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THE RURAL N ED W-YORKER 
Live Stock and Dairy 
EXPERIENCE IN HORSE BUSINESS. 
Noting an article recently as to care 
of stallions prompted me to give a bit 
of my experience. Years ago, when 
horses were a drug on the market, a 
very good one not being worth over 
$100, I thought I saw in the future of 
the horse business, money for the man 
who laid' a good foundation from a 
breeding standpoint. I started with this 
idea to procure the nicest, best brood 
mares obtainable; gave a local horse 
buyer an order for a pair of the best 
mares he could get in Iowa. They 
came, good ones, nice looking, attrac¬ 
tive animals. The best, nicest looking* 
fattest stallion was selected as the sire 
of my future money makers. As to 
results, there were no results. One 
mare would not breed, the other would 
not carry her foal to maturity. Not 
discouraged I went to same source for 
another pair of breeding animals, pro¬ 
cured them and had slightly better re¬ 
sults, but as long as I kept the dams 
hog-fat and bred to sires in same con¬ 
dition, without exercise, the rule was 
to bury the offspring, until I had a 
veritable colt graveyard upon my farm. 
I changed my base, selected the best 
home-bred mares I could get, paid at¬ 
tention to their ancestry as to raising 
colts, bought a stallion of my own, 
put him in the team, made him earn 
his keep outside the stud and have 
to-day my third stallion along this line. 
The exception to-day is to bury the 
colt, the rule to raise them. The 
same principle holds good with both 
sire and dam. Both should be kept in 
good, hard flesh and thin, exercised 
or worked daily, and the sire becomes 
as tractable in the hands of a master 
as the dam. Notice the word master; 
not everyone is capable of working a 
stallion, and he should not be trusted 
in the hands of anyone but a master. 
The principles involved in above took 
many years to work out, and had the 
writer started on the same basis upon 
which he works to-day he would be 
several thousand dollars better off 
j. c. SIDLE. 
But breed up, not down. Most farmers 
keep scrubs because they will not take 
the time and trouble to get any better 
and besides, does not the drover bring 
the cows to his door? If farmers woulc 
figure cost and profit they would have 
much better herds, but until they do 
they will handle 10 scrubs where five 
good ones would give a larger profit. 
J. ALEXANDER VAN RENSSELAER. 
Bucks Co., Pa. 
FARMING WITH SCRUB CATTLE. 
It costs as much to feed a scrub as a 
good one, maybe more, and the labor 
amounts to the same the year round. 
Living in a farming section where 
drovers bring in two and three hundred 
carloads of scrub cattle to sell the pub¬ 
lic yearly makes me over tired. Most 
of these cattle are “scrubs” of the 
meanest order fixed up for sale, cast¬ 
offs from the farms at a few hundred 
miles distance, and purchased at a 
nominal sum. In the Fall every year 
sales are held, and prices ranging all 
the way from $50 to $135 are realized 
from this scrub stuff Bulls and feeding 
steers are also auctioned off and bring 
big prices. The bulls are poor, mangy 
scrubby creatures that should be given 
the ax at home, but these farmers pur¬ 
chase them eagerly in order to get their 
cows with calf and then fatten Mr. 
Bull for Winter beef. Tell these farm¬ 
ers that by using such bulls they are 
lowering the grade of cattle produced, 
and lowering their butter fat test by 
raising a heifer calf by one of these 
bulls, and they think one is crazy. They 
must get all they can for their money, 
and as they obtain service and beef for 
the one price they truly believe they 
are financiers. But listen to these men 
kick at the creamery every month. 
“How is it my test is so low? I feed 
the best that money can buy and a lot 
of it.” If the creamery manager told 
the truth he would say, “Feed will not 
make a test, get a butter cow and you 
will get a good test. If you keep on 
with the scrubs you now have you won’t 
get any test at all in a few years.” 
If feed could increase the butter fat 
content in milk the Holstein cow would 
really be the wonder butter machine of 
the world. Even at the much greater 
cost to keep, the exceptionally large 
amount of product with the high fat 
content would more than balance this 
cost. But they are milk, not butter 
cows, and no feed will change them. 
If a man has cows, why cannot he be 
sensible and use the breed which is best 
suited to the needs of his section? If 
butter is the article sold get a butter 
cow, if milk get a milk and beef cow. 
SOY BEANS WITH CORN. 
Replying to L. A. S., of Massachusetts, 
on page 519, regarding the growing 
of Soy beans and corn silage. I have 
been growing this kind of silage for 
five years, and would no more think of 
growing corn silage alone than I woulc 
think of taking the feed away from 
my horses. You may ask why? In 
the first place, to produce milk you 
must give your cows feed containing 
the ingredients found in milk. We 
find milk contains 4 per cent, protein, 
hence we must feed a ration contaiq 
ing protein. Soy bean meal contains 
36 per cent, protein, while cornmeal 
contains only 9.4 per cent.; conse¬ 
quently it requires nearly four bushels 
of corn to equal one of Soy beans. 
Hence you have nearly a balanced ra¬ 
tion in your silo by mixing the two. 
Be careful to get the right kind of 
beans; there are over 200 different 
varieties. I have tested over 20 dif¬ 
ferent varieties, and am trying several 
more this season. Should you get 
an early variety that will ripen prior to 
your corn they will shatter, and noth¬ 
ing but dry woody stalks remain when 
corn is cut. Should you plant a late 
variety you would get nothing but the 
foliage, as many varieties will not ma¬ 
ture in this locality. Get the Guelph 
(Medium Green) and plant with silage 
corn, and Pride of the North, Learning, 
Eureka or many others. Use one peck 
of beans to one bushel of corn, mix 
them thoroughly on the floor, then 
place them in a seven-tooth drill, stop¬ 
ping all but the first, center and last 
holes. This makes the rows 28 inches 
apart. Proceed to plant the mixture 
the same as you would were it all 
corn. Care for it the same, harvest 
and cut the same, then you have the 
beans thoroughly mixed through the 
silage. Do not get the mistaken idea 
that the bean is going to run up the 
corn or lie on the ground. The nature 
of the Soy bean is to stand erect, and 
it is self-supporting. The bean is one 
of the hardiest crop I ever grew; it 
will resist both wet and drought better 
than corn and will stand as much 
frost as corn. I can make as much 
milk on silage of this quality without 
feed, aside from the beans in the silage, 
as I can on grass, two feeding per 
day, with coarse fodder at noon. 
A. COLLSON. 
Chemung Co., *N. Y. 
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Young Chicks 
Atthis time, when millionsand millions of little chicks, turkeys 
and ducks will be incubated into the world, every available human 
agency will be employed to combat the deadly influences of Gapes, 
Cholera, Indigestion, Legweariness and hundreds of other fatal poultry 
diseases. Success depends upon your ability to conquer these diseases. 
Dr. Hess(M.D.,D.V.S.),just twenty years ago, was puzzling overthis same 
proposition and the prescription shown herewith is his solution. It represents 
DR. HESS POULTRY PAN-A-CE-A 
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If you are not satisfied bey ond a shadow of doubt that it has cured 
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dealer is required to refund your money. l'A lbs. 25c. (mail or 
express prepaid, 40c); 5 lbs. 60c: 12 lbs. $1.25; 25-lb. pail $2.50. 
Except in Canada and the extreme West. 
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Ashland, Ohio 
Dr. Hess Stock Tonic puts horses, cattle, hogs and sheep in the pink 
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Dr. Hess Poultry Pan- 
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Tonic • 
Quassia. A Biller Sto¬ 
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Hyposulphite of Soda. 
An Internal Antiseptic. 
Iron (Sulphate). A Blood 
Builder. 
Iron (Red Oxide). A 
Blood Builder. 
Carbonate of Lime. An 
Antacid and shell 
forming. 
Sodium Chloride. An Ap¬ 
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Under the supervision of 
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