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April 9, 
the rural new-yorkee 
Live Stock and Dairy 
AN ARGUMENT FOR GOATS’ MILK. 
On page 363 I saw that some one 
wanted to know about the usefulness of 
goats’ milk. Little has been done by 
the medical profession to popularize the 
use of milk, which is necessary no less 
to the townsman’s than the country¬ 
man’s child. It is a milk which is more 
palatable than the cow’s, because it may 
be drank without boiling or sterilizing. 
This is due to the fact that it is the 
product of an animal which invariably 
refuses dirty food, which is cleaner in 
her person than the cow, and, what is 
of the first importance, suffers very rare- 
lv from tuberculosis. Prof. Nofcard 
stated recently that of the hundred and 
thirty thousand goats and kids brought 
to Paris for slaughter every Spring, the 
meat inspectors had failed to find a 
single case of tuberculosis. It is not 
only that the goat produces a relatively 
large quantity of milk, an exceptionally 
rich milk, and that this milk may be 
drank without any risk of tubercular 
infection. The public has an idea that 
goat’s milk is not good. It is not only 
more palatable, but more hygienic than 
the milk of the cow. With some chil¬ 
dren, observes Dr. Eustace Smith, in 
spite of all possible precautions, cow’s 
milk, however carefully it may be pre¬ 
pared and administered, cannot be di¬ 
gested. Goat’s milk meets every diffi¬ 
cult}-. In cases where babies are fed 
directly from the goats—that is, by 
having their mouths put to the washed 
teats, as is done in some parts of France, 
the effect is magical. Babies are plump 
and rosy, need no medicine, rarely cry, 
just drink and sleep. The children of 
the Duchess of Hamilton all had goat's 
milk, having been brought up on it. 
They thrived wonderfully. 
I have kept goats for two years. The 
goat’s milk tastes the same as cow’s 
milk, only much richer. A neighbor of 
mine was taking care of a baby, whose 
mother died at the time of its birth. 
She gave the baby cow’s milk, but in a 
few weeks the milk began to disagree 
with the child. Then they tried different 
cows, and even shut one up and fed her 
grain, but still the milk did not digest 
properly. My neighbor asked to try 
some of the goat’s milk, and it stayed 
on the child’s stomach and in a week it 
was all right. Then I moved away with 
my goats, and in a week we heard the 
child was dead. I have seen this neigh¬ 
bor since, and she thinks if the child had 
been kept on goat’s milk, it would have 
been alive to-day. E. v. ostrom. 
Fulton Co., N. Y. 
FEEDING THE HOG. 
The one great object in view is to get 
the greatest number of pounds for the . 
least given amount of feed. What kind 
of a hog and when are we going to ] 
begin feeding? Many men say, begin 
when he is six weeks old. But I say, 
begin with his ancestors. Select a sow 
with good ancestors, with a good con¬ 
stitution, wide, long back, well arched, 
square at hams, good, deep shoulder, 
straight on the underlines, well let down 
flank, great heart girth, good, short, wide 
head, denoting intelligence, bone enough 
to walk off with GOO pounds. Mate her 
to a boar of the same type, and you have 
made a beginning that will reduce the 
amount of bushels needed to produce 
100 pounds of pork. Feed this sow from 
the time she is bred till time of farrow¬ 
ing with a feed that will promote the 
growth of that litter and bring it to the 
greatest state of development at time 
when they arrive. Having this kind of a 
start, corn and cold water will not give 
them the needed nourishment. The sow 
must be fed a feed rich in protein. The 
first thing to propagate in any animal is 
blood and muscle, and that is manufac¬ 
tured out of protein. The pigs go along 
in nice, healthy condition; keep them 
healthy and the lice off. We are now 
coming to a critical period in the pig s 
life. During the Summer a great deal 
of this protein can be gathered from 
grass, and there comes the time when 
the pig must be changed for a higher 
mission, the pork barrel, and here is 
where the fatal mistake is made. In a 
great many instances they are shut up in 
tight pens and fed nothing but corn and 
water. They should be let run and 
gather what protein they want to gather 
with the corn, so as to develop a perfect 
body. 
Prof. Deitrich, who is making a close 
study of the feed question in swine, says 
90 per cent of farmers have nearly every¬ 
thing to learn about how to feed a hog 
to get the most out of him at the least 
cost. The general farmer unknowingly 
wastes one-iourth the feed given to his 
hogs, which is that much lost. Correct¬ 
ing is one feature of the work. It is not 
what a pig eats, but what he digests and 
assimilates that makes the profit. Ex¬ 
pert feeding means success. “The hog 
is like a thrashing machine”—over-feed 
the machine and it throws the grain over. 
So it is with the hog—overfeed him and 
it is that much lost. There are more 
farmers feeding undeveloped machines 
than you are aware of. Look at the hogs 
of a community, little “scrawny” undevel¬ 
oped things, not aware of the fact that 
they come into this world to make their 
mark. They come along at a year old 
and kind of hold their heads up in shame. 
Making their mark from 160 to 200 
pounds, when the mark was set at 350. 
Grain lost, time lost and the government 
probing to know what the trouble is. 
One of the troubles js the unsuccessful 
production of raw material. It costs 
more to produce a bushel of corn than 
it used to. Labor is more costly, and 
the hog feeding has not kept place with 
the cost of high living. 
Ask yourself the question, have you 
the right kind of a hog to feed, one that 
will come up to the standard of excel¬ 
lence? If not, get them. They can be 
had at a very slight cost above the mar¬ 
ket price. See to it that it is of the 
right conformation and type to make 
the most economical production of the 
choice cuts of pork chops. The little 
short fat block won't do it. 
In feeding sows with litter and of 
pigs they should be fed sparingly the 
first week, then gradually increase till 
the full capacity is reached on such 
feeds as shorts, oil meal, a little corn, 
Alfalfa meal, pea meal, skim-milk with 
cornmeal, one pound cornmeal to three 
of skim-milk is the right proportion. 
Growing shotes should have a liberal 
supply of any of the feeds named, and 
if hominy meal can be bought I find it 
makes a very satisfactory feed; so do 
roots and boiled potatoes. Then, with 
run of a good grass lot or clover field, 
they should make a very satisfactory 
growth until the fattening period, when 
corn should be used very liberally until 
they are finished, and if the pig does 
not grow the fault is somewhere else, 
and not the feed. G. d. work. 
Ohio. __ 
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ing of the word “ability.” “Now, chil¬ 
dren,” she went on, “what word would 
express the opposite to ability?” A 
sharp-faced little boy at the end of the 
end form bobbed up his head and ex¬ 
claimed : “Please teacher, nobility!”— 
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WRITE FOR ART BLOTTER. 
BURTON & CO., KENTON, OHIO 
3 to 6 months 
old; from extra 
„ milking dams. 
F. S. KENDALL, Howell’s Depot, Orange Co., N. Y. 
—Combination and Golden Lad; for 
sale, 1 cow, 12 heifers, G bulls. 
S. E. N1VIN, Landenburg, Pa. 
You Can't Afford 
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CATTLE STANCHI ONS 
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When in the market, write L. A. GREEN, 
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Mentioning This Taper 
HILL TOP FARM AYRSHIRES 
One of the Good Herds of the Breed 
The home of the Champion two-year-old heifer and 
the ex-Champion two and three year old heifers. 
Herd headed by the great A. R. sire Noxemall, 7312. 
Young Bulls for sale, of approved type and 
hacked by official records. Herd tuberculin tested. 
JL. A. HEYMANN, WHEELING, XV. Va. 
Hill View Ayrshires 
FOR SALE. 
BULL CALF, sired by Dairy King of Avon; dam 
Mayflower Monkland, who is the dam of the cham¬ 
pion 4-year-old Ayrshire cow of the world. 
AlsoOther animals ot' all ages for sale from my 
great herd of producing and show animals. All 
tuberculin tested. 
For prices and further particulars, address 
W. \V. BLAKE ARKCOLL, Faoli, Fa. 
THE WOODLAWN SHORT-HORN FARM 
OFFERS FOR SALE MILKING SHORT-HORNS 
We are at present offering for sale at reasonable prices a 
number ot good young bulls from milking Short-Horn 
Cows. Rose of Sharon. Ruby’s Bright Eyes, Young Mary, 
Peerless, Nonpareil, and other well known strains repre¬ 
sented. All these bulls are sired by Orange Sultan 263622, 
son of the champion Whitehall Sultan 163673, and first 
prize two year old bull at Ohio State Fair in 1908. The 
bulls range' from four to eight months old. 
For particulars and prices , address 
C. P. WEST «fc SON, Box 86, Blooinlngburg, O. 
De Kol Bull Calves 
I am offering for sale Bull Calves from one to nine 
months old. These calves are light colored and 
sired by the only living son of De Kol 2d. These 
calves trace three to five times to De Kol 2d. 
FLOYD M. PELTON, LA GRANGE, OHIO 
REGISTERED OHIO 
H OLSTEINS -FRIESIANS. 
THE BAWNDALE STOCK FARM 
For three years the home of Fletertje Henger- 
veld’s Count De Kol. Eighty head. Bull calves 
for sale. Address. 
CHAS. YV, HOUR. 
Wellington, Ohio, 
“butter lines” as any bull m the 
world, heads the herd. 
STOCK FOR SALE. 
. GRANT MORSE, Hamilton, N. Y. 
I ILK PRODUCERS for New York City market 
desiring information how to form branches 
of the Dairymen’s League, write to the Secretary, 
ALBERT MA NNING, Otisville. N. ■ 
M APLE ROW FARM AYRSHIRES-A few choice young 
cows and young stock of all ages. From good 
producers. Prices reasonable. , _. _ 
F. H. COOK1NGHAM , Cherry Creek, N. Y. 
L AKGK BEUKS1I1RES XT lllGH'VOOD—Bred sows engaged, 
except Ini- .1 line and J uly farrowing, We offer selected sows 
to farrow then, bred to our herd boars, Pigs, all ages, for sale, 
of the usual Highwood size and quality. -100 registered Berk- 
shires in herd: 500 sold in 1009. 
H. c. A H. B. HARPKNDIKG, Dundee, N.Y. 
The BLOOMINGDALE HERD OF 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS 
are bred for large production. Good size, Strong 
Constitution, Best Individuality. 
If these are the kind you want write or come to 
see them. 125 to select from. Animals of both sexes 
and all ages to offer at prices that will please you. 
A special offer on some nicely bred Bui.t, Caia’ES. 
A. A. CORTELYOU, Somerville. N. J. 
JERSEY REI>S GET HEAVY FAST 
It’s “Pounds that count.” Buy Jersey Red 
Pijr S _tho rapid growers. Strong, vigorous, 
small-honed, long-bodied. Nine months 
pigs often dress 350 lbs. Buy a pair now. 
Get quick profits. Circular Free. 
A. J. COLLINS, Box R , Moorestown, N. J. 
Kalorama Farm Berkstiires. 
Service Boars all sold. 
Bred Sows all sold. 
Fall Pigs all sold. 
Am now taking orders for Spring Pigs, April and 
May delivery. 
CALVIN J. HUSON, Penn Yan, N.Y. 
nilCnPQ THE RIG, DEEP FELLOWS 
UUnUUO that grow and mature quickly. 
Pigs and Gilts for sale at all times. Address 
SHENANGO RIVER FARMS, Transfer,Pa. 
Sheep Tobacco R-J&ffSkS’K 
. FRA N K 
ldorado, Ohio. 
SPRINGBANK BERKSHIRES. pg*£,'5 
in Connecticut. Send for new booklet just pub¬ 
lished; 40 sows bred for Spring 1910 Farrow: no 
culls; any one is a show sow. J. E. WAX SON, 
Proprietor, Marbledale, Connecticut. 
COON AND FOX HOUNDS. 
Pedigreed Walker, July and Birdsong strains 
sent on ten days’trial. 
R. F. JOHNSON, Assumption, Ill. 
nm I IT Dll DC-From imported stock. Females 
uULLIL rUrOcheap. Nelson Bros., Grove City, Pa. 
S COTCH COLLIES, Spayed Females, two to 
eightmos. Circ. SILAS DECKER, Montrose Pa. 
GREAT SPRING 
5] SALE AT THE 
Sharon Valley Stock Farm 
WEDNESDAY, APHID (>. 1910 
r T'HIS is your great opportunity to secure teams for spring farming and breed- 
1 ing. I will sell a number of prize winners—both stallions and mares prize 
winners in Europe and America. One grey mare weighing 1900 lbs., now 
in foal, was the Champion in Paris, Nogent, Columbus State Fair, Wheeling 
State Fair, and a dozen county fairs. Anyone looking for the Champion of 
America must not fail to see this grand mare. A big lot of home bred mares 
of my own raising, bred from the best stallions. Some fancy drivers and family 
horses. Also a lot of Missouri and Kansas mules bred from Spanish jacks. 
This will close the series of sales at the Sharon Valley Stock Farm until the fall 
season. Come and bring your friends with you and do not miss this great 
opportunity to secure just what you want. 
Send for folders containing more extended description. 
COL. G. W. CRAWFORD, Prop. Sharon Valley Stock Farm Newark, Ohio. 
Cit. Phone 266 Bell Phone G5I-AY 
