NEW YORK. JUNE 26, 1886 
PRICE FIVE CENTS. 
82.00 PER YEAR. 
Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year I8S6, by the Rural New-Yorker In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 
a cow should have a rest ^ and if for the dairy, 
she requires a time for recuperation, but not 
the usual period of four or five months allotted 
to native cows. When cows come in, iu cold 
weather, they must be tenderly cared for and 
liberally fed, or they will become miserably 
poor and dry up in their milk. To prevent 
this, they must be fed well, and this is expen¬ 
sive. Hence I have changed my past prac¬ 
tice, and this year the cows are coming in 
after they have been turned to grass. They 
are fed before calving a little meal—two 
quarts at night—and have a little hay or 
straw to eat. 
Not a case of garget or any trouble with 
hard udders. Wheu the cows came iu in 
March, the udders were often swollen and so 
sore that they were milked with difficulty. 
There is a wonderful renewing, cooling and 
salutary virtue in grass; and when the cows 
are wholly or partially at grass, is the safest 
and best time for the calves to come. In cold 
weather the cows must be watched at night; 
and this is always a disagreeable job for the 
owner and exceedingly against the notions of 
the modern hired man, who is averse to doing 
any more than he is obliged to, and whose 
idea of duty is to work short hours and few of 
them. The farmer, then, who would have his 
cows in the most profitable condition when 
Summer comes, and save himself a great deal 
of trouble, will arrange to have his cows in 
milk with the starting of the grass. When 
they come in later, they will hold on in milk¬ 
ing later in the Winter. 
MISERY AND COMFORT IN CALF 
FEEDING. 
# n. J. M. Drew, of Winona Co., 
Miun., sent us two drawings 
from which our artist has suc¬ 
ceeded in illustrating the dark 
and the bright sides of calf feed¬ 
ing. Mr. Drew informs us that 
l>efore the stanchions shown at 
Fig. 262 were built, the whole 
family had to turn out in order 
to feed the calves. Any man 
whose boyhood was passed ou the farm will 
appreciate the little drama shown at Fig. 263. 
If there is anything that seems to be all stom¬ 
ach and no brain it is a hungry calf. The boy 
leaning over the fence is probably willing to 
confirm this statement. He has all he can do 
to balance himself upon the fence without 
plunging headlong into the pasture. The two 
calves bunting and pushing away at the pail 
keep his hand occupied, while the other tor¬ 
mentor, with genuine calf-wisdom, su. ksaway 
at his new hat, regardless of the blows from 
the stout switch. The other boy is no better 
off. Ho has carried the war into Africa to the 
extent of outering the pasture with his milk. 
Nothing but his slippery hold upon the calf's 
ear saves him from total annihilation. Once 
let his hand slip and his milk is gone forever. 
Io make this system of calf feeding a success 
there should be several other boys armed with 
sticks to keep the extra calves away. Fig. 262 
proves two things that have hitherto been con¬ 
sidered doubtful; a boy can feed calves with 
a good deal of comfort and actually smile 
during the operation; and even a calf can be 
taught a small amount of common souse aud 
respectability. The picture explains itself. 
You would hardly recognize the boy. He 
stauds erect aud satisfied. He feels that his 
hat is uo longer iu danger, and that his boots 
will not lx- filled with milk. These stanchions 
have transformed him from a fighting charac¬ 
ter into a statesman, showing the great supe¬ 
riority of brain power over brute force. The 
stanchions used by Mr. Drew are made of 16- 
foot fence boards. This space gives room for 
K) calves. They may be secured to posts or 
trees, with a stout post in the middle. The 
upright pieces are three feet long, made of 
pieces of fencing split in halves. A row of 
such stanchions long enough to feed a dozen 
calves can b© made in three hours, aud nolxxly 
but the bov can understand how much pa¬ 
tience, perspiration, aud milk they will save. 
At first the calf will have to lie pushed into 
the opening, but after finding that he can get 
his milk iu no other way he will need little 
urging. The restraint will make a new calf 
out of him. He will be easier to break to the 
Notes fram the Western Neic York Farm. 
SCAB REMEDIES—INEXCUSABLE 
IGNORANCE. 
“As soon after shearing as possible cure the 
scab iu your flocks. Tobacco and sulphur is a 
sure remedy and helps the sheep in various 
ways. It stimulates tbe growth of the wool, 
kills the ticks and lice also, 
If swallowed in 
small quantities it can be recommeuded for 
the same reason that Paul advised the use of 
wine, viz: for the stomach's sake and often 
infirmities. It rids them of worms and sich 
like." 
The above, cut from The Sheep-Breeder and 
Wool Journal, Chicago, fairly illustrates the 
gross ignorance still existing on the subject of 
animal medication; it is also a specimen of the 
twaddle ignorant or careless editors allow to 
lumber up the pages of the farm reports, to 
the disappointment and even injury of the 
confiding reader. 
“Assoon after shearing as possible cure the 
scab," teaching by inference that at other 
times it may he allowed to run. What norf- 
sense! Why, scab is a terrible scourge in a 
flock, and the breeder must remember that 
whenever its presence is discovered, not a 
moment is to be lost in separating every affect¬ 
ed sheep from the flock, and no matter how 
slight the attack, they must be cored or killed 
at ouee, and the unaffected sheep should be also 
immediately put into clean quarters, and the 
old ouos eleaused by a strong lime or potash 
wash, charget 1 with carbolic acid, otherwise 
the scab spreads rapidly through the flock 
which is rendered practically worthless. 
The use of tobacco and sulphur as a 
remedy, is old and laid down iu rnauv old 
authorities as a specific; but it is ou a par with 
bleeding, blistering and the use of blue mass 
iu human medication, and by no means a sure 
cure. We have now much better aud surer 
agents, aud he who is not posted in their use 
is out of place in the editorial chair of a sheep- 
breedors’ journal. 
That tobacco or sulphur can be used either 
externally or internally so as to be stimulating 
to the growth of wool is au utter humbug; 
aud that tobacco, when swallowed in any 
quantity, however small, is anything but a 
poison and as such only harmful, all should 
know, and uo one having a desire to benefit 
the sheep industry would dare to deny. That 
tobacco will kill the scab insect as well as 
ticks, etc., 1 admit; but it only kills when in 
actual contact, and as it possesses no penetra¬ 
tive power, wheu applied for the scab it only 
kills those iusects which by rubbiug or some 
other meaus are brought to the surface, and 
unless repeatedly applied, it is uo cure, only a 
THE BRIGHT SIDE OF CALF FEEDING. Fi; 
COW TALK. 
COL. K. D. CURTIS. 
THE DARK SIDE OF CALF FEEDING. 
