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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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AILING ANIMALS. 
Horse Ouf of Condition. 
I have a horse that when put In his stall 
after working, rubs first one side and then 
the other, switches his tail, and acts as 
though troubled with worms. What treat¬ 
ment is necessary? L. B. 
Mountview, Md. 
You do not say whether the horse is 
fat or poor or whether you have seen 
any indications of his passing worms. 
From your description one might infer 
that the trouble was a skin disease. 
Give the following treatment for four 
weeks: Hyposulphite of soda, pulver- 
verized, one teaspoonful dissolved in 
hot water and put into a mash twice a 
day. Keep the horse well blanketed 
during treatment. 
Warts on Steer’s Head and Neck. 
I have a steer 20 months old whose head 
and neck are covered with warts, some as 
large as a man’s fist. There are so many 
around his eyes that they have nearly shut 
off sight. How can I remove them without 
injuring the animal? c. e. b. 
Peavine, Tenn. 
You would better employ a competent 
veterinarian, but if there is none at 
hand, try the following treatment: If 
the warts extend out from the skin they 
may be removed by tying a ligature 
around them tightly. After they slough 
off, touch the parts once or twice a day 
with nitrate of silver to destroy the 
roots. If they are flat, scrape off the 
crust with a blunt knife, and apply a 
little strong acetic acid, being careful 
not to get it into the eye. 
Mare With Disordered Liver. 
What is the trouble with my driving 
mare? Her urine is milky color and thicker 
than it should be. She sweats very easily, 
and is not nearly as free as she was. She 
spends considerable time eating pine 
boards from the fence. She is in good flesh 
and looks well. h. r. 
Postville, Iowa. 
From your description I should say 
your mare had some functional disor¬ 
der of the liver. I could tell better if I 
knew what you are feeding. If you 
are feeding corn in any form stop it and 
try the following treatment: Powdered 
nitrate of potash, ground gentian root 
and powdered dried sulphate of iron, 
each one-half pound; granulated hypo¬ 
sulphite of soda, one pound. Mix these 
thoroughly and give a teaspoonful 
morning and night in bran mash, with 
a light feed of oats at noon and hay 
night and morning. Exercise moderate¬ 
ly during treatment. 
Ophthalmia in Herse. 
I have a young horse which has been in 
the East about a year. When first brought 
to the farm, he seemed to have a cold In 
the eyes, as they would swell and run. 
and a white substance would form on the 
eyeball. This substance would afterward 
work down into the lower part of the eye, 
and finally disappear. The eye does not 
have its natural color, and when the 
weather is cold and damp, the eyes run 
and some of the film forms. j. m. 
Forestville, N. Y. 
This is a very common disease of the 
eye in horses, especially in low, un¬ 
drained sections of the country. After 
the land has been drained and culti¬ 
vated, it disappears by degrees. There 
is no satisfactory cure for this periodic 
ophthalmia, but you might try the fol¬ 
lowing treatment: When the attack 
comes on, keep the horse in a moderate¬ 
ly dark stall and bathe the eyes with 
tepid water for 10 minutes, then apply 
acetate of lead 10 grains, tincture of 
opium 10 drops, water iy 2 ounce. Ap¬ 
ply this after each bathing three times 
a day. Give internally one dram of 
iodide potassium twice a day for 10 
days in bran mash. 
HOW THE HENS ARE FED. 
My method of feeding fowls to obtain 
eggs in Winter is as follows: In the 
morning they are fed about 10 quarts 
of dry feed in the litter in scratching 
sheds, the litter pushed up into a heap 
and the grain scattered through it so 
they must scratch; the grain is usually 
half cracked corn and half wheat, some¬ 
times oats in place of wheat, sometimes 
buckwheat, but always half cracked 
corn. As I have 200 hens, this is a light 
feed, about one pint to 10 hens. I want 
them hungry enough to work. Early in 
the forenoon eight quarts of skim-milk 
are placed on the back of the kitchen 
stove, where it will heat without burn¬ 
ing, and at noon this is poured into a 
large iron kettle, together with two 
quarts of Bowker’s Animal Meal, a 
tablespoonful of salt and three times a 
week a teaspoonful of red pepper; then 
stirred into it all it will wet thoroughly 
of bran and cornmeal, two parts bran to 
one of meal. It makes about 18 quarts 
of feed, all the hens will eat up clean. 
About every other day three or four 
quarts of boiled potatoes are cut up and 
mixed in the milk. Just before sun¬ 
down they are fed the same dry feed as 
in the morning, only more in quantity. 
I aim to feed at this time all they will 
eat. For green food cabbages are fed 
three or four times a week. 
The above shows what is fed, and how 
much, but as a matter of fact, each coop 
is fed differently; and I don’t know of 
anything more difficult for the novice to 
learn than how properly to feed fowls. 
Last night 1 sent my boy—14 years old 
—to feed the hens; this morning an 
hour after the hens were off the roosts 
in three of the coops there was still a lot 
of feed in the troughs. That means no 
scratching, no work, sitting around half 
the day in a bunch; and if that sort of 
thing was kept up it would soon mean 
few if any eggs. I use unthrashed oats 
for litter, but the straw soon gets broken 
up too fine, and has to be taken out. 
Cornstalks run through a feed cutter 
make the most lasting litter of anything 
I have used. Of course this should be 
renewed when it gets dirty and soiled by 
droppings. My fowls have had no green 
cut bone, no cut clover, no bought grit; 
doubtless all these things would be good 
for them, and might increase the egg 
yield, but my experience shows that very 
good results can be obtained without 
them. I keep ground oyster shells and 
fine gravel gathered from the wash by 
the roadside and sifted, also broken 
charcoal, in each coop all the time. I 
wish to speak a good word for Bowker’s 
Animal Meal; in my opinion it is the 
cheapest, handiest and altogether the 
best form of animal food I have ever 
used, and the 25 per cent of ground bone 
in it is not to be despised. 
Connecticut. geo. a. cosgrove. 
A Silo Man Talks. 
On page 92 I notice an article by an 
anti-silo man. I would like to ask him 
a few questions. Did he ever own a silo? 
What did the farmers he writes of fill 
their silos with? What was their 
method of farming? He says one result 
was that the dairymen stopped raising 
grain and that they plow more ground 
than they can fertilize. This article 
strikes me as coming from a man who 
has had very little experience, or from a 
back number in farming. In this sec¬ 
tion of country we expect to put into 
our silos 100 bushels ears of corn with 
every acre of corn. Is there any way 
for a farmer to produce more grain per 
acre than this? My experience teaches 
me that I can keep double the number 
of cows with silos that I could with¬ 
out them, where land is adapted to the 
raising of corn. I finu that the more 
stock I have the better condition I can 
keep my land in. This man also says 
that silage is harmful to cows’ teeth. 1 
have kept from 40 to 75 cows for a num¬ 
ber of years on silage and have not had 
any trouble arising from that cause. I 
would like very much to read the ex¬ 
perience of others. Ii there is anything 
in silage that is harmful to stock I am 
anxious to learn of it. l. d. o’d. 
Chaffee, N. Y. 
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WHY oom OO IT? 
W by buy Linseed, Cotton seed, Bran, or Gluten 
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You Can’t Afford a Grade Bull 
when I will sell you a Registered Jersey 
Bull at a reasonable price. Ida's Stoke 
Pogls or Exile stock. 
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HICKORY HILL FARM 
(The Home of the “ Rissa” Jerseys) 
Can usually furnish young animals of either sex 
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Special at present—a double grandson of Brownell’s 
Rissa 100167. J. GRANT MOUSE, Poolville, N. Y. 
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Eggs cheap in season. 
Young Registered Holstein-Frie- 
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I have two bulls two years old and several yearling 
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ANGORA GOATS are handsome, hardy and 
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Registered Ewes, all In lamb 
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