THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
79 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
A Cow Tie.— I suggest to C. W. R., page 18, that 
he have a large ring that will slip easily on the 
post. Set the post in the floor or ground, tie the 
rope to the ring, and slip it over the post. I think 
this better than a stationary tie. w. . 1 . o. 
When to Serve a Sow. —How soon after a sow 
drops her pigs, can she be served again ? I have 
been told that a sow could be served within three 
days. j. h. b. 
Dayton, Wash. 
R. N.-Y.—Some claim that it can be done in three 
days after, but the time when she weans her pigs 
is soon enough. 
Motherly Hens and White Turkeys. —1. What 
hens make the best mothers among white fowls ? 
2. Where can eggs of white turkeys be procured ? 
Is the flesh equal to the colored, as to flavor ? 
A. I.. J. 
R. N.-Y.—1. We would prefer W. Wyandottes or 
W. P. Rocks. 2. Of the Pine Tree Farm, James- 
burg, N. J. The flesh is considered equal to any. 
Chicken Cholera and Castor Oil.— Don’t de¬ 
pend on the castor oil, unless you have a suitable 
place to confine the sick ones ; and follow up the 
oil with carbolic acid, copperas, etc. Better take 
their heads off and burn them. The oil will only 
allay the irritation, and give the antiseptics a 
chance to work, but will not effect a cure. m. w. 
Value of Rye Hay.—I had a piece of rye which 
I cut when in full head and bloom, cured it and 
housed it like hay. What is the feeding value of 
rye cut at this stage, and of that cut at maturity? 
o. w. B. 
R. N.-Y.—Here is a fair comparison with Tim¬ 
othy hay. The rye in this case was cut just before 
the grain began to harden : 
Muscle- Fat- Pure 
makers, formers. fat. 
Rye hay.3.50 47.2 .60 
Timothy.3.67 41.25 1.03 
If the rye is kept uncut till maturity, the feeding 
value will be reduced nearly one-third. 
Bloody Milk. — One *of my neighbors has a 
young cow that frequently gives bloody milk. She 
has received no injury that is apparent. What is 
the cause, and what the remedy ? h. m. r. 
R. N.-Y.—Various causes aside from injuries 
may cause blood to escape with the milk. Con¬ 
gestion or inflammation of the udder or a sudden 
increase in the feeding of rich foods. For treat¬ 
ment, give one pound of Epsom salts with an 
ounce of ginger as a drench. If the bowels are 
not freely moved, repeat the dose in two days 
Also give tablespoonful doses of nitrate of potash 
in the feed once daily. Feed little or no grain 
until the trouble is removed. Bathe the udder 
once daily, rubbing well in, with the compound 
tincture of iodine diluted in three or four parts of 
water. 
Small Hogs. —What are some of the main points 
about small breeds of hogs, i. e., the advantage 
one breed has over the other, if any ? If there is 
no difference, except in color, I prefer the Small 
Yorkshire. I would like the name of one or more 
reliable parties who have them for sale. I don’t 
see why they don’t advertise in The R. N.-Y. 
Columbus, Miss. w. o. F. 
R. N.-Y.—One might as well say that small 
Frenchmen, Spaniards, Italians, Turks, Swedes 
or Yankees are different only in color and shape. 
When you investigate, you will find that each man 
can do some one thing better than any of the 
others. In Italy, on a diet of olives and macaroni, 
for example, the Italian can do more work to the 
pound live weight than the Swede. You may 
safely assume that all small breeds of hogs have 
some fixed and valuable characteristic, or they 
would have been wiped out long ago. The Essex 
is black, and is a quick feeder and great “hustler.” 
The Small Yorkshire will fatten quicker than 
most other small breeds. Richard Gibson, Dela¬ 
ware, Ontario, Canada, has advertised these pigs 
in The R. N.-Y. His stock is good. 
Teething in a Colt.—I have a three-year-old 
colt that has a tooth coming on each side, out¬ 
side of the middle tooth. What should I do with 
it ? He is also troubled with lampas. What is 
the remedy for that ? w. m. h. 
R. N.-Y.—Judging from the age of the colt, the 
two teeth mentioned are the jjermanent incisors 
which are coming in, without the shedding of the 
corresponding milk incisors. Ordinarily you 
only have to wait for the permanent teeth to re¬ 
place the milk teeth; but occasionally the milk 
teeth are too persistent and have to be drawn. 
If the new teeth are being displaced, take the colt 
to a surgeon, and have the milk teeth removed. 
If the lampas does not interfere with the colt’s 
feeding, no treatment is necessary, and it will 
disappear after the colt is through teething. If 
feeding is interfered with, cut lightly across the 
gums with a sharp knife or lancet, making the 
incisions about one-fourth inch apart, f. l. k. 
A Good Ration. —I went to weighing and found 
that a basket of ensilage, as I was giving it to 
the cows, weighed 30 pounds. That is 60 pounds 
per day per cow, as I feed it morning and evening 
with a good feed of Timothy hay. For grain feed, 
I use 300 pounds of good winter wheat bran, 100 
pounds of good wheat shorts, 100 pounds of cot¬ 
ton-seed meal, and feed five pounds per day per 
cow—2*4 pounds morning and evening. The en¬ 
silage has considerable corn in it. I am getting 
a nice flow of milk, and am well pleased with the 
silo, but I have a mind to drop the shorts and 
feed more of the bran. The cows are Holsteins 
and grades, and will average 1,200 pounds. They 
leave nothing in the mangers. I buy the grain 
feed. Wheat bran costs per 100 pounds, 85 cents; 
shorts, $1, and cotton-seed meal, $1.15. I cau buy 
buckwheat shorts for 90 cents per 100 pounds, j 
tried this before I got cotton-seed meal, but did 
not get the milk I do now. Last winter I had no 
silo, fed twice the grain I am now feeding, and 
did not get the milk I am getting this winter. 
Factoryville, Pa. e. p. b. 
R. N.-Y.—In our opinion you would do better to 
drop the shorts and feed bran in their place, 
weight for weight. 
Ensilage and Bran Alone. —With regard to feed¬ 
ing milch cows exclusively on ensilage and wheat 
bran, while I would choose a ration of which hay 
formed a part, I have no facts to substantiate 
such a choice. Many of our well settled opinions 
about numberless things, are daily upset by new 
innovations. There is quite a wide range in the 
nutritive value of different samples of ensilage, 
but the feeding tables made up at our experiment 
stations make it 1.2 per cent of protein, 11.8 per 
cent of carbohydrates and .6 of 1 per cent of fat. 
Were we feeding 60 pounds per day of such ensil¬ 
age it would require 15 pounds of bran to make a 
standard ration for a 1,000-pound cow—which 
with ensilage at $2.50 per ton, and bran at $15, 
would make a daily ration for a cow cost 18% 
cents. A ration of 30 pounds of ensilage, 20 
pounds of clover hay, and eight pounds of wheat 
bran, would possess almost precisely the same 
amount of nutritive value, in nearly the same pro¬ 
portion, and would costless than the ensilage and 
bran; with my present views, I would expect bet¬ 
ter results from feeding it. 
Aside from the cost, I imagine that the ensilage 
and bran ration would require less chewing, con¬ 
sequently less saliva would be secreted ; and the 
tone of the digestive organs would be lowered. 
The use of so large an amount of soft food in cold 
weather would cause a laxative state of the 
bowels which would, after a time, weaken the 
constitution. It is also a question whether, in 
digesting so much soft food, sufficient heat would 
be evolved to keep the temperature up to the 
standard. Further, there is, in the best of ensil¬ 
age, a certain amount of acidity which would 
seem to require the neutralizing influence of more 
dry food than would be furnished by the bran. 
No one values ensilage more highly than I do, but 
without more light I would not like to make my 
cows depend exclusively upon it for fibrous food. 
Whitewater, Wis. chas. r. beach. 
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To dairymen or others who will use it, we will send half a ream, 8x11, free, if they W ■ m ■■ 
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No other feed for farm animals will produce so satisfactory results as our linseed meal. It supplies the 
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Feeders of Stock 
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We wish to remind you of the 
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Why does our product have 25 per cent more albumi¬ 
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presses necessarily take from the seed much of the 
mucilage with the oil. and we take oil only. 
Many feeders find cake meal more laxative, there¬ 
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