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‘Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December <>, 102-1 
Segis 
Pieter je 
Prospect 
Produced 
37,381 
pounds 
of milk 
in one 
year. 
72,$31 
pounds in 
two years 
World’s 
Record 
Milk Producer 
The outstanding feature at 
the recent National Dairy 
Show at Milwaukee, Wis., 
was the world’s greatest milk 
producer, Segis Pieterje Prospect. Visitors of all 
occupations and ages, crowded around her stall 
and read with admiration and wonder of her wonderful record. Her 
picture was in the daily papers, and was displayed in all the promi¬ 
nent stores of that city. Prospect is owned by— 
Qi i nation 
Twvmb Seattle , Wash. 
Linseed Oil Meal constitutes one-fourth of Prospect’s grain ration before fresh¬ 
ening and one-fifth after freshening. Mr. Carl Gockerell, Herdsman of the Car¬ 
nation Farms, gives due credit to this great proteid and laxative by stating that 
without Linseed Oil Meal his maintenance and production grain rations are 
totally upset. He would not be without it. 
Record-breakers the country over, not alone in the dairy breed, but among 
animals of all kinds, have their rations balanced with Linseed Oil Meal. It pays 
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Does Dishorning Affect 
Breeding? 
For some time past various correspond¬ 
ents have been saying that there comes 
with each year a greater proportion of 
polled or hornless cattle in the West. 
It is also claimed that the horns of 
most of the beef breeds seem to be grow- 
ink lighter with each new generation. 
This result is attributed to dishorning 
of cattle now generally practiced on west¬ 
ern farms. It does not seem possible 
that such mechanical removal of the 
horns would influence breeding in this 
way. It would seem to require many 
generations of dishorning or of “dock¬ 
ing” lambs to produce a polled cow or a 
tailless sheep—but there seem to be farm¬ 
ers who think such things possible. We 
submitted the question to a number of 
westeru veterinarians and cattle experts, 
and the following is a fair general state¬ 
ment of their views: 
I think there is no evidence available 
from experimental work indicating that 
the dishorning of cattle by artificial 
means has any effect on the horns of 
calves produced by such cattle. The 
evidence, both from careful observations 
and experiments, indicates that there is 
no such effect. 
I think there is a reason for the range 
cattle that are being produced today 
having lighter horns than those of 20 
years ago. due to selection of sires that 
have smaller horns than in the past. 
There has been a marked tendency in the 
Hereford breed, especially in recent 
years, to reduce the size of the horns, 
and this is probably becoming apparent 
in the range cattle. 
There has also been in I’eeent years a 
considerable increase in^the number of 
naturally polled Shorthorns and Here- 
fords that are being produced in this 
country. Rulls from these breeds are 
probably finding their way onto the range 
in greater numbers, and are producing 
polled calves. P. s. shearer. 
Iowa Agricultural College. 
Cement Floor in Cow Stable 
Will you please give me a formula for 
cementing a cow stable? What propor¬ 
tion sand and gravel to cement? The 
stable should be 4 ft. 8 in. from stanch¬ 
ion to drop, should it not? I have been 
told to have 1 in. raise about IB in. from 
stanchions so the cows would not slip 
when reaching after feed. They claim 
when the cow laid down her shoulder 
blades just drop in this space. Would 
you recommend this way of concreting 
stables. R- L. 
Meshoppen, Ta. 
Stable floors are usually built of con¬ 
crete made in the proportion of one part 
cement, two parts sand and four parts 
gravel or broken stone, a 1-2-4 mixture. 
Engineers recommend that “bank, run” 
sand and gravel shall not be used without 
first sifting the sand from the gravel and 
re-mixing in proper proportion. That is 
undoubtedly good advice, from the stand¬ 
point of both safety and economy, but 
where a farmer has but a small amount 
of such work as making a stable floor to 
do he often finds that a rough and ready 
mixture of bank-run sand and gravel, in 
the proportion of one part cement to 
from six to eight of sand and gravel 
answers his purpose admirably, without 
the necessity of sifting and re-mixing. 
Those who have used the product of any 
particular gravel bed should be able to 
advise as to the proportions needed to 
make a solid stable floor. 
The distance from stanchions to drop 
should be regulated by the size of the 
cows to be stabled; large Holsteins need 
a longer platform than small Jerseys; 
from 4% to 5 ft. being customary dis¬ 
tances. " Measure the actual distance 
from stanchion to resting place of the 
hind feet of some of your own cows in 
the old stable, remembering that the ten¬ 
dency is to get the platform too long, 
rather than too short. When standing in 
a comfortable position, the hind feet of 
the cow should be close to the edge of the 
gutter. A depression in the platform a 
short distance back of the stanchions is 
often made to aid in holding litter and 
to give the cow better footing. It should 
not, of course, have a sharp edge. 
M. B. D. 
Goats Defending Sheep 
In answer to your question “Will 
Goals Defend Sheep?” will say that we 
spent six weeks this past Summer on a 
72,000-acre ranch in California. There 
were several flocks of sheep on this ranch, 
each flock made up of about 2,000 to 
2,500 sheep, and had about 50 goats each 
to protect the sheep from coyotes. Once 
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