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THE RURAL, NEW-VOREEE 
November 2!), 
Live Stock and Dairy 
VALUE OF PUREBRED CATTLE. 
Scarcely a week passes that does not 
bring noted cattle buyers in this vicinity, 
the home of the Western Reserve Cattle 
Breeders’ Association. Last week a 
breeder from Wisconsin began to look 
through the herds. Ho was a fine judge 
of cattle, and on looking one herd over 
said, “I am going to buy a carload of 
cows of that type,” selecting one of the 
owner’s best. “Do you think you will be 
able to?” the owner asked. “Sure,” he 
replied, “I am prepared to pay the price 
when I find cows that suit.” lie looked 
over the many fine herds, but was aston¬ 
ished when the owners refused to price 
cows of his choice. So closely have they 
been looked over and sold tliat only the 
cream of the herds remain. The annual 
consignment sale was not held this year, 
as there were no cattle to consign. This 
shows what cooperation does for farmers. 
No one farmer could hope for the success 
in breeding that these men, banded to¬ 
gether for the good of their herds, have 
found. 
Some years ago, when registered Hol- 
steins were cheaper than now, a farmer 
near purchased for $125 a registered cow 
three years old. She in time gave him 
two heifer calves, and later through acci¬ 
dent lost one-quarter of her udder. Not 
wishing to fuss with her, the owner sold 
head of the herd, you cannot give them 
away and pay the express charges? A 
man will pay from $200 to $300 for a 
horse whose usefulness is exhausted after 
a period of a few years, and not mourn 
over the expense, but to induce him to 
pay one-sixth of the above price for a 
purebred bull calf, whose usefulness per¬ 
colates down through the ages to the end 
of time, is like trying to get him to sign 
his own death warrant. I have seen 
hundreds of good, straight, nicely marked 
bull calves, *yom great producing dams, 
vealed for the want of sale, at veal prices, 
for breeding purposes. 
The West is advancing in this respect, 
many bulls going there at a good price 
besides a large express charge. I have 
shipped recently a calf to North Dakota 
from just a good ordinary purebred dam 
without an A. R. O. record. If these 
Western dairymen can see their way clear 
to buy bulls in New York State to in¬ 
crease the efficiency of their herds, cer¬ 
tainly there is no excuse for farmers in 
the East to neglect this point, with com¬ 
paratively no transportation charges. 
Hamilton, N. Y. s. B. J. 
How to Get Better Cows. 
I am a poor farmer, and have been 
reading about the value of purebred cows. 
How am I going to get any? I have al¬ 
ways kept the best cows that I could get, 
and raised the heifer calves from my best 
cows. I sell my poor calves to my neigh- 
A FARM MONEY-MAKER. Fig. 500. 
her for $100. As he could readily sell the 
heifers at $200 each he did not count his 
loss heavy. She gave her new owner a 
fine heifer calf, for which he received $85. 
The man who purchased it, after it was 
doing nicely, refused $115. The owner 
then sold the original cow for $125. Con¬ 
trast these figures with those of the grade 
cow, worth from $S5 to $100, but worth 
no more than beef prices if accident ruins 
the udder. Last week a cow buyer from 
Vermont was here looking after a carload 
of grades. He purchased a carload here 
last year, but had hard work to find them 
Ibis year at prices of from $10 to $25 
per head more than he paid a year ago. 
'Fhe stringent city regulations have put 
the small dealer out of commission, and 
milk routes that used to carry over 1.000 
pounds now have from 500 to GOO pounds 
a day, for which we receive $1.70 per 100 
pounds. Many farmers count the milk a 
side issue, and separate it, feed it warm 
to calves, and get what they can for sour 
cream, or ship sweet cream to Cleveland 
daily if near enough. Some feed hogs to 
good advantage. 
Ohio. AIKS. JAMES LAMPMAN. 
THE PUREBRED BULL. 
In the practical discussion of the “head 
of the herd” we seem to have stirred up 
the subject far down to the tail. That 
is what we started to do. Here follow 
two differing views of the subject. A 
breeder thinks purebred bulls are too 
cheap, and a dairyman thinks purebred 
cattle are out of the reach of a poor man: 
Why Are Purebred Bulls Cheap ? 
Why is it that after all the pounding 
the farm and dairy papers do to urge 
dairymen to use purebred bulls at the 
hors as fast as I find them out, and my 
neighbors do the same by me. But I am 
making no money in dairying, though my 
feed dealer has bought two automobiles in 
three years. He lets me ride with him 
sometimes and, I think, looks upon me as 
a friend, for he always cashes my milk 
checks for me and keeps the cash. I pa¬ 
tronize a neighbor’s purebred bull and 
get calves that look like their sire. Some 
make better cows than their mothers, and 
some don’t. I suppose that when they do 
it is prepotency, and when they don’t it’s 
luck. But it is hard luck when you have 
to feed a calf two to three years before 
you find out that it is not worth keeping. 
How can I find out in time to veal the 
calf? Veal is high. 
I would like to get some purebreds, 
which, I understand, make money. A 
breeder who lives near me has some fine 
cows, but he asks $200 to $300 apiece for 
them, and he wants $150 or more for a 
young heifer calf. He does not seem to 
want to sell his heifer calves, but wants 
me to pay $50 for a little bull calf. May¬ 
be it is conscience, and maybe he would 
rather raise a heifer calf and sell her for 
$300. Anyway, I cannot pay such prices 
for calves, and if there is any honest way 
of getting them without stealing them I 
wish you would tell me how. D. A. T. 
Tioga Co., N. Y. 
Elizabeth, new to the country, and 
not very old to the world at all, sat eat¬ 
ing a bowl of blackberries submerged in 
cream. She was too preoccupied to talk. 
After a time, however, she laid down her 
spoon. “Mamma,” she asked, “have 
blackberries got legs?” “No, my dear,” 
answered mamma. “Why?” “Then I’ve 
eaten a bug.”—Evening Rost. 
THAT MANURE-PIT QUESTION. . 
In regard to manure pits I have had 
experience with two types, and can recom¬ 
mend anyone to keep clear of these par¬ 
ticular types. The first is a covered pit 
four feet deep with sides laid up in stone 
with lime cement mortar. This has two 
bad faults. First, the great labor of 
throwing the manure out, and second it 
is not water-tight, and surface water 
leaks in and makes a pump and liquid 
distributor necessary. The other type is 
simply a covered earth pit, which of* 
course loses much of the liquids. In 
both the liquid from the gutter drains 
directly on the manure in the pit. As 
you will see my experience is mostly nega¬ 
tive, with the following deductions. Don’t 
build a deep pit. Have it shallow enough 
so that the wagon can be backed in or 
driven through. Have the bottom and 
sides absolutely water-tight. Gutter 
drains amount to but little. If the pit 
is any distance they bother with clogging, 
and anyway, the manure will fill the gut¬ 
ter in places so that the liquid “backs 
up” and you have to use absorbents to 
keep the cattle clean. So, you see, you 
may as well have a tight gutter and use 
absorbents and then a tight carrier will 
save all of the liquids. 
Connecticut. J. H. PUTNAM. 
As to the advisability of building a 
manure pit to hold the accumulation of 
20 cows for one year, would say I think 
it would need a pit at least 1G feet wide j 
and SO feet long if this is the length 
wished, and 2 Yj or three feet high; 20 
cows stabled all the time would make* a 
good two-horse load of say 40 cubic feet 
every two days, and this would mean from 
175 to ISO loads for the year, requiring 
about the above amount of room. Why j 
would it not be better to have a clean-up ! 
at least twice each year, say in April and 
May, and again in October and November, 
using the Spring manure for cultivated | 
crops and the Fall supply for top-dress¬ 
ing grass fields? This would make a 
shorter time at each carting and spread¬ 
ing, and a smaller and less expensive 
manure shed, and I really believe more 
profitable acres. We top-dress all our 
meadows during Fall and Winter, using 
10 loads spread with manure spreader 
per acre, and in the Spring we have 
enough to cover 20 acres corn. This 
manure is made from about SO to 85 
head, and fully takes care of feeding 50 
acres of grass for hay and the above 
number of acres of corn each year, and 
the farm shows the wholesome effects of 
the applications. H. O. DANIELS. 
Connecticut. 
Preventing Butter from Sticking. 
IIow can I prevent butter from stick¬ 
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To prevent butter from sticking to the 
wooden utensils with which it comes in 
contact, these should be thoroughly 
scalded in hot water, and afterwards 
cooled, before using. With this precau¬ 
tion, I think that you will have no 
further trouble with your press. 
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