1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
33i 
BROODERS; FEEDING MATTERS. 
Give the dimensions and number of feet 
of lumber In your colony brooder houses. 
Have you had any experience in the use 
of blood meal In the place of animal meal? 
I am using 10 per cent of animal meal In 
your anti-corn ration. The blood meal 
contains 87 per cent protein guaranteed, 
while the animal meal only has 30 per cent. 
Is not the blood meal more digestible? 
Would it cause any trouble to change at 
once to 10 per cent blood meal, or should 
I use less of it to start with? Have you 
tried Mr. Turner’s method of feeding beef 
scrap; that is, all the hens would eat after 
the evening meal? Have you tried cut 
green bone in the place of the prepared 
meats? What were the results? a. c. p. 
Pattersonville, N. Y. 
Our colony brooder houses are 6x8 feet 
and five feet high at rear and seven feet 
front. This gives erect standing room 
in the house, and by removing the 
brooder and substituting perches when 
chicks are old enough provides plenty of 
room for 100 chicks until the cockerels 
are old enough for broilers. After they 
are removed the pullets have plenty of 
room until ready to be removed to their 
permanent home. It requires about 300 
feet of lumber for such a house. Two 
men can place one on a sleigh or drag 
and shift about the farm as desired, 
chicks and all. 
In regard to substituting blood meal 
for animal meal I have too little experi¬ 
ence for my opinion to have much value. 
The little that I have used, colored the 
mash badly, and my hens did not seem 
to relish it. While it is true that the 
blood meal contains more protein it 
should be remembered that protein is 
not the only element to be considered. 
There is much bone, etc., in good animal 
meal which is lacking in blood meal. I 
consider this a good field for careful ex¬ 
periment. 
“Mr. Turner’s method of feeding” 
does not include the use of meat scrap 
as the term is generally used, but of 
fresh meat and bone which he cooks at 
borne, and then runs through a bone 
cutter. This is given before the evening 
meal of grain while the hens are hun¬ 
gry, as he gives no noon feed. I have 
not tried this plan but may conclude to 
get in shape for it by another Winter. 
Hens certainly relish such fresh-cooked 
meat better than any of the commercial 
beef scraps or animal meals generally 
found in the markets. Mr. Turner has a 
large boiler into which is swung a 
smaller screen boiler, so arranged with 
pulley blocks and crane that the meat 
and bone can be cooked and removed 
without trouble or danger of burning 
fast to bottom of boiler. A bone cutter 
attached to gasoline engine then reduces 
to good condition for feeding without 
waste. This implies a good deal of extra 
work and trouble, but where carcasses 
can be readily procured must make most 
excellent feed. O. w. mapes. 
INJURY TO YOUNG LAMBS. 
I have a farm a few miles from town, 
worked by a tenant. Last Spring the ten¬ 
ant told me that he found five or six 
newly born lambs with bleeding stumps of 
tails; parts of the tails had been eaten 
off by something, presumably rats. Also, 
he found a few of their feet were injured, 
looking as though they had been gnawed 
or chewed. One morning recently he found 
a large, well-developed dead lamb, that 
had been born in the night; and its feet 
had all been eaten off, and the legs also 
eaten off at different distances from the 
body. The bones had been eaten, and some 
stringy pieces of skin dangled from the 
stumps. As the sheep are in a lot and 
shed where no other stock can get with 
them, I told him it must be that the 
mutilation was done by the ewe—either 
the mother of the lamb or the other ewes. 
Two days later there was another similar 
case. Do any of your sheep men know 
about such cases? Our flock is a good, 
strong Shropshire grade, mostly from three 
to five years old—seemingly healthy. They 
have been fed on corn fodder a little and 
good clover hay. We had a 20-acre field 
from which wheat was cut last harvest 
and which was not pastured until this 
Winter. It had a pretty heavy growth of 
clover, Timothy and Blue grass. All Win¬ 
ter, when it was not too stormy, the ewes 
were upon that pasture, getting a good 
deal of green feed, and, incidentally, exer¬ 
cise by working the grass from under the 
snow. They have been fed no grain. In 
their shed is a trough containing salt to 
which they have access at all times. I am 
afraid we may lose many of our lambs 
unless some one will point out, at once, 
what those ewes need, or some way to put 
a stop to the cannibalism. I think it must 
be done by the ewe. It might be done by 
ground hogs, of which there are a good 
many on the farm; but the tenant thinks 
the leg bones are too hard to be so 
crushed off and eaten by ground hogs. 
Ligonier, Ind. w. h. f. 
It is hard to give an intelligent an¬ 
swer to this query without getting more 
evidence. On one or two occasions I 
have had the tails eaten on young lambs 
by rats or minks but nothing such as 
is spoken of. I am inclined to think it 
is the work of some little animal. 
Ground hogs (woodchucks) are gram- 
nivorous animals and I never knew of 
their eating aught but herbage. The 
suspicious part is that the extremities, 
tails or legs, and bones are eaten. This 
does not look like the work of rats, 
minks or a fox. It may be possible that 
it is done by the mother, who in lick¬ 
ing her newly-born lamb and yearning 
for some mineral matter in her food, 
gets the taste of blood and to satisfy 
her craving does the mischief referred 
to; the same craving that starts a hen 
pulling feathers. I would suggest that 
the sheep have some oats given them, 
say a gill a day to start with and a 
like amount of linseed meal, to which 
might be added a teaspoonful of finely- 
ground bone flour. This will be a bene¬ 
fit to them in any case, and should the 
trouble be as suspected it ought to help 
satisfy the animal’s appetite. I should 
watch carefully when another ewe was 
ready to lamb, and if need be spend the 
night where I could see and not be seen 
This will tell certainly (I am only guess¬ 
ing) from whence the injury comes. 
The food and care seem all right, ex¬ 
cept the absence of grain, and the exer¬ 
cise (?) in pawing snow. 
EDWD. VAN ALSTYNE. 
Pipes Filling Up.—O n page 284 an in¬ 
quiry is made regarding trouble with a 
drain becoming clogged from a growth 
“resembling mother in vinegar.” I once 
saw a similar case in a shorter line, and 
suggested that a weak solution of blue- 
stone be tried. It proved altogether suc¬ 
cessful. and the owner of the pipe men¬ 
tioned it in the columns of The R. N.-Y. 
about three years ago. The case was also 
noted in a bulletin by the New York Ex¬ 
periment Station entitled, "Some Botan¬ 
ical Botherments.” p. l. huested. 
HEAVES. 
HE feeding of undue 
quantities of bad, muB- 
ty or dusty hay—or 
severe exercise after 
full feed is the usual 
cause of heaves in 
horses. Red clover in 
large quantities, too, 
is especially apt to 
produce this disease. 
Symptoms .—Animal will show first symp¬ 
toms after full feed and large draught of 
water if put to fast work. The onset of the 
disease is characterized by a dry, hacking 
cough, which may appear several months 
before there Is any other signs manifest, 
such as lifting of the flanks and distension 
of the nostrils. A very constant symptom Is 
slight, frothy discharge from the nostrils and 
rattling in the head and windpipe. 
Bronchitis is also very frequently associ¬ 
ated, and is characterized by moist, coarse 
rales or rattling. In severe cases the abdomi¬ 
nal walls are lifted with each expiration. 
This Is done to expel air from the lungs, 
which In health Is done by the elasticity of 
the cell walls. 
Treatment .—Feed with care, avoid dust of 
every kind. Horses suffering from this dis¬ 
ease should never be permitted to engorge 
themselves with food or drink. Large quan¬ 
tities of bulky food should be avoided. Hay 
and grain should be made damp an hour or 
two before given. The following formula 
gives excellent results: Fluid extract of 
stramonium, fluid extract of lobelia, of each 
one ounce; Fowler’s solution of arsenic, six 
ounces; mix and give a tablespoonful in half 
a pint of water on food, two or three times 
a day. 
When relieved follow this treatment with 
regular, small doses of Dr. Hess Stock Food, 
the great horse tonic, and the horse will be¬ 
come strong and active, with a brilliant coat, 
and be immune from all the common ailments. 
His food requirements will be less; all his 
food will be eaten with relish, and all of it 
will do him good. 
For every disease and condition for which 
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little yellow card In every package entitles 
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Sold on written guarantee, 100 pounds, 
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Fed In a small dose. 
Dr. Hess Stock Book, a standard work con¬ 
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—how many head of each, what stock food 
you have used, and mention this paper. Ad¬ 
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