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THE RURAI- NEW-YORKER. 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Another Tail Holder. —Some one 
asked recently for a cow-tail holder. I 
use a soft cord suspended at the cow’s 
side. One ccw, a very fast milker, will 
shoot her tail at me more than 30 times 
at a sitting. I make two turns at^ound 
her tail and fasten with a half hitch bow; 
this is very quickly done and is untied 
witb a single pull. e. l, s. 
Curing Hard Milkers.— On page 843 
of The R. N -Y., L D. Gale gave his 
method of making a cow milk easily. I 
like my way better. I make a small plug 
of hickory or other hard wood, lubricate 
it, and work it up into the teat; this will 
make the outlet any size desired. I have 
used a 12-inch flat file for a staple 
puller drawn out into the shape shown 
herewith. I put on a. wooden handle. If 
the point can be got in under a staple, it 
will have to come out or break, k o. 
Coxsackie, N. Y. 
Treading Heifers. —In winter, when 
animals are getting very little exercise, 
it strikes us that it would do no harm to 
try the experiment of letting heifers 
work for a half hour or so on the tread 
power. In summer, when, as is gener¬ 
ally the case, the animals have to do a 
good deal of walking in going back and 
forth from pasture, and often in pasture, 
in order to secure food and water, we 
think it would be unwise to add this 
additional burden. It would be likely to 
overtax the animal’s powers and thus 
diminish her future usefulness as a dairy 
animal. We would not want to work a 
heifer on a tread power after she was 
with a calf. miller & sirley. 
Here's Your Condition Powder.— 
What ails my mare ? She is in poor con¬ 
dition, but eats heartily. There appears 
on each flank, every morning, a wet spot 
of hair two inches wide and about six or 
eight in length. I think she is also trou¬ 
bled with worms. e. h. s. 
Rehoboth, Va. 
Ans. —Your query is too indefinite to 
admit of a very satisfactory answer. 
There are a great variety of causes that 
might cause the general condition you 
describe. Give two heaped tablespoonfuls 
of the following powder on the feed night 
and morning: Sulphate of iron, one- 
fourth pound; sulphate of soda, one 
pound : powdered gentian root, one-half 
pound ; Jamaica ginger, one-half pound ; 
mix. If the bowels are at all costive, 
give three-fourths ounce each of best 
aloes and Jamaica ginger, ei'her as a ball 
or as a drench, and repeat the dose in 
three da.ys, if the bowels are not freely 
moved by the first dose. f. l. kilborne. 
How Many Hens for a Bone Cutter ? 
—1. For 50 or 75 hens kept for eggs 
would it be better to buy a bone mill and 
then buy bones to cut, or to buy animal 
meal for them ? 2. In raising chickens, 
would The R. N.-Y raise the cockerels 
for broilers or cut their heads off as soon 
as their sex could be distinguished ? 
Dummerston, Vt. 8. c. e. 
Ans. —1. Our own opinion is that it 
will take at least 100 hens to get good 
interest out of a bone cutter. We there¬ 
fore think animal meal would pay better 
in such a flock. We would like the opin¬ 
ions of poultrymen on this point. 2. It 
would depend on circumstances. With 
cheap grain and a good market we would 
put the cockerels by themselves and feed 
them on corn until sold. In the great 
majority of cases this would be the most 
profitable course. The only man we 
know of who follows the other plan has 
a very large flock which he keeps for 
eggs alone and conducts operations with 
as little work as possible. Of course, 
though, something would depend on the 
breed. 
A Feeding Ration.— My daily ration 
for a cow is 40 pounds of ensilage, 10 
pounds of hay, 6 quarts of a mixture 
composed of equal parts by weight of 
dried brewers’ grains, corn meal, cotton¬ 
seed meal and middlings. Is that a bal¬ 
anced ration ? If not, how can I improve 
it? It makes O. K. butter. The past seven 
days I set 552 quarts of milk that made 
417 spaces of cream which churned 64 
pounds of butter. Is not that above the 
average dairy, or must I weed out again? 
Connecticut. G. w. d. 
Ans—T hat is a good ration ; the only 
criticism we could make is that it con¬ 
tains, perhaps, too much fat. We think 
bran would be cheaper than middlings. 
That is a good cream record, but we 
would never grow weary of good weed¬ 
ing. 
SCRUB DORSET-HORNED SHEEP. 
I NOTICE an editorial note on the 
practice of some breeders of sending out 
“third-class animals with first-class 
prices on them.” Let me suggest that if 
a man has a complaint of this kind to 
make he should make it explicit, giving 
name of man from whom he received the 
inferior animal, and also sign his own 
name to the letter. An anonymous charge 
of this kind injures all alike, innocent 
and guilty. Perhaps some men not well 
versed in sheep might get extravagant 
expectations which no sheep could fill, 
yet no doubt the boom now on may cause 
unscrupulous breeders to sell rams that 
should have been wethers and ewes that 
should have been fattened when lambs. 
I am a member of the Dorset-Horned 
Sheep Breeders’ Association, and would 
give my vote for the appointment ot an 
expert judge whose business it should be 
to make tours of the country, visiting 
each flock when there had been appli¬ 
cation for registry, giving the registry 
wherein the proper record and proof of 
breeding could be shown—and adding to 
each certificate of registry a description 
of the animal stating how many points it 
scored so that no one would care tc 
register inferior specimens. Buyers who 
could not see the animals they were pur¬ 
chasing would alsohave great confidence 
in what they selected. 
As to our t-'ecretary’ actions in causing 
delay in registering animals, I think, 
perhaps, I have had as much trouble as 
any one, and my trouble has been that 
he insisted on every detail being right; 
for instance, I had one application re¬ 
turned because I had not filled in the 
exact date, merely saying “March, 1893,” 
for birth when it should have read, 
“March 7, 1893.” I think Mr. M. A. 
Cooper, our Secretary, is a good man in 
the right place, so far as my knowledge 
goes. A registry that is not carefuily 
kept is of no value, or worse. 
It is a pleasure to send out a nice ani¬ 
mal ; to make a crate for him and find 
it almost too small, and to receive an ap¬ 
preciative letter from the buyer on the 
arrival of the sheep. It is quite a differ¬ 
ent matter from selling corn or wheat. 
There is vastly more pleasure in it, if not 
more profit. 
T saw it stated a few weeks ago that 
“the Dorset is a very nervous sheep.” 
Some Dorsets may be. My own are the 
very reverse. They are by far the quietest 
sheep we have ever handled. My ewes 
will eat out of my hand, and my rams 
like to haye their heads scratched, and, 
when anything puts the whole flock to 
rout, the Dorsets are always last to leave 
the field, which they do slowly and cau¬ 
tiously. I very much doubt if nervousness 
can be called a characteristic of the Dor¬ 
set sheep. j. E. WING. 
Woodside Farms, O. 
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 re lable 
vegetable Color, such as Thatcher’s Orange Butter 
Color, which Is In seven-eighths of the Highest 
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Scores from other States yet to be received. This, 
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held at Dubuque, Iowa, February, 1893. should con¬ 
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perfect butter shade, and pronounced perfection by 
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A Great Chance 
to buy .Tersey Cattle from 
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This is tlie iargest and choicest 
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•Tkrskys. A number of cows, 
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