MOORE’S 
MORE CONCERNING AN EXCLUSIVE 
M.E/-L DIET FOR COWS. 
Several weeks since we gave in these 
columns an account of the remarkable ex¬ 
periments of Mr. L. W. Miller of Stockton, 
N. Y., in feeding dairy stock upon an ex¬ 
clusive meal diet. These experiments have 
awakened a great deal of attention, and 
much oomment has been elicfted concerning 
the theory set up, and for the most part ad¬ 
versely, inasmuch as the practice is an inno¬ 
vation on the general custom and because it 
was supposed the ruminant could not live 
for any considerable length of time when 
the fourth stomach only was in active opera¬ 
tion and rumination Lad ceased. Again, 
what has been a surprise to many is the 
small quantity of meal used for the rnain- 
tainance of a full-grown animal. 
With all our notions of keeping stock in 
good health and condition it seems almost 
incredible that an animal so large as the 
cow may be kept on so small a quantity of 
meal as three quarts per day. t o say nothing 
of maintaining strength and health. 
But Mr. Miller has shown by actual 
practice that tins may be accomplished, and 
it would appear, from proofs which he brings 
forward in support of Ida system, that the 
cows after having boon subjected to this 
treatment through the winter and on being 
turned to grass not only yield a good quan¬ 
tity of milk but do better in this rogard than 
when they have been wintered on fuil ra¬ 
tions of hay in the usual manner. In proof 
that bis cows wintered on meal yield better 
returns than those of bis neighbors which 
are wintered in the common way, he brings 
forward the record of the fictory where the 
milk was received, in which it is staled that 
from May II) to October 1'.), 1871, the cows 
wintered on meal produced one pound t lire3 
ounces each per day more than the average 
of the 531 cows whoso milk was sent to the 
factory. 
We allude to Mr. Miller’s practice again 
because he has recently issued a pamphlet 
containing the address delivered before the 
Pennsylvania and Utica Dairy Conventions, 
on ‘‘Meal Feeding atul Animal Digestion,” 
and to which he has now added practical 
suggestions) in regard to the feeding and 
management of stock which are to be kept 
on this new plan. We give briefly some of 
the points urged in the additional matter 
presented by Mr. Miller : 
CONCCRK! 110 THE ST ABIES AND MANNER CF FEEDING. 
Warm and comfortable stables must be 
provided, and sunlight should be freely ad¬ 
mitted, also good ventilation must be se¬ 
cured. Tho platform on which the cows 
stand should be dry and well littered with 
refuse straw or forest leaves gathered for tho 
purpose. The cows should lie dried off be¬ 
fore being restricted to tho cx.'lusive meal 
diet, and if any are in milk and which are 
being fed hay, they should be placed out of 
sight of tho othei-s. 
OVER-FEEDING. 
Mr. Miller says over-feeding must be 
guarded against as indispensable to success, 
and precautions should bo taken that the 
mangers be so arranged that the food cannot 
be obtained one from the other by over¬ 
reaching. The damage to the animal robbed 
of a portion of her food bear? no proportion 
to the injury inflicted upon the trespasser, 
because scouring, which is most especially to 
be guarded against, is sure to follow as the 
result of over-reach iug. 
THE MEAl MUST BE FINE, 
for coarse feed is liable to produce scouring. 
But if the meal happens to be coarsely 
ground and must of necessity be fed, it 
should be thoroughly cooked or steamed. 
Yellow corn is to be preferred, and if white 
corn meal is employed its lack of oil must be 
made up with oil cake. 
HOW THE MEAl IS TC BE FED, 
Regular hours must be observed in feed¬ 
ing, aa habit governs the appetite and wants 
of the animal to a much greater extent than 
fs generally supposed. Twice a day—not far 
from sunrise and sunset — and three pints to 
a feed has been the author's rule. 
MEAl Fed DRV 
is best, as the animal has an abundance of 
saliva to moisten it, which is better than 
water ; besides this ensures a slower passage 
of the meal into the stomach. 
THE CHANGE 
from coarse to line food should be made at 
once, without any gradations, as the old 
habit of rumination is to be broken up and 
a new habit formed. The animals should be 
kept in their stalls and watered by hand 
until they become accustomed to Hie change 
and are contented and quiet. After this they 
may be turned out to water, in ordinary 
weather, for a half hour each day. This exer¬ 
cise will obviate costivenesa from sedentary 
habits. The animals should be curried dally. 
SCOURING. 
In casQ of scouring, the ration should be 
withheld, or the meal be thoroughly cooked. 
But in obstinate cases scalded milk Is one of 
the safest remedies known. 
IN CHANGING FROM MEAl TO HAY 
it should be done gradually. Tho conditions 
are reversed from what they were in the 
change from hay to meal, for then the first 
stomach was full, but now it is empty. It 
takes days, more or less, according to the 
size and appetite of the animal, to fill the 
first stomach. 
We have only the space to briefly touch 
upon some of tho points treated In this 
pamphlet, without setting forth the argu¬ 
ments used in elucidating the peculiar views 
of the author. Those interested in these 
most remarkable experimentsof Mr. Miller, 
will find the whole matter set forth very 
clearly in this pamphlet, which we presume 
may be had by addressing the author. 
®lic jkrinc-||fit(l. 
TYPHOID FEVER IN SWINE. 
American breeders of swine cannot learn 
too much of the diseases likely to deplete 
their herds. There is a great lack of infor¬ 
mation on this subject; hence the Rural 
New-Yorker, the past six years especially, 
has given space to whatever has been said on 
this subject— much of which has doubtless 
been empirical, but still has a certain value 
in the absence of anything better. It is in 
accordance with the policy hitherto pursued 
In this direction that we give space to the 
following article upon "Typhoid Fever in 
Pigs ” from the London Field : 
The sudden appearance of the disease 
which is commonly known as the “ red dis¬ 
ease,” or ‘‘the purples,” among pigs in 
some parts of Somerset, has led to inquiries 
as to the nature of the affection and the 
probable danger of its extensive spread. 
Answers to these questions can be given 
without difficulty. First, as to the nature 
of the disease, it will lie sufficient for the 
present to remark that it closely resembles 
typhoid fever in man. Next, it may safely 
be affirmed that the disease does not mani¬ 
fest any tendency to spread extensively 
among pigs, notwithstanding Us contagious 
aharacter. About fifteen years have passed 
since typhoid fever was first recognised aa a 
disease of pig9, and since the date of the dis¬ 
covery cf the first outbreak, the affection 
has appeared In various parts of the kingdom. 
In Ireland, ia some districts, it is more preva¬ 
lent than in England, and on the Continent 
it is still more common ; but it has not, at 
least of late years, assumed an epizootic form 
as foot-and-mouth disease does. 
Tho causes of typhoid fever are not easily 
defiued ; very often au outbreak of tho dis¬ 
ease is traced t<' the purchase of pigs at a ' 
fair or market, and then the reasonable con¬ 
clusion is that the newly purchased animils 
were infected at the time. But In other 
instance® no such cause exists, and the origin 
of tho disease in a lot of pigs which have not, 
so far as can be ascertained, he n exposed to 
the contagion, is a problem which is not 
easy of solution. 
Outbreaks of typhoid fever in man are 
generally sufficiently serious to call for close 
investigation, the results of which are now 
and then ratlier startling. Several times 
lately the disease ha# been traced to the use 
of milk from dairies, some of the inmates of 
which have suffered from the affection. 
Contamination of water with sewage matter, 
and the inhalation of air containing organic 
impurities, are the chief causes to which 
different observers attribute the malady. 
A very important question relative to the 
cause of typhoid fever in man and the lower 
animals in yet undetermined. Some authori¬ 
ties contend that all kinds of organic impuri¬ 
ties are capable of generating the disease, 
while others adopt the view, which has !>een 
ably argued by Dr. Budd, of the existence of 
a typhoid germ, which is indispensable to 
the production of the disease. According to 
Dr. Budd’s idea the germ of typhoid fever is 
conveyed in sewage matter, either liquid or 
gaseous, and thus may be introduced into 
the system through the agency of food or 
atmosphere. Associated with this notion i 3 
an uncomfortable impression of tho wide 
diffusion of typhoid germs ; but a source of 
consolation exists in the fact that the seed 
must find a favorablo sod before it can 
germinate. Ia other words, the system 
must be susceptible to the influence of the 
typheid poison, or it will fall on barren 
ground. 
The general view of the origin of typhoid 
fever is more comprehensive than the one 
which Dr. Budd has so strenuously advo¬ 
cated. Outbreaks of the disease have so 
frequently occurred at points remote from 
any center of infection, that it has become 
impossible to escape the conclusion that 
organic impurities in the air which we 
breathe, or in the water and food of which 
we partake, are sufficient to cause the disease 
without the presence of the specific poison. 
Admitting that contaminated air and 
water will, under certain conditions, cause 
typhoid fever in man, there is no ground for 
doubting that the same result will follow 
the action of the same causes on the lower 
animals, providing that they are susceptible 
to the disease, lb would seem, however, 
that the tendency to the development of the 
typhoid poiBon only exists in pigs, and in 
them very rarely after tho age of six or 
seven months. Cases of the disease in these 
animals after the age of one year are exceed¬ 
ingly rare. From birth Up to the age of 
six months the system appears to be remark¬ 
ably liable to the influence of the poison ; 
after that age the susceptibility becomes 
gradually less, until it altogetner ceases. 
The comparative infrequency of typhoid 
fever in pigs Is in nil probability due to the 
circumstance that the susceptibility is limited 
to a short period in the life of the animal ; 
otherwise, considering the unsanitary con¬ 
ditions to which pig?, beyond oil other farm 
stock, are commonly exposed, wo might 
reasonably expect a much higher degree of 
prevalence of tho disease. 
Symptoms of typhoid fever a o sufficiently 
characteristic to bo recognized by the prac¬ 
tical observer, who may not- possess any 
technical knowledge of the affection. Gener¬ 
ally attention is called to the extstenoo of 
the disease by the death of one of the 
animals; and it is then noticed that the pig 
is either covered with red spots or is com¬ 
pletely purple all over the body. Au exami¬ 
nation ol' the other animels will lead to the 
discovery of the signs of the disease in 
various stages. Some of the pigs will present 
mutely a common sign of illness—dulness 
an 1 * loss of appetite ; others will be shiver¬ 
ing ; others, again, will be found sitting on 
their haunches and incapable of using their 
hind extremities. Red patches will be seen 
on the skin in different parts of the body, 
and particularly behind the ears. In white 
pigs the spots are of course very apparent ; 
and we cun add, In answer to a very frequent 
question as to how they are to be seen when 
the disease attacks a black pig, that tho 
dark color of the surface does not materially 
mask the redness of those parts on which 
the eruption occurs. 
Recovery from typhoid fover is very rare. 
Almost as soon as tho characteristic symp¬ 
toms are well developed, the an'mal sinks 
from exhaustion and dies ; the carcass rapid¬ 
ly becomei putrid, and gives off a most 
powerful stench. Treatment of the diseased 
animals is not to be recommended ; iu fact, 
a prompt application of the stamping-out 
syptem is the only rational method of dealing 
with a disease of so virulent a character. 
Slaughter of all the diseased animals, and 
burial of the carcasses, i3 the first step ; and 
a thorough cleansing and disinfection of the 
places which they have occupied the next. 
Chloride of lime is the most effectual disin¬ 
fectant:, and it can always be obtained. 
Common lime is the best, dressing for the 
floors of sheds aud styes, and also for the 
land on which Die diseased pigs have been 
fed ; and, as a common-sense precaution, 
the farmer will avoid placing animals in the 
infected places for some time. 
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PIG-PEN PAPERS. 
Ilogs Eating Did.— A correspondent of 
the Indiana Farmer says ; —Last fall I knew 
a man who had two lots of hogs bought, 
that he had to feed fourteen days before they 
went off. The first Int weighed two hundred 
and fifty pounds ; the second, three hundred 
and six. The first lot ate dirt considerably ; 
the second did not. The result was, the 
firet lot •gained nothing, while the second 
gained thirty-one pounds. Now'the remedy 
is to supply them with plenty of finely 
beaten stone coal. Tiffs they will eat as if it 
were hickory nuts or walnuts. I know a 
man (hat goes to the coal mine and gets a 
load of fine coal aud throws it in his hog lot 
whenever he is feeding a lot of hogs for 
market. 
Horstnm 
INCONTINENCE OF URINE IN A HORSE. 
A writer in the Prairie Farmer says A 
severe strain of the lumbarregion sometimrs 
causes paralyzation of the closing muscles of 
the urethra. These means would be mtsfc 
likely to effect a change. Over the loins, the 
haii-s should bo clipped short, say about four 
square inches on each side of the spinal 
column ; and into thiaspaco should be applied 
a blister, composed of oantbarides, half an 
ounce ; spirits of turpentine, two drams: 
hog»3 lord, 2 ounces. Mix and divide be¬ 
tween the two sides, and rub it weP into the 
skin. Next day, and every day, for a week, 
apply once daily, on top of tho blister, a coat 
of lard. Use frequent cold water injections 
into the rectum. Give the animal, ir.t u'nally 
onco daily, a bail composed of powdered 
canthftrides, ten grains ; powdered digitalis, 
one dram ; soft, soap, three drams. Continue 
tiffs for one week, and renew after seven 
days, during another week. The animal 
should have liberty in a good, well-littered 
box stall, and be fed on good, nutritive food. 
He should be kept quiet, and, of course, nob 
be worked for a month or two. After a 
fortnight, the blister may be renewed over 
the loins, or when the scabs shall have fallen 
off. If he is shod, the shoes should be re¬ 
moved. 
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TANSY FOR BOTS IN HORSEB. 
A correspondent of the Department of 
Agriculture says :—It appears from remarks 
by different writers that none know cf any 
certain remedy. I know of a remedy, that 
is safe and certain, discovered in the follow¬ 
ing way About thirty years ago, a friend 
lost by bots a very fine horse. He took from 
the stomach of the dead horse about a gill of 
bots and brought them to my office to ex¬ 
periment upon. He made preparations of 
every remedy he had heard of, and put some 
of them into each. Most had no effect, a 
few affected them slightly, but sage-tea 
more than anything else; that killed them 
iu fifteen hours. He concluded he would kill 
them by putting them into nitric acid ; but 
it had no more effect on them than water ; 
the third day they were as lively as when 
put. in. A bunch of tansy was growing by 
my office. Ho took a handful of that, 
bruised it, added a little water, squeezed out 
the juice, and put some in ; they wore dead 
in one minute. Since then I have bad it 
giyen to every horse I have seen affected 
with bots, and have never known it to fa.il c f 
giving entire relief. My friend hud another * 
horee affected with bots, several years later. 
He gave him the tansy in the morning and a 
dose of Balts in the evening ; the next morn¬ 
ing lie took up from tiie excretions three 
half-pints of bots. 
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NOTES FOR HORSEMEN. 
Splint on a Three-Year-Old Colt.—In 
answer to an inquiry about the removal of a 
Splint from the fore-leg of a three-year-old 
colt, the Turf Field and Farm says :—In ail 
probability it can be removed by the follow¬ 
ing sweat blister :—Tinct. cantharides, oil 
turpentine, of each one ounce ; oil spike, 
two ounces ; corrosive sublimate, one dram ; 
linseed oil, three ounces ; alcohol, one pint. 
Mix thoroughly, and apply once a day, with 
good hand-rubbing over the region of tho 
splint until considerable oounter-irriiation is 
produced, then omit for three days, and 
apply again as directed. 
Uippophayy in France.— The number of 
horses, asses and mules devoted to food in 
Paris, was 2152 iu 1837, 2058 in 1861), 573 i in 
1872, and 7184 in 1874. The Journal de Paris 
6ays, "This progress shows that the public 
is by degrees losing its prejudice against this 
description of aliment.” It was announced 
that “ with the desigu of promoting hippo- 
phagy In France and to lead to the opening 
of shops for the sale of horseflesh in England 
and America,” a grand banque t of viande de 
cheval was to take place April 3 at the Grand 
Hotel, Paris. It did take place. 
American Importers of French Horses are 
not unlikely to lose their source of supply. 
Germany is jealous of French buyers and 
has prohibited export; and now the alarm is 
given in Nurmandy that '* suspicious-looking 
foreigner.', are buying horses at great prices ” 
there. Will the French Government prohibit 
export in consequence I 
Percheron Stallions for Missouri. —At 
Louisiana, Mo., en Association has been 
formed for introducing a better class of 
horses Into that country. The Porcheron 
Stallions, “Bismarck” and “Napoleon” 
nave aeon pmon&sea by the Association. 
We are glad to note this enterprise. 
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