1898 
347 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
ANSWERS BY DR. F. L. KILBORNE. 
Sheep Affected With Anaemia. 
My flock of 50 breeding ewes are mostly high- 
grade Shropshires. They have had more feed 
and better attention than I ever gave them be¬ 
fore, still they seem to look worse, and for the 
past month, the lambs begin to look badly. They 
have no disease that I can discover, neither can 
I discover any particular disorder in the old 
sheep, except that a few seem to have swellings 
under the throat, and all seem to have some ticks. 
They are housed every night, during the day run 
in a small sod field which has a clear running 
stream through it, and have been well fed on 
shorts, bran, corn and meal, and plenty of good 
ripe ensilage, wheat straw and chaff, and some 
turnips. I have a creep so that the lambs can go 
to grain when they like, also into a large early 
wheat field. The lambs are from two weeks to 
two months old. The old sheep have been pas¬ 
tured a few hours each day, on early wheat, for 
the past two weeks. The sheep seem to have 
good appetites, and are anxious for their feed. 
Nelson County, Va. t. m. 
The sheep are affected with anmmia, which 
may be due to intestinal worms, or to lack of 
suitable food. Possibly you are feeding too much 
succulent food. I would advise omitting the tur¬ 
nips for the present, and substitute good hay 
once a day in the place of a portion of the ensil¬ 
age. I would, also, add oats to the grain ration 
in the place of at least half of the corn .and meal. 
Try the following powders: Dry sulphate of iron, 
three ounces; gentian and ginger, of each six 
ounces; mix. This quantity will be sufficient for 50 
doses, or one dose for the flock. It can, probably, 
be given mixed with the grain, care being taken 
that each sheep gets nearly its share. Repeat 
the dose night and morning for 10 to 15days, then 
omit for a few days, after which repeat if desir¬ 
able. If any of the sheep refuse to eat the powder 
in the feed, make the above quantity into 50 
powders, and give in a half teacupful of water 
as a drench. 
A Severe Cold, Stranqles or Influenza in a Mare 
About 10 days ago, my mare began to cough, 
and in a few days, her nose commenced to run, 
and has become very bad. Her appetite has 
been good until yesterday morning, when she 
refused to eat anything. What is the trouble ?. 
Is it contagious ? I have other horses in the same 
barn. j. R . r. 
Capitola, Md. 
I am of the opinion that the mare is suffering 
from a severe cold, or an attack of strangles or 
influenza. If it is either strangles or influenza, 
it is contagious. In an acute case of this type, 
a qualified veterinarian should have been called. 
The case cannot be satisfactorily treated by cor¬ 
respondence. The horse should have been iso¬ 
lated from the others as a precautionary meas¬ 
ure, the head steamed at least two or three times 
daily, and the following drench given every four 
to six hours, according to the severity of the 
symptoms; Liquor acetate of ammonia and 
sweet spirits of niter, of each one ounce; fluid 
extract of belladonna, one dram; mix, and give 
diluted in one-lialf pint of cold water. Should the 
nasal discharge become chronic, indicating 
glanders, or the disease appear among the other 
horses, report the case to your State veterinarian, 
Dr. A. W. Clement, Baltimore. Should the horse 
die, disinfect the stable with a two to three per 
cent solution of sulphuric acid (one-third strong 
commercial sulphuric acid in each three gallons 
of water). _ 
COTTON-SEED MEAL FOR POULTRY. 
FED WITH GREEN CUT BONE. 
Green cut bone is very good for all kinds of 
poultry, but it must be fed very carefully. Ten 
per cent of cotton-seed meal can be safely fed to 
poultry of all kinds. I think it might be well to 
feed it in connection with the bone. I would rec¬ 
ommend it always as an incentive to egg produc¬ 
tion. JAMES RANKIN. 
Massachusetts. 
I have had no experience in feeding cotton-seed 
meal to poultry, in connection with cut green 
bone. I would rather feed charcoal to overcome 
looseness of the bowels. Cut bone will cause no 
trouble if fed twice a week, or even thrice. It 
should be fed fresh from the cutter, and not al¬ 
lowed to heat and become tainted. Feed only 
what will be eaten up clean. Our experience 
w-ith fresh cut bone has been good, but v/e have 
had bad effects from bone that has stood 24 to 48 
hours, especially in warm weather, i. k. felcu. 
Massachusetts. 
A little cotton-seed meal in connection with a 
little green cut bone ought to be a good combina¬ 
tion. The looseness of the bowels noticed is due 
to the fat in the bone. Cotton-seed meal is highly 
nitrogenous, and the tendency of the one would 
be to balance the other. Both are too highly con¬ 
centrated, however, to be fed largely. Plenty of 
bulky food should be fed in connection with 
them. I have fed beef suet to hens with no bad 
results so long as they had plenty of other less 
highly concentrated food, but as soon as (he 
other food was withheld, and the suet fed alone, 
bowel disease and death soon followed. 
Orange County, N. Y. o. w. mapes. 
I do not consider cotton-seed meal fit to feed 
poul'ryofany kind, young or old. We have fed 
it to our laying hens and ducks, with bad results. 
As soon as we fed it to the ducks, they shut right 
down on the egg yield. The young, also, that 
were hatched from these eggs were affected by 
it. Our hens were affected in the same way, It 
might do to help fatten poultry, and change the 
color of the skin ; otherwise, I do not like it. Cut 
bone, if fed too often, will open the bowels. We 
feed It but twice a week, at noon, when we have 
it; when not, we use scraps. The best egg food 
we have found to be one part corn meal, one part 
middlings, one part bran, one part ground oats, 
10 per cent of scraps, with wheat, buckwheat, 
oats and barley, for the noon and night feed. 
Dutchess County, N. Y. benj. f. travers. 
Belgian Hares Kill Young.— We have two 
female Belgian hares that have killed and eaten 
their young. What can we do to remedy this evil ? 
Bergen County, N. J. j. u. 
Ans. —All rabbits are very secretive of their 
young until a number of days old. If the male 
finds the little ones, he is sure to kill them, and 
the females, especially young ones, are quite 
likely to kill their young if they are disturbed or 
handled before a few days old. For this, no one 
has been able to give a satisfactory reason. If 
the doe is put into a hutch, or pen alone, and 
furnished with plenty of material—fine straw, 
hay or excelsior—to make a nest, and fed plenty 
of succulent food, like cabbage or roots, and no 
one puts a hand in the nest or handles the young 
for a week, they will not be killed by the mother. 
Of course, she should have a close box, with only 
an entrance for herself, in which to construct 
her nest. One 18 inches square and 15 inches 
high will be large enough. A very serious erroi 
is committed by many hare raisers in not furnish¬ 
ing them with water. While they can live if fed 
green food without water, they will drink a good 
deal, and do much better if supplied with it at all 
times, especially when suckling the young. 
j. s. WOODWARD 
Dried Brewers’ Grains.— Will you give the 
feeding value of dried brewers’ grains (malt and 
sprouts) for growing and fattening hogs? In 
connection with corn, which of the following is 
the most profitable feed, or combination of feeds, 
for hogs: Middlings at $15 per ton, bran at $14, 
dried malt at $9, and dried malt sprouts at $8.50 ? 
Sandusky, O.’ 0 . b. is 
Ans. —Dried brewers’ grains are very rich in 
protein, having a nutritive ratio of 1 to 2.8. They 
analyze about as follows: 
Per cent digesti- 
ble matter.—. 
Total Pro- Carbohyd 
dry matter, tein. and fat. 
Brewers’grains (dry). 91.7 16.8 47.1 
Corn meal. 85. 5.5 71.1 
The analysis of corn meal is given for compari¬ 
son. A combination of dry brewers’ grains and 
corn meal makes a good ration for hogs, espe¬ 
cially for young growing animals. Brewers’grains 
are, at the present time, the cheapest source of 
protein, and Dr. Jordan of the Geneva Expert 
ment Station declares that they can be fed with¬ 
out any danger to the animal. Of the combina¬ 
tion given, I would advise feeding a mixture of 
three parts corn meal to one of dried malt. l. a.c 
If life is worth 
having it Is worth 
taking care of. 
. Recklessness does 
not pa j, either in 
our work or 
o n r pleasure. 
When people 
.read of a young 
f man who has 
been killed 
while perform¬ 
ing some reck¬ 
less feat on a 
toboggan or at 
some other haz¬ 
ardous sport, 
their sympathy 
is mixed with 
surprise that 
any human being 
should thus care¬ 
lessly risk life. 
There are thou¬ 
sands of men who 
are recklessly risking their lives while they 
go about their common every-day avoca- 
iioas. They over-work, they do not take 
sufficient time from business or labor to eat 
or sleep or rest, or to care for their health. 
Outraged nature throws out danger signals, 
to which they pay no heed. They suffer 
from bilious or nervous disorders, from 
sick headache, giddiness, drowsiness, cold 
chills, flushings of heat, shortness of 
breath, blotches on the skin, loss of ap¬ 
petite, uncomfortable sensations in the 
stomach after meals, loss of sleep, lassi¬ 
tude and trembling sensations. These are 
the advance symptoms of serious and fatal 
maladies. 
All disorders of this nature are cured by 
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It 
restores the lost appetite, gives sound and 
refreshing sleep, makes the digestion per¬ 
fect, the liver active. It purifies the blood 
and makes it rich with the life-giving ele¬ 
ments of the food. It is the great blood- 
maker and flesh-builder. It makes the body 
active and the brain keen. It is the best 
of nerve tonics. Thousands have testified 
to its merits. No honest dealer will urge 
npon you a substitute for the little extra 
profit it may afford. 
The man or woman who neglects consti¬ 
pation is gathering in the system a store 
of disorders that will culminate in some 
serious and possibly fatal malady. Dr. 
Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are a safe, sure, 
speedy and permanent cure for constipa¬ 
tion. One little " Pellet ” is a gentle laxa¬ 
tive. and two a mild cathartic. 
UU1UTC|1—A position on a Poultry Farm by 
■■ HI! I L.U an experienced man just leaving 
a large western Poultry Ranch, where he is the 
manager Address J. H, S., care The R, N,-Y, i s,.- 
The 
Differences 
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Fro. 2. 
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