1893 
859 
Live Stock Matters. 
COW TAIL HOLDERS. 
Cording the Tail.— Take a small, soft 
cord about one yard long ; double it in 
your hands ; pass the looped end around 
the cow’s tail, and put the two single 
ends through the looped end ; tighten it 
and pass one of the single ends on the 
inside of the cow’s leg; meet this with 
the other single end and tie on the out¬ 
side of the leg with a bow-knot. This is 
quickly and easily untied and taken off. 
Perhaps this might be improved by fas¬ 
tening a small snap-hook on one end of 
the cord and small rings on the other. I 
have found the simple cord very conven¬ 
ient. You can have a place to hang the 
cord in the stable where it is always 
ready, or carry it in your pocket. Why 
is c ne needed ? Why, to hold the cow’s 
tail from switching in your face and even 
in the milk pai 1 , sometimes. I have a 
cow now that has lost the soft brush of 
her tail. When the milker begins to milk 
she will begin to swi.ig her tail towards 
his face ; after a few strokes, she will 
get the range, and slap across his face, 
and not miss it, if let alone. I have 
watched this tail switching business for 
the past 40 years, and I conclude that it 
is natural for a cow to switch her tail 
when irritated, as well as when pleased, 
and of course to keep off tormenting in¬ 
sects. During fly time, a cow gets a 
habit of keeping her tail on the swing, 
and a “cool, dark stable” is not a remedy, 
because she has the habit, but “ my tie” 
has a tendency to break the habit, 
and can be left off after a time when 
other causes are removed. Did you never 
notice how a calf will switch its tail 
when being fed, and that it will do the 
same thing when you try to force it 
somewhere against its will ? The same 
is true of a cow. c. f. p. 
Holland, Mich. 
Use a Rope. —One or more cows in 
every herd are natural switchers, flies or 
no flies, summer or winter. Cut an old 
wornout hay rope in pieces six or seven 
feet long, tie the ends together forming 
a loop and throw this over the cow’s hips 
and around the tail. It is cheap, handy 
and sure. c. w. 
Bishopville, N. Y. 
A Chain on the Tail. — The R. N.-Y. 
considers it cruel to fasten a cow’s tail. 
It certainly is in fly time unless the cow be 
covered with a sheet or something of the 
kind. I use bran sacks sewed together; 
and two of these will make a good 
large sheet. A cow will switch her tail 
from habit, when there are no flies about. 
I can get along well with the cow that 
I am milking, but it is the cow that 
stands back of me that makes the trouble. 
Several times I have been nearly blinded. 
I have had two patent fasteners, and the 
best thing of which I know is a common 
stake chain about six feet long with the 
two ends hooked together ; lay it over 
the cow’s back in front of the hip bones, 
and let it come down around her tail 
like a loop. It will hold it in place every 
time and the cow will soon get used to 
it. A large rope will answer if it be 
heavy enough. A patent fastener often 
gets left on and the cow goes to pasture 
and loses it; but the chain naturally 
drops off when the cow backs out of the 
stanchion. porter colby. 
New Hampshire. 
Tail Holder —In reply to C. F. C., 
page 810, wire cow-tail holders have been 
offered as premiums with an agricultural 
paper for two years, but as they fastened 
the tail to the leg it was quite an induce¬ 
ment for the cow to kick. A better way 
is to put the brush of the tail in the 
angle under the left knee when one sits 
down to milk. j. n. g. 
It Pays. 
It pays to read the papers, especially your own 
* arm paper, for often In this way good business 
opportunities are Drought to your attention, it 
may be that you wish to secure a bargain in imple¬ 
ments, or a situation for one of your boys, or you 
wish to use your spare time to good advantage; 
it so, B. F. Johnson & Co., of Richmond, Va„ have 
an advertisement In another column that may 
interest you.— Adv. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
70 Cent Wheat: “Hollow Horn.” —Will 
it pay to feed wheat at 70 cents a bushel 
to milch cows when butter is 25 cents 
per pound ? Corn is 60 cents, and oats 
40 cents per bushel. How shall I mix 
this wheat, oats and corn, so as to obtain 
the best results in butter? I shall cut 
my corn stalks and mix it with the chop. 
My milch cows are troubled with what 
is called hollow horn and wolf in the 
tail. They are fat enough to butcher 
when taken sick. What is the cause? I 
fed a good many frozen pumpkins; may 
that have been the cause? What treat¬ 
ment would you advise? s. k. 
Gilbert, Pa. 
Ans. —We would sell all the wheat at 
70 cents, and buy corn meal and bran. 
Oats at the price given are not an eco¬ 
nomical feed for cows. Clover hay and 
corn meal are about the best possible 
butter ration though not the most eco¬ 
nomical. If you cut your stalks it will 
pay you also to steam them. Mix the 
chopped hay and stalks and pour hot 
water on the pile, covering so as to keep 
the steam iD. With such a feed equal 
parts by weight of corn meal and bran 
will be about the right grain ration. We 
do not discuss “hollow horn” or “wolf 
in the tail,” as these so-called diseases 
are only symptoms of other troubles. 
Probably the frozen pumpkins have given 
the cows something akin to dyspepsia in 
a human being. We would give them a 
dcse of glauber salts and then feed them 
on first-class grain and hay, with plenty 
of salt, and keep them perfectly warm 
and comfortable. 
Some Maine Hens.—I have kept an 
account with my hens for 25 years ; they 
have paid on an average a trifle more 
than $2 per hen over the cost of their 
feed. I keep them in a yard from April 
15 to October 20 each year. They are S. 
C. B. Leghorns, except five or six Ply¬ 
mouth Rocks to raise chickens. I sell 
all of my young cockerels when they are 
six weeks old, for 11 cents apiece, except 
a few I want for myself. I send you last 
year’s account. December 1, 1892, I had 
26 pullets, 11 old hens and three cock¬ 
erels. December 1, 1893, I had 21 pul¬ 
lets, 21 hens and two cockerels. I sold 
and used during the year $105.36 worth 
of eggs and $13.73 worth of poultry, a 
total of $119.09. I Eold my eggs and 
poultry at the stores and to families 
The eggs averaged a trifle over 23 cents 
per dozen. The feed cost as follows : 
400 pounds Bowker's animal meal.$9.00 
100 “ wheat middlings. 1.10 
1,100 “ wheat bran. 12.10 
1,100 “ corn. 11.00 
100 “• corn meal. l. o 
5 f 0 “ wheat. 7.50 
100 " oats. 1.50 
Total.$43.30 
During the winter I feed refuse cab¬ 
bages, beets, carrots, turnips, squashes 
and potatoes, and feed all raw except 
the last. I aim to feed some greeD or 
cooked vegetables every day during the 
winter and also when the grass is gone 
in the yards. c. w. c. 
Kennebunkport, Maine. 
Don’t be misled by the advertisements of Cheap 
Butter Color. Don’t take your chances with Aniline 
Color, when you can procure a pure and reliable 
vegetable Color, such as Thatcher’s Orange Butter 
Color, which Is In seven-eighths of the Highest 
Scores at the World’s Fair, capturing the Gold Medal 1 
offered by the State of Minnesota, and highest points 
In New York, Ill., Vt., N. II., Mass., Iowa and Wls. I 
8 cores from other States yet to be received. This, ( 
after winning the Gold Medal and Sweepstakes at 
the National Butter and Cheesemaker’s convention 
held at Dubuque, Iowa, February, 1893. should con¬ 
vince any one that where perfect results are to be 
obtained there Is no safety or certainty In using any 
other Color. Always reliable, uniform, strong, a 
perfect butter shade, and pronounced perfection by I 
experts In every State of the Union. Manufactured 
by The Thatcher Mfg. Co., Potsdam, N. Y.— Adv. 
A Great Chance 
to buy Jersey Cattle from 
Meridale Farms 
This is the largest and choicest 
offering ever made of M k»h>aj,k 
Jerskys. A number of cows, 
heifemand bull calves oftbe finest 
breeding and Individuality are in¬ 
cluded in catalogue of " Offering 
No. 7,” which should he in the 
hands of everyone wishing to buy 
Jerseys. Prices lower than ever 
before offered by us. 
ayer & McKinney, 
Times Building, PHILADELPHIA. 
WE GUARANTEE 
That one tablespoonful of 
QOMBAULT’S CAUSTIC BALSAM 
will produce more actual results than a whole bottle 
of any liniment or spavin cure mixture ever made. 
It is therefore the cheapest (as well as safest and 
best) external applicant known for man or beast. 
THE LAWRENCE WILLIAMS CO., CLEVELAND, OHIO. 
j£ —' 
Buckley’s Watering Device 
FOR WATERING STOCK IN THE STABLE 
C. E. BUCKLEY & CO., 
Patentees and Manufacturers, Dover Pt.ains. N. Y 
KINGSTON FOUNDRY AND MACHINE 
CO., Limited, Kingston, Ont., Canada, Sole Manu¬ 
facturers for the Dominion of Canada. 
1ST UK LIABLE AGENTS WANTED. 
JERSEY HEIFERS. 
One by son of Ida’s Stoke Pogls, two mouths old, 
solid color, $40. registered. One by Grlsette’s Koffee, 
broken color, six months old, $15 registered. 
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High-Class Shropshires 
75 yearling rams that will weigh 250 to 300 pounds 
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STALLION FOR SALE. 
One-half hts value. Standard bred. 
P. A. WEBSTER, Cazenovla, N. Y. 
Chester White Pigs. 
Boars Ht for service, six months o d, very superior, 
$25 each Also, young pigs, eight we<-ks old, $ 8 . either 
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BLACK LANGSHANS. 
We have 60 extra choice Bronze Turkeys and 40 
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iO. II. WHITE & SON, Miller Corners, N. Y. 
CCUn Cl for a Dominique Leghorn Cockerel 
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