1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
551 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Rick for Horses. —This note from the 
Scotch Farming- World tells two stories— 
one about the great scarcity of food 
abroad and the possibilities of rice and 
its by-products for feeding. We under¬ 
stand a “jobmaster” to be a truckman : 
The London jobmasters who have large 
studs to keep up have found the scarcity 
of fodder a matter of crucial interest to 
them. The doubling of the price of fod¬ 
der means a very serious loss to the 
owners of 500 horses. They have thus 
been casting about for substitutes, and 
rice is being largely employed with so 
far beneficial results. It is cheaper than 
oats, and with their limited choice, we 
believe that it proves a nutritive and 
sustaining food. In the case of the most 
valuable horses, of course, owners do not 
care to risk too much when an experi¬ 
ment is practically in operation, but they 
are receiving a fair allowance of John 
Chinaman’s staple product. This sub¬ 
stitute is also being used by farmers in 
the south, and we commend it to the at¬ 
tention of any of our readers who may 
be cornered by the excessive drought and 
small credit. 
Oat Straw for Clover —Will bright 
and good oat straw cut with a feed cut¬ 
ter answer when mixed with a liberal 
supply of meal as feed for a milch cow in 
the fall and wi ter instead of clover hay 
which is very expensive at this place 
owing to drought ? Oat straw is cheap ; 
how much difference will it make in the 
butter yield ? Corn fodder will be scarce 
owing to the drought. j. p. h. 
Wyant, Ill. 
R. N.-Y.—Of course oat straw will not 
take the place of clover hay, pound for 
pound. You will simply have to feed 
more grain with it. The chopped oat 
straw will answer for roughage, but we 
should feed not only “ a liberal supply of 
meal,” but at least two pour.ds per day 
of linseed meal in addition. If you have 
but one cow it will pay to steam the 
straw as well as chop it. The writer 
has jund the following method excel¬ 
lent : Get a stout barrel and chop the 
straw ir to it. When filled pour in a bucket¬ 
ful of boiling water and put a cover over 
the barrel so as to keep all the steam 
in. Do this at night for the next day’s 
feeding. 
Grain and Milk Somds. —Does Mr. 
Taylor—page 503—know that grain keeps 
the solids in milk up to 14 50, when his 
cows are on grass, or is he guessing at 
it ? How is it that he can do what none 
of the experiment stations of this coun¬ 
try has ever succeeded in doing ? Not 
an hour ago I was reading of the experi¬ 
ments at Guelph, Canada, where by feed¬ 
ing for 30 days five pounds pea, three 
pounds oat, two pounds oil meal daily 
to each of six cows, in addition to their 
regular ration, not a fraction of fat was 
added to the milk, but on the contrary 
it was .13 per cent poorer in fat than 
when only one pound of bran was fed 
to each cow daily, but there was more 
of the milk of the really same kind, as it 
contained but two ounces less fat to the 
100 pounds of milk. Did Mr. Taylor 
ever attempt to feed 14 per cent of solids 
into the milk of a cow that naturally 
only gave three per cent of fat milk ? 
A good Babcock tester will stop the 
wild statements that are so often made, 
and if invented 10 years ago it would 
have been the “death” of many a 30- 
pound-a-week butter cow. .joiin gould. 
Curing Self-Suckers. — The device 
shown at Fig. 171 in a late Rural, may 
be a sure preventive of self-sucking in a 
cow, but it looks as though it would be 
cruel to compel an animal to wear such 
a device when the flies are so numerous 
The so-called Horn fly’s chief place of 
attack is just back of the shoulder and 
too far forward to be disturbed by the 
cow’s switch, If the cow must wear such 
a piccadillo as shown, the flies may settle 
at their favorite spot and gorge them¬ 
selves while the poor cow cannot obtain 
even momentary relief. Besides, this 
collar cannot be less uncomfortable than 
the stanchion. A more humane prevent¬ 
ive would be to put a surcingle and halter 
on the cow and connect them by a strap 
passing between the fore legs. This 
habit of self-sucking is generally acquired 
soon after calving, when the udder is 
very full and probably inflamed, She 
licks it to relieve the itching and accident¬ 
ally draws milk of which she gets a taste 
and learns to like it. She realizes, too, 
that she gets relief from an overfull 
udder. I have effected a cure in several 
instances, before the practice became a 
confirmed habit, by putting pine tar on 
the teats. My first experience was with 
a valued heifer. I tried sulphur and lard 
and other things, but each proved of no 
account and I feared I would have to 
turn her over to the butcher, when, > s 
a last resort, I tried tar and conquered. 
All that was needed was to touch the end 
of the finger—just the ball, not enough 
to get any about the nail—to the tar and 
wipe it off on the teat after each milk¬ 
ing. In a fortnight I discontinued one 
daily application and at the end of the 
next week quit using it entirely and she 
did not suck herself again until after she 
had dropped her next calf. Then she 
began sucking again and I resumed the 
tarring for a few days and she troubled 
me no more. I have seen at hardware 
stores a kind of “nose jewel” with sharp 
thorns or prongs that would, doubtless, 
prevent sucking, but am not sure that 
the wearer could lick herself while wear¬ 
ing it. _ 
A HEN TALK. 
In the spring of 1893,1 had 16 hens and 
sold four for $3.40. I raised 19 chicks, 
and since Christmas have kept 19 hens. 
My stock began to lay in November, and 
in December I sold 20 dozen eggs at 40 
cents per dozen. In January I disposed 
of 14% dozen, of 11% dozen in February, 
and of 28% dozen in March. My wife’s 
dairy account shows $20.43 for these four 
months. I find I paid $16 for feed for the 
entire year. No account of the eggs was 
kept before December. The flock num¬ 
bers 15 now, and they are laying well— 
there were 14 eggs one day this week. 
No account has been kept of the eggs 
used by the family or of fowls for the 
table. When the weather wasvery cold, 
the hens were kept in a pen 8 by 12 feet, 
and, as they were indisposed to come out, 
they were kept confined most of the win¬ 
ter. They were quite warm and had 
plenty to eat, hence they went to work 
early. They had hot mashes as early as 
they could see to eat. I fed corn meal 
and bran, pound for pound, and oats as 
well as buckwheat, but no corn. They 
also got beef scraps or animal meal in the 
mash, and raw meat when convenient, 
with wheat bran. They are a mixture 
of B. P. Rocks and White Leghorns, and 
the hens were bred to a White Plymouth 
Rock cock. As I think there is as much 
in the feed as in the breed, I feed for 
eggs, and commence with the chicks. 
Hens that have to work for a living can’t 
lay so many eggs as those that are well 
fed. Good feed is needed as much by 
hens as by any other animals. Just as 
if I want butter, I have to feed for it, so 
if I want eggs, l must' give plenty of ap¬ 
propriate feed. J. w. smith. 
Massachusetts. 
A SOW’S FINANCIAL RECORD. 
A financial record gives both the gross 
receipts, expenses and net profits, With¬ 
out these it is valueless ; for although 
some great results are obtained, investi¬ 
gation sometimes shows that the cost 
was too great for the result. Again, 
what has the sow to do with the pigs 
after they are weaned ? Do you require 
her services to get the pork? Why should 
a pig that has not teen its mother in six 
months be credited to her any more than 
a yearling to its mother ? If one wanted 
to make a big record, why not keep all 
the sow pigs from the first litter and 
breed them when six or seven months 
of age, and count in the value of their 
progeny as they would be dropped within 
the year ? All the sow is entitled to is 
the value of her young at weaning time 
and the increase in her own weight or 
value. To illustrate : One way to tell it 
would be: “A Cheshire sow of mine 
dropped 10 pigs in September. They 
were kept until August and sold for $250. 
In March she had 10 more that were sold 
May 1 for $80—$330 within a year.” Of 
course from this must be taken the cost of 
labor, feed fer 21 head, advertising, ser¬ 
vices of boar, registry fees, shipping 
crates, etc. The sow had as much to do 
with the expense account as with the in¬ 
crease in the value of the first litter. I 
do not know v bat the net profit was, but 
that is the way large stories are made. 
Another way of telling the same story is 
this. One sow : 
Cr. 
20 pies at $8 . $100.00 
Three loads manure at $1. 3.01 
Total...$163.00 
Dr. 
Labor.$3.00 
Five months' summer pasture. 4.00 
8«ven months' winter keep. 15.00 
Services of boar . 2.00 
Extra feed while nursing pigs. 4.00 
Advertising and crates. 15.00 
Total.$44.00 
Profit.$119.00 
The value of the pigs is reckoned at 
weaning time. Up to this time, they 
have been support* d entirely by the 
mother. I have no doubt that some sows 
are more profitable than some cows. 
C. E. CHAPMAN. 
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coThB~ge r of VETERINARY SURGEONS 
Lectures will begin OCTOBER 2, 1893. For 
Circular, address H. D. GILL, Y. S., Sec., 332 E. 27tb 
8treet, New York City. 
High-Class Shropshires 
75 yearling rams th.'.t will weigh 250 to 300 pounds 
and shear 12 to 15 pounds at maturity; and 150 year¬ 
ling ewes, to weigh 175 to 210 pounds, and shear 9 to 
12 pounds at maturity, just arrived, recorded in Eng¬ 
land and America. “A grand lot.” Send for cata¬ 
logue THE WILLOWS, 
Geo. E. Brkck, Prop. Paw Paw, Mich. 
FOR SALE. 
Dorset-Horn Sheep, 
Imported and Home-Bred. Different ages and sexes 
to select from. Address 
E. O. DENTON, Somerset, N. Y. 
KNOB MOUNTAIN POULTRY FARM. 
B. P. ROCKS and 8. C. BROWN LEG¬ 
HORNS a speo alty. Eggs and birds for sale. 
MAULON SAGER, Orangeville, Pa. 
Buckley’s Watering Device 
FOR WATERING STOCK IN THE STABLE. 
C. E. BUCKLEY & CO., 
Patentees and Manufacturers, Dover Plains, N. Y 
KINGSTON FOUNDRY AND MACHINE 
CO., Limited, Kingston, Ont., Canada, Sole Manu- 
faeturers for the Dominion of Canada. 
ZTT RELIABLE AGENTS WANTED. 
GUERNSEYS! 
The GRANDEST of DAIRY Breeds. 
Combining the richness of the Jersoy with the size 
approximate to the Holstein or Short-horn, but 
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Gentle as pets, persistent milkers and hardy In con¬ 
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“ 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 8tatel)lte, son of Kohlm 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. 
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SHEEP. 
Ewes and Ewe Lambs, Yearling Rams and Ram 
Lambs for sale. None better In America. 
Also Cheshire Swine. 
V3T' All Stock Registered. 
JNO. I. GORDON, Mercer, Pa. 
GUERNSEY BULLS. 
Imported and home-bred, from two months to 
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honors Address J. L. HOPE, 
(Supt. for H. McK. Twombly), 
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Recorded Berkshires. 
Why pny high expressago ? You can buy the 
best direct Imported blood near home. The 
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WILLIS WHINERY, WINONA, O., 
Breeder and Shipper of 
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