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Live Stock and Dairy 
Care of Young Bull. 
I have purchased a young purebred 
bull. Now I want your advice as to the 
care of this bull. Should you advise 
having him dishorned at once? Is he 
young enough to bo broken in harness, 
so that he will get proper exercise in that 
way? lie will be a year old April 23. 
G. G. II. 
I would not advise the dishorning of 
this bull calf until he is about a year and 
a half old. It is important in the rear¬ 
ing of a dairy bull that he be given such 
a quantity of feed as will enable him to 
grow vigorously and regularly, and that 
care be exercised in the selection of the 
feed so that he may be able to get the 
proper nourishment without padding his 
body with undue flesh. The common 
practice of feeding the bull in the dairy 
herd the discarded or left-over feed that 
is cleaned up or swept out of the manger 
of the dairy herd is faulty inasmuch as 
there is bound to be irregularity in the 
amount and kind of food fed. A very 
useful grain mixture for a dairy bull 
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two of the essential gaits. She trots, but 
shows a tendency to pace, and canters 
with a very easy motion. Will using 
such a horse under the saddle materially 
interfere with her value as a driver? 
n. n. 
R. N.-Y.—We shall be glad to have 
our horsemen try their hand at this. 
March 
Thick Cream 
Why I Breed Jerseys. 
Because they will produce more pro¬ 
fit for the feed consumed than any other 
breed in the world. They are persistent 
milkers, giving a good flow of rich milk, 
and holding out well for 10 or 11 months 
of the year. The breed as a whole I 
think will compare very well as to the 
production of milk for a year with their 
distant cousin, the black and white. Be¬ 
cause they are the handsomest cow on 
earth; some people say that the Jersey 
is delicate and their milk is too rich for 
their calves. Let me say that in my 
25 years’ experience in breeding Jerseys 
I have never lost a calf with scours, and 
I always leave the calf with the cow for 
four or five days after birth. The old 
chestnut that our black and white friends 
HANDLING THE COLT. 
would be as follows: Crushed oats, five 
parts; wheat bran, five parts; distillery 
grains, five parts; buckwheat middlings, 
five parts; oil meal, one part; fed in 
such quantities as will keep the bull 
gaining steadily in weight and vigor 
without permitting him to put on flesh 
or surplus fat. If he gains 1% pounds 
per day in weight, and at the same time 
evidences the thrift desired, he will de¬ 
velop into a well grown and useful bull. 
He might be appropriately broken at 
one year of age and subjected to light 
work, or he may be used on a tread pow¬ 
er if one is in use at the farm. If this 
is not practical he might receive his exer¬ 
cise by means of utilizing a trolley wire, 
which should be attached to two strong 
posts from which is extended a rope that 
could be fastened to the bull’s halter. 
He must not under any circumstances 
be confined to a stall in the stable, as 
exercise and activity are absolutely es¬ 
sential if he is to develop into a useful 
and active bull. He may be safely used 
for service with a few cows when he 
is a year old, but excessive service while 
he is young surely limits his usefulness 
as he grows older, and is not a safe prac¬ 
tice to follow. F. c. m. 
tell us, that the Jersey milk is too rich 
for babies and children, is all bosh. If 
any of them will send me a nice baby boy 
or girl, I will guarantee to raise it on 
Jersey milk right from the cow, testing 
from five to six percent butterfat. 
New York. f. s. delano. 
The Brown Swiss Cattle. 
I have a chance to buy a young Brown 
Swiss heifer advantageously. Can you 
tell me whether that stock are good milk 
producers? j. a. 
Middletown, N. J. 
The Brown Swiss breed of dairy cat¬ 
tle is recognized as more of a dual-pur¬ 
pose breed than one strictly for milk 
production. Certain selected individuals 
of the breed have made noteworthy milk 
records, but if this inquirer is desirous 
of purchasing a dairy cow for the pro¬ 
duction of milk alone, it is very probable 
that representatives of the Holstein, Ayr¬ 
shire, Guernsey or Jersey breed would 
solve his purpose to a better advantage. 
Representatives of the Brown Swiss 
breed are sturdy hardy and vigorous, yet 
they are deficient in udder development, 
and are not strictly intensive milk pro¬ 
ducers. f. c. M. 
Training a Saddle Horse. 
I have a little mare of native stock, 
but sired by a well-bred horse of the 
carriage type; she is coming five, trimly 
built, and weighs, in good condition. 950 
pounds. She has just been broken to 
drive and shows a very pleasant disposi¬ 
tion, with a fair amount of life and 
nerve. Having no use for her on the 
farm, and not wishing to dispose of her 
at the price such horses bring, I would 
like to make a saddle and driving pony 
of her, for my own pleasure and that 
of my wife. I have handled horses and 
colts, from my youth up, but know noth¬ 
ing about training a horse to the proper 
gaits under the saddle. If practicable 
to give them in reasonable compass, I 
would like a few simple directions for 
breaking this mare to saddle in one or 
Appraising Sheep. 
When sheep have been bitten and killed 
by dogs, should purebreds be appraised 
higher than grades? j j. a. 
New Jersey. 
Appraisement should be based upon 
the actual value of the sheep killed, and 
if the purebred animal referred to was a 
high-class individual the only correct ap¬ 
praisement would be based upon the act¬ 
ual value of the individual. In most 
cases, however, where appropriations are 
made to repay damages resulting from 
such accidents, there is a maximum and 
minimum value fixed, and ordinarily a 
certain percentage is allowed for each 
individual. Naturally a purebred animal 
is worth more than a grade, and it would 
be only just to fix value upon a basis 
of individual merit. f. c. m. 
The advantages of thick cream over thin cream are 
many and very important. 
Thick cream contains less milk, consequently, less souring 
elements and therefore will keep sweet longer. 
Thick cream is less in bulk and therefore more easily and 
cheaply transported. 
rhk.k c« earn causes less loss of butter fat in churning. 
Thick cream leaves a greater quantity of the skim milk at 
home to feed to calves and pigs. 
Thick cream brings a higher price—many creameries give 
from two to five cents more per pound for but¬ 
ter fat from thick cream than from thin cream. 
At a demonstration of cream separators at the Iowa Agricultural College. 
January 8th, 1914, the 
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CREAM SEPARATOR 
separated cream that tested 47 per cent, butter fat. The next nearest 
competitor tested 33 per cent, butter fat and the second nearest tested 26 
per cent, butter fat. 
The United States is the only separator that can separate thick cream 
and separate clean. Others, in attempting to equal it, clog or leave cream 
m the skim milk. 
The United States Separator has a record of 65 per cent, butter fat and 
made perfect separation, as shown by the skim milk test and holds 
The World’s Record for Close Skimming 
in 50 consecutive tests run for 30 days with 10 different breeds of cows. 
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