1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
583 
THE BROWN SWISS COW. 
The illustration shown at Fig. 247, Mas- 
cott, is from a photograph of a highly- 
prized Brown Swiss cow; she is seven 
years old, and has without doubt won 
more laurels than any one of her class. 
She is one of eight of the same breed that 
McLaury Brothers, of Portlandville, have 
just imported from Switzerland. The pic¬ 
ture was taken when she was just spring¬ 
ing, thus failing to show her with full, 
developed udder. She has taken since 
1898 first prizes at the Paris Exposition, 
Nice Exposition, Paris Fair in 1898, 1902, 
1903, and first at Chambury and Puy 
fairs; also champion at Paris fair, Cham¬ 
bury fair, Arles fair, Nice and Paris Expo¬ 
sitions. These cattle are fast taking first 
places in milk and butter qualities, and are 
almost equally as valuable for beef rais¬ 
ing, being unlike nearly every other breed, 
possessing the excellent qualities for beef 
as well as by-products. They have been 
raised and bred in Switzerland for centu¬ 
ries, gaining ground steadily year by year 
toward a high standard of excellence, 
until to-day the breeders are able to place 
before the world a blood with no trace of 
inferiority, ranking along with the best 
known breeds throughout the world. 
These cattle are without doubt the most 
hearty and vigorous of any breed known, 
keeping in excellent flesh even while pro¬ 
ducing a good flow of milk. They possess 
strong constitutions, enabling them to re¬ 
sist disease and acclimate themselves 
where other breeds do not. 
We find the disposition in the Brown 
Swiss is unlike Jerseys, Ayrshires, etc., 
they being more of a mild sort. These 
cattle in this country have made most 
amazing records; some have reached 70 
pounds of milk per day, and from 18 to 22 
pounds of butter per week; their average 
butter fat record test is four per cent. The 
writer observed one cow in this particular 
herd that with an average butter fat test 
of 3J/2 per cent produced a flow of milk 
of Go pounds per day. She was lying 
down in apparent contentment, chewing 
her cud, and not until I slapped her gently 
did she make an effort to rise; she was in 
excellent shape for beef both in flesh and 
size, and with a large filled udder she was 
an ideal to pattern from, not only in care 
and management, but also in blood. The 
Brown Swiss Brinz, after having won the 
first medal at the Paris Exposition in 
quantity and quality of milk over all 
breeds, competed with the famous Short¬ 
horns of England, the Holsteins of Hol¬ 
land, as well as the Channel Island breeds. 
The calves of these cattle denote great life 
and vitality, weighing many times at birth 
125 pounds. The writer also observed 
one calf only V / 2 months old tipping the 
scales at 460 pounds. They are of a light 
steel gray color when young, but darken 
to a fawn color as they gradually reach 
maturity. For veal growing they build 
flesh quite as easily as the Jersey, but 
average a large size when born, increasing 
their value many times in that branch of 
the daily industry. w. w. caulkins. 
VAN ALSTYNE’S SHEEP NOTES. 
Cosset Lamb Sick. 
A cosset lamb three months old, always 
strong and vigorous, has entirely lost the 
use of the hind parts. The trouble came 
on quite suuuenly without any known cause 
less than two weeks ago. The bodily func¬ 
tions remain quite normal; the appetite and 
rumination still keep up, but the lamb can¬ 
not rise or stand after being lifted. Can 
anything be done to restore it? c. M. 
Norwich City, Conn. 
The probability is that the lamb, being 
a “cosset,” has been over-fed, so that its 
organs have been over-charged, and a 
partial paralysis is the result. A lamb 
under natural conditions takes a small 
amount of food at frequent intervals. Of 
necessity, when one is fed by hand, it 
must get a large amount a few times a 
day. Then, too, there is the tendency 
with a pet to over-feed on very rich stim¬ 
ulating foods. As a consequence too 
much blood results, and the stoppage of 
a vein produces the trouble described. Of 
course there may be other causes, but 
this I should think the most likely one. I 
once had a lamb affected in much the 
same way from a stroke of lightning, 
from which it eventually recovered. As a 
remedy, I would suggest two ounces of 
Epsom salts, given every other day for a 
week, and an application of turpentine 
over the loins. Be careful not to saturate 
the wool (it may be better to shear off 
some over the back), but rub it in, a 
small amount every day. 
Storing Wet Brewer's Grains. 
In his sheep notes Mr. Tan Alstyne speaks 
of icct brewer’s grains being one of the best 
feeds for breeding ewes. I am not far from 
a brewery, and can often get grains during 
the Summer at a low price. Is it possible to 
save them and have them sweet and whole¬ 
some in the Winter? t. g. f. 
Oswego, Co., N. Y. 
The above is timely. Very frequently 
at this season grains can be obtained for 
a moderate sum. Where the hauling is 
not too great and expensive they can be 
siloed so that they will make not only 
cheap but good food. They are about 75 
per cent water, and, while this must be 
taken into account, .1 have never fed any 
that were kiln-dried, that the actual dry 
matter in the feed gave the same results 
as from those still moist when taken out. 
In fact, all stock relish them better in 
this state than when warm and full of 
ferment as they come from the brewery. 
My first silo was built of wood, and held 
80 tons of wet grains, but it had to be 
about four times as strong as if it were 
to hold corn. They kept in this way with 
comparatively little loss; but under ordi¬ 
nary circumstances, where a small amount 
only is put in, a better way is to put them 
in the ground. For a small amount a 
hogshead may be sunk and filled as indi¬ 
cated below, boring a few hales in the 
bottom to let out the surplus water. 
Where 400 or 500 bushels are to be put 
away, select a spot convenient to the build¬ 
ings, on gravelly or well-drained soil, 
where the water will not stand. Dig a 
hole, a little more than 13 by G }/ 2 feet and 
four feet deep. Set straight fence posts 
in each corner and in the middle opposite 
one another on the long side; cover the 
bottom and sides with ordinary 13-foot 
fence boards. Such boards cut in two 
will cover the ends. Board to the top of 
the posts, which are usually G x / 2 feet. The 
earth coming out of the hole will bank 
2 l / 2 feet above ground. Put in a brace 
across the center, to prevent the pressure 
of the earth caving in the pit, and there 
is a silo costing not to exceed $7 for 
material that will keep grains or corn in 
perfect condition, and last half a dozen 
years. As the grains are put in they 
must be firmly stamped all over the sur¬ 
face. Salt freely every six or eight 
inches. When full put a foot of grass 
over the top, and then cover with earth, 
ridging it somewhat like a root pit. It 
will be wise, if the grains arc not to be 
fed before Winter, to cover with horse 
manure or coarse straw to prevent the 
ground freezing, and so make it difficult 
to open. They will cut out like old cheese 
free from mold and any disagreeable odor. 
They can be taken out daily, or a load at 
a time. If the snow and rain are kept 
out the cold will keep them. I have put 
away many carloads in this way, and 
found them a most economical and satis¬ 
factory food. 
Care of Winter Lambs 
Your articles on page 518 about Winter 
Iambs and on 519 “Experience with Sheep, - ’ 
are of special interest to me. I would like 
to know what is the greatest number of ewes 
that may be kept in one pen, when the one 
ground floor is to hold about 300. Also to 
what extent arrangements must be such that 
tire ewes can easily be got outside. During 
the four to six weeks just before good pas¬ 
ture begins, the weather at times is so mild 
that it seems ill-judged to keep the sheep in¬ 
doors. The case I have in mind is such that 
it would be necessary to make changes, in 
order to let the sheep out and in freely or at 
will. If such change be made, it would be 
desirable to have each pen hold as many 
sheep as compatible with conduction of the 
Winter lamb business. Ewes sheared before 
January 1. II. L. C. praises “good corn 
silage” for ewes. Will lie state how many 
pounds per ewe while in Winter quarters. 
READER. 
For the well-being of sheep, it is not 
wise to have too many in a flock. Fifty 
are enough. Less are better. They can 
then be graded according to age, size, 
thriftiness, condition of flesh, and state of 
pregnancy. Sheep for slaughter can for 
a period be housed very closely without 
damage; but breeding ewes need room, 
so they will not crowd one another. 
Care should be taken that they do not 
do this in going in and out, and that 
there are not sharp corners in the pens. 
Abortion often comes from this cause or 
difficulty at lambing time. They, like all 
animals having young, are better for a 
moderate amount of exercise; particularly 
for the sheep this should be out pf doors. 
I know one good friend and eminently 
successful sheep keeper, J. S. Woodward, 
does not believe or practice this; but he 
is successful because of ms intelligent 
management on the whole, not because 
he confines closely, but in spite of it. It 
is hard to say how this could be done 
without looking over the ground. If it 
were possible I would try to arrange pens 
with alleys or runways leading out to the 
yard, so each flock could at all times in 
clear weather have access to a dry, clean 
yard. Sheep, like ourselves, are creatures 
of habit, and should have conditions 
every day alike. They will not do well 
if kept up to-day and let out to-morrow. 
Of course if they are sheared in January 
they can be kept closer, nor will it be wise 
then to let them out at ail. I think it 
far better to shear in early November 
while the weather is yet warm and again 
in May, although the wool will not bring 
quite so much on account of the short 
fiber. Silage is very good for breeding 
ewes, although not equal to roots. One 
bushel or 35 or 40 pounds may be fed 
daily to 25 ewes. e. van alstyne. 
AN IOWA POULTRY FARM. 
We live on a farm consisting of 470 acres, 
located 1 \/ 0 mile east of Stockport, Iowa. 
While we have ample room for a more ex¬ 
tensive business, yet we only raise GOO to 
800 chicks anuually, consisting of about one- 
third each of Light Brahmas, Barred Rocks 
and Silver Laced Wyandottes. As we only 
raise a limited number, we do all of our 
hatching in April and May. We use both 
incubators and liens for hatching, and both 
brooders and hens for brooding. The chicks 
that the hens hatch are left with them and 
placed in good coops. The chicks hatched 
in the incubators are placed in brooders, 
about 50 to 75 in each brooder; these brood¬ 
ers are placed in brooder houses, about G x 
G feet, placed as far apart as possible, so 
each colony will have a separate run. When 
the weather becomes warmer and the chicks 
are feathered sufficiently the brooders are 
removed and the houses serve as colony 
houses until late Fall, when the culls are 
sorted out and sold on the market, and the 
good ones are placed in Winter quarters to 
be used and sold for breeders. In regard to 
feed we use the dry feeding system, and feed 
as large a variety of food as possible, keep¬ 
ing water and grit before them at all times. 
For grit we use only coarse sand, of which 
there is an abundance on one of our farms, 
and it serves the purpose very well. As 
Winter approaches, the best of the breeders 
are sorted out and placed in the breeding 
pens, about 15 hens to each pen, to supply 
us with our next year’s egg crop. These 
hens are not fed for Winter eggs, as we do 
not care to have them begin laying until 
about the first of March ; then they will, if 
fed properly, lay right along, and the eggs 
will be more fertile, and the chicks will gen¬ 
erally be stronger and grow faster than if 
the hens had laid all Winter. Our yards 
are all large and roomy, furnishing plenty 
of green food for the breeders alh through 
the breeding season, also meat and green 
bone are fed liberally, and everything 
possible is done to produce strong, fertile, 
eggs, as this is one of the most important 
points for good hatches and healthy chicks. 
Stockport, Iowa. now bros. 
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times as long. 
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Right Now or 
Waist Low Can or 
Self Oiling or 
Wash 3 Minutes or 
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Bid 
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