1911 . 
THE RURAL- N E W-Y ORKER 
445 
CEMENT FLOOR FOR STABLE. 
On page 1083 1 see an article on con¬ 
crete floors and as to the proper way of 
laying a tight concrete floor. In regard 
to putting cement on a two-inch plank 
floor, I can give H. A. J. a plan which 
will last him for centuries. Lay upon 
his plank a layer of tar paper and drive 
the plank full of six-penny or eight- 
penny nails, say 4x4 inches each way, 
leaving the heads out about one or l '/2 
inch. Upon this lay a good layer of 
woven wire, keeping it one inch from 
the plank. Upon this put a covering of 
concrete mixed one part cement, two 
parts gravel and three parts sand, gravel 
to be one-half inch or not larger than 
three-fourths. After spreading this on 
2]/ 2 or three inches thick, well moistened, 
tramp it to make it fill all voids. Trowel 
this off and then float it with a wooden 
float, and you will have a floor that 
will last a lifetime, j. p. mansfield. 
Wisconsin. 
A HORSE SALESMAN TALKS. 
I have had an experience of three years 
as a salesman and four years as manager of 
the original firm who first developed the 
scheme of horse companies, and I never 
knew a company to be a financial success. 
I know all the arguments used, the influence 
of 20 men being better than one, how they 
will all work for the success of the horse, 
etc., but when you come to results it is all 
on the wrong side of the lodger. The costs, 
the risks, the danger of dissatisfaction in 
the company outweighs the profits a hun¬ 
dredfold. If 10 farmers want a horse 
don’t buy on the company plan from a 
salesman, for if they do the result spells 
failure sure as fate, but let them send 
two good men to look over the best studs 
and they will find a better horse for two- 
thirds to three-quarters the cost. And 
don’t let them look for profit on their in¬ 
vestment, for they won’t get any ; but their 
ptofit will come from improving their stock, 
if any. There is the only profit. I have 
seen 500 companies formed, and I don’t 
believe one of them ever paid a cent in any 
other way. 
I note what Mr. Okie on page 187 says, 
and I think he is mistaken on several 
points. First, the salesman is on a salary, 
and does not sell on commission. Second, 
notes are not sold on any 20 per cent 
discount, at least I never sold one that 
netted the buyer over 13 per cent, and that 
was in the days when money was worth 
more than it is now. Third, the company 
would have to net more than $1,200 from 
a $2,400 sale, or they would be in bank¬ 
ruptcy inside of three years, unless the 
horse was a poorer one than usual. If yon 
go back to the early days of the importation 
of horses and ending with 1896 you will 
find not five per cent able to retire on a 
fortune, but the big majority went broke. 
If the profits had been so big this would 
not have been true. I find very few 
names of advertisers that were there 20 
years ago. I am not kicking on the horse 
business, for I believe in good stock, in 
fact, it is the only road to success to-day 
for the farmer, but I am saying that the 
average farmers’ horse company is doomed 
to sorrow and loss if the experience of the 
past means anything. The importers of 
purebred stock have done more for the up¬ 
lift of the farmers of the United States 
than any other single agency, but that does 
not change the results of company buying 
of stallions If dollar and cent profit is the 
main or only object. If improving stock 
is the main object, then I say go ahead, and 
get the best horse you can, but don’t get 
him through an agent who comes to your 
town with a stallion, but go to the im¬ 
porter with long years of honorable suc¬ 
cess back of him, and get a good horse, and 
you will do your community good, although 
you may not directly make a dollar. 
SALESMAN. 
MORE SHORT-HORN DAIRY COWS. 
I read with interest Mr. Prince’s able 
defence of the dairy Short-horn cow in 
your issue of February 18. The following 
figures will further support his contentions: 
The year record champions of the breed 
in each class at present are: Mature form, 
Hose of Glonside, 1&,075 pounds of milk, 
735 pounds of butter; four-year-old, Ma¬ 
mie Clay 2d, 13,233 pounds of milk; three- 
year-old, Doris Clay, 10,617 pounds of 
milk; two-year-old, Juliet, 10,395 pounds 
of milk. These will compare favorably with 
any breed; in fact, in some cases surpass 
the records in the same classes in some of 
the breeds, and it is only within a few 
years that such records have been accom¬ 
plished. Rose of Glenside, the champion, 
has at a little over nine years of age a 
record of seven calves and an average of 
9,417 pounds of milk per year for seven 
years in succession. She has two daughters, 
Bessie Buttercup, ll,53G pounds milk in 
one year, and Rose Buttercup, 9,158 pounds 
in one year from three teats. The cham¬ 
pion fonr-year-old, Mamie Clay 2d, 13,232 
pounds milk in one year, has, beginning as 
a two-year-old, a record of five calves and 
averaged 10,040 pounds of milk per year 
for five successive years. She is granddam 
of the champion three-year-old and two- 
year-old, Doris Clay and Juliet. Juliet won 
second in the butter-fat contest open to 
all breeds at the 1909 New York State Fair, 
and her record of 10,395 pounds milk in 
one year as a two-year-old was a fine 
achievement, as she was with calf during 
the last six months of her test. 
The claim that dairy Short-horn cows do 
not breed on is easily disposed of. The 
descendants of Kitty Clay 2d and Joe 
Johnson have made in one herd records 
as follows: Twenty records over 10,000 
pounds milk in one year, average 11,263 
pounds each; 55 records averaging 10,011 
pounds milk each in one year, and 103 
records averaging 9,357 pounds milk each 
in one year. Mamie Clay calved in 1891, 
and, still living, has at present descendants 
that have made 11 records over 10,000 
pounds, average 10,767 pounds milk each 
in one year; 21 records averaging 10,052 
pounds milk each in one year; 28 records 
averaging 9,623 pounds milk in one year. 
One herd in 1910 had 13 cows and heifers 
that made an average of 10,054 pounds 
milk each. The entire herd of 38 cows and 
heifers, one-half of them two and three- 
year-old heifers, and including several old 
and farrow cows, averaged in 1910 7,812 
pounds of milk each. There are numerous 
illustrations of the merit of the dairy 
Short-horns as dairy cows. We have bulls 
of the breed whose dam and sire’s dam 
have averaged 15.623 pounds milk each in 
one year, something I believe no breed 
except the Holstein can show. The dairy 
Short-horn is an existing fact, has won 
many friends, and is worthy and moreover 
destined to occupy a prominent place in 
our agriculture. 
W. ARTHUR SIMPSON, 
Secretary, American Dairy Short-horn 
Association. 
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