1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
115 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Whitewash and Lice. —In a late R. N.-Y., it was 
recommended to use a pump to spray the hen¬ 
house with whitewash. In all the poultry papers 
when a question is asked about lice, the answer 
is, “whitewash.” I have never seen a henhouse 
where whitewash had made any difference with 
the lice; when the wash is dry it makes a pood, 
smooth road for them to travel over. To get rid 
of the red mites that bother the hens most, nail 
some thick cloth (I use old pants cloth) on the 
under side of the roost, then kerosene the roosts 
once a week thoroughly, and the mites will not 
bother any more. For the body lice, keep a large, 
shallow box of sifted coal ashes for the hens to 
dust in, and they will do the rest. v. e. h. 
Lakeport, N. H. 
R. N.-Y.—The carbolic acid in the wash is what 
the lice dislike. 
Beans for Cows. —Is there such a thing as form¬ 
ing a ration for milch cows of cooked beans, 
ground wheat and wheat bran ? Poor beans are 
$10 a ton, bran $18, wheat 60 cents a bushel. I can 
get barley at 40 cents per bushel. I feed clover and 
Timothy hay mixed, and have a plenty of barley 
straw and bean fodder. a. s. 
Monroe County, N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—We would prefer to feed cooked beans 
to hogs, though they are often fed to milch cows 
with fairly good results. Sheep make excellent 
use of beans, as the sheep is about the only ani¬ 
mal that will eat them raw and unground. If you 
have hogs or sheep, our advice is to let them have 
the beans, and feed the cows on bran, barley and 
hay. Three pounds of beans (weight before 
cooking) and three of ground wheat, with the hay, 
should give fairly good results with milch cows. 
It might not give satisfactory butter. 
Thumps in Pigs. —Last spring, I was called to 
see a fine litter of 10 pigs, two of which were sick. 
They would stand and thump, up and down, on 
the floor, and soon die. They were all fine, lusty 
fellows, 3(4 weeks old. The breeder asked me 
whether I could tell what was the trouble with 
them. I told him that his pigs had what was 
called the thumps, caused by their getting too 
much milk, and taking too little exercise. They 
were confined in a small pen about 6x8 feet 
square, and as the weather was bad, they stayed 
in the bed most of the time. I told him to turn 
the sow into another pen for a few hours each 
day, which would shut off the pigs from their 
feed, and they would take exercise by trying to 
get where the sow was. He did so, and raised the 
other eight without any more trouble. Confine¬ 
ment in a close pen without sufficient exercise, 
will often produce partial paralysis in a hog, and 
sometimes it will lose the use of its legs so as to 
make it unfit for breeding purposes. G. b. 
Demster, N. Y. 
COWS WITH EXTRA TEATS. 
I have a cow, 10 years old, that gives milk from 
six teats. The two farthest back are smaller 
than the other four, and do not give as much milk. 
Forestville, N. Y. m. w. s. 
I had a cow that gave milk in a fifth teat back 
of the others, and a small section about the size 
of a walnut in the husk could not be emptied by 
milking the other teats. As the milk would only 
milk backward and not in the pail, I never made 
a practice of milking it. It filled every time that 
she calved, but soon went dry without making 
any trouble. The milk appeared all right. 
Mitchell, Mich. F. l. c. 
I have a three-year-old heifer which, when com¬ 
ing two years old, dropped her first calf and gave 
milk from six teats. I did not keep on milking 
the two extras after taking the calf from her, and 
they went dry. When she had her second calf, 
when coming three years old, she gave milk from 
five, and I am not certain about the sixth. The 
fifth has become almost as large and perfect as 
the other two back teats. j. d. l. 
Rhinebeck, N. Y. 
Dr. Horne or any of The R. N.-Y. staff, can see 
a cow with five teats giving milk from all of them, 
if they desire to see such a fre ak, by visiting my 
barn. To be sure, she does not give much from 
the extra section, but it is milk and goes with the 
rest to the Boston market every day. Her heifer 
calves have all been so marked, but as I have 
never brought one to maternity, I cannot say 
whether or not they will develop the extra section 
in a like manner. I supposed that such cows 
were not very uncommon. Nobody here seems to 
think it strange. E. A. haskell. 
Rockingham County, N. H. 
I have a grade Short-horn that gives milk from 
five teats. She is six years old, and we have 
milked the five teats for four years. The fifth teat 
is not quite so large as the others. The milk is the 
same from all the teats. She has three on the 
left side, and two on the right. We have tried to 
dry up the fifth; let it go for two days, and the 
milk would run out of it, then we would have to 
start again. The mother of this cow had six 
teats that had milk in them all, but we got the 
two hind ones dried so that we had no more 
bother with her. We did not know that it was 
anything extraoi’dinary for a cow to give milk 
from five teats, but we know it is very annoying. 
Stoneboro, Pa. E. c. t. 
A case came under my observation several 
years ago, in which a Short-horn grade heifer 
was raised that had six well developed teats. 
When she calved at two years old, she was 
allowed to fatten her calf, and when we com¬ 
menced to milk her, she gave considerable milk 
from the'fifth -teat, alt was soon'dried'off, as the 
owner said that four were enough to milk. We 
have a Guernsey-Jersey crossbi’ed heifer, which 
had six well developed teats from a calf, and 
when she dropped her first calf in April, 1894, the 
fifth teat enlax’ged and had the appearance of 
being filled with milk. As we did not want more 
than four teats to milk, I thought that I would 
not milk it; but as it caked so badly, I had to 
milk it a number of times before it would dry off. 
Sometimes, we got as much as a quart of milk at 
a milking from it, and have no doubt that if it had 
been milked regularly, it would have continued 
to give milk like the rest. G. F. b. 
South Swampscott, Mass. 
When the Mucous Surfaces of the Bronchia 
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will afford prompt relief. For breaking up a Cold or 
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Don t get Eggs-cited when we tell you that hens do 
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Make Hens La> 
Feed green bone the best egg producer, an 
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ELLIOT’S PARCHMENT BUTTER PAPER. FREE 
To dairymen or others who will uso It, we will send half a roam, 8x11, free, if they B ■■ ■ 
will forward 30 cents to pay postage. Why not try the Best Butter Wrapper ? 
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PURE OLD PROCESS GROUND LINSEED CAKE. 
No other feed for farm animals will produce so satisfactory results as our linseed meal. It supplies the 
most essential elements In which all other feeds are deficient. We do not percolate or cook our Meal. 
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Why does our product have 25 per cent more albumi¬ 
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Many feeders find cake meal more laxative, there¬ 
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BARREN COWS CURED. 
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