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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
January 17 
Live Stock and Dairy 
FEEDING .VALUE [OF QUACK. 
Quack grass Is not difficult to man¬ 
age; but like some other things, good 
in themselves, it becomes hateful when 
mismanaged. It may be made exceed¬ 
ingly valuable in comparison with other 
grasses thought to be indispensable tO' 
us. Its composition as compared with 
Timothy is about as follows: 
Tim- 
Quack 
othy. 
grass. 
Protein . 
.6.2 
11.4 
Carbohydrates .. 
.45.8 
48.2 
Fat . 
3.0 
In my experience this grass fully war¬ 
rants the good opinion deserved by this 
comparison, and its persistent growth 
and fast hold upon the ground should 
make it one of the most highly valued 
of all the grasses. I cultivated it in 
New Jersey in a field of several acres of 
which it had taken entire possession, 
giving it liberal supplies of fertilizer, 
and a Spring harrowing with a heavy 
sharp-toothed harrow, to loosen the soil, 
using it as green feed for my cows as 
well as for hay. I one year sowed clover 
seed with this Quack grass after a thor¬ 
ough harrowing of the surface, and the 
yield was over two tons to the acre of 
the best hay. After four years of use 
in this way, the clover having run out, 
the land was plowed to a sufficient depth 
to expose the mat of roots, which was 
very thick, occupying most of the soil. 
I dug out one square foot of the sod a 
foot deep, and after shaking off the soil 
as much as possible the roots and grass 
weighed four pounds and one ounce, 
equivalent to about 80 tons of ordinary 
manure per acre. The land was put into 
corn, and after a few harrowings at 
Intervals of two days the roots were 
dead by exposure to the sun and dry 
weather, so that there was very little 
trouble in working the corn. Then 
sugar beets and mangels were grown on 
part of the land, and potatoes on the 
rest, wheat following, after which it 
was seeded to grass and clover. If I 
could have got the seed of the Quack 
grass I should certainly have sown that 
in preference to any other. As to the 
effects of this grass on the milk my 
wife, after two or three churnings from 
the green Quack grass, asked what I 
was giving the cows, as the butter had 
increased so much. h. stewabt. 
WINTERING HORSES IN KANSAS. 
While careful attention must be paid 
to the horse when he is worked hard 
every day the same care must be taken 
when he is idle. When a horse is work¬ 
ed hard he will of course require more 
food than when he stands idle, so now 
in Winter his rations should be judi¬ 
ciously regulated. Give the horse his 
meals promptly and regularly; that is, 
feed him as nearly as possible at a cer¬ 
tain hour every day, and give him his 
regular quantity of food. Don’t feed him 
six ears of corn at one meal and a dozen 
at another. Most ailments, if properly 
traced back, would reveal irregularity 
as the main cause. While you should not 
stint your horse, still don’t feed him so 
much that he won’t care for any more. 
Turn him out at stated times and let 
him hunt up something to eat along 
with the cattle in the stock field. The 
exercise will do him good and help keep 
him in healthy condition—at least that 
is my experience. Prairie hay, too; if 
you have that to feed all the year around 
you are a lucky man as far as the effect 
of good hay goes toward keeping your 
horses healthy (and it goes a long way), 
but the plow has turned up most of our 
good meadows under the mistaken idea 
that prairie hay was never going to be 
worth anything. That prairie hay has 
become like coal—a scarce article. The 
experimenting with various tame hay 
has cost our farmers so dearly that 
many a one sighs for the good old days 
when the barn lofts were filled with 
clean bright wild hay, but the sod once 
gone can never be replaced, and we have 
to make the best of what we have. Of 
the various kinds of tame hay for 
horses we should certainly favor clover 
or Timothy. Many feed millet hay all 
Winter and then in the Spring wonder 
why their horses are constantly sick 
with constipation or kindred ailments. 
Millet is no hay for horses, but if you 
must feed it, it should be changed off 
or fed with other hay as clover, Tim¬ 
othy or even oat straw. j. r. 
Baileyville, Kan. 
CATTLE FEEDING. 
Feeding stock for market is carried 
on by the farmers of this section to a 
greater extent this Winter than any 
year previous. Other years it was only 
the most well-to-do class of farmers 
who fed. This past Fall, although fat cat¬ 
tle were scarce and high priced, as but 
few were fattened the past Winter and 
Summer, other cattle were as a result 
all the more numerous. Corn was 
plentiful and though the price was 
good, the roads to town were anything 
but good. Hogs were also not numerous 
enough to eat all the corn, as the 
drought and consequent shortness of 
feed induced many farmers to sell even 
most of their brood sows. Most of the 
farmers who had a half or a full carload 
of steers to feed and had a good deal of 
corn to feed them with put up their own 
and bought a few more from those 
neighbors who were not able or inclined 
to feed themselves. Others went to work 
and shipped in western cattle, some as 
many as four or five carloads. These 
feeders of course will have to buy con¬ 
siderable corn as well as other rough- 
age, which enables the renter and other 
farmers on a smaller scale to get their 
farm products sold right near at home 
for as good a price as they would re¬ 
ceive by hauling it a long way over bad 
roads to town. The hog, the very best 
friend we farmers can boast of, helps to 
pay the cattle feeders what they would 
fail to make on the cattle. If he has 
pigs in the feed lot, say about 30 half- 
grown shotes running behind a carload 
and a half or two loads of cattle, those 
pigs will grow up and fatten on the 
corn that the steers waste. Thus if the 
farmer or feeder can get even as much 
only as his corn fairly well paid by the 
steers the hogs will much more than re¬ 
pay him for the work the feeding will 
take. This Winter’s result of feeding 
will be of great value, as new interest 
in stock raising has been awakened. If 
the outcome is as encouraging as the 
prospect now is a complete revolution in 
this particular branch of farming is as¬ 
sured. J* M. R. 
Nemaha Co., Kan. 
Hen Lice.— We have soil under the litter 
and the hens burrow through and dust, but 
the heavy fluff on the Wyandottes seems 
to prevent the dust from reaching the lice. 
We now use tobacco dust dampened with 
crude petroleum. It is quick and sure, but 
a big Job. V. c. c. 
Maine. 
Killing Crows.— A good recipe for the 
ccrn-pulling crow is two quarts of corn 
soaked in 10 cents’ worth of strychnine in 
a little water, let stand a few hours, and 
then sow on corn lot immediately after 
planting, and when the corn is coming 
through the ground. This is also done in 
the Autumn when the corn is ripening by 
placing corn in small handfuls on the 
fences surrounding the cornfield. Crows 
will be found lying dead under trees not 
very far away. This is the way to get 
rid of your friend the crow. b. 
Slate Hill, N. Y. 
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CATAKKHAL FKVKK. 
HIS Is a disease char¬ 
acterized by inflam¬ 
mation of the respira- 
t o r y mucous mem¬ 
branes. It is most 
common In Spring and 
Fall, but may occur 
at any season of the 
year. 
Causes .—The causes 
of catarrhal fever are 
sudden changes of 
temperature, exposure to wet, inhalation 
of poisonous gases, contagion. The disease 
is most frequent when the animal sheds its 
coat In the Spring or Fall. 
Symptoms .—The animal will appear list¬ 
less with drooping of the ears. The ex¬ 
tremities are alternately hot and cold, the 
hair will stand on end; cough with dis¬ 
charge from the nostrils and redness of 
mucous membrane of the nose, and dry 
mouth are prominent symptoms. The 
bowels are constipated and the urine Is 
scanty and Is of high color. In some cases 
inflammation extends to the bronchi or 
even to the lungs. 
Treatment .—Give animal good surround¬ 
ings, allow him all the water he will drink. 
Dissolve in the drinking water a half ounce 
of saltpeter twice a day for two or three 
days, then diminish the dose to half the 
quantity. Feed easily digested, laxative 
food such as bran, oats and grass in sea¬ 
son. If there is much exhaustion give two 
dram doses of quinine three times a day. 
If the appetite is much Impaired dram 
doses of tincture of nux vomica with half 
ounce do.ses of tincture of qua.ssia should 
be given three times a day. 
To allay Irritation of the mucous mem¬ 
brane and cough, a dram of muriate of 
ammonia with two drams of solid extract 
of licorice should be given three or four 
times a day. Inhalations of steam give 
excellent results. 
Along with this treatment the general 
condition of the animal’s system should 
not be overlooked. Give that most pow¬ 
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