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• Milking Shorthorn Cattle; 
i Percheron and Belgian Horses j 
I My Coal Busfnoaa la deraandinK..my'ent{re attention. I 
I O. N. WILSON - Kittanning, Pa. ■ 
Adirondack Chieftain 
7390—THOROUGHBRED 
KENTUCKY SADDLE STALLION 
For Sale at ALCROFT FARM 
«. F. D. No. 1 FAYETTEVILLE. N. Y. 
FOR SALE 
Three Percheron Horses 
registered in P. S. S. B. One pair six-year-old mares j 
weight, 1,700 each. Sure breeders. One two-year-old filly; 
a prize winner at N. Y. State Fair Inst year. One Stallion 
thri-e years old, a Son of the $50,000 Carnot. Won first 
prize last year for the best two-year-old In N. Y. State. 
Also fli-st at Middletown, N. Y. These horses are all sound 
and right in every way and can win in any show ring. 
ARDMORE FARM, Glen Spey, Sullivan Co., N.Y. 
FOB SALE AT FAKMEK’S PRICES 
Two Very ChoiceRegistered Percheron Stud Colts 
foaled May 18th and ;tlst, 1917. Write for particulars. 
Satisfaction guaranteed. URBELL FARMS, Smilhville Flits, N T. 
For Sale-Pure-Bred, Black Percheron STALLION 
hire, 6 years; sound and a good breeder. Price, right 
O. V. BEAMS, Box /i64, Eau Claire, Mich' 
SHETLAND PONIES 
200 head to select from. Specialprices on colts for 
August and September. Write Dept. L. 
The “Sbadyside” Farms, North Benton, Ohio 
DOCS and FERRETS 
COLLIE PUPPIES 
from choice i-epi.stercd stoci:, the 
handsome and intelligent kind, at 
farmer’s prices. Males, spayed 
fenialcs and open females for 
breeding. Circular free. 
Clovcmook Farm, ChambersburK.Pa. 
BLACK. WHITE AND TAN CUCDIlirRn DIIDC 
Natural farm dogs for cows OnCrlltnU rUiO 
and other stock. Good watch dogs and are kind with child¬ 
ren. Satisfactiouguaranteed.^W. W. NORTON, Si. Hamniend, N.T 
Airedale Pups 
Subject to Registration. Many Champions in 
pedigree. MALES, $8.00; FEMALES, $5.00. 
Herbert Trotter, Woodstock,Virg'inia 
AIRFDAI young stock; spayed bitches and 
breeders; Irish hitch and puppies; 
finest l)reeding. AUstone, Bound Brook, N. J. 
Airedales for Sale 
FBANK MEAD 
A few good Male pups. 
Also one nine-months-old 
female. Pedigreed stock. 
Amenia, New York 
Collie Pups 
AND GUINEA P irr: 
NELSON lUiOS., Gkovk City, Pa. 
lots. Catalogne free. JNO. F. MURRAY, New Lonilan, 0. 
CTirODBrTC extekminate 
rcrcric I o your bats. 
iVrite for catalogue; it’s free. 
C. H. KEEFEB & CO. Greenwich, Ohio 
2,000 Ferrets 
Either color; small. Mated 
pairs or dozen lots. Pamph¬ 
let and price list free. 
LEVI FABNSWOBTH, New London, Ohio 
sii’-es; any nninher. 
^ erretsror oaie Fox Terriers and 
Angora Kittens. C. JEWELL, Spkkcee, 0. 
SHEEP 
For ^ala Thirty thorough-bred, 
rui imported Scotch sheep 
... - - -. at $/iO each. Both sexes. 
SPBING HILL FABM, Boslyn, Long Island 
TI TNI<; R A CHOICE LOT. STBONG 
1 IV/YlVIiJ (;iioSS BBEEDEBS 
The leading breed for liot house lambs. Write for 
literature and prices toj. N. McPherson, Scottsville, N.Y, 
F or sale— Keg. ham pshire-hom n ewes ax» 
KAMS. ELLIS TIGER, Gladstone, New Jersey 
Shropshire and Southdown Rams i^jA^t^^fsonabie 
prices. L. M. Colbert & Sons, East Chatham, N. V. 
For Sale-Reg. South-down Ewes 
Also Ewes and Ram Lambs. ELLIS TIGER, Gliditunc, H. J. 
For Sale— Pure Bred Shropshire Buck Lambs 
Also a few ewes. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
WILLIS A. WHITE . Geneva, N. Y. 
High- UIUDCUIDC DlUC find Ram Lambs; also 
Grade nAmrollliiC uAIYIu Rog. Tunis ram lamb. 
J. H. SIIELHIHl.NE & SOXS, Lorraine, N. Y. 
ShroNshire YEARLING RAMS 
FOB SALE 
H.B. COVERT, Lodi. N Y. 
F or sale— Reg. Ilampsliire Breeding Ewe* and Bam 
l-ambe. Best stock. 6. BRUNOAGE, Saliibury MUli, Hiw York 
F airuolhk iiampsiiike rams for sale. Exceptionally 
fine individuals. Karl I> Brown. K. », lUon, N.Y. 
MISCELLANEOUS .% 
Swiss Goats 
Grade Backs, ttlO; 
No Pre.sh Milkers 
Sharpies. Centre Square, Pa. 
. Pare Bucks, S30 
A Little Guernsey with a Future 
The picture on this page shows how a 
little calf was started on the road to 
greatness. M. V. Finch of WfKid County, 
Ohio, tells us that this Guorn.'sey calf 
was born .July 21, both parents being the 
average size of Ouernseys. At its birth 
the calf weighed only 20 lbs., and was so 
delicate that for several days the herds¬ 
man fed her from a nursing bottle. He 
seemed to be afraid that the calf might 
fall into the buchet and drown before he 
could find her in the milk. However, the 
calf decided to live, and at five weeks 
old she weighs 35 lbs. and is getting 
very frisky. Mr. Finch says, in regard to 
her pedigree and future: 
Her dam is an imported cow, with an 
A. K. record of 421 lbs. of fat. as a 2%- 
year-old. The sire is a fine individual, of 
large size. His dam, Flora IV. of the 
Fountain, made an A. R. record of 705.79 
lbs. of fat, carrying a calf for eight 
months of the year. As “good things 
often come in small packages.” we trust 
that “Belmont’s Hopeful” will, some day, 
become a fine cow with a large record. 
Baa ! Baa! Black Sheep 
I>o you think a flock of black .sheep 
could be bred up with success? In buy¬ 
ing .some lambs the other day there were 
.some fine black lambs among them. I 
am thinking of taking a good black ram 
and breeding it to some black ewes for 
an exiierimeut. What do you think of 
rolled. If you can find a good legume, 
hay of clover or rather stemmy Alfalfa, 
ear corn will suffice to balance the ration, 
or use two-thirds corn and one-third 
f>ats along with such hay. Wheat sud¬ 
denly and heavily fed is a frequent cause 
of fatal colic or acute founder. Very 
gradually accustom the horse to wheat as 
iin adjunct to oats and corn. A. S. A. 
Cow Holding Up Milk 
I noticed the question in a recent 
R. N.-Y. about what to do for a cow 
that holds up her milk. My mother-in- 
law, who is a lifelong dairy woman says, 
“Try putting some weight on the cow’s 
hack, just in front of her hips, and 
she will give the milk. After a few 
times she will do it without the weight.” 
MRS. B. E. DAVIS. 
The Best Hog 
There are good hogs in all breeds, and 
I do not care to belittle them, but I un¬ 
derstand that the American breed, that is, 
the Poland China, leads all others in the 
hog-growing States, topping sales and pro¬ 
ducing as good pork from as young ani¬ 
mals at as cheap a cost as any breed. If 
the International Stock Show at Chicago 
is of any value to go by, the Poland 
Chinas are the leaders, as in the barrow 
class, in competition with all other breeds, 
the championship has* been won as fol¬ 
lows : Once by a Berkshire in 1910; 
once by a Hampshire in 1905; once by a 
Yorkshire in 1906; once by a Chester 
White in 1911; once by a cross-bred bar- 
row out of a Poland China sow, 1907, 
and six times by I’oland Chinas. I do 
Guernsey Calf Belmont’s Hopeful 
the idea? The lambs I speak of show 
good breeding from somewhere. Could 
yon explain the reason for their being 
black? The man I bought them from 
could not tell me why they were black, 
lie said his flock was grade Shropshire. 
New Glasgow, Va. i. v. H. 
There is history, which is hut conjec¬ 
ture, that the Spanish Merino was bred 
from black IMorocco sheep, by selection of 
the h’cak white ones. If there is any ele¬ 
ment of truth in it, the Spaniards mer¬ 
ited everlasting gratitude from mankind. 
During the old home knitting days, blacks 
were desirable for the housewives because 
it saved dyeing and men tried to increase 
the number without perfect success. In 
those days a little piebald of black, 
brown and yellow, as the wool approached 
that on the surface, did not matter much, 
but it must all be dyed now, and it is 
easier to get the color wanted from white 
wool. 
Again, if you will notice black wool, 
its kinks are irregular and the fibre of 
different degrees of harshness, and the re¬ 
sult is, that if the people who sell it do 
not keep it separate, the dealer, or at 
loa.st the manufacturer does, and he uses 
it by itself, and he also pays from one- 
third to one-quarter less for it. regard¬ 
less of it going with the whole clip at the 
same figure. If so, the other comes to 
the dealer so he can strike a balance. It 
is a freak now in our domestic sheep, 
brought out by old mixtures, not any 
more clearly accounted for than albinos 
in the human and brute creation, nor 
“glass eyes” in horses. It is possible, in 
time, to get purebreds of black or any 
color, and we would have them if they 
paid. A black ram will sire black, white 
or speckled. w. w. K. 
Wheat as a Horse Feed 
Can I feed whole wheat to horses 
without injuring them? Can I feed whole 
or ground wheat with -other grains like 
oats or corn? Give amount to be fed. 
Vermont. w. A. c. 
Wheat is far too expensive to be used 
as horse feed at the present time, and 
apart from that it is not suitable as a 
staple feeding material for the horses. 
It may form a part of the ration with 
oats, many farmers sowing wheat with 
oats for this purpose, but wheat bran, 
oats and ear corn make a better com¬ 
bination. Wheat is fed either whole or 
not believe anyone who chooses the Po¬ 
land China and gets good stock will have 
any reason to change. Of course, poor 
stock of any kind or breed is never satis¬ 
factory. J. F. COTTON. 
Maine. 
Along in 1880 I was traveling through 
the hog belt of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, 
Iowa and Nebraska. The hogs were most¬ 
ly black Berkshire and Poland _ China, a 
few Avhite. I have kept Berkshires, O. I. 
C., Yorkshires, all purebred. A few 
years ago I had occasion to travel over 
the same country mentioned above and 
find the prevailing hog is the Duroc Jer¬ 
sey Red, in about the same proportion 
that the black hogs held in 18S0. I 
thought there must be a reason, and I 
have fully satisfied myself Avhy, as I have 
been breeding them for some time, and 
can produce more pork for a given 
amount of feed than with the other breeds 
we have kept. They are universally 
quiet, good disposition, healthy, hardy, 
lu’olific and very thick-meatod. With ns 
they are the most profitable and in all 
ways the most desirable we have ever 
kept. C. A. CHAPMAN. 
Vermont. 
I have had experience with a good 
many breeds, and I prefer the Berkshire 
and Duroc Jersey, the Berkshire being 
decidedly my preference. I find that the 
bone is small, they are easy to keep, and 
thrive and grow off more rapidly ‘on the 
same amount of feed than other breeds. 
We have a pastui’e of several acres which 
takes in a ravine. A branch or stream of 
running water goes through the center, 
and the hillsides abound in nut trees, 
such as the acorn and beech, which fur¬ 
nish fine hog feed in early Fall. We al¬ 
low them to run at large in this pasture 
all the time, and by feeding lightly they 
are kept growing and nearly fat enough 
to kill at any time. The Berkshire is a 
black hog, and the carcass of most black 
hogs generally shows up white and nice 
when properly dressed. The meat is al- 
Avays of a firm nature unless when run¬ 
ning on the peanut fields after the crop is 
harvested; and even in this case, when 
luit up in a moderately close pen and fed 
on hard corn for a week or two, the meat 
will soon be of a firm nature. I have 
never found any difference in the price, 
as a nice fat hog of any type will always 
bring the tip-top market price. The 
Berkshii'e is all-around the best type. 
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