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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
WESTERN SHOTES FOR FATTENING. 
The Hope Farm man recently spoke of 
trying to buy western shotes for fatten¬ 
ing. There are objections to the plan, 
some of which are given below: 
There would be no trouble in obtain¬ 
ing the size of pigs you want from west¬ 
ern hogs, that is, there are plenty of 
small pigs coming along with those lots, 
but from our own experience it is very 
hazardous to mix them in with our lots 
of fresh hogs here, as they are liable to 
bring on some disease. Several years 
ago we lost several lots by so doing and 
had to give it up. The fattening is tho 
same way, as they almost invariably get 
a disease, and if the disease gets into a 
herd it will go through the whole neigh¬ 
borhood. With lambs and steers it is 
very different. After they get over their 
homesickness they do not seem to con¬ 
tract the disease. We would consider it 
a very dangerous experiment. 
New York. jEi.i.iKra, wnimiT & co. 
I do not like to throw cold water on 
the plan but fear I will have to do it. 
You will note in the market reports that 
there are nearly always on the market 
what are called pigs, but I hardly think 
many are found there as small as you 
would like to have. For various reasons 
this small stuff is forced on the market. 
Sometimes it is the attractive price or 
scarcity of grain in a given locality, or 
a craze of farmers to let the pigs go and 
try something else, and too often on ac¬ 
count of disease. Sometimes when dis¬ 
ease makes its appearance on the farm 
all the hog stock is loaded and sent to 
market. Sometimes it is sold to go back 
to the country often with disastrous re¬ 
sults to the purchaser. Once caught is 
all such a purchaser wants. This mat¬ 
ter of disease lends an uncertainty to 
such ventures that few men are willing 
to risk. A few years ago hogs were 
brought in here from Cincinnati to fat¬ 
ten. They came doubtless from many 
sections. Some proved to be diseased 
and were shipped back in a short time. 
The men trying the plan do not venture 
again. More and more it is coming to 
be believed that the safest way is to 
breed them on the farm. I have known 
hogs bought in some of our hill counties 
where few. are grown and shipped to 
farmers here to feed. For two or three 
times the plan will work, and then on 
another trial disease will develop and 
take all such trials off the slate for the 
future. Here in buying hogs in the 
neighborhood but few men venture to 
do it for fear of disease. Even if disease 
did not handicap this hind of work .1 
fear such small stuff as you would like 
would be of little value after such a long 
shipment, and besides the freight on a 
small number would come too near 
equaling their value. Even in carload 
lots the freight would be excessive con¬ 
sidering the size of the pigs. Could you 
arrange to grow only Spring litters, say 
by using young sows and fattening all 
the next Fall? It will not pay to keep 
sows for only one litter a year. Young 
sows are uncertain and would require 
more of them to produce the number of 
pigs wanted. If a sow fails fit her for 
market as soon as possible. 
Ohio, JOHN M. 
BELLS ON THE SHEEP. 
I certainly think it a very wise precau¬ 
tion to use bells and plenty of them on 
the sheep. My own practice is to use one 
bell for about every eight or 10 sheep. If 
I had a very small flock I should use not 
loss than eight or 10 bells if I had to piii 
one on every sheep to do this, and would 
try to get bells with different tone as far 
as possible. We have always used bells 
and plenty of them in our purebred flock, 
and never yet have had a loss from dogs. 
We make a practice of putting the bells 
on the most alert and active sheep in 
the flock. While they will not alarm the 
conflrmed sheep dog to any great extent 
they will drive the new beginner and 
mischievous pup entirely out of the 
business, and often strike terror to his 
cowardly heart (and the sheep-killing 
dog is always a coward) for all time, and 
in any event the tingling of a dozen or 
more clear-sounding bells will often 
arouse the shepherd in time to prevent 
what might otherwise be serious dam¬ 
age; perchance the timely warning may 
give him a shot at the marauder and rid 
the neighborhood of a troublesome pest. 
The live shepherd never has any scruples 
against killing on sight any sheep-mo¬ 
lesting dog, no matter by whom owned 
or how highly prized. He has outlived 
his usefulness and forfeited his right to 
a place on the face of the universe when 
he becomes the annoyer of sheep, as has 
the two-legged cur w'ho becomes the 
slanderer of women. c. a. tyi.ick. 
Nottawa. Mich. 
As to dogs molesting sheep, I have had 
more experience than I care for. In this 
part of the country dogs are a great ag¬ 
gravation to most sheep owners, and the 
only sure cure I know of is a good gun 
well loaded with No. 2 shot, and used 
on every dog one sees. Properly plantetl 
at the foot of some fruit tree a prowling 
dog will do a lot of good, and he is of 
no earthly use anywhere else. Bells are 
of value in giving an alarm when depre¬ 
dations occur, but I do not think they 
will keep many dogs away that are in 
the business; in fact, I have had sheep 
badly bitten that carried a bell, and on 
one occasion had two valuable South- 
down ewes killed right in the sheep 
house. On a flock of 25 sheep I use from 
three to five good bells; put them on the 
leaders and the wildest ones. These will 
get home first when frightened and give 
the alarm. The best bell I have found is 
one with a malleable iron loop for the 
strap. A cast-iron bell with a wire key 
soon cuts out, and your bell is gone, and 
if found is of no use. Yes, keep plenty 
of bells on your sheep, your gun always 
ready for business, and use it freely, but 
quickly, e. 
Chester, N. J. 
I have had some experience with dogs 
worrying sheep. Several years ago dogs 
got in my (lock, killed several and ruin¬ 
ed the whole flock. Some one at that 
time told me to put a bell on one of the 
sheep and dogs would not bother them. 
I did so the next year, continued it for a 
number of years, and no dogs troubled 
me, while other flocks on adjoining 
farms where no bells were used, were 
injured by dogs. After that I neglected 
to put any bells on my sheep and that 
Fall the dogs got in my flock twice; 
since then I have kept three or four 
bells ou my flock, and 1 put on good- 
sized ones, too, bells three or four inches 
in diameter, something that will make 
a loud ring when the sheep run. As a 
rule, sheep dogs are very suspiciohs, and 
this ringing of the bells they are afraid 
of. As an assessor of my town for a 
number of years I have been called upon 
to value many sheep killed by dogs, but 
have never been called where a bell was 
used on the flock. I would not say that 
this is a sure protection, but it has thus 
far proved itself so in my experience. 
Spencertown, N. Y. o. w. ii. 
FACTS ABOUT ''WHEY BUTTER." 
The daily papers have printed notes 
about the whey butter made at Wiscon¬ 
sin cheese factories. As this butter is new 
to most of our readers we have asked 
Prof. S. M. Babcock of the Wisconsin E.k- 
periment Station to tell them about it. 
This butter is made in the same man¬ 
ner as ordinary butter, by churning the 
cream which collects upon whey at the 
Swiss cheese factories. The rough hand¬ 
ling of the curd and the high tcm.pera- 
ture employed in the process of manu¬ 
facture of Swiss cheese results in a large 
loss of fat in the whey. This loss often 
amounts to one-third of the fat which 
the milk contained. It has always been 
the custom at these factories to make 
butter from the whey in the manner de¬ 
scribed. Owing to the careless methods 
employed the butter obtained is usually 
of poor quality. If, however, the whey 
could be creamed with a centrifugal ma¬ 
chine, directly after the curd is removed 
and the cream properly handled accord¬ 
ing to the best creamery practice, a 
high-grade butter would be obtained. In 
this way also the yield would be largely 
increased over that now obtained. The 
large amount of whey butter made in 
this State arises from the large number 
of Swiss cheese factories which are lo¬ 
cated here. In Cheddar factories the 
whey contains but little fat, usually less 
than 0.4 per cent, and so far as I know, 
no whey butter is made at those factor¬ 
ies. Whey butter, as usually made, has 
a strong flavor, and is rarely used for 
the table. It is said that most of it is 
sold for cooking purposes. It may also 
be used to some extent by the renovated 
butter makers. It commands a price 
about one-half that of creamery butter. 
The whey butter industry is legitimate 
as at present conducted, but it is greatly 
to be desired that improved methods be 
introduced into the Swiss cheese factor¬ 
ies. When as much care is given to the 
manufacture of whey butter as is now 
given to the creamery product, all ob¬ 
jections to it will disappear. 
S. M. n.VBCOCK. 
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I’AKALYSIS IN IlOOS. 
Y this we refer more 
particularly to the 
loss of the use of the 
h 1 n (1 (juarters. The 
first symptoms are 
shown by slight stiff¬ 
ness, disinclination to 
move, the hack may 
also he slightly arched, 
and the hind legs will 
knuckle forward. Dur¬ 
ing the growth of 
young animals food rich in nitrogenous mate¬ 
rial must he supplied, such as bran, mid¬ 
dlings, and oats, milk, beaus, and peas, as 
these go directly to the construction of hone, 
lean meat, tendons, hoofs, hair. etc. If such 
materials are not supplied and much fat¬ 
forming food is allowed, such as corn, the 
weight of the animal becomes too great. The 
muscular structures are not sufticient to sus¬ 
tain it. The conducting power of the nerves 
is impaired, and from some slight e.xciting 
cause comi)iete (jaraplegia, or paralysis of the 
hind (piarters, will ensue. 
When attacks come on give good surround¬ 
ings and give a physic. For a pig castor oil 
in one or two-ounce doses; for older animals, 
one or two or even three ounces of Kpsom 
salts dissolved in a half-pint of vvater should 
be given in gruel or as a drench at once. 
This should 1)6 followed by the administra¬ 
tion of iodide of potassium in 10 to lo-graln 
<loses three times a day. It this is not fol¬ 
lowed by Improvement, nerve tonics should 
be employed, such as tincture of mix vomica 
in 10 to kO-drop doses, three times a day In 
gruel. Stimulating liniments or friction to 
the back is often valuable. 
As after treatment or as preventive—there 
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the animal free from diseas(‘ by giving it the 
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Mrs. E. C. Mallet, 61 Topsham, Me., writes: 
We have used Bowker's Animal Meal all 
the time since the chicks were large enough 
to eat cooked food. 
Make a mixture of 2 qts. Bran, 2 qts. Corn- 
meal, 2 spoonfuls of Animal Meal, 2 qts. of 
Oatmeal or middlings, little salt, mix with 
skim milk and bake brown, then break up 
and soak in milk. Feed the.chicks five times 
a day until they are old enough to gain a 
large part of their food on the range, giv¬ 
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grit. 
We started with 51 hens and pullets, white 
Wyandottes, a few I'lymouth Rocks, and a 
black hen, a cross between White Wyandotte 
and Plymouth Rock, and this variety proves 
to be a hardy fowl, making as good poultry 
as the I’lymoiith Rock, and very good layers. 
We had one of these black pullets hatched 
in April that commenced laying the first 
days of October, and has continued up to 
the present time (December .’Hst) with very 
few off days. We hatched about 150 chicks 
and commenced killing .Inly IHst, selliT\g for 
$0.25, received $27.77 for what we sold, kept 
about 20 pullets, sold $5.37 of poultry, besides 
what we used in the family ; lost a few. 
We have got 4742 eggs, have sold $70.30 
worth of these. Cost of feed (everything 
charged to them raised on farm that was 
salable), $35.07, leaving a profit of $08.43. 
Poultry eaten and eggs used, with eggs now 
on hand make $13.75. added to the former 
amount gives an average of $1.05 per hen. 
We think the Animal Meal helped all the 
way along and shall continue its use.—Adv. 
Send for catalogue and name of 
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