1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
567 
AN EXPERIENCE WITH EWES AND 
LAMBS. 
Feeding Stunted Corn. —Last year the 
corn crop on the farm was the poorest 
for many years. To utilize the shock corn 
that was difficult to husk on account of 
ears being so small, 90 ewes were ga¬ 
thered up, as they would hunt this small 
corn out of tlie fodder when fed in racks. 
The plan was to get the ewes in fine 
flesh on the corn and fodder, and Alfalfa 
hay, and sell them with their lambs to 
go to market in June. Ihe 90 ewes 
dropped something over 100 lambs the last 
week in February and during March, sav¬ 
ing 94. There were about 20 pairs of 
twins, showing that some of the ewes did 
not breed. The aim or expectation in 
feeding this inferior shock corn, was that 
the Alfalfa would balance the ration so 
that the ewes would milk well. The lambs 
started well, and did well up to the time 
they went out to pasture. Previous to this 
they had had a creep arranged into pen 
with feeding troughs, where they could 
get bran and middlings and shelled corn. 
When they went out to pasture, the grain 
fed to both ewes and lambs was gradu¬ 
ally discontinued. Before going out to 
pasture 16 ewes and three lambs dropped 
early were sold to ship to market. This 
left on the farm 73 ewes and 91 lambs, one 
ewe having died early in the Winter. 
When the ewes went out to pasture, near¬ 
ly the whole lot wa$ fat enough for the 
butcher. 
Loss on Pasture. —While the pasture 
was in abundance, it was soon noticed that 
the lambs did not grow as expected, and 
the ewes ran down in flesh. It was plain¬ 
ly evident that the corn ration had been 
too heavy. Instead of having the greater 
part of the flock, both ewes and lambs, 
on the market in June, it will be well on 
in July before I can hope to make a ship, 
ment. At this date, June 30, they come 
to the barn at noon, and eat Alfalfa hay, 
and an allowance of grain. At present 
they are coming on nicely, as they have 
Blue-grass pasture, with a rye field con¬ 
taining a good growth of clover for their 
range. They have had the run of this 
field since the rye came out in head. They 
did not commence to feed on the rye as 
soon as I expected when it began to fill. 
The pigs commenced sooner than the 
sheep and lambs, the sheep letting it 
alone mainly till it began to show the 
ripening stage. Now that the rye is about 
ripe enough to cut they are feeding on it 
quite freely, and the returns are beginning 
to show in the improved appearance of 
both ewes and lambs. At the rate the 
ewes are gaining, nearly all of them will 
be in fine shape for market the latter part 
of July, also a large proportion of the 
lambs. While the latter will fatten well, 
they will not be as large as they would 
have been had they been started just right. 
As the facts now stand, the conclusion is 
that the feeding of two or three tons of 
bran with a cut down of amount of corn 
fed, would have been a very profitable 
investment. As to how I came to make 
this error, I will explain next week. 
ROSS Co., Ohio. JOHN M. JAMISON. 
INJURY TO COW'S TEAT. 
I have a nice large Holstein cow whose 
teat was stepped on by another cow May 8. 
The teat closed up at the end where it was 
hurt, so I had to use a silver milking tube to 
draw the milk out, and am using the tube 
rigui along, for it is impossible to get any 
mill* out of the teat by hand. The cow has 
not given any caked milk any time since the 
teat was hurt. What can I do to enlarge the 
opening in the teat so it will stay open? 
Libertyville, Ill. a. s. 
We have had cows in similar condition 
that were cured by using a plug, which was 
allowed to remain in the teat from one 
milking to another. Make a plug about 
the size of the milking tube of hard wood 
or lead, or you can buy one of hard rub¬ 
ber. Be sure it is large enough at the 
lower end so that there will be no danger 
of its being pushed up into the teat by 
accident, nor have the point so sharp that 
it will cut. After drawing out the milk 
with your milking tube insert the plug. 
Usually two or three days’ use of the plug 
has been enough with us. If left in longer 
than necessary you might have a cow with 
leaky teat, which is quite a nuisance. 
There are many cows injured every year 
in the staple by stepping on one another’s 
teats, and this is entirely unnecessary if 
a simple partition is left between each cow, 
but some farmers try to over-crowd their 
stables, and in the long run it doesn’t pay. 
Many of the accidents to horses, cows, 
stock and even to human beings which are 
often regarded as “dispensations of Provi¬ 
dence,” are simply caused by man’s care¬ 
lessness or shiftlessness. Many people 
say they are “so unlucky,” but follow these 
bad luck stories to their source and it is 
usually one’s own faults that are the cause. 
___________ H. G. M. 
NO MEAT FOR CHICKS. 
Vegetarianism for Poultry. 
I have been reading The R. N.-Y. for a 
few months, and have been surprised to see 
how many poultry growers use meat as food 
for chickens. I feel confident from exper¬ 
imental knowledge as well as from observa¬ 
tion that meat is not necessary for chickens, 
or any other of the animal kingdom. Almost 
any animal that feeds on meat becomes more 
or less ferocious. My husband has used no 
meat for years, using olives, nuts, eggs, butter 
and cream instead. Four years ago we 
adopted a little girl who had the rickets, and 
although 3% years old was not able to walk 
more than an IS months child. She has 
never eaten meat in any form. She has en¬ 
tirely recovered, walked five miles without 
undue fatigue when but six years old, and 
can put as many steps into any action as any 
child I ever saw. She is never sick, and 
although I use flesh occasionally I am con¬ 
vinced from her case that a non-flesh diet is 
a perfect diet. We would think that of most 
animals a dog would need flesh, but such is 
not the case. In the best dog “colleges” I 
was about to call them where pains are taken 
to train dogs properly, no meat is furnished, 
but oatmeal cakes, cornbread, whole wheat 
bread, etc., are given instead. The managers 
claim that they are more intelligent and 
more easily trained. 
I have quite a large flock of chickens; 
they have never had a scrap of meat other 
than the bugs they may find, which are not 
many in this locality. They have plenty of 
grain, clean water, gravel and Alfalfa pas¬ 
ture. They not only do not eat each other, 
but they do not fight or eat eggs. I have 
never had but one chicken on the place who 
fought, and I disposed of him at once. If I 
do have to kill a chicken I make sure that 
the other chickens do not see it, so they will 
be wholly unused to violence. My chickens 
are great layers and my neighbors inquire 
why it is I get so many eggs. This is not 
an easy country to raise chickens, as is 
.evinced by the fact that eggs will average 
more than 25 cents per dozen the year 
around, rarely going below 22 cents and often 
above 35 cents. In this country (California) 
turkeys are herded on Alfalfa, in some places 
like sheep. One large poultry ranch is so 
situated that they do not grow green Alfalfa, 
so they take Alfalfa hay, chop it, soak it, and 
feed it to the chickens in troughs, but they 
do not feed meat. As I have been reading 
the articles by our eastern friends I have 
thought that they were working on wrong 
lines, and since reading of cannibal chickens 
I believe it to be a direct outgrowth of meat 
feeding, or there might be a possible chance 
of a chicken being under-fed with grain feed, 
so it would be ravenously hungry. But I see 
no reason why bloodthirsty tastes cannot be 
inbred and cultivated in a chicken as in 
otner things. There is oil in all the grains, 
especially corn, but if that was not enough I 
would feed cotton seed oil cake or its equiv¬ 
alent instead of meat. I feed no oil cake 
nor other stimulating food, but see to an 
abundance of grain and green feed. Often 
they will leave their grain breakfast for the 
Alfalfa, and come back for grain for lunch. 
Corona, Cal. mrs. w. S. r. 
OUTLOOK FOR CARRIAGE HORSES. 
In my opinion the outlook for breeding 
high-class driving and carriage horses never 
was brighter than at the present time, and 
notwithstanuaig the fact that the automo¬ 
biles and other motor vehicles are being 
pushed to the front, the fact still remains 
that when a man wishes to enjoy himself 
there is nothing that will take the place of a 
pair of high-stepping harness horses. The 
trade for high-class llackney stallions was 
never better than at this time, and I am 
speaking from an experience of over 25 years 
importing them. I think I am safe in saying 
we have imported .more Hackneys, both stal¬ 
lions and mares, than all importers west of 
the Unio River. At no time during the past 
25 years would a high-acting gelding bring 
the price as at this time, there being prac¬ 
tically no limit to the price if the horse is 
good enough, and the way to breed them is to 
use the Hackney stallion on the trotting-bred 
mare. j. g. truman. 
Bushnell, Ill. 
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