THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 20, 
7« 
Live Stock and Dairy 
SELECTING THE DAIRY BULL. 
Best Half of the Herd. 
Part IV. 
I began my herd with a number of 
cross-bred Island and St. Lamberts. I 
got them more cheaply than I could 
have purchased pure Island stock, and 
half a loaf was better than no bread. 
In eight years I have in many cases 
bred the St. Lambert out, arriving at 
a pure Island type, and a restored milk¬ 
ing quality. Three generations will do 
it if the successive sires are line bred. 
From the first I worked with pedigree, 
and I was already well pleased with the 
udders of my herd when I saw the pedi¬ 
gree of Owl’s Model Fox. A glance 
told me that it contained exactly whaf I 
had been longing for. I went to see his 
breeder’s herd. It was related to mine 
through the blood of Alexis, but I was 
amazed at the larger bodies, wider hips, 
general development of size and shape. 
I decided at a glance that this herd had 
been developed to the type I desired, that 
it would nick with mine, because of the 
same blood lines, and that in individual 
and pedigree I had found my ideal bull, 
before I saw him at all. I hardly saw 
the bull as a fact. I spent all the rest 
of the afternoon looking at his dam, the 
Owl’s Lassie. I banked on her and have 
not been disappointed. But Owl’s Model 
Fox has never given me one daughter 
that perfectly reproduces her. He has 
uniformly reproduced from his sire’s for¬ 
bears—where the type is at all pure. My 
auburns were a complete surprise. I 
have three granddaughters of El Do¬ 
rado, one a granddaughter of Forfar¬ 
shire, one Owl’s own granddaughter as 
well as daughter, and one an atavic hy¬ 
brid. They are the type I have coveted 
for years, and it is a pure type—heads, 
shoulders, hips, teats and barrel match. 
As might be expected they are unusually 
vigorous, much more so than the calves 
where the dams ruled completely. In 
the course of time every breeder will 
come on such a delightful surprise. Na¬ 
ture opens the door to a success, and 
here comes the moment of victory. You 
cherish your perfected type, follow na¬ 
ture’s lead in breeding to it, go carefully 
and as scientifically as you can, and de¬ 
velop your own line. 
Almost all bulls sire at least two dif¬ 
ferent types of form and color, blending 
them with the different female heredities 
of the herd, apparently by chance. In 
breeding up and to a type some things 
come to be almost certainties. It is 
much more difficult to alter completely 
the type of the udder than it is the head 
The sire usually controls the head and 
horns, but though he will improve the 
udder, gradually bringing it to his own 
type, the pattern or original shape is 
likely to remain. Three sets of bulls 
will not suffice to correct a set of short 
teats, though the very first may replace 
a hard milker with an easy one. On 
your foundation cows, then, good teats 
are an asset, even if badly placed. You 
can separate them as you breed. A 
broad muzzle is another thing you may 
be able to keep through other changes, 
and what is most important of all, a 
good digestion and large appetite. Given 
a good digestion, you may almost build 
up a good type on it. Milking tempera¬ 
ment, most elusive, and most important 
of all dairy qualities, is undoubtedly the 
product of long hereditary training. The 
sire will pass it down, but the female 
line certainly can and does perpetuate it. 
I have in my barn a family of cows that 
will put more in the pail than their 
udders can possibly hold, provided they 
feel like it. It is a trait that passes 
down from mother to daughter. I have 
other cows that will fill an imposing 
udder to overflowing, and give the con¬ 
tents all up, and end there. This is also 
a family peculiarity. Cows that are 
notional and tricky about their heads 
will pass the instinct down four or more 
generations, though the sire has more 
or less reformed the temper and affec¬ 
tions of each. Color will persist on the 
female side five or more generations. 
High rumps, narrow hips and coarse 
horns seem almost ineradicable in the 
female line of some families, though all 
are subject to modification by the sire. 
A little experience in breeding will con¬ 
vince one that some cows can’t be re¬ 
formed, and that money is lost in trying 
it. Remember that a loving heart and 
a full milk pail are too often found to¬ 
gether to admit of accident, and that 
beauty and symmetry are the sign of 
nature’s laws obeyed and fulfilled. 
To sum up, the wise breeder works 
with temperament, with conformation, 
and with pedigree, keeping all three in 
view, and holding fast to his blood lines, 
he cannot fail of success if he loves his 
cows and knows how to feed them. 
FANNY MORRIS SMITH. 
Thin Horse, 
I have a horse which eats well, seems 
to feel Rood and doesn’t care to drink 
water, although I feed him plenty of salt. 
With all the food he eats he stays thin and 
as he is only nine years old, I think he 
ought to show results. He has two spav¬ 
ins but does not go lame. m. f. z. 
Long Island. 
The horse may he eating more food than 
he properly masticates or digests. Have 
his teeth attended to by a veterinary dent¬ 
ist. If the coat is long and rough have 
him clipped. Make him work or abund¬ 
antly exercise every day. He should not 
stand a single day idle in the stable. Cut 
down the grain food materially and as he 
improves increase the amount’allowed. If 
.he fails to improve mix a quart of black 
strap molasses in three quarts of warm 
water and stir among cut hay, wheat bran 
and eornmeal. Feed the molasses feed 
night and morning, with whole oats at 
noon and long hay at night. a. s. a. 
Tankage for Hogs. 
Can you tell me whether tankage is a 
desirable feed in small quantities to fatten 
hogs? Is the tankage sold for that use the 
same as tankage sometimes sold for fer¬ 
tilizer? s. N. B. 
Connecticut. 
The clean feeding tankage is a good feed 
for hogs. It might be compared in value 
with the clean forms of meat that are fed 
to poultry. The fertilizer tankage will not 
answer this purpose. It is quite different 
stuff. Do not use it. 
Prices run from .$100 to $225 for farm 
horses; cows as much as $75. Hay, $18 
to $20; corn went at auction for as high 
as 39 cents for bushel of ears. Potatoes, 
80 cents per bushel; wheat 88 cents per 
bushel; butter 30 cents per pound; eggs, 
30 cents a dozen. g. h. w. 
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