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THE) RUHAIy NEW-YORKER 
October Is. 
Live Stock and Dairy 
MEETING OF GOAT BREEDERS. 
The New York Milch Goat Breeders’ 
Association met September 19 at Ro¬ 
chester, with an enthusiasm in excess of 
expectations. There was a large attend¬ 
ance of goat breeders, and sympathetic 
onlookers. Chief among the 48 new mem¬ 
bers, who joined at this meeting, were 
seven prominent physicians from five dif¬ 
ferent States. Several Canadians joined 
the association and almost every State in 
the Union was represented. At this 
meeting the name of the association was 
changed to that of the “Standard Milch 
Goat Association of North America.” To 
show something of the rising popu¬ 
larity for milch goats, it is sufficient to 
say, that at the Rochester Industrial Ex¬ 
position 150 entries had to be turned 
away for lack of accommodations in the 
goat building. Only the highest bred, 
and most nearly perfect animals were 
shown. Chief among these animals, was 
the herd of Toggenburgs from Missouri, 
which is owned by Dr. Smith. This herd 
won great approval for their sleek ap¬ 
pearance, and heavy milk production. 
A Niagara County breeder had a fine 
herd of Saanen goats, while a pair of 
Guggesburgers were sent from Oklahoma 
to participate at the Exposition. In fact, 
goats were sent from many parts of the 
United States, and many fine varieties 
were shown. 
The prizes offered by the Exposition 
were firsts $25, seconds $15, and thirds 
$ 10 . 
Dr. W. S. Gordon, of New Jersey, who 
conducts a sanitarium for tubercular and 
dyspeptic patients, showed a herd from 
her farm. These goats produced the milk 
used by her patients, and are valued for 
the purity, richness and quantity of their 
milk production. So great is the success 
of this herd, that Dr. Smith made many 
purchases at the Exposition, with which 
to increase her stock. Prices ranged on 
the average from $75 to $100; but a few 
were held at $500, each. 
It is a remarkable fact that there are 
many more purchasers, than animals to 
be purchased of purebred stock; as a 
consequence, they are most carefully pro¬ 
tected from over production. A good 
grade doe kid, bred to a purebred buck, 
can be bought for $15, and this is the 
best way to start your herd. It is not 
necessary to buy fancy animals in order 
to produce a good milk flow. A doe will 
usually produce two kids at a time, and 
these can be advantageously used. The 
does can be kept for breeding, and the 
buck kids sold at two months, will bring 
$5 for “goat venison,” a most delicious 
dish. A goat to be in her prime must 
be from three to six years old; from that 
time on until about 10 years of age her 
productiveness decreases. 
A dairy contest is being carried on at 
the Exposition under the supervision of 
T. W. Spintsburg, an expert in the test¬ 
ing of milk. The object of the contest is 
to determine the most satisfactory breed 
for family use in America, quantity and 
quality of milk given, the hardiness of 
the animal, and the general environments 
in the American home life being con¬ 
sidered. The does are milked twice daily, 
and all care given to insure a successful 
outcome. 
Previous tests have given these facts; 
that goat’s milk is superior to cow’s 
milk, because of its infinitesimally small 
globules of fat, which remain in union 
with casein and are easily digested with 
it. It does not tend to separate as does 
cow’s milk, and hence is more valuable 
as a food. The tendency of cow’s milk is 
to form into curd which is very hard for 
patients to digest and also for delicate 
infants. Another fact is'true, and that 
is that our native doe, or in other words 
the better class of common stock found 
throughout the country, when crossed 
with purebred sires of any high grade 
milking type, will produce an offspring 
bettering her mother by at least one-third 
greater milk flow. 
The cost of rearing a goat to milk 
form, is far below that of rearing a cow. 
A kid should be kept until two years of 
age before breeding, as this ensures a 
better kid, as well as a greater milk flow. 
Based on the statements of several breed¬ 
ers, I find a kid can be reared to breed¬ 
ing age for $26. From that time on it 
will cost about $14 a year to keep a 
milch goat. This allows for one pint of 
grain, twice daily, one-third being bran 
and two-thirds ground corn, with a 
roughage of clover hay during the Win¬ 
ter months. Native goats will produce 
400 quarts of milk during their milking 
period, and this will give you about two 
quarts of fresh pure milk a day, at a cost 
of 3*4 cents per quart, while now you 
give at least six cents for milk shipped 
from a distance, of unknown quality, and 
age. A purebred Saanen goat has 
been known to produce 1,845 pounds of 
milk in 10 months. To insure milk the 
year round, one should have two goats, 
one to freshen in the Spring, and the 
other to freshen in the Fall. 
While goat milk sells in Boston at 25 
cents per quart and in New York at #0 
cents, many of the breeders at the 
Rochester Exposition were selling their 
milk direct to invalids and physicians at 
the remarkable price of 80 cents per 
quart; and even at that price could not 
fill the demand. This is caused by the 
fact that children and delicate people 
thrive much faster on goat’s milk, than 
on cow’s, and develop no later troubles. 
In such diseases as those of the lungs, 
where the constitution must first be 
strengthened, its value cannot be over¬ 
estimated. Milk should be liberally used 
in the food of children, and when this 
is done more extensively, we will have 
a much lower infant death rate. The 
healthiest babies found today, excepting 
those breast fed, are those raised on 
goat’s milk, and second to this stands the 
cow. I do not mean the milk from a 
half-starved, misused goat, but that from 
one nourishingly fed, watered and salted 
regularly. The milk from this latter 
beast is unexcelled. With many people 
there has been a prejudice against the 
goat. Surely this prejudice is misplaced, 
because 75% of the homes of Germany 
have their goats, and it is kept even in 
the cities of America. Switzerland, the 
home of the famous Toggenburg and 
Saanen goats, puts out 20,000,000 gallons 
of goat’s milk a year, and yet she is much 
smaller in area than even' Indiana. 
Here are a few statistics worthy of 
consideration; 283,106 goats passed the 
Federal Meat Inspection Service and 
not one had tuberculosis. In Belgium 
not one goat of her 300,000 tested had 
tuberculosis; while 50% of her 900,000 
cows were affected with this dreaded 
disease. This statement was made by the 
authority of Dr. P. DeMade. Experi¬ 
ments in our country have found the 
Toggenburg and Saanen goats hardy 
enough for our Northern States; but the 
Nubian is too delicate for use here, ex¬ 
cept in the extreme South. Breeders 
should bear this fact 'in mind, when 
choosing a sire to mate with their does. 
Of minor importance to their milk pro¬ 
duction, is their great value in clearing 
waste lands. A buck will seize a limb 
or shoot between his horns, and with a 
vigorous twist, break it from its strong¬ 
hold. lie then will browse the leaves 
from the branch. This steady browsing 
and breaking down of the young shoots, 
tends to kill all but the hardiest shrubs. 
He will also consume a much greater 
variety of plant life than any other of the 
domestic animals. While he will not eat 
the tin cans placed to his credit he will 
handle a large variety of weeds and 
thistles. With the children he will al¬ 
ways be a favorite, and with the less 
wealthy class of people takes the place of 
the Shetland. We never find the little 
folks happier than with one or more of 
these pets. b. A. 
Orleans Co., N. Y. 
Polishing Black Hogs. 
Will you tell me what they use at 
the fairs on black hogs to make them 
shine so? o. F. C. S. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
The best dressing for black hogs is 
sweet oil. or olive oil, three parts, with 
alcohol one part. In addition to this it 
is desirable to give them a pretty good 
scrubbing with soapsuds once or twice 
before applying the dressing. Some ex¬ 
hibitors add lamp blacking to the dress¬ 
ing, but this is unnecessary and we do 
not advise it;_ 
A True Pig Story. —I have a Chester 
White sow that farrowed 11 pigs on 
January 29. These pigs were sold be¬ 
fore they were six weeks old for $4 each. 
On July 22 last the sow had another 
litter of 12 pigs, eight of which have been 
sold for $4 each. The sow still has four 
nice six-weeks’ pigs with her. All this 
during the first eight months of this 
year. Bet’s hear of some Rural reader 
who has done better. n. J. I. 
Connecticut. 
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Your Cows, Horses and 
Hogs are oH Pasture Now 
n Aur<1BA DR. GILBERT HESS, 
■ Sir.lA/ in I t Doctor of Veterinary Science 
UV,,U1 ^ Doctor of Medicine 
One of the most critical times of the year for your stock is when you change them 
from pasture to dry feed, because grain, hay and fodder do not contain the laxative 
so abundantly supplied by grass. Just now they are also deprived of exercise. 
That’s why so many animals get run down during winter and spring. All kinds of 
trouble are apt to start with stall feeding. Constipation, dropsical swelling, stocky 
legs and, most of all, your hogs are liable to become infested with worms. 
Dr. Hess Stock Tonie 
Makes Stock Healthy—Expels Worms 
Being both a doctor of medicine and a doctor of veterinary science I have formulated 
Dr. Hess Stock Tonic to correct the evils that invariably arise from dry feeding. It con¬ 
tains a laxative substitute for grass, diuretics to remove dropsical swellings, tonics to im¬ 
prove appetite and increase digestion and vermifuges that will positively expel worms. 
Remember, it’s the cow in the pink of condition that fills the milk pail, the steer with 
an appetite that lays on fat, the horse that digests his dinner that pulls on the bit, the 
hog that is well and free from worms that gets to be a 200-pounder in six months. 
I’ve authorized your dealer to supply you with enough Dr. Hess Stock Tonic for 
your stock, and if it does not do everything I claim, return the empty packages and 
get your money back. 
Dr. Hess Stock Tonic is never sold by peddlers—I save you peddler’s salary and wagon 
and team expenses, as these prices prove: 25-lb. pail $1.60; 100-lb. sack $5.00. 
Smaller packages as low as 50c, except in Canada, the far West and the South. Send 
for my new 32-page stock book—it’s a stunner and it’s free. 
DR. HESS & CLARK, Ashland, Ohio 
Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a-ce-a 
A splendid tonic that tones up the dormant 
egg organs and keeps the hens scratching 
and happy and laying allthrough the winter. 
Shortens moulting period and promotes 
rapid feather growth. Nothing better to 
make chicks strong and healthy. Cheap—a 
penny’s worth is enough to feed 30 fowl per 
day. Sold only by dealers whom you know. 
Never sold by peddlers, lj lbs. 25c; 5 lbs. 
60 c; 25-lb. pail $2.50. Except in Canada and 
the far West. Guaranteed. 
Dr. Hess 
Instant Louse Killer 
Kills lice on poultry and all farm stock. 
Dust the hens and chicks with it, sprinkle it 
on the roosts, in the cracks or. if kept in the 
dust bath, the hens will distribute it. Also 
destroys bugs on cucumber, squash and 
melon vines, cabbage worms, etc., slugs on 
rose bushes, etc. Comes in handy sifting-top 
cans, 1 lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c. Except In Canada 
and the far West. I guarantee it. 
SAVE-THE-HORSE 
Mr. Marion Chaney, S06 Kilbourne Ave., Rockford. III., 
writes; “For Burr Bros.. Wholesale Grocers, I kept 35 
horses. I saw Mr. Runyon’s testimonial on what it did 
for a SPAVIN ; he being at Milford, O., where 1 was 
raised, led me to try it. 1 cured a COCKED ANKLE and 
also a SIDE BONE. I recommended it to a friend, who 
cured his home two years this July that previously had 
56 holes burnt in his leg and could not be driven. Soon 
after using SAVE-THE-HORSE they trotted him over 
the pavements. It is a great medicine. Now I want 
your advice.” etc. 
Sove-The-Horse has stood alone and unique among 
veterinary remedies for over seventeen years. 
Every bottle,of Save-tho-IIorso la Bold with an 
Iron-dad contract that has # 60,000 paid-up capital 
back of It, guaranteeing to permanently cure or re¬ 
fund the money; no matter whether it ia Ilone or Bog 
Spavin, Tendon disease or Puffs—nor how aged, serf, 
oua or complicated the lameness or blemish may be. 
But write, describing your ease, and 
we will send our—BOOK—sample contract, letters 
from Breeders and business men the world over, on 
every kind of case, and advice—all free (to horso 
owners and managers). 
Write! AND STOP THE LOSS.' 
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Druggists everywhere sell Save-the-Horse WITH 
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You Can’t Cut Out 
A. BOG SPAVIN,PUFF or THOROUGHPIN, 
but 
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will clean them off permanently, 
and you work the horse same time. 
Does not blister or remove the 
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Will tell you more if you write. 
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the antiseptic liniment for mankind, 
reduces Varicose Veins, Ruptured 
Muscles or Ligaments. Enlarged Glands, Goitres. 
Wen9. Cysts. Allays pain quickly. Price £1.00 and £2.00 
a uoitlc at druggists or delivered. Manufactured only by 
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HORSE LAME? 
Use KINDIG’S Famous 
OINTMENT. A sure cure 
for bouc, bog, und blood 
epaviu, ringbone, curb, soft bunches, splint, etc. 50 cunts, post¬ 
paid. £. Kiudig, Jr., Itewcdy Co., -ib25 Woodland Ave., Uhila. 
MINERAL 
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free 
$3 Package CURES any ease or money refunded, 
$1 Package CURES ordinary cases. 
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Best Conditioner- 
Worm Expeller 
DEATH TO HEAVES 
“Guaranteed or Money Back.’’ 
Coughs, Distemper, Indigestion 
NEWTON’ 
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Large for Heaves. 
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