The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
fiie East to the Dalles to California or 
going from California to the East. So 
we have missed nothing except a chance 
to lose an ox by fractured limbs. No, 
thank you. We have gone through tun¬ 
nels with our rig, we have traveled the 
sides of some high mountains, and we 
saw the big hills of Washington along 
the banks of the Columbia River. We 
saw how immense these mountains are 
in comparison to a railway train; it was 
like a house fly on an airship. 
Wind and Sand Dunes. —We saw the 
mighty sand dunes where the wind blows 
so hard up the Columbia to build sand 
banks as high as an ordinary house, 
where they have fences like snow fences 
to keep the sand from burying the high¬ 
way. We saw men and teams at work 
digging out the roadbed, and the natives 
told us the wind we experienced was 
nothing to what it usually is in the 
Spring. We traveled two days in this 
wind where we felt almost any minute 
the wagon would turn over. We were 
obliged to seek camps behind hills dr 
null down into some gulch to anchor for 
the night and tie the wagon to a tele¬ 
phone pole so it. would be there in the 
morning right side up. We saw massive 
nines, fir and spruce tx-ees, so lai*ge around 
that a 20-ft. rope must be pulled and 
stretched taut to go all the way around, 
and the first branches up from the ground 
were 50 and 70 ft., with trunks as straight 
as a plumb-hob could hold a sti-ing. We 
saw the canal where the Federal govern¬ 
ment spent four and a half millions to 
make the railroads “be good” and give 
the people a decent freight rate, and no 
ship ever went through it. We saw all 
this along the trail and the Columbia 
River. 
Portland Weather.— They call the 
Oregonians "web-foot.” The legend is 
and Jack turned the other cheek and was 
smote again on the other side. That 
made the Hereford mox-e aggx’essive, but 
Jack quit, and that ended the round. The 
bull went over to Fawn, the Jersey, about 
50 yards away. This fellow has till that 
belongs to him in horns, and knows how 
to use them. It only required a few 
minutes to show that bull he was in the 
wrong place, as a good jab in the ribs 
from the Jersey put him on the run, bel¬ 
lowing for lids friends. 
The ox I bought in Denver was not fit; 
he was too light for his mate, he was too 
fat to keep up the pace in double harness, 
and he had not yet learned the kinks of 
road woi*k before he crippled himself. I 
waited six weeks for him to get out of his 
lameness, and had he got well he would 
have come along and learned to work. 1 
learned later this ox was not fit because 
I have a sneaky feeling he was fattened 
on beet tops or pulp from the sugar re¬ 
fineries. I am informed when a creature 
is fed on this class of feed for a few 
months its teeth get bad and it can never 
again live on grass or dry hay. I aim to 
try it again by liaising a pair of young¬ 
sters and see if I cannot make a Hereford 
work. 
The picture of the one mentioned will 
show he was only a calf aside of his 
mate, though he weighed 1.300 lbs. The 
other is little short of a ton. It was not 
the intention to have these two work to¬ 
gether continually. The Hereford was 
supposed to take the two-wheeled cart for 
himself, which was finally done, and that 
is how he lost his job. He crippled him¬ 
self by doing some broncho stunts. 
These steers as I see them running the 
ranges show a disposition to be wild and 
somewhat persistent to go after feed. 
They have often come up to where I am 
feeding our cattle, and if I shoo them 
On the Oregon Trail 
around Portland it rains so much that 
the people must have web-feet, like geese. 
The weather we have just now Is Port¬ 
land weather, the natives here claim; 
they say this year it is very unusual, the 
sun shines an hour or two and that raises 
a fog from the snow on the mountains, 
and in a short while it comes down as 
rain. This has been going on now for 
the past three weeks, and it surely makes 
these dirt roads impassable. If one starts 
from home for a few hours one must' take 
an umbrella or raincoat or be a duck. 
Hereford Steers. —Several readers of 
Tiie R. N.-Y. have written me about the 
Western ox purchase in the Denver stock 
yards, commenting about the type not be¬ 
ing of the working class, as their ances¬ 
tors were not workers, etc. While this 
particular fellow did not prove a worker 
and I was very much disappointed in him, 
since studying the subject in its different 
phases I am not quite satisfied that this 
type cannot be made to work or change 
their mode of life, and the more I think 
it oyer the inore I feel I won’t be satisfied 
until I raise a pair of youngsters, break 
them to the yoke and see if they won’t 
make workers, although I have learned 
along the way from cattlemen that this 
type of steer (Hereford) is not snappy, 
no grit, just languid rustlers after feed 
in a leisurely way. and when they get 
their fill are willing to lie down and 
grow fat. Furthennore, in a fight with a 
Durham, a small Durham will put a big 
Hereford to rout any time. Last Fall in 
Wyoming, one afternoon I unhitched our 
cattle and they went around a small hill. 
It was not very long before a bunch of 
these Hereford half-breeds came to visit 
the newcomers. Among the bunch was a 
purebred Hereford bull perhaps four years 
old, with horns about a foot long that 
stood out straight east and west, sharp 
as any horns could be. Of course he 
started right in to “boss” the job. He 
first tackled Jack, the Holstein. Jack 
has not much in horns, as I tried several 
times to put bi’ass knobs on them, and 
each time he would break them off wrest¬ 
ling with the other stock, back East on 
the farm, so by cutting, filing and trim¬ 
ming they are but stubs now. When these 
two put their heads together, Jack being 
the stronger, pushed the Hereford back 
several yards and in the process the Here¬ 
ford in some manner sidestepped and his 
head turned so his horn had gotten around 
to Jack’s neck and punctured him. This, 
I presume, hurt, so they went at it again. 
away, they come right back, time and 
time again. 
I saw a few days ago a purebred Aber- 
deen-Angus bull; man who had him in 
tow did not know his age, #3 I judged him 
about five years; not over that. He 
surely looked like a nice beef type. If I 
were raising cattle for beef I would join 
hands with this type in preference to the 
Hereford. In my judgment he would pull 
the scale beam down at a ton. They have 
an exti'a long body, short legs and deep 
shoulders. How they would fare as rust¬ 
lers after feed on these scanty pastures 
I’m not posted; perhaps the Herefords 
would beat them to it. The cattlemen 
along the line say the Herefords are best 
for that. There may be something to that 
as I saw more of this type on the ranges 
than any others. This Angus mentioned 
above is the first I ever saw of his kind, 
except in pictures, and if he is a fair 
sample of the breed they are fine beef cat¬ 
tle. I may do some experimenting on my 
own account if I should locate on these 
mountains. j. c. berrang. 
Cow Peas and Oats 
Quite a number of our readers write 
us about seeding oats with cow peas for 
a fodder crop. We do not know where 
they get the idea of using the cow pea for 
this early Spring seeding. It would be 
useless to seed the Southern cow pea with 
oats in our Northern latitude ; even if the 
cow peas sprouted in the cold soil they 
would not grow properly with the oats. 
Some farmers get a little mixed over this 
matter. What they should use, if they 
want the combination crop, is the Canada 
field peas. This pea, seeded with oats 
properly, makes a good hay substitute, 
and is probably the best crop for the 
North in case the hay crop is short. The 
Canada pea is a cold weather crop. It 
will endure considerable frost and will 
sprout and grow with oats. The Southern 
cow pea. on the other hand, is a hot 
weather crop. It will not thrive if seeded 
too early, but during the hot weather of 
July and August the cow pea will make a 
tremendous growth, while the Canada pea 
would fade away during the hot weather. 
We do not know how this mix-up of 
names occurs, but if any Northern farmer 
tries to sow the cow peas after oats in 
the early Spring he will not get very far. 
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