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live Stock and Dairy .. 
Steers as Motive Power 
I am always glad to have Tiik K. X.-Y. 
come. I see many curious things in it. 
I will give you oue that I rau across a 
few (lays ago. A man believes there is 
more in keeping oue good dog than there 
is in keeping 10 sheep. We wall not say 
anything about the patriotic part of it, 
or how long the nation could be fed from 
bis thrift}' experiment. I also have an¬ 
other w’onld-be farmer who s.ays he can 
pay ,$.3,000 for a farm and pay for it out 
of 10 cows in three years. Can any of 
The R. N.-Y. readers beat that? 
I have .seen a few notes in The II. 
N.-Y. about ox teams. I am sending you 
a little picture of my pair of steers. I 
bought those stoei-s last April. I ■worked 
them all Spring and Summer, and they 
have not had aOO lbs. of grain since I got 
them. They have done the entire work 
on the farm, on which I keep about 10 
head of cattle. They have drawn out of 
the woods and delivered to the village 
about 00 cords of wood. They have also 
tie, and that the result is uniformity 
and smoothness not obtained universally 
with the Angus and Shorthorn hull. 
However, my idea iu writing was not to 
state something that there could he an 
argument about, as individuals are not 
(xuivinced of the truth by argument. 
What I know about Ilcrefords Is this: 
As a breed their disposition should prove 
that they are paramount as a beef ani¬ 
mal over all black cattle. 
These noble cattle, the Ilerefords, 
have the best disposition of any cattle, 
calm, majestic, never spleeny and quick¬ 
tempered. Their uniform proportions 
may vary, their disposition hardly ever 
varies. The bulls run together almost 
uniformly without serious or dangerous 
argument, and their mildness is not due 
to lack of brains, as I had fir.st thought, 
but to noble qualities of kindness and 
calm nobility. If there ever was a breed 
of animal which aroused admiration this 
is the breed. 
I had no prejudice when I first began 
A Pair of Uvely Steer* 
drawn the hay iu from two other farms, 
anionutiug to about 05 tons. They are 
today in good .shape, smart and active. 
They will walk to the village, a mile and 
a quarter, and home again iu 1^ hours, 
unloading wood iu the meantime. I make 
this statement iu order to give the farm¬ 
ers of the country an idea of what they 
lose keeping old horses, eating all the 
grain there is before them, and .still can¬ 
not do the work of my little steers. 
New York. a e. brown. 
High Qualities of Hereford Cattle 
The R. N.-Y. seems to desire to fur¬ 
ther nothing hut facts, and wMle you 
may enter debates, and list argnmeuts 
that may he porluips erroneous, you 
strive for exactness. This is particu¬ 
larly creditable, as the field of agricul¬ 
tural comment and wu-itiug is given up 
a good deal to the record- of some very 
questionable advice, and countless repe¬ 
titions. I noted the other day an article 
criticising s’ome writer w'ho had made 
large claims for Hereford cattle. The 
claimant enthusiastically put them at the 
head of all beef breeds, and also classed 
them as the king of money-getters, etc. 
The critic wanted to know where be got 
his information, or perhaps where bo 
got tbe money for them was meant, cit¬ 
ing sales of Angus and Shorthorn as 
ahead, and finding the Hereford not 
mentioned. 
While total sales, and prices of ITere- 
fords iu open competition with other 
brei'ds, would in fill iirobfibility 
run higher than other bi’eeds, 
price received foi* an article often 
depends upon the canniness and ability 
of the salesman, his advertisement of 
his wares and vim iu pushing same. 
While Ilerefoid breeders probably ik) 
not lack iu the above qualities I believe 
that the greatest bulk of recorded sales 
are not in the stock yards, as Hereford 
stock alone, but run into sales to 
ranchers and large breeders, who cross 
them with Shorthorn and range stock. 
It cannot he denied at least that Here¬ 
ford hulls are the most sought to grade 
up scrub herds of range and stock cat¬ 
handling cattle, hut soon fdiind that 
■black cattle of all breeds, scrub or pure, 
are iucliued to he teinpery, and hard 
to handle, and while we would not confine 
this attribute solely to Angus, wc re¬ 
gard this fact as a great thing iu favor 
of the Hereford, and one w'hieh cannot 
help hut go to show iu a way, that 
they are the hest breed of cattle to put 
on flesh, as they do not fi’et in any 
individual instance, and they are certainly 
admitted to be the breed paramount to 
clean up all waste places and utilize all 
weeds which have accumulated iu I’lnst- 
ern pastures for the past hundred years. 
I well I’emember my surprise in going 
into a pasture after huyiiig my fu»it 
Hereford cow, and seeing her standing 
mouth wide open, same being caused by 
the fact that she had an enormous 
Scotch thistle in it. She wabbled this 
around until she got it crushed and tlnm 
made away with it. They clean up every¬ 
thing, even lichen moss. Some heifer 
calve.s seemed to prefer this moss, even 
when too small to eat much gi-ass, and 
we had to he careful that same did not 
constipate them. 
As to disposition and foragers tliey 
have aue w’oudering at them, and we have 
to yet see their equal .as to quick growth, 
and as to final size, weight or price re¬ 
ceived. That may depend on their 
owner, but their qualities which have 
made me love them are uniform, and 
do not vary with any individual we 
have yet seen. G. E. hartshokx. 
Massachusetts. 
Pawing 
My driving horse has a habit of pawing 
when hitched to a post. I have tried 
buckling a chain to his fetlock without 
auv results; also chained both feet to¬ 
gether, using a piece of chain about eight 
inches long. He would break the straps 
and go at it again. Can you suggest a 
remedy ? 
Try the effect of flat pieces of lead 
hung'on strings from the breast collar so 
that they will be struck by the knees when 
the horse paws. Another plan is to run a 
rope or cord from a strap buckled around 
one pasturn tip through a ling in a sur¬ 
cingle and dowE to a strap around the 
other pastern. S- 
