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206 THE SOUTHERN WORLD, APRIL 1,1884. Live Stock Department. richund herd short. • HORNS. last few years all that money and enter prise could do has been done to intro duce new breeds such as the Herefords, Polled Angus and others in the expecta tion of sending the magnificent Short- Rroperty, capt. mark 8. cockriu, horns to the rear, but to-day, as everbe- Naslivllle, Tenn. j fore, they are emphatically peers with out rivals when all the qualities that go to make a first class grazing, feeding and beef animal are wanted. Their assimi lating qualities, rapid fattening and Written specially for the Southern World. J Raising: Chickens Without a Mother. Editor Southern World—A drive of four miles over as fine a road as ever made merry clatter under the feet of dashing steed, in a southwestern direc- 7 * W r r rr.lpl splendid parts, indeed make them all tion from Nashville, brought me to Rich- ’ , land, the magnificent and world wid c that m*d be deaired Shorthorn breeding establishment of Capt. Mark S. Cockrill. It is enough to say that the place is so well adapted by nature’s God to the pur-. ...... , , ... pose that now engages it, that it only | techy; got by Airdrie 3d, dam by 4th needed the assimilating care and direc- ~ The bulls now at the head of the herd are: Poppies Airdrie 40,316, is a red of the Rose of Sharon family, bred by the veteran breeder, Abram Renick, of Ken- tion of a man of Capt. Cockrill’s ability and skill to convert it into an establish ment that gives it par excellence and just ly a place right at the head of the col umn of the distinguished Shorthorn breeders of America. The fame of the Richland herd is Co- Written specially for the Southern w 0 , Bee Culture, Editor Southern World-i L you will allow me a small space! excellent paper to answer some! on the subject of “ Bee Culture! The beginner should not i nv f . , , , , , | heavily in an apiary until he hoi and comparatively few know what an ed some knowlege o{ t] i incubator is. Yet artificial hatehing has managing bees b / 8tud J H been practiced for ages. The Egyptians From one th ; ee J d M had hatching ovens centuries ago, to enough to begin with col 1 which the peasants carried their eggs, | The best hiye ig ^ x , ,. . x . .... • - not patented, is cheap and com J thechicks, a portion of which were given | ^ convenicn( . ieB ■» An incubator is a machine to hatch eggs without a hen. I thus define the term because there are thousands of families in all parts of the world who have never heard of artificial incubation, in payment for hatching, much as far- Dr j p H , Br0 Augusts hi mers now take their grain to mill to have L Root> Medina> 0hi()) J it ground. , one with price list of hives arf There are still many incredulous per- fixtures for the business Get 1 ms who will not believe that it is pos-1 and a few colonies q{ ^ ^ sons sible to hatch eggs except under a hen, transfer, yet we all know that an egg receives Remo ’ ve the top o{ theold] nothing from the setting hen except heat incline it at an angle q{ . and a little moisture, and a machine so grees> resting its upper . / 1 constructed as to supply both in the top of atable where on rests yol proper proportion, must inevitably lead plicity> with its entrance we J to the same result. This machine is the rigbt at tbe end o{ the table v] incubator which is now manufactured box bive toucbes< Have and sold at prices within the reach of poured into the bot tomof the o all poultry raisers. and the bees will be glad to tak< The most expensive part of poultry in their new bome> When ^ raising is hatching and raising the chicks out> knock the box to pieceg or to a marketable size. It is needlessly open, cut out some of the best Duke of Geneva. 2. By 2d Duke of Geneva. 3. By Imported Duke of Airdrie. These sires were worth from six to ten thousand dollars each The other bull in service is 4th Duke of Barrington, bred by Mr. A. J. Alex ander, of Kentucky, who owns the great- temporaneous with Shorthorn literature I e8t breeding establishment in the world and breeding, and to have the credit of ca ^ e and borses. Any an ^ ma ^ ^ rom using breeding animals from this herd is ^his herd will always “ pass muster, at once an assurance that a high stand- The bull is an ideal one in all his parts ard of merit in breeding is aimed at. a ne P^ u ® u?tro * Tie is a red roan of Fluctuations in values and especially the Barrington family, got by 7th Duke from fancy prices and a tendency on the °f Oneida, dam by 24tli Duke of Airdrie part of many breeders to branch off af- second dam by 12th Duke of Airdrie ter other breed of cattle and live stock third dam by Royal Oxford. The sire here never deterred the manager of the cost Mr. Alexander $10,000. Twenty , ... f Richland herd from a steady purpose to fourth Duke of Airdrie (sire of dam) was expensive, as a good incubator will hatch comb and f asten tbem to tke to] stand by this noble and incomparable sold to go to England ior $12,000, and out more chickens in one season than I tbe f rame8j right side up, aiid a s breed of cattle through “thick and thin.” Ul00 per cow was price of his service in fifty hens, and these can be fed and as poS8 i b i e . This can best be The Shorthorn breeders, you are that country. sheltered with more ease and comfort p ii sbed by trans f er ring claspi aware, are a plucky set. They are like- In this article I cannot attempt a than one-fourth the number marshalled tbe dea i er8 se ll f or 35 cents per h | wise a steady set. They do not pander classified description of the females. b y a few quarrelsome hens. On an aver- Do not try to utilize all the comt to this whim and flounder under the Suffice it they are the cream of twenty a 8 e hens lose over half of their broods ter to bave one f rame web fin ed j next one, but being men of broad intel- years’experience and careful cullings. I before weaning through disease, cold I dozen pa t c h ed badly, with bitso: ligence they have long since, from a In the herd are found representatives— and exposure. Most of these losses may j bave known bees to get disgust business standpoint, contemplated the fitted for leaders—of the prominent and be obviated where the incubator is Used, I £ b eir new quarters and run a' popular needs of the country, and have popular families, viz.: Rose of Sharon, as the chicks are under control and their cau8e the combs were put in satisfied the country pretty well of the Young Marys, Phillis, Lady Littles, etc., I Quarters are kept dry and warm. I down> an d insecurely,so that thl peculiar adaptability of the Shorthorns I etc., etc. The cows are great, large, An incubator places the business upon ped to the bottom oi tbe hive, to satisfy the popular demands. Long blocky, roomy ones, fit companions to an entirely different financial footing. mU8 t r e a ch the fop bar. The b< years of painstaking, intelligent breed- tne males noticed somewhat at length Instead of a hen setting for three weeks 800n fasten them in and fill oi ing has developed the American Short-1 above. Their latest produce, embracing j u P on thirteen eggs the incubator contains I new comb to the bottom bar. 1 horn into the typical animal of the bo- young animals from a month to three ty 8 hundreds safely stowed away where 0 ^ ber frames filled with found vine species—and especially a model years of age, assorted into pastures and weasels, polecats, opossums and rapa- a {_ j ea8 t with foundation starters beef animal. feeding lots according to age, make as c * ous canines never trouble, and when de£der f n hives will supply y As a sire to improve the common stock beautiful a picture as any eye, attuned the brood makes its appearance you are tbis als0-) Contract the space of the country their pre-eminence is not t0 live Btock *sthetics, could wish to gladdened with the sight of several hun-1 by the bee8 with a division boar successfully challenged. Such men as fea8t u P on - The y mark the aki11 of the dreds of little heads and eyes.and a per- it is a ve ry strong colony, two Capt. Cockrill, who use their large in- breeder that has developed such perfec- fect Babel of chirping voices. Once f rameB will be enough room for telligence in this direction, are to be re- tion of symmetry and other giod quali- batched all that is required is proper firBt . A f ter a few days examim garded as public benefactors. Doubtless tieB aB a inan of no ordinary tact and food and warmth, and the little orphans and if they have filled out the c< their primary object is to make money, energy. If anyone doubts this let him will grow as well as if nursed by the tbe f rameB they were occupymi But through their efforts and the facili- “ Btud V the books ” or inspect the herd mo8t tender of mothers. the division board to give room] ties they afford, they can and do enable aB 1 did - does not r . eq “ ,re an engineer or ma ' other frame which should have a large class of ordinary farmers to sup- The farm embraces about 1,200 acres chinist to manipulate an incubator. The tion also . pi ace it in the mi ply themselves with breeding animals of as fine land “ aB a crow ever flew beat is generally supplied by one or two mov ing half of the combs of firBt-class merit at prices within their I ever,” the whole of it, excepting 100 common lamps, and conveyed through necessary room. If the bt to bees i pipes and uniformly disseminated among ing rap idly, in one week you the eggs. A thermometer indicates the following this plan, have all the! degree of heat, which may be increased fin ed 0 ut with nice, beautifully ^ or diminished simply by raising or low- combs filled with honey. xxw , w . ering the flame of the lamp. Any in- Foundation is made of wax. Kentucky". Canada and elsewhere,"where I feed barns loaded from comb to beam I telligent person can succeed by following I 8 h ee t pressed by machinery with fashion more than merit puts a fictitious I with rich and nutritious food supple- the directions sent with each incubator. I mtions like the bottomof thec< mented by fine perennial grazing, ena- ® d ' Horst, of Davenport, la., who pur- bee8 ma ke. By using it yousil bles Capt. Cockrill to bring his herd chased an incubator last June, thus I and honey and get straight coml'T through the winter in tiptop condition, writes to the manufacturer: “ I gave my h B ver y desirable. It costs about" J. K. P. W. I incubator a trial and hatched 175 out of per poU nd. 200 eggs. * * * * Find enclosed ^ <innp in thel The City of Augusta. 1 dra ft 0 n New York, for which send me , a l ,^ nl ^ n8 Q . bee ; n to wortf Mr. H. C. Gercke, Augusta Ga., high- four more incubators same size.” This ^butit c*n be done It any tiH rp.nnmmflnds Norman 7 R Naiitrailvincr I ia fmm a man wLa Viarl novoi> conn am I J 9 - U/Mild !■ the working season. I sbouiu reach and at intrinsic value. The inter- acres devoted to corn, is in clover, or- est in improved cattle is greatly en- cbard and blue grass, hanced. If all who would improve their The skill displayed in stock breeding native stock were compelled to go to the a i 00 dn ds display in the systematic man high priced breeding establishments in I agement of the whole farm. Splendid price upon the different families of cat tle, and be obliged to pay their prices, the country in general would not receive one hundredth part the benefit now ac cruing. Capt. Cockrill’s and similar es tablishments who keep from 60 to 100 head of pure thoroughbred cows can and do buy these high priced bulls, hav- ly recommends Norman’s Neutralizing is from a man who had never seen an in- tog“himself wHhinthepaatTwcnty'yeareI° ordi * 1 “‘ he best, most pleasant and collator and “green” at the business.I “hen“theVeesan' naid oner fifteen thousand dollars for I th ? “ ost b “ r “less family medicine in | A good meubator ought to turn out 2,000 transferring^ and if convenient paid ouer fifteen tlious&nd dollars for l • . ta* •• a . ■ ,, . * i vranBicmuKi tmu a — bulls, and as high as ten thousand five ®™ tenc ®‘ ^ 18 8 f iamg + , a 8t 7° ng foot I c ^ lcks eack Bea80n - If ? BBe are 8old .the Italian queen at same time, hundred dollars forone animal, the cele- kold ! n . th ® h ? UB ® holdB that have U8ed at a P rodt of 15 cents each it will give a are Bent by q mail . when she is brated 6th Duke of Hillhurst, at two xt and 18 de8tlned . to become the most net profit of $300. The same person can k y int0 a room that monthsofage. They can sell the produce I P°P ular medlcine m use * I tend t<> B ®veral incubators at once. | ™ but of these same high priced bulls at the „ , ,, , . The Iron Review and Induttrial Aqe, exceedingly reasonable prices from $100 L { Buffalo, N. Y., is the title of a new to $500 apiece, and do a profitable busi- journal issued montbly by Homer E ness. A. M. Mettetal. Rheatown, Tenn. the windows darkened but on _ I table covered with awhite clot I underneath this one, the sas I The Daily Memphis Scimitar, of Mem- down, course; open ment. As a test of merit and passport to popular favor they are pre-eminent. I Disease comes in by hundred-weights I The history and general characteristics jmd g 0e8 out by ounces, oi the Shorthorns mark them as models — ■ - * • • «* in these splendid qualities. Within the | Subscribe for the Southern World, Now is the time to buy an lneubator and ralie one thousand chickens for early market. See Advertisement of A. M. Mettetal In this Issue. ' too thoroughly cowed by handling they have receh eu to resent anything unless yoo I They will sting if you do that, they are dead. But don t P