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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 
Live Stock and Dairy 
BELGIAN MARES ON THE HARROW. 
We have printed several pictures of 
tractors, which make an easy business of 
hauling harrows and plows. The argu¬ 
ment with many of these machines is 
that they take the place of horses, so 
that it is not necessary to^feed or water 
or care generally for this live stock. Of 
course, this argument is based on the 
fact that it is'better to get along without 
the horses, but there are cases where 
this argument would not hold. For ex¬ 
ample, take the picture at Fig. 366. 
Here we have six big Belgian mares 
pulling a large cutaway harrow. These 
horses will walk off with the harrow at 
a faster pace "and with as little trouble 
as the gasoline tractor would. True, 
they must be fed and watered and cared 
for, and perhaps if they were to do noth¬ 
ing else except plow and harrow it might 
be better to substitute another form of 
power, but these mares are used for 
breeding purposes on the Adirondack 
Farm in New York State, and the work 
they do is merely a side line along with 
their business of producing high-class 
colts. This work does them good, and 
goes largely toward paying tor their keep. 
The colts are all the better for the work 
which their mothers do, and the result 
is the production of a class of horses 
which are just what our farmers should 
produce. It is well enough to give all 
the folly of dairymen selling these 
young calves to peddlers, not only abet¬ 
ting the peddler in breaking the law, but 
lowering the standard of one’s own self- 
respect in order to place more milk on 
an overstocked and unappreciative mar¬ 
ket. I think this is a strong argun^ent in 
favor of feeding the surplus calves: 
Value of milk for 25 days.$6.25 
Value of calf at birth. 3.00 
Total . $9.25 
Value of calf at 25 days. 14.25 
Profit . $5.00 
Small calves can be bought from the 
peddlers, fed a month and resold to them 
at a profit. n. 
New York. 
SWEET APPLES AND PIGS. 
In the “Hope Farm Notes,” page S96, 
H. W. C. speaks of the large proportion 
of sweet apples among the old trees on 
his farm, and wonders why “the shrewd 
old-timers planted such apples” when 
“they had to work hard and make every 
edge count,” and then he goes on to tell 
how there used to be a strong market de¬ 
mand for the sweet apples. Perhaps 
there was a greater call for sweet apples 
in the markets in those days than now’, 
but, I think, the real reason so many 
sweet apples were planted in those days 
was on account of their great value for 
feeding hogs. In the days when these 
old orchards were planted pork-making 
was a big item on most farms, and the 
THE HARROW HAS TO FOLLOW THE TEAM. Fig. 366. 
sides of farm development. This power¬ 
ful team of breeding mares is one side 
of it, so that we may know that there 
are cases where the good old horse is not 
yet to be discharged from labor on the 
farm. There has been much said about 
horse raising on our Eastern farms. It 
is true that there is an increased demand 
for high-class horses, both big powerful 
animals for trucking, and the powerful 
driving horses of superior quality. Not 
long since one of our New York papers 
printed what was supposed to be a pic¬ 
ture of the future. It represented a pa¬ 
rade of automobiles on Fifth Avenue, 
New York. In the midst of this parade 
of cars was a pair of beautiful horses 
pulling a carriage. A great crowd of 
people stood looking at these horses, say¬ 
ing to one another, “They must be ter¬ 
ribly rich to afford a horse.” We believe 
that the finer class of driving horses will 
again become popular, and that there will 
eventually be a good demand for them. It 
is true also that the heavy draft horse, as 
well as the heavy horse for work on a 
farm, now commands the largest price 
that was ever known before in the East¬ 
ern market. But remember that success 
at breeding farm horses is not entirely a 
matter of buying a good stallion. There 
must be good, shapely mares as well, for 
while the sire is “half the herd” the other 
half still remains 50 per cent. 
VALUE IN THE VEAL CALF. 
In looking over my milk account for 
June I learned my herd avex-aged $6.25 
each at the creamery for 25 days, not a 
munificent sum. Sunday, June 29, a 
two-year-old heifer dropped her first calf. 
I did not wish to raise the calf, but I 
am strongly opposed to the bob veal busi¬ 
ness, so I transferred the calf to a cow 
yielding enough for its wants. You can 
realize my satisfaction when, after feed¬ 
ing 25 days, the local butcher laid $14.25 
on his counter in payment for the carcass 
hog-dressed. I have argued befox-e on 
sweet apple orchard was designed pri¬ 
marily for a hog pasture. I know this 
to have been the fact on our own ances¬ 
tral acres and on many other farms in 
that Westchester County, N. Y., section 
where many of these old sweet apple or¬ 
chards could be found as late as my own 
younger days. In years of compara- 
tively light apple crops these sweet ap¬ 
ples sold readily for good prices and 
many of them went to market. But in 
ordinary years piggy did the harvesting 
and turned the sweet apple crop into 
pi-ofitable pork. As the railroads began 
to x’each out from the cities and made the 
sale of milk possible, and seemingly a 
more profitable kind of farming, pork¬ 
making was given up and of course as 
the sweet apples orchards fell into de¬ 
cay they were not replaced. 
Connecticut. MERRITT M. CLARK. 
R. N.-Y.—Mr. Clark is right about 
this. We have .fed many sweet apples 
to pigs, the result being pork of a quality 
which “needs no apple sauce.” Even 
now we have questions from people who 
ask what varieties of sweet apples to 
plant with a view to stock feeding. It 
seems, however, that a half a century 
ago there was a greater market demand 
for sweet apples. We sold our sweet 
fruit this year for $2 per bai-rel, beside 
feeding many windfalls. 
The Perclieron Society reports excel¬ 
lent trade in that breed. Between No¬ 
vember 1, 1912, and April 30, 1913, 
4,130 transfers were given, 2,522 to men 
not yet members of the Society, begin¬ 
ners in Pereheron breeding, mainly sub¬ 
stantial farmers. Business with Canada 
has been good. The membership of the 
Society now numbers 5,015. 
Fat steers $8 per 100; fat bulls $7 to 
$7.25; fresh cows, $60 to $90 each. 
Eggs, 22; apples, 15 cents half peck; 
pears, 12 to 15 cents half peck; onions. 
25 cents a peck ; potatoes, 15 cents a half 
peck; peaches, $1 and $1.25 a basket; 
blackberries, six, eight and 10 cents a 
box. G. c. L. 
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