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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 0. 
Live Stock and Dairy 
RAISING DRAFT HORSES ON THE FARM. 
The first essential in raising a good 
draft horse is a good mare, one built 
on proper lines and one that has size 
enough to haul a load and with ambi¬ 
tion to do it. Size alone never made a 
good horse. You do not want a mare 
that stands on stilts, nor one like a 
plank on edge. Get depth of body with 
lots of width across hips and breast, 
and at the same time a short coupled 
animal. A long.arm from knee up and 
short from knee down indicates power, 
and do not have her stand too straight 
on her feet or she will not do on hard 
roads or pavements. Very large bone 
cannot do more than a man. On the 
roads my teams will out-walk nine out 
of ten of the small teams and take twice 
the load. I have plowed heavy clay 
land in an orchard, using a 14-inch plow 
with one mare, and she apparently did 
not exert herself at all. But they are 
not roadsters, so do not try- to hurry 
your big team. The colts from this 
class of mares are worth $400 to $1,000 
each as brood mares or stallions. You 
will not get a colt from each mare each 
year, but I know of a team of mares 
that raised 13 colts in seven years. Don't 
expect to do this well. Figure as you 
will, a span of good mares at a cost of 
$1,000 to $1,500 will make you more 
money on the farm, besides earning 
their own living, than the same amount 
put into any other kind of stock. And 
then it is worth a lot to know that you 
have the best team in y^our county, and 
you need not be ashamed to drive into 
IMPORTED PERCHERON MARE 3 YEARS OLD. Fig. 363. 
is not desirable, for if the leg is right 
at both ends it will be all right. If she 
has a neck and shoulders like a stal¬ 
lion, so much the better. A good dis¬ 
position is desirable, but the man who 
has the handling of her has much to 
do with that. A timid driver should 
never handle a spirited or ambitious 
mare; a driver should not fear his team 
nor should a team ever fear its driver. 
I prefer mares weighing 1,600 to 1,800 
pounds, but they must be built right. 
Short-coupled, deep-bodied and legs that 
show power, low down and broad. 
About 16 to 16Rj hands in height is 
about right. After you have your model 
mare breed only to a model horse. Don’t 
use a poor horse as a gift and remem¬ 
ber that pedigree is not horse, but when 
you get a good pedigree with a good 
horse, use him; $20 or $25 on a colt is 
very little compared with the difference 
in price as a three or four-year-old. 
A good colt is more cheaply raised than 
a poor one—you will give it better care, 
and it will put the feed where it will 
make money for you. 
Never let your colt follow the mare 
except in pasture. Give it good feed 
and plenty of it from the time it first 
knows how to eat. Even when on good 
pasture, give the colt a feed of oats 
night and morning. Keep the colt grow¬ 
ing all the time. I prefer Fall colts for 
various reasons. Your mares are idle 
during the Winter, and can better suckle 
the colt than when doing the heavy 
Spring farm work. Feed the mother 
for milk much the same as you would 
feed a cow. Keep her in good flesh, 
which is not nearly so difficult to do as 
if she were both working hard and rais¬ 
ing a colt at the same time. When the 
Fall colt is weaned it is through the 
Winter instead of just starting into a 
hard one like a Spring colt. Feed the 
mare, feed the colt—you can’t grow 
good horses on good intentions and 
poor feed. Good imported Percheron 
or Belgian mares can be had at prices 
varying from $100 to $1,000 each, and 
they are my favorite breeds. Suppose 
your team costs you $1,200 for the right 
kind; your interest charge would be 
about $75 per year, and your sinking 
fund say $150 per year to replace the 
mares when old. No account need be 
made for feed on the farm, for if your 
scrub team can earn their living your 
good team can do a lot better. Your 
colts at two years old can be put at 
light plowing and cultivating, and will 
earn their keep from that age. The 
notion that a light team will do more 
work on a farm than a team of 1,800- 
pound mares is foolishness. A boy 
town in daylight. You will take pleas¬ 
ure in giving good care to a team of 
this kind, and that is a long way on the 
road to success with any stock. They 
will take less feed to do the same work, 
for it requires less exertion, and will be 
less liable to sickness just because you 
do give them better care. 
Beaver Co., Pa. c. f. mount. 
DISCARDING 
Complicated and Cheap 
CREAM SEPARATORS 
Others who have bought disk-filled, complicated and 
cheap cream separators are now discarding them for 
SHARPLES 
Tubular Cream Separators 
These people paid good money forthemachinesthey 
are discarding. Do you suppose they would change 
without good reason ? They realize that Tubulars 
repeatedly pay for themselves by saving what others 
lose. Could there be a better reason for changing ? 
Can you afford to ignore the experience of others, 
whose names we could give you by thousands? 
Others have finally got Tubulars. You will finally 
have a Tubular. Why not get the Tubular first ? 
AH P- - --^i . The Tubular 
There 
Is 
To 
Dairy 
Tubular 
Bowls 
has done work 
equal to 100 
years’ service 
In a 5 to 8 cow 
dairy at atotal 
cost of only 
<1.15foroil and 
repairs. Lasts 
a lifetime. 
G u a r anteed 
forever b y 
America’s old¬ 
est and world’s biggest 
separator concern. 
.. , Dairy Tubulars have no 
disks. Have twice the skimming force of others. 
Skim faster and twice as clean. You can arrange 
with our local representative for a free trial. Other 
separators 
taken in ex¬ 
change. 
30 
yrs 
Write for 
c a t a 1ogue 
No. 153 
THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO. 
WEST OIIESTEIf, PA. 
Chicago. Ill., San Francisco, Cal., Portland, Ore. 
1 oronto, Cun., Winnipeg, Cun. 
DAIRY 
BLATCHFORD’S 
CALF MEAL 
Fattens Calves Quicker Than 
Milk and Much Cheaper 
WISNElt MFG. CO. 
230 Greenwich St., New York 
“Everything lor dairymen 
always in stock” 
YEARLY 
OUTPUT 
OVER 
6,500,000 
ALPHA 
PORTLAND CEMENT 
is absolutely the best that can be made 
for all farm work. Largely used by 
U. S. Government and in State, Munici¬ 
pal and Railroad work—a reputation of 
20 years behind it. Ask your dealer for 
ALPHA 
Send for Booklet and learn why it is the best. 
ALPHA PORTLAND CEMENT CO., 
ADDRESS 
2 Center Square, EASTON, PA. 
YOUR COWS 
Need Protection Against 
Flies 
EXCELSIOR SWIW6 STANCHION 
Warranted The Best. 30 Days’ .Triad 
Unlike all others. Stationary when open 
Noiseless Simple Sanitary Durable 
The "Wasson Stanchion Co., 
IJox 60, *:• Cuba, N. Y. 
r»DI IMD'C I MPROVED 
VrfKUmD O WARRINER 
STANCHION 
H. A. Moyer, Syracuse, 
N. Y., says “they 
SAVE COST 
in feed in one winter.” 
Send address for speci¬ 
fications of inexpensive 
yet sanitary cow stable to 
WALLACE H. CRUMB, Box Mg, Forestvllle, Conn. 
ROBERTSON'S CHAIN 
HANGING STANCHIONS 
“l have used them for more 
than* TWENTY YEARS, and they 
have given the very bent of satiB- 
faction in every way,” writes 
Justus H. Cooley, M.D., Plalufield 
Sanitarium, Plainfield, N. J. 
Thirty days* trial on application 
O. II. ROBERTSON 
Wash. St., ForeatvIUe* Conn. 
U 
Si&i: 
... FOSTER STEEL . . . 
STANCHIONS 
Increase Your Dairy Profit 
Makes cows comfortable. Save time 
in stabling and cleaning. Easy to 
operate; cow proof; sanitary; 
strong, and durable. 
Write for our prices and illus¬ 
trated catalog before buying. 
FOSTER STEEL STANCHION CO. 
IRMt liiMii ancc llllig., Kii.hrster, N, Y. 
SI "XW I 3NT 33 
Cows driven from pillar to post by 
those itching demons—flies—can’t 
produce their maximum quantity 
or quality of milk. Spraying barns 
with Crel Oil will drive out every 11}’. Spray cows 
slightly with Crel Oil and they will pasture peacefully. 
Harmless, but very effective. Crel Oil gives olf powerful 
deodorizing fumes that kill all parasite life. Splendid 
for disinfecting sinks, troughs,drains, etc. Only $1.00 
a Quart—lasts long time. If your local dealer can’t 
supply,order direct. Sprayer free with trial order. 
CALEDONIA CHEMICAL CO., Calodonla, N. Y. 
CREL OLL 
Milk Producers f , or . b Te ' v . Y . ork Cit y market 
, , 1 1 , u ^, , desiring information how to 
iorm brandies of the Dairymen’s Longue, write to 
the .Secretary, ALBERT MANNING, Otisville, N. Y. 
Pm I IF PIIDQ-Froin imported stock. Fomales 
eeLLIL I Ul Odieap. Nelson Bros., Grove City, Pa. 
P ercheron and Belnian Stallions and Mares for sale 
at farmers' prices. A W. GREEN, Route 1, 
Middlenald, O. Railroad station, East Orwell, O., 
on I’enna. R.R. 30 miles north of Youngstown, O, 
FfiR 9 M n __Best Six Mares in Beaver Co , Pa. 
lUll O.ILL Imported—registered. Two Bel¬ 
gians, four Percherons. C.F. Mount Koppei, p a . 
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 l’ltICES . . . 
CALVIN J. HUSON, - PENN YAN, N. Y 
SPRINGBANK BERKSHIRES.d!«fi 
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, Marbledale, Conn. 
nilRflPC THE BIG. DEEP FELLOWS 
UvnUUw that grow and mature quickly. 
Pigs and Gilts for sale at all times. 
SHKNANGO RIVER FARMS , Transfer, Pa. 
CHELD0N FARM registered Durocs, 
O Bred 
„ _ „ * - Pigs of both sex. 
Bred Sows. Service Boars. Best of breeding. 
0. K. BAKNK8, Oxford. N. Y. 
O hi » .Improved Chesters—Choice Boars for 
at bargain prices. Pigs not akin. 
CROSSROAD FARM, Plattsburg, N. Y. 
HH F<\H R F<\ _Tlle nice thrifty kind: March Boars 
U ILOIllllLO and Sows. Orders taken for Pigs of 
September farrow . G. K. Smith. Castile, N ,Y. 
Large Berkshires at Highwood 
Pall offering of Service Boars and of 
young Pigs in pairs and trios, not akin. 
H. C. & H. B. Harpendiiur, Dundee, N. Y. 
CAT TXjE^ 
‘The 
Guernseys 
have proven them¬ 
selves " 
the Most Economical yf \a 
Producers ol Dairy j;|f 
Products of the * 
Highest Quality and Best Color 
The prepotency of the Guernsey Bull 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 PETERBOUO, X. H. 
Blooded Stock 
Grand Sacrifice 
'Offering of 
of MAPLE HURST STOCK FARMS. 
To mako room, we offer POR SALE the following 
at greatly reduced prices: 
10 head Registered Shropshire Rams. 
18 “ “ 1’ogis ” Blood Registered Jersey Bull 
Calves. 
Twenty-five thousand genuine Red Heart Cedars, 
6 inches to 2 feet high. 
12 head Blooded Registered Guernsey Bull Calves 
7 Registered Berkshire Boars. 
150 “ Imperial U’ekin Ducks and Drakes 
225 ’ Genuine Single and Double Comb Rliodo 
Rod Pullets and Cockerels. 
The abovo stock is guaranteed in every respect and 
represents best blood and breeding. 
MAPLE HURST STOCK FARMS . . . GUILFORD. CONN. 
DE K0L BURKE BLOOD. 
Will sell ONTARIO COUNT DE KOL, Holstein 
Lu h half white, born April 25th, by America Do 
Kol Burke, out of Bettina Do Kol. Bargain at $75. 
f. o. b. CLOVERDALE FARM, Charlotte, N. Y. 
REG, HOLSTEIN MALE CALVES 
I 
Closely related to champions of the world H 
at farmors’ prices. Pine individuals, nicely H 
marked. Fifty per cent below value. I 
Satisfaction guaranteed. Write today. (J 
F. H. RIVENBURGH, HILLHURST FARM, MUNNSVILLE, N. V. 
OAKLAND FARM H0LSTEINS 
FINE INDIVIDUALS—LARGE PRODUCERS 
Choice YOUNG BULLS For Sale 
Write, stating just tvhat you want. 
T. A. MITCHELL, Weed sport, N. Y. 
«7fiH0LSTEINS 
are 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 fomales. 
A. A. CORTELYOU. Somerville N. J. 
HOLSTEIN CATTLE 
THE MOST PROFITABLE DAIRY BREED 
Illustrated Prescriptive Booklets Free 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASS’N OF AMERICA 
k.l.houghton.sec’y.boxios.brattleboro.vt. 
DUTCH BELTED CATTLE] 
CHAS. STEWART DAVISON 
60 Wall St., New York City 
AT LAUREL FARM 
we have on hand some half-dozen sons of Ferns' 
Jubilee, 73852, A. J. C. C., from ten months down 
to a few days old. All out of good cows. Discount 
price for next thirty days. 
J. GRANT MORSE, Hamilton. N, Y. 
ROCHROANEJERSEY HERD 
Write for our next price list. 
f Karnak’s Noble P 4330 C. 
Calves from j Fontaine’s Chief P 4153 H. C. 
( Rochreane’s Golden Courage 852.3 
M, A. TRAVIS (Supt for S. M. Beltzhoover), 
Irvington, New York. 
Breed Up—Not Down 
.—Jersey Bull Calves 
, I you can afford to 
buy. Superior dairy dams. No better sires. B. F 
SHANNON, 907 Liberty Street, Pittsburg, i’a. 
S ITEE 
FflR SAI F -registered rambouillet 
run OflLC RAMS; O. I. C. SWINE. 
C. W. HALLIDAY, North Chatham, N. Y. 
REGISTERED SHROPSHIRE RAMS 
Yeoman. FRED. VAN VLJCKT, Lodi, N. Y. 
SHROPSHIRE Yearling Rams, Ewe and 
Ram Lambs and a few 
TTr - quick. Write 
J. VAN DYKE, Gettysburg, Pa. 
t-. , , Jt-twiii uuiuws a 
Young Ewes; gneed^to sell quick._ Write 
HIGHI AND FARM° ffors some choice 
IllUnuaiYU raiun Shropshlres-yearllngs 
and lambs of either sex. Bred for type and 
quality. _ w. F. BLACK, Hall, N. Y. 
HAMPSHIRE DOWNS 
ling Ewes and Ewe Lambs for salo; from fine im 
ported Ram. All registered. Write vour wants 
Prices right. W H. Crawford, R.F.D. No. 10, Mercer. Pa 
RAMS FOR SAI F — ReKIstered Shropshire 
IVnmj TVJIY O/YLiCi yearlings and two-yoar- 
olds. Also, one four-year-ohl Hammer Ram and 
some nice Ram Lambs. E. E. Stevens & Son,Wilson, N.Y. 
