1895 
THE RURAL 
NEW-YORKER. 
323 
PRIMER SCIENCE. 
(CONTINUED.) 
5. The wind has had much to do with 
distributing- and re-making- soils. This 
action is, of course, most marked in the 
dry, rainless regions where dust storms 
prevail, or cn the seacoast where the 
wind blows the light sand into great 
mounds or dunes. While this wind 
action is most marked in places where 
the soil is light, and where there is 
little rain, still in every section the 
blowing of dust always does a little 
toward changing the soil about, and 
mixing the particles. It would be 
easy to see that your neighbor might 
benefit your farm by broadcasting fer¬ 
tilizer on a windy day so that it would 
blow into your field. While the changes 
made by a single dust storm may seem 
insignificant, you can see that many 
centuries of such slight changes, may 
have given results worthy of attention. 
These then are the mechanical changes 
that have served to make one soil dif¬ 
ferent from another. We will take up 
the chemical changes next, and those 
due to animal life. 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
A writer in Hoard’s Dairyman tells of 
a Jersey cow that has given milk for 14 
years, and never was dry in all that 
time. That’s a hard one—who can beat 
it ? 
Cotton-Seed Meat, and Pasture.— 
Cotton-seed meal is constipating, and 
causes the butter to be hard. It has the 
greatest manurial value of any feed. 
Will it pay to feed one pound per day of 
it to each milch cow on good pasture ? 
Vail, N. J. o. G. g. 
li. N.-Y.—We think this an excellent 
plan. 
Burning Bones. —Are burned bones of 
any value to hens and chicks ? I have 
them sometimes that get old and have a 
bad odor, so I did not think they would 
do to feed raw and thought of burning 
them. They eat them readily. 
R. N.-Y.—The burning drives off much 
of the soluble nutriment, but leaves the 
phosphate of lime which is very neces- 
sary to the hen. Baking in the oven 
instead of burning would be better. 
Value of Linseed. —Referring to the 
reply of F. L. K. to the communication 
of W. P. McC., Troy, Pa., which appeared 
in The R. N.-Y. of April 13,1 would sug¬ 
gest that for “ a little ground fiaxseed” 
be substituted old process ground lin¬ 
seed cake, beginning with a handful and 
increasing the ration to one pint or 
upwards to a feed, and reducing the oats 
accordingly. Old process ground cake 
is more nutritious than giound flaxseed, 
and is only one-sixth the price. 
Buffalo, N. Y. w. h. h. 
Killing Woodchucks. —Last year The 
R. N.-Y. had a statistical statement of 
the number of woodchucks in New 
Hampshire showing their amazing num¬ 
ber and destructiveness. As 1 know 
something about killing these animals 
by using bisulphide of carbon prepared 
by Edward R. Taylor, of Cleveland, 0., 
I give my experience. I was determined 
to be rid of them, and I am. I took, 
perhaps, a tablespoonful of the bisul¬ 
phide of carbon, poured it on some cot¬ 
ton batting, wound around a stone as 
large as a hen’s egg, then rolled the 
stone into the hole and closed the hole 
perfectly tight. Then to be sure that 
the animal was killed, I dug him out 
after 24 hours or more, and found him 
dead, cold and stiff. I did this at another 
hole another day, so as to have two wit¬ 
nesses, and I found the animal dead as a 
stone both times. If farmers wish to 
get rid of woodchucks, they can, and the 
cheapest, surest and quickest way is to 
use, according to directions, Fuma bi¬ 
sulphide of carbon. w. l. u.fT 
Norvell, Mich. 
For Sitting Hens. —One tablespoon¬ 
ful of sulphur put in the lining of a hen’s 
nest, when the hen is set, will destroy 
all the lice and nits on that hen, allow¬ 
ing the chicks to come out of the nest, 
free from vermin. I have used this 
remedy for the last 25 years, and never 
had it fail. w. d. s. 
Clarksville, Va. 
R. N.-Y.—Sulphur should be used with 
great caution around fowls and chicks, 
especially when they are exposed to 
dampness. 
Sheep and Grain. —1. What breed of 
sheep would you advise where mutton 
first, and then wool, are desired ? 2. 
Does it pay to feed grain to cows at these 
prices : bran, $1 per 100 pounds ; corn 
meal, $1.05; cotton-seed meal, $1.10, when 
butter is 1(5 cents per pound ? a. c. b. 
Fail-land, N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—1. Probably Shropshires, 
though no one can answer such a ques¬ 
tion without knowing all the conditions. 
2. We doubt whether it will pay to feed 
the grain on good pastures. Of the 
three, cotton-seed meal is cheapest, and 
will go well w-'th grass. 
Dosing the Hog. —In the report of the 
Kansas State Board of Agriculture, Mr. 
S. M. Shepard tells how he gives medicine i 
when hogs will not eat or drink : 
If the medicine is in a fluid state, take an old 
shoe or hoot, cut a small slice off of the toe, and 
insert the toe of the shoe or boot in the hog’s 
month, back as far as possible, and pour in the 
medicine at the top. If the medicine is in powder, 
take a piece of rubber hose or other tubing, put 
the medicine in one end, next place that end in 
the animal’s mouth, put your own mouth to the 
other end of the tube, and blow hard, the force of 
which will drive the medicine into the animal’s i 
mouth and throat. The latter method is especially 
valuable when the animal is afflicted with sore 
mouth or throat. In throat and mouth diseases, ! 
a small atomizer is valuable and not expensive. 
It may be procured at almost any drug store. If 
the animal is suffering from severe constipation, 
the syringe should be used. 
Cheap Hen Food.— In Tiie R. N.-Y. 
of April (5, page 253, F. R. F. gives an 
account of ‘- A Successful Poultry Girl.” 
in which he gives the amount of feed 
for the (50 hens as 10 bushels of wheat, 
five bushels of corn, and 10 bushels of 
potatoes, making 800 quarts of feed for 
the year; average per hen. 13% quarts 
for a year’s feed. At the price at which 
produce sells in this State, this is not 
more than 16% cents per hen fora year’s 
feed. Some of your readers here would 
like to know how it is done, as we can't 
keep hens on less than about three 
times that amount. h. g. s. 
Reply. —I gave the figures just as the 
young lady gave them to me. ' They live 
on a large farm ; the poultry have the 
run of the farm, also the scraps from 
the table, and this is the reason she can 
keep them so cheaply. Again, our cli¬ 
mate is much warmer than Michigan ; 
one can feed a hen too much as easily as 
a horse. This girl has learned just the 
amount really necessary to keep her 
hens laying and healthy, and does not 
waste a pound, as she has to buy her 
feed, and is working for the money she 
can get out of it. F. R. f. 
Kills a Spavin, Curb, or 
Splint. Cures Shoulder 
or Stifle Lameness, 
VViil not Scar or Blister,, 
Horse Sizes, 50 cents and $1.00. 
Sold by all Dealers. 
Prepared by Dr. EARL S. SLOAN CO,, 
BOSTON, MASS., U.S.A. 
I)r. Sloan’s New Book “Treatise 
on the Horse,” sent Free. 
BLATCHFORD’S 
CALF MEAL. 
_ Perfect Substitute for Hilk In raising Calves, 
Doubled in strength this season. One lb. mak es 
One g al, of rich Qruel a s n utritious as milk. 
Sample 25 lbs.,_$1 ,00, Pam phle t “H ow to 
Raise Calves Cheaply and Success fully Without 
nilk,” with letters from those who have done 
*0, sent free. 
J. W. HARWELL, 16 Pacific Ave.,Chicago, 
_Jobber of Hill Feeds, (irain, etc., 
Gluten_ Meal. Pure Oilnieals, Undecorticated 
Cotton Seed Heal, Fat Stock Corn and Wh eat 
^eed, Rice Heal, Corn Bran, Wheat Bran, 
Hicldongs, Flour, etc. of best qualities. - 
CLIMAX MILK JARS 
Every Bottle holds a Quart 
Keeps the Milk Sweet and Chan, 
The only sensible way to deliver milk, 
All supplies and apparatus for dairy¬ 
men and milk dealers. 
CREAMERY PACKACE MFC. CO. 
1 to 5 W. Washington St., CHICAC0, ILL 
No FIIvh or Sores 
on Horae cr f’ow 
H more Milk where 
OVHHEN to lose MILLI 
SHOO-FLY 
1m lifted. 
Don't waittl 
Cows are di 
... m mam ■ k/uwh are i 
and f/nraes poor. Send 50c. and we will exp. 1 qt. from distrib 
Ing point in your state. Thousands of testim's from 37 states Co 
le daily. Agts .%90 mo. SHOO-FLY MFG. CO. Philu. 1 
'•* uwhc, -w? ii er 11, dric 
v ^ Corn Mills for Poultrymen 
Daisy Bone Cutter. Power Mills, 
j— Circular and testimonials Free 
WILSON BROS., Easton, Pa, 
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POULTRY 
SUPPLIES 
q Catalogue 
O Free. 
Our new l*o ii I try Supply 1 
Catalogue is most com -1 
plete and has carefully re -1 
vised Prices. You need it ifi 
you only keep live Hens, i 
With CHICK MANNA you 
can saveevery chick hatched., 
JOHNSON & STOKES, 
217 & 219 MARKET ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA_ 
OOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOCCO DOOO l 
IN THE WEAKNESS FOLLOWING THE GRIP 
as an Invigorator and Strength-giver, there Is no 
nicer, safer, or more effectual 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 water 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 unequaled. Small bottles. 35 cents, and 
double size. 50 cents each. Buy of your Druggist .—Adv 
DIRECT-UM BIT. 
Best Combination Bit made. 
Severe or Easy. 
as you want it. 
Sample mailed, XC $1.00, 
iiuo iuuu is nice, rresn me; 
uANNtU Wit A F carefully cooked, ground Hi 
FAR Dnill TRY seasoned and hermetica 
CUD rUULI HI. sealed. Will keep an unlimit 
I time until opened. Conveniently put up in 8 -lb. cai 
j Especially adapted for chickens and moulting fow 
I Ground tine, it -can be mixed with soft food, a 
fed to give each fowl an equal share. Price, 30 eer 
I per can; $3 per dozen. HOLLIS DRESSED ME; 
AND WOOL CO., 30 North Street, Boston. Mass. 
Nickel 
*1.50. 
RACINE MALLEABLE IRON C0„ Racine, Wis. 
Farm Cream Separators" s S,“f.S: 
P. M. SHARPLES/West Chester, Pa., Elgin, 111 
absolutely self.regulating and 
to hatch 90 per cent, of the fer¬ 
tile eggs Self-regulating Brooders. 
Most perfect machines, best material 
and workman«hin Prices reasonable. 
5 nd 4c for Urge i'lus. catalogue. te->- 
cimonials e*c High Ola g Poultry 
6 Eggs. Full stock Poultry Supplies. 
<“f-lc»» Incubator A- Brood, r Co., 
Quincy, HI, 
The PERFECTION Incubator 
Is the Favorite, and Is 
mitted to be the liest Ir 
bntor made. It does 
work to Perfection. E\ 
machine fully Warmn 
Write lor Circulars A Pt 
Toe Perfection Incubati 
Brooder Co.. Quincy, ill 
Dr. SLO AN’S TREATfSKONTHE HORSE 
Is a little book that just fills the need of the aver¬ 
age horse owner. It gives in plain, simple lan¬ 
guage, easily understood information about care 
and feeding of the horse, and details of ventila¬ 
tion, cleanliness, and bedding for the stable. To 
introduce it, the Doctor will send the book entirely 
free for a time. If you own a horse send for it. 
Address Dr. Earl S. Sloan, Boston, Mass,— Adv. 
USE ETI I Ail A CARBON- 
TAYLOR’S ■ w lYl fK Bisulphide. 
For killing Woodchucks, Prairie Dogs,Gophers 
Itiits. Insects in (irain. Seeds, etc. Shipped 
in 50-pound cans by the manufacturer. 
EDWARD K. TAYLOR, Cleveland, Ohio. 
IRISH TERRIERS " 2??, BreMlD|! 
HUGUENOT KENNELS, New Rochelle, N. Y. 
INCUBATORS & BROODERS 
Brooders on 1 y $5. Best & Cheapest 
for raising chicks. 401 st Premia ms 
4000Testimonials. Send for Cat’I’g. 
G. S. SINGER, Box u, Carriington, 0. 
D ON’T PAY *30 TO *50 FOR AN IN< 
BATOR when you can make your own for 
than $5. Send $1 to McCORMAC & CO.. New CONCt 
Ohio, and get their full instructions how to make 
run an incubator. Brooder instruction, $1. 
Guernsey Bulls 
FOR SALE. Best Butter Strains. 
ELLERSLIE STOCK FARM, 
ltHINKCLIFF, N. Y. 
Granddaughters of 
Ida’s Stoke Pogis. 
FROM BUTTER COWS. $45 and upwards. Express 
charges paid. 
ROOT. F. SHANNON, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
I A UA-11 D--|| ItWIhTKKKl), A. .1, C. C. 
flJJSrSfSV Dll B I Two years old; lit to head 
J any herd. Price, $50; 
worth $100. W. It. MOWRY, Oxford, N. Y. 
CHENANGO VALLEY EiSSs 
burgh. Jr., Proprietor. Dorset Horn, Shropshire and 
Itambouillet Sheep, Dutch Belted and Jersey cattle; 
also Poland China. Jersey Red and Suffolk Pigs. 
Buy the breed, which has the monopoly of the mar¬ 
kets, best for breeder and feeder. 
“ Willswood Herd” 
Recorded Berkshire Swine. 
WILLS A. SEWARD, Budd’s Lake, N. J. 
CHESHIRESI’-'-Sd™” 
la the Banner Herd of the world. Awarded 
more than three times as many First Premi¬ 
ums (at the World’s Fair, Chicago) as all the 
reft of the Cheshire exhibitors put together; 
17 First Premiums and Special Mention. 
Lion’s share of First Premiums and Gold 
Medal at N. Y. State Fair, 1894. Why not 
buy the best? Prices low. Correspondence 
solicited. 
B. J. HURLBUT, Clymer, N. Y. 
CHESHIRES 
from Foundation Herd. I have nenv shipped 432 times 
to men 1 had sold to before. 1 challenge any breeder in 
the world to give as good a record. E. W. DAVIS, 
Torringford, Conn., recently Oneida, N. Y. 
UHtSHIRES 5r0CK - 
VllkUllllIkU Illustrated Catalogues 
ED. S. HILL. Peruville, Tompkins County, N. Y. 
WILLIS WHINERY.Salam. 0.. 
BREEDER OF IMPROVED 
CHESTER WHITE SWIHE,’ 
“The Champion Herd of the World.” 
^Holstein & Jersey Cattle. 
17 Varieties of POULTRY 
Fine 32 Page Catalogue FREE,' 
CHESTER WHITES 
with broad dished face, straight* backs and growthy, 
try (i. K. FOULKK. Bala Karin, West Chester. Pa. 
You won t be disappointed. He istheonlv breeder 
guaranteeing satisfaction or freight paid both ways. 
Reg. Poland-Chinas 
Young Sows from choice 
blood ready for service: some 
tired. Boarsof all ages. Hard 
time prices. Mention paper 
llAtlll/i'O.N ic I O., ( orliriwi,111,-, Pa. 
! T>KRKSHIKE, Cheater Wl>, 
L I ) Jersey Hed and Poland Chin. 
.*PIG8. Jersey, Guernsey and 
’ Holstein Cattle. Thoroughbred 
Sheep. Fancy Poultry. Hunting 
_ »nd House Bogs. Catalogue. 
8 . W. SMITH, Cochran vllle, Cheater Co., Pciinu. 
ECCS 
for hatching, $1 per 
setting, purebred B. 
Minorcas, G. Wyan- 
dottes. Buff and S. 
C. B. Leghorns. 
LA no E 
Poland-China Hogs 
Send for circular. 
F. h DATES, & SONS, 
ChltteiiHiigo. N. Y. 
Eggs that Hatch. 
Cayuga Black Duck. $1.25 per 13 ; fine Black Lang- 
shan, $1 per 13; Brown Leghorn, $1 per 13; Mammoth 
Bronze Turkeys, $3 per i.3—all from choice stock. 
Order early. 0. H. WHITE & SON. 
Miller Corners. N. Y. 
America’s Business Hen still in the lead. Eggs for 
hatching, $2 per 15; $3.75 per 30; $5 per 45 $10 per 100. 
Illustrated and descriptive circular free. 
C. H. WYCKOFF, Groton, N. Y. 
tuus 
HORNS. *! per sitting. W. P. ROCFS 
LT. BRAHMAS and BUFF PEKIN 
— — — — BANTAMS, $1.50 Crosses of W. P. 
Rocks and Lt. Brahmas with Br. Leghorns $1 for 15 
» R _?- ?, r - Cockerels and Hens at il each. Five 
Buff Cochin Hens for $5, not exhibition birds. 
S. A. LITTLE, Malcom. Seneca County, N. Y. 
for hatching that will hatch. B. & W. P. Rocks 
LUOO W Wyandottes, Indian Games. B. Minorca*! 
ana i. Ducks. Satisfaction guaranteed. Send for Hr- 
cular. BKOOKSIDE POULTRY FARM Columbus" N\J 
BLACK LANGSHAN EGGS, 
*1 per sitting. 8 . DEAN, Oak Hill, N. T. 
W, Leghorn Eggs 
nice strain, at 
*1 for 15. 
H. SAXTON, 
Varina Grove. Va 
