1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
63 
Live Stock Matters 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Twenty Jersey cows are already on 
hand at the World’s Fair ready to begin 
“ acclimating ” before the butter tests 
begin. 
The New Hampshire Experiment Sta¬ 
tion has issued two very interesting and 
practical bulletins on stock feeding. 
One is called the Stock Feeder’s Guide, 
and goes with a chart printed on thick 
paper containing tables on What Cattle 
Require Daily, What Fodders Contain, 
and Amount of Grain by Measure Corres¬ 
ponding with Given Weight. Analyses 
of the best-known fodders are given with 
rules for making up a ration. It is a 
very handy thing—always ready for use. 
The other bulletin discusses the effect of 
various foods on the composition of but¬ 
ter fats. 
Cob Meal For Horses. —What is The 
Rural’s opinion about feeding cob meal 
(corn and cob ground together) to horses 
in the proportion of one-third of it to 
one-third each of bran and ground oats ? 
Does it injure a horse’s stomach ? o. H. 
Basking Ridge, N. J. 
Ans. —Our neighbor feeds a mixture of 
one barrel of ear corn and one bushel of 
rye ground together to work horses with 
good results. The meal is mixed with 
chopped rye straw. The cob meal must 
be very carefully ground and if not thor¬ 
oughly crushed, should be sifted. The 
above ration is all right for work horses, 
but we would feed more oats for drivers. 
See an article on this subject in the 
Farmers’ Club in this issue. 
Something: About Roup. 
A. M. C., Bunker Hill, III.—What 
remedy is effective against roup and 
canker in poultry? Is it a peculiar feat¬ 
ure of roup to affect the left eye only ? 
Most of those diseased around here are 
affected in that eye. 
Ans. —The only infallible remedy for 
a fowl thoroughly affected with roup in 
its later stages, is a sharp hatchet, well 
laid on. Canker of the mouth and throat 
is only a manifestation of the disease. 
Roup is caused mainly by dampness, by 
exposure to draughts or cold winds, and 
by imperfect shelter. 1 do not consider 
it contagious. It is the same as cold in 
the human family, and is caused in the 
same way. Roosting where there is a 
draught, often from a crack almost in¬ 
visible, or from a very small hole, is a 
prolific source. Those affected in the 
left eye have probably had the left eye 
exposed to such draughts. I know of no 
other explanation. If the fowls are not 
badly affected, bathe the affected eyes 
and heads daily with warm water, and 
anoint with equal parts of lard and ker¬ 
osene oil, giving a pill of the same the 
size of a large pea. Kerosene oil thrown 
into the nostrils and down the throat 
with a sewing-machine oil-can is also 
good. Give chlorate of potash in the 
drinking water, and, above all things, 
keep the fowls dry, warm and comfort¬ 
able, and out of the wind. Feed moder¬ 
ately, especially if there are any symp¬ 
toms of diarrhea. It is much easier to 
prevent roup than to cure it, and though 
I have occasionally spent time to doctor 
affected birds, I know that it is not very 
profitable business, unless they are valu¬ 
able, or the disease is in its earlier stages. 
Roup is one of the most common as well 
as the most deadly diseases to which fowls 
are subject. f. h. v. 
COW QUESTIONS. 
QUESTION BOX AT HAMMOND, N. Y., IN¬ 
STITUTE. 
1. “ Should heifers be milked the first 
season until within a few days of the 
second calving ? ” 
Ans. —Yes. The habit of long milking 
is very valuable, and can be established 
by care. If allowed, or compelled by 
want of proper food and care, to dry up 
early in the season, the animal will never 
be so valuable. Great care should be 
taken to provide succulent food, which 
improves both the quantity and quality 
of the milk. 
2. “ Do different kinds of feed pro¬ 
duce different qualities and quantities 
of milk ? ” 
Ans. —Cotton-seed meal gives a milk 
which makes hard butter. The addition 
of linseed oil-meal tends to soften it. 
Ensilage increases the quantity of milk. 
If a cow is in prime condition and has 
been well fed, it is hard to increase the 
per cent of butter fat. If an improper 
ration is fed, the cow will take the 
necessary elements from her system till 
very poor. Then the quality of the milk 
will become poorer. A succulent food 
enables her to digest and assimilate her 
food to greater advantage. 
3. “ Does feeding ensilage in any way 
injure the quality of the cheese ?” 
Ans. —No, if properly fed. 
4. “ Can as much cheese be made from 
poor as from rich milk ?” 
Ans. —No ! The solids which enter into 
the cheese are very largely controlled by 
the butter fat. 
5. “How often should cows have salt?” 
Ans —They should have free access to 
it at all times. They will not eat enough 
to hurt them. Care should be taken to 
feed them so that they are not salt-hun¬ 
gry before they get an unlimited supply. 
The best way is to put a lump of rock 
salt in the manger. 
6. “ Which is better feed—carrots or 
beets ?” 
If your Throat Feels Sore or Uncomfort¬ 
able, use promptly Dr. Jayne’s Expectorant. It 
will relieve the air-passages of all phlegm or mu¬ 
cous, allay inflammation, and so give the affected 
parts a chance to heal. Nos ifer remedy can be had 
for all Coughs and Colds, or any complaint of the 
Throat or Lungs, and if taken In time, a short trial 
will prove Its efficacy.— Aclv. 
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GUERNSEYS! 
The GRANDEST of DAIRY Breeds. 
Combining the richness of the Jersey with the size 
approximate to the Holstein or Short-horn, but 
standing alone and unequaled in producing the 
richest colored butter In mid-winter on dry feed. 
Gentle as pets, persistent milkers and hardy in con¬ 
stitution, they combine more qualifications for the 
dairy or family cow than any other breed. In the 
“ Old Brick Guernsey Herd” 
are daughters and granddaughters of the renowned 
Squire Kent, 1504 A. G. C. C. and of the finest strains 
on Guernsey or in America—Comus, son of Squire 
Kent and Statelllte, son of Kohim head the herd. All 
particulars In regard to Breed and Herd cheerfully 
given. S. P. TABER WILLETTS, 
“ The Old Brick,” Roslyn, L. I., N. Y. 
IMPORTED PERGHERON MARE FOR SALE. 
GUERNSEY BULLS. 
20 Head for Immediate Sale from the 
ELLERSLIE HERD. 
Y earlings, 
$IO» to$125. 
<» Months Old, 
$70. 
Calves, $50. 
Choice 
Individuals. 
Well Bred. 
LEVI P. MORTON, 
Proprietor. 
H. M. COTTRELL, Supt., Khineclltr, N. Y. 
High-Class Jersey Cattle. 
SUPERIOR REGISTERED A. J. C. C. 
STOCK ONLY. 
Th dam of one of our SERVICE HULLS tested 
officially 30 pounds 2)4 ounces butter In seven days, 
and gave 1891 pounds of milk In 31 days. For another 
bull,sire of 19 great batter cows, we refused $15,000 
In general no animal for less than $200; occasionally 
a bull-calf for $100, when marked with white, which 
Is not so fashionable. Inferior ones we knock in 
the head. No catalogue of Jerseys. Write for 
what you want. 
MILLER <8 SIRLEY, 
Franklin, Venango County, Pa. 
Mention this paper. 
HACKNEY STALLIONS 
FOR SAIjE. 
Three Grand Imported Hackney Stallions. Write 
for description and price. 
P. A. WEBSTER, Cazenovla, N. Y. 
Ans. —The carrots are the richer. 
7. “How many times a day should cows 
be fed ?” 
Ans. —The majority seemed to think 
three times. 
8. “ Will corn keep better in a round 
silo ? ” 
Ans. —Yes ; angles are avoided. A 
square silo can be improved by putting 
a three-cornered piece of lumber in each 
corner. 
EFFECTS OF FEEDING BONE MEAL. 
I am aware that some dairymen feed 
bone meal to cows as a tonic and as a 
source of phosphate of lime when that is 
deficient in the soil and fodder. In the 
last case it is undoubtedly beneficial and 
is essentially a food product. Resort, 
however, should not he had to it reck¬ 
lessly or without due consideration, for 
if present to excess in the blood, and in 
the secretion of the kidneys, it is very 
liable to he precipitated from the liquid 
and to form stone and gravel. This is 
especially dangerous in the winter season 
on dry fodder. I have seen valuable 
hulls die from it, when fed wheat bran 
to excess, but even in the females trouble 
may come from the formation of gravel 
in the kidneys and their ducts— ureters. 
Another complication occurs whenever 
animals on magnesian-limestone forma¬ 
tions (where there is of course no lack 
of earthy salts in the fodder) are fed 
phosphates. The phosphates of mag¬ 
nesia and ammonia are absolutely in¬ 
soluble, and if the former is present in 
the urine, it is only necessary that the 
latter should be retained an undue length 
of time and decomposed so as to set free 
ammonia in the bladder, to cause an in¬ 
stant formation of insoluble crystals or 
gravel. The same thing happens also in 
the bowels, and large concretions of 
ammonia-magnesian phosphate form and 
obstruct the large intestines, especially 
in horses. 
In short, it amounts to this: If the 
soil is poor and deficient in lime and 
phosphorus, a small allowance of bone 
earth is desirable: when, on the other 
hand, there is no such soil deficit, the 
use of bone earth is only a stimulant, and 
its administration in large amounts is 
liable to he attended with evil results. 
It is much safer to supply such agents as 
existing in the vegetable food-principles, 
than in the form of a medicine. 
Cornell University. (dr.) .james law. 
No Headache withTUTT’S LIVER PILLS. 
FANCHON, No. 2681, foaled 1884, sired by Passe 
Partout (394) a son of Dunham’s celebrated Brilliant 
1271. Dapple gray, 11% hands, weight, 1,600 pounds, 
heavy tail, and mane 38 Inches long. A very stylish 
animal, of Coach type. Is sound, a good traveler 
and kind worker—a prize-winner wherever shown. Is 
now in foal by Imported Bon Espolr, No. 1633. 
BELL, No. 15496, two years old, daughter of the 
above, and will be as large and fine an animal as her 
dam. Served by the same stallion. 
Also a nice lot of High-Grade MARE COLTS. 
J. M. HAM. Lynfeld Farm. 
Washington Hollow, N. Y. 
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seven months old, $6 each or $10 per pair. Thirty 
trios of M. Bronze Turkeys at $14 per trio. Barred 
Plymouth Rocks and White Plymouth Rocks, $1.50 
each or $2 per pair. Box 282, West Grove, Pa. 
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