1914. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
07-0 
PORTABLE HOGPEN. 
R eferring to inquiry of l. d. m., 
on page S72, following is brief de¬ 
scription of a simple, inexpensive and 
serviceable portable hogpen, which I 
made, and find entirely satisfactory for a 
few pigs or hogs, a calf, etc. With the 
materials on hand, it can be made by one 
person in half an hour or less. 
For the corners use four 4x4s or 2x4s, 
three to five feet high as desired. To 
these posts nail, for each side, two or 
three one-inch boards, six inches wide, 
making a pen eight, 10, 12 or 14 feet 
square, as desired. Nail the bottom 
Panel of Portable Hogpen. 
boards three or four inches above the 
bottom of the posts, so that the board 
will not touch the ground where uneven, 
and cause the pen to tilt or teeter. Be¬ 
low the bottom board and above the top 
board stretch and nail two or three 
strands of barbed wire to discourage at¬ 
tempts to root under or climb over. To 
steady the sides, nail them together in 
the center with a cross piece. Leave a 
space of about two inches between the 
boards; this allows better circulation of 
air and is pleasanter for the pigs than 
being cooped up day after day within a 
tight fence through which they cannot 
see. For ease in transferring from one 
pen to another, etc., one corner may be 
fastened with hooks instead of nails; 
there will be enough “give” in the other 
three corners to allow for opening wide 
enough for hogs to pass through. 
There are many advantages in such a 
pen for a few animals in Summer. It 
is so light that it may be readily carried 
or moved about by one man or a couple 
of boys, without removing the hogs. By 
shifting the pen every few days the 
ground does not become foul, the animals 
keep clean, and the manure may be left 
where wanted without handling. The 
pen may be set under a tree or any place 
where the ground needs loosening up, 
and the hogs will do a thorough job, and 
incidentally destroy every white grub 
within reach. c. b. loomis. 
Exhibiting Bull. 
1 HAVE a very fine Guernsey bull, 15 
months old, and wish to exhibit him 
at the county fair. He is very gentle. 
Ho you think the noise and publicity 
there would tend to make him start to 
be ugly and ill-tempered? Besides my 
bull, which is kept in a pasture by him¬ 
self, I have a two-months-okl purebred 
bull calf, just weaned, that I am keeping 
in a box stall. Could he go out to past¬ 
ure with the 15-montlis-old bull, or would 
the latter injure him? I suppose it would 
be unwise to let him run with the cows. 
All the Guernseys I have ever heard of 
or seen pictured have horns. Would it 
detract from their value to be dehorned, 
or are even the bulls considered so tract¬ 
able as not to need it? G. G. H. 
The bull will not be likely to lose his 
gentle disposition if some of his regular 
human friends go along with him. If 
left to the care of strangers he might be 
teased or angered by careless treatment. 
A bull knows his friends and is usually 
safe with them. We would keep the 
young bull by himself in a small pasture, 
or tied on good grass with a long rope or 
chain. Do not let such a calf run with 
the cows. Except for exhibition purposes 
in the show ring the cows are better with 
their horns taken off. The judges will 
allow a few extra points for well-shaped 
horns, but safety is better than “points.” 
L. M. 
Relining Silo. 
I HAVE a square silo which will have 
to be relined. Shall I have to take 
off all the old lining or would it do 
to leave it on? Which would you advise, 
a lining of wood or lath and cement? 
Fabius, N. Y. J. B. 
Unless the lining of the silo is so badly 
decayed that it will not hold nails, I 
would not remove it, as I am “guessing” 
that it is a single thickness of boards, 
but re-cover it, and so add to the strength 
of the walls. Now that lumber good 
enough to face a silo with has become. 
so high in price, it may be that 
it would be the better plan to lath and 
cement it, provided the frame is of suffi¬ 
cient strength to hold the walls from 
springing and cracking the cement. 
When such a plan is pursued, you can 
add to the value by coating over the ce¬ 
ment with a coat of gas tar (not coal 
tar) and gasoline, cold mixed—which 
will make the wall both air and moisture 
proof. If you cement, you have the 
choice of stripping up the walls, and 
using common lath, or get the solid 
grooved board lath, or metal lath, about 
which you can best choose by pricing the 
cost of labor. The cement plan at this 
distance appeals to me. joiin gouxd. 
Ohio. 
Color in Dairy Products. 
N OW comes the Department of Agri¬ 
culture claiming that the food has 
more to do with coloring both milk and 
cream than the breed. 
“Chemical tests show that the yellow 
pigment in milk consists of several well- 
known pigments found in green plants. 
Of these the principal one is carotin, so 
called because it constitutes a large part 
of the coloring matter of carrots. The 
other yellow pigments in the milk are 
known as xanthophylls. These are found 
in a number of plants including grass 
but are especially abundant in yellow 
Autumn leaves. 
“These pigments pass directly from the 
feed into the milk. This explains the 
well-known fact that fresh green grass 
and carrots increase the yellowness of 
butter, the only standard by which the 
average person judges its richness. On 
the other hand, a large proportion of 
these pigments is deposited in the body 
fat and elsewhere in the cow. When the 
ration is changed to one containing few¬ 
er carotin and xanthophyll constituents, 
this hoarded store is gradually drawn 
upon and in consequence the yellowness 
of the milk does not diminish so rapidly 
as it otherwise would. This yellowness 
increases, however, the instant the neces¬ 
sary plant pigments are restored to the 
ration. 
“Green grass is probably richer in 
carotin than any other dairy feed. Cows 
fed on it will therefore produce the high¬ 
est colored butter. Green corn, in which 
xanthophylls constitute the chief pigment, 
will also produce a highly colored pro¬ 
duct. On the other hand a ration of 
bleached clover hay and yellow corn is 
practically devoid of yellow pigments and 
the milk from cows fed upon it will 
gradually lose its color. It is. of course, 
indisputably true that the breed does in¬ 
fluence the color of the milk fat; but 
vary the ration and there will be a cor¬ 
responding variation in the color of the 
milk fat in each breed.” 
At the same time all who have fed 
cows of the different breeds know that 
Guernseys and .lerseys certainly make a 
darker-colored milk than other breeds. 
The Guernseys are particularly noted for 
this. The Department admits this in the 
following: 
“In cows of the Jersey and Guernsey 
breeds the body fat is frequently of such 
a deep yellow color that some butchers 
and consumers look with disfavor upon 
beef from these breeds.. For this preju¬ 
dice there is absolutely no justification. 
The yellowness of the fat springs from 
the same causes as the yellowness of the 
milk fat and there is no reason for ob¬ 
jecting in one case to the very thing that 
is prized in the other.” 
What is Dairy Cleanliness ? 
1 WAS much interested in J. J. D.’s 
account of the Lincolndale school, 
farm and dairy. The point I most 
wish to touch upon is the three washings 
given the cow’s udder. Is this scientific¬ 
ally the thing to do? We never wash an 
udder except when milking begins im¬ 
mediately, and never leave a cow until 
finished. Any work on the udder causes 
the milk to start, and the muscles expand 
painfully if not at once released. 
My father liked milk direct from the 
cow and lived beyond his four-score years, 
and I also have hidden many gallons of 
the warm fluid that the strainer never 
inspected. I also am certain my father’s 
cattle were subject to cow ailments much 
more than any I have ever owned, on 
account of improved care I think. We 
have always had an enviable reputation 
from our farm dairy products, and yet 
we feel almost filthy compared with those 
everlasting washings, groomings and 
snow white garments of the milkers we 
frequently read about. Will someone 
please tell us if we are “horribly un¬ 
clean?” The old ways of decent cleanli¬ 
ness taught us by our good butter-maker 
mothers seems like barbarous relics of 
the past compared with some of these cer¬ 
tified methods of today. j. e. h. 
Emporia, Kans. 
“Doesn’t it give you a terrible feel¬ 
ing when you run over a man?” they 
asked him. “Well, if he’s a large man,” 
replied the automobilist, “it does give one 
a pretty rough jolt.”—Ladies’ Home 
Journal. 
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CATTLE 
GUERNSEY BULL REGISTERED, ready for service, $75,00. 
® Tuberculin tested, Reagan Bros., Tully, N. Y. 
s^eUwo Registered Guernsey Bull Calves 
imported dams. Sire—Golden Secret of Follyland. 
JOHN JACOBS, New Baltimore, New York 
La ■ Gia 1 A fine Guernsey 
Bull. Three years 
old. Own son of the great Masher’s Sequel. Bar¬ 
gain. Address Stuart K. Mann, Derby, N, Y. 
GUERNSEYS FOR SALE 
Two cows fresh this Fall; also a few heifer and 
bull calves, Sired by Prides May King of Linda 
Vista No. 18617, out of dams of best blood. 
FOX RUN FARM 
Peterboro, N. H. 
F. S. GILCHRIST 
Superintendent 
FOP SiV Lp- T rio registered Ayrshires. 
■ ^ “ Three months old. First 
class. John M. Lewis, Alfred Station, N. Y. 
FOUR Registered Ayrshire bull 
ivUll CALVES, two, three, six and seven 
months old. Beautifully marked. Offered by 
WORONOAKE HEIGHTS, W0R0N0C0, MASS. 
Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves 
offer. THE GATES HOMESTEAD FARM. Ciiittenango, N. Y. 
Hnkfpin nalvOQ-3 t0 5 weeks old, 15-16ths pure, 
nUIOICIII uUllCO -wel 1 marked, $20 each, crated for 
shipment anywhere. Edgewood Farm, Whitewater, Wis. 
FOP § A |_ C— Heifer calf, horn May 29. 
1 Sire-Paul Oakhurst Mech- 
tilde No. 106524. Dam—Lorinda Ciothilde Posch No. 
121245; large, well grown, more black than white. 
Price, $100.00. NEVIN FARM, EASTON, PA. 
YOUNG REGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULL 
127791, now ready for sale. Well bred, handsome in¬ 
dividual, even black and white. $135. We have two 
others more fashionably bred and higher priced. 
M0HEGAN FARM, Hudson Valley Headquarters for Pure¬ 
bred Stock. CHAS. H. BAKER, Owner, Peekskill, New York 
H0LSTEINS 
Registered bull calves, $35.00 
each. High grade Holstein 
heifer and bull calves 1-week 
old, $15.00 each. October shipment express paid in 
lots of 5. 100 High Grade Holstein Cows; 60 Yearl¬ 
ings and 2-year olds; 60 head of Registered Hol- 
steins. Reference, 1st National Bank. Tully, N. Y. 
REAGAN BROS., TULLY, N. Y. 
Registered Holstein Yearling Bull 
whose 12 nearest dams have official records that 
average over 500 lbs. milk and over 23 lbs. butter in 7 
days, whose sire, Admiral Walker Gelsche. has 34 of¬ 
ficially tested daughters, the only bull in New Eng¬ 
land that has a daughter with a record over 30 lbs. 
G. F. GREGORY, Oummsrston Farms, Dummerston, Vermont 
Holstein and Guernsey Heifers - ^ darlings 
from A. R. sires and dams. Prices reasonable 
quality guaranteed. Percheron stud colts, bull 
calves, Berkshire, Cheshire and Poland China pigs. 
Write at once for further description, prices, etc. 
Tompkins Co., Breeders Ass'n, C. Owen Carman, Sec'y, Trumansburg, H. Y. 
East River Grade Holstein Cows For Sale 
100 cows served to calve in August. September and 
October, all served to registered bulls. STRICTLY 
DAIRY TYPE AJCD GUARANTEED. 60 yearling heifers. 
40 two-year old heifers all sired by pure blooded 
bulls from high producing dams. 10 extra well-bred 
registered bulls, PONTIAC BREEDING, from A. R. O. 
DAMS. If you are looking for extra good dairy cows. 
Visit the EAST RIVER IIOLSTF.INS. Special price for tba 
next 30 dayi. WE TUBERCULIN TEST. JOHN B. 
WEBSTER, Dept. Y, Cortland, N. Y. Bell Phene 14, F.5. 
Buy a Bull on Easy Terms 
Long Time and 4 Per Cent Interest 
Holstein bull calves, sired by a SON OF KING 
rONTIACS, whose dam has a record 
of 29.0/ lbs. butter In 7 days and 113.96 lbs. in SO 
days, end out of A. R. O. DAMS. WRITE AT 
ONCE for breeding, prices, and particulars re¬ 
garding our terms. 
JUSTAMERE FARM, Middletown Springs, Vt. 
HIGH GRADE 
HOLSTEINS 
100 cows due to freshen in Sept, and Oct. 
100 fresh cows and springers. 
PRICE, $75 to $100.00 EACH 
All large, well bred, nicely marked and heavy 
milkers. 100 2-year-old heifers due to freshen 
this rail, and all in calf by registered balls. 
You can pay more but you can t buy better. 
F. P. SAUNDERS & SON, Cortland, N. Y. 
OUlee, 50 Clinton Ave. 
Purebred Registered 
HOLSTEIN 
CATTLE 
Last year a California Holstein made a 
yearly record of 784.13 pounds of fat from 
25,981.8 pounds of milk. 
After an interval of two months she began 
another yearly test which has just come to a 
close with a record of 868.1 pounds of butter 
fat from 28,826.4 pounds of milk. 
These two successive yearly tests during 
which 54,800 pounds of milk were made are 
more evidence that great records are not 
spasmodic efforts, but represent capacity 
permanently developed. 
tncl for FRE3 Illustrated Dsssriptiv* Baskltts 
Holstein-Friesian Asso., P. L. Houghtoa. S«’y 
Box lOt Brattleboro, VI. 
50 STALLIONS 
and MARES, $250 to $1000 each 
Write for my Illustrated 
Circular telling why I can sav< 
you money on the purchase of a Pen 
cheron or Belgian Stallion or Mare, 
A.W. Green, Middlefield, O. 
R. R. Sta., E. Orwell, on Penna. Ry, 
Midway between Ashtabula & Warren 
Purebred Shropshire Sheep Titfvor'yb's't"! 
at 
■ ■ JLUO VOIJ iioab Ub 
reasonable prices. Have never had cholera in my 
herd. WILLIS A. WHITE, Geneva, N. Y. 
O Gr 
Pn| 1 IF P 11P Q —the intelligent kind. Also Blood- 
U LILLIE ruro houndg. NELSON 'S, Grove City, Pa. 
THOROUGHBRED COLLIE PUPS |^a?n 
Males, $4; Females $3. F RED CHENEY, GUILFORD, N. Y. 
IRISH TERRIERS -Pedieieed poppies, $5 tons. 
■ moil ■ Lnnil.no M A BIGELOW, Cmgers-on-Hudson, N. ». 
SWINE 
DUROn f»f|3C-$16PAIR. WrlteS. A. 
* Jt,fl WEEKS, De Graff, O . 
CHEI.DON FARM REGISTERED DUROC8 
** Pigs of both sex. Bred Sows. Service Boars. 
Best of breeding. C. E. WARN Eg, Oxford, N. Y - . 
MULE FOOT HOGS. Shetland Ponies and Milch Goats. Stock 
m For Sale. JN0. DUNLAP, Box 441, Williamsport, Ohio 
Alfalfa Lodge Yorkshires 
Large English, white, short-nose type. Special 
sale boar pigs, superior quality, fair prices. It is 
not what you pay, but what you get that counts 
J. G. CURTIS Box 373 ROCHESTER, N. Y] 
FOR PURE BRED TAMW0RTH SWINE 
write or visit WESTVIKW STOCK FARM, R. 
F. D. No. 1, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 
SELECTED POLAND CHIHAS-ffi^TrTd 
twelve and fourteen weeks old pigs for sale at $12 
each. Write early if you wish to purchase 
J. WILBER BRILL, Stewartaville, N. J. 
pedigree Chester Whites 
weeks old. Either sex. SCOTT, Stone Ridge, N.Y. 
LARGE BERKSHIRES AT HIGHWOOD 
Selected animals, all ages, for sale. We have 
the Large Berkshires with extreme length and 
our herd is noted for the prolificacy of its sows. 
H C. & H. B. HARPENDING. Dundee, N. Y 
Springbank Herd Big Berkshires 
I have a fine lot of March and April (1914) 
Boar Pigs fit for service this Fail; of high 
class conformation and good looks. 
J. E. WATSON, MARBLED ALE, CONN. 
FOR SALE 
Young Berkshire Boars and Sows 
of the Famous Masterpiece Strain, tracingdirect, on 
both sides, to the great Masterpiece. All registered. 
E. W. ALLEN, - Erieville. New York 
WOODBURY FARM BERKSHIRES 
A few choice young boars and gilts 
of notably good breeding. Address 
J.W.WEBB, Syosset, Long Island, New York 
BERKSHIRES 
We have fifteen fine boars for sale, sired by Sepur- 
bus, 136000 and Rivals Emblem 167700, the great 
sires of Gregory Farm, White Hall, Ill., the home 
of the famous Masterpiece. These hoars are from 
seven to twelve months of age, are the heighth of 
breeding and type. Here is a fine chance to im¬ 
prove your herd. Write for prices and descriptions, 
TOMPKINS FARM, - Lansdale, Pa. 
Eureka Stock Farm 
Registered Jersey Cat- 
tie. 4 mos, to 2 yrs. 
old. Chester White, Po¬ 
land China and Berk¬ 
shire Pigs, all ages. 
Lincoln Buck Lambs. 
Variety of Poultry. 
EDWARD WALTER, DEPT 
Write for Circular 
R. WEST CHESTER, PENNA. 
r 
CATTLE 
Purebred Registered Jersey Cows ? n o d R Ca sALE 
B. G. WELLS, R. D. 41, Wyalnsing, Pa. 
FOR PR0DUCTMII- BREED up. hot down- 
run rnuuubliun Registered Jersey bull 
calves, only, from producing dams and highest type 
sires. R. F. SHANNON, 603 Renshaw Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
A BARGAIN 
IN 44-lb. BLOOD 
Born May 3, 1914 
A Grandson ol KING OF THE PONTIACS, who la 
alro of K. P. PONTIAC LASS, 44 lbs. 7 days. 
World's Champion, 7, 30, 60, 90, TOO days— 
BUTTER. This calf carries over 464 same blood. 
Ills dam U sn A.R.O. row with ,2) two i.R O. daughters. 
His frrand-dnm has (3) three A.ILO. daughter,—all per¬ 
sistent. henry milkers. This ealf la well marked, of tree 
dairy conformation, deep and wide. FIRST CHECK 
FOR SI OO GETS HIM—CRATED—ALL PAPERS. 
For pedigree and information regarding Holstein bulls 
of all classes and ages, write 
F. C. BIGGS, Trumansburg, N. Y. 
BOOKS WORTH BUYING 
== Law for the American Farmer, Green 1.50 S 
= Insects of Farm and Garden, Treat. 1.50 = 
—Black’s Medical Dictionary. 2.50 — 
Tho Rural New-Yorker, 333 West 30th St„ N. Y. 
Pay after Day, Year after Year, 
It Is not what a cow can produce In 7, 14. or SO day*, even In a year that determines 
her value to the farmer* It in what *he can do in a lifetime. 
Brown Swiss Cows rank high In average production and are regular and persistent 
breeders and producers. \ ear In, year out, they make good records and raise good calves 
without any coaxing or pampering. If Interested, we will send you an Illustrated booklet 
—-—---0«,ttl© Association 
BELOIT, WISCONSIN 
Tlx.© Brown Swiis 
IRA INMAN", Secretary 
