1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
255 
LIVE STOCK MATTERS. 
(CONTINUED.) 
WHAT AILS THE LAMBS ? 
One of your Ohio subscribers wishes 
me to tell in The R. N.-Y. what ails his 
last year’s lambs that he is fattening. 
He says that he has them in dry, warm 
stables and feeds them all the hay they 
can eat twice a day, with straw at noon, 
and to 100 lambs, he feeds one bushel of 
shelled corn and one bushel of oats 
mixed, at two feeds each day. That 
they have done very well until the past 
week, when two have died and a couple 
more are sick ; the ones that died are 
very fat, as are the sick ones. 
He does not name any of the symp¬ 
toms, but I don’t need them to tell what 
is the matter with them. Too much dry 
food, too much corn, too much constipat¬ 
ing food and no succulence. The lambs 
have “the stretches”, acute constipa¬ 
tion. No sheep, much less lambs, can 
be safely fed on dry food over 90 days ; 
they are almost sure to die with con¬ 
stipation if fed longer, and some will 
“peter out” in less time. Any lamb 
taken as above, should be at once dosed 
with raw linseed oil, from one to two 
ounces, as to size of lamb, and, if bad, 
should have an injection of warm soap 
suds, and all the sheep should have their 
diet changed to one less constipating, 
and by all means have some succulent 
food every day. It is a serious mistake 
to put up sheep or lambs for fattening 
without providing to feed, at least once 
a day, on some kind of roots or corn en¬ 
silage. I like both roots and ensilage, 
one feed of each every day, and don’t 
find anything that pays better than to 
provide them. At the present price of 
potatoes, it is much better to feed them 
to the sheep than to let them die with 
costiveness, and haul the potatoes four 
or five miles for from 12 to 20 cents per 
bushel. J s. WOODWARD. 
WHAT AILS THE CALVES? 
During the season of 1896, very many 
of our dairymen lost calves with scours ; 
the disease generally proved fatal. The 
calves were strong for from 12 to 20 
hours-after birth, when they were taken 
sick, refused nourishment, the nose and 
mouth became cold ; they voided water¬ 
like excrement which had a very offen¬ 
sive odor, very much like that of a rot¬ 
ten egg. The calf would lie in one 
position and die without an apparent 
struggle when about 24 hours old. After 
having lost seven calves in the spring of 
1896, and exhausted all the remedies we 
could get, we began doctoring them be¬ 
fore they were taken sick. When the calf 
was about 12 hours old, it was taken away 
from its mother and given a teaspoonful 
of sulphur and a-half teaspoonful of 
Cayenne pepper in a pint of its mother’s 
milk. This was given three times, the 
doses being given 12 hours apart. The 
calf was fed in addition to the above 
twice a day, a mess of three pints of its 
mother’s milk. All of our calves that 
had this treatment lived. 
At about the time we began this treat¬ 
ment, I received a communication from 
our State veterinary surgeon, who 
thought that the calves had contagious 
diarrhea. He recommended thoroughly 
spraying the floor and walls of the stalls 
in which the calves were born and kept, 
with a disinfectant made by dissolving 
one pint of copperas in one gallon of 
water. After this is done, sprinkle the 
stalls with chloride of lime, and then 
cover with a good bedding of straw. 
When the calves show the first signs of 
the trouble, give 14 to 15 grains of pow¬ 
dered bismuth with five drops of car¬ 
bolic acid in a pint of lukewarm water 
or fresh milk, every three or four hours, 
until the calf grows better. He would 
not allow the calves to remain with the 
cows longer than from 12 to 18 hours, 
but would put them, as soon as possible, 
upon a limited diet, feeding not more 
than three pints of milk twice a day for 
the first four or five days. 
Pennsylvania. Austin Leonard. 
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Vaseline and Pepper for Self- 
Suckers. —Last summer, my cow began 
to take her own milk, and not having a 
muzzle or time to make one, I thought 
that I would try an experiment. So I 
smeared all of the teats and her udder 
between them with vaseline, then ap¬ 
plied as much Cayenne pepper as the 
vaseline would hold. She got two doses 
of the pepper, after which she concluded 
to let me do the milking. I, however, 
made eight or ten applications to make 
sure work of it. Probably, axle grease 
and pepper would do as well. I would 
not expect to cure a veteran sucker by 
the above plan. d d. c. 
Ohio. 
Artichokes for Hogs. —Your note in 
reference to artichokes for hogs leads 
me to say that here, with our open win¬ 
ters, the artichoke is one of our most 
valuable crops. In the greater portion 
of the State, farming cannot be carried 
on profitably with the regular rotations 
or in the general routine way that it can 
be in the older settled States, because 
our markets are often distant, and in 
general cannot be depended upon at all, 
and help is scarce and most often utterly 
worthless. Stock growing and dairying 
are the most reliable branches. Here on 
Puget Sound we can grow a patch of 
artichokes, which on good, deep soil 
which our river valleys afford, will pro¬ 
duce at least 1,000 bushels per acre if 
receiving cultivation. Then in the fall, 
if one has a drove of youDg swine to 
turn into the patch, he can have porkers 
fit for the butcher’s use at any time 
until the next growing season is on 
without further feed or attention, hav¬ 
ing only a dry shed for sleeping quarters 
provided. This is in the way of making 
the most of climatic conditions. 
J. F. CASS. 
Sec’y Board of Hort., Washington. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, April 10, 1897. 
FARM TOPIC8. 
Field Beans for Green Manure.241 
Seeding Low Land for Pasture.241 
Treatment of a Sick Soi!.241 
Winter Rye in SpriDg.242 
Value of Sea Weed.242 
Advice About Mulching Potatoes.242 
Fertilizing Value of Corn.243 
A “ Fake ” Fertilizer Mixture.243 
Tobacco Stems and Dust as a Feriilizer.243 
Sowing Winter Rye in Spring.244 
Parsnips and Volunteer Potatoes.244 
Wire Hooks Not Necessary for Corn Ties.244 
Trials of Sweet Corn.245 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Horse Out of Condition.252 
Lameness in Pregnant Mare.252 
Foot Rot in Cows; Beets.252 
Do Bots Kill Horses ?.252 
Scratches in a Horse.252, 253 
A Sucking Heifer.253 
Cut Stalks; Sore Gums.253 
Some Gluttons of Hens.253 
The Breeds of Swine.253 
Ensilage Cut with Shredder.253 
Weights of Berkshire Pigs.253 
How to Pasteurize Milk.253, 254 
Farm Cattle; Inbreeding.254 
Earning Capacity of the American Hen.254 
Southern Sheep in New York State.254 
Raising a Calf.254 
Good Points of Plymouth Rocks.254 
What Alls the Lambs ?.255 
What Ails the Calves ?.255 
Vaseline and Pepper for Self-Suckers.255 
Artichokes for Hogs. 2io 
HORTICULTURAL. 
The Improved Chestnuts.237, 238 
A Talk About Foreign Nuts.238 
How to Graft the Chestnut.238 
“Follow Your Knows”.238 
Hills or Rows for Strawberries.239, 240 
A Novelty in Fruit Arbors.240 
Abundance Plum Trees That Will Not Bear.. 240 
Fruit Trees Gnawed by Rabbits.240 
Southern Peach Stocks; Cherries.240 
Preparing Land for Nursery Stock.240 
Value of Fruit Crops; the Bismarck Apple.... 241 
Whole or Piece-Root Grafting.241 
Strawberries and Cherries.241 
Inoculating Trees to Kill insects. 241 
What Success with Niagara Grape Seedlings? 242 
Bismarck Apple not Tested.,.242 
Second-Year Asparagus.242 
Propagating Spruce; Cow Peas, etc.242 
Plant Lice on Gooseberries.242 
The Rome Beauty Apple.244 
Some Plum Notes.244 
Protecting Young Grafts.244 
Tuberous Begonias.249 
Plants in a Shady Corner.249 
Bedding Roses.249 
Vine for a Shaded Fence. 249 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.248 
Good Food from the Garden.248 
An Easter Dinner. 248 
Canning Asparagus.248 
Soft Gingerbread.248 
Staining Floors. 248 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Wax and Comb Honey.241 
The “Water Witch” and His Work.242 
Stove Sharks in New Jersey.244 
Tub R. N.-Y.’s Review of Catalogues for 1897 . 245 
Editorials. 240 
Brevities.240 
Among the Marketmen.247 
Business Bits.247 
As We Go To Press. 250 
Condensed Correspondence.251 
Markets.251 
