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THE RURAL* NEVV-’TOiOKER 
Live Stock and Dairy 
“BLACK BERKS.” 
Berkshire hogs are not so numerous 
as some of the other breeds, but they 
really deserve a greater popularity than 
they now have. The Berkshire is an 
excellent hog, and though called a lard 
hog produces better bacon and hams 
than most others, while for economic 
gains this breed is unequaled. Results 
of careful experiments show that these 
hogs require 15 to 20 pounds of feed 
less to produce 100 pounds of weight 
than do several other well-known 
city a time or two, stating that he wants 
regular customers for fresh butter and 
eggs, I will guarantee him he will find 
people ready to pay him the top prices 
the year round. This is, of course, if 
his butter is first class and the eggs 
clean and fresh. 1 do not believe more 
than 20 per cent of the country butter 
produced can be called first class, and 
not more than half of that has the flavor 
so much desired. 
1 have been an express agent for 1C1 
years in the past, and while I agree they 
are the greatest, transportation robbers 
on earth, butter is and can be sent with¬ 
out molestation, and there is redress to 
the shipper or consignee for damage 
when he gets his receipt properly made 
BLACK BERKSHIRE SOW. 
breeds. Pure black in color with only 
a little white in small spots, their short 
dished nose, and especially their small, 
upright ears gives these hogs a spright¬ 
ly appearance; and then we must con¬ 
sider their long, handsomely formed 
bodies, altogether making an animal of 
fine appearance and likewise of flesh¬ 
ing ability. The sow shown in the pic¬ 
ture is a good representative of this 
breed. However, bright light on a 
glossy coat, though raven black, makes 
the camera lie, for if there is any hog 
black and always black it is the Berk¬ 
shire. Berkshires are good rustlers, 
fatten well and will make good any¬ 
where. W. E. DUCKWALL. 
Ohio. 
MARKET FOR DAIRY BUTTER. 
I am much interested in the state¬ 
ment of a subscriber some time ago, 
and also of A. P. N., Middleburgh, 
N. Y. (page 1263), that they had dif¬ 
ficulty in finding a ready market for 
their dairy butter or other produce, 
such as eggs. I travel from Buffalo, 
N. Y., east as far as Boston, and from 
the St. Lawrence to Philadelphia, and 
try to pick up some good dairy butter 
for home use, as it cannot be bought in 
Buffalo markets, and I have found it 
hard to get at any price. Following 
are a few of the places I have asked 
for dairy butter, some of them expect¬ 
ing to find it and some just as a test to 
see if it was obtainable: 
Albion, N. Y., October 1 and 29; Alton, 
N. Y., November 5; Geneva, N. Y., Sep¬ 
tember 3, November 6 ; Gardner, Mass., 
November 13; Greenfield, Mass., Novem¬ 
ber 14; Lynn, Mass., November 12; LeRoy, 
N. Y., December 3, one small jar butter 
out of four in one out of three stores; 
Medina, N. Y., October 8 ; Oswego, N. Y., 
December 20; Rome, N. Y., September 12, 
November 27; Watertown, N. Y., August 
22, November 21. 
I have tried in several other places 
I cannot remember, and in only one 
place (Fultonville, N. Y.) have I been 
able to get a large jar of first-class 
butter—just once. In all of the mar¬ 
kets mentioned the stores were selling 
creamery butter from 36 to 45 cents 
per pound, oleomargarine 25 to 27 cents 
per pound, and could not get good dairy 
butter or if they could, not in sufficient 
quantities to supply their regular cus¬ 
tomers. I have bought our table butter 
for 25 years and think I know what is 
good butter, and I find it hard to get 
any time anywhere. 
As to eggs, they have been selling 
anywhere from 35 to 60 cents per dozen 
during the period and in the places men¬ 
tioned. With such conditions prevailing 
generally I cannot understand how any 
producer of first-class butter and fresh 
eggs can find any difficulty whatever in 
disposing of his surplus. A. P. N. is 
located in the proximity of Albany and 
Schenectady, two good markets, and 
has National Express with a single 
charge to either place, and now with 
parcels post, if he will insert a small 
advertisement in a daily paper in either 
out and has it when he presents his 
claim, and then instead of simply pre¬ 
senting the matter to the agent, he 
should make a careful statement regard¬ 
ing the shipment and present it, to¬ 
gether with a bill for the loss, to the 
agent, keeping a copy, and if nothing is 
heard from it in 30 days a letter should 
be written to the superintendent of that 
division stating the facts and asking 
for immediate settlement. In the In¬ 
vestigation of these claims the papers are 
sent from superintendent to messenger, 
to both agents and back, perhaps more 
than once before an intelligent opinion 
of the merits of the case on which to 
pay the claim may be obtained, and 
perhaps each man may keep the papers 
several days each time, so time passes, 
and in some cases the papers may be 
held at some point until they are traced, 
following an inquiry about the claim. 
Sometimes the papers are lost and noth¬ 
ing done until the claim is again pre¬ 
sented. While this may not look like 
good business, it is the facts, and con¬ 
sidering the volume of business handled 
and the men who handle it, I doubt if it 
ever will be different. I look for great 
things of the parcels post. G. A. w. 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
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