THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
A Bukning Donkey. —The following 
story comes from England: “A man 
hired a donkey and had it clipped and 
rubbed with paraffin oil. As he was 
leading it from the stable a sweep struck 
a match and threw it on the animal’s 
back. The poor creature was immedi¬ 
ately enveloped in flame, and had to be 
killed. The sweep was taken before the 
magistrate, charged with cruelty. The 
magistrate, however, accepted the man’s 
statement that he was lighting his pipe, 
and did not mean to throw the match at 
the dcnkey, and discharged him.” 
Cubing a Wart.— If C. W. A., White 
City, Kan , will dust that raw wart on 
his mare’s neck with dry washing soda, 
a few times, it will dry up and disappear. 
I had just such a case, only on the leg of 
the horse. It grew till I feared it was 
becoming cancerous, and sought the ad¬ 
vice of a vet., who gave me an elaborate 
course of treatment. But a simple- 
minded blacksmith prescribed the soda 
cure as always effectual, and a few ap¬ 
plications removed the excrescence never 
to return. w. t. s. 
Chester County, Pa. 
Kili.ino a Wart.—C. W. A., page 313, 
should dissolve all the alum he can in 
water and wash the wart several times 
daily with it and it will cure it—at least it 
cured one for me. My horse was valuable. 
The wart was under his belly, and in fly 
time he gnawed it and kept it bleeding 
continually. The wart was larger than 
the palm of the hand. a. w. 
South Pittsburgh, Tenn. 
Hot-Ironed Milk —If G. P. F., Alba, 
Pa . page 26.5, will heat irons and warm 
his calves’ milk, he will not have any 
trouble. Old drag teeth, or old irons of 
any kind should be placed in the stove 
until red hot and then plunged into the 
milk, I lost several before I learned of 
this simple remedy, but none since. 
Speedville, N. Y. o. k. d.' 
More Sulphur Talk. —I consider sul¬ 
phur a dangerous drug to be used indis¬ 
criminately. If given in sufficient quan¬ 
tity to produce a condition noxious to 
vermin, it will effect a drug action upon 
the fowls. In the dust bath, sulphur 
might be of some use. My poultry 
houses have dry earth floors filled in 
fresh every autumn. The hens keep up 
a fog of dust during the winter, and by 
frequent sprayings of the roosts and 
nests with kerosene, I am not troubled 
by vermin. I have practiced using a 
little sulphur and kerosene in lard for 
lice on young chickens, but have little 
doubt the grease is all sufficient. 
CHAS L. MOSHER. 
A Cow Fraud —A writer in the Elgin 
Reporter tells of a new kind of fraud 
who is working on some farmers in 
Illinois: “The story is told that the 
fakir is moving. One of his cows has 
just calved, and he has sold her to a 
patron cheap, and presents -an order os¬ 
tensibly signed by the patron calling for 
the amount. The story is plausible. 
The party looks like an honest farmer ; 
the money is paid. The patron, when 
shown the order, says it is a fraud ; he 
has not bought a cow and never signed 
any order. He is described as stout, 
with heavy mustache, narrow-rimmed 
Derby hat, checked coat, one shoe ripped 
in the heel; about 50 years old.” 
LONG SILO; BUYING CLOVER. 
“ Put your team in the barn ; I have 
just returned from town and am a little 
late with my chores. We have 24 cows 
to milk. We will have some supper, and 
then I will talk with you.” This is the 
way Mr. D. C. Simpson, of Jasper, N. Y., 
welcomed me as I drove up to his place 
last winter, a stranger, asking to see his 
silo. Mr. Simpson was the first, if I mis¬ 
take not, to build a silo in his town. I 
read every article on ensilage or silo 
building I can find, but have never read 
of one just like his. His silo is “all long 
and HP high. ” 
“ Why did you build it in that shape?” 
I asked. 
“They wanted 832 for 16 feet of ele¬ 
vator, and I thought it too much. So I 
just did without.” There is, however, 
about 12 to 14 feet of depth, with, per¬ 
haps, 20 feet in width, and something 
like 40 feet in length. Instead of going 
over the whole surface, Mr. Simpson 
cuts it down as one would a long pump¬ 
kin pie, with very satisfactory results. 
There is but little surface exposed. 
A few tons of mangels were placed in 
one end of the silo last fall, and covered 
with sawdust when threatened with 
frost. These were fed whole. Mr. vSimp- 
son planted dent and flint corn side by 
side last season. He believes the dent 
varieties fill the bill. The milk is sepa¬ 
rated by a flve-year-old .lersey bull—a 
tread power in the stable. The sepa¬ 
rated milk is fed to young calves and 
pigs, any surplus being mixed with the 
ensilage for the cows, as is also the grain 
feed. 
“ I was at Buffalo,” said Mr. Simpson, 
when asked about grain feed, “ early in 
February, and bought two car-loads of 
wheat screenings at $10 25 per ton. It 
has about the same feeding value as 
oats. This feed will cost me about $13 
at my railroad station, including grind¬ 
ing.” w. R. 
Troupsburg, N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—Mr. Simpson is the man who 
kept an advertisement in his local paper 
offering to 
Exchange Grain For Clover Hay. 
We wrote to learn how he managed to 
do this and he replied as follows. You 
can see what a shrewd trade that was : 
“ 1 have more grain and less hay than I 
want, and 1 have found a few farmers 
that would trade. I bought in Buffalo 
25 tons of wheat screenings. They over¬ 
loaded the cars and shipped more than 
I wanted. I did not accept the car; 
they came down, I bought the rest at a 
reduced price, so I have more than I can 
feed. The screenings are good feed, 
equal to peas and oats, but stock do not 
like them as well. I wrote to the Geneva 
Experiment Station and they wrote me 
that they would analyze, albuminoids 11 
to 12 per cent, and fat 3 per cent. 1 am 
feeding 25 cows and heifers 200 pounds 
per day, and 40 pounds of old process oil 
meal with hay and ensilage, and they 
average a little over 25 pounds of butter 
per day.” d c. simpson. 
TAKING THE AFTERBIRTH FROM A COW. 
I have a Jersey heifer that came in last 
January. The afterbirth did not come 
away of itself, and I had it removed by 
a man that seems to understand the busi¬ 
ness. She was full of what this man 
called eagle calves, and he removed them 
all. Some pretend to say that if they 
are all removed, the cow will never breed 
again. Is that correct ? Is there not 
danger of the operator’s coming in con¬ 
tact with the ovaries ? Where can I get 
a work in which this is explained ? We 
have no scientific man within 11 miles, 
and such knowledge is of great import¬ 
ance to me. G, s. s. 
Ans. —It is quite evident from your 
description that the man knew very little 
about the proper removal of the after¬ 
birth. A more bungling operation could 
not well have been performed by the 
most ignorant of quacks. The “eagle 
calves ” with which the cow was sup¬ 
posed to have been filled, were evidently 
the cotyledons, of which there are usu¬ 
ally from 50 to 80 scattered over the in¬ 
terior of the uterus, and in the cow con¬ 
stitute the multiple or tufted placenta. 
At the time of parturition, these cotyle¬ 
dons are mushroom-like, oval projec¬ 
tions from the surface of the uterus, of 
two to three inches in length, to which 
the fetal membranes or afterbirth areat- 
tach( d. The afterbirth should have been 
carefully separated from these cotyle¬ 
dons, and they should not have been re¬ 
moved. There is always more or less 
danger of hemorrhage or injury to the 
uterus attending the removal of the 
cotyledons ; but the fact that they were 
removed (probably all were not removed) 
does not necessarily prevent the cow 
from becoming pregnant again. Experi¬ 
ments have shown that when removed, 
they may be replaced, and the animal 
breed as before. There is no danger of 
the hand coming in contact with the 
ovaries, which are entirely outside of the 
uterus. 
With even moderate care, there is little 
danger of any injury to the cow by the 
operation of removing the afterbirth, ex¬ 
cept the tearing off of the cotyledons. 
Any ignorant empiric, like the one you 
employed, should be strictly prohibited 
from treating animals in any way. What 
little knowledge such do possess, com¬ 
bined with this ignorance, makes them 
more dangerous than if they knew noth¬ 
ing at all. The sick animal would stand 
a much better chance of recovery if 
simply given what general care and 
nursing an intelligent stock-owner could 
give, and the rest left for nature to take 
its course, rather than place them in the 
hands of an ignorant quack to be muti¬ 
lated or dosed to death. The informa¬ 
tion you desire, with cuts, is to be found 
in the “ Special Report on Diseases of 
Cattle, and Cattle Feeding,” issued by the 
United States Bureau of Animal Industry 
in 1892. This report can probably now 
be obtained by applying to your Repre¬ 
sentative in Congress, or to one of the 
United States Senators from your State. 
F. L. KILBORNE. 
A TEASFOONFUL OH TWO, MIXED WITH A 
little cold water and sweetened to pleaae the taste 
for urown people, of Dr. D Jayne’s Tonic VerinlfuKe. 
take I on top of each meal, will have a wonderfully 
good effect In securing proper digestion of food-re¬ 
lieving heartburn, sick and oppressed stomach, and 
other ailments of dyspeptic prrsons. Try It for a 
few weeks and be satisfied. It has helped. It has 
cured thousands, and why not you? Small bottles 
35 cents, and double size, .50 cents. Buy of your 
Druggist.—.Idu. 
WE GUARANTEE 
That one tablespoonful of 
GOMBAULT’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. 
BARREN COWS CURED. 
The following Is from Hon. WAYNE MacVHAGH 
Ambassador to Italy; 
Bkookfibi.d Farm, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
" You can quote from this note mv assurance that 
your medicines always gave me the greatest satis¬ 
faction.” 
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