THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
723 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Cure for Roup. —Smoke the hens with 
a little sulphur onee or twice a week. 
Ceclarville, N. Y. A. ir. 
A Grand Guernsey. —H. M. Cottrell, 
manag’er of Levi P. Morton’s farm, sends 
this note : 
Our Guernsey cow, Bretonne, h.is just completed 
a year’s work. She prave 11,219 pounds of milk, 
and 602.92 pounds of butter f.at In the year. 
On the basis of 85 per cent of a pound of 
fat making a potind of Initter that means 
over 709 pounds of butter in a year. 
Think of that, ye scrub supporters ! 
Cooking Feed for Hogs. —Is there any 
difference between feeding corn chop, 
scalded and fed as slop, and the whole 
grain fed to hogs ? Which make the best 
meat ? G. p. m. 
North Point, Md. 
R. N.-Y.—There will be no difference 
in the mail of hogs fed on dry or on 
scalded grain. As a result of many re¬ 
ported experiments, we would say that 
there is a slight gain made from cooking 
the grain. 
Ram Fence Rreaker. —J. H. Brown 
tells, in the Michigan Farmer, of his ex¬ 
perience with a wire and picket fence. 
Though put up carefully, the fence is 
now largely a wreck ; 
It was rendered so by the too assiduous devo¬ 
tion of a small Merino ram, and a not much larprer 
yearlinpr heifer. The pickets were of pine, and 
many of them cross-jrrained. The ram. found it 
out first. He accident.'illy broke the first one by 
too much simple head pressure. .Shortly after¬ 
wards we found him at work, backing up about 
two rods, and then proingr throuffh the fence every 
time. The c.alf has the same effect, only she does 
not back up. She plants her feet firmly on the 
pround and forpes ahead. 
Female Hogs and Sheep. —Ho female 
dogs ever kill sheep ? Ho they ever have 
hydrophobia ? I was informed by a 
gentleman that they never kill sheep, 
for whenever he had heard of or read of 
any sheep being killed, he would write 
to the parties losing the sheep to learn 
whether a male or female dog did the 
killing. The answer would be, naale, 
every time. p. k. ii. 
North Guilford, Conn. 
R. N.-Y.—Who can tell about this? 
Let’s have canine “woman’s rights” by 
all means! 
Truck on Wheels. —We supposed that 
nearly every one knew how cattle are 
fed from wheel trucks in the large dairy 
barns. We are, however, asked to de¬ 
scribe one, and so reprint (.see page 711, 
Fig. 191), a picture used some years ago 
in The R. N.-Y. A box of the shape 
shown is fitted on two small wheels so 
that a man by pushing down on one end 
may balance a heavy load and wheel it 
down the feeding alley past the cows— 
feeding out the grain or ensilage as he 
goes along. This is much better than 
using a wheelbarrow or trying to balance 
a bushel ba.sket on your hip and feed 
out with the other hand. 
Castor Oil for Hens. —In The R. 
N.-Y. of October 6, W. TI. Fraley tells us 
how he treated his pets, which were 
taken suddenly ill. The next morning 
after reading his account, I found a P. 
Rock hen on the ground apparently life¬ 
less ; but on pushing her aside gently, 
she moved her head. I picked her up ; 
found that she could not stand and did 
not open her eyes, and seemed to be 
speechless; she would neither eat nor 
drink, and I said, “ Now, Mr. Fraley, do 
you think castor oil will cure her ?” I 
scalded some meal and made it into balls 
about as large as I thought she could 
swallow. I put a piece of glass about 
the size of a pea in a half dozen of the 
balls, and castor oil in the others until 
she had taken 20 or 30 drops of the oil. 
I had mixed a little carbolic acid solution 
in the scalded meal. I make the carbolic 
acid solution by pouring a teaspoonful 
of the acid into a pint bottle of hot water. 
I fed the hen the scalded meal vvith a little 
of the acid solution for a week, giving 
the oil every second day. I kept her in 
a box until she was able to stand, and to 
eat and drink without assistance. She 
now has a large garden all to herself, 
and moves about some, but very leisurely, 
and tastes everything that is fed to her 
as though her tongue must be badly 
coated yet. I think I must give her 
some quinine before she will acquire 
much activity, but if there is any other 
tonic better for a convalescent hen, I 
would like to hear what it is. M. w. 
Cheviot Sheep. —Will The R. N.-Y. 
give me some information in regard to 
Cheviot sheep ? Are they coarse or fine 
wool ? How do they compare with the 
Shrop.shire and South Hown breeds in 
regard to mutton and wool ? Are they 
as profitable as either of those two 
breeds ? i. A. v. o. 
Quincy, Mich. 
R. N.-Y.—In a general way, it may be 
said that the Cheviot is a mountain or 
hill sheep—a native of the hills at the 
south of Scotland. They are larger than 
Shrop.shires, with a finer wool, and a 
very close fieece. The mutton is of ex¬ 
cellent quality. The cheviots are white 
faced. On rough, hilly land, they would 
probably do better in some respects 
than Shropshire. An excellent descrip¬ 
tion of the breed is found in a circular 
sent by H. F. Wilber, Oneonta, N. Y. 
Hens With a Cold. —What is the 
trouble with my hens ? They make a 
peculiar noise like a hen that has been 
eating dry corn meal. I do not know 
which to call it, coughing or .sneezing. I 
did not get the window in the henhouse 
as early this fall as I intended. Ho you 
think that they have taken cold ? I am 
feeding soft feed mornings—middlings 
and bran—and wheiit at night. l. h. c. 
A NS.— They have undoubtedly taken 
cold, and are threatened with roup. 
Keep them warm and dry, and avoid all 
drafts. Read the .symposium on roup on 
page 048 of The R. N.-Y. for October 13. 
The feed is all right, if you do not make 
the soft feed sloppy. The ration should 
include green stuff of some kind, ground 
shell or bone, and meat in some form, 
with good drinking water. 
New Hampshire Woodchucks. —We 
find the following statement going the 
rounds of the press : 
Woodchuck statistics computed a few years ayo 
by a New Hampshire student of economics, laid 
bare the fact that one he.ilthy woodchuck—and 
there are no unhealthy woodchucks—would eat, 
and did eat, between the first of May and first of 
September of any year, 500 pounds of red clover, 
first and second crops. An inside estimate placed 
the number of woodchucks then in New Hamp¬ 
shire at 482,960. No one made a business of hunt¬ 
ing them, and if 10,000 were casually killed or 
trapped in a ye.ar that was a large number. The 
statistician, to be as easy as he could on the 
farmer, figured on the b.asis of 470,000 woodchucks 
in the State, all busy, during the four months 
mentioned, cutting and mowing away clover 
throughout New Hampshire—to say nothing of 
the other farm products they saved the farmer 
the trouble of gathering himself. If one wood¬ 
chuck harvested 500 pounds of clover, of course 
there w.as no getting around the f.act that, at the 
same rate, the 470,000 woodchucks gathered a crop 
of 235,000,000 pounds, the equivalent of 1I7,.500 tons 
every year. Placing hay at even the ridiculous 
price of $6 a ton, here was the astounding exhibit, 
as plain as the simple rules of multiplication and 
division could make it, that the annual tribute 
woodchucks wei’e levying on the hay fields of the 
patient New Hampshire farmer amounted to the 
sum of $705,000 ! 
Oats and corn, half and half, consti¬ 
tute our best feed in this country. Can 
some of The R. N.-Y. experts give me a 
combination of liran and oil meal that 
will fill the bill ? If not, can they make 
up a ration of feed, bran and oil meal 
that will lessen the price ? First, for a 
work horse ration, fed heavily, and, 
second, for a driving horse used but lit¬ 
tle. The present price of feed per 100 
pounds is SI.35. bran S1.30, oil meal -SI.70. 
Stony Fork, Pa. E. D. R. 
R. N.-Y.—We would feed oil meal very 
sparingly to horses at first. It has a very 
laxative effect on some animals. Try it 
in small quantities first and see how it 
affects them. The New Jersey Experi¬ 
ment Station reports the following satis¬ 
factory daily ration for work horses at 
ordinary road work ; 
12 pounds Timothy hay. 
6 poiinds ground corn and oats (equal parts). 
6 pounds wheat bran. 
2 pounds linseed meal. 
For driving horses, there is no really 
good substitute for oats. For such ani¬ 
mals, we doubt if over one pound per day 
of linseed would be profitable. We have 
never felt that it was profitable to buy 
the ordinary “ feed” sold by dealers. It 
is too convenient to mix worthless oat 
hulls in it. 
r Givk'Attention tO' the first symptoms of a Lung 
Complaint, and check the dreaded disease in Its In- 
cipiency, by using Dr. D. J.ayne’s Expectorant, a safe, 
old-fashioned remedy for all Affections of the Lungs 
and Bronchia.—Adv. 
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is the only one in the world that ^ 
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If you want your hens to lay 
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WEBSTER 
& HANNUM, 
107 Albany St., 
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Lectures will begin OCTOIIER 3, 1894. For 
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332 B. 27tb Street, New York City. 
BARREN COWS CURED. 
The following Is from Hon. WAYNB MACVH AGH 
Ambassador to Italy: 
Brookfield Farm, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
" You can quote from this note my assurance that 
your medicines always gave me the greatest satis¬ 
faction.” 
Book Free. MOORE BROS.. Albany. N. Y. 
Aberdeen-Angus Cattle 
J. P. HINE. Shlnrock. Erie Co.. O. 
COD CAI C—Three grand A. .1. C. C. Heifers, 
rUll OALC St. Lambert and Eurotas blood. 
Solid color; seven months old. $75 takes them. 
J. D. BUCHANAN, Liberty Falls, N. Y. 
UADDV DCCnCD P, Pfl Breeders & shlpi)ers 
nAnnl nLLULn 06 uUi of improved .stock, 
cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, liou.se and hunting dogs. 
Illustrated catalog free. Tiiorndale, Chester Co., Pa 
High-Class Shropshires 
70 yearling rams that will weigh 250 to 300 pounds, 
and shear 12 to 15 pounds at maturity; and 150 year¬ 
ling ewes, to weigh 176 to 21,.0 pounds, and shear 9 to 
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GEO. B. Brbck, Prop. Paw Paw. MIoh. 
S hort-Horns, Poland Chinas and B. P. Rocks. Show 
Hogs a specialty. Our herd took 32 of 35 firsts. 1892. 
Ex. lino P. R. Cockerels. 1). .1. GREEN. Rcnrock, O. 
To tho VICTORS belong the orders, so if houglit from 
''Willswood Herd” 
Recorded Berkshire Swine, 
you are sure of getting only tho rest. This herd won 
I’TUZES on every animal entered, at the Four Fairs 
where shown this Fall, September find October fiir- 
rows. Catalogue tells all. I’rlees on business basis. 
WILLS A. SEWARD, Rudd’s Lake, New Jersey. 
CHESHIRES 
FROM FOUNDATION HERD. 
I have noiv shipped 419 times to men I had sold to 
before. For lean meat, quick growth and quietness 
get the Cheshire. B. W. DAVIS, Torrlngford. Conn. 
Formerly Oneida, N Y. 
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For either road or stable use. 
All shapes, sizes and qualities. 
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Burlington “Stay-On” 
STABLE BLANKET fits like a tailor-made 
coat. Ask your dealer for the “BURLINGTON." 
Write for handsome illustrated catalogue—sent free. 
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A. C. BHOSIUS, 
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Pigs In pairs, not akin. 
YoungSows bred 
Young service Boars. 
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Tivoli, N. Y. Refer by permission to Tiik R. N.-Y. 
WAllTCn—Married man, that understands caring 
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ChittenanKo, N. Tl. 
PEKIN DUCKS—100 choice breeders yet to go at 
price. Brooksldo Poultry Farm, Columbus, N. J 
TOULOUSE GEESESX‘,cLr5';;:r, 
Cayuga Ducks, at $2 per pair. One Cheshire Boar and 
two Sows, six months old, $15 each; No. 1 stock. 
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Hoof Ail, 
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cannot exist where WIno of Copper Is applied. 
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all microbes, germs, and parasites that cause the 
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painting or spraying poultry and other outbuildings. 
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Hens Lay “S' 
eggs—hard shell and double "the number 
when fed on GILEKN CUT HONE. 
-You can save-in money; 
D ollar sx'ui 
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