1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
145 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFUIjS of facts. 
Tongue As Tail Holder —There has 
been frequent mention in The R. N.-Y. 
of the subject of holding a co >v’s tail. My 
experience is that first all engaged in 
the care of cows should keep their 
tongues tied down and also their voices. 
Keep milking stools in their proper 
places and not use them to say, stand 
around, before saying the words with the 
mouth. Follow this with a few familiar 
church hymns during milking, and the 
tail holder can hang on a nail. In fiy 
time, close and darken the stable during 
the day and the insects will mostly stay 
outside when the cows go in, if not they 
will not trouble the cows very much. I 
do not see how any man can afford to buy 
such things these times when nothing is 
in a fiourishing condition except pro¬ 
tracted meetings, which are having a 
grand harvest all over this glorious coun¬ 
try. B. B. 
Sardinia. • 
Ashes for Stock. —1. Is it a good plan 
to continually mix wood ashes with the 
salt fed to cattle ? If so, what is the 
right proportion ? 2. Should hens be 
allowed free access to ashes ? a. l. 
Barboursville, Va. 
Ans.— 1. We like to keep a little box 
beside each animal containing a mixture 
of half wood ashes and half salt. This 
makes a good “condition powder.” 2. It 
is well enough to let the hens pick at the 
ashes as they need them, but we would 
not have enough for them to dust in as 
this seems to take all the polish and 
beauty out of their plumafge. Coal ashes 
are good for dusting in, as they contain 
no potash. 
The Six-Cow Farmer and His Stalks. 
—In The R. N.-Y. of February 10, is 
given this conundrum: “Given, a man 
with six cows—too few for a silo—how 
shall he use his corn stalks ?” In answer 
I would ask, why not keep 12 cows? 
That number would be enough for a 
silo. In other words, six cows will eat 
in 12 months what 12 cows will eat in six 
months. Let him build a silo large 
enough for 12 cows for six months’ feed 
(and in five years it will be too small) 
and if he fill it with good, ripe ensilage 
it will keep six cows one year. Then let 
him raise his heifer calves, and in two 
years he will have 12 cows and will re¬ 
quire less acres to feed them than it takes 
to keep six cows without a silo. I know 
of several who built 75 to 90-ton silos, 
but do not know one who was satisfied 
with that size after they had used them 
three years. I was rather timid when I 
started. I built a 75 ton silo, filled it 
half full the first year, and fed it to 
three cows, two yearlings and one yoke 
of oxen. I was offered SG5 for the oxen 
December 1. I began feeding them ensil¬ 
age December 15, also fed $8 worth of 
meal and about 500 pounds of clover hay 
and sold them March 10 for $130. They 
did work enough in the time to pay for 
the meal and hay fed. I fill the silo full 
now, and wish it were larger. I feed the 
ensilage to cows, sheep and horses not 
at work, and all do equally well on it. 
Northville, N Y. j, h k. 
Cabbage for Cows. —What is the value 
of caboage as a feed for cows compared 
to sugar beets? What kind of ensilage 
would it make? j. e. f. 
Roche Harbor, Wash. 
Ans. —Cabbage is worth a little more 
than half as much as the beets pound for 
pound. It makes a sour, bad smelling 
ensilage, and is not to be recommended 
for that purpose. 
Handle the Heifers —If dairymen 
would handle their cattle with more 
kindness, there would be less complaint 
of the cow misplacing the switch. The 
heifers that are intended for the dairy 
should be “handled with care,” and 
taught to step over at the word while 
they are young, as it takes less time and 
patience than it does when they are 
older and are persuaded with a milk stool, 
as some do with too much force.* When 
a heifer kicks, she should have her foot 
tied to something (in a natural position) 
so that she cannot stir it. I have 
never seen a cow benefited by repeated 
punishing with whip or club for kick¬ 
ing. A strap is the best thing when 
it connects the foot with a solid ring 
in the flsor. o. A. 
Clarendon, N. Y. 
The Tuberculin Test. — Have post 
mortem examinations proved the relia¬ 
bility of the tuberculin test for tubercu¬ 
losis, as carried on by the New York State 
Board of Health? s. c. h. 
E, Hampton, N. Y. 
Ans. —We think so. Veterinarians tell 
us that they have never known a case 
where tubercules were not found in 
animals that gave the characteristic 
symptoms after the test with tuberculin. 
Many such animals are not dangerously 
ill, but the seeds of the disease are there. 
Dipping Hens —In The R. N.-Y. of 
February 17 E L G. asks for informa¬ 
tion in regard to the use of kerosene 
emulsion for freeing poultry of lice. I 
have used this mixture often, and advise 
no one to use it as commonly made unless 
they wish to skin their chickens alive. 
But a small portion of the coal oil unites 
with the water, and the remainder ris¬ 
ing to the top, blisters each chicken dip. 
ped in it so as to take every particle of the 
skin off. To the large chickens, or those 
feathered, no harm is done except to 
cause much useless suffering, but the 
small, downy ones are either killed, or 
the roots of the feathers are destroyed 
BO that they never grow. If any one 
wishes to use this mixture let him use 
but a very small quantity of oil, and then 
carefully skim off every portion that rises 
to the top before a chicken is dipped. 
But why use this mixture when strong 
tobacco water answers the same purpose, 
is cheaper, easier made, and causes no 
suffering? Soak the tobacco in cold water 
for at least 12 hours, and then put into a 
clothes boiler so as to get plenty of depth. 
Souse each chicken well, and if the water 
does not penetrate to the roots of the 
feathers rub it in. Then spray what you 
have left on the undersides of the roosts, 
and the walls of the house. f. a. l. 
Washington, D. C, 
A SLiauT Exposure in bad wbatheb, when 
the srstem Is out of order, often brings on a Stub¬ 
born Cold; the attending CouKh irritates the Lungs, 
and If not promptly treated, frequently develops a 
tendency to a tuberculous condition. To avoid this 
danger, those troubled with Colds should resort at 
once to Dr. .Tayne’s Expectorant, which soon loosens 
and eradicates Coughs, soothes and heals inflamed 
part’, and removes all anxiety by setting the patient 
on the way to good health once more.—A dp. 
HAVE YOU FIVE 
OR MORE COWS? 
If soa” Baby” Cream Separatorwllleamlts cost for 
you every year. Why continue an inferior system 
another year at so great a loss ? Dairying is now the 
only profitable feature of Agriculture. Properly con¬ 
ducted it always pays well, and must pay you. You 
need a Separator, and you need the ItE.ST,—the 
“Baby.” All styles and capacities. Prices, $100. 
upward. Send for new 18'J4 Catalogue. 
THE DE lAVAL SEPARATOR CO., 
GENERAL OFFICES: 
74 Cortlandt St., New York. 
STILL LEADS THEM ALL 
ITWILLOONTROLTH. MOaV 
vioioua Honaa. 
75,000 sold In I8&L 
1 00.000 sold in 1892. 
THEY ARE KIH6. 
Sam pie maQed X C for ^ I fl ft 
Nickel, $1.50. 
Stallion Bits SO cts. extra.: 
RACINE MALLEABLE IRON CO. 
{Barren Mares 
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Made to breed regularly by the use 6 
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skill necessary to use it. Every in- % 
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• from the United States, Europe and ® 
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J on receipt of price, five dollars. J 
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Horse Owners! Tr| 
GOMBAULT'S 
Caustic 
Balsam 
A Safe Speedy and Positive Can 
The Safeat, Beat BLISTER ever used. Takes 
the place of all liniments for mild or severe action. 
Removes all Bunches or Blemishes fiom Horae, 
and Cnttle. SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTERY 
OR FIRING. Impossible to produce scar or blemish. 
Every bottle sold Is warranted to give satisfaction. 
Price $1.50 per bottle. Sold by druggists, oi 
•ent by expresi^ eharge. paid, with full dlrectJOffi? 
for Its use. Send for descriptive olrcula.-s.. 
THE LAWRENCE-WILLIAM8 CO., Olevelaatt, St 
HATCHER. 
Th® Mffflat P®r!fBto2 
INCUBATOH, BHiVBSo 
Quick and certain; Katch'.g 
every egg that a hen could 
batch; Regulates itself auto¬ 
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of poultry raising to a mini¬ 
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lowest In price. Send for 
Ulus. Catalogue. SIMPLEX 
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Tile Improved Monitor Incubator. 
Hundreds of testimonials as to 
its merits over all other makes. 
MEDALS and DIPLOMA AWARDED 
AT THE WORLD’S FAIR. 
Large book with cuts for stamp. 
BUY THE BEST, 
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^17 Ncir.RegulatliiK. 
^ I / Money refunded it ine 
INVINCIBLE HATCHER 
loes Dot batch aa well as any 
Incubator made. Send 4o. for 
[ No. 2d Catalogue to BUCKEYE 
INCUBATORS L 
In-Door and Out-Door Brooders. 
94 FIK8T PREMIUMS. 
Send for 104-page Illustrated catalogne 
Prairie State Incabator Co., Homer City, Pa. 
Brooder, only $S. BMt and .hoaiiMit io:t 
raising ohlok.; 40 flrrt preminm.; i,0CC 
testimonials; send for catalogne. 
G. S. SINGER, Box 574. Cardington, 0- 
SET YOUR HENS IN 
MAPES’ Automatic Hens’ Nests. 
Laying hens can not bother them. They can come 
off to eat at pleasure. Sure preventive of the egg- 
eating habit. Three cents' worth of lumber, 13 
rails and any old box of suitable size Is all that Is 
required Send 60 cents In stamps for full direc¬ 
tions and farm right. 
O. W MAPES, Middletown, N. Y. 
P U C A D ^'rom choice selected Pure Bred 
UnCHr ■ Poultry, of the most noted prize 
__i^—^^HMWlnning strains.Fine Illustrated 
descriptive catalogue free. B.H.GREIDER, FLORIN, PA. 
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Also Steel Web Picket Fence and Steel 'Wire 
Fence Board. Write for circulars. 
DeKALB FENCE CO., n, Hich St.. DeKalb. III. 
BAKE OUAXIT 
FRENCH COAOHERS AND 
rclieron Horses. 
Purebred stock all agos. 
at prices to suit evei’v 
])urchasnr,to clo«e ostatl* 
of JOHN W. AKIN. 
Send for f'ireiilav. 
ELMWOODJ^TOCKF/RM 
E. S. AKIN. Executor. . 
SCIPIO, N. Y. 
BARREN COWS CURED. 
The following Is from UON. WAYNE MacVHAGU, 
Ambassador to Italy : 
Bkookfibli) Faum, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
“ You can quote from this note my assurance that 
your medicines always gave me tne greatest satis¬ 
faction ” 
Book Free. MOORE BROS., Albany, N. Y. 
B utter stock at low prices.-a. j. c. 
riiib St. I ainbert Bull and Heifer f'alves 
of the best butter blood, tracing several times to Stoke 
Pogis III., .tre of Uary Aiine of .-t. L., 8({'7 
pounds hvtterin one year. Young Bulls sold from our 
herd have sired 20 pound cows, such as Pride of 
Ingleslde .')4.')4.'), 20 poiindH 114 ounces, and Gvosy’s 
Pride 2nd 2‘.l3(i.'), 21 iioiiiids VA ouiiceH of butter in 7 
daj/s tor Miller & SlDley. E. I.. CLAUKSON, 
14 West lllih Street New York. 
Refer by permission to The Uuuai, NEW-yoRKEii. 
High-Class Shropshires 
75 yearling rams that will weigh 250 to 300 pounds, 
and shear 12to 16 pounds at maturity; and 160 year¬ 
ling ewes, to weigh 176 to 21,0 pounds, and shear 9 to 
12 pounds at maturity. Just arrived, recorded In Eng¬ 
land and America. “A grand lot.” Send for cata¬ 
logue. TUB WILLOWS, 
Geo. B. Bbkck, Prop. Paw Paw, Mich 
Why don’t you buy 
Improved Chester Whites 
OF 
WILLIS WHINERY, WINONA, OHIO, 
He pays the express. Ho ships C. O. D. 
lie will send you circulars, giving the 
Wonderful Shoiv Record and particulars 
of this herd. 400 head for sale. 
K if,;,.. roi»na onin* 
I'l KtS. Jersey, Guernaey and 
Holstein Cattle. Thoronghbred 
Hheep. Fancy Poultry. Hunting 
a. W-aMtT'ii . Catalogue. 
>. W. BdUXU. Cuvhrunvlllu. Chester Co.. Peiina. 
!l»0.1.C.H0CS 
Weighed 2,806 Pounds. 
1285 sold in 1893. 
Kend lorn tJescription of this 
fain.ms breotl. b'inHt appliciuU 
li'OMi ciich locality will he olFer- 
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The L. B. SILVER CO., 
CLIOVKLANI>, OHIO. 
WyckofF’s White Leghorns. 
A.MKRICA’3 BUSINESS HEN. 
Eggs for hatching, 13 00 per 15; 13.75 per 30; 15.00 
per 46; 110.00 per 100. Illiistrnted and Descriptive 
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CLEANINGS IN 
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Valuable Cataloguee/pertalningto Fancy Poul¬ 
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1 Largest ranch In the world. 
1 ,dUU Trained for rabbit hunting* destroying rats. 
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THYMO-CRESOL 
I II I III U Mange; all skin dis¬ 
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HORSES - - - CATTLE. 
SMITHS & POWELL CO., Syracuse, N. Y., 
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STATE JUST WHAT YOU WANT AND SAVE 
