1914. 
THE HU KAL NEW-YORKER 
167 
SWINE IN TRANSIT. 
Common sense and good judgment are 
commodities most of us are not over¬ 
stocked with. This brief epistle is writ¬ 
ten as a reminder of a few facts that 
would save a pretty penny each year to 
the good farmers of this nation if heeded. 
A farmer reads the advertisements in his 
paper; he deeides lie is in want of a hog, 
it may be a boar ready for service, a 
bred sow or a young pig at weaning. 
The information in advertisement is usu¬ 
ally limited; therefore he writes a letter 
of inquiry to the breeder, ’ and in due 
time gets description and prices. Then 
he orders and sends his goou money, and 
in a short time lie goes to the express 
office and gets his swine, takes it home, 
uncrates it, and now is where the good 
advice and forethought comes 'in play. 
A good breeder has a comfortable 
house for his swine. When he receives 
an order he selects the hog or hogs that 
are to Ife shipped, crates them, and if 
it is a Winter month lie covers the crate 
with a heavy blanket, and transfers them 
to the shipping station, bills to the pur¬ 
chaser and sees them safe aboard the ex¬ 
press car, which is warm and comfort¬ 
able. Of course all roads do not lead, 
direct to the destination; therefore the 
hog has to be transferred, and he is 
taken from the car and put on the truck 
and transferred to the other road. Here 
is an exposure. Again at the destination, 
is another exposure. The good farmer 
comes and takes the hog home; the dis¬ 
tance may be short or several miles; 
again there is an exposure. When man 
or beast has periodical exposures to dif¬ 
ferent temperatures he is liable to take 
cold, and that means a congested condi¬ 
tion of the system. If a hog takes cold 
he is at once costive, refuses to eat, only 
a little if anything. Exposures have 
killed more good hogs than cholera. 
Do not take a hog from the station 
home without covering the crate with 
good warm (fry blankets. Don’t turn the 
hogs in with strange hogs. When un¬ 
crated, give a hog the following: Take 
one quart of water with chill taken off, 
add one quart of milk, dissolve two 
ounces of epsom salts and a teaspoouful 
of common baking soda, and add to milk 
and water, and let the hog drink it. Give 
the hog a warm dry nest of straw and 
let alone, for, say 10 hours. In the 
meantime lie will have consumed the 
above prepared drink this will cool the 
system and remove the congestion, regu¬ 
late the bowels. By this time the hog 
has got over the car sickness, nervous 
system has become normal and he is 
ready to make his new habitation a 
pleasure. Now feed light for a few days, 
and the hog will come to his appetite. 
New York. eugene i. black. 
A Good Bull. 
“A bull is half the herd.” It has been 
well settled in minds of breeders that the 
best bull is none too good to put at the 
head of a herd. There are still farmers 
trading around the neighborhood just to 
get a bull calf. The matter of family 
history receives no consideration, just 
so inbreeding is avoided. Now inbreed¬ 
ing has been found to emphasize dairy 
tendencies and the greatest breeders are 
practicing it to such extent that it would 
have made farmers a score years ago 
raise their hands in protest. If a herd 
is ordinary and a bull is secured from a 
herd of excellent performance, that bull 
will be far more than half the herd. lie 
may go as far as to be S0C£ or 90% ef¬ 
ficient. We had paid but little attention 
to bulls when a few years ago, a grade 
bull of remarkable prepotency was se¬ 
cured. lie stamped his characteristics on 
the dairy to such a remarkable extent 
that he seemed to send our herd up grade 
on the high-speed gear. 
Bulls are cheap. Bulls from the best 
families may be secured from breeders at 
low cost, while heifer calf [trices are go¬ 
ing after altitude records. There is no 
need dickering for a bull calf with no an¬ 
cestry. when by consulting the advertis¬ 
ing columns, one may get in touch with 
the best available stock in the various 
breeds. A dairyman will sooner or later 
be judged by the bull he keeps and the 
manner in which he keeps him. w j. 
Peckham: “Gee, what biscuits. I 
wish I was an ostrich.” Mrs. P.: “So 
do I. Then I’d get some feathers for my 
hat.”—Life. 
Angora or Chinese Goats. 
I have about 25 acres of land; the side 
hill is wooded and slopes off to low land 
with lots of wild grass. Most of it is 
fenced off with seven-foot fence. Do 
you think it would be advisable to put 
in Angora goats? Do you know where 
I could get any and are there any 
Chinese goats bred in this country? 
Norfolk, Mass. G. w. D. 
We doubt if Angora goats on this small 
field will pay. A flock of good grade 
sheep would clean up the field and give 
returns in meat and wool. We do not 
know about the Chinese goats. 
Trouble With Silo. 
What is the trouble with my silo? It 
is built of tile blocks 12x50. and the sil¬ 
age rots all around about six inches deep. 
At the doors where it touches the wood 
it does not rot, and it freezes about 2% 
feet deep all around. I have lost three 
tons and more, but farther down it seems 
to be better. c. M. H. 
Newtown Falls, O. 
Your experience with a tile silo is, so 
far as I know, an unusual one, and I 
cannot account for the rotting of the sil¬ 
age where it touches the walls, unless 
you failed to tramp it well against the 
walls when filling. If this is not done 
silage is apt to lie up loose around the 
edge in any silo and spoil because of air 
obtaining access to it. The fact that 
the silage toward the bottom of your 
silo where it was packed by the 
weight of that above is in better shape 
than the upper layers would indicate 
that this might be the cause of your 
trouble. m. b. d. 
Calf Feeding. 
You have asked for milk substitutes or 
part substitutes for feeding calves, to 
which you have some good answers. We 
raise fruits and vegetables and do not 
profess to know much about stock, but 
like milk, butter and some good beef, 
therefore I am interested. My simple 
and maybe old-fashioned way worked well 
for us, and we killed a nine-months-old 
calf the other day that dressed 250 
pounds. The calf fed itself in the natural 
way until the milk was good for humans. 
Then by the time it was hungry enough 
to drink readily it was given warmed 
milk which was gradually let stand a 
little longer and longer before skimming, 
until it was getting entirely skim-milk 
at about the end of the second week. 
Then white middlings were stirred into 
the warmed milk, only a very little at 
first. The middlings was increased slow¬ 
ly and finally water was often added 
when the family wanted more milk, 
but the calf grew right on, ate 
hay and in Slimmer was tied out to pas¬ 
ture at the end of a 30-foot chain, but al¬ 
ways watered and feet regularly. This 
way of feeding was kept up till butcher¬ 
ing time or almost, and the calf always 
seemed to prefer it to dry feed. Not over 
two quarts of middlings was given at a 
feed. We were careful to have the feed¬ 
ing vessel scalded out frequently, especial¬ 
ly while the calf was small. The meat is 
solid, fat and tender, and as middlings is 
a feed that can always be readily bought 
at a medium price, is simple to prepare. 
This seems to fill the bill for our calf 
feeding. t. I., w. 
On page 27 II. G. P. inquires the best 
way to rid hogs of lice. There is no 
better, easier or cheaper way than to 
take Persian insect powder and sprinkle 
along on their backs when the hogs are 
eating at the trough, and if you can rub 
it into the hair a little all the better. 
After two weeks go over them again, as 
some will have hatched since, and to 
make certain of a clean job. go over them 
again later. I have treated 200 head at 
a time and have never known it to fail. 
It will drive the vermin from calves in 
the same way. Dipping hogs in the Win¬ 
ter is not a desirable job. A. B. P. 
Iloneoye, N. Y. 
“Blood Will Tell” 
The youngest daughter of Sayda’s Heir 
3rd, 74817, to complete a year of authen- 
! tieated work began at two years two 
months of age. and produced S,oG5 lbs. milk, 
I 5(10 lbs. butter. 
Ilis five-year-old daughter last year gave 
10,682 lbs. milk Tot; lbs. butter—her third 
consecutive authenticated yearly record. 
Ilis full sister at eleven years old gave 
11,43:1 lbs. milk. SOU lbs. butter, her two 
daughters and herself averaging 740 lbs. 
! butter each per year. 
That dairy quality is born in Sayda cows 
j is indicated by the fact that twenty-one of 
them have completed yearly tests at Meri¬ 
da le Farms with an average yield of 8,651 
f lbs. milk, 5SG lbs. butter. They have an 
average official score in excess of 90 per 
cent, of perfect scale of points. 
A recent purchaser of a son of Sayda's 
Heir .‘Ird writes: ‘The bull came at noon 
today in good condition, lie is a fine lit¬ 
tle fellow, and we are very much pleased 
j with him.” 
Several other sons of Sayda’s Heir 3rd, 
out of Register of Merit dams, are now 
approaching serviceable age. Their pur¬ 
chasers take no chances on unknown lines; 
our records show proven production back 
of them for generations. For pedigrees 
and particulars address 
ayer & McKinney 
300 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, Pa. 
Roper’s Bread Meal-”,/™ Sfi 
for 1 roe sample ami Booklet. It will pay yon. 
O. \V. KOPEK. - - Vineland, N. J. 
Pure Feeding Molasses 
We are first hands and can quote yon absolutely 
bottom prices, delivered your station, in lots of 
anywhere from one barrel to a trainlond. 
THE MEADER-ATLAS CO. 
N. Y. Office, 1 07 Hudson Street, New York City 
ANGORA GOATS-Pure Montana Stock 
Protection for sheep from Boss. Will clean rough 
land. Hair valuable. For particulars address 
W. H. H. OSBORNE, - Le Koy, N. Y. 
Bargain Sale of Sheep ~- 8 RpgUtered nnd 
$7 to $15 each. D. R. HONE, 
grade Ox ords. Price, 
Sharon Springs, New York 
3D O G S 
Pfll I IF D||DC—Natural drivers. Also' English 
uuLLIL rUTO Bloodhounds, Nelson’s, Grove City,Pa. 
s«“i_0NE PURE BRED SCOTCH COLLIE ° ( r 
mala, one year old. and three pups, four months 
old; same breed, JOHN F. CURRAN,Clifton Springs, N. Y. 
L 
DAIRY CATTLE 
FOR PRODUCTION TJT&Z 
calves, only, Imm producing dams andhighe-t type 
sires. R. F. SHANNON. G03 Renshaw Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
If You Want Guernseys mew mS 
GUERNSEY BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION, Box 96, Peekskill.N. Y. 
A 3 ARfi A 11\|—All unusually well-bred 
* * ■ and haim.sotnn thorough¬ 
bred GUERNSEY BULL CALF FOR SALK, 
CHEAP. For particulars and price, address 
W. I. LINCOLN ADAMS. 135 West 14th Street, New York City 
GUERNSEY BULL CALF 
Sire, Gerald’s Masher, 21741. Dam. Norma, 18782. A 
good miik producer. A Line Bn-d Bull. A. R. on both 
sides- Well grown. Very prettily marked. Dropped, 
Dec. 11. 1913. LAWRENCE HOWARD, Kinderhook, N Y. 
Chestnut Ridge Farms, S l e e J s y fa 0 l r l 5 
Offer the following excellent young Guernsey hulls ! 
for sale: One imported yearling: one 11 months old; 
three 9 months old. Registered and X. V. State 
tuberculin tested. Write for pedigrees and prices. 
DAIRYMEN 
When you buy Cows consider this 
Are they making you a profit? 
Buy GUERNSEYS and be sure of profit. 
Write for literature 
GUERNSEY CATTLE CLUB 
BOX Y, PETERBORO, N. H. 
Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves F r * 
offer. THE GATES HOMESTEAD FARM. Chittenango, N. Y. 
Hudson Valley Holstein Headquarters 
Registered Thoroughbreds only. 1 hour from New 
York, MOHEGAN FARM, Mohegan Lake. Peekskili, N. Y. 
Holstein Bull Calf-^S^j 
da in .22 lb. heifer; sire, son of Sir Korndyke Manor 
l>e Kol and a 31.65 lb. cow. Price, for quick sale, $75. 
Send for details. CLOVEROALE FARM. Charlotte. N- Y. 
THE TOMPKINS CO. BREEDERS’ JOURNAL, with sale-list 
1 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, Trumansburg, N. Y 
90 HEAD 
Purebred Holsteies 
consisting of aO Cows, 25 Fleifevs, 15 Calves and a 
few choice Bull Calves. Home of Ormsby Korn- 
dyke Bad No. 102409 If you are in the market for 
Holxteins come to see me or write. My stock will 
please you. EZRA HOLBERT, Lake, Orange Co . 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, Cortland, N. Y. 
1 _ 
East River Grade Holsteins for Sale 
• »0 Cows, just fresh, g-lvin? 40 to 50 lhs. per day. 
-O Cows, due to calve this month and next 
-*> t ows, served to come fresh in Atitriot and September. 
If you are look in? for dairy rows nnd large producers 
with good si re and yonng. see these rows before buying 
elsewhere. W'T. ITRi HCl'I.I\K TKST, 
Registered ami grade bulls aiwavs on hand. 
JOHN B. WEBSTER 
Hell Phone 14 F. 5. Dept. Y. CORTLAND, N. T. 
Purebred. Registered 
HOLSTEIN 
CATTLE 
Ho you consider dairy farming a real busi¬ 
ness, a man's job or simply a side issue ? Are 
you keeping high-producing llolsteins or just 
cows ? 
A good Holstein is little short of a perpetual 
motion milk-making machine, that while in 
milk uses her food for milk production and 
when dry stores up body fat to be converted 
into milk fat as soon as she freshens. She 
will earn 50 per cent, on the cost of her feed. 
Why not keep this kind ? 
Send for FREE Illustrated Descriptive Booklets 
Holstein-Friesian Asso., F. L. Houghton. Sec'y 
Box 105 Brattleboro, Vt. 
When you write advertisers mention 
Tiie It. N.-Y. aud you'll get a quick 
reply and a "square deal.” See guaran¬ 
tee editorial page. : : : : 
Horses and Mules 
207 Prizes Won 
At the large Eastern Suite Fairs last Fall tells 
tiie quality of our drafters. 80 Pereherons, Bel¬ 
gian ami Suffolk stallions and mares priced right, 
Registered Perclierou foals of 1912 and 1913 at 
$200.1)1) to $500.00 each. For actual photographs 
ami interesting information ask for Bulletin H. 
ADIRONDACK FARMS, - Glens Falls, N. Y. 
50 STALLIONS 
and MARES, $250 to $1000 each 
Write for my Illustrated 
Circular telling why I can save 
you money on the 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 icWarren 
lERCHKItON STAIdUONS-Onr hobby is qual¬ 
ity. Come and see them. S. Seboonmuker, G&rdlnar, N. T. 
KENTUCKY JACK AND PERCHERON FARMS-200 head of 
■* big hone Kentucky Mammoth jacks, Pereherons 
and saddle horses. Special prices in half-car and ear 
load tots. Write you r wants or visit our farms. 2,600 bush 
els of bluegrass seed. COOK A BROWN, Prop,., L,xtngtou, Ky. 
SWINE 
C1TELDON FARM REGISTERED DDROC8 
^ Pigs of both sex. Bred Sows. Service Boar*. 
Best of breeding. C. E. BARNES, Oxford, New York 
DUROGS — The Big Deep Fellows 
B A RGAINS, Fall pigs tit $10 to $15. 
3 extra good ace sows to farrow in Spiing. 
SHENANGO RIVER FARMS, Transfer. Pa. 
0 1 f Hnrrc— Ml ages. They Look, Feed, nnd 
. 1. V. nugN n ree j |,‘ight. Sows Bred, Males 
Ready. Address, H. H. JUMP, Munith, Michigan 
O. X. C. Wliites 
All sold but two. May sows not bred- And a few 
more W. H Turkeys. WAYSIDE FARM, Chatham, N J. 
Address, A L. PAGE (Owner), 82 Cortlandt St.. New Yark City 
CHESTER WHITES OR 0.1. C.’s 
Now is the time to order Spring Pigs from large, 
growthy, prolific sows. A few Fall hoar pigs left, also 
ten December pigs. All stock registered, either OIC 
or Chester U bite Record, VICTOR FARMS. Bellvalc, N. Y . 
Aug. Pigs for Sale-Berkshire“| > 1 3 R |®®fH; 
W. H. TAYLOR, - West Alexander, Pa. 
Registered Berkshire Fall Pigs- a B k °& sex - Not 
breeding. 
Super 
Priced to sell. J. 1. HERETER, Gettysburg. Pa. 
Springbank Berkshire Herd 
RIG KKKKSHIKKS I have bred more high- 
cla^x bogs than any breeder in Connecticut. Wat¬ 
son's Masterpiece No. 123931 at head of herd. Notlu- 
ing for saie but March and April pigs at present. 
J. E. WATSON, Prop., Marbledale, Ct. 
of st my "extra fine Registered Berkshire PI6S 
left for disposal. An excellent opportunity to secure 
the best of pedigreed breeding stock at very reason¬ 
able prices. Those who have purchased these Berk- 
shires from me in the past will testify to their high 
quality. Prices and particulars on application, 
j, F. HEALEY, Sunside, Greene Co., N. V. 
Large Berkshires at Highwood 
During each of the last five years we have sold more 
registered Borkshires, and this last year three 
times as many as any other breeder in the United 
States. Over one hundred sows, bred and open, for 
sale Service boars, pigs all ages Visitors always 
welcome, H. C. th H. B. HARPENDING, Dundee, New York 
BERKSHIRES 
We have a number of very fine boar pigs for sale at 
attractive prices. They are the height of breeding, 
type md quality. It will pay w u to get our prices 
on these choice pigs before you 1 ny elsewhere. Now 
is the time to put a fine sire at the head of your 
herd. Prices and descriptions sent upon request. 
TOMPKINS FARM, - Lansdale, Pa. 
If you want the best hog 
Write us. Our farms are devoted exclusively to the 
production of Berkshires. R eedei•« in the follow ing 
States have been supplied from our great herd: N. Y.; 
T'eniia.; Dist. Col.: Md. ;Va.; N. C.: S. C.: Ga.; La.; 
Ala.: Miss.; Fla.; Teillt.; Ky.; Texas, and Porto Rico. 
Berkshires for foundation and 
show purposes a specialty. 
THE BLUE RtOGE BERKSHIRE FARMS, Asheville, N. C. 
Eureka Stock Farm 
Registered Jersey Cat¬ 
tle. 4 mos. to 2 yrs. 
old. Chester White, Po 
land i hina and Berk 
sliii-e Pigs, all ages. 
Lincoln Buck Lambs. 
Vaiiety of Poultry. 
KI)WARD WALTER, West Chester, Penna. 
Handy 
Binder ** 
J UST the thing for 
preserving files of 
Tiie Rural, New-Yorker. 
Durable and cheap. Sent 
postpaid for 25 cents. 
The Rural New-Yorker 
333 W. 30th St., New York City 
