1913, 
THE R.URAL NEW-YORKER i 
136o 
Live Stock and Dairy 
WHY IS THE PUREBRED BETTER THAN 
THE SCRUB ? 
It lias como to be a mere truism among 
good farmers that the sire should be 
purebred. This is as it should be. It 
pays to have a purebred animal at the 
head of the herd. It pays because the 
purebred will get offspring which will 
produce better and bring a better price 
than will the get of a scrub. It is not 
always understood, however, just why a 
purebred or high grade can produce more 
than a scrub, and so it often happens that 
an animal of this type does not have the 
opportunity to prove his worth. In this 
article we shall take up (1) the value of 
the uniformity in purebreds or grades, 
and (2) the advantage which belongs to 
the purebred in the utilization of feed. 
One of the chief values of purebred ani¬ 
mals is in their uniformity, or, rather, 
in their uniform excellence. Scrub pro¬ 
geny are of all types and classes. Pos¬ 
sibly one in a dozen of such offspring is 
really of superior value, but more prob¬ 
ably not. The rest show all degrees of 
worthlessness. Such animals are of small 
value both because of their lack of desir¬ 
able characteristics and because of their 
lack of uniformity. Of two lots of tuii- 
mals of the same average excellence, that 
lot which is the more uniform will bring 
the better price. Uniformity is a thing 
greatly to be desired in live stock, and 
the only practical way to attain it is al¬ 
ways to have a purebred for a sire. 
More important, however, from an 
economic point of view is the ability of 
the purebred to handle more feed than 
the scrub can assimilate. It may seem 
strange to say that the purebred is more 
valuable than the scrub because he can 
handle more feed; and yet such is the 
case, in just the same way as the boiler 
which can burn efficiently the most fuel 
will yield the most power. The profit 
made in operating a boiler depends as 
much or more on the amount of steam 
produced as on the amount of coal used. 
It would be possible to burn just enough 
coal to keep the water hot, but to pro¬ 
duce little or no pressure. No other 
practice would be quite so foolish, how¬ 
ever, for it would result in the total loss 
of the coal. It is the coal used above 
the mere amount required to keep the 
water and boiler hot which produces the 
profit; and the most successful boiler is 
the one in which this amount can be 
made the largest. The animal which can 
eat and utilize the largest amount of feed 
in addition to that necessary to keep it 
warm and walking about the lots is the 
one which makes the most money for its 
owner. Contrary to the general belief, 
the good animal does not, as a rule, di¬ 
gest or utilize food any more efficiently 
than the poor animal does. He simply 
uses more, so that he has a larger sur¬ 
plus to use in producing those things 
which are worth money. A cow which 
will produce 300 pounds of butter fat in 
a year is vastly more profitable than two 
cows which together produce 300 pounds. 
It is a mistake to desire animals which 
will do fairly well under poor conditions. 
What we want are animals which will 
respond generously to heavy feeding and 
good care, and then we should supply the 
feed and the care. 
These things are beautifully shown in 
a careful experiment conducted at the 
Missouri Experiment Station with two 
dairy cows. The following gives the es¬ 
sential facts, and those who wish to study 
it further can do so by consulting Mis¬ 
souri Research Bulletin No. 2. Previous 
to the experiment the better cow, No. 27, 
had produced 3.9 pounds of fat and 2.S 
pounds of milk for each pound produced 
by No. 62, the poorer animal in the same 
herd. During the test a careful record 
was made of the amount and composition 
of feed consumed, and of the amount and 
composition of milk produced. The co¬ 
efficient of digestion and the maintenance 
requirement were also determined for 
each cow. During the year No. 27 pro¬ 
duced 8,522 pounds of milk and 469 
pounds of fat, while No. 62 produced only 
3,18S pounds of milk and 169 pounds of 
fat. The maintenance requirement and 
the co-efficient of digestion were almost 
the same for the two cows. The import¬ 
ant point for us to consider is that No. 
27 consumed 2.6 times as much feed in 
excess of her maintenance requirement as 
did No. 62, and produced 2.7 times as 
much butter fat. After the maintenance 
was supplied it took just as much feed 
to produce a pound of fat with one ani¬ 
mal as with the other. The maintenance 
requirement is a fixed expense, just the 
same as the coal required to keep the 
water and boiler hot is a fixed expense. 
It is the feed which the cow utilizes over 
and above this that goes to the produc¬ 
tion of milk and butter fat. The men 
who made the experiment do not attempt 
to show what makes one cow eat more 
feed and give more milk than another, 
except to attribute it to some sort of 
stimulus. The point is not of importance 
to us, however; the important thing is 
that high production and large consump¬ 
tion of feed go together. If No. 27 had 
been limited in feed to the amount eaten 
by No. 62, her production would have 
been reduced practically to that of No. 
62. Too many of us are expecting well- 
bred stock to give excellent results under 
only fair, or even poor conditions. Give 
your stock comfortable surroundings and 
an abundance of good feed. Then, and 
not till then, can you divide your good 
animals from the poor ones, for not till 
then can the good ones produce up to 
their real capacity. it. e. merx. 
Indiana. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY PRICES. 
Good horses are selling for from $100 
to $150; colts at weaning time, $35 to 
$50. Cows, from $45 to $75; heifers, 
$25 to $35; steers, $45 to $65; calves two 
months old. $15 to $20. Mules, from $250 
to $450 a pair. Hogs, live, 10 cents per 
pound ; pigs, $6 a pair; sheep, $5 to $7 
a head. w. H. s. 
Cordova, Md. 
Cows due to freshen in the Spring, 
from $30 to $50; new milch $60 to $80. 
This applies to good (scrub) cows. 
Horses high, $200 to $300; heavy draft¬ 
ers often more. Loose hay $18 to $20; milk 
retails eight cents per quart, wholesale 
four, usually at farmer’s door. Potatoes 90 
to $1; carrots ahd parsnips $1; Spring 
dressed chickens 22; butter about 35; 
eggs 45; cabbage about five cents per 
head; apples $3 per barrel, hand picked, 
no apples except in some sections. 
Carbondale, Pa. ax. L. R. 
_Cattle at a sale will average about 
$55; this is an ordinary farm dairy. 
At a sale near here last year the average 
was a few cents over $69 ; the dairy was 
all Holstein and about all had been raised 
on the place. The drovers’ prices vary 
considerably, so it would be hard to judge 
from them. Milk is retailing at 6 cents 
a quart; apples $1.25 to $1.50; potatoes 
$1; eggs, fresh, 56. There are very 
few garden crops bought or sold here. 
Harriman, N. Y. c. P. 
j DAIPT5T CATTLE 
EAST RIVER 
GRADE HOLSTEINS I&S 
80 FRESH COWS, good size and well marked and in 
good condition; extra large producers. Come and 
see them milked. 40 COWS due to calf soon. They 
have the size and quality yon like. Registered and 
grade Bulls always on hand. Bell Phone—14 F 5. 
JOHN B. WEBSTER, Dept. Y, Cortland, N. Y. 
THE TOMPKINS CO. BREEDERS’ JOURNAL, with salo-list 
‘ of pure-bred stock, 25cts per year. Copy free. 
We have some very good offers in Holstein and Jer¬ 
sey cattle. German Coach Horses, Shetland Ponies, 
Southdown ewes and Cheshire gilts. A two-year 
Berkshire boar, registered. $25.00. TOMPKINS CO. 
BREEDERS’ ASSOCIATION, Box B, Truniansburg, N. Y 
Holstein Bull Calf 
Large, handsomely marked animal, “ principally 
white.'; Born, Nov. 28th last. A. R. O. De Kol 
dam; sire, Korndyke Segis, grandson of King Segis. 
Crated and F. O. B., Oneida, N. Y., for $25, with all 
the papers, if taken when four weeks old. Satis¬ 
faction guaranteed. H. H. G0SLEE & SON, Oneida. N. Y. 
SHEEP 
SHROPSHIRE RAMS and E WES—Register- 
w ed yearlings and two-year-olds for sale from im¬ 
ported sires. E. K. STEVENS & SON, Wilson, N. Y. 
Eureka Stock Farm 
5 Lincoln Buck Lambs, 5 Shropshire Down 
Buck Lambs, ready for service. 50 Registered 
Chester White Pigs. Write for Circular- 
Edward Walter, West Chester, Chester Co., Penna, 
Dogs andL Ferrets 
sale-Fox, Coon, Skunk and Opossum Dogs 
Price, $30 to $50 each. Rabbitdogs, $7.50 to $25 each. 
Pups. $5 each. Send stamp. J. W. Dearth, Zanesville, 0. 
l°T R .L Sfl L LE T-RT,°Lfl. N G E Coon and Skunk Dogs 
at a bargain. Will allow trial. Stamp for reply. 
H. H. DEARTH, No. 34 South 5th St . Zanesville, Ohio 
BEAUTIFUL SABLE p n ||i oe -Pedigreed. $10 to $25- 
AND WHITE wUllies E0GEW00D. Douglaston, L. |. 
DO 1 1 1 Females only. Registered stock. 
" $10andup, Clark Farm, Boonton.N. J. 
PHI 1 IP PIIPQ—Natural drivers. Also English 
uULLlL rUf 0 Bloodhounds, Nelson's, Grove City,Pa 
h.gVclVss REGISTERED AIREDALESTTtVd 6 : 
Royally bred. Four puppies, half Airedalo and half 
Beagle hound. Cheap. W. A. FREED, Racine. Penna. 
■ |a| IAAP0 For Cattle, Horses & Hogs 
For prices and literature address 
IllVIinwWkW The MOORE BROS, of Albany. N. Y. 
Pure Feeding Molasses 
We are first hands and can quote you absolutely 
bottom prices, delivered your station, in lots of 
anywhere from one barrel to a trainload. 
THE MEADER-ATLAS CO. 
N. Y. Office, 107 Hudson Street, New York City 
DAIRY CATTLE 
BUY GUERNSEYS 
BECAUSE 
At the only impartial test where all breeds 
were represented the 
fiHFRKKFY rai >ked highest, returning $1.67 
UDLllliOL I f or every dollar invested in food, 
ECONOMICAL PRODUCTION 
of tire highest grade of DAIRY PRODUCTS is one of 
the important characteristics of the GUERNSEY. 
Write for free literature. 
The American Guernsey Cattle Club 
BOX Y-PETERBOKO, N. H. 
UIANTED TO BUY-100 good young xows-holsteins. 
iw AYRSHIKES mid JERSEYS. -Must be in goocI,healthy con¬ 
dition and good size. A. S. Edwards, Box 76, Stepney, Conn. 
If You Want Guernseys s B?,‘ 0 „V 1 S? .US' ™«« 
GUERNSEY BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION, Box 90. Peekskill.N. Y. 
Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves F " 
offer. THE GATES HOMESTEAD FARM, Cliittenango, N. Y. 
Hudson Valley Holstein Headquarters 
Registered and Grades. 1 hour from New York. 
M0HEGAN FARM, Mohegan Lake, Peekskiil, New York 
READY FOR U n lct P ; n D„l| Ontario Pietje Segis, 
SERVICE nolstein DUll No n 2,263. grandson of 
King Segis and Pietje 22d’s Wood crest Lad. Show 
markings and grand individual. Price, $150. Don’t 
buy scrub stock when you can get breeding like this at tlie 
price. Send for pedigree. Cloverdale Farm, < harlotte. N. Y. 
Buy a Bull on Easy Terms 
Long Time and 4 Per Cent Interest 
Holstein bull calves, sired by a SON OF KING 
OF THE PONTIACS, whose dam has a record 
of 29.57 lbs. butter in 7 days and 113.96 lbs. in 30 
days, and out of A. R, O. DAMS. WHITE AT 
ONCE for breeding, prices, and particulars re¬ 
garding our terms. 
JUSTAMERE FARM, Middletewn Springs, Vt. 
FOR PR0DUCT10N-Se^ 
calves, only, from producing dams and highest type 
sires. R. F. SHANNON, 603 Renshaw Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
FOR SALE 
HIGH BRED 
JerseyBULLCALF 
dropped Oct. 15th, 1912. Dam, No. 598, R. of M. test 
9,383.6 lbs, milk and 584 lbs. 3 oz. butter in one 
year. Sire, Tonona Pogis, his first daughter in 
R. of M. test 9.950.2 lbs. milk, 630 lbs. 6 oz. butter, 
with first calf. He's as good as the best. Address 
E. W. MOSHER, - Aurora, N. Y. 
“CHENANGO FARMS” HOLSTEINS 
Bull Calves, good enough for the richest and cheap 
enough for the poorest. Both untested and A. R. O. 
dams. We have no cow in our barns that can’t make 
good, so you can't go wrong. Following is the herd 
record for 1912: 
10 Cows Averaged 13,000 lbs. per Cow 
25 " r 10,000 . 
47 “ inc.2-yr. olds “ S.250 “ ** “ 
Calve # s of both sexes for sale; also mature stoek. 
Prices include registry and transfer paper*. 
BULL CALVES—S25 untested, and S35 A. R 0. dams. F. 0 B. 
HEIFER CALVES—S100 up. F, 0 B. 
References: Hamilton Bank or any business man. 
S. B. JACKSON, Supt - HAMILTON, NEW YORK 
150 HIGH GRADE 
HOLSTEIN COWS 
Large, fine individuals, nicely marked 
and heavy producers, due to freshen in 
August, September and October. 
F. P. SAUNDERS & SON, Certland, N. Y. 
Purebred Registered 
HOLSTEIN 
CATTLE 
The Wisconsin Farmer notes that fewer 
and fewer of the Wisconsin farmers are con¬ 
tent to milk and care for cows that are able 
to produce only about 150 pounds of butter. 
During two weeks last Spring 145 Wisconsin 
dairymen purchased registered purebred Hol¬ 
stein sires in order to improve their herds. 
Everywhere the more progressive dairymen 
are alive to the necessity of using bred-for- 
production sires in order to bring up the 
butter-fat yield of their cows to a profitable 
figure. 
Send for FREE Illustrated Descriptive Booklets 
Holstein-Friesian flsso., F. L. Houghton. Sec’y 
Box 105 Brattleboro, Vt. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
Rural New-Yorker and you’ll get a quick 
reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee 
editorial page. :::::: 
Horses and Mules 
$3,000 in Prizes 
Thirty-six of our pure-bred horses won $3,000 in 
prizes at Eastern Fairs this Fall; a fact which 
speaks for itself. We are now offering for sale 80 
Percheron, Belgian and Suffolk Stallions and 
Mares; a rare opportunity for discriminating buy¬ 
ers. Registered Percheron Foals of 1912 and 1913 at 
$200 to $500. Our new booklet gives list and pedi¬ 
grees of these Foals and tells you why it costs no 
more to raise pure-bred PRIZE WINNERS than it does 
to raise “ scrubs.” Send for Booklet H today. 
Adirondack Farms, Glens Falls, N. Y. 
Seventeen Hundred Acres Devoted 
Exclusively to Horse Breeding. 
50 STALLIONS 
and MARES, $250 to $1000 each 
Write for my Illustrated 
Circular telling why I can save 
you money on th« purchase of a Per- 
cheron or Belgian Stallion or Mare. 
A.W.Green,Middlefield,0. 
R. R. Sta., E. Orwell, on Penna. Ry. 
Midway between Ashtabula &Warren 
Conn will buy Sound, Speedy, Handsome, Stand- 
v""" ard-bred Wilkes Stallion. 5 years old, 
15 hands 3 inches. CHAS. BENINGTON, Edineston, N. Y. 
$3,000 Percheron Stallion at $tud-b?P° r , t ® d and Re 
■■■in iimb— ■■■ ■■ ■! i I,, i, ,■1111, i gisterea. Iron grey; 
2.020 lbs. Fee, $2o-$40. MOHEUAN FARM, Feekskill, Now York 
KENTUCKY JACK AND PERCHERON FARMS—P.ig bone. 
■' Kentucky Mammoth jacks; Percheron stallions, 
mares, saddle and plantation horses. Special prices to par¬ 
ties buying in half-car or car load lots. Write your wants 
or visit our farms. COOK k BROWN, Props., Lexington, Ky 
JS WINE 
CHELDON FARM REGISTERED DUROCS 
Pigs of both sex. Bred Sows. Service Boars. 
Best of breeding. C. E. BARNES, Oxford, New York 
T'DiVrsr' Pirre - Per P ai, \ 7 t0 1° weeks 
Diuroc rigs s> Am WEEKS, I»e Graff, O. 
DUROCS—The Big Deep Fellows 
A CHRISTMAS PRESENT 
Have 10 Spring gilts. Will close ti:em out at $25 
each. Bargains in Fall pies at $10, or two for $16 
until January first. Send at once —these will lie 
gone in 3 weeks. SHENANG0 RIVER FARMS, Transfer, Pa. 
TAVWORTH 8-£A‘A A 
vice for sale at reasonable prices. All well bred and 
none but good individuals offered for sale. 
WESTVIEW STOCK FARM 
D. J. LYBR00K, Mor. - R. 1, Winston-Salem, N. C 
PHPQUIRE^—Yearling sows bred. August pigs 
bilLOmnCO either sex. G. E. SMITH, Castile, N. Y. 
CHESTER WHITE PIGS 
September farrow; registered; value. $10. Will 
exchange boar or sow for ten Rose Comb White 
or Single Comb Brown Leghorn pullets- 
GEO E HOWELL, - SPRUCE FARM, Howells, New York 
O. I. C. Whites 
Registered stock of superior quality. All pigs will 
be registered in purchaser's name free. Sows and 
Boars for Spring breeding. Also hardy White Hol¬ 
land Turkeys. WAYSIDE FARM, Chatham, N. J. Address, 
A. L. PAGE, (owner), 62 Cortlandt St., New York City 
BERKSHIRES FOR SALE 
M. H, TAYLOR, West Alexander, Penn’a 
Springbank Berkshire Herd 
BIG BERKSHIRES I have bred more high- 
class hogs than any breeder in Connecticut. Wat¬ 
son's Masterpiece No. 123931 at head of herd. Noth¬ 
ing for sale but 51 arch and April pigs at present. 
J. E. WATSON, Prop., Marbledale, Ct. 
ver V y fine Registered Berkshire Pigs 
of the very best breeding that I desire to sell, and 
will accept any kind of a reasonable offer for the 
same. There are some extra fine boars amongst the 
lot for sale. Being so overstocked at the present 
time, any reasonable offer will be accepted. Write 
for particulai's. J. F. HEALEY, Sunside, Greene Co., N Y. 
Large Berkshires at Highwood 
During each of the last five years we have sold more 
l-egistered Berkshires, and this last year three 
times as many as any other breeder in the United 
States. Over one hundred sows, bred ami open, for 
sale. Service boars, pigs all ages. Visitors always 
welcome. H. C. & H. B. HARPENDING, Dundee New York 
If you want the best hog 
Write us. Our farms are devoted exclusively to the 
production of Berkshires. Breeders in the following 
States have been supplied from our great herd: N.Y.; 
Penna,; Dist. Col.; Md.; Va.; X. C.; S. C.: Ga.; La.; 
Ala.; Miss.; Fla.; Tenn.; Ky.; Texas, and Porto Rieo. 
Berkshires for foundation and 
show purposes a specialty. 
THE BLUE RIDGE BERKSHIRE FARMS, Asheville, N. C. 
NEW YORK STATE BREEDERS SALE CO.’S 
FIRST CONSIGNMENT SALE 
150 HEAD—REGISTERED HOLSTEINS—150 HEAD 
SYRACUSE, N. Y., JANUARY 13-14, 1914 
If you are about to purchase, elsewhere, wait until after this Sale. Look who the consignors are — 
men who have made the Holstein famous; they are: 
Stevens Bros. Co., Liverpool, N. Y. 
Henry Stevens & Son. Lacona, N. Y. 
11. E. Chapin & Son, Batavia, N. Y. 
A. XV. Brown & Sons, W. Winfield, NT. Y. 
Henry Lathrop & Sons, Sherburne, N. Y. 
Isaac Dalrymple & Son, Otselic, N. Y. 
W. A. Waite & Son, Adams, N. Y. 
J. A. Stanton & Son, New Woodstock, N.Y. 
Wing R. Smith, Syracuse, N. Y. 
W. S. Hinc-hey, Rochester, N. Y. 
W. D. Robens. Poland, N. Y. 
Geo. Abbott, Cortland, N. Y. 
John Howard, Sherburne, N. Y. 
Harry B. Davis, Chester, N. Y. 
Strickland Bros., Carthage, N. Y. 
W. J. Snyder, Lacona, N. Y. 
Whitney Pt. Stock Farm, Whitney Pt., X.Y. 
ALL CONSIGNMENTS INSPECTED—TUBERCULIN TESTED 
Further information and catalog forwarded by 
E. M. STANTON, Secretary, New Woodstock, N.Y. 
Catalogue published ahd Sale mauaged by Liverpool Sale and Pedigree Co., Liverpool, N. Y. 
