1902 
379 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Ailing Animals. 
Cow With Injured Teat. 
A teat of one of my cows was injured by 
being stepped on, and the milk duct at the 
end seems to be injured. I have to use a 
milking tube every time, so the teat does 
not have a chance to heal. What can be 
done for it? g. s. 
Taunton, Mass. 
The obstruction being at the end of 
the teat makes it difficult to heal with¬ 
out closing up the duct. The only rem¬ 
edy is to have a veterinarian open the 
end of the teat with a bistoury large 
enough so that when the teat heals it 
may be milked freely. 
Occult or Blind Spavin. 
I have a young horse that is lame in his 
left hind foot. I cannot tell whether it is in 
the pastern or coffin joint. Sometimes he 
is not lame. At others he is lame for a 
mile and then gets all right again. He has 
been that way for a year. He tramps on 
his toe first. P . Gi 
Mmnmaville, O. 
Your horse is lame in the hock joint. 
I have many times been asked to exam¬ 
ine a lame horse that the owner said 
was lame either in the pastern joint or 
the coffin joint. When the horse tramps 
on his toe, as you say, I find it almost 
invariably to be in the hock joint. You 
would better have your horse examined 
by a qualified veterinary surgeon. If 
you have not one at hand blister the in¬ 
ternal part of the hock joint with the 
following: Red iodide of mercury, three 
drams; powdered cantharides, one-half 
ounce; croton oil, 15 drops; vaseline, 
two ounces. Mix this thoroughly and 
after clipping the parts to be blistered, 
apply blister and repeat in two weeks. 
You may have to blister for six months 
before the lameness is entirely gone. 
HOG FEEDING IN CALIFORNIA. 
Conditions here are very much differ¬ 
ent from those prevailing in the Eastern 
States or Middle West. Root crops, 
beets, carrots and turnips can remain 
standing and growing all Winter with¬ 
out risk of freezing, or in the case of 
beets, they may be corded up almost 
anywhere, like wood for Winter use. 
Squashes and pumpkins do well and 
keep a long time. Then rain often starts 
green grass in October. It is seldom, 
however, that grass is really good until 
February; but early-sown rye is ready 
for use in a little while after the first 
rains. During the dry months, June, 
July, August and September and often 
October, sorgum, Kafir corn or Egyptian 
corn will furnish excellent forage. In 
fact, I have had sorgum remain unhurt 
by frost until nearly Christmas. The 
above mentioned crops can be grown al¬ 
most anywhere out here with the excep¬ 
tion that sorgum may not do well right 
along the ocean, west of here, owing to 
heavy fogs. In fact, almost any plant 
of the corn family makes excellent green 
forage here during the months when 
there is little or no rain. Alfalfa can 
be grown over a large area of the Pa¬ 
cific coast (it is not a success right 
here), and the hay alone is a good ra¬ 
tion for hogs. Perhaps some caution 
should be exercised in regard to run¬ 
ning young pigs on Alfalfa. I have 
' ’ on told that it would kill young pigs 
,0 1 un on -Alfalfa. It may be that some 
local conditions prevailing in certain 
fiisti icts cause the plant to be poisonous 
to young pigs, or possibly it is because 
the little fellows need some dry, bulky 
food. 
T here is considerable difference be¬ 
tween raising hogs in California and in 
raising them in the Eastern States, 
there are no Summer rains here to keep 
station green, and over a great por- 
'1 ■- of the State there is no snow dur¬ 
ing the Winter. But it is quite as diffi- 
C J Ut t0 raise Pigs here in the mud and 
S " hh of a w et Winter as it is in the 
SU0W- In either place good shelter is 
1 uii ed. Many people here seemingly 
fail to understand this, or to realize that 
hogs, like milch cows and other live 
stock, crave green food, or an equiv¬ 
alent during our long seasons of dry 
months. While hogs will consume vast | 
quantities of grain if that be made their 
chief ration, yet they need but little of 
it and indeed it is fortunate for the Pa¬ 
cific coast people that they do really 
need so little grain. Barley is usually 
our cheapest grain, and that seldom 
brings less than $15 per ton ground. As 
a rule, it is safe to say that grain is 
worth nearly $20 per ton out here. 
Santa Rosa, Cal. s. b. wright. 
SOME RHODE ISLAND SITTING HENS. 
Tuesday, April 29, I took off 84 hens with 
757 lively chickens that looked as though 
they meant to stay awhile. That is just 
about nine chicks from every IS eggs. Not 
a very big percentage, but I am satisfied. 
It figures about 69 per cent. I think if 
poultrymen could always get 69 per cent 
from all the eggs put into incubators, even 
at this time of the year, they would be 
pretty well satisfied, and it has not been 
nearly as much work or expense as running 
incubators. After the chicKs were all taken 
from the nests, T mixed up a little feed with 
cold water to a crumbly condition, and 
scattered it on some boards in their pens. 
I keep a quantity of mixed dry feed on 
hand composed of ground corn, wheat, 
hulled oats, clover meal and a little linseed 
meal, gluten and bone meal. To this I 
added about 10 per cent of sifted beef scrap, 
and as it was too sticky I put in a little 
bran. You see I am not afraid to use meat 
in the beginning; indeed, I consider it es¬ 
sential. For information on this subject, 
see Bulletin 61 of the Rhode Island Experi¬ 
ment Station. It is very essential that the 
beef scrap should be fresh and sweet and 
that is the hardest thing to find. A most 
important requirement in raising chickens 
is to have perfectly sweet wholesome grain 
and feed of all kinds. I know this from 
costly experience. When I first started in 
the poultry business I lost nearly all my 
chickens from feeding poor meal. I did not 
know what the matter was and conse¬ 
quently got discouraged and did not try to 
do much in the chicken business for several 
years afterwards. I was quite young, and 
took it for granted that such meal as all 
my neighbors were feeding their cows and 
horses was good enough to raise chickens 
on. It was a year when there was a good 
deal of poor corn on the market, and at 
that time all the milkmen in this neighbor¬ 
hood seemed to be looking for low prices in 
grain and not appearing to think that there 
was any difference in quality. I am now 
able to buy very good grain of all kinds, 
but really good beef scrap for small chick 
ens is hard to find. As soon as I had given 
the chickens their mash I took a pail of 
fine cracked corn, 'cracked wheat, cracked 
hulled oats, cracked bone and grit and vari¬ 
ous kinds of seeds and scattered on the 
boards and ground near the chicks. I 
don’t mind if I waste a little feed when 
the chicks are very small, for I want to be 
sure that they all get some. Feeding so 
many kinds of feed is not so formidable an 
undertaking as it looks, for I mix in large 
quantities and keep it on hand. As I have 
about 575 incubator chicks; two 600 size in¬ 
cubators running, and 154 hens sitting, with 
SS more hens on the nests waiting for eggs, 
you may. judge that I expect to keep busy 
this Summer. Of 328 incubator chicks 
taken off April 14 1 have only to date (May 
1 ) four chicks. l. j. winsor. 
Rhode Island. 
Too Much for Toads.— Many people be¬ 
lieve that the toad will eat that humble 
neature, the squash bug! Professor 
Weed, of New Hampshire, has found that 
the odor given off by this bug will actually 
kill the toad if confined in a small space. 
The pungent fumes threw the toad into a 
sort of stupor similar to the effect pro¬ 
duced by chloroform. When very hungry 
the toad will eat a few of the bugs, but 
evidently does not relish the diet. 
Removing Warts. —On page 347 W. A. 
W„ of Louisville, Ga., asks about warts 
on his cow’s udder. If they are the 
ordinary wart that we have on cattle 
in this part of the country, tney 
will give way to frequent rubbing 
with pure hog’s lard, say once a day for 
two weeks. Then watch results for a week 
or so, and if not gone rub again. I have 
removed many unsightly warts from my 
cattle in this way. With me it has never 
failed. In the South I think we are 
troubled much more than in the North 
with these unsightly things. D . h. b. 
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