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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 21 
THE TARIFF ON LIVE STOCK. 
On page 172 The R. N.-Y. gave figures 
showing the amount of meat exported from 
this country, and also made the statement 
that American meat is sold cheaper in 
England tiian in New York, is it possible 
that no one has contradicted these state¬ 
ments? . K. L. j. 
No one has yet, to our knowledge, at 
tempt, d to disprove the figures or state¬ 
ments. The figures were taken from 
the Government reports, and the state¬ 
ments were made by Englishmen who 
have r; latives on the other side. We 
will gladly print corrections if we have 
not stated facts. We want to learn 
what benefit the tariff on meat is to 
the American farmer. It seems to be 
admitted that this tariff has an influence 
in keeping up meat prices to consumers. 
Now we do not want theory or political 
oratory, but we do want to know 
whether this tariff on meat helps farm¬ 
ers. We can readily see that it helps 
the packers and the handlers. A few 
weeks ago a trial shipload of frozen 
mutton was brought to New York from 
Australia. This mutton is popular in 
England, where large quantities of it 
are sold at fair prices. The shipload 
sent here was sold at a fair profit, even 
after paying 1 V 2 cent a pound tariff. If 
the tariff were removed large imports 
of this mutton would be made, and no 
doubt the retail prices of meat would 
fall. The theory upon which the tariff 
on meat and live animals is levied is 
that by keeping up the retail price of 
meat we raise the wholesale prices of 
live stock to farmers. It ought to be 
clear by this time that there is no such 
tiling left in this country as a natural 
law of supply and demand. With pur¬ 
chasing, transportation and cold storage 
all in the hands of a few monopolistic 
corporations, both producer and con¬ 
sumer will be held up just as long as 
they believe in the fairy tale of a nat¬ 
ural demand and supply. We cannot 
see that the tariff on meat and live 
stock benefits anyone in particular ex¬ 
cept the large buyers and handlers. The 
worst feature of it all is that farmers 
are led to believe that these tariffs on 
foods are of great benefit to them, so 
that, in exchange for this supposed bene¬ 
fit. they consent to tariffs on neces¬ 
sities which rob them and enrich the 
few. 
DAIRY SHORTHORNS IN NEW ENGLAND. 
Having handled dairy Short-horns for 
a number of years in practical farm 
work, and being quite familiar with the 
herds of this type throughout the coun¬ 
try, I am prepared to recommend them 
for any part of our country where 
profitable farm cattle are needed. In 
New England, in the Middle States and 
in the West they have prove their 
worth. Dairy Short-horns arc cows of 
large size and rugged constitution. They 
possess profitable dairy capacity and are 
capable of putting on flesh and putting 
it on their backs when fed for that pur¬ 
pose. While not so smooth and finished 
as the straight beef types, they make a 
very profitable meat animal from the 
market standpoint. These cattle are 
descended from the early importations 
of Short-horns that were of dairy breed¬ 
ing and have been bred in these lines 
since. The Clays, the Princesses, the 
Knightleys and many of the cattle trac¬ 
ing to the imported cows, Pansy, Ara¬ 
bella, Dulcibella, Annabella, Agatha, 
Medora. Daffodil, and some of the Bates 
tribes are among the best milking Short¬ 
horns. In England the dairy Short-horns 
are the leading dairy cattle, and records 
of 10,000 to 14,000 pounds milk in one 
year are common. 
In this country we have some good 
records. One herd of 51 cows has 
made an average of 9,380 pounds milk 
each in one year. Some records for one 
year are Rose of Glenside, produced 
18,075 pounds; Panama Lady, 13,789 
pounds; Lula, 12,341 pounds; Mamie 
Clay 2d, 13,232 pounds; Red Bird, 11,280 
pounds; Henrietta Clay 2d, 10,286 | 
pounds (as a three-year old) ; Jennie 
Lee, 10.484 pounds, etc. Some claims 
made for the beef merit along with the 
milking capacity can be demonstrated by 
the following: Four dairy Short-horn 
cows that by reason of old age had out¬ 
lived their usefulness were recently fat¬ 
tened and sold for beef. Their average 
records as dairy cows exceeded 10,000 
pounds each in one year. These cows 
weighed 6,000 pounds and brought five 
cents a pound, a total of $300. A meat 
dealer was recently in my barn and of¬ 
fered me $150 for my herd bull for beef. 
This bull is four years old and has had 
only hay and three pounds of grain a 
day this Winter. He is a strongly-bred 
dairy bull, being from a cow that made 
11,280 pounds milk, 531 pounds butter 
in one year on ordinary herd care and 
feed, and 87)4 per cent same breeding as 
Rose of Glenside, the champion dairy 
Shor f horn of the world. And yet he 
had sufficient beef merit to be worth 
$150. Prominent live-stock experts have 
agreed that the dairy Short-horn is rap¬ 
idly coming to be one of the greatest 
types of farm cattle. The head of one 
of our greatest western agricultural col¬ 
lege, probably the best informed and 
most progressive live-stock authority in 
the country, makes this significent state¬ 
ment: “I believe in a few years the 
milking type (i. e. Short-horn) can be 
made to predominate over the beef type, 
as conditions are becoming such in this 
country that the keeping of cattle for 
beef alone will be a thing of the past.” 
w. A. SIMPSON. 
Caledonia County, Vt. 
A Clover Cutter Wanted. 
I wish to find a power cutter which 
will cut clover hay into short lengths 
for chickens. Has anyone done this 
satisfactorily, and if so give the average 
length of the pieces cut, the capacity 
and make of the cutter. The cutters 
leave the hay in uneven lengths, but I 
would like to know just what they will 
do. f. c. c. 
Maine. 
R. N.-Y.—We have had the same call 
from others. Ground clover or Alfalfa 
is so useful in poultry feeding that it 
would be a great advantage to have 
such a cutter. Most of the ordinary 
cutters work well in preparing stalks 
or hay for cattle or horses, but finer 
work is needed for poultry. Who can 
give us the information ? 
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