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STI-IEJ RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 17, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
THE “ALL AROUND” SHORTHORN COW. 
The opponents of the dual-purpose 
cow die hard, but they are coming over 
one by one, and if they would study the 
records of their favorite dairy breeds 
and compare them with the high stand¬ 
ard that they have 'set for the dual- 
purpose cow they would be wonderfully 
surprised at the small number of cows 
they would find that could come up to 
that mark, and would be led to conclude 
that the Short-horn cow was not such a 
poor one after all. She is rapidly gain¬ 
ing in popularity among a large class of 
eastern farmers who are beginning to 
realize that the time is near when the 
beef cattle of this country will have to 
be produced by the farmer, and they 
want a cow that will make a good profit 
in the dairy while her calf is growing 
on the separator milk into an animal 
that will make good in the feed lot. The 
dual-purpose cow fills the bill nicely, 
not the Short-horn alone, but the Brown 
Swiss and Red Polls as well. 
In regard to the Short-horns not mak¬ 
ing good in the Columbian dairy tests, 
I will give the facts as I have read 
them and leave it to readers to decide 
which came the nearest to making good. 
When it was decided to make those tests 
the different cattle breeding associations 
agreed to put in working dairies of their 
breeds, and while the Short-horn Asso¬ 
ciation knew they could not hope to 
beat the Channel Island cattle they en¬ 
tered the tests to show that their cows 
could make a satisfactory profit in the 
dairy. Mr. Hines, the commissioner who 
had them in charge, in his report says: 
“To prove that the Short-horn herd as 
a whole, good, bad and indifferent, in 
the 90-day test, with all the unfavorable 
surroundings, showed themselves dairy 
cattle, I will simply state that the 24 
cows actually gave GG,26314 pounds of 
milk, showing 2410 pounds of fat, equiv¬ 
alent to 3012pounds of 80 per cent 
butter, which amounts to an average 
of over l 2-5 pounds per day for the 24 
cows that participated in this test. In 
the 15-day cheese test 25 cows gave 
12,186.9 pounds of milk and only lacked 
a small fraction of an average of three 
pounds of cheese each per day. In the 
30-day butter test 15 cows gave 15,618.3 
pounds of milk, 662.66 pounds of butter 
and made a net profit of $199,134. In 
the heifer test lasting 21 days the six 
heifers gave 2581 pounds of milk and 
122.362 pounds of butter, and a net profit 
of $47.42.” So much for the Short-horn. 
In the “Breeders’ Gazette” for Janu¬ 
ary 25 preceding the test, there was a 
statement that the American Jersey Cat¬ 
tle Club had assembled at Jackson Park 
over 50 cows in preparation for the com¬ 
ing battle of the breeds, and that they 
were capable of making from three to 
nearly five pounds of butter per day, a 
statement that gave the other breed as¬ 
sociations such a shock that with the 
exception of the Short-horn and Guern¬ 
sey they all laid down and quit right 
there. In the 90-day test there were but 
five Jersey cows that were able to make 
two pounds of butter per day; their 
average was 2.19 pounds. In the 30-day 
test there were but four cows that 
reached the two-pound mark, and one 
of those was the Short-horn Kitty Clay 
4 th. The Jerseys showed only five sure- 
enough two-pound cows, out of the 30 
that were used during the tests, and 
these were the select from the 50 that 
were said to be able to make from 
three to five pounds of butter per day, 
and were fed by an expert hired at a 
high price to put them through for all 
they were worth. Now, which made 
good at the New York Experiment 
Farm at Geneva? A test of all breeds 
was carried on for over a year, and I 
find in the fourteenth Annual Report 
of the director of the Station that as a 
profitable milk producer the Short-horn 
stands on an equal footing with the 
Holstein at the head of the list, and as 
an economical butter and cheese pro¬ 
ducer the Short-horn is at the top. I 
will say nothing about the up-to-date 
records of the Short-horn cows, as Mr. 
Simpson in his excellent article on page 
445 gives some good ones, and there are 
more to follow. A. H. prince. 
Schuyler Co., N. Y. 
MRS. HOG AS MONEY EARNER. 
I note your cow and hog contest in 
The R. N.-Y. Everybody seems to have 
his pet theory in regard to some especial 
stock. We have cows, hens and one 
sow, but from a financial standpoint 
the hog has proved the best investment, 
with the least amount of cost and care. 
She is seven years old and has farrowed 
120 pigs in that time, two litters a year 
except once. Her smallest litter was 
her first, nine pigs; her largest, one year 
ago last May, 14 pigs. Two weeks ago 
she had 13, and to all appearance is 
good for more litters. Although she 
is large and generally gets on to two 
or three before they get strong, she is 
a great milker and we expect to raise 
from eight to 10 of each litter. She is 
a mixture of four breeds, Poland China, 
Chester White. Duroc Red and York¬ 
shire, and there are apt to be pigs of 
all colors, but they all do well, and sell 
well. Although 1 admire a purebred 
animal of any kind, I doubt if you could 
find one that would discount this one 
as a business proposition, and I don't 
own a cow that can show a profit with 
this’old SOW. H. D. WHITNEY. 
New Hampshire. 
R. N.-Y.—Now we want the record 
showing what this sow’s yearly pig crop 
is worth. Will Mr. Whitney enter her 
in the “contest” we hope to start in the 
Fall? We would like to have cows, 
hogs, sheep and hens all represented on 
a money basis; that is, figured at what 
the animals would cost at ordinary sale. 
A SILO FOR THE SMALL FARMER. 
Tell W. W. Farnsworth, page 614, 
that if he had two small round silos, 
about 10x24 (that is about the smallest 
practical size), he could fill them both 
in the Fall and not touch one until 
Spring, and it would work all right. 
Each one will hold from four to five 
acres of good corn, and more if the corn 
is small. We have just finished feeding 
three head of cattle from one of this 
size. We fed down one half of the silo 
about four feet, and then covered it 
with straw and horse manure and spoilt 
silage from the top of the other half, 
treading it well. Then we fed the other 
half down eight feet, or four feet be¬ 
low the level of the first half, and re¬ 
peated. Of course some spoilt, but 
spoilt silage makes excellent manure. I 
think it would pay to have the corn¬ 
stalks cut for this purpose alone, even 
if a cutting outfit does cost $1.50 an 
hour, as it does here. I know from ex¬ 
perience that silage is the cheapest and 
best food for all live stock on the farm. 
As a Winter egg producer it is unex¬ 
celled, and when a ton of silage worth 
$4 will save a ton of hay worth $16 in 
wintering cows or horses, and saves 
grain in fattening pigs, no farmer with 
three or more head of cattle can afford 
to be without a silo. c. c. clement. 
Chautauqua Co., N. Y. 
PIGS ON PURCHASED FEED. 
Will pigs pay when one has to huy all 
the food for them? Suppose I get about 50 
or 100 of them; there is a handy market 
here; I have a large pasture which I could 
fence in and let them out at the right time. 
F. K. 
We have known of one or two parties 
who made a little money from feeding 
pigs when practically all of the food was 
purchased, but in these cases the pigs 
were bought when the market was low 
and sold when the price advanced. In 
other words, these were cases of suc¬ 
cessful speculation. Pigs weighing from 
50 pounds to 200 pounds will require an 
average of about 450 pounds grain to 
produce 100 pounds live weight, where 
grain alone is fed. It will not need the 
services of a Philadelphia lawyer to 
show from these figures that pork must 
sell at a big price in order to make a 
profit from this method of feeding. If 
there is a considerable amount of White 
clover in your pasture you could prob¬ 
ably produce 100 pounds pork with 
somewhat less grain. You will need to 
provide shelter from cold rains and from 
the heat of the Summer sun. If your 
pasture can be plowed you might fence 
off a few acres and sow rape. One good 
acre of rape is worth more for pigs 
than 20 acres of ordinary pasture where 
coarse grasses, sedges and weeds pre¬ 
vail. In preparing old sod for rape plow 
early in May, disk it thoroughly and 
harrow at frequent intervals until the 
end of June, or when the sod is well 
rotted and pulverized. A good acre of 
rape will carry from 25 to 40 pigs for 
the Summer—with some grain of course 
—for young pigs will not make satis¬ 
factory gains on rape alone. The rape, 
however, will save at least one ton of 
middlings. C. s. M. 
When you write advertisers mention Tirr: 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
Farmers New 
Making Cheese 
Invention of Wonderful Com¬ 
plete Cheese-Making Outfit 
Enables Every Farm Home to 
Make Cheese at a big Profit. 
It is no longer necessary for Farmers to buy 
Btore cheese at a high price, or sell their milk to 
the Cheese Trust at a low price. A clever inven¬ 
tor has perfected a Complete Cheese-Making 
Outfit which enables every Farmer to make either 
a soft, rich, granular, or American Cheddar 
cheese right at home either for his own con¬ 
sumption or for sale to Dealers. 
Outfit consists of the following: One Cheese 
Press, One Horizontal Curd Knife, One Perpen¬ 
dicular Curd Knife, One Dairy Thermometer, 
One Bottle Rennett Extract, One Bottle Col¬ 
oring Matter and One Mold. This Complete 
Cheese-Making Outfit is sold direct from factory 
to farm at one small profit over actual cost to 
manufacture. It is simple, inexpensive, easily 
operated and pays for itself in a very short time. 
Capacity of this Outfit is from 25 to 40 quarts, 
making a cheese weighing from eight to ten 
pounds. With milk selling around 80 and 90 cents 
per hundred, any Farmer can save about one- 
third of the price he pays for store cheese, and 
at the same time have an outlet for either his 
whole or skimmed milk. This excellent home¬ 
made cheese sells readily to the Dealer at a big 
profit, either for cash or in exchange for goods. 
This wonderful Complete Cheese-Making Outfit 
is manufactured by the Holland Sporting Goods 
Mfg.Co., Dept. E Holland, Mich. Every Farmer 
should write them for full description of the Out¬ 
fit, prices, etc., and exact directions telling how 
to make cheese at a profit right on the farm. 
WISKER’S SEPARATORS 
Skim Closer, Run Easier, 
Last Longer and Clean 
Easier Than All Others 
Let us send one on 30 Days Trial 
WISNER MFG. CO. 
230 GREENWICH STREET, NEW YORK 
Everything for Dairymen Always 
in Stock 
80 lbs. More Milk 
IN 3 DAYS 
Resulted from usini? “Will-Kill-Fliea” 
on twenty-two cows-kept them free from 
flies and increased milk flow 80 lbs. in 8 days. 
WILL-KILL-FLIES 
the most effective liquid spraying preparation and 
perfect disinfectant, kills flies and all insect pests ] 
that annoy your stock and poultry—that means moro 
milk, more e^gs, healthy, contented cattle. 
Free Test at our Expense 
We’ll send you, express prepaid east of Rocky 
Mountains, 1 gallon of “Will-Kill-Flies” and a 
sprayer, on receipt of $JJ.00and dealer’s name. 
^If it doesn’t satisfy vou in every respect, we willj 
refund money. Lasts longer and accom-^ 
plishes more than other preparations. 
EUREKA MOWER COMPANY 
Box 964, Utica, N. Y. 
EXCELSIOR SWING STANCHION 
Warranted The Best. 30 Days’ Trial, 
Unlike all others. Stationary when open 
Noiseless Simple Sanitary Durable 
The Wasson Stanchion Co., 
Box CO, Cuba, N. Y. 
YOUNG MEN WANTED to learn 
VETERINARY profession. Catalogue 
free. Grand Rapids Veterinary 
College, Dep.15, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
DOGS 
PHI I 1C PI I DC—From imported stock. Females 
UULLlL rUrO cheap. Nelson Bros., Grove City, Pa. 
II ODSES 
P ercheron and Beluian Stallions and Mares for sale 
at farmers’ prices. A. VV. GREEN, Route 1. 
Middlefield, O. Railroad station, East Orwell, O., 
on Penna. R.R., 30 miles north of Youngstown. O. 
SWIUE 
S HELDON FARM registered Durocs. Pigs of both sex. 
Bred Sows. Service Boars. Best of breeding. 
C. K. BARNES, Oxford. N. Y. 
Mlllo.fnnt Pi(ro~I'> t hersox; pure blood; Kreglow 
lllUIC IliUI 1I50 strain. Prices reasonable. .J.N. 
McPHERSON, Pine View Farm, Scottsville, N. Y- 
nilRflP PIGS. $6 and $7 each, Pedigreed. Angora 
UUilUU Kittens. Serene Wickes, De Graff, O. 
DUROC PIGS, $7 
MAPLE FARM 
Calverton. L. I., N. Y. 
mipnnc the big, deep fellows 
UWfltSUO that grow and mature quickly. 
Pigs and Gilts for sale at all times. 
SIIENANGO RIVER FARMS, Transfer, Pa. 
CTERLINO HILL FA KM S-CHESBI RE 
SWINE—Orders booked for Spring Pigs reg¬ 
istered stock and grades; large litters and best of 
breeding. Bigelow & Swain, Ogdensburg, Sussex Co., N.J. 
LARGE ENGLISH YORKSHIRES. 
Last Fall Pigs from Prize Winning. Registered 
Stock, for sale at reasonable prices. 
CHAS. W. SWITZER - - SOUTH EUCLID, OHIO. 
LARGE BERKSHIRES 
Not the cheapest, but the best. Special offering of 
Spring pigs, single or matod, for breeding. Cata¬ 
logue on application. 
WILLOUGHBY FARM, Gettysburg!!, Pa 
DAIRY CATTLE 
‘The 
Guernseys 
have proven them¬ 
selves 
Highest Quality and Best Color 
The prepotency of the Guernsey Bail or his 
ability to stamp the desirable characteristics of the 
breed on his offspring 
Makes him most valuable for improving the 
common dairy stock of any section. 
A Dairy of Grade Guernseys will give Rich, 
Fine-Flavored, High-Colored Milk, 
Cream and Butter. 
FURTHER INFORMATION REGARDING THE GRADE 
GUERNSEYS BY ADDRESSING 
The American Guernsey Cattle Club 
Box R PETIBBORO, N. II. 
HOLSTEIN CATTLE 
THE MOST PROFITABLE DAIRY BREED 
Illustrated Descriptive Booklets Free 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASS’N OF AMERICA 
k.l.houghton.sec’y.boxios.brattleboro.vt. 
JUNE OFFERING 
Maple Hurst Stock Farms, Guilford, Conn. 
Fantim’s Zac, Taylor, imported Guernsey bull, head 
of our herd, is offered for sale to avoid inbreeding. 
One of the grandest individuals in the U. S. and 
perfect in every detail. Photo, on request. 
One registered Berkshire Boar, seven monthsold. 
One magnificent Chester White Boar, 14 months 
old, at a sacrifice. 
Eight, four and five months old Jersey Bulls (Reg.) 
from 32-30 pound stock and Pogis blood. 
Wo will guarantee that tho above stock is porfect 
and cannot he beat at tho price, or wo will refund 
your money and your carfare. 
ftlBft HOLSTEINS 
aro bred for large production, good size, strong 
constitution, and best individuality. The best 
sires are used in this herd that it is possible to se¬ 
cure. A nice lot-of young bulls for sale; no females. 
A. A. CORTELVOU, Somerville, N. J. 
REG. HOLSTEIN MALE CALVES 
■ Closely related to champions of the world Hj 
at farmers’ prices. Fine individuals, nicely gj 
marked. Fifty per cent bolow valuo. 
Satisfaction guaranteed. Write today, g} 
F. H. RIVENBURGH, H1LLHURST FARM, MUNNSVILLE, N. Y. 
Robinson’s HOLSTEINS are Producers 
They are Tuberculin Tested. Forty just fresh and 
that will freshen in the next two months, with 
milk records from 8.000 to 12.000 lbs. in the last 
year. V. D. ROBINSON, KDMK8TON, N. Y. 
AT LAUREL FARM 
we have on hand some half-dozen sons of Fern's 
Jubiloe, 73852, A. J. C. C., from ten months down 
to a few days old. All out of good cows. Discount 
prico for next thirty days. 
J. GRANT MORSE, Hamilton, N, Y. 
FOR SALE-GRADE GUERNSEYS BE, T?: 
Breed Up—Not 
buy. Superior dairy dams. No better sires. It. F. 
SHANNON, 907 Liberty Street, Pittsburg, Pa. 
Millr PrnrJirrppc f° r Now York City market 
iillm nuuui/Clo desiring information how to 
form branches of tho Dairymen’s League, write to 
tho Secrotury, ALBERT Manning, Otisville, N. Y. 
S'W"ITVT33 
KALORAMA FARM 
is now offering a limited number of 
BERKSHIRE PIGS 
from eight to twelve weeks old, of 
the highest quality and breeding, 
. . . AT REASONABLE PRICES , . . 
CALVIN J. HUSON, - PENN YAN, N. Y 
REGISTERED BERKSHIRE PIGS 
From Son of Berryton Duke, Jr., 77341, and 
well bred Sows. 
JERSEY BULLS ALL SOLO. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. 
CHAS. B. DAYTON, Supt. 
Sheldoucroft, • - Silver Lake, Pa. 
SPRINGBANK BERKSHIRES.-?;^ 
in Connecticut. Sows bred for April litters all sold. 
Have 4 sows bred to farrow in July; late, to ser¬ 
vice of Watson's Masterpiece. Will book orders 
for March and April pigs now. Send for new 
Booklet. J. E. WATSON, Pioprietor, Marbletlale, Conn. 
I ARGE BERKSHIRES AT HIGHW00D - Regular Summer 
Offering of Bred Sows. Eighty at our home farm, 
8 to 10 months old, some of them bred; selected from 
large litters out of mature dams. $35 up. Come and 
look them over. H. C. 8 H. B. HARPENDING, Dundee. N.Y. 
Alfalfa Lodge Yorkshires “ 
]\/[Y herd contains Grand Champion Sow at N. Y. 
Statu Fair, 1907-1908; also First Prize Sow at 
Canada Mid-winter Fair, 1908, and fifty other brood 
sows from imported stock of tho following families: 
Fame, Maiden, Cinderella, Princess, etc. April 
pigs for sale. 
Write for Booklet and Brices 
JOHN G. CURTIS, Bnx 272, Rochester, N. Y. 
