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'TUB) RURAIi NEW-YORKER 
September 28, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
A PROBLEM OF PURE BLOOD. 
John Gould’s answer to C. H. on page 
898 has made many doubts arise in my 
mind, and would like him, if he would, to 
answer the following questions: 
Given, young man with .$1,000 and not 
over $1,500, to be invested in registered 
Ilolstcins, who hesitates because be does 
not understand stock breeding and because 
he is obliged to buy from strangers, as no 
registered Holsteins are available near 
home. Should such a person avail him¬ 
self of the only opportunity within driving 
distance of his home to buy from men 
whom he trusts, or should he look for a 
better proposition away from home with 
the added transportation charges? 
Available, first, two cows carrying third 
calf, the one milking 10,500 the first year, 
the other only 6,500 the first year, but this, 
her second year, bidding fair for 11,000 
pounds, both having ordinary care. Bred 
to De Kol bull, sired by the grandsire of 
the champion cow of the world (Banostine 
Belle De Kol) ; price, $625 for both cows. 
Second, the heifer calves of ordinary regis¬ 
tered cows sired by above mentioned De 
Kol bull, at from $125 to $150 each. In 
case of the first proposition what bull 
should be bought and in the latter what 
kind and price of bull should I buy for 
these calves? I should very much like 
to start as near right as possible, and 
know which would be the better way to 
start, with the cows or heifer calves at 
prices mentioned, or look for better blood. 
Pennsylvania. a. s. h. 
Buying and breeding registered stock 
is a business that cannot be wholly 
relegated to a correspondence school, 
for wholly dependable results. It takes 
in breeds, families of breeds, “nicking,” 
developing, and all based upon the per¬ 
formances of lines of ancestry; and 
how to mate these lines of descent and 
add to and fortify the prepotent ele¬ 
ments that go to make heredity a de-, 
pendable factor in stock raising. Above 
all, to breed back upon itself now and 
then for a concentration of blood, and 
not all the time be going outside “for 
fresh blood” and reducing by half the 
thing you have in undisputed possession, 
with an even chance that you have 
weakened, instead of strengthened, your 
herd. Location of the buyer with ref¬ 
erence to the herd does have something 
to do in the matter. Buying near home 
from a breeder whom one can and does 
trust, is a point of favor; but to-day, 
where one buys of the member of an 
association, like the one near me, and 
all sales go through a “clearing house” 
that warrants and defends, one runs 
very little risk but what the animals 
bought will fill the warra^L Notably 
to-day the agents of the Japanese gov¬ 
ernment and a buyer for the United 
States are buying cows from our local 
association, one herd to go to Japan 
and the other to Annapolis, because, as 
remarked the Japanese, “We can buy 
better cows here than in Holland, and 
have them warranted.” Of course there 
are buyers who are really cow mer-. 
chants, who buy by sight and sell “as 
they run,” of whom the farmer who 
buys must beware, as there is no asso¬ 
ciation honor to live up to and dollars 
count above integrity. 
The first inquiry as to the two cows 
does not appeal to me as being the best 
you can do. As you do not state what 
the breeding of these two cows is, I 
assume that they are, like the mothers 
of the calves in second inquiry, ordinary 
registered cows, and their milk records, 
their second year is not what it should 
be for foundation stock. In each of 
these two cows should be united two 
lines of strong dairy animals with large 
and each year increasing records. I 
doubt if the cows would bring any such 
money hereabouts in this land of breed¬ 
ing for foundation herds—certainly not 
unless showing large records in the A. 
R. O. test. You cannot afford to build 
up and develop a family of milkers out 
of ordinary registered stock. Such 
breeding develops too many misfits; at 
least I know of no breeder of fine stock 
who is attempting such a course, and as 
you propose to put good money into it, 
you should get your money’s worth in 
return. Of course these cows are bred 
to a sire that has a line of breeding that 
runs back to excellent blood, but this 
you see is checkmated by the “ordinary” 
breeding of the cows, undesirable ele¬ 
ments in combination which are very 
liable to crop out when not wanted. 
The same objections apply to the 
calves of these ordinary registered cows 
in the second case; you make no men¬ 
tion of their breeding. At best they 
will only be half of what you want, and 
which must be bred out of the suc¬ 
ceeding generations before they fill the 
bill now demanded by buyers who want 
their breeding in direct lines, and strong 
prepotency, which can never be depend¬ 
ed upon with questionable admixtures 
in the breeding. If you do buy this 
home stock, there is only one choice you 
can make in getting a sire, and that is 
to get the best-bred male you can and 
as closely related to Friend Hengerveld 
De Kol Butter Boy as you can, and 
line-breed him back at least once to his 
own get, and if you buy De Kols, still 
do the same. To a certain extent all 
this reply must be in part in the nature 
of guesswork, not knowing anything 
about what may be brought together in 
conformation, lines of breeding, en¬ 
vironment, whether close lines of blood 
are to be brought together, or wholly 
outcrosses, of all of which the man on 
the ground is to be the final arti- 
trator. In this buying, other things be¬ 
ing equal, the “side having the most and 
best points of excellence and strongest 
prepotency” is sure of making substan¬ 
tial gains, but when the mating is of 
equal values success is pretty nearly 
certain, taken as a whole. Always bear 
this in mind, that the sire is more than 
half the herd, for he is the concen¬ 
trated excellence of two lines of an¬ 
cestors, while the cow is only a half, as 
to parentage, and not the dominating 
influence as is the sire, which has been 
demonstrated over and over. While one 
may go somewhat wrong as to the cow, 
he can never afford to do so in the 
case of the sire. Hunt for the best 
sire obtainable and buy him as cheap as 
you can, but never at the expense of 
quality. john gould. 
Ohio. 
The Silo Not a Rumshop. 
We have been waiting for the follow¬ 
ing gray-haired fake to go riding on 
printers’ ink: 
Washington, August 8.—The cow with a 
“jag” is the latest discovery by the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture. 
A Virginia husbandman, alarmed by the 
indecorous performances of an ordinarily 
perfectly mild animal after munching a 
ration of silage, appealed to the experts 
in the department. 
Investigation revealed that “bossy” had 
feasted on fermented cornstalks and had 
simply gotten drunk on raw bourbon whis¬ 
ky—that was all. 
The last time we heard about this 
the hired man had found a crack in the 
bottom of a silo. He ran a straw in 
and sucked out a fine quality of liquor 
which made him as drunk as a lord! 
That was the last report—now they 
have silage sending the good old cow 
on a spree. The whole thing is a fake, 
pure and simple. The story is concocted 
by some smart newspaper reporter who 
has run short of other material. We 
went all over the subject with chemists 
years ago. There would be about as 
much alcohol developed in the silo as 
there would be in bread baking. The 
good old silo is no natural rum shop! 
Where are the Sheep? 
As a reader and a grateful one, of your 
paper for years may I ask you what be¬ 
comes of all the sheep? For the last two 
years I have found it impossible to buy 
mutton, the butchers without exception 
saying there is none to be had, although 
I have a standing order for one whole sheep 
at any time. One was found for me last 
Winter, but it proved so tough, even after 
hanging for three weeks, that I did not 
order another from the same man. I used 
to get so-called “Canada mutton”—legs to 
boil or roast rare-that meant real nour¬ 
ishment for the eaters; but now, with 20 
or more young men to feed, there is nothing 
to be had but little legs of emphatically 
lamb, although I see between here and 
Trenton, flocks of sheep. This would seem 
a practical question for many housekeepers. 
Princeton, N. J. h. m. o. 
What becomes of the sheep? Sup¬ 
pose we let our sheep men answer. 
Every year the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture comes up claiming that this coun¬ 
try has about 55,000,000 sheep, but most 
of us, like this correspondent, find it 
hard to obtain good mutton. This meat 
is not a great favorite with Americans. 
In the city restaurants there are prob¬ 
ably five calls for pork or beef to one 
of mutton—except in the higher class 
hotels. The sheep you see are probably 
used for producing “hothouse lambs,” 
too high priced for ordinary consump¬ 
tion. The last report from Washington 
gave New Jersey 50,000 sheep, or one 
for about 43 inhabitants. In theory 
there is no stronger farm argument than 
that more sheep ought to be kept. They 
are clean, neat animals, easily raised, 
and giving three profits—wool, lambs 
and mutton. Yet few Eastern farmers 
will touch them. One reason is the fear 
of dogs, and another the fact that farm¬ 
ers do not understand their care. There 
ought to be more mutton, but who will 
produce it? 
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