1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
387 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Matching Cows. —Mr. A. D. ]?aker 
sends this note to The Jersey Bulletin: 
“ A few days ago I offered to put one 
of my Jerseys beside my neighbor’s 
crack cow, and the owner of the one that 
made the most profit, the cows to be fed 
alike, should have both; he declined. 
The one thing that troubled me was that 
I did not want his cow, for I now have 
a herd of 14 thoroughbred Jerseys, and 
we weigh the milk every Wednesday 
and keep an account of the butter made.” 
The only way to make such a match with 
any certainty is to know what your cows 
are doing. Otherwise it is all guesswork. 
The Male Bird. —1. Will hens lay bet¬ 
ter if they have a rooster with them ? 3. 
How long after mating will it be before 
the eggs are fertile ? After taking the 
rooster away, how long will they remain 
fertile ? f. b. 
Anchorage, Wis. 
R. N.-Y.—1. No, they will not lay so 
well. There is no reason why a rooster 
should ever be kept witb laying stock. 
In fact, he is a nuisance in the pen—eat¬ 
ing too much of the food, getting too 
fat, and needlessly worrying the hens. 
2. Generally speaking, about seven days. 
However, it would not be wise to set any 
eggs more than two days after the male 
had been taken away. 
Sulphur Again. —I have used sulphur 
to rid hens of lice, by dusting the nests 
thoroughly, and mixing it with the dust 
bath. I consider it a very good remedy, 
but would as soon think of giving them 
tar to keep them dry as to feed sulphur 
to destroy lice. Nothing can be given 
internally to help a lousy hen, except 
something which would act as a tonic or 
to nourish and strenj^then. The advice 
to feed sulphur to any animal, I consider 
dangerous, for persons who did not know 
the effect might be greatly injured 
thereby. Sulphur should always be 
given with extreme care, for, should the 
animals get wet and cold, it would stiffen 
them so that they would be nearly 
worthless. c. R. white. 
Ayrshire Cattle Tests. —The Ayr¬ 
shire Breeders’ Associati'n offer $50 in 
three premiums—$25, $15 and $10—to be 
awarded to the herds of 10 cows produc¬ 
ing the largest average records for two 
consecutive days. An agent of the asso¬ 
ciation will visit the herd and oversee the 
test, weighing and testing the milk him¬ 
self. The following scale of points will 
be employed: 
Points. 
For each 20 days since calving. 1 
For each 15 days ot gestation. 1 
For each pound of irnik. ] 
For each pound of butter fat.20 
For each pound of other solids. 2 
Probably the association, would be glad 
to cooperate in the work suggested by 
Prof. Wing on another page. C. M. 
Winslow, of Brandon, Vt., is secretary of 
the association. Communicate with him. 
A Lame Mare.— I have a fine mare 
that is lame in the hind leg, but as there 
is no swelling or fever, I cannot locate 
it. When she moves the leg, there is 
cracking in each joint—hip, stifle and 
knee. She is lame when she trots, but 
does not show it in walking. t. j, b. 
Constitution, Pa. 
Ans.—S atisfactory treatment cannot 
be advised without first being able to 
locate the seat and nature of the cause 
of the lameness. From the cracking 
sound described, I suspect that the 
trouble is at the stifle. Apply a fly 
blister over the whole stiflt joint, follow¬ 
ing the directions frequently given in 
these columns for blistering. Repeat the 
blister two or three times if necessary, 
applying a second blister as soon as the 
effect of the previous blister has nearly 
disappeared. f. l. k. 
A Blister, Lame Horse and a Lini¬ 
ment — 1. I have a horse with a callous 
caused by a severe blister, which, not 
healing quickly, left a. thickness of the 
skin which I would like to reduce. What 
remedy will remove the callous ? 2, 
Another horse is lame in the muscles of 
the shoulder joint, or between that joint 
and the elbow. He has been lame about 
three months. I think it was caused by 
hard driving and not being properly 
cared for after getting very warm. He 
does not point with either foot, or rest 
his toe, but limps when he starts. 3. 
What is the recipe for making the old- 
fashioned bitter-sweet ointment, so that 
it will keep without getting rancid ? Is 
there any better ointment to reduce the 
swelling and draw the inflammation 
from a cow’s bag ? j. m h. 
Ans.— 1. Paint two or three times a 
week with the compound tincture of 
iodine. 2. If you are sure the tenderness 
is in the shoulder, bathe once daily with 
the following liniment, until the skin is 
well blistered, then bathe twice a week: 
One pint soap liniment (to be obtained of 
any druggist), to which add one-half pint 
each of sweet oil and strong aqua am¬ 
monia. If you are not quite certain as 
to the seat of lameness, I would advise 
consulting a veterinary surgeon to locate 
the trouble. 3. I do not know the form¬ 
ula for the bitter-sweet ointment. In 
the early stages of garget, belladonna 
ointment, or belladonna and vaseline, is 
one of the best ointments that can be 
used, applied several times daily. In the 
latter stages, iodine ointment is better. 
F. L. K. 
Kerosene Emulsion for Sheep Ticks. 
—Will the kerosene emulsion kill ticks 
on sheep as well as lice ? I have 15 head 
of old ones and six lambs, and must rid 
them of the ticks. Having so few, I 
don’t like to go to the expense of build¬ 
ing and storing a dipping tank. Will a 
spray pump not answer the purpose 
after shearing ? My plan is to huddle 
the sheep and lambs in as small a pen as 
possible, and by occasionally moving 
them around in the pen, get the liquid 
over them as thoroughly as possible. 
Wauseon, Ohio. e u. 
Ans —If E U. has a spraying pump he 
needs nothing better; or if he has noth¬ 
ing of this kind he can use a common 
sprinkling pot or can. Or, for so few 
sheep as he has, he can take a sponge, 
or even a handful of cotton rags sewed 
loosely through and through, and catch 
each one and apply the emulsion so as 
to saturate every part. All that is nec¬ 
essary is to be sure that every place on 
the sheep, even the top-knot, when they 
have one, be sprinkled, sprayed or 
swabbed so as to wet completely every 
tick ; if this be accomplished, one way is 
as good as another. It is not the way, 
but the emulsion that kills. 
Kerosene emulsion not only kills the 
ticks, but if copiously applied, will de¬ 
stroy every egg or nit, so that one appli¬ 
cation, if thorough, will rid sheep and 
lambs of all ticks and the liability to be 
restocked by a new trood from the eggs. 
It will also kill lice on any animal, 
whether horse, cow, sheep, hog, poultry, 
cat, dog, or boy even, if he is ever so un¬ 
lucky as to get them. In using kerosene 
emulsion, it is better to apply on a warm 
day, or in a warm building, so that the 
animal shall dry without a chill; al¬ 
though wetting with the emulsion is no 
more injurious or disagreeable than com¬ 
plete wetting by a rain, and not half so 
damaging to sheep as to be washed by 
the brook-washing process. 
J. S. WOODWARD. 
RAISE YOUR OWN GRAIN. 
Prices for farm products are surely 
discoaragingly low, and prospects for 
the future are far from cheering. With 
such facts and such prospects before us, 
it behooves us to look about and see if 
there are not some expenditures which 
can not be, at least to some extent, 
diminished. Any one living along the 
line of the principal thoroughfares of 
our county, cannot fail to discover where 
a very large part of the farmer’s money 
goes. The farmer goes to town with a 
number of veals, more or less ; he returns 
with a load of feed ; he takes to market 
his butter; he carries home feed; ne 
sells a load of potatoes ; he pays the pro¬ 
ceeds for feed ; and so nearly every time 
the farmer disposes of any of his crops or 
dairy products, the proceeds almost in¬ 
variably, wholly or in part, are absorbed 
in feed, feed, feed. 
I would by no means condemn or dis¬ 
courage the use of feed. I heartily ap¬ 
prove of it. but I as heartily condemn 
the method of obtaining it. It. is no 
wonder we so often hear the remark, “I 
would not think the farmers would ever 
make any money : they pay out all they 
can get for feed.” Now, fellow farmers, 
so much buying feed from the West is 
all wrong. You complain that “ money 
is close,” but who is more responsible 
than yourselves for making it so? You 
send thousands of dollars of your money 
west every year for what you can and 
ought to produce on your own farms, 
and this money never comes back. The 
farmers of the West buy nothing of the 
farmers of the East. 
There is no reason why our farmers 
should not raise their own grain as well 
as their hay and potatoes. Statistics 
show beyond question that more corn, 
oats or barley can be raised per acre on 
our lands than on any of the western 
prairies. Indeed, there is scarcely any 
better land in the world for all the cereal 
crops than we have right here. Why 
not raise our own corn and mixed crops 
of peas and oats ourselves, instead of 
sending away and paying freight on 
them a thousand miles ? There is no 
better feed for our cows than the mixed 
grains which we can raise in abundance, 
with proper effort, and thus discontinue 
the bad husbandry which buys instead 
of producing. Farmers, try this plan, 
and see if you cannot occasionally bring 
home a few dollars from your marketing. 
Lewis County, N Y. e. w. 
IN the WEAKNESS FOLLOWING THE GRIP, 
as an Invlgorator and Strengtb-Klver, there Is no 
nicer, safer, or more elTectual medicine than Dr. D. 
.Jayne’s Tonic Vermifuge. Its dose for a grown person 
Is only from one to two teaspoonfuls, and when mixed 
with a little cold wat.er and sweetened. Is pleasant 
to the taste ; while Its little cost places It within the 
reach of every one. As a Worm medicine for chil¬ 
dren, It Is unequalled. Small bottles 35 cents, and 
double size, 50 cents. Buy of your Druggist.—A dp. 
The “Le Roy Mills” 
F. F. Dairy Salt 
Is preferred by the best butter and cheese-matcers 
in the country, because It Is the purest, strongest 
and best salt made Pure white. Always uniform. 
Never gets hard. Costs no more than common salt. 
Try It If you like It Insist on having It, and your 
dealer will get it. Write for circular and prices de¬ 
livered. Le ROY SALT CO., Le Roy. N. Y. 
HAVE YOU FIVE 
OR MORE COWS? 
If so a ” Baby Cream Separator will earn Its 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 ItiCST,—the 
“Baby.” All styles and capacities. Prices, $100. 
upward. Send for new 1804 Catalogue. 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO., 
GCNERAL offices: 
74 Cortlandt St., New York. 
FEEDING ANIMALS. 
This Is a practical work of 660 pages, by Profesi 
E. VV. STEWART, upun the science of feeding Ir 
Its details, giving practical rations for all larm aj 
mals. Its accuracy Is proved by Its adoption a 
text book In nearly all Agricultural Colleges and li 
perlment Stations in America. It will pay anybe 
having a horse or a cow, or who feeds a few pigs 
sheep to buy ana study It carefully. Price. *».e 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
Corner Chambers and Pearl Streets, New Yori 
8 ^4 Tons Per Hour 
ENSI K. cut and elevated 
to \V orld’M Fair Silo with a 
SMALLEY” OUTFIT. 
DO FEED STOCK? 
Cattle, Horses, Sheep, Hogs or Poultry? 
If you do yon can’t afford to overlook I'hi- 
siliige and dry fodder cut- 
tin g. .50 per eeiil. 
TA saved in Fodder 
and equal ratio 
of Kiiiii III |iro- 
iliiet. Catalogues 
of Smalley Gimds 
and our ’iMSilo Rimk 
_ frer to any address. 
SilIAl.LHY IHINJ. UO., 
Maiiitiiwoc, Wis. 
JERSEYS. 
The Sweepstakes Breed at the World’s Fair Dairy 
Contests for Milk, Cheese and Butter 
2 SWEEPSTAKES PRIZES 2 
Won by Ida Marlg.ld, bred by Miller A Sibley, 16 
daughters ff her sire, Ida’s Rioter of 8t. C. I.itfio. 
average over 19 pounds of butter apiece per week. 
Highest .Jersev weekly, monthly an! yearly mlllc 
records held by our herd. 
Only superior stock for sale. 
In general, none less than $200; occasionally a bull 
or heifer calf cheaper. Write for what you want. 
Mention this paper. 
MILLER & SIBIjEY, Franklin, Venango Co., Pa 
GUERNSEYS! 
The GBANDEST of DAIKY Breed*. 
Combining the richness of the Jersey with the slue 
approximate to the Holstein or Short-horn, but 
standing alonh and unbqualei) in producing the 
richest colored bntter In mld-wlnter on dry feed. 
Gentle as pets, persistent milkers and hardy In con¬ 
stitution, they combine more quaUBoatlons for the 
dairy or family cow than any other breed. In the 
“ Old Brick Guernsey Herd” 
are daughters and granddanghters of the renowned 
Squire Kent, 15(M A. G. C. C. and of the Unest strains 
on Guernsey or In Amenca—Comus, son of Squire 
Kent and Statelllte, son of Kohlm head the herd. All 
particulars In regard to Breed and Herd cheerfully 
given. 8. P. TABER WILLETTS, 
The Old Brick,” Bobi.yn, L. I., N. Y 
Aberdeen-Angus Cattle 
J. 1*. HINE, Shlnrock, Erie Co., O. 
Higfh-Class Shropshires 
75 yearling rams that will weigh 250 to 300 pounds 
and shear 12 to 16 pounds at maturity; and 160 year¬ 
ling ewes, to weigh 176 to 21,0 pounds, andshearOto 
12 pounds at maturity. Just arrived, recorded In Eng 
land and America. ‘A grand lot.” Send for cata 
logne. THE WILLOWS, 
Gao. B. Bbsok, Prop. Paw Paw. Mich 
I lJU for sale: Lambs, Yearlings, twb-year-olds 
and older; ewes and rams from registered 
Imported sires. Address 
G. M. VOORUEES, Box 361. YpsIIantl, Mich. 
SOUTH DOWN SHEEP. 
CASSIUS MARCHLLU8 CLAY. White flail. Ky, 
stock. ED. 8. HILL, Peruvlile, 'fompkins 
It'OT? A T T? -Registered BERKSHIRE 
^ Vk a. . Of desirable large 
English Strains. Send for pedigrees. 
GEO. STAPLIN, JK., Mannsvllle, Jeff. Co., N. Y. 
dtLL 
Ducks to iDukB room foryounif 
stock. They go at half price if 
sold quick. Will satisfy you or return your mope<' 
B1100K8IDE POL-1.TKV CAIIM; COlSu” N .V 
PINE TREE FARM, 
Jamesbnrg, N. J. 
I EGOS forllatchlnif 
r Prices reduced. 
1 32-page catalogue free 
FflR ‘lozen 8. C. B. Leghorn 
run Hens, $7 00 per dozen. Fggs of 
same, .50 cents per 15. 
J. A. TRBHBABNE, Box 677, London, Ohio. 
by feeding green bene cut In 
„ . .H.XNN’S CUTTER. 
Price $lil.(K) and upw.-ird Warranted Catalog 
free if tins p iper is tiained 
F.W.MANNCO., Milford, Mass. 
Bone Cutter 
Medal and Diploma World’s 
Fair, (iet Circulars. 
WEBSTER & HANNUM, 
Cazenovla, N. Y. 
asc. for a Poultry 
MARKER 
Bookon Caponizingfree. Send forCat. 
of Poultry Specialties. Capon sets $_■ up 
W.H.WlGMORE,i 07 S. 8 thSt.,Phila ,Pa. 
X3oA.tlx ox*. C:J«,ttlo I'ly. 
The Best To Keep 
Compound 
Flies Off. 
Sample pound by mall 25c. Write for Circular and 
Price List. c. E. MILLS OIL CO., Syracuse, N. Y. 
SHOO-FLY 
Saves Dairymen Itjlll I inUC 
and Horsemen: IvllLLIUNd 
■ No Flies or Sores. more milk 
IJO mo. Shoo-Fly Mfg. Co., 1005 Falrmount A.ve.,1 
