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THE RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
September 13, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
SELECTING THE DAIRY BULL. 
How will a man know when he is get¬ 
ting his money’s worth buying a pure¬ 
bred bull? That is a question that can 
have but one answer the world over. 
There is no possible way of knowing 
absolutely that you are getting your 
money’s worth until you have milked the 
daughters of the bull and proved him. 
The bull will then be at least five or six 
years of age. This is where many men 
make the mistake of disposing of a bull 
before they know his powers of produc¬ 
ing butter cows. They then kick them¬ 
selves forever after. 
Of course some bulls are more likely 
to give you your money’s worth than 
others. These are the bulls of good 
dairy type that have great producers on 
both sides of their ancestry from their 
sire and dam right straight back for sev¬ 
eral generations. Their dams and gran- 
dams and great-grandams were great 
producers, had large well-shaped udders, 
large well-placed teats, constitutional 
vigor and dairy type. Their sires— 
grandsires and great-grandsires—were 
large bulls, vigorous and of strong con¬ 
stitution and good dairy type. They also 
have a long list of high-testing daughters 
to their credit. In addition to this if the 
young bull you are buying is large and 
vigorous and of good shape you have - 
done your part in selection. All you can 
do now is give him exercise and proper 
feed and care, and wait patiently for 
consideration than the man, especially 
when you remember that the man works 
longer hours than the horse, for the 
man has to feed and clean the horse be¬ 
fore the horse begins his day’s work 
and he has to feed and bed him down ht 
night after the horse gets through its 
work. G. H. 
R. N.-Y.—No. We think the man and 
the woman in the house should have 
first consideration. We know it is hard 
for a farmer with poor hired help with 
work pushing at. every point to give 
such care to the horse. The farmer 
should not become a slave to his horses. 
Good sensible care is all most of us 
can hope to give and get our work done. 
TEN GOOD NEW YORK COWS. 
On page 842 Mr. Chas. Thackery gives 
a statement of what his seven cows did in 
one year and you ask, “Can you beat 
this?” Allow me to modestly step for¬ 
ward and present a record of my herd 
for the year from November 1, 1911, 
to November 1, 1912. The dairy consist¬ 
ed of 10 grade Jerseys of all ages from 
2% to 10 years. I sell cream to the La 
Grange Creamery, where it is made into 
butter and sold by our superintendent, 
H. R. Hoyt. There was no effort made 
to make a record. The cows had only 
ordinary care and feeding. For rough- 
age I fed cornstalks during the Fall and 
early Winter, until what I had were 
gone, when they were fed hay till they 
were turned out to grass, about May 20. 
The grain ration consisted of corn and 
A SANE AND SANITARY MILKING MACHINE. 
about five years for nature’s laws of 
heredity to give you the long-hoped-for 
dairy cow. It may come and it may not, 
but if your cows on which you breed are 
only grades you may rest assured that 
the offspring will be an improvement, 
taking the whole herd as a comparison. 
Vermont. solon j. vail. 
HORSES IN HOT WEATHER. 
Referring to page 849, “Care of the 
Horses in Hot Weather,” I wish to com¬ 
mend you and the writer of the article very 
highly for it. Were such articles more 
plentiful in the agricultural and other 
papers the lot of the most honest and 
faithful animals, whether two or four- 
footed, would be better. Such articles 
written by such a high authority go 
far to lead the average man to better 
things, and to more rational treatment 
of their real friends. If men could only 
be taught the horses’ language (do you 
know they have a real language) how 
much better it would be! If men could 
only know that what Dr. Alexander 
wrote is what every horse is justly en¬ 
titled to by right of honest and faithful 
service, how much less pain and misery 
there would be among the noble equines. 
Truly, as the doctor has said, it is man, 
not horses, that are dumb. 
Illinois. IIAKRY S. SIMONDS. 
On page 849 Dr. Alexander says that 
a horse’s harness should be removed at 
noon and the collar wiped and set in 
the sun to dry. That would be very 
well if time did not count, and very 
pleasant for the horse as well. It would 
also be very nice for the man to have 
a nice bath and change his perspiration- 
soaked clothes for clean ones, but there 
is no time for him to do this. Do you 
think that the horse is entitled to more 
cob meal, gluten and ground oats, about 
2 Y 2 quarts cob meal, 1% quarts ground 
oats and one quart gluten. This ration 
was fed twice per day till about March 1, 
when ray oats that I raised were fed up 
and I substituted wheat bran in place of 
them. They had no other feed except 
that I would frequently give them a hand¬ 
ful of oil meal. I presume this is not a 
balanced ration, but it is what they had. 
I give the number of pounds of butter 
fat, price per pound and amount of bill 
for each month : 
No. lbs. 
Price 
Amount 
1911. 
butter fat. 
per lb. 
of bill. 
November ... 
. 169.89 
39c 
$66.26 
December ... 
. 207.80 
41c 
85.20 
1912. 
January . 
. 306.79 
42c 
128.85 
February .... 
. 268.50 
40c 
107.40 
March . 
. 282.61 
38c 
107.39 
April . 
. 319.68 
38c 
121.48 
May . 
. 321.03 
34c 
109.15 
June . 
. 293.58 
33c 
91.01 
July . 
. 183.67 
32c 
58.77 
August . 
. 154.26 
32c 
49.36 
September ... 
. 136.08 
33c 
44.91 
October . 
. 60.33 
35c 
21.12 
$990.90 
This gives an average of $99.09 per 
cow for the year, counting the whole 10. 
But it is hardly fair to figure this as the 
total output of the dairy, for they fur¬ 
nished in addition to the above all the 
milk for our family (and we use a large 
quantity) and I started three calves 
which I fed whole milk freely for a 
month or so. To say this all was equal 
to one cow’s mess for a year would, I 
think, be only a conservative estimate. 
Hence we have $990.90 from nine cows 
or $110.10 per cow for a year. (This 
does not take into consideration the 
skim-milk.) The herd averages $90 or 
more each every year, but this is the 
highest record, due undoubtedly to the 
higher price paid for butter fat. 
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