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LIVE STOCK MATTERS. 
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appetites return. At noon, you might 
feed a little of the whole corn for a 
change. If you have any wood char¬ 
coal, place some in one corner of the pen 
where the pigs can eat it at pleasure. 
Impotent Bull ; Calf Without Milk. 
./. S., Michigan —1. Mv bull, ODe year old last 
May, does Dot seem willing to serve a cow. He is 
in good health, is fed hay and a little oats, and is 
in fair condition ? 2. How shall I raise a Jersey 
calf now four weeks old, without milk? 
1 . The bull will, probably, never be of 
any account. I would advise castrating 
and fattening him at once. 
2 . At the age of four to six weeks, 
the calf may be fed largely upon gruels 
with little or no milk. Boil together 
equal parts of oat meal and oil meal 
until thoroughly cooked. Then thin 
with water until the calf can readily 
drink it. It will be better to feed it 
warmed during the cold weather. If the 
bowels become too loose, add a handful 
or two of line wheat middlings to the 
gruel when ready to feed. If this fail 
to control the bowels, parch or brown 
the middlings. Allow the calf a little 
fine hay as soon as he will eat it, also a 
few ground oats and wheat bran mixed 
daily. 
Castor OH for Warts. 
•I. A. C., Grand Isle , Vt .—What can be done for 
a colt that is badly afflicted with warts ? It had 
a large one near its left eye, and smaller ones on 
neck and body. I have bad them pulled out and 
cauterized, and cut one off that was nearly as 
large as a turkey’s egg, with a ligature, but some 
grow again and others come, so that it is impos¬ 
sible to handle him in harness. Ha is healthy. 
Castor oil applied ones daily to warts 
for 20 to 30 days, is said to remove them, 
or cause their disappearance. I have 
not tried it myself, so cannot speak 
from personal experience. Tais appears 
to be a good case upon which to test the 
virtues of castor oil for that purpose. 
If you try it, I would be very glad to 
have you report the result, whether 
favorable or not. 
A Balanced Ration for Cows. 
.1. F. (?., Seyberlsville, Pa .—Jn what proportion 
should shelled corn, oats, buckwheat and bran 
be mixed, so as to form, as near as possible, a 
balanced ra'ion? What should such a ration 
cost at the price now existing for those foods ? 
Ass.—You have not said for what you 
want a balanced ration, whether for 
cows giving milk, or for fattening 
animals, or horses, or some other kind 
of stock. I take it for granted that you 
want the ration for milch cows, and that 
you purpose to feed some hay. If this 
is not what you want, write again and 
state more clearly what kind of rough- 
age you have, and for whatkind of stock 
you wish the ration. The following 
ration is calculated as the amount to be 
fed per day to a cow weighing 1,000 
pounds and giving milk : 
ANALYSIS. 
Drv 
Pro- 
Carbo- 
Lbs. 
matter. 
tein. 
hvd. 
16 Mixed bay. 
14 7 
.75 
6.83 
3 Corn. 
2.67 
.186 
2.25 
2 Oats. 
1.78 
.184 
1.06 
3 Buckwheat middlings. 
2.60 
.71 
1.51 
3 Wheat bran. 
2 64 
.36 
1.36 
Total,. 
24.39 
2.19 
12.68 
Nutritive ratio, 1:5.7 
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SHOULD HORSES FACE THE LIGHT? 
SOME REASONS AGAINST IT. 
In buildiDg a stable for horses, would you plan 
to have them stand with faces to the light, or 
would you have the light behind them? Please 
tell us, if you will, why you would prefer either 
course. 
Light in Rear; Two Reasons. 
I would plan to have the stable lighted 
from behind, or at one side of the horse, 
and in no case would I have the light 
come from directly in front, if it could 
be avoided. There are two reasons why 
I prefer lighting the stable from the 
rear : First, because the direct sunlight 
or a bright light reflected from the 
snow or other reflecting surface, is in¬ 
jurious to the eyes of the horse ; this is 
especially true when the eyes are weak 
or suffering from inflammation from any 
cause. Even healthy eyes are more or 
less affected by such direct light. Second, 
because the windows are usually used 
for airing the stable (too often for venti¬ 
lation, also), and it is not desirable to 
have the drafts of air strike the horse 
directly in front. A horse will take cold 
more readily when forced to face a draft 
of air than when the current is from the 
rear or side. The horse is instinctively 
aware of this fact, and when loose, you 
will observe that he will always turn so 
as to stand with his back to the wind. 
F. L. KILBORXE. 
Light at the Side. 
Where horses are hitched in a straight 
stall, we would prefer not to have them 
face the light directly, unless there is a 
shade over the window on the outside, 
so as to break off the very strong light. 
We prefer to have it light from one side, 
or from the back, but there should be 
plenty of light, in order to insure the 
best eyesight. If the stalls face the 
north, so that the rays of the sun do not 
penetrate or reflect directly into the 
horses’ eyes, there is very little objection 
to a light in front, smiths <t powkll co. 
Watch the Horse. 
In building a stable for horses only, 
where you can have light as you wish, 
I would say always have crosslight, so 
that the rays will cross as near where 
the horse stands as possible. If the 
stalls are open stalls, in which the horse 
is kept tied, have a good front light, so 
the horse may see out, and a crosslight 
of equal brightness from top, side, or 
rear, so regulated that the rays meet as 
near as possible where the horse stands. 
A loose horse never stands with his head 
in the dark for loDg as preference. It 
will be indicated, if you will observe 
where there is most excrement, that 
such horses stand most with their heads 
near the light, but sidewise to it. From 
this I conclude horses do not like back 
or rear light that throws the head in 
darkest shadow. There should be one 
window where each horse may look out 
at will, and see what is passing, or at 
least, something on the outside. This 
window should be of such height that 
the horse may look through it with the 
head in the most natural position possi¬ 
ble. It affords the horse the same 
pleasure it does a human, confined to 
the inside, to be able to look out of a 
window, and if turned loose in such a 
stall when not feeding he will nearly 
always be found standing sidewise to 
the window looking out. He seeks the 
shade to avoid the glaring hot sun, and 
he prefers darkness to the torments of 
flies, but when pests do not annoy him, 
he will not go into shadow deeper than 
that just out of direct sunshine, and 
the light he seeks in nature I take to be 
the best for him. w. w. latta. 
Prof. Roberts Puts it Well. 
There are two good reasons for facing 
horses away from the light. So faced, 
they do not have to look into or against 
the glare of windows, neither can the 
direct rays of the sun reach their heads 
when so arranged. Again, the windows 
of stables frequently furnish the best 
possible ventilators, and by lowering 
the top and raising the bottom sashes of 
all the windows an inch or two, very 
perfect ventilation is insured without 
draughts. Then, too, the direct sunlight 
comes into the rear of the stable and 
tends to keep it dry and comfortable. 
True, an objection may be made to 
allowing the air to pass over the rear of 
the stable before it is used by the horse, 
but, so far as I have had experience, 
this ot j ’ction plays no part in the venti¬ 
lating of the stable. What is wanted is 
a uniform, slow movement of the air 
throughout the entire stable and not 
rapid movement at one point. Two fine 
spans of horses have been ruined in the 
city of Ithaca by standing with their 
heads towards large windows on the 
south side of the stable. 
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