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B>ic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 25, 1918 
I «% AYRSHIRES | 
^RSHIRES 
Branford Farms is now offering a son of 
I Jean Armour’s Laddie 
I No. 25487, whose dam holds two world’s records ■ 
of 20,174 lbs. of milk, and 774.70 lbs. of fat, and 
at 14 years old another record of 18,382 lbs. of 
milk and 716.36 lbs. of fat. 
Branford Harperland Laddie 
born June 8.1917, a bull with perfect confor- 
I mation.iwithsplendid.straightback and setting ■ 
I * of the tail, massive body, and with his breed¬ 
ing, js fit to go into any good herd. We are 
offering to go with him ten heifers, some Just 
fresh, others will freshen by July 1st. The 
above heifers are in fine condition, more white 
than red. For particulars and prices, address 
I BRANFORD FARMS, Groton, Conn. 
ANIMALSforsale 
Hun mostly light, $76 and up. Top-notch 
breeding; everything guaranteed that le.aves 
tlie farm, or money back. 
OTTERKILL FARMS 
Washingtonville, Orange County, New York 
I MISCELLANEOUS 
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nuMflaiMtiAM uablc inforniaiioii. I'reeon request. 
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and Skin Troubles 
Dr, Hess Dip and Disinfectant 
cleans and makes the skin healthy. 
It is more than a Dip—it is also a 
Disinfectant. Use it freely about 
stables, hog pens and poultry 
houses to destroy disease germs 
and maintain good health condi¬ 
tions. Also for home use, in gar¬ 
bage cans, sinks, cesspools. Sold 
by 28,000 dealers on a money-back 
guarantee. 
Dr. HESS & CLARK 
AsManU Ohio 
HEREFORDS 
By Ch.anipioii Prince Real and 
from Prince Rupert 8th, cows 
STOCK ALL ACES 
If you want the best, write 
ALEX MORRISON, 
Capt. J. Watson WEBB, Owner 
WALGROVE HERD 
MILKING SHORTHORNS 
The greatest all-around provider of milk and 
beef. Over fifty head in herd. All registered 
stock. A few bull calves for sale. ;; 
WALNUT GROVE FARM, Washingtonville, N, Y. 
Mr. General Farmer! Dairy Shorthorns ®p?ofit“bfe 
breed for you. Try them. Wo offer a trio for foun¬ 
dation. 2 heifer calves and a bull, unrelated, Choice¬ 
ly lired. First draft or clieck for S425 takes them. 
A few others. EDWIN EASTERBROOK, Interlaken, N. V. 
J of various breeds from 8 
VianlCd—lOUnffrlffS to lO weeks Old: utility 
^ ^ - stock. Advise quantity 
and price. Macniff Horticultural Co., 56 Vesey St., N.Y. City 
Swiss Buck Goats, Year Old, $15 
None lower priced. No milking or bred does. Only letters 
enclosing stamp answered. S. J. SHARPIES, Center Snuere, Pa. 
Airedales and Collies o'^a®® i 
pups, grown dogs, and brood matrons. Large in- 
tructivo list, 5c. W. R. WATSON, Box 1745, Oakland, Iowa. 
“Good to the Last Drop” 
C ALVES relish and thrive upon 
Blatchford's Calf Meal, the milk sub¬ 
stitute. They increase in size and weight 
rapidly; are healthy and vigorous, no indiges¬ 
tion— no scouring. 
Blatchford’s 
Calf Meal 
should be used to push the calf forward to a grain diet. 
This important move is more essential now than ever. 
Write for Booklet thl°\argest 
™ Calves at the 
Smallest Cost.” If you raise any calves write for 
the booklet. It is mailed without cost. 
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SHEEP 
Sheep on Rough Land 
Arguments for the Cheviot Breed 
I am very desirou.s to get some infor¬ 
mation on sheep raising. I have approxi- 
m.ately .>00 acres of rather rocky moun¬ 
tainous .soil upon which in the past sheep 
have been successfully raised. I have 
been advised by good authority that the 
Cheviot breed is very well adapted to these 
conditions. If you can give me any data 
as regards profit per head in sheep raising 
under Eastern conditions where practical¬ 
ly all feeds must be purcha.sed, and only 
a .Summer range being available, it will be 
appreciated. ii. r,. 
New Jersey. 
Taking the last inquiry first, my opinion 
is that the time to start in sheep is in the 
Fall, and the method is to go to some 
good flocks and pick the ewe lambs, care¬ 
fully eliminating all culls. Buying aged 
ewes at the present time and price is very 
much of a gamble. Earlier one might get 
top cuts of good flocks at sales, but he 
might have to pay $30 and another ten 
more in Ohio and the Central West. Old 
ewes or inferior stuff under II. L.’s con¬ 
ditions are unthinkable. 
Lambs here sold at 15 cents a pound 
last October, and you see that makes 
your first cost $10 or $12. One breeder 
here .^old hi.s crossbreds at $10 just as they 
came, the buyer intending to feed out the 
rams and culls, keeping the tops of the 
ewes for a flock. If he had the feed it 
As to cost, there are too many unknown 
factors to make an intelligent guess. 
Personally I am feeding oats on the straw 
and Timothy hay, mixing in clover as they 
come to lambing. The sheep use about 
one-half what they get for eats and bed¬ 
ding. The remainder goes to young cat¬ 
tle. Estimates are hard to make, but at a 
guess I would say that 10 tons of good 
hay, with some straw and corn fodder to 
help out, would winter them well if not 
over SO and the type of Cheviots. f)f 
course, the Delaine does not take nearly 
as much to live on. If one really wished 
to run a fine flock, a bushel of oats and 
bran a day fed in trough would tame them 
nicely and put them in No. 1 class. As 
they get older and begin to lamb, a quart 
or more each will not hurt them from the 
time the kids come until they go to grass. 
Figure on it yourself under your con¬ 
ditions and prices. I have done a lot of 
cost accounting for Cornell TTnivei’sity 
and my figures show that sheep just about 
paid expenses up to last year. In 1017 
they paid nice money, and the advance 
in ewe prices made them look like a gold 
mine. But price fixing is due to put a 
had crimp in the sheep business and soon 
perliaps we are due to write off ji lot of 
so-called profit. 
I have bred and shown sliecp for the last 
20 years and have owned several breeds. 
l‘rize Oxford Down Ram Lamb at N. Y.State Fair 
i 
SHETLAND PONIES 
We sell on the INSTALLMENT plan. 200 head to 
select from. Herd established 1891. Send lOo 
for contract and price list. Address Dept. L 
THE SHADTSIDE FARMS, North Benton, 0. 
Reg. Hampshire Sheep For Sale 
Two Yearling Rams and One two-year-old Ram. 
D.G. Donahue, Long Meadows, Baldwlnsville, N.Y. 
IVhen you write advertisers 
The Rural New-Yorker and 
a Quick reply and a “square 
guarantee editorial page. 
isers mention [] 
and you’ll get || 
ire deal.” See I 
: : : IJ 
Lack Help and Pasturage 
Thousand dollars will buy from my flock 25 EWES, 
iambi and Wool included; some reeistorod; mostly 
young grades. ARTHUR NORTH,Walton, N.Y. 
THE OTIS HERD 
BEEF 
Real dual 
Purpose 
quality. 
Winners 
of 50 first 
prizes and 
18 cham¬ 
pions and 
Grand 
Champions 
1917 fairs. 
Milking Shorthoms-Willoughby, Ohio 
MILK 
We hold 
the world’s 
2-year-old 
official 
record on 
Bessboro’ 
Orphan 
2nd; milk 
10,631 lbs. 
and 415.81 
lbs. B. F. 
Many cow® 
now on tes^ 
making. 
High records. 
Record 10,430 lbs. 
IMP. WHITE QUEEN 
Purchase price $3,000. 8half sisters with records above 10,00 lbs 
A few young bull-calves for sale, around 6 months old. Priced $150 per head and up; descendents 
from the best producing families. A very small lot of young heifers, priced $300 per head and up. 
COME AND SEE US OR WRITE FOR PARTICULARS 
R. M. DODINGTON, Mgr. WILLOUGHBY, OHIO 
would make a cheap bunch, but aa this 
man has to i)uy Iiis feed it would seem like 
policy to arrange with a buyer to cut his 
stufl’, or if not in a sheep country, look 
for some one who is and let him pick a 
j carload and ship. There are few ewe 
lambs from the ranges arriving at pack¬ 
ing centers and their cost in the East is 
prohibitive by the time one pays the 
frL'ight. We have 250 Western yearlings 
in this section unloaded at $16.50 last 
Fall: Seemed to be nice little sheep, biit 
the Eastern lamb looks like a lietter buy. 
At present prices the wool will pay the 
keep, or nearly, for the first year, and if 
sheep .stay where they are now the ap- 
“jireciatiou in value will pay nice money. 
Of course they should not be bred the first 
year. If jiart of this land is sheltered it 
would pay to fence the .s’heep out. say 
.Tilly 15. of one (juarter of the acreage and 
allow it to start. Then turn in November 
1 , and. if not too inclement, your sheep 
will live a month or two. Have had them 
do fine on the meadows up to .January 7, 
but this is exceptional in my section. By 
making three fields one could turn out a 
moiitli earlier also, or about May 1 here, 
by running them in nights. Change them 
once a month or oftener, saving one field 
if possible. And don’t try to run all the 
sheep in the world to start with. Sev¬ 
enty-five would be a great plenty if the 
land is like most brusli lands here. (Jo 
to work clearing up the brush .and the 
sheep will keep down the sprouts and coax 
in the grass. But don't think ewes will 
live on browse. If you don’t feel like 
handling the ax and brushhook, better 
get goats. 
and am very familiar with all of them. 
The fact that I have hung to the Cheviots 
is proof enough of my preference. White 
faces and clean legs, with alertness and 
gameuess, makes them look good to any¬ 
one. Of course, the middle wools do not 
flock as well as the little merino, but I 
think one could go 100 safely. I run 
about 50, blit usually separate the smaller 
and give a little extra care. My big ewes 
would run over a cow. Have eweS that 
shear 12 pounds, hut have never been 
able to breed them promiscuous to that 
type. Flock will make eight pounds av¬ 
erage. They are a good paying proposi¬ 
tion now and it is to be hoped that these 
old hills will some day have a good popu¬ 
lation of woolly backs. 
Our Government policy at present is 
surely unfortunate on the wool question. 
Here we have three large farms within a 
mile of mine, with good to excellent build¬ 
ings, well watered and natural grass lands 
^—a paradise for sheep. These places are 
teuantless and are not likely to be worked 
this year, but we have local capital to put 
these farms iu commission, and dollar 
wool was just the incentive to put them 
on the map. As it is, people argue that if 
an arbitrary price of 70 cents can be 
made thi.s year, why not 50 cents next? 
Indeed, we have writers who would gaily 
give us the German system, with its en¬ 
tire elimination of tlic sheep and beef cat¬ 
tle, and dependence on hogs and the dairy. 
They show us that 100 pounds of edible 
food stuffs can be produced for a few 
pounds of meat, and vegetable proteins 
are the hope of a war-torn world. Yet I 
surmise that these people would be the 
