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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 12, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
CAN YOU BEAT THIS? 
Mr. Chas. Tliaekray, of Lena, Wis., 
writes to his local paper a statement of 
what seven cows did in one year. Here 
is the statement: 
The inclosed figures are the statements 
as received from the Spruce cheese fac¬ 
tory. beginning May 23, 1912, to May 22, 
1913. The amount of milk is the product 
of seven cows. Three of the cows were 
two years old, and two were three years 
old. If there are any in the township 
that you know of that are better we 
would like to hear from them. 
1912 
May .$16.58 
June . 60.72 
July . 49.13 
August . 48.01 
September . 48.34 
< Ictober . 61.92 
November . 50.44 
December . 47.67 
1913 
January . 34.57 
February . 19.50 
March . 12.29 
April . 23.02 
May . 32.55 
$503.74 
An average of $72.05 per cow for the 
year. 
These are good cows, but we believe 
our readers can show small herds that 
beat this record. We would like to hear 
from them. Tell us the breed and some¬ 
thing about the care and feeding when you 
give the figures. 
do not advise sowing Alfalfa seed with 
wheat as you would grass or clover. The 
latter will stand such seeding, but it 
pays better to seed Alfalfa alone or with 
oats in Spring. 
“FANCY STOCK” AND PERFORMANCE. 
The Ohio farmer’s hog article on page 
749 is one of the best I have ever read. 
Some condemn writers because they give 
only their successes and skip the failures. 
In the article referred to I am sure the 
RECORDS OF SHORT-HORN COWS. 
It is a fact that the Short-horn breed 
of cattle has produced the champions at 
numerous fat stock shows. It is also 
a fact that they have furnished the 
champion dairy cow, all breeds competing, 
at the London dairy sliow, more times 
than has any of the other dairy breeds, 
a record of which no other breed can 
boast. While I don’t expect very soon 
to eclipse the reputed records of which 
I read as credited to the Holstein cow, 
I think the dairy Short-horn cows are 
making some remarkably good showings. 
While Iiose of Glenside’s record of 
18,075 pounds of milk in one year has 
not as yet been beaten, I think there 
are some cows in sight that will come 
very close, if they do not surpass it. 
The past year has shown up quite a 
number of cows that the progressive 
dairyman would be proud to own. Pearl 
of Silver Creek, owned in' Minnesota, 
gave in one year 10,291 pounds milk, 
552 pounds of butter; this cow was not 
fed for a big record, and was tested 
under the supervision of the Minnesota 
Agricultural Experiment Station. Maple 
Lane Juliette, owned in this State, as a 
two-year-old won second place in a but¬ 
ter fat test at the N. Y. State Fair in 
1909, open to all breeds, and from Sep¬ 
tember 4, 1909, to September 3, 1910, 
she gave 10,395 pounds milk. As a 
three-year-old she gave from December 
7, 1910, to December 6, 1911, 11,254 
pounds milk. Ruth 3d, from the same 
herd, has a record of 15.599 pounds milk 
in one year. In one day she gave 61 
pounds milk testing five per cent, of but¬ 
ter fat, equal to 3.55 pounds of butter. 
Charlotte B., owned by Mr. Knapp, of 
Michigan, gave 15,401 pounds milk, 713 
pounds of butter, in one year. Jewell, 
the International winner of last year, is 
credited with a year’s record of 10,887 
pounds milk. Sunshine owned in Penn¬ 
sylvania, gave from January 6 to Feb¬ 
ruary 6, 1,530 pounds milk. In one 
many good points given can be followed week sh ’ e gave 358 pounds milk? 1S y 2 
by those interested and failures turned 
into successes. I do think, however, our 
Ohio brother is somewhat severe on 
fancy points. It does not follow because 
a sow has the required twist to her tail, 
and the regulation 
she should not 
well as one less 
points. In breeding for prolificacy, se- 
pounds butter. The N. Y. State AgricuT 
tural College has at the present time in 
the college dairy four young Short-horn 
cows; Lady Clay 2d, four years old, has 
a record as a three-year-old of 8,376.6 
pounds milk, 373.53 pounds butter. 
pounds butter; Lady Clay 4th, three 
lection is as important as breeding for P : , u ‘ s i ^ as not yet completed her yeiir, 
• , from last September to June she 
points; therefore there is no reason why has produced 6,500 pounds milk, 280 
the most showy sow in the bunch should pounds butter, and Prof. Wing thinks she 
not be the most prolific. The thinking Jjdjt fd ve close to S,000 pounds milk and 
breeder who mates to increase size of °Tn P ti l i f c , 
in England, in the herd of Samuel 
. , . . . - , .... m one year. Red Rose A. cave 13.188R. 
most typical specimens from each litter. pounds * in 303 days, and Red Rcfse 11- 
Now that farmers are gradually overcom- 866 VL> pounds in 277 days. Dorothy, a 
ing a long-seated prejudice against pure- members of Lord Rothschild’s Tring Park 
bred, or as commonly termed, fancy gave . an average o! 9,949 pounds 
stock, two plain breeding facts should be ™t a saVofV draft*‘!.f from 
kept before them. First, inbreeding this herd held March 25 last, her yearling 
should only be practiced by a past mas- son ^brought the highest price of the 
ter of the art, and second, large produc¬ 
tion and typical points come through se¬ 
lection and care. Of course I do not 
mean that you can get something from 
nothing in breeding hogs or horses any 
more than from crops of the soil. 
A case of this kind from far-off Cali- 
lot, $1,300. The average for the 67 head 
.sold was $455. At the dispersion sale of 
the herd of the late Geo. Taylor, 187 
head were sold for an average of $413. 
Waterloo Baroness brought the highest 
price, $2,625. 
The dual-purpose Short-horn is ad¬ 
vancing in popularity and price both 
in this country and England at a very 
this county, part of whose herd had t r y> have bought from Samuel Sandy for 
been killed by lightning while in pasture, , US V, °\\ their^Glenside herds the young 
came to my place and made a purchase. 
In the lot was a heifer just due to calve 
and which later proved to be an inferior 
producer. This cow which should have 
gone straight to the slaughter house, has 
through the connivance and chicanery of 
bull, Royal Darlington, at $2,000. His 
dam, Darlington Crawford, has a year’s 
record of 11,729 pounds milk. It is be¬ 
coming more and more apparent to the 
farmers of this country that our beef 
supply must come from the farms, and 
that beef production and dairying can 
be very profitably combined by using 
somq drover finally brought up on the bulls of the dual-purpose Short-horn types 
Pacific Coast not worth her railroad °P f ie C( ? ws they may have. The 
i acme Eoast, not woitn net railroad ste ers wi]1 make good f eede rs and the 
fare, and a menace to the term “fancy heifers will almost invariably be better 
bred.” H. all-around dairy cows than their mothers 
Orange Co., N. Y 
were. 
Schuyler Co., N. Y. 
A. II. I’BINCE. 
Butter Test; Alfalfa With Wheat. 
1. Can you explain the way you figure 
out how many pounds of butter a cow 
will make in one week if she tests 5.8 to 
the morning’s milk? 2. Would it be 
right to sow Alfalfa with Winter wheat? 
I intend to top-dress with manure and 
use one ton of lime to acre. D. B. 
Schenectady, N. Y. 
On the average there will be enough 
salt and water in butter to amount to 15 
per cent, of the butter fat. Thus, by 
adding 15 per cent, to the butter fat in 
the milk you can figure how much butter 
it would make. The milk you speak of 
contains 5.8 pounds of butter fat in 100 
pounds of milk. Add 15 per cent, and 
you have 6.67 pounds of butter. 2. We 
Sweeny. 
I have a colt three years old that I 
broke last Spring. Now it has a sweeny 
on the right shoulder; it is not bad yet, 
but the flesh has just shrunk enough to 
notice it. Will you tell what is the best 
I can do for it, and will it hurt to work 
him on light work? I do not like to 
blister it if I can help it, on account of 
the hair coming off? n. F. 
Ohio. 
Keep the colt at work and feed well on 
whole oats, wheat bran and hay. Hand 
rub and massage the wasted parts three 
times a day and each time try to pull the 
skin away from the flesh. The object 
should be to cause free circulation of 
blood in the parts, as this will lead to 
building up of the muscles. It is not 
necessary to blister the parts, a. s. a. 
Wind Puffs. 
A two-year-old colt has a few wind- 
puffs on hind legs. I blistered the puffs, 
but it does not seem to take them away. 
What can I do for it? n. I. 
These are bursal synovia distensions, 
and contain synovia (joint oil) instead 
of wind. They are practically incurable. 
Blistering will do no good. Hand rub 
the parts three times a day, then wrap 
with cotton batting and bandage snugly. 
A. s. A. 
Rooting. 
What ails my pigs? They are continu¬ 
ally rubbing their snouts along the sides 
and undersides of each other. It seems as 
though they are trying to draw milk. My 
neighbors call it rooting, and suggest I 
put rings in their noses. What do you 
suggest? Several of the sows are in 
litter and I am afraid this may injure 
both the sows and unborn pigs. * Is this 
an indication of anything lacking in the 
rations? j. f. l. 
New York. 
This is an indication, in all probability, 
that the pigs want free range on grass or 
other green feed and in addition mixed 
rations. They are too closely confined. 
Turn them out. Allow free access to 
wood ashes, charcoal and slaked lime. 
A. s. A. 
Lameness. 
We have a mare that is lame in one of 
her hind legs. The first indication was 
a slight dragging of the toe in backing 
and a little difference in the action of 
this leg when walking. Later on, when 
trotting on the road, she would frequent¬ 
ly act as if she had stepped on a stone, 
causing the foot to roll badly. We finally 
let her rest from all road work for a 
week, using her carefully in the regular 
farm work and she appeared to be about 
cured, but the lameness came back as 
soon as we began using her on the road 
again. We fail to locate the trouble, but 
think it is in the ankle; there is a small 
swelling just above the fetlock that looks 
like a “windpuff;” this sometimes seems 
a little sore, otherwise there is no sore¬ 
ness nor inflammation. She is inclined 
to rest on her toe when standing. 
Connecticut. u. w. s. 
The seat of the lameness apparently is 
in the region of the sesanoids and back 
tendons of ankle. Put on a fiat bar shoe, 
over a tar and oakum dressing and a 
thick leather pad. Clip the hair from the 
coronet (hoof-head) and back tendons 
and blister with cerate of cantharides. 
Repeat the blister in three or four weeks 
if found necessary. It would of course 
be best to employ a graduate veterina¬ 
rian to locate the lameness and prescribe 
appropriate treatment. a. s. a. 
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