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near Salisbury, Maryland. The hand is fertile and 
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I have gone in for registered Ilolsteins, 
having piircdiased 2.‘5 the last month. 
Wouhi like to learn all I can about thfm, 
as to tracing back pedigrees, and also the 
general ideas as to whetlier it pays to 
have them tested for milk and -whether it 
has been a paying proposition to keep 
them in preference to grades. 
1 have bought three .Tersey T{(>d sows, 
grades, and paid a rather large service 
fee for service of registered boar. I know 
I will not be able to demand a liirger 
price for little ones, as they will not l>e 
eligll)le to registry, but would like to 
know if it will increase the size of pigs. 
I read an article about .sowing Alfalfa 
on corn or oat fields -without plowing, by 
•sowing in March lightly and allowing the 
thawijig of ground to do the covering of 
seed. I would like to know if it would 
be practicable to to -dress and try .seed¬ 
ing that way in this vicinity, as the sea¬ 
son is vei-y short liere to get ii good staTid 
l)y-I)lowing first, which would not la- un¬ 
til'the middle to last of April. 
Westchester (’o., X. Y. mbs. g. a. ,t. 
Tt is an awfully ])oor time to look up 
the p(*digi'ee of a Ilolstcin-Friesian cow 
after you have bought lier. Tlie i)roper 
time' to do that is before she becomes 
your •property, and I sliould expect that 
the prospective seller would produce a 
tabulated .pedigree and call my attention 
to iill of the good ancestors that were 
back of the animal. If lie did not do this. 
I sliould imagine that, like some jicople, 
tin* least said about tlie pedigree tlie bet¬ 
ter. and I sliould not be to any great 
trouble to look .them up afterwards. Tlie 
seller ought to furnish a tabulated jiedi- 
grc'c with the animal, but lie is not in 
duty bound to do .so. lie munt furnish 
tlie buyer with the register eertilicate and 
tlie ‘transfer of ownership. Hut tlie mat¬ 
ter of the pedigree Is not compulsory. 
Tabulated pedigrees may he obtained from 
difi'ereiit peojile wlio make a business of 
taliulating them. Anyom- can. do this 
who has a complete set of tlie Herd Reg¬ 
ister and the Ailvanced Registry Year 
Rooks. Miss (iertrude Howard- of Sher- 
Inirne. X. Y.. the daughter of a prom¬ 
inent breeder, has taken up this work and 
has given .splendid satisfaction. The cost 
is about a dollar for a short pedigree up 
to several dollars for a very extended 
one. giving the n-cords of all animals. 
To get 'the pedigree made out. one must 
sMiiiily send in the name of the animal 
with its herd register number, and the 
liersou tabulating the pedigree does the 
vest. 
The question of testing for butter rec¬ 
ords is an altogether different-matter. It 
would be unwi.se for an ordinary fanner’s 
son to try to train his colt for tlie race¬ 
track. lie simply wouldn’t know how. 
This applies almost as well to the cow. 
When one goes in for official records he 
has to go 111 ) against experts. Tt is not 
only a trade, it is a science. A cow will 
give a whole lot more .milk with good 
care than she will with poor, and .she 
will also give another wliole lot more 
with the'best of feed and care-than she 
will with just good feed and care. If 
one is prepared to give tlie best of feed 
and care, then test by all means—but be 
sure that you know what the best really 
is. 
Does it pay to t(*st? 'Well, rather. I 
know of a man who bought a cow for 
$250. W'lieii she freshened, he tested 
her, and the record that she made hap¬ 
pened to he a world’s record. 'Plie calf 
that she was carrying at the time he 
bouglit her was not sired by the best bull 
in the world, but he sold the calf for $20.- 
000. The next time he bred her to a 
really good bull. She freshened again— 
and beat her former record. Rut it was 
no longer a world’s record. Another cow 
had got away with that. Rut, notwith¬ 
standing that the cow no longer held the 
world’s record, her little bull calf ■brought 
$5.3,000. Talk about prospecting for 
gold; why. it is like matching pennies 
out hack of the woodshed in comparison 
to testing cows. 
Rut if one does not feel equal to get¬ 
ting out and looking for world’s records, 
that is no reason that one should not 
breed ITolstein-Priesians. Not all big 
testers produce big testers. And it is 
quite a common thing for the really ex¬ 
pert breeders (?) to go snooping around 
among the little breeders looking for 
“prospects.” i’^o. quite, often, we get a 
or .$.‘50D. This is better tlian .selling 
grades for $100 each. And they cost no 
mort' to raise. Resides, some of us gc-t 
a good deal of satisfaction out of just 
owning purebreds. Rut the real big rea- 
.son why we should test onr heifers i.; 
that it develops them. There used to be 
an (»!d fogy notion that it mined a cow 
to put her through the official test. <)i 
course some cows W(*re ruined, but not 
enough to matter when we consider the 
many that are improved. If the two- 
year-old heifer is projicrly fed before she 
fri'shens, her .iiddi-r is massaged and 
stretf-hed and made to look like an oI;l 
cow’s udder. Then, when she fresliens. 
she is milked four times a day. and really 
gotti-ii into the Iiahit of giving milk, slio 
will be a whole lot better (-ow when she 
freshens again, and about twice as good 
a cow at maturity as if she liad lieen 
scrimped along and had developed a lit¬ 
tle buiieli of an udder about as big as 
one’s hat. 
lYill it pay to jiay a rather large ser¬ 
vice fc-e for hri-eding grade sows to a line 
registered boar? Here we have a dilTer- 
ei't iiroposition. In the ea.se of the llol- 
stein-Friesians. we are breeding for a 
liarticular function—the production of 
milk and Initter. an animal that will 
consume large (inaiitities of food, and. 
contrary to nature, put it in her udder in¬ 
stead of niion her l>ack. In tlie pig wi- 
simply want the animal to lay on the 
fle.sli. Of course, some breeders want 
their pigs to grow long and lean and 
others want them to grow short and fat. 
So they -have devc-loped dilTerent breeds of 
pigs, and 'these purebred jiigs are neces¬ 
sary to preserve the type and keep nji the 
interest in pigs in general. Rut most of 
ii.s are satisfied if we can get a pig that 
will (-at a good lot of feed, and, liy proii- 
er assimilation, store it up on himsidf 
most anywhere. Therefore the pig that 
has the best digestion is the best i>ig. 
IVe sometimes practice inbreeding in 
cattle to intensify .some desirable charac¬ 
teristic-. Rut we always do it at the risk 
of weakening the vigor of the animal. lYi- 
could increase the vigor of the animals 
by a decided outcro.ss, like c-rossing two 
distinct breeds. Rut we cannot do this 
because we would derange the particular 
function for which each of the animals 
had been bred for generations. Would 
su(-h a proceeding hurt the pig? We are 
breeding‘piRS for pork. The pig with the 
strongest constitution, and therefore the 
be.st digestion and assimilation, will make 
the most pork out of a given amount of 
feed: Therefore, wliere will be the hai-m 
of crossing two breeds of pigs? Or the 
benefit of using the rc'gistered sire, if the 
progeny cannot be registered and sold for 
breeding puriioses? 
Rome of the best pigs that I ever 
owned were out of a .Tersey Red, and 
were sired by a Rerkshire boar, and I 
would not lie afraid to take a bnnch of 
pigs bred this way and imt them up 
against either a bunch of purebred Jersey 
Reds or Rerk.shires. I should expect to 
get more pigs from tlie Red sow than I 
would from a Berkshire, hut I should 
also expec-t to get them just a little bet¬ 
ter if they were sired by a Rerkshire. 
I would not risk sei-ding Alfalfa after 
corn without plowing. It is all we can do 
to get Alfalfa started here with the best 
of preparation of the soil. Ro far as the 
season is concerned, any 'time hofore the 
first of August will do for Alfalfa. I 
would a great deal rather have it sown 
on jiroperly prepared ground on the fir.st 
of August tlian on corn .stubble in April. 
a. GRANT MORSE. 
Farmers should take time by 'the fore¬ 
lock. and iirepare for the jOIO wood 
market. This is the opinion of Prof. A. 
K. riiittenden. head of the Michigan 
Agricultural College Department of For¬ 
estry. “The unusually heavy drain this 
season upon the available cordwood sup¬ 
ply will probably bring about a .shortage 
in 1910. Men who have wood lots from 
which cordwood can be obtained and who 
have the labor to secure it. would do well 
to get out as large supply as possible 
the present winter. This green Avood. if 
out now, will stand the owners in good 
stead the coming Winter. 
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The use of collar pads is humane. Again, 
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