NEW YORK, MARCH 1.3, 188H 
PRICE FIVE CENTS, 
#2.00 PER YEAR. 
Entered according to Act of CongTess, In tlie year ltR6, by the Rural New-Yorker in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 
one must expect rapid increase of carcass 
without a corresponding consumption of food; 
nor is it possible to crowd a sufficient quantity 
of food into the stomach at one or two feeds 
without overloading it, and producing indi¬ 
gestion. It is an old proverb that “Lambs 
cat always,” and its truth can be easily at¬ 
tested by watching a bunch running at 
pasture; no matter how good the feed, they 
never cease eating except for a few hours in 
the extreme heat of the day, or when the flies 
are very annoying. 
It is no wonder that lambs fed, as is the too 
prevalent custom, with hay once, or. at most, 
twice a day, and a run at the straw-stack for 
the rest, iustead of gaining all Winter, come 
through “spring-poor” and many fail to come 
ijorsewan 
Pa., wishes to know what to do with a lot of 
ewes which are to drop lambs about April 6th, 
as it will then be too cold to shear them. We 
have tried many remedies for sheep ticks, but 
have never found one more effectual or easier 
to apply than the following:—Mix crude pe¬ 
troleum or, in absence of that, kerosene, with 
lard, lard oil or. better still, with the grease 
fried out of pork, iu the proportion of two 
parts of kerosene to three parts of the other 
grease. Whatever is used, have the mixture 
as hot as it can be without burning the sheep. 
This should be applied to the animal by hav¬ 
ing one person part the wool along the back 
and sides of the neck and another pour in the 
mixture from the spout of au old-fashioned 
lamp filler. It is also advisable to occasion¬ 
ally give the sheep 
sulphur mixed with 
their salt, one pound 
to six of salt. 
FEED A VARIETY. 
Lambs will be found to be quite “human" in 
their tastes. They love a variety, and not 
only do they love it, but it is very necessary 
for their most profitable growth. The various 
kinds of forage and grains used should be 
selected w r ith a view to supplying the elements 
of growth, and beyond this they should be 
varied so as to keep the lambs alw ays with a 
keen appetite, ready to eat quickly whatever 
is given them. This is best accomplished, not 
by mixing the different kinds of forage to¬ 
gether, but by feeding each at a separate time, 
and also by varying somewhat from day to 
day; and in the grain even, it will pay to add 
occasionally a new ingredient, or to give afeed 
of some other grain. 
ENGLISH SHIRE STALLION. 
- HE stallion Garflt, shown at. 
Fig. 110, is a fine young spec- 
’ rnen °f the Shire horse, a breed 
ij highly distinguished in Eng- 
f” 1 ' its many excellent 
% qualities; hut about which, un- 
^ quite lately, very little was 
•VJ known to the general public in 
this country. Recently, however, several 
large importations of choice specimens have 
been made, and a stud-book of Shire horses 
has been started to co-operate with that of 
England in keeping 
the breed pure. In 
view of the many 
merits of these horses, 
of their high standing- 
in their original 
home, and of the en¬ 
terprise and judg¬ 
ment of the men who 
are importing them, 
it is not at all unlike¬ 
ly that Shire horses 
will, ere long, take 
rank in this country 
with the Normans 
and Clydesdales. 
Garflt is a bright 
bay with three white 
legs and a blaze on 
the face. He was j 
foaled in 16b-, and 
bred by John Garflt, r f 
a well known breeder ^ 
of Nottinghamshire, 
England. He was 
imported in March jjjj-:; 
1885 by Messrs Gal¬ 
braith Bros., Janes¬ 
ville, Wis. At pres¬ 
ent, at the age of 3}^ 
years, he weighs 1,900 
pounds, and when jg 
mature will probably 0 
turn the scales at 2,- A 
050 pounds in good •- - 
working condition. 
He is a finely propor¬ 
tioned, symmetrical, 
animal with fine bone >® 
and hair, and prom- , ^ 
ises to bo a success in v 
the show ring and 
the stud. His sire 
was Don Curios (2416) 
a Shire horse well 
known in England, 
whose pedigree traces 
back through the 
l>est strains of Shire blood, t,o the famous 
Bussingham Brown horse foaled about the year 
1T90. His dam is by Lincolnshire Lari (JUKI), 
famous as the sire of many noted brood mares. 
SHOULD BREEDING 
B - v EWES BE HOUSED 
Sjk constantly, or allow- 
FV 3 ed to run at large in 
the fields, having a 
. warm, close barn, 
nights / asks the same 
friend. It is far bet¬ 
ter to let them run 
out constantly, hav¬ 
ing only an open shed 
for protection against 
rains, than to put 
them into warm 
quarters a part of 
the time and turn 
them out-of-doors the 
remainder. Sheep 
have close, warm 
fleeces, which enable 
them to withstand 
dry cold very well; 
but these they must 
wear constantly, and 
housing them warmly 
a part of the time, 
and turning them 
out the rest is much 
like a man’s wearing 
a heavy over-coat in 
the house, aud going 
• V v >- .Jf out. into the cold with- 
SSS- ^ our £,haus * or addi - 
S7- tional clothing—he 
would be sure to have 
’ a constant cold, aud 
.. . so will the sheep. It 
is also better to have 
»-'«»•• them out constantly 
than in ill-ventilated 
barns; but wheu 
they can be confined 
in roomy, well-ven¬ 
tilated quarters, we 
should certainly advise it, as it w ill save much 
feed and be conducive to the health both of 
mothers aud offspring. This we say after 
much experience of the different met hods. 
HOUSING ALL STOCK PAYS. 
We have, this Winter, in one barn, 80 cows 
that are turned out twice each day so that the 
stables may be cleaned ami they can get water. 
Iu another barn we have 26 cows that never 
go out, being watered inside. They are all 
well cared for, and have all of the hay, roots, 
rich foods aud straw they care to eat. While 
those that never go out will drink about the 
same amount of water each day, those turned 
our. to drink will, on very cold days, not drink 
scarcely any, aud then the next day will drink 
till they "are ready to burst.” The result is 
that the cows constantly housed give the most 
milk, which makes the most butter, aud they 
are looking the best and taking on flesh most 
rapidly. Surely there is much yet to be learnt 
in the care of stock. 
ENGLISH SIIIRE STALLION 
through at all. There is no stock on the farm 
that should lie so generously fed as the lambs, 
even when only intended for stores, aud doub¬ 
ly so when it is desired to render them fit for 
the market. Another point not to be forgot¬ 
ten is that lambs are very cleanly in their 
habits and wo must follow the rule of feeding a 
LITTLE AND OFTEN, 
if we would have them cut the largest ^propor¬ 
tion of what we give them. If the fodder is 
thrown upon the ground, anil they run over it 
but once or twice, they will not out more of 
it, even though suffering from hunger. The 
same is true when it is put iu large quantities 
into their racks, aud they have “nosed" it 
over and breathed into it for a short time. 
The better way then is to put only sueh an 
amount, of fodder into their racks at once as 
they will eat iu a short time, aud feed the 
oftener, and at each time of feeding the rucks 
and troughs should be thoroughly cleaned. 
SHEARING PAID HIM. 
Our good friend Green, of Western New 
York, writes us: "I had my barns filled w ith 
feeding lambs that were uneasy, constantly 
rubbing and biting themselves so much that 
I feared they had the scab. But as they were 
iu warm quarters, I mustered courage to fol¬ 
low your advice in shearing them. Iu taking- 
off their fleeces, I took off all the ticks, and 
having thus removed the cause, the rubbing 
and biting ceased. Never before have my 
lambs done so well. Hereafter 1 will not 
question what you say." We hope uo one will 
for a moment think that any parts of these 
notes are mere theory or are written for effect. 
They are only a plain recital of what we do 
aud the manner in which we treat our stock, 
and which, all things considered, we believe 
to be the best., 
SHEEP TICKS. 
Another friend, J. T. Baynes, of Tioga Co., 
3btr.o from i\\t HuralWJRU .^avm 
