1898 
555 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Handle Like Nitro-Glycerin. 
1. Seldom should a bull be used before 
12 months of age. I have a young Guern¬ 
sey, very precocious, who is 11 months 
old, and was first used when he was 10 
months old, hut has been used for only 
three cows. 2. After he is 12 months 
old, one service a week for three months, 
and then twice a week up to 18 months, 
and thereafter, three or four times a 
week. A great deal depends on the man¬ 
ner of handling, and if only one service 
be allowed, a bull will serve twice as 
many without injury as if turned loose. 
3. One a day is enough. 4. Wheat bran 
with either oats or corn, and a small 
amount of oil meal ; say one of wheat 
bran, one of corn meal, one-tenth of 
oil meal, make a good grain ration. 
Oats substituted for the corn meal 
would be better if ground. For fod¬ 
der, use clover hay, green clover, or 
other coarse fodder as required. Do not 
keep the bull too fat ; judgment must be 
used here. 5. By all means keep him 
tied. I have found the best way is a 
post in the center of a large box stall, to 
which he is tied by a ring that encircles 
the post and keeps at a height of about 
three feet, thus enabling him to walk 
around the post and exercise himself. 
6 and 7. Always handle with a staff after 
one year old. A small, light ring should 
be put in at about nine months of age, 
or sooner if inclined to be precocious; 
previous to that, use a halter.' When 
young, up to a year old, I would use a 
lead rein or rope, after that, use a staff 
for service or leading. On no account, 
allow a bull to run loose in the fields. 
He too soon learns to understand his 
power and strength. Use firmness with 
gentleness, as he will resent at some 
future time any illtreatment to the one 
illtreating him, and will appreciate good 
care and kindness, but in no event care¬ 
lessness or teasing. Handle like nitro¬ 
glycerin, and few accidents will occur, 
as the two are very much alike, easily 
exploded. wii.i.s a. sewakd. 
Budds Lake, N. J. 
Don't Abuse the Bull. 
1. We prefer not to use a bull until he 
is one year old. 2. Once a week is often 
enough. 3. An active, vigorous three- 
year-old ought to be able to serve an 
average of two or three a week without 
shortening his usefulness. 4. We feed 
clover hay, oats, bran, corn, and oil 
meal, preferring oats, but all grain is 
ground and mixed together. 5 . If we 
had but one bull to stable, we would keep 
him where he had company, because he 
is not likely to be so noisy and, we think, 
not so sure to become cross. ( 5 . Keep 
him in a stall, tied with two chains, one 
to the halter, if he has horns and cannot 
get it off, the other to one of his nose 
rings, a little longer than the other. 
Keep two good rings in his nose. When 
you take him out, always use a strong 
leading staff ; do not trust him, and do 
not abuse him ; if you do, he will mind 
it and catch you off your guard some 
day, then you would better have an acci¬ 
dent policy and your will made. 7 . If 
you have a strongly-fenced paddock, let 
him run out every day for exercise, but 
do not have it so that he must stand 
without cover from sun or storm. Our 
bulls are taught to work on a tread 
power, which does not run too fast or 
for over half an hour at a time. Jersey 
bulls should not run with the heifers 
after they are two months old. 
Pittsburgh, Fa. k. f. shannon. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
ANSWERS BY DR. F. L. KII,BORNK. 
A Colt with the Stringhalt. 
1 have a filly, 15 months old, that has the string- 
halt. What causes it, and is there any remedy 
for it? j. w. b. 
Texas. 
The real cause of stringhalt is unknown. 
Some cases having the stringhalt action are due 
to injury or disease of the hock, while others 
appear to be due to some local irritation or ner¬ 
vous affection. Stringhalt is usually incurable. 
A few cases have been relieved by a difllcult sur¬ 
gical operation. With a colt Of this age, it is 
quite likely that there may have been an injury 
to the hock from which she may recover. 
Cow Fails to Breed. 
I have a valuable cow which appears to have 
become barren. Is there a remedy ? t. e. a. 
If the cow has been grained or is rather fat, 
she should be placed on a restricted diet and 
given plenty of exercise to reduce her flesh. A 
change of bull should be tried if you have not al¬ 
ready done so. If the cow then fail to breed, she 
should be personally examined by a competent 
veterinarian, to ascertain whether there is any 
local impediment to breeding. Tf no such remov¬ 
able cause be found to exist, the cow is, un¬ 
doubtedly, barren. 
Horse with Cough and Nasal Discharge. 
What shall I do for my horse, three years old 
last Spring ? It has a cough and runs at the nose 
at times. It has been so for two months. It is 
in good condition, eats well and, apparently, is 
all right except this cough. c. l. b. 
Delaware. 
Try the treatment advised for Chronic Cough 
in a Horse, page 379 of The R. N.-Y. of May 21. 
Also see Symptoms of Glanders and Farcy, page 
475. If the symptoms resemble those of glanders, 
or if there be no marked improvement after a 
month of the treatment advised, take the horse 
to a qualified veterinarian to be examined for 
glanders. 
Cyst on Cow's Knee. 
I have a cow which had a moderately hard 
swelling come upon her knee in front. I used a 
strong tincture of pokeberry, and for a time, it 
seemed to benefit it; but finally it did no good 
unless to stop its growth. I afterward used 
strong camphor, but without effect. The swell¬ 
ing covered the whole knee in front, and stood 
out from the surface about an inch. It never 
has seemed to inconvenience the cow, and she 
did not, at first, show any uneasiness when it was 
rubbed. Now it is soft, and she doesn’t like to have 
it handled. What ought I to do for it? It has 
seemed to be slowly increasing for some time. 
Michigan. c. V. c. 
A serous cyst has formed on the knee, due to 
the continual bruising of the knee against the 
manger or on the floor. Open the cyst freely at its 
lower border, so as to allow all the contained 
liquid to drain off. Paint the surface of the cyst 
daily with a solution of four drams of iodine and 
two drams of potassium iodide, in four ounces of 
water. Also inject the cyst daily with a small 
quautity of the same iodine solution diluted with 
three parts of water. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
The Lincoln Sheei*.— On July 1, an Ohio man to 
whom we shipped Lincolns, reported that he 
raised a Lincoln lamb this season that weighed 
60 pounds at 60 days old, and wauted to know 
whether we could beat that weight. July 4, we 
put a Lincoln lamb on to the scales, that was 
got by our 400-pound stock ram. Royal Duke. The 
lamb was just 100 days old, and he weighed 101 
pounds. As the Ohio lamb was sired by same 
sheep as the Michigan lamb, I simply wrote him 
that he was a good shepherd, and that he had a 
good breed of sheep. Our flock of 40 Lincoln 
breeding ewes, many of them aged sheep, sheared 
just 400 pounds of wool this season. I know of 
two Lincoln rams here in Michigan that sheared 
23 and 24 pounds of wool this year, said to be 12 
mouths’ growth. Are the Lincolns a mutton and 
wool sheep ? e. p. Oliver. 
Michigan. 
Turnips and Milk.— How can I work turnips 
into cow rations without tainting the milk ? 
Idle wood, Pa. m. s. j. 
Ans. —It is a volatile oil that gives the “turnipy” 
taste to milk. This oil leaves the turnip after 
the cow eats it, and passes all through the 
system, finally being removed through the various 
glands of the body. If sufiicient time is given 
between feeding these turnips and milking, this 
oil will all pass away, and the milk will not 
taste of it. The best time, therefore, to feed tur¬ 
nips, is during or immediately after milking. 
The milk drawn at that time will not taste, and 
in the 12 hours occurring before the cow is milked 
again, the oil will all have passed away from the 
cow’s system, and there will be no taste iu the 
next milk. The trouble with “turnipy” milk 
usually comes from feeding the turnips midway 
between two milkings. When this is done, you 
will ha ve a bad taste in the milk. 
Potatoes in Sii.o.— We learn from Bulletin No. 
79, issued by the United States Department of 
Agriculture, that French farmers have been ex¬ 
perimenting with potatoes in the silo. The French 
potato crop is very large, and it is necessary 
every year to feed a large proportion of it to 
stock. In one case, the potatoes were buried in 
the silo with Crimson clover, and the whole thing 
pressed down hard. When taken out, the potatoes 
had the color, odor and flavor of the clover, and 
it was found that they had been partly cooked by 
the heat of fermentation. Iu another case, a ton 
of potatoes was surrounded in the silo by corn 
stalks. These potatoes were not cooked, but were 
in good condition for feeding. Another farmer 
put into the silo chopped raw potatoes with two 
pounds of salt for each 1,000 pounds of potatoes, 
under pressure of 2,500 pounds per square yard. 
When the silo was tilled, the material was 5% 
feet deep. Iu 62 days, it had sunk to a little over 
three feet. This potato pulp was eaten greedily 
by cattle, and, when mixed with cotton-seed 
meal, made a good ration. The French seem to 
think that this is a good way to store the surplus 
potato crop, but we are, probably, not yet ready 
in this country to adopt any such system. 
Stock Fences Coming Up.— It is quite surprising 
to learn how many stockmen are pulling up the 
fences of their farms, and giving up the use of 
pasture land. E. M. Gillet, of Maryland, who 
breeds Hereford cattle, says that his herd will 
rest all day in a cool bank barn. They will feed 
three times daily on green soiling crops which 
are cut in the field and hauled to the barn. They 
exercise in a woods and pasture during the night, 
and never looked better or were less bothered 
with flies. Hundreds of stockmen, as we have 
said, are following some such method as this; 
the old fences have come up, and the pastures 
have been plowed and put into cultivated crops, 
like clover, oats, peas, millet and corn. These 
crops are cut and hauled to the barn, so that 
cattle may have green fodder, yet keep under 
shelter, and not be compelled to fight flies through 
the day. 
Kill Competition. 
The way to kill 
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butter has little 
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