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A New York Sheep Man 
I have al\va.v.s been a sheeti farmer, and 
probably know more about them than 
any other branch of farming. I appreci¬ 
ate the letters of W'. W. Reynolds and 
think his knowledge of the sheep industry 
covers the whole ground. I have had the 
care of shoojt for .lO years, and have sold 
wool that would bring T.'ic per lb. now 
for 10c, and clipped lambs like those that 
would In-ing last May were sold by 
mo ill New York 20 years .ago around 
4il>c; and were better quality. There is 
no need to look further for the decline of 
the sheep industry. Only those who were 
the most skilful shepherds could live at 
the business at that time, and of course 
went into dairy farming. There are 33 
adjoining farms in this south end of 
Wasliington County where nearly 2.000 
sheep are kei»t. which would mean at 
least one sheep to the acre of cleared 
land. Several of those farmers make 
dairying the chief interest. 
The sheep kept are mostly the Delaine 
Merino class, and they have outlasted 
any other breed for GO years, although 
j nearly every other lireed has been tried. 
I It ahvays seemed to me that a pound of 
I A St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. Boy and His Pig 
j good staide wo<d ought t*) bring as much 
! as a pound of butter. Rutter at the local 
creamery has sold at more per pound than 
wool for 20 years, until this year, I 
sometimes think that there has heeii a 
combination to keep down the price of 
wool for the benefit of the manufacturer. 
If so, they have “killed the goose tliat laid 
the geddeu egg.” and the price is being 
paid, and the price to be paid is the only 
law needed to bring back the sheep in¬ 
dustry. ir. II. I’MiiiiY. 
New York. 
A Boy in the Pig Business 
Great things are lie.iig done in tlie 
llig business tliis ye:ir l>y many of our 
boys. It may look like a small husine.ss 
if you take only one at a time, luit when 
yon get them nil togetiier there will be 
a good deal of pork as a result of this 
pig raising, and it is a good tiling to 
have he children interested. The little 
picture given herewith shows Then. II. 
BwiR: of St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. and 
one of his pigs. He is a good booster 
for Uncle Sam’s pork barrel, as In* is 
raising a litter of pigs in order to help 
out the initioual meat supply. There is 
no (luestion about the value of pork as 
fighting food. The pig is not a warlike 
animal unless you stir him up through 
some injustice, but as a mainstay for 
the fighting man it would be hard to 
beat ^Ir. Swift’s pig as an ammunition 
maker. Many others like him are doing 
a good job for their country when they 
raise a litter of pigs; not only a patrio¬ 
tic thing to do, but by doing it they 
learn more of the business and get in 
line for larger things in the live stock 
business. 
Oxen or Horses 
Would you advise me to buy a yoke of 
oxen or a team of horses? I have a team 
now. l)ut they are too old to stand the 
work I have to do. I intend to sell one 
of them and keep the other for my mother 
to drive. I know nothing about oxen, 
and so do not know what they are able to 
do. There is more or less road work at 
pre.sent. although when Spring comes it 
Avill let up some. Otherwise the work is 
general farm work. J. 
Massachusetts. 
We should buy another team of horses. 
Oxen are very slow, and a man who does 
not understand handling them wouhl h.ive 
trouble. In the short seasons of New 
England quick work is needed and a pair 
of active horses will prove more satisfac¬ 
tory for general work. The oxen will cost 
less to keeji and can be sidd for beef when 
you are done with them. Init in other rc- 
sjiects the horses have the ailvantagc. 
Keeping Butter Through Winter 
M'ould you tell me how to make butter 
to keep through the AVinter? I have been 
making my own with dairy salt, but after 
keeping it in a crock for some time ir lie- 
comes raicid. Mlliy is this? May I add 
each week's butter to the same crock? 
Q. E. P. 
Butter having the best keeping (lual- 
ities is made from pasteurized sweet 
cream. The cream may be pasteurized by 
setting the vessel containing the cream in 
a vessel of water on the stove and heat¬ 
ing the cream to Id." degrees F. and hold¬ 
ing it there for 30 minutes. 3’he cream is 
then cooled to the churning temiierature 
and held for a few hours, or over nigiit. 
and cliiirned. 
In packing the butter in the crock. I 
should jint a parchment iiaiier or clu'c.se- 
cloth circle lietween the different cdnirn- 
ings. as the color of the churning* might 
not be uniform. Salt the butter rather 
heavily, and sprinkle salt over top and 
keep crock where it is cold, the colder the 
better. H- f. .7. 
Selling Milk or Fattening Calves 
Many of our friends who do not livi* by 
farming are much exercised in their minds 
because we do not raise all of the calves. 
They know that at the present price of 
meat there mu.st be heaps of money in 
doing so. They seem to think all we know 
is to tH jus-t as oiir fathers did. Of eour.se 
they finally come to the point that if we 
did so meat would be much cheaiier than 
at present. Instead of doing as they wish, 
many of oiir dairymen are not even veal- 
iug the calves, but are “deaeoniiig" them. 
I don't know what deacon gave his title 
to killing newborn calves, but that seems 
to he tlie word used all through the coun¬ 
try. It seems too bad that they shouhl do 
so. but perhaps they have rimson.s for do¬ 
ing it. We have just had some experience 
in fattening a calf, and perhaps you may 
be interested also. 
From our registered cows with good of¬ 
ficial records we raise all the good calves, 
both bulls and heifers, as there is good 
sale for them at fair prices. However, 
this Fall we had a two-year-<dd heifor 
drop a male calf at a time we could not 
test her. so we shall let her go until next, 
year, and test as a three-year-old. As 
an experiment Ave determined to fatten 
the calf. Had we “deaconed” him thr 
skin Avould have brought .$2 and the meat 
for the hens would have been worth an¬ 
other dollar at least. We fed him from a 
pail ;ifter he had been with his dam for 
tliree days. Df course we know he would 
liave done better if we had let him run 
with his mother all the time, but it might 
have spoilt lier. We commenced with 
four lbs. tliree times per day. and in a 
week W('re fei'ding st'ven Ills, twice a da\, 
and when he was sold he was getting 30 
lbs. twiee a day. For the entire time 
after leaving his dam he drank 5G3 lbs. 
milk. We were getting $3.55 per hundred 
for milk, so it would figure like this: 
Calf .$ 3.00 
561 lbs. milk, at $3.55 cwt. 19.01—$ 22.91 
1-18 lbs. calf, at 13e lb. 19.24 
Foss.$ 3.07 
Now, in fattening this calf did we work 
in the interest of the consumer or not? 
Certainly we made nothing, but would 
like to know if anyone did. We are told 
that if veal is worth 25c per lb. a quart 
of milk is worth as food 20c. If this is 
so we poured a good many 20 cents down 
that calf’s neck to make one 25 cents 
worth of veal, so it seems to me we cheat¬ 
ed the consumer out of lots of food and 
lost money in doiug it. Perhaps, however, 
the poor middleman got more in veal than 
he would in milk, and perhaps less. Can 
you tell? geokge \v, bogeks. 
