1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
3o3 
LIVE STOCK MATTERS. 
(CONTINUED.) 
sufficiently succulent, and even when 
fed alone, the turnips should he fed 
sparingly to ewes in lamb. Medicinal 
treatment will not be required. Discon¬ 
tinue feeding the turnips if you have 
not already done so. Ewes that still 
have the diarrhea should be placed on a 
dry diet until they entirely recover. To 
the sheep that are unaffected, and to the 
others as fast as they recover, I would 
advise feeding the ensilage once daily. 
Sheep and Cow Out of Condition. 
H. B., Waterloo, Ind. —1. I have a sheep that is 
not doing well; it is in poor flesh, and lags be¬ 
hind the rest of the flock. She lost her lamb 
three days ago, but has not been hurt that I know 
of. I have 23 sheep and all the rest are doing 
well; they are Sliropshires. 2. I also have a cow 
that dropped her calf in January, was in good 
flesh at the time of calving, but her udder did not 
seem to develop, and she gave only about half as 
much milk as she did before. Her hair seems dry 
and stands out more than common, and I often 
see her standing at the fence or barn rubbing 
her head. One man said that she had hollow 
horn, and insisted that I should bore her horn 
with a gimlet, and to satisfy him I did, but soon 
found that she would not stand as it hurt her. A 
German near by saw the cow and said that she 
had the wolf in the tail; on examining her tail, 
the end of it was dry and hard, and f broke off 
about half an inch. He wanted to slit the tail 
and put in salt and pepper, but I would not con¬ 
sent. The cow has been well fed and stabled. 
What can I do for the cow or sheep ? 
I. This ewe should be placed by her¬ 
self in a warm, dry stall, and given an 
extra ration of scalded wheat bran and 
oats twice daily. On pleasant days, she 
might run in the yard. Steam the ewe’s 
head daily for 15 to 20 minutes, by hold¬ 
ing it over a bucket of boiling water, 
into which put a tablespoonful of spirits 
of turpentine. A blanket thrown over 
the head will confine the steam so that 
the ewe will be compelled to inhale it. 
2. I cannot tell from your description 
whether the trouble is due to retained 
afterbirth or to chronic indigestion. Try 
the following course of powders: Sul¬ 
phate of soda, one pound; powdered 
gentian, one-half pound ; powdered nux 
vomica and nitrate of potash, of each 
one-fourth pound ; mix and make into 
30 powders. Give one powder in the 
feed night and morning. You did well 
to take no stock in the “hollow horn” 
and “ wolf-in-the-tail” fallacies. As has 
been repeatedly stated in The R. N.-Y., 
both are nonsensical whims which have 
been handed down to us through ignor¬ 
ance and superstition. 
SOME CROSS-BRED POULTRY. 
cents each, and over and over to the 
same houses each week. I would not be 
afraid to hatch these Brownies as late 
as-June, and expect them to lay all 
winter. The game cock is the only one 
that hat been on the place since I sold 
off the youngsters. I am getting now 
about 50 eggs a day. s. A. G. 
Maplewood, N. J. 
Brown Leghorns and Wyandottes. 
After years of experiments and experi¬ 
ence with different breeds, pure and 
crossed, I have at last hit on my ideal 
chicken—large egg production, good- 
sized carcass, early maturity, and many 
other good qualities combined. For the 
past two years, I had raised the R. C. 
Brown Leghorns, which for egg produc¬ 
tion are unsurpassed by any breed. This 
breed I crossed with the Golden Wyan¬ 
dottes, which are somewhat similar in 
plumage and shape, and have also rose 
combs, the first necessity for winter lay¬ 
ers. At the same time, they are some¬ 
what heavier, hens weighing from seven 
to nine pounds. Now I have a breed of 
chickens purely American, free from 
Asiatic strains and disease, which are 
business from the word go, shell out the 
eggs in all seasons of the year, feather 
and mature quickly, have yellow legs, 
are very tame, good foragers, and if I 
wish to kill one, there is something of 
it. Breeders, of course, will scoff at my 
idea of crossing two pure breeds, and 
call them mongrels, but that doesn’t 
matter to me; I know what I am after. 
I get an abundance of eggs the year 
around, and have what I have been try¬ 
ing to get for the past 10 years, my ideal 
and all around best chicken. g. c. 
Jefferson County, Ind. 
Middlings and Bran fob Pigs. —Mr. 
J. M. Jamison, in answering C. H., on 
page 166, March 6, says, “ If I could feed 
the bran satisfactorily, I would prefer 
to do it. because it contains more bone 
material, and because of its greater 
value over middlings as a fertilizer.” If 
he will get the fine bran or have the 
coarse bran reground, which we can get 
done here at $1 per ton, I think he will 
find that his pigs will relish it fully as 
well as the middlings. I regard this re. 
ground bran mixed with 15 per cent oil 
meal as an ideal pig food. I have never 
seen any food that would make a greater 
gain or more healthy pigs than this 
provender mixed with skim-milk. 
J. 8. WOODWARD. 
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Get a bull calf now. He will be flt for service 
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For richness, color and beauty, they have no 
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Have you bought a Boar ? 
Wlllswood Herd 
Recorded Berkshire Swine. 
WILLS A. SEWARD. Budd’s Lake. N. J. 
Reg P. Chinas, Berkshires 
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75 Head of Registered Chester Whites 
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WALTER. Eureka 8 tock Farm. West Chester Pa 
Indian Game and Brown Leghorn. 
I think that my cross-bred fowls beat 
anything ever hatched for an all-around 
fowl for farmers’ use. I use the Indian 
Game cock on Brown Leghorn hens ; the 
result is brown birds which look like 
partridges, feathered very much alike 
except that some are a little darker than 
others. The chicks are very hardy, and 
make fine golden broilers at three to 
four months old. I think they are fully 
as good layers as the Leghorns, good 
sitters and good mothers. I wintered 
135 hens, of which number about 75 were 
these cross-breds. I got as high as three 
dozen eggs a day, when I was selling 
them at 40 cents a dozen, and every hen 
I would see on a nest, and every one I 
would hear cackle, was a Brownie. 
Consequently, they wanted to sit early, 
and at this date (April 12), I have eight 
hens with about 75 chicks, 10 more hens 
sitting, and every one of them Brownies 
except two. The cock weighs nine 
pounds, three ounces, and a man took 
him away Saturday last and gave me a 
$2 bill for the use of him one month. 
Every bird of his get is shaped like him. 
Brown Leghorns straight are good 
enough hens for anybody for eggs only, 
but my experience in hatching them is 
about like this : In hatching 200 birds, 
about 125 of them would be cockerels, 
and they will not fetch 50 cents each for 
eating purposes when they are a year 
old: but I sold all the eocks from my 
yard at from 13 to 16iwe»ks old art #0 
My father had A SEVERE CASE OF PLEURISY, 
and was completely prostrated. His physician treated 
him with all the skill at his command, but the patient 
only appeared to grow worse. We Anally resorted to 
the use of Jayne’s Expectorant with the most happy 
results, for a few bottles of this medicine restored 
him to his usual health.—TII K O. RICHARDS, 
Stewart, Minn., October 15, 1895. 
Easy to take and effectual, Jayne’s Painless Sana¬ 
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Will cure your horse of collar 
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Milk Fever and 
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Banished from the herd ever since I used 
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