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June 29, 1918 
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Live Stock and Dairy 
The Farm Horse 
I read with interest the article on page 
717 entitled “Give Him Another Chance,” 
and most heartily endorse the sentiments 
expressed towards this type of horse, as 
to his value in the general work on the 
farm, with one exception, i. e., no team of 
1,200 to 1,300-pound horses that ever 
were foaled can do all the work on an 80- 
acrc farm (to do it thoroughly) and then 
be used for di-iving purposes, if they are 
to last out their rightful time of useful¬ 
ness on the farm. A horse of this weight 
can hari-ow, cultivate, handle the reaper 
and binder and also the mower, but even 
with this on a farm of this size properly 
worked he has too much to do, and when 
it comes to plowing on any and every 
type of soil that may be found on a farm, 
he is not up to- the work, has not the heft 
to throw against his collar to help his 
muscular effort, and as a result is work¬ 
ing on his nerve and grit, and he cannot 
last long at that. I am making this state¬ 
ment because I think that it is a pity to 
mislead farmers, as it might keep them 
from using a heavier hor.se to their advan¬ 
tage, and the s.eving of their best friend on 
the farm. 
There is a second point to which I 
must take exception in this article, i. e., 
the remarks regarding the value of the 
Thoroughbred and his relative value in 
the horse family. To class this type of 
horse as simi>l.v a source of amusement 
for the millionaire is to show a most re¬ 
grettable ignorance or prejudice against 
the, in many respects, most valuable 
branch of the equine family, and it is not 
a fortunate time in which to make such a 
criticism when all the world over the 
greatest authorities are preaching (with 
reason) the crossing of the Thoroughbred 
horse on the common horses of the coun¬ 
try, both the medium and heavy, to pro¬ 
duce just the type of horse you endorse, 
for either harness or remounts for the 
army. A colt bred from a fair Percheron 
grade mare and a Thoroughbred stallion 
will give you eight chances out of 10 of 
a rattling good middleweight horse, warm¬ 
blooded enough to have all the courage 
you want, finer boned, better coat, better 
feet and certainly more intelligence than 
the farm drudge, either light, medium or 
heavyweight. 
You also forget that the Thoroughbred 
blood runs through some of our very best 
strains of both trotting and pacing stock, 
and has helped to give them the stamina 
which enables some of our great perform¬ 
ers to go so many heats in a day before 
a race is settled. Then again the blood 
of his sire, the Arab of the desert, runs to 
a certain degree in the finest breed of 
drafters in the world to-day,' i. e., the 
Percheron, making him what he is, in 
conformation, action and endurance, 
wliich has made him the great favorite 
that he is today with the Allied armies 
of Europe. Is this the blood that is to 
be passed upon in such an off-hand man¬ 
ner. as one might speak to a shepherd in 
regard to his collie or sheep dog, in com¬ 
parison with a Chow dog or Pekinese 
spaniel? I, as a horse lover, do not think 
so. A. M. LAWRENCE. 
New Jersey. 
Feeding Garbage to Pigs 
Would you give information in regard 
to feeding garbage to pigs? L. j. s 
Dolgeville, N. Y. 
Garbage is one of the best and cheapest 
feeds for swine that we have at the pres¬ 
ent time, provided the proper precautions 
are taken in its use. In the first place, 
the garbage must be saved for feeding 
purposes, and only table refuse, waste 
vegetables and meat should he used. Gar¬ 
bage which contains broken bottles, tin 
cans, waste paper, match boxes, coffee 
dregs, etc., should not he used for pigs, 
as it may cause more damage than its 
feeding value. The next consideration is 
to gather the garbage every day and feed 
it while fresh, especially in warm weather. 
We have grown and fattened many tons 
of pork on garbage alone, when the sup¬ 
ply was plentiful, hut if the supply is 
rather short and it is desirable to supple¬ 
ment this feed with other kinds it is bet¬ 
ter to feed the garbage to the young pigs, 
and add ground barley, corn or cornmeal 
to the ration for the older pigs which are 
getting ready for market. If the price of 
grain is too high to admit of its profitable 
use, green crops can be grown and pas¬ 
tured by the older animals to good ad¬ 
vantage. c. s. G. 
Soft Butter 
Why is the butter from our Jersey cow 
so soft this warm weather? We never 
before have had any trouble even in Sum¬ 
mer. We churn^ at 60 degrees and churn 
very slowly, so it cannot be scalded, and 
the butter is a fine, deep yellow. M. D. 
Newburgh, N, Y. 
Butter is coming unusually soft this 
Spring; the grass came on so suddenly 
when the weather warmed up. This 
makes a grass of high water content, 
which is one of the things that make for 
soft butter. We have also had hot weath¬ 
er unusually early this year. I should 
say you were churning at too high a tem- 
perture for hot weathei*. If you have 
separator cream to work with, 55 degrees 
should be better. Churn at a tempera¬ 
ture that will make the butter come 
fairly firm in 80 to 45 minntes, and wash 
the butter in water at about 55 degrees 
Fahrenheit. ir. F. J. 
LIVE STOCK NOTES 
t The leading pi’oducts are butter and 
eggs. Butter is selling for 45c; eggs 40c. 
Some stock raising; cows are selling 
from $50 to $100. Potatoes, $1 per bu. 
Four-weeks-old pigs from $6 to $8. Hay 
and grain about all fed up. So far the 
hay crop for this year does not look very 
promi.sing. w, L. 
Sullivan Co., N. T. 
Poultry feed from 5 to 7e per Ih.; corn, 
$1.75 per hu.; wheat $2.06 per hu.; bran 
retails at $1.45 per cwt.; bran and shorts 
mixed, $2 per cwt.; shorts, $13 per cwt. 
Oats, 80c per hu. Hay, baled, $14 to $17 
per ton; cornmeal, $6 per cwt.: flour, 
.$1.50 per 25-lb. sack. Rutter, 25e per 
lb.; eggs, 28e per doz. Poultry, 17c per 
lb.; potatoes, $1 per bu. Shippers pay¬ 
ing $7 to $12 per cwt. for cattle; $16 to 
$16.10 for hogs; no sheep; fresh cows, 
$80 to $100; common, $60 to $75. Butter 
fat, 40 to 44c per Ib.; milk, per qt., 7e. 
Ve.al calves, 1(3 to 12c per lb.; steers, 
feeders, 7 to 9c per lb. The greatest acre¬ 
age of wheat and corn ever planted in 
this county: from all reports there is 
about one-third more acreage of wheat 
this year than last, and also one-third 
more corn and one-third more oats than 
last year; more clover and Timothy hay 
this year. Clover hay will do to cut 
June 10. June wheat is heading very 
fast; will do to cut third week in June. 
Corn about half planted; the rains keep 
ground too wet to plant; it is dry now. 
No demand for horses now. We have the 
finest prospect for potatoes ever known, 
if not too dry; the acreage is double last 
year. There will be more navy beans 
planted this year than ever. Double the 
amount of gardens planted this year, such 
as tomatoes, cabbage, sweet corn, hunch 
beans, peas, onions, etc. G. F. W. 
Clay Co., Ind. 
This is a dairying and mixed farming 
section, cows mostly grades, the black 
and whites predominating; a few fine 
herds of purehreds. Milk brings $1.50 
per cwt. delivered at creamery, with 
skim-milk hack. Rutter fat. 43 to 45c 
per lb. Some milk along the Rutland 
Railroad shipped to New York. Fair to 
good grade Holstein cows, $75 to $100 
each. Veal calves, alive, 12 to 13c per lb.: 
young pigs scarce and high, $6.5(3 to $7 
apiece; will mean a lot less pork to mar¬ 
ket next Fall. Early-sown grain, wheat, 
oats and barley, are looking fine. We are 
too far north for Winter wheat, hut 
Spring wheat does very well, and is a 
new crop to most of the younger farmers. 
There is a modern flouring mill at 
Chazy which does a business all over the 
county and parts of Canada. Beans and 
hay are the money crops along the lake, 
and potatoes on the lighter soil of the foot¬ 
hills. Yellow eye beans are the staple 
variety, the 1917 ci’op selling around 
$7.50 per bu. There will he a large acre¬ 
age of beans planted, and few potatoes iu 
this part of Clinton Co. Our iiotatoes 
have sold this Spring as low as 60c per 
bu.; not much encouragement to raise an¬ 
other large crop. There is a large amount 
of old bay on hand, due to inability to get 
help to run presses and cars to ship in. 
Good hay sold last Fall for $9 per ton, 
delivered at cars, the buyer to pay for 
haling. Several hundred tons of hay 
through this section were not harvested 
last year. Only a few flocks of sheep 
left. Wool buyers are offering 65c per lb. 
for wool. Eggs. 30 to 35c per doz. Platts- 
burg, with its large Summer population, 
furnishes a local market for a variety of 
products to those in driving distance, 
which, thanks to the smalt car, is not lim¬ 
ited the way it used to be. R. J. M. 
Cliuton Co., N. Y. 
