1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER: 
811 
CATARRH IN TURKEYS. 
For turkeys afflicted with catarrh 
which has developed from a cold, the 
following treatment is suggested: Put 
them in a tight poultry house, and burn 
a mixture of pine tar, spirits of turpen¬ 
tine, and sulphur, about five tablespoon¬ 
fuls of tar to one each of turpentine and 
sulphur, to each 1,000 cubic feet of space. 
Of course, if the house is not very tight 
more smoke will be required, and if 
there are many cracks or openings of 
any kind it will be useless, as the smoke 
should be confined at least one hour. 
This treatment will most likely effect a 
cure for those that have not advanced to 
the swelling stage. These may be treat¬ 
ed by bathing the swollen parts with a 
mixture of one part olive oil and two 
parts spirits of turpentine, and with a 
small olil can or syringe, insert some of 
the mixture up the nostrils and in the 
cleft in the roof of the mouth. Three or 
four applications will effect a cure in 
most of the slight cases, but where it has 
gone so long that the swelling has be¬ 
come hard, it is doubtful if anything will 
be of much use in removing the swell¬ 
ing. If there are but a few to be treated, 
the oil and turpentine remedy is about 
as easy to apply in the first stages as the 
smoking, and is equally effective, provid¬ 
ed it is forced well up into the nostrils 
and in the cleft in the roof of the mouth. 
We would not care to eat turkeys so af¬ 
fected, though ! if in good order and ap¬ 
parently in good health otherwise, they 
would probably be much better than 
much of poultry that is put on the mar¬ 
ket in poor condition. 
. J. E. STEVENSON. 
Liberal, Feeding. —At a farmers’ in¬ 
stitute in Kansas, a dairyman gave in 
his report on producing milk for the 
Kansas City market from common cows, 
picked up through the country. So far 
as possible, these cows were fresh in the 
Fall. During the Winter they receive a 
ration consisting of a mixture of 14 to 
16 pounds of bran and corn meal, and 
what clover hay and sugar cane they 
will eat. In Summer they receive, in ad¬ 
dition to pasture and soiling crops, four 
to five pounds of bran. By this system 
of liberal feeding, a two years’ record 
shows an annual income per cow of 
$70.99, the miilk being sold at an average 
of eight cents per gallon. Last year at 
the Agricultural College our best cow 
cost us $32.80 for feed, the highest of 
any cow in the herd, and about $3.50 
above the average of the herd, and yet 
the profit from that cow over the cost 
of feed was $24.12 above the average of 
the herd. d. ii. otis. 
Kansas Exp. Station. 
A Grade Animal. —A grade sheep is 
one that may trace back on the side of 
either sire or dam to some breed or va¬ 
riety different from the type or kind of 
sheep it claims to belong to. If you 
could tell how many generations it 
would take to make a man a purebred 
white man, who had among his ances¬ 
tors a negro, then we could tell how 
many generations it would take to con¬ 
stitute a purebred sheep of a new va¬ 
riety. “Would we bar out a twin be¬ 
cause it is not registered, when the other 
twin was registered?” That would de¬ 
pend entirely upon the reading of the 
classification. In offering our special 
prizes we say that the sheep must be 
purebred and registered in our particu¬ 
lar association, and this classification 
should be followed out by fair associa¬ 
tions and others in offering prizes for 
purebred stock. It should not only say 
that they must be registered, but it 
should say in what record they should 
be registered. For example, at our late 
State fair, a well-known breeder entered 
Jersey cattle registered in the Ohio 
Polled Jersey Cattle Register. They were 
eligible and registered in that record in 
proper form, but the men who had herds 
of Jerseys registered in the American 
Jersey Cattle Club Book, refused to show 
in competition. You will see the im¬ 
portance of naming what register ani¬ 
mals should be registered in. If the 
classification did not read that the ani¬ 
mal under judgment must be registered, 
and its twin was registered, we would 
not throw out the unregistered twin. 
MORTIMER LEVERING. 
Sec’y Shropshire Registry Association. 
Moldy Ensilage. —I have tried Japan 
millet and Soy beans mixed together for 
ensilage. They both make a crop of 
heavy yield per acre. During the first 
week of September, after my corn en¬ 
silage was put in the silo, I hauled two 
loads of millet to one of Soy beans, and 
cut them to one-quarter-inch lengths, 
and mixed in the silo on top of the corn 
ensilage. I commenced feeding to milch 
cows September 10, from the millet and 
beans, and they proved to be an excel¬ 
lent fodder. The weather was warm, 
and mold appeared every day on the sur¬ 
face of millet and beans, constantly in¬ 
creasing, and by about the middle of 
October, the remainder of the 18 or 20 
tons of millet and beans was a black 
mass of rotting material, and we re¬ 
moved it down to the level of the corn 
ensilage, and found the upper surface of 
that also spoiled. About a ton of the 
corn ensilage was thrown out, and then 
we found the remainder splendidly pre¬ 
served. We have a stave silo, 17 feet 
diameter and 28 feet in height. This is 
a brief memorandum of my experience 
with Japan millet and Soy beans for en¬ 
silage. Who has had better success? 
The question is important. 
S. R. DIVINE. 
Sullivan County, N. Y. 
R- N.-Y.—Our advice has uniformly 
been to use only corn in the silo, and to 
cure the nitrogenous fodders, like clover, 
cow peas, or beans for hay. 
SCRAPS. 
The Wisconsin Agriculturist says that 
a good-sized crack in the stock barn may 
easily mean a loss of three bushels of corn. 
An exchange says that a Chicago man 
recently shipped to Nashville, Tenn., 13,000 
live pigeons to be used by the various gun 
clubs there in their annual shoot. 
Clover for Hens.— I have cured a crop 
of very fine second-crop clover, but it com 
tains considerable wild carrot. Will it be 
injurious to feed the same to my poultry 
(ducks and fowls)? E . B . u. 
Wo should not hesitate a moment to feed 
the clover on account of the wild carrot, 
as we do not think that there is the least 
danger of any injury from it. 
A writer in the New York Tribune says 
that he lost a good many turkeys by foxes 
until he tried the experiment of putting a 
small sleighbell on the neck of each tur¬ 
key. After that no fox would come near 
them. 
An Australian poultry fancier complains 
that the Langshan fowls usually seen at 
shows are entirely too long-legged. He 
asks why they should imitate the kan¬ 
garoo, and urged that Langshan breeders 
work towards a shorter leg, thereby im¬ 
proving the carriage of this fowl. 
An enterprising milkman in Cincinnati is 
said to have the milk he sells analyzed 
twice a year, at his own expense. The 
tests may be made at any time, without 
warning, the idea being to prove that he 
serves a product of uniform purity at all 
times. This is most effective advertising, 
and is said to be of great value to him. 
Improving Poultry.— I think that the 
best and least expensive way to introduce 
new blood into a pen of fowls is by pur¬ 
chasing a good male. If your strain is all 
you desire on the female side, it is surely 
better to infuse new blood by males, as 
this causes less disturbance than the other 
way. I formerly used both ways, but of 
late years depend upon buying males usu¬ 
ally, but sometimes buy eggs and hatch 
and raise some males for breeding when 
wishing new blood. h. j. blanohard. 
Profit on Ducks.— We do not find it as 
the writer on page 730 does; perhaps it is 
because ours are not well brought up. We 
find ducks quoted in The R. N.-Y. at that 
date at 40 to 55 cents per pair. We do not 
see how profit can be made after paying 
the express robbers’ freight and commis¬ 
sion, and have the ducks sold at 40 to 55 
cents per pair. It cannot be done on Michi¬ 
gan corn. Did the writer ever buy his 
children’s Winter shoes or pay his taxes 
from his profits on ducks? Did he ever 
raise a pair of ducks that weighed 11 
pounds at 10 weeks old? We never did, 
and we have been at it some time. 
A MICHIGAN FARMER. 
NEW 20TH CENTURY 
CREAM SEPARATORS 
Sept. 1st marked the 
introduction of the Im¬ 
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“Baby” or “Dairy” sizes 
of De Laval Cream Sepa¬ 
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are simply unapproach¬ 
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the shape of a cream sepa¬ 
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has been the conceded su¬ 
periority of the De Laval 
machines heretofore their 
standard is now raised still 
higher and they are more 
than ever placed in a class 
bu themselves as regards all 
possible competition. 
Send for new catalogue. 
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Randolph & Canal Sts., I 74 Cortlandt Street, 
CHICAGO. I NEW YORK. 
The Brood Mare. The condition of the 
mare determines the health of tho colt. Do 
not look for a vigorous foal from an improperly 
fed dam. She must have sustaining food and 
plenty of it. Victor Com and Oat Feed is rich 
in the necessary elements. It is properly bal¬ 
anced and does not heat the blood. It is kiln- 
dried and is tho best feed for the brood mare 
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way of the world, He is 
afraid you will try a 
Sharpies Farm Sep¬ 
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SMALL’S CALF FEEDER. 
Calves suck their milk, grow sleek, 
thrifty and very large, commanding the 
highest market prices for veal or dairy. 
Write for free circulars. 
J. B. Small & Co., Boston, Mass. 
Improved ' t-tn 
Holds them firmly, draws 
them forward when lying 
down, pushes back when 
standing, gives freedom 
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Batavia, Ill. Catalogue Free 
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The most practical and hnmane Fastener ever In¬ 
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A QUICK, SHARP CUT 
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