1893 
Live Stock Matters 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Lice on Horses. — C. J. F., Sagaponock, 
N. Y.—What will get rid of large lice on 
a working horse ? I have used arsenic 
water with no success. 
Ans. —Dr. Law recommends rubbing 
the animal with sulphur ointment, or tar 
water or a wash consisting of four 
ounces of sulphuret of potassium in a 
gallon of water. Repeat the application 
in a week. Boil all blankets. Sprinkle 
the ground with quicklime or petroleum. 
Dash the stalls with boiling water, and 
then paint them with oil of turpentine, 
and, if possible, bed and litter with fresh 
pine sawdust. 
Change in Feather Coloring. —A 
writer in The Poultry Monthly gives this 
bit of experience to show how the color 
of feathers on fowls sometimes changes. 
A young Black Minorca hen, which I 
imported from England, was taken with 
fits some days after her arrival; she 
would throw herself over on her back 
and twist her head around, seeming to 
be in great pain ; she continued in a very 
bad condition for several weeks, but 
finally recovered, apparently. Some little 
time after she had rega’ned her usual 
health, I noticed several of the quill 
feathers in one wing to have gray spots 
on the web, from one to two inches long. 
I am positive that her feathers were all 
fully and intensely black before her sick¬ 
ness, and am confident that the sickness 
caused the change. 
After moulting, the feathers came out 
as black as before. 
D. A. K., Waitsfield, Vermont. —What 
is the matter with my young cattle, and 
how shall I treat them? The hair is off 
in small patches around their heads and 
the surface is rough, dry, and dirty-look- 
ing. No soreness. 
Ans. —We should look for lice about 
the heads and necks. Rub tobacco dust 
along the hair at the base of the horns 
and along the necks and backs, or use the 
kerosene emulsion so often described in 
The R. N.-Y. Or it may be a skin disease. 
Give the cattle a good dose of Epsom 
salts and laxative food for a while—bran 
or linseed meal and roots rather than 
corn meal. Wash the affected parts of 
each with one-half ounce of carbolic acid 
in a quart of water. 
Feeding Rations. —A pamphlet that 
every enterprising dairyman in this 
country ought to read is Bulletin 23 
from the Wisconsin Experiment Station 
(Madison, Wis.). Prof. F. W. Woll, the 
author of this bulletin, sent letters to a 
number of the best dairymen in Wiscon¬ 
sin asking them how they fed their cows. 
As a result we have 21 different rations 
used in feeding different herds in differ¬ 
ent parts of the State. These rations 
form the text for a valuable sermon on 
feeding cows, for Prof. Woll takes up 
each ration in turn, gives its chemical 
analysis, and points out its advantages 
and defects. A study of this practical 
bulletin will help any farmer to a better 
understanding of the principles of scien¬ 
tific feeding. We shall refer to it again— 
our space here is too limited to do it jus¬ 
tice. We again say that every dairyman 
ought to study it. The chief lessons to 
be learned from it are these : 
Keep only cows that respond to good 
feeding. 
Feed liberally, but not to waste. 
Select such feed stuffs as will supply a 
fair quantity of protein. 
Raise and feed more oats and clover ; 
use bran, shorts and oil meal whenever 
needed and when obtainable at a reason¬ 
able price. 
Prof. Woll gives the following six 
rations as worthy of trial for milch cows: 
1. Corn ensilage, 40 pounds; clover 
hay, eight pounds; wheat bran, six 
pounds; corn meal, three pounds. 
2. Fodder corn, 20 pounds; hay, six 
pounds ; oats, four pounds; shorts, four 
pounds ; oil meal, two pounds. 
3. Clover ensilage, 30 pounds; hay, 15 
pounds; wheat bran, three pounds; corn 
meal, three pounds; cotton-seed meal, 
two pounds. 
4. Corn ensilage, 50 pounds; cornstalks. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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six pounds; oats, six pounds; malt 
sprouts, four pounds; corn meal, two 
pounds. 
5. Timothy hay, 10 pounds ; clover hay, 
eight pounds; wheat bran, six pounds ; 
oats, six pounds. 
0. Fodder corn, 20 pounds ; clover hay, 
eight pounds; oats, six pounds ; oil meal, 
three pounds. 
“ Self-Sucking” Heifers. —Two of my 
Jersey heifers have formed the habit of 
sucking each other. They now carry 
halters with spikes 1% inch long with no 
good effect. Is there any device that 
will prevent or cure the habit ? w. J. s. 
Ans. —A nose spike like that shown on 
page 794 might answer, though it might 
prove a dangerous weapon if too long 
and sharp. Another scheme is a nose 
ring like that used on bulls. To the front 
of it is fastened a piece of wood or metal 
so large that it comes down over the 
mouth. The animal can eat or drink with 
this device, because when pushed down 
against the ground, it rises with the nose¬ 
ring for a hinge. A good-sized heifer or 
cow addicted to this habit is very hard to 
“ break ” unless kept by herself. 
Watery Butter. —A dealer in Irish 
butter has just been convicted and fined 
for selling butter containing 23 per cent 
of water. Fines and all legal expenses 
amounted to nearly $150. It was made a 
test case in order to settle the matter of 
butter-water and see how much of the 
liquid could be permitted without “ adul¬ 
teration.” The British chemists agree 
that 15 per cent of water is all that good 
butter should contain—when more than 
that is present, the butter is called adul¬ 
terated as surely as if other than butter 
fats were used. As the result of many 
analyses of butter sent into England, the 
following average amounts of water 
were found: English 11% per cent, 
French 13%, Danish 13%, Swedish 13%. 
Dairymen on that side of the water at 
least must work more of the moisture out 
of their butter or stand a fine. 
Sure Dog Medicine. —In answer to J. 
T. Graves in The Rural of December 
24, about sheep killing dogs, I think a 
good way to prevent such destruction is 
to get some blacksmith to pinch off the 
four long corner teeth of all dogs down 
even with the other teeth ; then the dogs 
could pinch the sheep, but couldn’t tear 
or kill them. But a better way is to cas¬ 
trate and spay all scrub dogs, and there 
will never be any more sheep killing, 
and all dogs so treated would remain at 
home where wanted. The well-bred 
bitches are put up and cared for, but the 
scrubs are allowed to go on a nine days 
frolic about twice a year, and they gen¬ 
erally have plenty of dog company, and 
all get very hungry in nine days, and are 
ready to kill and eat anything that doesn’t 
give an alarm to the owners, as hogs and 
calves would do. farmer miles. 
FEEDING BONE-FLOUR. 
I have heard of a number of cases 
where bone-flour has been mixed, in very 
small quantities, with the food of cows, 
and it was claimed that it improved their 
vigor and health by supplying the waste 
of bone. 
The only case, where I have observed 
any effects myself, occurred when a lot 
of bones were boiled in a large kettle 
with strong lye from wood ashes to pre¬ 
pare a fertilizer, and some of the very 
fine bone was left in a tub where the 
cows passed near it daily. My attention 
was called to the fact that certain cows 
would stop in passing, and lick at this 
fine bone mixed with a little soap, made 
from the fat of the bone mixed with lye. 
When these cows dropped their next 
calves it was noted that the latter were 
of larger frame than any previously 
dropped by their dams. This result might 
very naturally be expected, as this in¬ 
crease of bone-food which entered into 
the circulation would not only supply 
the waste of bone in the cow but would 
increase the frame of the coming calf. 
I n this country of a superabundance 
of Indian corn, which is notably deficient 
in phosphoric acid—the base of bone—a 
little bone-flour would be beneficial, and 
might sometimes prevent abortion. But 
as bran is an easily obtainable food, and 
contains five times as much material to 
form and replace bone as corn, it is better 
to feed it. frof. e. w. stewart. 
IN writing to advertisers please always mention 
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FEEDING ANIMALS. 
This Is a practical work of 560 pages, by Professor 
K. W. STEWART, upon the science of feeding In all 
Its details, giving practical rations for all farm ani¬ 
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Tk dam of one of our SERVICE HULLS tested 
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In general no animal for less than $200; occasionally 
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Our second importation for 1892 Includes 30 Bowen 
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