1902 
r H E RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
7 3i 
ANGORA GOATS AND YOUNG TREES 
There is one thing about Angora goats 
which I want to know’, and I believe none 
of your correspondents has mentioned it. 
I have a grove of hard and pine trees, 
which I wish to preserve, but I want the 
underbrush kept down. Will the Angora 
goats eat the briers and sprouts and not 
damage the trees? j. a. w. 
Amesbury, Mass. 
As long as there are briers, weeds, 
and sprouts to appease their hunger they 
will not touch the bark of the trees. If 
there should he any branches hanging 
low enough for them to get at the leaves 
they would try to reach them. I have 
seen a beautiful grove made by turning 
in a flock of goats where it was impos¬ 
sible for man to get through, and not a 
large tree touched, but all sprouts eaten 
or killed. E. E. h. 
Stamford, Conn. 
Our experience with Angora goats is 
that they will destroy any pine tree that 
is not over four feet high by eating off 
the limbs. In a grove of ours where 
they have assembled to avoid storms 
they have, to a limited extent, stripped 
the bark off pine trees three or four 
inches in diameter. We should have no 
fear in an average pasture that an ordi¬ 
nary flock would injure pine trees above 
four inches in diameter and above eight 
feet tall. In an open pasture of ours 
they have not destroyed in Summer the 
bark of any tree, even of the smaller 
size, although we have had at different 
times a flock of over 400. In Winter, 
when confined to yard room, it is quite 
different. They stripped the bark one 
Winter from apple trees over 10 inches 
in diameter, to such extent as to do 
them serious injury. J. H. k. 
Portland, Me. 
We have handled Angoras up here for 
four years, and have found that they 
will eat brush and leaves of almost any 
kind of timber, and in no case have they 
damaged the bark of any timber trees 
such as oak, maple, basswood, elm, ash, 
hickory, etc., but they eat the twigs and 
leaves of any tree overhanging or lean¬ 
ing that they can reach by standing on 
hind legs. I believe .your correspondent 
can be perfectly safe in turning in goats 
to eat the brush, and find his trees never 
touched, provided he keeps enough goats 
to eat up what he wants, and with 
enough feed there to prevent them from 
starvation. I lately saw between 700 and 
800 goats turned into 10 acres, and they 
cleared up all waste shrubs in a few 
days, but I failed to notice any young 
oak trees about 10 to 15 feet high of 
which the bark was at all touched. If I 
owned the young woods and wished to 
clear out the brush and save the trees, 
I should use the Angoras, and feel quite 
able to sleep at night, because I am posi¬ 
tive they will not hurt the trees unless 
at starvation’s door. r. johnston. 
Glenwood, Wis. 
Typhoid Fever Germs in Milk. 
I would like very much to know whether 
it has been proven that the germs of 
typhoid fever are ever found in the 
freshly-drawn cows’ milk, or whether a 
cow drinking water that has typhoid 
germs will transmit the disease through 
her milk? Of course, I am presuming 
that all utensils are properly sterilized, 
and the milk well handled after being 
drawn from the cow. E. e. p. 
Lexington, Ivy. 
It has lately been stated in the Bos¬ 
ton Medical and Surgical Journal that 
typhoid germs have never been known 
to have been transmitted to milk under 
the conditions above named. My own 
experiences are negative, and of slight 
weight in deciding this question. Of 
course it is understood that the milk 
does not originally contain the germs; 
not that they may not get into the milk 
through imperfections in the handling. 
Suppose the cow had lain on soil or 
waded in water containing such germs; 
some might drop into the sterilized pail 
during milking, or again some may fall 
from the fingers of persons milking or 
handling the milk utensils. Of course, 
unless they multiply in the milk, which 
would ordinarily not happen where milk 
is soon used, or unless the consumer 
were extraordinarily sensitive or fur¬ 
nished a good field for the multiplica¬ 
tion of such germs, the chances of the 
disease developing would be small. It 
is a good thing for us to learn cleanli¬ 
ness and this germ theory will empha¬ 
size the lesson. But we must also learn 
so to live as to have vitality enough to 
combat those germs that inadvertently 
escape in spite of precautions. This 
matter involves two horns equally im¬ 
portant. J. NELSON. 
New Jersey Exp. Station. 
Horse With Swollen Legs. 
I have a valuable farm horse with swell¬ 
ing of muscles or cords over the hocks on 
hind legs. There is a slight enlargement 
on fetlock or pastern of one leg. I cannot 
find any thrush; he has not been over¬ 
loaded or strained in backing. The animal 
does not lie down to rest that I can see. 
Can any of your horsemen enable me to 
benefit or remove the stocking up, as some 
call it? a. w. s. 
Forestville, Conn. 
You do not say how long the legs have 
been stocked and the chances are that 
they will remain so. Your best resort 
is to try to prevent them from getting 
larger. Do not use blisters on these 
legs; put the animal in a box stall nights 
and continue this: Give once a day for 
a week in his drinking water one dram 
of iodide of potassium; wash the legs 
with good soap and water once a day. 
Old Corn or Green Corn for Steers. 
Prof. W. J. Kennedy, of the Iowa Agri¬ 
cultural College, is making a practical 
experiment with a carload of western 
steers. These steers averaged 1,038 
pounds on August 11. Eight of them 
were put in a seven-acre field of Blue- 
grass pasture, and were fed in addition 
shelled corn each day, starting with 
three pounds of corn a day for each 
steer’s ration, and gradually increasing 
until now they are eating 20 pounds 
each. Another lot of eight steers were 
put in another Blue-grass pasture, but 
instead of being fed shelled corn, were 
given green corn cut fresh each night; 
both stalk and ear were fed to them. 
The object is to learn whether old, dry 
corn will give better results for steer 
feeding than the green fodder. Some 
feeders claim that feeding the latter is 
a wasteful practice. This experiment 
will go far towards settling the matter. 
The first eight steers will be fed on the 
old corn until ready for market, about 
the middle of December. The other 
steers will be fed on new corn, and as 
this has been frosted we shall have a 
good chance to learn whether it is equal 
to the old corn, and if not, how much 
inferior it is. 
Cows Killed ox Railkoad. —The 
newspapers have reported the killing of 
three cows owned by our correspondent, 
Edward Van Alstyne, on the railroad. 
The facts are given in the following note 
from Mr. Van Alstyne: “On a stormy 
day the cows got out of the field from 
the lower farm until they came to the 
gateway leading into the yard about the 
depot at Sunnyside. They went in and 
•wandered down the track. A car coming 
struck one and broke her legs. She was 
killed immediately and used for beef. 
Three others came in contact with the 
third rail and died instantly. I do not 
see that I have any claim on the com¬ 
pany. This place was open for the pub¬ 
lic, and the cows had no business there. 
I shall, however, insist that there be a 
gate put there and turnstile for foot 
passengers.’ 
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Milk Notes. 
The farmers in this vicinity are very well 
pleased with their new contract, which 
gives them better prices for milk for the 
next six months than they have received 
in years. As a rule they are increasing 
their dairies, and the cattle dealers are 
shipping in carloads of western cattle 
which bring good prices. New milkers 
readily bring $50 and ?G0, and as much as 
and $S0 is frequently paid by some of 
our large dairymen. The cows are look¬ 
ing well as most of the farmers are heavy 
feeders. Nearly all the feed is bought and 
little grain raised. Feed is very high, but 
we have hopes that the large western corn 
crop will reduce the price and give the 
farmers a better margin on their milk. 
Otisville, N. Y. c. s. h. 
Cows are plentiful and generally looking 
well. Farmers are trying to keep all the 
milch cows possible, because they are re¬ 
ceiving about 10 cents per 100 pounds more 
than ever before for their milk. Hay gen¬ 
erally in this section was good, but farm¬ 
ers will be obliged to buy grain largely as 
the corn crop was a failure here owing to 
wet weather. t. c. l. 
South Oxford, N. Y. 
Cheese As Food.— I notice on page 618, 
comment by H. E. Cook, on cheese as an 
article of food, and reference to its being 
hearty and not quickly digested. I think 
you will find that, in the majority of cases, 
where trouble is experienced in digesting 
cheese, the consumer has been guilty of 
bolting his food without properly masti¬ 
cating it. This, combined with the habit 
of using it as a dessert with pie after a 
hearty meal, is the main cause of its “lying 
heavy,” and causing indigestion. Cheese 
properly eaten is certainly a healthful ar¬ 
ticle of diet, and should be more widely 
used on our tables. c. h. w. 
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CALF _ , 
DYSPEPSIA. 
like practically all olhor 
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‘'bolting" or taking tho , 
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