1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
85 
whether it will pay you to buy salt for use in New 
Jersey. The R. N.-Y. could see no benefit from its 
use on the Long 1 Island farm. 
Discharge ihe Sink Drain. 
R. F. W., Abington, Conn. —Our sink water and chamber slops 
run into an old hole whence part drains off down a slope. It 
seems to me that there is a big waste of fertility here. Am I 
right, and how can I stop it and utilize this sewage ? 
Ans. —Certainly, there is a big waste of fertility, 
and a risk of sickness. During the year, you, prob¬ 
ably, lose as much fertility as you could buy in a ton 
of high-grade fertilizer. Stop draining into any hole. 
“ Dig the hole out” and use the earth for manure and 
fill in the place with small stones and good soil. Sod 
it over or plant a tree or shrub there. Put a barrel 
on wheels and have all slops and sink waste put in it. 
Wheel it off every day or oftener, and pour it over a 
compost heap composed of muck, manure or earth. 
Poultry and Other Questions. 
E. E. //., Schenectady, Nr Y.—l. Are Buff Leghorns as good as 
White ones ? 2. Would it be foolish to have Buff Leghorns, Lang- 
shans and Minoreas all together? I am very curious to try 
every kind I can. 3. Can I use my hen manure for corn and pota¬ 
toes by putting in each hill, and how much ? Or must I spread it 
all over ? The same as to cow manure. 4. How much hen manure 
would I have to work into the ground for 75 strawberry plants ? 
5. I have a field of grass which was sown last year with rye. The 
dry weather made it come up rather thinly. Could I go over it in 
the spring and scatter clover seed, and thereby get a better crop ? 
My man sowed the clover last spring just before the frost was out. 
Ans.—1. They are not always likely to be. They 
are bred for plumage and not for laying qualities. 
The breeders of some strains claim that they are better 
and larger. It depends much upon their breeding. 2. 
Leghorns and Minoreas do well together, but Lang- 
shans and other heavy breeds are too slow. We have 
some Langshan and Leghorn pullets kept together 
for lack of room, and the Langshans are not likely to 
get their share of the feed. 3. Hen manure is excel¬ 
lent for corn, peas, melons, etc., but should not be 
used on potatoes. It may be spread broadcast after 
plowing and harrowed in, or used in the hill or drill, 
a good handful to the hill being thoroughly worked 
in before the seed is planted. If the cow manure is 
fine, spread it on top after plowing, and harrow thor¬ 
oughly ; if coarse and full of stalks or straw, it 
would be better plowed under. It is good for almost 
all crops, and there is little danger of using too much. 
4. Three or four quarts well worked into the soil 
around each plant, would do no harm. A good 
sprinkling of wood ashes to furnish potash, should 
also be added. 5. This would be an excellent plan 
where there are bare spots, unless the grass is too 
poor, in which case, it would be better to plow and 
plant to corn, if the object is to grow cow feed. It’s 
a mighty poor corn crop that won’t give more feed 
than a thin stand of grass. 
Use of the Saccharometer. 
B. A. B., Charlestown, lnd.— Will you give directions for using 
the saccharometer for making maple syrup, that I may get the 
syrup all of an equal weight? I have the BaumG scale syrup, 
temperature 60 degrees F. I evaporate with steam, which I learned 
from The R. N.-Y., and never have any fear of burning. I can 
finish in the vat, and never have to heat up anything but set¬ 
tlings to clarify them. 
Ans. —The saccharometer may be used for the de¬ 
termination of the relative gravities of maple syrup 
with quite a fair degree of satisfaction. If it is the 
Baum6 scale, from 35 to 36 degrees at 60 degrees F. 
or thereabouts indicates a syrup containing 11 pounds 
to the gallon. The saccharometer immersed in the 
same syrup when hot would stand, probably, not far 
from 32 degrees. If one wish to make syrups of dif¬ 
ferent densities than this, he can use the table pub¬ 
lished in Bulletin 26 of the Vermont Experiment Sta¬ 
tion, Burlington, Vt. The 11-pound syrup, however, 
is that most commonly called for, since it is as dense 
as it can be made without crystallization. 
JOSEPH L. HILLS. 
Pin Worms in a Horse. 
B. T. W., Rochester , Mass. —We have a valuable young mare that 
is not doing well, evidently caused by worms. The worm is about 
the color of, or darker than, a common earth worm, about 1!4 
inch long, and has a tail or horn (I don’t know which) nearly 
an inch long. What shall I do for her ? 
Ans. —The worms are, evidently,the Oxyurus curvola, 
the pointed-tailed pin worm of the horse, found in the 
large intestine. Give the horse two ounces of oil of 
turpentine well shaken up in one pint of raw linseed 
oil. The medicine is most effective when given on 
an empty stomach after a fast of 12 to 18 hours (e. g. } 
the horse not being fed at night, the drench is admin¬ 
istered in the morning before feeding). The oils should 
be followed by a light bran-mash diet for 24 hours, 
after which give either in a ball or drench, one ounce 
each of best aloes and ginger. Continue the mash 
diet until freely purged. In addition to the above, 
make an infusion of quassia chips by pouring two 
quarts of boiling water over four or five ounces of 
the chijps and allowing them to stand for an hour or 
longer. Then inject per rectum, one-half in the 
morning and the remaining half at evening. The in¬ 
jection should be milk-warm when given. As soon 
as the above course is completed, give the mare one 
of the following powders in her feed night and morn¬ 
ing : Dry sulphate of iron, four ounces ; Peruvian 
bark and ginger, of each eight ounces ; powdered 
gentian, one pound ; mix and make into 30 powders. 
Occasional bran mashes should be given at night to 
keep the bowels open. Repeat the whole course of 
treatment after three weeks. DR. f. l. k. 
A Hog Sheds His Skin. 
C. P ../., Howell, Mich.—I had a litter of pigs farrowed the first 
of May. When they were six months old, they would aver 
age about 240 pounds each. I expected to sell them soon, but 
noticed that one had dirty, bloody spots over its body. I thought 
the others might have been fighting it, and took it away from the 
rest. I fed it then bran mash, burned corn, sulphur with some 
milk. It ate well all the time, not so well of corn as it did before 
feeding bran mash. I found those bloody spots getting larger 
and going all over Its body. We gave it a good scrubbing with 
warm soap suds. After about a month, its hide and hair all came 
off in one pelt from its neck to tail, except on the belly, leaving a 
raw sore over the back and sides. Since then the hide has been 
coming off from the head. They had been fed on wheat middlings, 
until we began to husk corn, then fed corn. They had been run 
ning in an orchard, where they had all the apples they wanted, 
until about three weeks before this one began to be ailing. The 
hog’s back is beginning to heal, but very slowly. What ails him, 
and what ought I to have done ? 
Ans. —This appears to have been an aggravated case 
of eruption and sloughing of the skin, probably due to 
the condition of the blood. A course of arsenic in 
the form of the liquor arsenici et hydroagyri iodidi, 
in doses of two to three teaspoonfuls once daily, 
would, probably, have been effectual in checking the 
eruption. An occasional application of the oxide of 
zinc ointment, or of pine tar and vaseline, would now 
favor the healing. dr. f. l. k. 
“ A Heaping Bushel.” 
H. 8. L., Watkins, N. Y.— How many cubic inches are there in a 
New York State standard heaping bushel, such as is used in 
measuring apples or potatoes ? 
Ans. —The standard bushel in the United States is 
the Winchester bushel, and contains 2,150.42 cubic 
inches. In measuring such articles as apples, potatoes, 
etc., the measure is usually heaped, which adds some¬ 
thing to the bulk, though just how much it is difficult 
to say. 
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Standards 
is* 
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* ^Lce»« of 1896 - Be ‘ter 
° 1897. r 
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and in 
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BRADLEYS 
Comparative field tests always reveal the 
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pound than from any other brands. That’s why 
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93 Nassau St., New York. 
STRAWBERRY 
RUNNER CUTTER. 
A scientific and practical 
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