704 
Live Stock and Dairy 
BREED OF SHEEP FOR PROFIT. 
What breed of sheep do you consider best 
in I'egard to the wool clip and weight of 
lambs, and which are the best breeders that 
do well in this locality (Rensselaer Co.)? 
Some say the large western sheep are best, 
because they give larger lambs and more 
wool. H. D. 
Troy, N. Y. 
It is hard to get all the good quali¬ 
ties in any one breed. Those that shear 
the greatest number of pounds of wool 
do not produce the largest lamb. If 
you have files of The R. N.-Y. you will 
find detailed information as to the par¬ 
ticular merits of the different breeds. 
Of the purebreds or high grade black¬ 
faced sheep, doubtless the Shropshires 
will come as near what you have in 
mind as any. They bring heavy lambs 
and are good shearers; but they want 
better care, and more attention, than 
the finer-wool sheep, and do not shear 
as much wool. I am inclined to think 
if you will go up into Washington 
county about Cambridge or Salem, 
you will find there sheep that will prove 
profitable to you. For a good many 
years they have been raising a sheep, 
well adapted to their needs, and one 
that should be adapted to yours. The 
foundation were fine wools; these 
have been bred up, and crossed, until 
they have a line of sheep that are good 
bodied, hardy, shear a medium wool 
and a heavy fleece, and when crossed 
with a ram of one of the distinct mut¬ 
ton breeds bring a good-sized lamb that 
fattens well. edward van alstyne. 
HOTHOUSE LAMBS. 
In this part of the country all 
branches of the sheep business seem to 
be in disrepute. This is due to various 
reasons, but perhaps the chief one is 
damage from dogs. We were bothered 
this way. nearly every year until bells 
were placed on about half the flock. 
This seems to remedy the difficulty. 
Probably the surest way is to have 
woven wire fences to shut dogs out. I 
would be inclined to doubt whether the 
ordinary sheep business would pay in 
this locality where land is so valuable, 
but early lambs promise very well. The 
first and most important matter is a 
selection of breed. The Dorsets are one 
of the best for this purpose; mainly 
because they will breed at almost any 
time of the year, are excellent milkers, 
and will quickly develop their lambs to 
good size. Unless one is used to sheep, 
he would better start with a small flock 
and work up. Good grades are best 
and will cost less than pure bloods, 
though a purebred ram is quite desir¬ 
able. 
An essential matter in this business is 
a warm stable, well lighted and venti¬ 
lated. Movable partitions are handy in 
lambing time, when new-born lambs 
with their mothers need shutting by 
themselves for a time. When lambs are 
a week or two old they should have a 
small creep or space where they can run 
at will and eat unmolested. A feed 
mixture should be kept constantly in 
this place. We consider a mixture of 
ground oats, meal and bran very good, 
with perhaps the addition of a little 
middlings. Lambs may sometimes be 
coaxed to eat sooner by sprinkling a 
little sugar on their feed. After the 
lamb is born the mother should be fed 
a small amount of grain, a mixture 
about the same as recommended for the 
lambs, which should be gradually in¬ 
creased until she is getting from V/2 to 
three pounds per day according to her 
appetite. They should be fed for great¬ 
est production of milk, so a balanced 
ration similar to what we feed our dairy 
cows might serve us well. It is quite 
desirable at this period that the mothers 
have clover hay, and some should be 
given the babies as soon as they will 
eat it. Roots of some kind, fed once a 
day, are an excellent thing. Turnips or 
the rukae 
beets are very good. With such treat¬ 
ment the lambs should reach a salable 
size in from six to 10 weeks, when they 
will bring from $8 to $15 on the New 
York market during January, February 
and part of March. One pair of twins, 
sold for us last Spring, brought $19. 
Dorsets have a large percentage of 
twins. 
It is a great advantage also to have 
one’s lambs come in Winter when there 
is more time to attend them; then when 
the rush of work comes in Spring the 
lambs are out of the way, and the sheep 
can be turned out to pasture without 
further bother, provided the fences are 
good. It is quite essential to have lambs 
dressed right for market and shipped 
early in the week. Appearance has a 
lot to do with the price. The commis¬ 
sion merchant usually gives full instruc¬ 
tions as to how this should be done. It 
might be said in conclusion that if one 
does not like to take a little extra pains 
at certain seasons of the year, do a little 
so-called fussing, he would better stay 
out of this kind of sheep business. 
New Jersey. f. m. carpenter. 
NEW-YOKKEH 
THE FEED AND THE COW. 
A friend whom I met recently, who 
reads The R. N.-Y., referring to those 
poor dairy cows mentioned on page 625, 
which were fed $38 worth and returned 
$35 worth from the creamery, said that 
if such cows had been given $60 worth 
of feeds they might have produced $75 
worth of milk. In my judgment he has 
exaggerated the situation somewhat; 
yet he is right as to the principle of the 
matter involved. It is a very general 
thing to find that the cows in herds of 
the sort referred to are underfed, or 
wrongly fed. Were they fed a better 
ration the chances are that a majority 
of them would at least pay their way, 
and many would pay a profit, where 
now the roughage is simply turned into 
money at a very moderate price. Speak¬ 
ing of proper feeding, let it be remem¬ 
bered that one must begin the process 
with the calf. A farmer stopped me in 
town to-day to speak of his feeding. 
He has grade Holsteins, and he figured 
that he feeds over a ton of grain feeds 
to each cow, besides a ton and a half of 
hay. His ration cannot cost less than 
$60, he says, but I find that his income 
from the creamery is almost 97$percow. 
There was a time when he did not do 
so well. He has gradually, but care¬ 
fully, taken out the poorer cows in his 
herd, and has substituted better ones. 
That is what every dairyman should 
do. If he had not done that, he could 
not feed $60 worth to a cow with profit, 
although he might feed $45 or $50 
worth. As noted in the former note, 
the change to better cows should be 
made as fast as it can be done with 
safety, but no faster. Good cows well 
fed are the ones that make a profit. 
H. H. L. 
Southdown Sheep for Sale 
About 14 Fine Yearling Rams 
Having secured the entire Flock owned by the 
late John HobartWarren of Attwood Farm.Hoosick 
Falls. N. Y. Flock founded in 1867, imported by Mr. 
Warren from the famous Flocks of Henry Webb. 
Esq., Lord Walsingham, Duke Of Rutland and 
others. A. GALBRAITH, 
Supt. for J. Pierrepont Morgan, Esq., 
Highland Falls, N. Y. 
RARE OPPORTUNITY 
TO SECURE THOROUGHBRED STOCK. 
Lincoln and Hampshire Down Sheep; Chester 
White, Poland China and Berkshire Pigs; Jersey 
Bulls and Heifers; Scotch Collie Dogs. Send 
2-cent stamp for circular. 
EDWARD WALTER. West Chester, Pa. 
Laurel Farm Jerseys 
r If f THE PAPERS 
”11) THE DESCRIPTION 
And The Price Fits The Farmer’s Pocketbook. 
J. GRANT MORSE, Hamilton, N. Y. 
The GUERNSEY COW is the 
Most Economical Producer of 
Dairy Products of the Highest Quality. 
Reason WHY— by writing 
Guernsey Club, Bos R. N. Y., Peterboro, N. H. 
nUID PAQM Berkshire Hogs and Jersey 
UnlU iHnm Cattle; stock for sale; always 
on hand. M. L. BENHAM, LeRoy, Ohio. 
‘OLLIE PUPS from imported Stock. Females 
' cheap. NELSON BROS., Grove City, Pa. 
KRESO-DIP 
SPRING "DIPPING 
AND 
Hand Dressing All Stock. 
PUTS AN END TO 
LICE, TICKS, MITES, 
FLEAS, MANGE, SCAB, 
RINGWORM, ALL 
SKIN DISEASES. 
Don’t waste time and money on inferior dips. 
-USE- 
NON-CARBOLIC. STANOAROIZCD. 
Prepared in our own laboratories. Ask your 
druggist for Kreso Dip. Write us for free 
booklets telling how to use on all live stock. 
PARKE, DAVIS & CO. 
DETROIT, MICHIGAN. 
Branches: New York, Chicago, St, Louis, Boston, Balti¬ 
more, New Orleans, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Minneap¬ 
olis, Memphis: London, Eng.; Montreal, Que.; Syduey, 
N.S.W.;St. Petersburg, Russia; Bombay, India; 
Tokio, Japan; Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
Ideal Cow Stabling 
Hinged 
mangers weight-" 
ed like a window,"' 
raise over cows’ heads for 
cleaning trough and watering." 
Adjustable Chain Swing Stan¬ 
chions. Automatic Cleaning 
Mangers and Steel Pipe 
Partitions 
The neatest, cleanest, strongest, most con¬ 
venient, most comfortable and most sanitary 
of all cow stablings. Cement trough for in¬ 
door watering forms manger bottoms. Stan* 
chions adjust for long and short cows, so all are 
lined on the gutter. Send for booklet for all 
particulars. 
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OODWARD’S WATERING BASI 
A STABLE NECESSITY. SEE WHAT OTHERS SAY OF IT. 
Clrtul.r. Free. J. S. WOODWARD A SON, LOCKPORT. N.Y 
For 30 years an 
IMPORTER and BREEDER 
of high-class 
Percheron and French 
Coach Stallions. 
No investment brings 
you so large returns 
with so little effort as a 
draft or coach stallion. 
Write EL WOOD S. 
AKIN, Auburn.N.Y. 
FAD CAI C Registered RambouiUet Sheep 
rUll dflLb and O. I. C. Swine. 
C. W. HALLIDAY, Route 2, Hammondsport, N. Y. 
CUQnDQlllDCQ— 30 Yearling Rams, 30 Ram 
onnuromnco Lambs. Also Ewes and Ewe 
Lambs; 2 extra rams for show. Address 
FRED VAN VLEET, Lodi. New York. 
DORSET SHEEP. 
FOR SALE— Dorset Yearling and Ram Lambs 
from one of the best flocks in the United States or 
Canada. Also some very flue large Yorkshire and 
Chester White pigs of both sexes and all ages. 
Prices reasonable. Especial care taken in shipping 
animals. W. H. Miner, Chazy, Clinton Co., N. Y. 
PINEHURST SHROPSHIRES 
Leading American Flock 
Send for descriptive circular of 60 Rams; 
gives age, weight and characteristics. Have 
60 beautiful Ewes for sale. Address Box D. 
HENRY L. WARDWELL, 
Springfield Center, Otsego Co., New York. 
Cotswold Sheep 
We have decided to sell our entire flock of Pure¬ 
bred COTSWOLD SHEEP, consisting of breeding 
ewes and lambs. This Is an exceptional oppor¬ 
tunity to get some purebred Cotswolds cheap. Let 
us know what you want and we will quote prices. 
Joseph Harris Co., Coldwater, N. Y. 
September 5, 
HOLSTEIN BULL FOR SALE 
Born October 30, 1907. 
Nicely Marked, Largely Black, a Fine Individ¬ 
ual, Ready for Use. 
Sire, De Kol Hengerveld Burke. 
Dam, by Canary’s Mercedes’ Son. 
Send for printed chart showing breeding 
and records. 
Price cheap enough for any Grade Herd. 
T. A. MITCHELL. 
Oakland Farm, Weedsport, N. Y. 
BULL CALVES-YOUNG BULLS 
ready for service, that are of good size and individ¬ 
uality. All are from oflicially tested dams, ami are 
sired by Homestead Girl De Kol’s Sarcastic 
Lad. We have sixty daughters of this Bull that 
will tie kept iu tlie Herd and oflicially tested. 
Write for description and prices. 
WOODCREST FARM, 
Rifton, Ulster County, New York. 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS 
GENIE CLOTHII.DE, one of the world’s 
official record cows witli 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 
on the dam’s side with records of 26.39 lbs. butter at 
four years and 20.59 lbs. butter at three years of age. 
Bull Calves For Sale. 
W. W. CHENEY, 
Manlius, N. Y. 
The BLOOMINGDALE HERD OF 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS 
are bred for large production. Good size, Strong 
Constitution, Best Individuality. 
If these are the kind yon 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. CORTELYOU. Somerville, N. J. 
ALL ABOUT HOLSTEINS 
Send for free illustrated pamphlet describing 
this great breed of cattle. 
F^L^HOCGHTON^^ec^^BrattleboM^VL 
Aberdeen Cattle and 0.1. C, Hogs 
ARDER NOW.— I am booking orders for O. I. C. 
” Pigs, either sex, to be shipped when six weeks 
old, f. o. b.. Walker, N. Y., $5 each; eight weeks 
old, $7 each. Cash must accompany ail orders. 
My breeders are in fine condition; they have a 
large range and plenty of running water. All 
breeding stock is registered. 
ELM BANK STOCK AND FRUIT FARM, ™ 
D. H. Hamil, Prop., Walker. N. Y. 
ATT PIGS, Mar. and April farrow. Mated not 
O. 1. VI. a kin. Bred sows. All Registered Silver 
Premium Stock. F. J. Schwartz 
kegi 
E.P 
harsalia.N.Y 
pupCUIRLQ—THE WHITE. BACON HOG. 
UnCOll HILO Long-bodied, Square-built, good 
grazers, good_ mothers v gentle^pi'ofitable. 
MORNINGSIDE F7 
Sylvania, Pa. 
A Few Gilts For Sale, 
due to farrow between now 
and September 15,1908; also 
Spring pigs of both sexes. 
Write for prices to John 
Goodwine Jr., Potomac, Ver.Co.,111. 
CHOICE BERKSHIRE SERVICE BOARS 
Two 3 year old and one 1 year old son of Premier 
Longfellow; one six months old son of Lord 
Premiers Rival and one son of Lord Premier 2nd; 
one 1 year old son of O. H. F. Sensation; 3 1 year 
old sons of Premier Longfellow. Several spring 
pigs, both sexes, by same boars: all are line bred 
and out of Lord Premier and Premier Longfellow 
sows. Registered and transferred free. Also 
several year old brood sows bred to above boars. 
JAMES MARSH, Greenwich, Conn. 
KALORAMA 
EERKSHIRES 
A limited number of young sows bred to a grand 
imported boar for March and April farrow. 
Also a fine lot of fall pigs of the highest quality 
and breeding at very attractive prices. 
CALVIN J. HUSON, PennYan,N.Y. 
CLARION FARM BERKSHIRES. 
Choice individuals all ages in both sexes, bred 
sows, service boars. Some hog as well as pedigree. 
State your wishes, prices reasonable considering 
quality and breeding. America’s and England’s 
prize winners and highest priced strains represented 
in our herd, all line bred in respective families. 
Sons and daughters of Lord Premier, Masterpiece. 
Lord Premier’s Rival Sensation, Premier Long¬ 
fellow, Black Robinliood, American bred. Baron 
Kitchener, Supreme Boy, Poigate, and Compton, 
English bred. Service of our herd boars for sale 
on registered sows. Catalogue and text book, post¬ 
age lOcts. Clarion Farm, R. C. 3, Greenwich, Conn. 
Reg^P. Chinas, Berkshires, C. Whites. 
Fine large strains; all ages, mated 
not akin. Bred sows, service Boars, 
Guernsey and Holstein calves. Collie 
_ _ Pups, Beagles and Poultry. Write for 
prices & circulars. Hamilton & Co., Middletown,Pa. 
LARGE BERKSHIRES. 
Most approved breeding. All animals guaranteed 
and registered free of charge. Write for prices. 
H. C. & H. B. Harpending, Dundee, N. Y. 
BERKSHIRES. 
HIGHCLERE & LONGFELLOW STOCK 
MARCH PIGS, - 
MAY PIGS, - - 
- $15.00 each. 
10.00 each. 
S. S. STORY, North Stockholm, N. Y. 
SPRINGBANK HERD 
LARGE BERKSHIRES 
A fine bunch of Sows coming a year - 
old by Grand Premier, No. 80005,bred to Baron Duke 
85th, No. 91215. A son of i’remier Longfellow, No. 
68600, Grand Champion at St. Louis in 1904. Booklet 
on application. J.E. WATSON, Marbledale. Conn. 
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. Voting stock for sale. 
S. C. FRENCH, Atwater, N. Y. 
