1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
631 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Rice for Horses.—The Rural is 
“ away off ” if it thinks an English “job¬ 
master ” is a “ truckman.” He’s a livery 
stable keeper. e. b. m. 
Wewahitchka, West Fla. 
R. N.-Y.—All right; put us on again. 
Are you sure you understand what a 
“truckman” is? In our large cities 
“ truckmen ” rent horses and wagons for 
work just as liverymen do for driving. 
Millet and Horses. —Will the feeding 
of Hungarian to horses cause them to 
become.blind ? I have been informed by 
some that it will. What are its feeding 
qualities for other stock ? s. w. p. 
Smithfield, R. I. 
R. N.-Y.—There is no more connection 
between millet and blindness than be¬ 
tween clever and deafness. There has 
been some trouble in the West from feed¬ 
ing millet hay to horses, but that was 
because the hay stood too long before cut¬ 
ting and the beards irritated the horse’s 
stomach. We should prefer to feed mil¬ 
let to cattle, though we have fed it to 
horses with satisfaction. 
Some Jersey Notes. —T. S. Cooper, 
who is now at the World’s Fair, writes 
as follows regarding his Jerseys : 
“ I am here showing Jerseys close on 
to four weeks, and have been very for¬ 
tunate in taking prizes—all are of the 
blood of Pedro and Marjoram 2nd. There 
are 18 animals and they have won 16 rib¬ 
bons. Pedro has won two firsts and, best 
of all, he has captured the sweepstakes 
in competition with bulls of all ages—a 
great honor for a bull 16 years old. Old 
Marjoram 2nd is 17 years old and is the 
best cow on exhibition. Pedro’s sons and 
daughters are also among the first prize 
winners. We also won the first herd 
prize with Pedro and Marjoram at the 
head, also first and third on bull and five 
of his produce and first on herd under 
two years old. All the animals have 
been bred by me except Pedro and 
Marjoram 2nd. I have always said that the 
breeder who exhibits animals of his own 
breeding on which he wins, is not only 
deserving of great credit as a breeder, 
but is an honor to the breed he repre¬ 
sents ; while the regular show speculator 
buys his prize winners—which I consider 
little credit to him as a breeder.” 
To Fatten an Old Cow. —1. What 
would be the best ration to feed an old 
cow that has few teeth, and how should 
it be prepared so as to get her fat for the 
butcher in as short a time as possible ? 
She is very thin now and gives about 
three or four quarts of milk at a milking. 
Of course, I shall have to dry her up. I 
do not want to keep her over winter. 
The kind of feed I have is good fodder, 
Timothy and clover hay, and also pump¬ 
kins. Of grain I have wheat, oats and 
rye, and will have corn before long. If I 
haven’t enough grain or the right kind, 
I will have to buy. 2. What is the near¬ 
est place to us where a Hackney stallion 
is kept ? e. w., jr. 
Allendale Center, Mich. 
Ans. —1. We would dry up the cow 
and tie her in the stable. You probably 
cannot make her very fat, but you can 
put some flesh on her by careful feeding. 
Cut the Timothy and clover hay and 
steam it by putting it in a tight barrel 
and pouring in boiling water and then 
covering to hold in the steam. Feed all 
she will eat of this with chopped pump¬ 
kins twice a day. For grain nothing is 
better than corn mekl. You can feed six 
quarts or more a day sprinkled on the 
steamed hay. Until your corn is ripe 
equal parts of ground rye and wheat will 
answer. 2. Our readers will have to 
answer about the stallion. 
Treeless Pastures.— The editorial 
note in a late Rural on the cow kept 
without shade and watered or not wa¬ 
tered in a pail, set me to thinking and 
did me good. It made me more con¬ 
tented with the hills and stones of the 
Green Mountain State. I do believe 
that stones and hills are not the worst 
things a farmer has to contend with. I 
could not feel easy at all if my cows 
were exposed to the hot sun through 
the day, and to water them with a pail 
would seem like a great waste of time 
and strength. In my pasture, and in 
every pasture that I know of about here 
there is plenty of shade. My cows on 
very hot days stay in the woods a large 
part of the time. They get their water 
from two brooks which run across the 
pasture, one of which never dries up. 
Twice since our family have known about 
the farm, this brook has for a short time 
stopped running during the day, but it 
has always run at night. I never valued 
this stream of pure, clear water as I 
have since I read that note about for¬ 
getting to water the cow. It seems to 
me that if I had a treeless pasture I 
would try to start some shade trees. 
Why would not some kind of nut-bear¬ 
ing trees make the best kind of shade ? 
The widespread chestnut tree, or the 
butternut, which is the only nut-bearing 
tree we have in this locality, or some 
similar trees are just the things for such 
a purpose. It would seem strange, in¬ 
deed, to be without plenty of trees, 
woods to go to to get poles and posts 
and wood and timber. Some farmers 
about here are clearing up much of their 
woodland, using the cleared land for 
grazing; but I do not know of a farm 
which has not plenty of shade in the 
pasture. j. w. newton. 
Vermont. 
Making Birds Sit. —Poultrymen in 
this country spend considerable time in 
trying to keep hens from sitting. It is 
a little unusual to learn of people who 
have to beg their hens to become broody. 
Yet Mr. Poole, in Poultry, tells us that 
this often happens in France and Ger¬ 
many. The following methods are in 
vogue: 
1. Leave the eggs in the nest and the 
hens of their own accord will take to 
them. 
2. Feed them until they are satiated 
with hemp seed, and so take away from 
them all desire to go foraging for food. 
3. Make them intoxicated with bread 
steeped in wine or pure cider before 
placing them on the nests. 
4. Pluck the feathers from the abdo¬ 
men and beat it with stinging nettles, 
which makes it long for the coolness of 
tiie eggs in the nest. This method has 
actually been applied to capons, old 
cocks and turkey hens. 
5. This method is considered superior 
to any of the foregoing, especially in the 
case of turkey hens, and consists in put¬ 
ting the bird into an open box exactly of 
her width and length and from six to 
eight inches deeper than her body when 
she is sitting. Then attach to her neck 
with a piece of twine a small board a 
trifle narrower than the width of the box 
and which presses down on her back. 
The uneasiness which this board causes 
the bird is sufficient to make her keep on 
the eggs, and imparts to her that sort of 
feverishness which always accompanies 
incubation. 
Mr. Poole says he tried to make one 
oC his hens drunk by feeding her ale, 
hut she continued as sober as a judge. 
Greatly to her credit I 
SHEEP AS HOES. 
CLEARING OUT THE WEEDS. 
It is reported that in some parts of the 
West sheep are turned into the corn 
fields in August to eat the weeds and 
grass. It is said they do not injure the 
growing corn beyond gnawing off the 
lower leaves. Does The Rural know 
anything about the practice, and is it a 
fact that the sheep do not injure the 
corn ? 
I have known it practiced satisfactorily 
with no complaint of damage to the corn. 
1 luppose it was large and in full ear. 
Illinois. FARMER MILES. 
We turn sheep in the com field at any 
time after the ears are too big for them 
to eat off, and the only damage they do 
is to break it down when they are fright¬ 
ened, and too many of them run between 
the hills. I had 150 head in a field of 23 
acres of corn, and they only injured it 
under the shade trees. m. w. m. 
Cuba, Ill. 
I have lived in this vicinity for over 20 
years and never before heard of turning 
sheep into the corn fields to eat weeds 
and the lower leaves of the corn. I be¬ 
lieve they would most assuredly eat the 
corn. I have inquired of several farmers 
if they knew of such practice, and they 
all laughed at the idea that the sheep 
would not eat the corn. Comparatively 
few sheep are raised here, dairying being 
the leading farm industry. What may 
be done farther west I do not know, but 
I believe the sheep would find the corn 
if they had to climb the stalks for it. 
Batavia, Ill. d. b. h. 
It is a common thing to turn sheep 
into the corn fields in August and Sep¬ 
tember, to eat off the noxious weeds and 
grass ; but this is done only when the 
corn is of good size and stands up well. 
If small, or blown down, it would not 
do to turn sheep in. Corn in our bot¬ 
toms and on good prairie usually grows 
from 9 to 12 feet h’gh, and some still 
higher, and the ears are from four to six 
feet from the ground. The sheep will 
neither break nor hurt the stalks of such 
corn, but will clean the field of almost 
all kinds of weeds, especially the cock’e- 
hurr, which is very persistent and trou¬ 
blesome, but can be exterminated in a 
few years by pasturing sheep in August 
and September, as they will not let a 
plant go to seed if they can get at it. 
The sheep will not molest the corn stalks 
as long as there are weeds and grass, or 
corn blades within reach, j. g. beely. 
Illinois. 
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your friend in any part of the United 
States, Canada or Mexico, after you 
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on the corner. 
By Trifling with a Cold, many a one allows 
hlmselt to drift Into a condition favorable to the 
development of some latent disease, which there¬ 
after takes full possession of the system. - Better 
cure vour Cold at once with Dr. D. Jayne's Expec¬ 
torant, a KO-'d remedy for Throat alls ana Lung 
affections.— Adv. 
Try it on 
the dog. It will do him good; 
or his master. When a horse 
gets cut, bruised or chafed, 
there’s nothing like Phenol So- 
dique to put on. 
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