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^he RURAi. NEW-YORKER 
December 22, 1917 
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A Well-bred Guernsey Sire 
The picture show-s the Guernsey bull 
Victoria's Rival of Salem 2S.S2n. bred and 
owned by Geo. H. Cable, of estcliestei 
Co nty. X. Y. ’’"bis bull took firjt prize 
as three-year-old at Danbnry. Conn., 
fair, in 1017. Ili.s sire was l.ongwater 
Rival 14149, and dam Victoria's I’ride 
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Town Dairy in a Livery Stable 
AVc have a town of .^,.000. county seat, 
where milk is sold for 12c per (piart. Some 
of us are figuring on a plan whereby we 
can start a dairy in our town. We have 
a large brick stable, which has been used 
for a livery stable; would hold 00 cows 
in basement where the liorses were kept, 
a nice warm place in Winter and cool in 
Summer. This community furnishes plen¬ 
ty of clover hay and Timothy, no Alfalfa. 
Feed would be on an average the country 
over, help would be normal, all other ex¬ 
penses normal. If this jdace was fixed 
put one female in each pen and leave her 
there with her young until it is time for 
them to den up in the Fall. With experi¬ 
ence you can figure on 059f breeding and 
about Oofy raising at a profit of at least 
50<7f. The animals eat very little in 
Winter time. 
I buy worn-out horses for from .$5 to 
$10 each, and get about half back from 
hide. I cook the meat and mix with corn- 
meal, bran and flour, and hake it into a 
biscuit, and then dry them, and do all 
my cooking in the Winter. A hoard 
fence three feet high with boards one foot 
high at top planed will keep skunks un¬ 
less it snows very deep. An apron of 1- 
inch mesh wire about one foot wide around 
each pen will keep them from digging 
out. My experience makes it safe for 
me to say the skunk will pay oUfe 
dividends and Belgian hares 00%, which 
goes well together. I feel satisfied that 
When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you ll get a 
quick reply and a **square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
Guernsey Bull.Victoria’s Rival of Salem 
Up clean, sanitary and a spc'cial effort 
made, could a proposition like this be 
managed at a profit? AVe would have a 
small place outside for exercise, hut iio 
pasture: or. in other words, a city dairy. 
We figured when a cow went dry to sell 
her, buy another and do no breeding. 
Cows would he kept on dry feed the year 
round. I thought probably you knew of 
some place where something like this has 
been tried. C. w. 
Ohio. 
This plan has been tried in several 
places. We do not know just how it 
turned out. This note will bring the story 
from those who have tried it. The plan 
of keeping cattle in confinement and feed¬ 
ing them on inirchased fodder and grain 
is old, and has paid well in many cases. 
You must he careful before you start fully 
to satisfy the local hoard of health. In 
every to'wn of that size there will be many 
people who object to any such plan. The 
stable will attract flies and “smell of the 
barn.” and every town has a crowd of 
people with very delicate noses. They 
will prevent such a plan if they can. We 
would get advice from the agricultural 
college at Columbus and the experiment 
station at Wooster before starting. In 
the meantime we ask (mr readers to tell 
of any such plan. Did it work out? If 
not—what killed it ? 
skunk farming will pay a larger <lividend 
than black fox farming. It is my opinion 
that skunk skins will always be in a big 
demand on tin* market, as they are used 
for so many different kinds of furs. The 
present pric<* for a No. 1 skin is about 
$4..■)(). and for breeding stock for star fe¬ 
males about $S. P. A. coi.K. 
F.ssex Co., N. Y. 
A Chapter on Skunk Farming 
I have kept fur-hearing animals more 
or less for five years, and have made a 
study of .same. Last January (1017» I 
started in to make a bnsines.s of fur¬ 
farming and I have learned more since 
then by actual experience than I did out 
of all the books I could buy. 
I had 30 female skunks breed, and they 
had 102 young. I find they are very easy 
to raise if they are kept with their mother, 
but. if they are taken from the mother 
any time during the Summer and put to¬ 
gether in a large pen they will kill each 
other, no matter how much they are fed. 
Part of my skunks I left with their 
mothers and I raised Ou^ of them. 
I build my pens 10 feet square, and in 
Winter I let six females run together in 
one pen. About March 1 1 put one malj? 
in each pen and take him out Ai)ril 15. 
I then put board partitions in pens, so 
, ;is to make ciicli ]>en »'ight feet snnare, 
The Pastoral Parson 
(Continued from page 1440.) 
that seems to need a boost. Here is one 
in the picture. Two of the children are 
away from home. The boys here are just 
starting olT to the next town to church 
Avith the Parson. Tie has just cut the hair 
for three of them. On the way back they 
will stop at llie schoolhonse near by and 
all will have crackers and cocoa. How 
hard these hoys do work ! They cut hay 
all over the neighborhood an 1 bring it 
home on a two-wheeled cart. After plant¬ 
ing their own land over they plant land on 
the halves. How the cocoa and cracker-s 
disappear as we sit around the stove in 
the old abandoned school-house I Their 
house is being fixed up and new clap¬ 
boards put on the north side. We will 
have a great time at Christmas in the old 
school-house. The windows on the baok 
side have been nailed up. 
Ttr-V Tims Way. —What a time of it 
the Parson has in the early morning! 
Even before the first sign of red apitears 
in the East there comes a loud whisper, 
I‘apa. can I come to bed with you?'’ 
And so Sit comes crawling in. Then 
comes from the hack porch the song “My 
Country 'Tis of Thee.” T.ittle Clo.ssie 
has his morning sing of school songs be¬ 
fore he, too, comes crawling in with 
Daddy. If the Parson turns to love Sit 
awhile, then he hears a plaintive “turn 
this wav. Papa.” and when he turns to¬ 
ward the little boy, then Sit feels hurt 
and begs him again to “turn this way.” 
So the poor little children of the back and 
louelv roads call to us to “turn this way. 
And the untold number of staniug chil¬ 
dren across the reas call to us to turn 
this way.” And the wounded soldiers iieed 
us to “turn this way” with all our might. 
And though some or -..11 of these ways may 
be new wavs for us. let us turn toward 
them at this Christmas time, and keep our 
hearts and faces toward them till the cry 
is nnst. 
