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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, FEBRUARY 1, 1882.
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finds that they succeed equally well in the
Northern States, and there are several large
herds of them in Canada, to which Mr, Coch
rane, (celebrated ower of Durhams) is going
to add another. May we not rightly defy
the world to produce a breed having more
merit?—[N. E. Farmer.
Is It Merely n Fashion ?
The butter records made by a number of
Jersey cows in America, has given a fresh
impetus to the interest in that most interest
ing breed of cattle. Think of a daily yield
of more than three pounds of butter from
the milk of one of these gentle, docile little
pets—and such butter!
There is no longer a blind adherence to
black points, wax-like horns—they are no
longer bred to non-essentials—to the neglect
of essentials. It is no longer a mere fashion
to breed Jerseys in preference to other thor
oughbreds, but a business, founded on sound
principles and solid business considerations
of profit.
A butter yield of three pounds per day of
Jersey butter means, even on our market,
$1.50 per day from the sale of butter; or,
supposing this to continue for two hundred
days, and we have an income of $300, which
is ten per cent, on $3,000. The buttermilk
from such a cow will nearly pay the cost of
her keepihg. Besides, every heifer calf from
such a cow will be worth, when six months
old, somewhere between $200 and $1,000. Is
it not natural that the owner of such a cow
should decline to sell her at almost any
price ?
Sucli a cow is quietly ruminating within
less than two miles of where we write to
night. We allude to Mr. Wade’s famous
cow, “Tenella." The herds of Mr. J. B.
Wade and Judge John L. Hopkins can hard
ly be surpassed anywhere, and yet it seems
difficult for our people to realize the fact.
IT IS TUB FASHION
for our people to send North for fine stock,
and, indeed, tor everything else; but if they
really understood their own interest, and
the fact that every animal brought here
from the North must run the gauntlet of
acclimation, they would prefer paying
double the price for an animal already accli
mated rather than run the fearful risk of
acclimatising importations from a more
northern latitude. We advise all who are in
reach of a thoroughbred Jersey bull to com
mence at once grading up their common
stock by using their best cows as a basis of
the Jersey cross.
The great superiority of the Jerseys as
butter produces no longer admits of a ques
tion.
Stock Law and its Influence on Stock-
Breeding.
The practice of turning droves of hungry
cattle upon the public highways to steal or
starve must give way before the wheel of
progress and the advent of a more just ap
preciation of the rights of property. Grass,
whether wild or cultivated, is as much the
property of the owner of the land on wnich
it grows as is corn, wheat, cotton, or any
other product, but hitherto our laws have
required the land-owner to guard his grass
by a most expensive fence, or have it depas
tured by his neighbor’s stock.
Under the operation of the stock law,
which has been adopted in a number of
counties in this State, each stock-owner
must confine his stock on his own land, or
hire pasturage for them from others. The
natural consequence of such requirement
will be a reduction in the number of stock
kept and an improvement in their quality.
More attention will be paid to providing
suitable pastures for the stock of the farm,
which will naturally improve the quality of
the stock. It will compel the bestowal of
more care upon the stock of all kinds, and
those who can avail themselves of the servi
ces of thoroughbred bulls will now have an
opportunity of grading up their stock, and
will no longer be annoyed by the highway
scrub. _
(fonts to Protect Nhcop.
The fanners of Hunterdon and Somerset
counties, New Jersey, use goats to protect
their sheep from dogs, and two are about all
each farmer puts in with his sheep. Assoon
as a dog enters the field at night, the goats
attack him, and their butting propensities
are too much for the canine, who soon finds
himself rolling over and over. A few repe
titions of this treatment causes the dog to
quit the field, limping and yelling. Form
erly, when a dog entered a sheep-field at
night, the sheep would run wildly around
and cry piteously. Since the goats have
been used to guard them, they form in line
behind the goats and seem to enjoy the fun.
The idea of utilizing the goats in this way
came from the West, where they are put in
sheep pens to drive away wolves.[—New
York Sun.
Cotton Nco«l for Hogs.
Geeensbobh, Ala., 13th Jan., 1882.
Editob Southebn Wobld:
8. L. G., in the January No. of your valu
able journal, will find cotton seed beneficial
for hogs if he will boil them with a vegeta
ble absorbant—pea hulls, wheat, oat, or rye
chaff, or finely cut up straw; in quantity
about one-third to two-thirds of seed.
The oil of the seed being set free by boil
ing, is readily absorbed by the chaff, or
straw, which becomes healthy and nutri
tious, and is eagerly eaten by the hogs.
The chief benefit obtains in furnishing a
needful distender to the bowels of the hogs,
an essential to the health of all animals.
Salt or saline slops, with any kind of sol
id, and in fattening season, shelled corn or
hominy, in moderate quantity should he
added before boiling.
It should stand, after cooking, several
hours to cool, and then fed in troughs en
closed in a full size pen, with floor to pre
vent the mud mixing with the food.
The hogs should be kept out of the pen ex
cept at feeding time, and not let in till the
food is put in the troughs.
After eating drive them out, and remove
what is left to the compost heap.
Sows and pigs should not be fed on cotton
seed in any form. C. L. S.
Pedigree of “Iluko of Marlboro."
“Duke of Marlboro,” bay Clydesdale stall
ion; stripe on face; some white feet. Foaled
May 8th, 1870. Bred by Thomas M. Tod,
West Brockley, Scotland. Imported by
Powell Bros., Springboro, Crawford county,
Pa. Sire, “Monkcastle Prince,” (542), who
LIVE STOCK MOTES.
Thebe are 175,000 hogs in Western Texas.
Fanny Withebspoon, a favorite mare, in
Mercer county, Kentucky, sold for $8,000.
Siielteb and warmth, with regularity in
feeding, are essential to success in the man
agement of cattle.
Fleetwood Stable, Franklin, Kentucky,
has sold to parties in New Orleans, the bay
colt, Marctzck, for $5,000.
Fob hogs that are kept closely penned, an
occasional dose of sulphur, charcoal or ashes
is thought to be beneficial.
Feed windbroken horses frequently and
little at a time. Grind the food. Give
plenty of salt and water at a time.
Mb. B. H. Gbeeb, who lives in Anderson
county, South Carolina, makes a clear profit
of $40 a year on one of his cows.
One firm in Kentucky, with houses at
Paris and Flemmingburg, have dressed and
shipped this season 100,000 turkeys.
Comfobtablf. housing is all the warmth
required for adult fowls. Artificial heat is
dangerous, as it is difficult to control. Heat
ed houses are a fertile source of many evils.
Thebe are lots of people who have been
butchering hogs all their lives who do no!
know that a dressed hog, if frozen, will not
produce good sausage. And yet such is the
fact.
Pbesident Clabk, of the Louisville Jockey
Club, is preparing a review of the breeding
and racing interest in the South and south
west, which is looked for with interest by
turfmen.
Two cows, well sheltered in winter, will
produce more milk and butter than will
gained the Kimossj Premium in 1873 and
1874. He by “ Stanley ” (822) by “ Prince "
(603), winner of the Second Premium at the
Highland Society’s Show, at Glasgow, in
1850; was Brechin Premium horse in 1851;
Lanarkshire in 1852; and traveled Mid-
Calder one season. He by “Clyde,” alias
“Prince of Wales," (155), winner of the First
Prize at the Highland Society’s Show, at
Glasgow, in 1844; he traveled latterly in
Stranraer district. He by “Clyde,” alias
“Glancer," (153), by “Broomfield Cham
pion," (95), who traveled one season in Aber
deenshire, and was there known as “Aber
deen Champion.” He by "Glancer II” (337),
by “ Glancer I ’’ (336), by “ Glancer,” alias
“Thompson’s Black Horse" (335), who was
born about the year 1810, and was the most
noted founder of the Clydesdale breed.
“ Duke of Marlboro’s ” dam, " Millte,” by
Sir “Collin Campbell” (778), who traveled
Ardrossan district of Ayrshire in 1855. He
by “Prince” (603), by “Clyde,” alias “Prince
of Wales” (155), by “Clyde," alias “Glancer”
(153), by “ Broomfield Champion ” (95), by
“ Glancer II” (337), by “Glancer I” (336), by
“Glancer,” alias “Thompson’s Black Horse”
(335). ( ,
Mb. James S. Gbinnell, writing in the
Springfield Bebublican, of bells on sheep as
a protection against dogs, gives this illustra
tive experience: “A good farmer in Leyden,
who keeps about a dozen excellent South-
down ewes, always belled, was grieved and
surprised one morning to find that dogs had
raided his flock, killed two, mangled others,
and scattered the rest. On collecting his
little flock into the yard after a day’s search
he found that the tongue was lost from the
bell. This was replaced, and never since have
his sheep been worried. The experiment is
so simple and cheap that it is worth trying.”
three unsheltered, though no more than half
the food required for the three should be
given the two.
A wool and wheat grower says: “It is my
belief that the real reason why our wheat
crops only yield half as much as the English
crop, is, that in England farmers utilize
sheep as grain growers, while we only con
sider them wool and mutton makers.”
Fabmebs who have not a large pasture for
their hogs, should build a few rods of porta
ble fence, and make a small inclosure for
them, and move it around as circumstances
require. It will make pork-raising more
profitable than to keep hogs confined in pens
all the time, and keep hogs more healthy.
Asheville News : A drove of sheep were
shipped last week from this place to Rich
mond, Va., over the Western North Carolina
railroad. They were bought in Haywood
county, and are the first shipment made from
thispoint to thatmarket. Heretofore, stock
from Western North Carolina has gone to
the Eastern market by way of Tennessee.
The most profitable way to raise beef cat
tle is to keep them constantly in a thrifty
and improving condition. It is not necessary
to keep very young stock rolling in fat, but
there should always be an abundance of nu
tritious food to help nature in its develop
ment. To allow stock to run down in flesh
and become ill-conditioned, simply because
it is not designed for market tor some time,
is the height of folly.
In Japan, with more than 30,000,000 peo
ple, there are only 1,000,000 head of cattle,
of which only 600,000 are fit for food, or two
head for every 100 people, against 73 head
per 100 in the United States. Mutton and
pork are unknown in the interior, fish being
largely the food of the people, many varie
ties being eaten raw. Mopln plants are ex
tensively eaten, as is also an acorn which
grows on a bush three or four feet high. A
preparation from malted barley and rice is
also much eaten.
Stock in Middle Georgia, will ultimately
become profitable. A large number of beef-
cattle were sent up last fall from this county
to Atlanta and other adjoining countiessent
to also herds to Atlanta and Augusta.
Our enterprising county-man, Mr. Eli A.
Vcazy, the other day, sent up to Atlanta, a
carload of fine beeves of his own raising.
Our worthy friend, Mr. Heyser. of Morgan,
bought a fine meadow farm in that county
the other day, and will devote it to stock-
raising and the dairy business, and will find
money in it as well as pleasure, we doubt
not.—[Greensboro, Ga., Home Journal.
The man who gives his cows water of a
temperature a few degrees above freezing, in
a place where they can drink it without
shivering before they go back, and who keeps
them where the manure will not freeze in
tho coldest weather, will make ten dollars
on each cow during the winter more lhanhe
would if they were kept in a cold stable and
driven to drink out of a brook or trough cov
ered with ice. Tiiese matters of giving cows
water of the right temperature, and as often
as they will drink in cold weather, and of
keeping them warmly sheltered, are of vastly
more importance than most people suppose.
Mb. Howell Bbown, last week, sold to H.
L. Bentley his flock of 1000 head of fine
graded ewes, together with a number of fine
bucks, camp fixtures, etc. . . . The Tom
Green Couuty Wool Growers’ Association,
representing 125,000 head of sheep in Tom
Green county, asks the Governor that in
view of the inefficiency of the existing Jaws
for the protection of wool-growing interests
in tliis State, and the extreme urgency of
such re-enactments as will better secure pro
tection against scab and other contagious
diseases, in tho event of an extra session of
the State Legislature, to include the matter
in the proclamation calling the extra session,
that it may be acted upon during the same.
—[Tom Green, Texas, Times.
A Knowing Dog.
In connection with a large rolling mill at
Cohoes, N. Y., is a stable where their large
stock of horses is kept. Two watchmen
guard this stable day and night, and care
for the horses. Beside the watchmen, a
large dog, a cross between the St. Bernard
and Newfoundland species, is kept on the
premises. This animal is endowed with
more than usual sagacity, and seems to pos
sess reasoning powers. He realizes that he
is assistant guardian of the premises, and
faithfully performs his duties. At night, if
anything amiss happens to the horses or
anything else, he straightway starts for the
watchman, and taking his pants in his teeth
will not loosen his hold until he had led
him to the spot. Formerly, when any of
the horses slipped their halters and attempt
ed to wander about the stable, he would
drive them back into their stalls and mount
guard over them until the watchman ar
rived fn his rounds and secured them. This
practice was kept up until in an unlucky
night some time ago, when he attempted to
drive a vicious mule into his stall from
which he had escaped, when the animal let
fly with both hind feet, one of which took
effect on the poor dog’s head, knocking out
a number of teeth and cutting his face
badly. Since that time the knowing dog
has not attempted to drive back any of his
equine charge that may become loose, but
straightway goes for the watchmen on guard.
At one time some loose straw and hay lying
in the rear of and against the barn by some
means caught fire. When discovered the
faithful dog was at his post, and, standing
in the fire and smoke, was scratching away
with all his might, removing the burning
moss from the building, and barking lustily
(or aid. Although the dog was burne4
somewhat, the building, mainly through
his efforts, was saved.
A well dressed lady called at a carpet
warehouse and asked to look at some car
pets. The goods were shown, every pattern
in the shop being spread out for examina
tion. After looking at every thing about tho
place, and driving some very close bargains
in the price, the lady selected a carpet for
each room in her house, running up a bill
which filled the salesman’s heart with joy.
When all was completed,he asked where tho
carpets were to be sent. The lady replied
without hesitation, that she would call and
let him know. “ You see,” she added,
“ my husband has just bought a piece of
ground, and talks of soon building a house
on it. If he does, you know, I shall want
some new carpets, and then I will call and
order these, a? { know the cost.”