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Live Stock and Dairy 
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THE FRENCH-CANADIAN HORSE. 
F OR some time I have been interested 
in the breed of horses known as Ca¬ 
nadian horses or ‘Canucks.” These 
horses were once quite common around 
here; I am anxious to secure one of them. 
Barbourville N. Y. R. y. 
The French-Canadian horse is descend¬ 
ed from Norman-French stock, though 
more or less of mixed breeding, standing 
generally little more than 15 hands high, 
and weighing from 900 to 1.100 pounds. 
He is a very courageous looking animal, 
with his lion-like inane and his bushy 
tail and fetlocks. The feet are tough 
and almost immune from disease. His 
hardiness and ability to thrive under 
most adverse conditions are notable 
characteristics. The writer possesses a 
half-bred French-Canadian mare now 25 
years of age, which plowed every day in 
a team with a four-year-old, last Fall, 
without any apparent weakness or 
fatigue. 
These animals, according to Dr. C. A. 
Coutre, secretary of the French-Canadian 
Stud Book. Quebec, descended from those 
sent out from France, before the con¬ 
quest by Louis XIV, “who liked to do 
things in a grand way,” and sent to Can¬ 
ada only the best animals of the kingdom. 
“On 1G July, 1665, there were sent to 
us 20 mares and two stallions from the 
royal stables. Others were sent us in 
1667, including a stallion and two mares 
for the Ursulines. In 1670 11 mares and 
a stallion were landed at Quebec; other 
shipments followed.” 
The French-Canadian horse is proba¬ 
bly the best general-purpose horse raised 
in Canada. He fills this position to a 
much greater extent than any other 
breed. He is fairly speedy but not ex¬ 
treme, though my mare, when younger, 
would go in less than three minutes to a 
road wagon. He, however, prefers a 
reasonable gait. He will go on all day, 
but does not care to keep up extreme 
speed. The French-Canadian crosses 
well with the Clysdale. I have seen 
some excellent horses from crosses of the 
French-Canadian stallion on the grade 
Clyde mare. For further information 
communicate with Dr. ,T. A. Coutre, 
Societe Generale des Eleveurs de la 
Province de Quebec, 49 Garden street, 
Quebec, Canada. J. A. hacdonald. 
TJH11S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 20, 
GOOD AYRSHIRE RECORDS. 
Somehow no one seems to think of the 
Ayrshire cow as a large producer of milk. 
We speak of her as a good, serviceable 
animal, active and vigorous, but some¬ 
how it is not generally known that there 
are Ayrshires with heavy records. C. M. 
Winslow, secretary of the Ayrshire 
Breeders’ Association, sends out a sum¬ 
mary of the advanced registry for Ayr¬ 
shires. The following figures give the av¬ 
erage of the cows or heifers except, of 
course, the individual record where only 
one cow is mentioned. It appears from 
this that the Ayrshire is a heavy producer 
as well as a very serviceable animal: 
Summary of Advanced Registry. 
Average yield of milk and butter of all 
cows and heifers that have qualified for 
advanced registry to October 1, 1914: 
Lbs. Lbs. P. C. 
Milk. Butter. Fat. 
503 Mature cows.. 10.576 4S1 3.81 
189 Four-year-olds. 9,692 444 3,9 
251 Three-year-olds 9.002 417 3.94 
419 Two-year-olds. . 7,871 371 4. 
1,362 Total cows and 
heifers. 9,339 430 3.91 
Average of ten highest records in each 
class: 
Lbs. 
Lbs. 
P. C. 
Milk. 
Butter. 
Fat. 
10 Mature cows ... 
. 18,841 
867 
3.9 
10 Four-year-olds .. 
. 14,117 
652 
3.93 
10 Three-year-olds . 
.14,083 
648 
3.91 
10 Two-year-olds . . 
.11,957 
581 
4.14 
Individual records. 
Lbs. 
Milk 
Lbs. P. C. 
Butter. Fat. 
WATCH YOUR DAIRY COW. 
{{■fTTOULD you stand for it year after 
VV year?” was the question F. II. 
Scribner, of Wisconsin, put to farmers in 
demonstration talk at the Dairy Show, 
“if your thrasherman would try to econ¬ 
omize in fuel and run on just enough 
steam to turn the separator. No sir, the 
tbraskennan would get orders to go on, 
if lie just fed in fuel enough to turn the 
wheels. The engine would die when a 
fraction of capacity would be approached. 
You would be paying your men for the 
day’s work, your expenses would be just 
as high for labor, you would be getting 
only a fraction in results, while there 
would be saving a few pennies at the 
power end of the machine. The thrasher¬ 
man wouldn’t get a job next year, and he 
wouldn’t stand a chance among the neigh¬ 
bors.” 
Mr. Scribner said: “We draw out of 
the dairy cow in proportion to the amount 
we put in her. If we put in just enough 
to keep her going there is nothing coming 
out in the bucket. If we heap in a little 
more fuel, just a shovelful of coal in the 
case of the thrasherman, we commence to 
see results. A good many of us feed and 
then run away. Good, careful, judicious, 
honest feeding is a trade all by itself. We 
must study every individual in our herd. 
We must stand by and watch our cows, 
we must watch them from three points of 
view, in front, behind and in the middle. 
From in front I want to watch my cows 
eat; I want to see them eat with relish; 
I want to watch them behind. One morn¬ 
ing I noticed no droppings behind a cow. 
It was a danger signal, and we gave her 
immediate attention, and in a short time 
she was back at her place producing re¬ 
sults. 
“We want to watch the middle,” Mr. 
Scribner emphasized with a forcible ges¬ 
ture. “I would not know how to feed my 
cows, without a milk sheet in the barn. 
For example, one cow may become a lit¬ 
tle poor; if so, feed her more corn, for 
that will stick to her ribs, or if she is { 
running more to meat, I feed her less 
corn, and I have other similar practices. 
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Cottage Cheese; Buttermilk. 
C AN you tell me how cottage cheese 
is made from separated milk? What 
price docs it retail for, delivered from \ 
house to house? Also I should like to 
know the retail price of buttermilk de¬ 
livered the same way? d. b. ii. 
Vermont. 
The skim-milk should sour until lop- 
pered. Then beat over water or steam 
until tlie whey separates from the curd, 
and drain through a sieve or colander. 
The milk should he stirred frequently 
while heating, and removed as soon as the 
curd becomes sufficiently firm for drain¬ 
ing. Too much heating makes the cheese 
•hard and rubbery. After draining salt 
to taste. I cannot give the exact amount 
of salt necessary but I think it can readi¬ 
ly be determined by experiment. A lit¬ 
tle butter or cream improves the qual¬ 
ity of the cheese. I am not familiar with 
the retail price of cottage cheese, but I 
should think one should get at least 10 
cents per pound, and more if the trade 
will bear it. Buttermilk retails at three 
to five cents per quart, sometimes even 
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