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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 18, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
DEFICIENT MILK FLOW. 
My cow’s milk will scarcely pass through 
a strainer; the flow has nearly stopped; and 
quality has grown poor, hut the latter 
trouble may arise from poor pasturage, as 
we are passing through a severe draught, 
already of 13 weeks' duration, if I may ex¬ 
cept a 10-minute shower one week ago. The 
fresh milk squeezed through the teat is some¬ 
times clotted and strikes the pail with a 
thud. The teats have shrunken in size, but 
the animal is fat and sleek, and apparently 
in good health. Her calf is about six 
months old; she is a fine heifer. I am try¬ 
ing to raise her, and as the milk has not 
been particularly needed the calf has not 
been weaned. What is the trouble with the 
milk? C. B. s. 
Port Royal, S. C. 
This is a tough question, and we shall 
have, “Yankee like,” to ask some ques¬ 
tions in trying to answer it. Was the cow 
properly stripped each time after the 
calf had sucked, or has the calf run with 
the cow, sucked when she wanted, and 
the cow stripped night and morning, or 
occasionally? If not properly stripped 
or handled in the latter manner it would 
account for the cow getting in such 
condition. It is a very poor plan to 
allow the calf to run with cow, especially 
if she is a heavy milker, and the calf 
for some time does not take all the 
milk. The udder will get inflamed, the 
milk may be bloody or lead on to garget, 
which we think is the trouble with your 
cow, and caused by improper handling. 
Are the cow’s bowels in good working 
order? If not, give her a dose of salts. 
Keep the calf away, and milk out clean 
two or three times daily. See that the 
cow has plenty of good water to drink. 
If the udder is hard or inflamed, bathe 
twice daily for 15 minutes with water as 
hot as she can bear, rubbing well and also 
drying well. This ought to bring relief. 
If the cow were drying up she might give 
this thick milk, or on account of poor 
pasturage eat something that poisoned 
her, but we believe it is plain garget that 
troubles the animal. 
HOW TO RAISE CHICKENS WITH 
HENS. 
White Wyandottcs make the best hens 
to sit and raise chickens. We put 10 or 
15 hens in a small room 8 x 10 feet; then 
makes nests of boxes without any bot¬ 
toms, as it is easier to clean them. Do 
not make them over six inches high, 12 or 
15 inches square, but not large enough 
for two hens to get on the same nest. 
Place these boxes about three inches 
apart, put in eggs and then hen. If she 
sits on nest in henhouse two nights she 
will do to set. Take another box like 
the one you are using for a nest, and 
place it over, and on the nest put a board 
on top and keep her on for two days; she 
will not suffer for want of feed; then take 
off the top box and let her get off and 
eat. She will go back alone. Keep plenty 
of corn, water and grit before them all 
the time, and do not bother with any 
green feed. Dust the hen well with in¬ 
sect powder when you set her to keep off 
lice; keep the room a little dark, but 
light enough to let the hen eat, and find 
the way back to the nest. We have had 
60 hens sitting this way at a time, and 
have kept some of them sitting three 
months. W-hen they begin hatching give 
each hen aDout 20 chickens and set the 
other hens again, dusting well with insect 
powder to kill lice.. Shut them in when 
hatching. Build a coop 2 / feet square and 
20 inches or two feet high, of matched lum¬ 
ber; have roof of coop with slant enough 
to run off water. Use tarred roofing paper 
for roof on top of boards, to keep coop 
dry inside; use rough boards 10 inches 
wide for floor, using one nail in end of 
each board, so they can be taken off 
easily, and turn them over if they get 
very dirty. Buy a hand grinding mill, 
which you can get for $5 at any poultry 
supply house, and crack wheat for small 
chickens, also give some cracked corn, un¬ 
til they get large enough to eat whole 
wheat. Do not feed soft feed. Give to 
each coop some sand or grit, and keep 
water in a fountain or dish, changing 
every day. Cracked wheat is the best 
chicken feed we can get. Watch the hens 
and chickens,. and just as soon as you 
can find lice on hen dust her with in¬ 
sect powder, or before you see lice. We 
raised 600 chickens one year with hens. 
Niagara Co., N. Y. c. A. S. 
COW APPARENTLY POISONED. 
What is the matter with this cow, and 
how can she be cured? She is a Jersey 3i/£ 
years old; has had two calves, and is in 
calf again; gives a good mess of milk ; she 
was dishorned less than two years ago. Six 
weeks ago she had something like a dizzy 
turn, blinking with her eyes as if they were 
dazzled, then ran round and round, fell 
down, breathed hard for a time, shook con¬ 
vulsively, then got quiet, and after a while 
got up and walked leisurely away. She has 
repeated it several times since at night, in 
the field. She eats her bran greedily, but 
looks somewhat lank, though fairly in flesh. 
She is nervous; starts at ordinary objects. 
Is it worms or result of dishorning? Her 
bowels are in normal condition. She is fond 
of eating leaves off the small trees, especially 
peach trees, but she lives chiefly on grass. 
She has been getting less tub feed since 
these attacks came on, but they are more 
frequent lately than at first. She is a good 
breed and I hate to lose her. R. h. c. 
Amity, N. Y. 
From your description we should think 
the cow had been poisoned in some man¬ 
ner either from moldy food, such as corn, 
hay or oats, or has eaten something in the 
pasture that caused it. We should ad¬ 
vise you to consult a veterinarian, and a 
good one, we think, can help you out of 
the trouble. We should like to commend 
this inquirer for his good description of 
the ailment with which his cow is af¬ 
fected. If more inquiries were as defi¬ 
nite as this one they could more often be 
helpfully answered. The foliage of Black 
cherry, when cut and beginning to wilt, 
poisons cattle, the symptoms being quite 
similar to those described. 
THE MOULT OF THE HEN. 
As to hastening the moult, I believe the 
same food that stimulates egg production 
must produce feathers. Any ration contain¬ 
ing 10 per cent meat or animal food, and 
green food in abundance, fresh air and abso¬ 
lutely dry quarters (no moisture on the 
walls) should bring the desired result. 
Andover, Mass. f. h. foster. 
I have found that by feeding sparingly dur¬ 
ing the months of June and July, allowing 
the hens to become poor in flesh, and then 
giving all the oats they will eat, they will 
moult quickly, easily and beautifully. The 
shortest season of moult, the healthiest birds 
and the most lustrous plumage were obtained 
when the hens had free access to a stack of 
mowed oats. Soft feed makes pretty plumage, 
but sickly hens. rees f. jiatson. 
Sec’y American Langshan Club. 
Sawdust and Shavings. —If J. B., James¬ 
town, N. Y., page 43G, wants a good deodor¬ 
ant for his cow stable, and can procure saw¬ 
dust or planer shavings, there is nothing bet¬ 
ter, in my opinion, having used them a num¬ 
ber of years for bedding and absorbent, and I 
also use the same in my horse stable. This 
from the horse stable is used in the drop 
behind the cows and in this way the liquid 
(which is worth more than the solid) is 
saved. In the Summer the manure and bed¬ 
ding from the horse stable is dried on the barn¬ 
yard floor and used in the drop same as the 
Winter, and in that way I am able to save 
it all. M. e. M. 
Guilford, N. Y. 
I took 10 White Wyandotte yearlings about 
the last of August and shut them up in a 
pen, and did not feed them for 12 days, with 
exception of a handful of grain about every 
other day. I gave them all the water they 
wanted during these 12 days. “At the expi¬ 
ration of 12 days 1 let them out, and com¬ 
menced feeding a heavy ration, all they 
would eat, in fact, giving them a variety, 
and once a day a mash and also beef scrap 
or animal meal. They had grass in the runs. 
Eight of them commenced to moult in a very 
short time. They laid on their new coat 
very fast, and were laying again in about six 
or seven weeks from time I began. These 
hens were laying at time the experiment be¬ 
gan. They laid through the Winter and are 
still laying. One of the 10 it did not seem 
to affect; she moulted at the usual time, and 
did not begin laying until towards Spring. 
The other did not moult at all; she carried 
her old coat through the Winter and moulted 
this Spring. I did not give them any medi¬ 
cine or tonic. g. b. belding. 
East Creek, N. Y. 
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Leg and Body Wash. 
When it comes to stiffness and 
soreness of muscles, tendons, 
etc., nothing equals 
Tuttle’s Elixir 
for restoring normal conditions. 
Apply to the body as a mild 
bath and put on light 
Sponge the legs and 
on light bandages. 
Used and Endorsed by Adams 
Express Company. 
Tuttle’s American Condition Powders 
—A specific for impure blood and ail diseases arising therefrom. 
TUTTLE’S FAMILY ELIXIR cures rheumatism, 
sprains, bruises, etc. Kills pain instantly. Our 100-page book, 
“Veterinary Experience,” FREE. 
Dr. S. A. TUTTLE, 30 Beverly St., Boston, Mass. 
Bewsre of so-called Elixirs—none genuine bnt Tuttle’s. 
Avoid all blisters; they offer only temporary relief, if any. 
N O MORE BLIND HORSES.—For Speclflo Oph¬ 
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Cows will give 15 to 20 per 
cent more milk if protected 
from the torture of flies with 
CHILD’S SO-BOS-SO KILFLYm 
Kills flies and all insects; protects horses as well 
as cows. Perfectly harmless to man and beast 
Rapidly applied with Child’s Electric Sprayer. 
80 to 50 cows sprayed in a few minutes. A true 
antiseptic; keeps stables, chicken houses, pig 
pens in a perfectly sanitary condition. 
Auk dealer for Child'll SO-BOB-SO or send SI (special 
price) for 1-gal can and Sprayer complete by express. 
CHAS. H. CHILDS & CO., Sole Manufacturers, 
24 LaFayette Street, Utica, N. Y. 
GEDKTEY FARM 
I.. E. ORTIZ, General Manager 
HIGHEST CLASS JERSEYS 
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Bon of Forfarshire out of Golden Stream 8th, 
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Also Imp. CHESTER WHITES and BERKSHIRE 
PIGS. Standard-Bred BLACK MINORCAS and 
WHITE WYANDOTTES. 
ViT Correspondence solicited. 
GEDNEY FARM. White Plains. N. X. 
“FUMA 
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“The wheels of the 
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Reg. P. Chinas, Berkshires and C. Whites. 
8 wks. to o mos.. mated not akin. 
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THOROUGHBRED BERKSHIRE SOWS 
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SPRIN6BANK BERKSHIRES IKS 
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Barge English Berkshires of choicest breeding 
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IMPROVED LARGE YORKSHIRES SS’ 
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MEADOW BROOK STOCK FARM. Rochester, Mich 
IMPROVED 
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SERVICE BOARS and 
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W. H. FISHER, Spahr Building, Columbus, O. 
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The best hog; white, easy fattening, prolific. Both 
sexes for sale. K. E. STEVENS, R. D 2, No. Madison, 
Lake County, Ohio. 
Registered stock mated, not akin; April and May 
farrow. Farmer's Prices. 
V. J. SCHWARTZ. East Pharsalla, N. Y. 
CHESTER WHITES 
Both O. I. C. and Todd strains. 
Standard bred pigs for sale. 
Honest dealing my motto. M. L. 
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4 GUERNSEY HEIFERS and a BULL. 
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MARIGOLD JERSEY BULL CALF for sale. 
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SREGIAL BARGAINS 
IN RICHLY-BRED 
HOLSTEINS. 
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for HOLSTEIN CATTLE 
Good ones, and all ages. Fine Yearling Bulls 
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Special low prices for June. 26 Eggs, ®1.00. 
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—Rhode Island Reds, Light Brahmas. 
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25 Boulevard, Middletown, R. I. 
vi wuiuvii) spare a few Light Brahma Eggs,$ 
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