us; will Price them 
right. J. H. LEWIS & SON, Camerou, W. Va. 
pUCCUIRCQ— THE WHITE. BACON HOG. 
UllLOniriLO Long-bodied, Square-built, good 
good mothers, gentle, pi-ofitable. 
MORNINGSIDE FARM, Sylvania, Pa. 
grazers, 
SILVER STRAIN REG. 0.1. G. PIGS 
FOR SALE. 
March and May farrow; akin. 
W. R. SWARTZ, Shelly, Pa. 
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NICORN DAIRY RATION tn&r‘>&2*3 
every Farmer and Stock Raiser should know all about. 72i< of digestible organic 
matter, and 22 % protein—No salt or filler. This is far more digestible food material 
than any other dairy feed ever marketed. Made of Ajax Flakes properly balanced. 
Write, CHAPIN & CO., I uc ., Buffalo, N. Y. 
