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THE RURAL NKW-YORKEH" 
March 25, 
THE “COMING BACK” OF MISSY. 
I have noticed your comment regard¬ 
ing Mr. Taylor and his cows, whose 
advanced registry record is in dispute. 
Your suggestion of retesting such cows 
is in my opinion quite impracticable. 
These cows have given the best part 
of their lives to the making of these 
records, and have been stimulated be¬ 
yond further endurance. To do twice 
the work of the average requires effort. 
Missy of the Glen has been stimulated 
to do not only the work of two, but 
taken according to the statistics for New 
York State, our greatest dairy State, the 
work of over six average cows. All 
champions are sometime overcome. 
Some of the pugilistic prize ring cham¬ 
pions are able to show their supremacy 
in many battles, over a period of years, 
but consider their effort and accomplish¬ 
ment by comparison. The longest en¬ 
durance test has lasted but a few hours; 
then time to recuperate and prepare 
again. But the dumb cow has been 
held to the contest, not for 10 rounds 
or a day or a week, but for a year. 
I am a breeder of fine cattle, Guernsey 
cattle and show Guernseys. I have 
never attempted to make extraordinary 
records of butter fat, but rather to pro¬ 
duce animals that, to the eye, show 
capacity for great things. To the ex¬ 
perienced eye, mind you. I have left it 
to others (my purchasers) to take from 
these cows their stored-up energy. I 
get my price, and when an- animal has 
made for a purchaser a record that I 
did not call upon her to make, I do not 
regret that he has obtained from me at 
a fraction of its real value a gold mine, 
but glory in the fact that he has de¬ 
veloped and made use of the deposit; 
that I had only discovered and chosen 
as a prospector to sell to him at a 
fair face value and go hunting for bet¬ 
ter things. 
I admire Mr. Taylor’s attitude. He 
evidently believes that if it is possible 
for Mr. A or Mr. Z to own a cow that 
could make a record of 999 pounds of 
butter a year, he might own one that 
would make 1,000 pounds. When I was 
a boy “Dexter” made a record of 2.40, 
and it was so wonderful that it doubled 
the price, in his eye, of a boy’s coaster 
to have Dexter’s head on it. Men have 
been known to spend $100,000 for a 
horse that they admired and believed in. 
Who will say that a cow, a much better 
friend of the whole human family, shall 
not be equally admired and as zealously 
defended? Mr. Taylor is right. If the 
Guernsey Cattle Club once accepted his 
records of his cows, which it did, it 
should have been final. The jealousy 
of other members who had been out¬ 
stripped in this race should not have 
been considered. If mistakes were made, 
the greatest mistake was that that 
Guernsey Cattle Club through its execu¬ 
tive committee, by the influence of tale¬ 
bearing, interested and troublesome 
neighbors, should be persuaded to deny 
the birthright of the child which it had 
christened. L. v. axtell. 
Ohio. 
R. N.-Y.—Our desire is to permit Mr. 
Axtell or anyone else to say anything 
about this case which they are prepared 
to stand for. Personal opinion is worth 
little in such a matter. It has come 
down to about this: “Did these cows 
give milk running up to nearly nine per 
cent in fat?" The great majority of 
Guernsey breeders doubt it. We do not 
see that Mr. Axtell adds to the dis¬ 
cussion of this point. Pie says the cows 
could not “come back.” Other cows 
have done so. Here is a letter from 
the secretary of the American Jersey 
Cattle Club: 
A number of Jersey cows have made large 
tests repeatedly, so that the first test did 
not practically kill the cow. There are no 
doubt cases in which a cow has been dam¬ 
aged by forcing, but I believe that most of 
the year’s tests carried out under our Reg¬ 
ister of Merit rules have not injured the 
cows in the least. As instances, I would 
like to quote Jacoba Irene, who has been 
tested for four consecutive years, and dur¬ 
ing her last test she has produced over 
12,000 pounds of milk and fat equivalent 
to 789 pounds of butter. At the beginning 
of this test she was 11 years and seven 
months old. This does not look as if her 
great test, in which she produced 17,253 
pounds of milk and fat equivalent to 1126 
pounds of butter, greatly injured her. An¬ 
other cow which may be quoted is Sophie 
19th of Hood Farm, tested for three con¬ 
secutive years, each year increasing her 
yield, until in the last test she has pro¬ 
duced 14,373 pounds milk and fat equiva¬ 
lent to 1,011 pounds of butter. Warder’s 
Lady might also be mentioned, a cow tested 
for two consecutive years, producing 11,432 
pounds milk and fat equivalent to 717 
pounds of butter the first year, and in the 
following year producing 14,820 pounds of 
milk and fat equivalent to 969 pounds of 
butter. R. M. gow. 
If we grant that these Guernsey cows 
could not repeat their large flow of 
milk—let them give some more of that 
nine per cent milk on which they made 
their record. We doubt if Mr. Axtell’s 
comparison of a pugilistic champion will 
hold. People who were at the ringside 
say that the old champion, Jeffries, fully 
“came back” and probably was never in 
better condition—but he met a man bet¬ 
ter than any he had ever faced before. 
Mr. Axtell might better join us in call¬ 
ing for an exhibition of some of that 
nine per cent milk! As for Guernsey 
cows over 75 have been selected and in 
the majority of cases “came back” and 
gave a larger yield than when tested for 
the first time. 
Rickets. 
What can I do with a four months old 
pig? lie seems crippled in his hind legs, 
doesn’t exercise at all; when compelled to 
keeps lifting his feet; eats very little. 
New Hampshire. o. m. h. 
As often stated here, this condition is 
brought on by overfeeding and lack of exer¬ 
cise. Feed on slop of milk and middlings, 
adding lime water at rate of one ounce to 
the quart. Feed well pigs in this way, and 
make them take lots of outdoor exercise ev¬ 
ery day. They should root under litter for 
any corn they are allowed. a. s. a. 
Molasses for Horse. 
I would like to know the best and most 
economical method of feeding molasses to a 
horse that does ordinary farm work. I 
can buy molasses by the barrel in Rich¬ 
mond at 16 cents per gallon. G. B. 
Meadow, Va. 
We have fed the molasses in two ways. 
One is to pour it over the grain twice a 
day and let the horse lick it up. The other 
is to cut the hay or fodder, mix the mo¬ 
lasses with water and sprinkle it over the 
cut fodder. The last-named plan is best 
where the hay is not high class, or where 
the horse eats too fast. 
Heaves. 
Will you tell me what to do for a horse 
that breathes hard on the road (you would 
call it wind-broken). It does not bother 
him much when working. Bran mash with 
a little soda and tar helps him some. 
Horse is 11 years old. I think sometimes 
the horse has been overdriven. J. c. L. 
There is no cure for “heaves” (broken 
wind), but it may be relieved by giving 
half an ounce of Fowler’s solution of ar¬ 
senic, wetting all food; not giving bulky 
food of any sort at noon; not working the 
horse soon after a meal; feeding wet oat 
straw in Winter and grass in Summer in 
preference to hay. a. s. a. 
Lameness. 
Some time since I saw a recipe in The 
R. N.-Y. for continued lameness and swell¬ 
ing for barb-wire cuts and treatment for 
same. I have a valuable mare which got 
cut in this manner some months ago, and 
is still lame, and the swelling and lameness 
does not seem to respond to the use of 
ordinary liniments. Would you publish 
again the formula given for the liniment 
and treatment so that I can try it? 
Texas. J. s. T. 
We do not know to which prescription 
you refer. Perhaps it was not supplied by 
the veterinarian. A good barb-wire cut 
lotion is made by dissolving two ounces of 
sulphate of zinc and half an ounce of 
chloride of zinc in a pint of water acidu¬ 
lated with one dram of hydrochloric acid. 
This is especially good for wounds in which 
exuberant granulations (proud flesh) are 
giving trouble. It is not intended for lame¬ 
ness and swelling. We would have to 
know the exact conditions in the case of 
your horse before we could prescribe intel¬ 
ligently. A. s. A. 
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