1894 
53 I 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Lump Jaw in a Cow. —I have a cow 
about eight years old that has a swelling 
on the left upper jaw, commencing at 
the base of the ear and extending down¬ 
ward about six inches. There are three 
or four lumps in the enlargement, one 
or two of which have broken and dis¬ 
charged a white, thick matter, offensive 
in smell. After this, the lumps will heal 
and fill up. The swelling has been 
on the cow about two months. She seems 
to be in good health. No other lumps 
appear on the body. Two or three times 
at calving she has not cleaned without 
help. What shall I do, and is the milk 
wholesome ? c w. 
R, N.-Y.—This is probably lump jaw, 
a disease which was fully described in 
The R. N.-Y. for June 3, 1893. Unless 
the cow is a valuable one, we doubt if 
treatment will pay One plan is to cut 
the tumor out, or kill it by inserting 
caustics in the wound. Another method 
is to give daily doses of iodide of potash 
(cne to three drams) in water. Our ad¬ 
vice would be to consult a good veteri¬ 
narian before you start doctoring the 
cow. 
Lice on a Sow. —I bought a sow last 
summer, and after having her a few 
days, I found that she was very lousy. 
Toe pen in which I kept her was just 
built out of new boards, on a place where 
no pig was ever kept, so she must have 
been lousy when I got her. I white¬ 
washed the pigpen at once when I found 
the lice on her, used again and again 
Persian insect powder, and kept this up 
(whitewashing three times), until a few 
weeks ago, when I sold the sow in dis¬ 
gust. Two pigs which I raised are also 
lousy, and a neighbor told me that it was 
in the breed. I wish to know if that is 
so. She was a grade Chester White. Can¬ 
not, such pigs be cleared of lice ? H. o. 
R N.-Y.—No, it is not in the breed. 
The Chester Whites are not more subject 
to lice than other hogs. A good way to 
clear the sow of vermin would have been 
to spray or scrub her with kerosene 
emulsion, so often described in The R, 
N.-Y. 
Texas Flies and Poetry. —I read in 
your good paper how the dairy farmer 
tries all ways in vain to euchre those 
determined Texas files. Now, I’ve tried 
Buhach, sulphur, tar, grease, and all 
such stuff ; carbolic acid, too, no good. 
But now I’m up to snuff, and if your 
gentle readers all will do as I direct, 
they’ll thank me then for writing, and 
be happy, I expect. Take two parts 
lard, or cotton oil, and one of kero¬ 
sene, and slightly oily make a spot, the 
neck and back between. (A place where 
fiies most congregate, just where the 
waving tail of angry Mistress Brindle 
will not pound them like a fiail.) A spot 
the size of broad brim hat is plenty large 
• enough. Then through a sacking bag 
or rag, dust on some good Scotch snuff. 
The oil helps hold the snuff in place, and 
little dar-r-r ling fiy will unspecting light 
thereon, and eat thereof, and die. 
Vermont. d. a. kneeland. 
Raising the May Calf. —If those May 
calves were mine, I would certainly turn 
them in the orchard or other shady pas¬ 
ture. If very hot and flies troublesome, 
I would put in the barn through the ex¬ 
treme heat of the day, at all times shel¬ 
tering them from the rain storms. I like 
my calves to have exercise in a lot 
shaded from the hot sun, keeping them 
out of all storms. I feed sweet milk— 
use calf feeder—oats, bran and clover 
hay and, at times, a little oil meal if we 
think it needed. Our aim is to develop 
the bony structure and keep in healthy 
growing condition without developing a 
tendency to take on fat too rapidly. 
B. SUTTON. 
A FEW weeks ago, Mr. Woodward told 
us of a young farmer and his wife who 
have fought cattle flies by keeping them 
out of the stable. Pieces of bagging 
hung over the doors were to brush off 
the flies as the cows came in. A Canada 
man is trying to get a patent on a similar 
scheme. He has a lot of brushes and 
small brooms arranged around the door 
so that the cow cannot get in without 
brushing all her body. This brushes off 
most of the flies—which fall into a pan 
where they are caught. 
The Holstein-Friesian Association has 
appropriated a large sum of money for 
the purpose of duplicating premiums 
won at the fair by the Holstein cattle. 
For example, at the fair at Brattleboro, 
Vt., to the cow producing the largest 
amount of milk in 24 hours, is offered a 
prize of $25 ; to the cow producing the 
second largest amount of milk in 24 
hours, is offered a prize of $15. To the 
cow producing the largest amount of 
butter in 24 hours, is offered a prize of 
$25 ; to the cow producing the second 
largest amount of butter in 24 hours, is 
offered a prize of $15. To six cows, 
owned by one man, producing the largest 
amount of butter in 24 hours, is offered 
a prize of $50; to six cows, owned by 
one man, producing the second largest 
amount of butter in 24 hours, is offered 
a prize of $25. Should any of these 
prizes be won by Holstein cows, the as¬ 
sociation will make the amount double. 
Kerosening Chickens —On page 145, 
P. A. L discourages the use of kerosene 
emulsion for lice on hens. He is right, 
as he always is, but I would like E. L G. 
to try my short cut way which is as fol¬ 
lows : After the chores are done, take a 
lantern, a low box or bench, a pint cup 
of kerosene, and a large tail or wing 
feather for a swab, and proceed to the 
roost. Quietly take a fowl from the 
roost and lay her on the box, or if one 
wishes, sit on the box, and lay the 
fowl on the floor. Grasping the legs in 
one hand, take the swab in the other, 
dip it in the oil and rub it through the 
feathers returning to the cup each time, 
but not putting on too much. Put some 
oil over the tail, above the vent, under 
each wing, between the legs, and on the 
head just back of the comb. If the 
fowls are gentle, this one may be put 
back on the roost and another taken ; if 
not it should be put into another coop or 
yard until all are oiled, then place them 
on the roosts again. It will facilitate 
matters to have an assistant hand the 
fowls to the oiler, but don’t be rough 
with them. Repeat the oiling in one 
week. A pint of coal oil will do more 
lice destroying than a pound of insect 
powder ! w. M. s. 
Sunflowers for Poultry. —What is 
the analysis and value of sunflower seed 
for poultry V Has anybody tried, except 
in a very small way, this often-praised 
poultry food “i* I find that it can be 
raised cheaply. Is it really valuable for 
egg production ? i. A. b. 
Ashtabula County, Ohio. 
A NS. —Average sunflower seed con¬ 
tains about 13 per cent of albuminoids, 
30 of carbohydrates and 23 of fat. Its 
value for feeding is about $1 60 per 100 
pounds, as compared with wheat at $1.13. 
It contains too much oil and albuminoids 
to make a steady diet for hens. A mod¬ 
erate feed twice a week will be about 
all they can stand. 
finish off with. We can afford to raise 
it for feed if we can get four cents per 
pound on foot, or five cents net for our 
hogs, or 10 cents all ’round for our 
bacon. It is cheap enough now, and 
too cheap when any article will not sell 
for the cost of production. I consider 
that it is cheap enough, and too cheap, 
and the farmer will cease to raise it, 
which will create a scarcity, and, there¬ 
fore, a rise in the price. Wheat is worth 
in the market in this county 38 cents 
per bushel, sacked and delivered f. o b. 
A bushel of wheat (60 pounds) will 
make, if well and carefully fed, about 15 
pounds of pork, so one may draw his 
own conclusions. l. g. t. 
Douglas County, Oreg. 
Brood Sows Arc the Best. 
We fed all the wheat we raised this 
year to brood sows and pigs. There is 
more profit in feeding it to them than in 
selling it at present prices. Soma say 
that they make wheat bring them $1 per 
bushel. I think that we can afford to 
raise it for feed. It is a cheaper and 
better feed for pigs and sows at 50 cents 
per bushel, than corn at 30 cents; that 
is my experience. I grind my feed and 
find it much better. I also soak it from 
one feed to another. For the last two 
weeks I have fed cheap flour and bran, 
and my pigs are doing nicely. G. e. j. 
Parkerton, So. Dak. 
Profit In Wheat Screenings. 
Much is being said and written in rela¬ 
tion to fattening lambs. In point of 
economy, my opinion is that good wheat 
screenings lead. Last winter, I had 47 
lambs, three-fourth South Down blood. 
They were dropped the latter part of 
April and early in May. During the 
summer, sheep and lambs run on clever 
and Timothy, and were fed no grain. I 
put the lambs on feed early in December; 
feeding small rations of corn, and mixed 
clover and Timothy hay, until nearly 
Christmas, when I set the fanning mill 
to work cleaning wheat. From that 
time until I sold them, these lambs were 
fed on screenings taken out of the wheat. 
The lambs were shorn in the early part 
of January, 1894, and delivered at the 
station the middle of April, at which 
time, they averaged 107)^ pounds each. 
Taking out five lambs which came in 
June, and were small hut fat, the 42 re¬ 
maining lambs averaged 120 pounds. 
I know of no feed which will increase 
the weight of sheep mere rapidly than 
wheat. At the present price of wheat, 
it is by far the cheapest feed the farmer 
produces. For hogs and cattle it should 
be ground, but for sheep I feed it who'e. 
Southern Michigan farmers fed large 
quantities of wheat last season, and I 
presume much more will be fed the com¬ 
ing winter. 
Wheat makes excellent pork, floe hams, 
and beef steak that would delight any 
lover of good meat. The man who feeds 
his wheat to pigs, comes nearer getting 
a dollar a bushel than he who hauls his 
to market. Let him who doubts this, try 
it in a small way. Keep an accurate 
account of the amount fed, and of the 
gain made by the animals to which it has 
been fed, and compare with other feeds 
used on other animals of the same 
species. If satisfactory results are not 
obtained I shall be very much mistaken. 
S'hoolcraft, Mich. j d. f. 
A Safe 8 tand-hv kok tub Family darlriK tho 
season of Cholera Morbus, Suininfr Complalnis. 
Cramps. Dla-rheas, and all Bowel Complaints. Is Dr. 
Jayne’s ( armlnatlve Balsam-of admitted elTlcncy, 
and If occasion should arise, sure to prove useful.— 
Adv. 
BARREN COWS CURED. 
The followlnst Is from IION. WAYNE MACVBAGIl 
Ambassador to Italy : 
Brookfield Far.m, Bryn Mawr, I’a. 
" You can quote from this note ray assurance that 
your medicines always gave me the greatest satis¬ 
faction.” 
Book Free. MOORE HKOS., Albany. N. Y. 
Aberdeen-Ans^us Cattle 
J. P. HINE. Shlnrock. Erie Co., O. 
JERSEY RITEE CYEVES. 
Grandsons of Ida’s Stoke Pogis 
From dams of Individual excellence, calves, one to 
six months old. 125 each, orated and registered. 
ROOT. F. SHANNON, PlttKbiirgh, Pa. 
PK.KIN DUCKS—100 choice breeders yet to go at 
% price. Brookslde Poultry Farm, Columbus, N. J. 
35c. for a Poultry 
MARKER 
Bookon CAponizin^ free. Send for Cat. 
of Poultry Specialties. Capon sets $2 up 
W.H.WlGMORE, 107 S. 8th St.,Phila. ,Pa. 
Hi€:h-Cla88 8hrop8hire8 
7S yearling rams that will weigh 260 to 300 pounds, 
and shear 12 to 16 pounds at maturity; and IM year¬ 
ling ewes, to weigh 176 to 2(j0 pounds, and shear » to 
12 pounds at maturity. Just arrived, recorded in Eng¬ 
land and America. “A grand lot.” Send for cata¬ 
logue. THE WILLOWS, 
Gxo. B. Bbhok, Prop. Paw Paw, Mlcb. 
Hampshire-Down Sheep. 
The best mutton breed In England or America. 
Yearling and ram Iambs; also Ewes and Ewe Lambs 
for sale. Prices 20 per cent below former years. 
JNO. I. GORDON, Mercer, Pa. 
Chenango Valley Stock Farms, Greene, N. Y., 
J. D. VAN VALKBN BURGH, .Jll.. Prop. 
For sale, Registered Dorset-Horn Sheep; also some 
tine grade Dorset Lambs, with many of the points of 
registered stock. Just the thing for grading np flocks. 
FEEDING WHEAT. 
What stock; how much fed ? Will It pay to grow 
It for stock food 7 
Oregon Wheat for Hogs. 
Wheat is so very low here, that the 
farmer that undertakes to harvest, 
thrash and sack (all grain has to be 
sacked here before it is put on the mar¬ 
ket) , will find it a losing game; or, in 
other words, will pay out more than his 
wheat will bring. A great deal of wheat 
will be fed to hogs. Whether it will 
pay, or not, depends on how much they 
get for the hogs; they are selling now 
for three cents per pound, gross. I 
shall feed about 1,000 bushels this year 
to hogs. I feed it mostly in the sheaf, 
but have some thrashed and chopped to 
Thorndale Shropshires 
AX AUCTION I 
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The first Annual Auction of Yearling Ewes and Rams, the produce 
of the Thorndale Flock, will be held at THORNDALE, Millbrook P.O., 
DUTCHESS COUNTY, N. Y., 
Wednesday, September i8, at 12 o’clock. 
100 Yearling Ewes, 50 two-year-old Imported Ewes and 50 Yearling Rams 
will be sold to the highest bidder absolutely without reserve. Represen¬ 
tatives of this flock will be on exhibition at the New York State Fair, 
Syracuse, Sept. 6-13. Catalogues ready Aug 15. Write for particulars, 
OAKLEICH THORNE, Millbrook, N. Y. 
TH!IIIIO=CRESOL»C'ai^i 
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no preparation; Mixes instantly with cold water;sam- 
ple by mail 50c. LAWFORD BROS., Baltimore, Md. 
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