1913. 
HOLSTEINS ON THE WESTERN RESERVE. 
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’ Ten years ago the Holstein business 
was practically in its infancy on the 
Western Reserve. To-day this section 
is known not only through every State 
in the Union, but the world over where 
this breed of cattle is known. Among 
the first to see the great possibilities of 
this work were Mr. Knapp of East 
Claridon; Mr. Hovey of Manson. A. 
A. McNish of Claridon and Seymour 
Woodin of Hambden. The herd of 
Mr. Hovey was dispersed ,after his 
death to settle his estate and had a 
beneficial influence over the industry 
throughout this section. Cattle that 
were sold at his sale have sold recently 
for twice what they cost, the owner 
having the use of them for 10 years. 
The cows are now aged cows, and sold 
in that class. Mr. Knapp, one of the 
first to engage extensively in the busi¬ 
ness, made a great success of the work. 
Through their herd and influence many 
a successful man owes his prosperity 
to-day. The famous Butter Boy blood, 
with the results known to all breeders 
was developed here. 
In relating the story of his life at 
one of the Holstein Breeders’ Associa¬ 
tion meetings Mr. Pierce stated that 
when a young man he had married Mr. 
Knapp’s daughter and gone to another 
town, deciding to find a different loca¬ 
tion. With all their worldly possessions 
on one wagon Mr. Pierce and wife 
stopped at his father-in-law’s over night 
en route to his work. Attracted by 
their offer Mr. Pierce stayed there and 
began his successful career. To-day he 
has a modern $3,000 barn to house his 
Holsteins and everything in connection 
accordingly, and is one of the solid 
men of the community. A. A. McNish 
developed the first cow to make an 
official record of 25 pounds in seven 
days in Ohio, and about this time the 
first heifer to make an official record of 
24.48 in seven days. Later his son Paul 
took up this work in connection with 
his father. 
When a wealthy South African sent 
to the United States for a government 
expert to choose a herd of cattle it 
was a noted fact that after looking over 
herds from New York to California 10 
head were selected from the noted 
herds of Western Reserve. Mr. Woodin 
began to breed the registered Holsteins 
about 10 years ago. At this time peo¬ 
ple predicted that the business was at 
its height, and a reaction must surely 
follow. To-day there are 20 registered 
Holsteins in this vicinity where there 
was one then. Retiring from active 
business the work was taken up by his 
sons Herbert and Floyd Woodin. Dan 
Dimock and brother were later breed¬ 
ers, but have made more great records 
than any other breeders in the world, 
as the official records show. They bred, 
reared and developed the champion but¬ 
ter cow of the world, the champion 
junior four-year-old of the world, and 
the three cows whose combined yearly 
records are greater than any three cows 
the world has ever produced. They 
bred, reared and developed the cow 
that made the largest day record eight 
months after freshening; also the leader 
in the junior four-year-old class of the 
same distinction, the leader in the senior 
two-year-old class eight months after 
freshening, also the cow that made the 
third largest yearly record ever made 
by a full aged cow. The sire that sired 
as many leaders in the various A. R. O. 
and senior official yearly classes as 
any other two sires is owned in 
Geauga County. The only sire in the 
world to have 20 or more A. R. O. 
daughters all with records of 20 pounds 
or more is owned in Geauga County, 
and the second three cows in one direct 
line to make an official record of 30 
pounds each is owned and was recently 
developed here. 
“In union there is strengththis has 
been demonstrated here. About five 
years ago the breeders organized an as¬ 
sociation of 50 members; to-day they 
have 150 members, each doing all pos¬ 
sible for the development of the cat¬ 
tle of this breed. Carload after car¬ 
load of fine grade cattle bringing from 
$75 to $100 were shipped to various 
States last Fall, one fine shipment 
going to Vermont. Two car loads of 
registered Holsteins left here for the 
West the past week, and another buyer 
will take three more carloads as soon 
as possible. At the annual consignment 
sale held at Burton each year from 100 
to 200 fine cattle are sold. No one with 
these cattle need hunt for buyers; they 
hunt for the breeders, who have surplus 
stock and take them at long prices. It 
is not an unusual thing to find a renter 
with a herd of purebred cattle worth 
more than the farm he rents. Prof. 
Hugh G. Van Pelt, a noted traveler 
recently stated after visiting among the 
dairies here, that he never saw or knew 
of so many fine cattle in the same ter¬ 
ritory. Some buyers ask that the cat¬ 
tle be tuberculin tested. We have never 
known one to react in this vicinity. 
Ohio. MSS. JAMES LAMPMAN. 
BELIEVES IN THE JERSEY. 
I read very carefully the statements 
made by the secretaries of the cattle 
clubs concerning the production of the 
several breeds. I was surprised at Mr. 
R. M. Gow's answer, as he usually is 
one of the first to point out the fine 
points of the Jersey as not only a big 
milker but a big butter cow and a breed 
which produces more profit than any 
other when the cost of production is 
taken into account as well as the per¬ 
sistency of producing over* a length of 
time. I was induced to buy a Holstein 
about four years ago, when I was en¬ 
deavoring to sell butter fat to the 
creamery, on account # of the enormous 
amount of milk she produced. I found 
by keeping a record daily of the amount 
of feed and weight of the milk that the; 
profit per month was only about $5 net. 
She milked 35 pounds daily and cost 
40 cents daily to feed. I went to Mr. 
Cooper’s Jersey sale on Decoration Day 
that year and got to talking cows. I 
was told by an enthusiast what the 
Jersey could do, so I bought a grade 
cow. A few days later I was surprised 
to find that she milked as much as the 
Holstein, and tested for butter fat over 
6%. She cost me $30 less than the 
Holstein, and when I figured profits at 
the end of the year I found the Jersey 
had milked 341 days with an average 
of 33 pounds four ounces and a test 
of 5.8% average and cost only 28 cents 
per day to feed, nearly $15 net per month 
profit. If every one will take the 
trouble to use a pencil and piece of 
paper, a scale at eacli. end of the cow 
and apply “Henry’s Feeds and Feeding,” 
fewer questions will be asked how to 
balance a ration for a cow, and the user 
of this method will absolutely know 
which is the best of any breed, and of 
any cow of any breed, as well as know 
what cows don’t pay. In making these 
remarks I wish to say my cows were 
above the average found in this section 
of the country, but as my statements 
show they were not phenomenons. I 
use the soiling system as far as pos¬ 
sible. I have no silo as yet, my herd 
is too small. I now keep Jerseys, they 
are easier to care for and gentler. 
J. ALEXANDER VAN* RENSSELAER, 
Pennsylvania. 
Clean Barn,Bigger Profits 
Half the Work! 
Send name for valu¬ 
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tells all facta aud shows 
proof. Read how the 
lames Carrier 
does the hard, dirty barn work In half the 
saves your bark and arms, gets all the manure, 
keeps barns cleaner, cows healthier. 
carrier 
for fac 
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Barn Plan Service JamesMfg. Co., 6530 Cane 
Tell us about your 8t., Ft. Atkinson, Wig. 
ideas for building (Formerly Kent 
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get Mr. James’ ad¬ 
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DAIRY OATTXjE | 
SofougS Registered Holstein Bulls 
for sale cheap at runners prices. One born July 
4. 1912: others from two weeks to two months old. 
All well-grown, perfectly marked, well-bred and 
guaranteed right in every particular. 
S’, If. MCLENNAN, • Syracuse, N. Y. 
REGISTERED 
Holstein Males 
all ages, at fanners’ priees. 
Can also spare a few cows. 
HILLHURST FARM. F. H. Rivenburoh. Prog., Munnsvilte, N. T. 
Cnr Qa|p-T0«N6 JERSEY BULLS, from Register of 
TUI uulG Merit cows, at prices you can afford. 
JONES’ JERSEY FARM, Sauquoit, N. Y- 
fiUKRNSKYS-COWS. HEIFERS AND BULLS-Two 
U bulls old enough for service. Prices, S100 up. 
W. ROBERT 0UNL0P, Trolley Station 19. Fayetteville. N. Y. 
Dogs and. JPerrets 
Collie Pups 
—The kind that bring the cows. 
NELSON’S, Grove City. Pa, 
CATTLE 
A Richly Bred Bull 
Meridale Farms offers 
a young bull of distin¬ 
guished ancestry. 
His sire, The Imported 
Jap , traces seven times 
to Golden Lad, and is an 
Island bull of the best 
type. His fine finish, good size and 
splendid show type are reflected to a 
remarkable degree in all his get. His 
sons are proving themselves dairy sires, and 
his daughters, without exception, show 
higher fat percentages than did their dams, while 
their notable uniformity of coniormation and 
udder development mark their sire as a most 
prepotent bull. 
His dam, Ruth Golden Tulip, is unique in 
her breeding, and exceptionally strong in the 
blood of Golden Fern’s Lad. She is a double 
granddaughter of Carnation’s Fern Lad, a famous 
prize winner and one of the best known sons 
of Golden Fern’s Lad. Both her grandams 
were daughters of Golden Fern’s Lad, giving 
her this celebrated bull as great-grandsire 
in every line of her pedigree. Her dam was 
out of Golden Fern’s Tulip, 11,852 lbs. milk, 597 lbs. 
butter in one year, and winner of First and 
Sweepstakes, Illinois, Indiana and Iowa State 
Fairs, 1905. 
This young bull is especially attractive in 
Individuality—solid dark fawn color, well develop¬ 
ed, very strong back line, neat in head and horns, 
and deep in heart girth. He is ready for im¬ 
mediate service. 
For full particulars concerning this bull and 
others equally promising, address 
ayer & mckinney 
300 Chestnut Street 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
JUST DROPPED 
Eighteen More of Those Berkshire Pigs 
(two litters.) Price, $10, at eight weeks old. Also 
a splendid boar, farrowed Oct. 10,1912. Price, $20.00. 
Several Jersey BULLS 
are all ready to drop off at your station at very low 
prices. Ages, from two years down to a few weeks. 
J. GRANT MORSE, Laurel Farm, Hamilton, N. Y. 
EAST RIVER HOLSTEINS 
...FOR SALE.. . 
70 Cows, grade Holstein, due to calve soon. The kind 
that till the pail. 10 Registered 2 and 3 year old Heifers 
bred to good sires. 10 Registered Bulls ready for ser¬ 
vice. with extra good breeding. 1 O Registered Bull 
Calves. Most of these bulls have good A. R. O. Dams, 
and large record sires. 
BELL PHOKB 
311-F-5 
JOHN 
l>ept. K, 
B. WEBSTER 
Cortland, N. Y. 
GRADE HOLSTEINS 
60 Extra Fine, Large, Heavy Milking Cows 
All young, nicely marked and due 
to freshen within sixty days. 
IF YOU WANT GOOD ONES COME AND SEE THESE COWS 
F. P. SAUNDERS & SON, Cortland, N. Y. 
Breed Up—Not Down 
Jersey Bull Calves 
you can afford to 
buy. Superior dairy dams. No better sires. R. F. 
SHANNON. 907 Liberty Street, Pittsburg, Pa. 
HAVE SEVERAL THOROUGHBRED REGISTERED 
HOLSTEIN YEARLING BULLS 
for sale cheap at farmer's prices. All well grown, 
ready for immediate service, perfectly marked, well 
bred and guaranteed right in every particular. 
P. B. McLennan, - Syracuse. N. Y. 
A HOLSTEIN BULL 
—Born Nov., 1911. His 
daughters and his dam a good A. R. 6. record. 
Write for pedigree and price. A fine heifer bred to 
a Colantha bull, $275. Pereherou stallions and 
Southdown ewes cheap. Tompkins Co. Breeders' 
Journal, with sale list of purebred stock. 25 cents 
per year. Copy free. TOMPKINS CO. BREED¬ 
ERS’ ASSOCIATION. Box C. Tnimansbortj. N. Y. 
Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves R 
offer. THE GATES HOMESTEAD FARM. Chittenanoo, N. V. 
ONTARIO PIETER MEMElll-HoUteio BiOl, born o«. 5, i«j. 
w Nearly all white. 8Jr«l by a jrainUon of King Sctrla and 
Hnmeatead Girl De Kol Sarcastic Lad. Dam of sire teats 4.12. 
Price $100. First check geU him. Send for pedigree. 
CLOVERJDALE FARM, - CHARLOTTE , N. Y 
You Want Steady and Economical 
Production of Dairy Products 
Then Learn about the 
Guernsey Cow 
vam 
The American Guernsey Cattle Club 
Box Y PETERBORO, N. H. 
If You Want Guernseys s !^t £o oV^®m S Y a ow 
GUERNSEY BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION, Box 96. Peekskitl, N. Y. 
MAPLE UOW STOCK FARM AYK8HIKKS 
"* Stock of all ages for sale from good producers. 
Herd established in 1882. Correspondence solicited, 
F. H. COOKINGHAM, CHERRY CREEK, N. Y. 
COB Oil P—two handsome ragiatcred Holstein yearling 
lUn OnLL bulla sired by Oakhurst Paul DeKol Aaggle, 
No. 66,977, one- mostly white, from heavy milking, vfgoroua, 
young cows. Alto a few registered male calves by Colonel Koru- 
dykeDeKoI, No. 77,226, one of the boat sons of Pontiac Korndyke, 
haring 74 A. R. 0. sisters, 3 above 37 lbs. ami S9 above 20 lbs. of 
butter in 7 days. A rare opportunity to gei the best at a reason¬ 
able price. • Morgan Farm, North Cuba. N. Y* 
D. F. McLENNaN, Syracuse, N. Y. 
Your Dealer Wants Spot Cash 
for “STANDARD” 
Cream Separators 
And it is to your ad- 
vantage that he does. 
He pays cash for the 
"standard” and sells 
it for cash to save you 
money. You get mail 
price but not a mail 
order product. 
It is strictly a 
quality machine. 
Our Rag. 
Offer Price 
$47.50 $ 75 
$56.50 $ go 
$63.50 $100 
Sold Only 
Through Dealers 
Guaranteed to last as 
long and skim as 
close as any hand 
separator made. Try it free 
on your own farm. Our money 
back guarantee goes with every 
machine. See the “standard” at your dealer's 
or write for Catalog A. F. 
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Adirondack Farms 
GLENS FALLS, N. Y. 
The Greatest Breeding 
Establishment in the East. 
Imported and Americas 
bred Pereheron, Belgian and 
Suffolk, stallions and mares 
of unequalled quality, 
breeding, style and action, 
a new importation of forty 
head. 
Why longer neglect the 
greatest possible source of 
profit on your farm. 
Better Horses, Better Farming, 
More Power, More Profits. 
Catalogue C, the finest ever, 
if you are interested. 
50 STALLIONS 
and MARES, $250 to $1000 each 
Write for my Illustrated 
Circular telling why I can save 
you money on the purchase of a Per- 
cheron or Belgian Stallion or Mare. 
A.W. Green, Middlefield, O. 
R. R. Sta., E. Orwell, on Penna. Ry. 
Midway between Ashtabula&Warren 
MAKE MONEY raising Shetland ponies. For sate, 
_ mares due to foal this summer. Also 
geldings and colts. TEKKTj Watervllle, Maine 
DERCHERDN STALLIONS, with quality guaranteed, at 
■ farmer's prices. BONNY BROOK FARM, Gardiner, N. Y. 
For Sale—A Registered Pereheron Colt 
coming 2years old. Sired by a ton horse: dam, large 
imported mare. Unusually largo in bone. Will 
make a ton horse with good care. Price, 8300. 
Address, J. P. WILSON, - Newark, Bel. 
The School of Veterinary Medicine 
at the University of Pennsylvania 
trains students in all lines of veterinary work. Fa¬ 
cilities unexcelled. For catalog, address LOUIS A. 
KLEIN, Dean, Dept. E, 39th and Woodland Ave.. 
Philadelphia, 
SHETLAND PONIES 
An unerasing sonreo of pleasure and robust health tochildrea* 
Safe and ideal playmates. Inexpensive to keep. Highest type* 
Complete outfit*. Satisfaction guaranteed. Illustrated Cata¬ 
logue. BELLS MEADE FARM, Box 20, Markham, Va. 
SWI3NTE 
Springbank Berkshire Herd 
Has bred more high-class hogs than any in Connec¬ 
ticut. Have sows bred for Spring litters and some 
Summer farrowed sow pigs that are right to be bred 
for next Summer farrow. Write me. Address, 
J. E. WATSON, PROP., MARBLEDALE, CONN. 
Mammoth Tamworth SWINE 
Two gilts of August farrow; weight, 200 lbs. 
each. Pigs equal to best of this or any 
other breed. From championship stock. 
WILL0WDALE FARM, H. S Green, POWHATAN, OHIO 
LARGE BERKSHIRES at HIGHW00D 
We have for sale service boars, brood sows and 
pigs, all ages. These are sired by Berry to* Duke’s 
Model, the boar that headed the first prize herd at 
the Royal in 1909: Highwood Duke 75th, a half- 
brother to the Grand Champion boar, at the last In¬ 
ternational, aud other boars of equal merit, 
H. O. &H. B. HARPENDING, Dundee, N. Y. 
Reg. P, Chinas, Berkshires, C,.Whites. 
Fine, large strains; all ages, mated 
not akin. Bred sows service Boars, 
Jersey and Holstein Calves. Collie 
Pups,Beagles and Poultry. Write for 
prices & circulars. Hamilton & Co.. Ercudoun, Pa. 
CHESHIRES 
—GUERNSEYS—The pig for 
the finest meat. 
The cow for the finest butter, 
M0RNINGSIDE FARM. Sylvaoia. Pa. 
OHELDOP FARM registered Duroes. Pigs of both sex 
J Bred Sows. Service Boars. Best of breeding 
C. K. BARNES. Oxford, N. F. 
Duroc March Pigsi^ 
A. WEEKS, 
$15 a pair. 
DeGraff, 0. 
PUREBRED REGISTERED 
HOLSTEIN CATTLE 
What dairyman is buying more land or putting up 
better buildings or placing money in the bank ont of 
profits from scrub cattle l 
You must have the best dairy blood in order to make 
a success out of dairying today. You must have good cows, 
cows that yield heavily enough to compensate for the high 
price of food. 
Purebred Holsteins fill this requirement. They are the 
most economical producers of milk and butter. They are 
large, healthy, and easy to care for. They are the cattle 
for the man who plays the game to win. 
Send for our Free Illustrated JDtstripiive Booklets. 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASS'N, F. L. HOUGHTON. Sec',. Box 105. Br«ttleboro, Vt. 
