1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
759 
VAN ALSTYNE'S STOCK NOTES. 
Why the Sheep Cough. 
My sheep have a bad cough. Can you give 
some remedy for same? j. w. n. 
Afton, Va. 
The cough spoken of indicates a case of 
catarrh, or passing beyond that, has set¬ 
tled in the air passages in the lungs or 
bronchial tubes, and is a genuine case of 
bronchitis. If the cough is very pro¬ 
nounced this is doubtless the trouble. 
First the cause. The most likely at this 
season is exposure to wet or dampness and 
sudden changes of temperature. If the 
sheep have been over-driven or chased by 
dogs, and so overheated, as well as de¬ 
bilitated, this will produce the same trou¬ 
ble. If there is, as is usual in such cases, 
a discharge from the nose, a small quantity 
of pine tar, smeared in the nostrils, so the 
sheep will lick it, is beneficial. Keep the 
sheep dry and away from drafts; unless this 
is done no permanent relief will be secured. 
If there is a fever and the nose is dry and 
hot, give one dram ground ginger, one 
dram saltpeter, one ounce Epsom salts. 
The dose may be made into a thin gruel 
and given as a drench by means of a bottle 
with a long neck and rather large top. Be 
careful in giving not to choke the sheep, or 
pour the mixture into the windpipe and 
lungs instead of the throat and stomach. 
Set the sheep on the rump as for shearing 
when giving the medicine. Give this dose 
every day for a week; if the cough con¬ 
tinues and there seems to be fever and 
lack of appetite change the dose and give 
the following every day for three days: 
One ounce linseed oil, one ounce powdered 
gentian, one dram saltpeter. 
Use the Purebred Ram. 
r am about to buy a ram to put with my 
owes. I am offered a purebred Shropshire for 
$20, two years old, and I should call him a 
good sheep. This seems a good deal of 
money, as I am not a breeder, and the bulk 
of my lambs will go to the butcher. T can 
buy a grade ram of the same age for $8. I 
don’t know that his mother was any partic¬ 
ular breed, but his father was also the sire 
of the purebred above referred to. Don’t 
you think he would answer just as well and 
1 save the $12? G. B. w. 
Greene Co.. N. Y. 
I don’t wonder G. E. W. is puzzled, and 
is inclined to think the grade just as good, 
when we see agricultural associations of¬ 
fering premiums on grade males. What is 
a purebred animal anyway? One that has 
been bred in a straight line, without any 
admixture of foreign blood, so long that 
the type is fixed, and the progeny will be 
like the parents. Thus when we put a 
black-faced pure-blood ram on almost any 
kind of a ewe we expect to see the lambs 
show the black faces, or a Dorset, to see 
the horns, and in the majority of cases even 
from ewes without any of these bloods, we 
are not disappointed. Put on a pure-blood 
Merino ewe one of the above and the 
chances are that the type so firmly fixed in 
the mother by many generations will show 
very plainly in the lambs. That is how 
blood tells. 
Let us take the “good” (?) grade male, 
and often, so far as appearance goes, they 
are excellent in form and color. There is 
in him the pure blood of his sire, but with 
it that of the other side, with no one 
knows how many worthless individuals in 
the line of no form or comeliness nor 
beauty that we should desire them. It 
must be remembered that there is not only 
the tendency for “like to produce like,” 
but also the tendency to atavism, or to 
take the characteristics of some ancestor, it 
may be several generations back. It would 
seem clear then that with the ram of one 
line of blood for many generations always 
breeding to produce the typical Shropshire 
and their good points, that with the grade 
ewes we may reasonably expect lambs of 
that type with far greater certainty than 
if there is only half of the blood desired, 
and that mixed with blood of animals per¬ 
haps as far from that desired as possible. 
I have, it is true, made a rather long dis¬ 
sertation before definitely answering the 
quesion. But simply to give an opinion to 
intelligent questioner, without a reason 
back of it, seems to me never worth while, 
and his is a question of more than local 
application. It is wise to save $12 where 
one can, but to save that on a ram and 
lose 25 cents a head on 30 or 40 lambs each 
year is not economy. Is there such a dif¬ 
ference? Unquestionably; I will agree to 
take 40 lambs from a good purebred mut¬ 
ton ram and from one-half a flock of ewes 
equally divided, the other half crossed by 
a grade ram, and put the two lots of 40 
lambs each side by side, given the same 
care and feed throughout, and not only 
will my first 40 bring me 25 cents a head 
more in the market, but they will be fit for 
market from two to four weeks earlier. 
There will also be a uniformity about them 
that will make them sell more readily, and 
when one saves such ewe lambs for 
breeders he will soon get a flock that will 
be hard to distinguish from the purebreds. 
Feeding Shotes; a Sick Mare. 
1. I have a bunch of shotes to grow and 
fatten. I can get corntneal, middlings, bran 
and gluten feed at the same price, $1.25 per 
100. Tlie gluten analysis is 28 per cent pro¬ 
tein, three per cent fat. Please suggest the 
most economical ration of above named feeds 
to be mixed with cooked potatoes, etc. 2. I 
have a mare that is very sore in front; she 
is continually resting one foot and then the 
other. When she first starts there is a snap¬ 
ping sound in the front legs; all sound other¬ 
wise. Could you suggest any treatment that 
will relieve? a. l. b. 
Stephentown, N. Y. 
1. At the prices mentioned I should feed 
equal parts by weight of the gluten, corn- 
meal and middlings, with all the cooked 
potatoes they will eat. The gluten is the 
cheapest food of the lot, as it contains the 
most nutriment, but it is not relished as 
much by the hog as the other feeds, and 
has not the ash or bone material found in 
the middlings and so necessary for a 
growing pig. While the bran would be 
richer in this respect than the middlings, it 
is not as readily digestible, and the pota¬ 
toes will furnish all the bulk necessary. 
The middlings also contain more fattening 
matter and with the higher per cent of 
protein in the gluten they will get suffi¬ 
cient. The cornmeal will not only help to 
fatten, but will give a “body” or hardness 
to the pork that cannot be secured with the 
other feeds. Give as much as they will 
eat readily and be hungry for the next 
meal. At the high price of feed men¬ 
tioned put the pigs in market as soon as 
they will dress 100 or 125 pounds. 
2. This is doubtless a case for a veter¬ 
inary, but if she were mine T would allow 
her if possible to run in pasture, or if that 
was not practical, let her stand with her 
forward feet on an earth floor. Also see 
that the shoes do not pinch. It would 
doubtless help if the feet were packed 
with oil cake at night. If the soreness 
is of long standing there is no cure. Yet 
1 have had a great improvement in, such a 
case by taking off the shoes and allowing 
a run of four or five weeks in pasture. 
The loosening effect of the grass on the 
bowels I believe to be of benefit. 
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row ope hundred pounds of H-0 Pout - 
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_ and 
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