1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
LIVE STOCK MATTERS. 
(CONTINUED.) 
the neighborhood long enough to see his 
get before using him. This fact proves 
that there is not yet a uniform, but very 
irregular, standard of excellence fixed 
in the breeds. e. h. c. 
A Curious Calving Case. —A farmer 
who runs a dairy farm in the northern 
part of the village of Fenton, Genesee 
County, Mich., owns a Jersey heifer not 
quite two years old. Friday, September 
13, she gave birth to a fine heifer calf, 
but did not seem to show a natural 
maternal nature for it, and it was re¬ 
moved and placed with another cow. 
Saturday, September 20, eight days later, 
she gave birth to another heifer calf, 
even larger than the first one ; her milk 
immediately came, and she owned her 
calf. Both calves are now with her. 
The case seems the only one known 
among the oldest farmers in this vicin¬ 
ity. The above is a true statement and 
vouched for by j. M. I). 
Why Dogs are Kept. —A writer in 
Popular Science News gives these “ scien¬ 
tific ” reasons for the keeping of dogs : 
And why do people keep such lots of dogs them¬ 
selves, and go in such numbers to see other peo¬ 
ple’s dogs ? Because the dog is at once the sincer- 
est flatterer, and the most successful cheerer 
that the human race ever had. A good dog al¬ 
ways gives us the feeling that we men and women 
are a sort of gods. No other animal does any¬ 
thing of the kind. The cat treats us as an inferior, 
and the horse will treat us as a dear friend, not a 
divinity. The dog, moreover, imparts something 
of his peculiar gayety to us in a way that is 
irresistible. He mingles his suggestion of gayety 
with his flattery; for he not only leaves his din¬ 
ner untasted to walk with us, but the mere fact 
that we are apparently giving ourselves the 
pleasure of a walk, raises him into such a de¬ 
lirium of delight that the sight of it puts all our 
dumps and blues to such reproach that we shake 
them off in very shame. And when we don’t 
walk, but sit moodily at home, the dog curls up 
lovingly at our feet, and looks up now and then 
into our eyes, and “ glides into our darker mus- 
ings with a mild and healing sympathy.” 
A Wired Heart. —A writer in the Eng¬ 
lish Farm and Home, tells of a cow that 
was sick of some obscure disease of the 
heart. She was killed and examined, 
when it was found that a common hat 
pin about four inches long, had worked 
its way directly through the heart. The 
writer says : 
The pin was probably swallowed with the food, 
and, after piercing the coats of the stomach or 
bowels, worked its way on till it became embedded 
in the heart. This is by no means the first in¬ 
stance recorded of a sharp substance taken with 
the food having proved fatal. Pieces of wire, 
headless nails, etc., are all capable of perforating 
the coats of the stomach or bowels, and, if thin 
and sharp, of working their way into some vital 
organ. In such cases, the cause of the mischief 
is only revealed at the autc usy, and a cure is out 
of the question. All that c,. ’‘be done is to pre¬ 
vent, as far as possible, such things being picked 
up with the food. Near wire fences I have often 
picked up pieces of wire that had broken off, or 
perhaps been cut off with the pliers when the 
fence was made or mended. Again, foreign hay 
and litter are often bound with wire, pieces of 
which I have known found in the manger or bed. 
New had these been swallowed or run into an 
animal’s foot, serious consequences would have 
followed.” _ 
HEN FEED AND CHOLERA. 
1 have been feeding fowls eight or 
nine years, at first carelessly on grain, 
and for the last few years on a more ex¬ 
tended bill of fare, as I found that biddy 
could appreciate good cooking. Nowa¬ 
days, I use a stove cooker whenever farm 
work is not too pressing, to prepare the 
hens’ breakfast. This is the morning 
meal: I put two pailfuls of water on to 
boil first, and add a pan of ground, dried 
beef, and two handfuls of salt ; then I 
stir into the boiling water or soup, 12 
quarts of bran, and two quarts of meal ; 
if I am using pepper seasoning, I put 
into the boiling water a teaspoonful of 
black pepper and about a quarter of a 
teaspoonful of Cayenne. I feed this to 
400 Brown Leghorns in the morning, 
and in winter, I sometimes boil the 
evening before, if I don’t want the cooker 
to heat grain in on very cold nights. I 
give the Leghorns all the grain they 
will eat at night -in a litter of leaves 
and straw. This ration will bring loads 
of eggs with Leghorns and a plastered 
house, as I know from experience in 
winter weather. 
But I am not so much interested in 
feeding at present, as in hen cholera, 
and if The R. N.-Y. can tell us how to 
cure this disease, it will be a boon to 
many a farmer, as there are a dozen 
men whom I know within 25 miles of 
here, that are having their yards swept 
by it, and some of them have lost nearly 
all. I’ve lost 85 hens. My pullets are not 
affected at all in the same house with 
the hens, but some lose chicks. The 
hens become suddenly dumpish, with 
drooping tail and always have a diarrhea 
and the droppings are yellowish. Some 
of them die while laying, and once in 
awhile one gets well. They eat and 
drink some when sick, but not much, 
and generally die in from one to three 
days. I quarantined my hens, and fed 
different medicines : Venetian red, cor¬ 
rosive sublimate in the drink, copperas 
water, carbolic in the drink, and am 
feeding pepper, copperas, ginger and 
charcoal at present. Will The R. N.-Y. 
tell us all about this dread disease, and 
whether it lives in the soil and will hang- 
around the premises till next season ; in 
short, how to head it off. geo. HYDE. 
Whooping Cough, Croup and Hoarseness are 
efficaciously treated by Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant. 
It removes difficulty of breathing and oppression in 
the throat and lungs, promotes the ejection of mu¬ 
cus, and subdues the violence of these complaints 
at the outset.— Adv. 
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We have 100 of this cow’s descendants for sale. If 
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well as though here in person. 
Making to order a specialty. 
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It is the meat food for 
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Willswood Herd 
Recorded Berkshire Swine. 
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