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T1IE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 26 
ing not to hurt her; you may avoid a 
kicker. Perhaps you started to sit down 
to the cow without speaking to her, and 
she didn’t see you, and being a little 
highstrung when you touched her she 
was frightened, jumped and kicked and 
you hit her in return. Now she kicks 
when anyone approaches her, and it 
isn’t safe for the children to go any¬ 
where near her, but it is all your fault. 
You were cleaning out back of her and 
the shovel hit her foot; she kicked you 
hard and you used the shovel. Now if 
she sees a shovel both feet begin to fly. 
Kindness in all our treatment of the 
cows pays, and it avoids kickers. 
If we have a little box tacked on one 
side of the manger with fine salt in it, 
will the cow get or eat all she wants? 
She may and may not. We prefer to 
have the salt mixed with the grain feed. 
If we had to put salt in every article of 
food we use that has salt in it very few 
things would taste just right. With salt 
in the manger all the time the manger 
is apt to be wet, and this we do not like 
to see. 
How often would you let the cows out 
CURES FOR THE JUMPING COW . 
Seeing a call in The R. N.-Y. for a cure 
lor a jumping cow, I have a simple de¬ 
vice that has worked well with myself 
and my neighbors, as a preventive for 
jumping or crawling through wire fence. 
Take a common tie chain (such as is 
used for cow ties), and a halter ring 
loose on the lower end, loop the lower 
end around a light fence-post, 18 inches 
from the small end, and in the loose 
ring; draw snug and faster with a fence 
staple. Attach it to the cow in the or¬ 
dinary way; it is light, cheap and so 
much more comfortable for the cow than 
the ordinary devices in use. See Fig. 110. 
Canon City, Col. o. e. f. 
for water? 
We should want to give them at least 
two chances a day to drink. They will 
not always use them, but we hardly like 
to ask them to drink all they ought to 
have at one time. A cow consumes 
about 25 pounds daily of dry matter, and 
needs to go with this four pounds of 
water for each pound of dry matter, or 
100 pounds of water daily. This is a 
good deal of ice water to take into the 
stomach at one time, and the cow comes 
into the barn all humped up, shivering 
and kicking with the cold, and we fur¬ 
nish the feed that warms that water to 
body heat. We have known men who 
did not have water before the cows who 
the last thing at night would take pails 
rapidly through the barn and give to 
any who desired water. Cows will drink 
quite a good deal after eating their 
night meal, and often they do not have 
the opportunity. One dairyman of our 
acquaintance whose house and barn face 
the northwest and where the wind gets 
a long sweep, has been driving his cows 
all Winter about 40 rods daily in the 
face of this wind, and chopping a hole 
in the ice, waiting for the score or more 
to get their one daily drink. When ask¬ 
ed how his cows were doing he replied: 
“They ain’t doing nothing,” and who 
can blame them? 
The day has been rainy, and we have 
been putting on our semi-occasional coat 
of whitewash in the cow barn and one 
of the henhouses. This is one of the 
jobs we do not like to start in, but when 
begun we see how much better things 
look, how much sweeter the barn is, 
and how much lighter; we are always 
glad that we have been at it. We use 
hot water in making the whitewash, and 
it does not matter if it is largely slaked 
lime. We make it rather thick, too 
thick for a pump, and use mostly 
brooms for putting it on. It uses white¬ 
wash fast, but you can cover ground, 
and it is white when you have done (we 
are, too, usually). We put on about 75 
gallons, using a half barrel of lime. It 
is a good thing to get the cobwebs down 
and the barn white, and it makes a bet¬ 
ter home for the cows. 
H. G. MANCHESTER. 
HEN NOTES. 
Some Good Hens.— Mapes asks for re¬ 
ports of hens that have laid 50 per cent or 
better, together with methods of feeding. 
I can claim no such record for my hens, 
but one of my neighbors has obtained re¬ 
sults which, I think, are rather remark¬ 
able. His eight Rhode Island Red pullets 
(hatched April 7, 1003), laid in December 
168 eggs; in January 168, and in February 
150 eggs. So far in March they have aver¬ 
aged six eggs a day. His feeding plan is 
as follows: Morning, mash of cornmeal; 
noon, whole oats (soaked): night, wheat. 
Since the first of March he has substituted 
wheat middlings for the cornmeal, and at 
night he gives corn in place of wheat. 
New Hamburg, N. Y. c. e. w. 
I have found an excellent cure for a 
jumping cow, or getting through wire 
fences. Take two strips of grape wire, 
twist together 12 or 14 inches of wire, 
fastening at the end; let this stand 
straight up on the top of the cow’s neck, 
fastening it there, then separate the 
wires, putting a strand on each side of 
cow’s neck, then bring them together 
again under the cow’s jaws, giving 
plenty of room to breathe. Twist to¬ 
gether again, four or five feet of the 
wire, fastening the other end. I have 
known this to cure some of the worst 
cases; never knew one to jump with this 
more than once or twice. This is very 
light for cow’s neck and very easily 
made. a. s. g. 
New York. 
Sei.f-Milking Cows.—Put a bull ring lit 
their nose the same as for a bull. They 
cannot suck themselves, nor another cow. 
When they reach for a teat they run the 
tongue into the ring, but cannot secure the 
teat, either standing up or lying down. 
This is an old remedy, but is new to many. 
1 fixed one for a neighbor this last season 
that had spikes strapped to her nose, and 
blindfolded, and would suck other cows at 
that. The ring stopped it. o. h. smith. 
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