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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
.Tune 1, 101S 
This is going to be the Greatest, Busiest, and Best 
Consignment Sale of Ayrshire Cattle 
ever held in America 
CONSIGNORS: 
J. W. Clise, Willowmoor Farm, Redmond, Washington (70 
Head of Milk Record Ayrshires. Sons and Daughters of 
Beuchan Peter Pan. Robin Hood 31st and Ben Hur). 
John Sherwin, Willoughby, O. 
Hill Top Farm, Wheeling, W. 
Va. 
A. Henry Higginson, So. Lin¬ 
coln, Mass. 
C. B. Stevens, St. Johnsbury, 
Vt. 
John H. Baker, Buffalo, N. Y. 
R. R. Ness, Howick, Quebec. 
Hunter Bros., Freeman, Ont. 
W. P. Schanck, Avon, N. Y. 
Adam Seitz, Waukesha, Wis. 
Wendover Farm, Bernards- 
ville, N. J. 
Branford Farms, Groton, Conn. 
D. T. Ness, Howick, Quebec. 
Gilbert McMillan, Huntingdon, Quebec. 
ABSOLUTELY THE GREATEST ARRAY OF AYRSHIRE 
CATTLE EVER OFFERED. 
NOTHING BUT THE BEST. 
The Catalogue tells the story, mailed only on request. 
Arthur H. Sagendorph, Sale Manager 
Box R, Spencer, Massachusetts 
Baxter and Lawrence 
Auctioneers 
J. G. Watson 
in the box 
YOU CAN’T CUT OUT 
but you can clean them off promptly with 
A BOG SPAVIN OR 
THOROUGHPIN 
and you work the horse same time. 
Does not blister or remove the 
hair. $2.50 per bottle, delivered. 
Will tell you more if you write. 
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the antiseptic liniment for mankind, 
reduces Varicose Veins, Ruptured 
Muscles or UEsments. Enlarged Glands, Wens, 
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MIHEBAL HEAVE REMEDT CU.. 461 fourth Ave.. Pittsburg, P* 
SICK STOCK 
BOOK on treatment of Horses, Cows, 
Sheep, Dogs and other animals, sent 
free. Humphreys’ Homeopathic Vet¬ 
erinary Medicines, 153 William St., N. Y, 
HERE’S the simplest, most con- 
enient and elticlent hand separa- 
jtor. It gets every ounce of cream 
out of the milk; gives you every 
peimy of profit In your butter. 
Reid Disc Separator 
attaches to wall—out of way when not In 
use. Weighs 50 lbs. boxed for shipment. 
Send for booklet of Dairy Supplies. 
• E. Beid Creamery A Dairy Supply Co. 
69th 8t. and Eaverford Are., Fhlla. 
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HORSES 
Shetland Ponies 
One five-year-old black geldiii" for S75. 
Two two- year-old sliid coils for !$60 
each, one hay, the other b.'ty and white. 
Pauline Smith, Sandy Hook, Conn. 
SHETLAND PONIES 
We sell on the ihSTAllmemt plan. 300 head to 
select from. Herd established 1891. Send lOo 
for contract and price list. Address Dept. L 
THE SHADYSIDE FARMS, North Benton, 0. 
ShetlandPon i esiS\i.^ & 
herd in biggest Shetland Pi-oducing County iu U. S. 
DOGS 
Airedale Puppies! 
Two litters champion-bred stock. Dogs. SI5 and 
S30; isitches, S8 ami SIO. 
CONTROVERSEY KENNELS. R. 17, MONROE, CONN. 
Airedales and Collies 
pups, grown dogs, and l>rood in.airons. Large in- 
tructive list. 5c. W. R. WATSON, Box 1745, Oakland, Iowa. 
Airedale Terrier Puppies iXn.a- 
tioiial ohHinpions; the kind you want. Don’t pay taxes 
on a “mutt.” I offer grand puppies. Males, $15; females, 
$10. F.areuts registered. INOIiKSlIlK FAIth, f.anenst.r, N. Y. 
GOATS 
Swiss Buck Goats, Year Old, $15 
None lower priced. No milking or bred does. Only letters 
enclosing stamp answered. S. J. SHARPLES, Center Squere, Pi. 
Big Mares at F; r n Work 
With ail this talk about farm tractors 
we must not forgot that the big hoav.v 
hor.so still has a pl.lce on the American 
farm and will contimio to hold it as valu¬ 
able farm stock. There is a great demand 
just now for heavy horses, and big brood 
mares of good breeding will ptiy as never 
before. The Seeretnry of the Percheron 
.’’^oeiety of America sends a statement 
lUiide b.v a Western farmer who is farm¬ 
ing on a large .scale and evidently be¬ 
lieves in the big mare. This man sa.vs be 
has two tractors on the idaee. but still 
finds the big horses valuable, not only for 
the work tliey do. but for the colts which 
they produce. Of course the day of the 
light trotter and mongrel work horse has 
gone b.v. and there is not much use imt- 
ting time :ind f<‘ed into such stock. The 
big horse, howi’ver. is still on deck and 
will stay there for a long time, and the 
big injire is an asset on most farm.s. 
We have just finislied seeding 170 acres 
of eats in three and one-half days’ time, 
with one drill and eight registered Per¬ 
cheron mares. One set of four mares 
started at daybreak and worked until 
noon, being reidaced l)y the other four, 
which stuck to the job until dark. As we 
nlwa.vs seed down our small grain land to 
Timothy and clover, .von will see that we 
have two years’ crops from the one opera¬ 
tion from' 170 acres. We are through 
. ' ith that jnece of land until harvest time 
this year and ha.ving next season. Before 
iflie ha.v is put up next year we hoiie to 
have I'O colts out of those eight mares. 
We have a lO^^-foot drill which four 
good mares will handle nicely at a good 
stiff walk. We found we were doing an 
average of approximately three acres an 
hour, or between 4.5 and ."0 acres in a 10- 
lionr day. Where the field was half a 
mile long we would make the round trip 
in L’O minutes, seeding about IH acres 
each round. 
The fir.st set of mares would go on at 
daylight, the second set relieving them at 
noon and going until dark. ^^’lll say 
three of the mares weighed better than a 
ton ; the other five between l.SOO pounds 
and a ton. They were all good walkers 
and .seemed to handle the big drill with 
ease. Three of the mares have just 
dropiied good strong coltSi and the others 
are due shortly. We started in to do a 
I whirlwind job and to do it well, and we 
aeeompli.slied this in days. or. to he 
i exact, iu 58 hours. We think this is 
some record for others to shoot at. 
Reforms in Live Stock Shipments 
Will ,vou help us to have modified some 
of the har.sh laws covering the interstate 
'shipment of live swine for breeding pur¬ 
poses? This question is. of course, largely 
one for the breeders to fight out for them¬ 
selves. hut it also affects many farmers 
who are anxious to buy purebred stock if 
they can get such stock at a reasonable 
price. 
To give a concrete example: We re¬ 
cently sold a young boar 'of good breed¬ 
ing and a good individual. Our extra mar¬ 
keting costs included registration, crating, 
advertising, letter-writing, carting to sta¬ 
tion, etc. The boar was sold to parties 
in Virginia, and upon delivery at our 
station the agent advised us that he 
would hold the shipment over night until 
he found out whether Virginia had any 
j special regulations covering the shipment 
lof swine. The next day he refused to 
I make the .shipment because of the follow¬ 
ing regulation: 
Hogs brought into Virginia for pur¬ 
poses other than immediate slaughter to 
be accompanied b.v certificate of health by 
qualified veterinarian, properly indorsed 
by officials of State of origin, showing 
animals to be free from cholera, or ex¬ 
posure thereto for a period of six weeks 
prior to shipment, said certificate of health 
mn.st be presented to State Veterinarian 
of Virginia and approved by him before 
the animals shall be received into the 
State. 
In order to comply with the above, a 
veterinarian must be paid for a special 
trip (12 miles each way) to our farms, 
and his charge for this has been $G until 
lately, when. I believe, it was raised to 
$S. In addition, we must have the ve¬ 
terinarian’s certificate properly indorsed 
by N. Y. State officials, then forward it 
to the State of Virginia and have him ap¬ 
prove it before the hog will be received 
into the State. 
Our objections to the above law and 
similar laws are: 
1. They pretend to give protection 
which they do not give. 
2. I’he examination by the veterinarian 
is never more than a casn.’il glance (this 
will he verified by other shippers). 
.3. No one but the breeder can truth¬ 
fully certify about the hogs’ exposure to 
cholera for the period of Six weeks prior 
to shipment. 
4. The expense prevents that sale of 
stock to the very farmers who most need 
to improve their herds. It doesn’t amount 
to much on stock sold at fanc.v prices. 
5. Affidavits by the shipper would really 
protect without the expense, and the ship¬ 
per’s future business depends on the sifcoek 
he ships. 
6. The triple check—by the veterina¬ 
rian. the N. Y. State officials .aiul the 
State veterinarian of Virginia is un¬ 
necessary. 
7. After all examinations the hog might 
soon develop cholera. 
8. The law looks like reciprocity among 
the veterinarians who are the only one.s 
to benefit by it. 
We feel certain there are man.v ways in 
which the various States cotild protect 
themselves against the receiving of dis¬ 
eased swine without the heavy expense of 
a Sj^ecial examination for every hog or 
pig shipped. V> are as much interested 
in the prevention of losses by the ship¬ 
ment of diseased animals as .anyone could-, 
be. hut we .are not in sympathy in pro¬ 
tective legislation that does not protect. 
Orange C’o.. N. Y. v. ir. todd. 
R. N.-Y.—The only way to work re¬ 
forms in this or any other matter is to 
organize and get together a mass of testi¬ 
mony which cannot be controverted. The 
R. N.-Y. offers its services to breeders iimi 
farmers, and calls for experience in all 
such eases. Send us what you have ;in(i 
we will help organize for a reform. 
Raising Orphan Pigs 
It would. I am sure, help many of your 
readers if you would publish how to rai.se 
pigs by hand. We do not know how in 
this section .and more or less die which 
surely now should be saved. E. E. c. 
New Hampshire. 
It often happens that a sow will not 
own her pigs, or she may die and leave a 
lot of orphans which, at this time espe¬ 
cially. .should be raised even at the expen.se 
of some time, labor and patience. The 
amount of care necessar.v to raise these 
little pigs depends to a great extent upon 
the season. The best months for farrow¬ 
ing are April and September. Under fa¬ 
vorable conditions Marcii is also a good 
month, hut extra protection must he pro¬ 
vided against cold weather. It has been 
my experience that there will be much less 
danger of anything happening to the sow 
during tiicse months. Imt if occasion de¬ 
mands. the little fellows can he brought ui> 
by hand. The two principal requirements 
in their proper care are proper food .-ind 
a warm, dry bed to sleep in. Cows’ milk 
is the best sulistitute for the mother’s 
milk, hut should be reduced at first with 
about half water and fed from bottles 
with rubber nipples attached. During the 
first two weeks they should be fed a little 
every two hours from early morning till 
late at night. After that the number of 
feeds may be gradually reduced to three 
feeds a da.v at six weeks old. Be carefii 
not to overfeed and i^ any signs of consti- 
Iiation should develop they must be recti¬ 
fied immediately by mixing a little castor 
oil with the milk. Of course the milk 
should always be slightly warmed i)efore 
feeding. c. s. greexe. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
Ma.v .30. 31—llolsteins. Hudson Valley 
Sales Co.. Medianiesv^ilie. N. Y, 
.Tune 1—.Terse.vs. Hood Farm. T.owell, 
Mass. 
.Tune 4. —llolsteins. Rrattlehoro. Vt., 
by Purebred I.ive Stock Sales Co., Brat- 
tleboro. Vt. 
.Tune 11. 12—Ayr.shires. New England 
Ayrshire Clul). Charter Oak Park. Ilart- 
ford. Conn. 
.Tune 13. 14—lloksteiiis. Poiighkeep.sic, 
N. Y.. b.v ,T. IT. Si.sson’s Sous. 
.Tuiie 10. 20, 21—Holstcius. Balsam 
Stock I'arm. Dixville Notch. N. H. 
.Tune 27—Holsteius. Orecufield. O.. ])y 
A. IV. Greeu. 
“Do YOU assimilate your food, amity?’’ 
“No.sah, I doe.su’t. I buys it open aud 
hones’, sah.”—Baltimore American. 
