Oi« RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Live Stock Notes 
A Shortage of Heifer Calves 
How are the dairymen going to raise 
Dp and maintain their herds of dairy 
oows so as to keep up the milk supply 
when dealers are allowed to purchase and 
market heifer calves less than a week 
old? Dairymen in this section of the 
State are confronted by this problem. 
Dealers are purchasing calves that should 
be raised for dairy cows, paying prices 
ranging from .$4 to .$10- for grade calves 
less than a week old. It is our under¬ 
standing that these calves are shipped to 
Albany. What becomes of the calves? 
Are they used for food purposes, or is 
there such a demand for dairy stock in 
tM vicinity of Albany that farmers can 
afford to pay such prices and for such 
quantities of the.se calves to be raised 
for dairy cows? Is there a provision in 
the bob-veal law that covers the shipping 
of calves of this age for food purposes 
'alive, or does that law apply only to the 
shipping of dre.ssed calves? To illustrate 
the point, one year ago we purcha.sed such 
calves for practically the value of their 
skins. Recently my brother tried to pur¬ 
chase 15 or 20 grade Holstein calves from 
a dairyman in Delaware county to replace 
some stock we were about to sell. While 
talking with this dairyman one of these 
dealers ajtpeared on the scene and pur¬ 
chased a two-day-old calf, paying $8 for 
the same. The.se dealers have been trying to 
induce one of my neighbors to buy'^calves 
for them. We, as dairymen, are facing a 
.serious .shortage of young stock to raise. 
It would seem that publicity of thi.s mat¬ 
ter would awaken farmers to the serious¬ 
ness of the situation and help to safe- 
t^iuiru tlip future of the dniry indii.str\’, 
Hreene Co., N. Y. ii. clay ferris. 
The present high prices for meat and 
milk make it poor economy to raise any 
calf except a purebred or one from the 
be.st cow.s. Xo use putting seven-cent milk 
into a scrub heifer calf. Of course these 
heifer calves from good cows are worth 
more money than ever before. We re¬ 
cently bought a good grade cow and the 
dairyman offered .$15 for the calf if it 
proved to be a heifer. .A.n advertisement 
for heifer calves from superior grade 
cows would probably locate plenty of 
them, but they are worth a good price. 
Shall I Keep a Goat ? 
AMll you give me some information 
about the goat.'* What are the pros and 
cons of kecjiiug a goat? How much milk 
per day does an average goat give? How 
“"^^'ths in a year does a goat give 
milk? Is goat’s milk a substitute for 
cow s milk ; that, is, can one u.se, satisfac- 
torily, goat’s milk for all the purposes 
that cow’s milk is u.sed? Can butter be 
made from goat’s milk? What does it 
co.st to keep a goat? That is, how does 
the cost of keeping a goat compare with 
the cost of keeping a cow? How do the 
returns compare? suburbamte. 
The goat has been man’s .servant from 
the most ancient times. It adapts itself 
so well to the most widely varying condi¬ 
tions of climate and care that it has be¬ 
come worldwide in distribution. It has 
been the treasure of kings and the com- 
lianion of the peasant. It is at home on 
city streets and on mountain ranges. It 
ha.s a jilace in the sacred and .secular lit¬ 
erature of all ages; and yet, .so little is 
generally known about it that compara¬ 
tively few people could give an intelligent 
de.scription of its life habits. 
The place of the goat in American do¬ 
mestic life has been small. America has 
been the land of abundance, and, where 
abundance reigns, the cow displaces the 
goat. There are few services which the 
goat can render to man to which other 
animals are not better adapted. Goat’s 
flesh, as food, is not equal to mutton and 
to that of other animal.s. Goat milk is 
wholesome, nutritioms, and, when the ani¬ 
mal i.s properly cared for, palatable, but. 
Rave for infant feeding, and for greater 
freedom from possible danger of convey¬ 
ing tuberculosis, it is in no way superior 
to cow’s milk. Cream cannot be sepa¬ 
rated from goat milk by any ordinary 
process. The goat being a strong butter, 
it is not .strange, perhaps, that goat but¬ 
ter is .strong, and goat milk chee.se is not 
a universally appreciated delicacy. Un¬ 
der favorable conditions for both animals, 
goat milk costs more to produce, per 
quart, than does that from cows. Greater 
care must also be taken to prevent its be¬ 
coming unpalatable through acquiring the 
undesirable odor and taste of the animal. 
This about sums up the “corns” of the sit¬ 
uation. 
For the milch goat, it may be said that 
its first cost is much less than that of a 
cow. It can be stabled and fed at much 
less expense, and by some who have no 
facilities for keeping a cow. The cost of 
keeping a goat has been variously esti¬ 
mated, but it is probably a fair state 
ment to say that it is about one-sixth of 
that of keeping a cow. Many infants, and 
some invalids, thrive upon goat milk, 
though they cannot digest that from cows. 
This statement is not true of all infants 
oi invalids, however. . Goats are prac¬ 
tically immune to tuberculosis. Their milk, 
therefore, is not as likely to convey that 
disease to young children, as is the milk 
of cows. Mhile goat milk is popularly 
supposed to be richer than cow’s milk, a 
three-year record of a mixed herd kept at 
the Geneva, X. Y., Experiment Station 
showed an average fat content of 3.7 per 
cent. This is better than average Hol¬ 
stein milk, but inferior to that of Jer- 
.seys. The greater sweetness of goat milk 
has probably led to its having been 
thought richer. 
Goats, like cow.s, vary markedly in in¬ 
dividual milk production. Good milch 
goats give from one to two quart.s per 
day, poor ones less, and exceptional indi¬ 
viduals more. They are in milk ordi¬ 
narily from six to eight months of the 
year. When stall fed, they eat hay, 
grain, vegetables and some kitchen 
wastes. Unless well and properly fed, 
they need not be expected to give much 
milk. Goats are well adapted to picking 
much of their living in the Summer time 
from rough, waste land. They will graze 
and browse where a cow could not. Un¬ 
doubtedly many families who use a quart 
or two of milk daily could better afford to 
keep one or two goats than to patronize 
the milkman, but the fact that so few do 
is pretty good evidence that the average 
American family still finds the cow supe¬ 
rior to any substitute that has been of¬ 
fered for her. m. b. d. 
Results from Selling Cream 
The milk situation does not trouble us; 
we are way out, and sell cream. Six cows 
picked up .$260 worth on 15 acres of poor 
pasture, raised a calf apiece and largely 
raised $.300 worth of hogs. d. b. t. 
Missouri. 
Many a man with a .small herd of good 
dairy cows is doing well in that way. 
With hogs and calves to take care of the 
.skim-milk and cream to sell pretty much 
all the plant food except phosphorus is 
left on the farm, and one man can handle 
many head of stock. 
Ethel : “Oh, Jack has enlisted!” Mu¬ 
riel: “Isn’t he rather young?” Ethel: 
“Yes, but he joined the infantry.”—Credit 
Lost. 
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iProfitsThisYear 
to 
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At the End 
of the 
Grofast 
Calf Meal 
New Milk 
Water 
1st Week 
2nd “ 
1- 3 Pint 
2- 3 •’ 
3 Quarts 
2 
1 Quart 
2 “ 
8rd *• 
11-3 ” 
1 
3 
4th “ 
2 
1-2 " 
31-2 “ 
6th " 
2 2-3 " 
None 
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HOFISES , IN 
PRIME WORKING 
Condition 
A horse m the field—working for you—is 
worth two in the barn—simply eating their 
• t. heads off. There is no way ol preventing spavin 
ringbone, splint or curb from suddenly laming and laying no vour horses— hut tbpry* q wtow r.t r t j 
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Known For 40 Years as KendalFs Spavin Cure 
wSry^bSt\^hous?nds ofTollLs’ ^v^orfhn? only been saving untold time, work and 
Lre-e m ^ ^ Valuable horseflesh and has many times saved horses from death. 
Spavin Treatment. He write^^“fhave^sed fS^botuZs'oTbut actually makes money by using Kendall’s 
bought the mules for 880.00 and can now cash th^m for 84C»S“shaTnevTr be * 
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