1L!3S 
OXEN ON THE MOWING MACHINE. 
As I am a believer in the ox for certain 
kinds of farm work, 1 have been much 
interested in your short articles on their 
use. From the article on “Training an 
Ox Team,” by A. G. Paul (page 111G) 
one unfamiliar with oxen might get a 
wrong impression. We, here in Vermont, 
do not consider it such an undertaking 
as Mr. Paul seems to. Of course most 
of our steers are broken or “bandied” 
when calves or yearlings. But if we do 
have an older pair, as is quite often the 
case, we yoke them, not in a pen, but 
usually in the open barnyard. We don’t 
intend to have them so wild that they 
need to be penned up. When yoked we put 
them, sometimes behind, sometimes ahead 
of another pair which is handy, and go to 
plowing or some other steady work. In 
a few times they will be handy enough 
to use alone if the driver stays near 
them. Another method is to yoke each 
separately with a well-broken ox and 
use for a while. Later the two partly 
trained ones may be put together, with 
a driver close beside them. Sometimes 
it is best to put a rope or halter on the 
near one for the driver to hold to. 
Fig. 480 shows a pair of grade Ayr- 
shires, four years old, weight 2.SOO 
pounds, which are good for almost any 
sort of faj'in work, from getting out the 
THE RE RAL RE W-YOHTvEE 
November 15, 
LIVE STOCK NOTES. 
Experiments in making cheese with 
pasteurized milk are being made at the 
Wisconsin Station. The results show an 
increased yield, about five per cent of 
weight of the cheese, and a decided im¬ 
provement in quality when the milk sup¬ 
ply is defective. 
Under the new Wisconsin law cattle 
condemned by the State after tuberculo¬ 
sis test are paid for by the State in case 
the meat is not condemned, to the extent 
of three-fourths of the appraised value of 
all animals in which the disease is found. 
Where it is found necessary to “tank” 
the carcasses but one-half of the appraise¬ 
ment is paid. And when upon post¬ 
mortem examination the disease is not 
found the full appraised value, which can 
never exceed $70, is paid. 
A neighbor has a good yearling heifer 
from a purebred Holstein bull out of a 
large native cow of good performance. 
This yearling is black and white, large 
and shows the marks of a good Holstein. 
Her owner is looking about for a Jersey 
bull to breed her to, thinking in this 
way to obtain a still better heifer calf. 
He will do far better to find the best 
Holstein he can and breed to him. This 
would be in line with the good points of 
the heifer and the calf ought to be truer 
to the type than her mother. To breed 
to a Jersey would so mix up the inherit- 
ance that the calf would show no fixed 
lines of breeding. 
A great deal of interest has been at¬ 
tached to the work of the Advanced 
Register Guernseys. Recently, at sale 
at Edgewater Farms, Canandaigua, N. 
Oxen ox Mowing Machine. Fig. 480. 
year’s wood to drawing the mowing ma¬ 
chine. And though I didn’t break them 
I venture to say that the first time they 
were yoked they made no more attempt 
to get away than if being tied up in the 
barn. B. si. B. 
Vermont. 
II. N.-Y.—By way of contrast a few 
weeks ago we showed a mowing ma¬ 
chine operated by a gasoline tractor. 
The patient ox pictured here costs less 
than the tractor, mows about as fast 
and can be eaten when he is through. 
Sell Your Hogs Direct. 
The farmer who has a few hogs for 
Fall sale will do well to try dressing 
them at home and selling them to the 
local meat dealers. Many butchers in 
small cities and towns as well as larger 
ones are depending on the large packing 
houses for their meat. This is their 
source of supply not only for preserved 
meats, but fresh meat as well. A butcher 
in a small-sized city told me a few days 
ago that his slaughter-house was prac¬ 
tically closed, and he would be glad to 
buy dressed hogs from the farmer direct, 
and would pay 12 cents a pound for 
dressed pork. The farmer who knows 
“the trick” of butchering could do well 
to dress his hogs and supply a wholesale 
market. Meat dealers are finding that 
good pork and beef are almost impossible 
to secure handily, while thousands of 
dollars’ worth from their own localities 
go the roundabout way of the big pack¬ 
ing-house back to their own local dealer. 
Of course a man should produce good 
pork, dress it neatly and lay it on the 
dealer’s block in as good shape as it 
would be if it came from the branch 
house of one of the large packers. 
People in towns want half a hog laid 
away for them for Winter, and now 
would be the proper time to take or¬ 
ders for later delivery. One farmer se¬ 
cured orders by mail for more than he 
could supply, by using the classified col¬ 
umns of the village paper, I rode about 
town a few days ago with a huckster, 
and several of his customers ordered a 
half hog for their Winter use. 
supply of pork. waltek jack. 
Y.. the mature animals were nearly all 
proven Advanced Register animals and 
a large portion of the young stock of Ad¬ 
vanced Register parentage. The sale was 
the most successful public sale of the 
breed ever held. Fifty-two head sold for 
$25,215, an average of $484.90, surpass¬ 
ing any prior sale. Miranda of Edge- 
water. with a record of 14617.00 milk and 
730.49 fat, and a daughter of the famous 
Miranda of Mapleton, was sold for 
$2,500, while two of her brothers sold for 
$800 and $500 respectively. During the 
week ending Oct. 24 there were entered 
in the Guernsey Herd Register 113 bulls 
and 144 cows, a total of 257 ; 236 trans¬ 
fers were also recorded. 
Ground Twigs For Stock Feed.— 
Some of the Connecticut papers describe 
a new commercial feed made locally in a 
Connecticut town, 
of apple and pear 
ground and mixed 
some cases Alfalfa 
the theory seems to 
will induce cattle 
It is said that twigs 
trees are crushed or 
with molasses. In 
meal is added, but 
be that the molasses 
to eat the ground 
’S convinced the leading dairymen of its unique properties as a feed. 
It is being fed by such well known expert feeders as 
twigs. The argument is that cattle will 
browse on such twigs whenever they have 
a chance to do so—often leaving good 
pasture to eat these twigs. That may be 
true and the dried twigs may be “filling.” 
but we think this feed will rank in prac¬ 
tical value with wooden nutmegs and 
sawdust pie. Some years ago a Connecti¬ 
cut man was reputed as feeding cows in 
Winter on salt fish—but he had very few 
imitators. 
Ferrets in New York. —A reader in 
Ohio wishes to know if it is true that 
the New York game laws prohibit the 
use of ferrets, and make it a fine for a 
person to ship a ferret into the State. 
The revised conservation laws declare 
that use of ferrets is prohibited except in 
particular counties where the conserva¬ 
tion commission may permit their use, 
but without such permission the use of 
ferrets for capturing hares or rabbits is 
forbidden. The law states that the pos¬ 
session of ferret at field shall be pre¬ 
sumptive evidence of their illegal use. 
All this, as we understand it, refers to 
the use of ferrets for hunting hares and 
rabbits. We do not see that it refers to 
the use of ferrets to exterminate rats, 
and we infer from this law that the. use 
of ferrets within enclosures such as 
chicken yards or barns for destroying 
rats, would be entirely legal. 
Matrimonial Agent: “Just one thing 
more. How old are you?” Miss Siugler: 
“Twenty-seven years.” Agent: “Oh, well, 
you can easily say you are five years 
younger.” Miss Siugler: “Oh, I’ve done 
that already.”—Boston Transcript. 
Pinecrest Farm, 
Arthur H. Sagendorph, 
Upland Farm, 
Maplelawn Farm, 
J. Saladine, 
(Guernsey) 
(Ayrshire) 
(Guernsey) 
(Holstein) 
(Ayrshire) 
AS A PART RATION FOR HORSES 
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New York City. 
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