1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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BEST GRAIN FOR WORK HORSES. 
(CONTINUED.) 
the flesh all off when fed oats alone, 
while a spiritless, fat, corn-fed horse 
provokes his driver to profanity. Young 
horses can eat their grain whole, with¬ 
out loss, but in most cases it will pay to 
have all grain ground. Some horses 
digest and assimilate their food fully ; 
and do not require as large amounts, to 
keep in good order as their mates. 
Others are subject to colic and stomach 
troubles, if given a liberal allowance. 
With such ones, the work must be regu¬ 
lated to the capacity of the stomach. The 
best ration for my team during ordinary 
farm work is two parts oats and one 
part corn, by weight, ground together. 
A little bran is added if the horses lack 
spirit or seem constipated. A warm bran 
mash once a week is excellent. For a 
team doing very heavy, slow hauling, I 
would use a large proportion of corn 
and bran. For horses worked on the 
road or at fast work, but little hay and 
a grain ration of oats are best. Probably 
no one food will come so near being a 
perfect ration for all horses at all times 
as oats. I think that the best way is to 
mix the grain, for the reason that I do 
not want all of one meal potatoes, and 
bread alone for the next. I do not know 
that this is the best way. The only rule 
I have, is to watch the horse and regu¬ 
late the amount of feed, according to his 
condition. Too much is as bad as too 
little. The coat should be smooth and 
the muscles hard. I think an ordinary 
1 ,200-pound horse would need from five 
to eight quarts at a feed, three times 
per day. A small portion, a heaping 
tablespoonful, of oil meal, once per day, 
is a good addition, as is an occasional 
feed of potatoes. c. k. chapman. 
Corn and Oats Mixed. 
1 . We obtain best results by mixing 
oats and corn, half and half by weight, 
giving a six-quart measure rounding 
full three times a day. We always grind 
them together, and have found that they 
will do as well or better on a quarter 
less grain if ground, than if fed without 
grinding. We have noticed this point 
particularly during the past few years, 
when we have run out of ground feed. 
2 . We feed corn and oats unless the price 
of oats is unusually high; then we use 
one part corn meal and one part bran. 
3. Corn and oats mixed for each ration 
would, in our estimation, be best. For 
the past two years, we have fed our 
draft horses oats (with a few peas mixed 
in) and corn ground together, about 
equal parts, when the horses are doing 
heavy work ; as the work gets lighter, 
we mix more oats so as to make the 
feed correspond to their work. 
F. H. GATES & SONS. 
OATS, BEANS AND ENSILAGE FOR 
SHEEP. 
I have taken all the cull beans from 
my nearest bean market where pickers 
are employed, and my last year’s experi¬ 
ence has proved to me conclusively that 
ensilage, oats and beans, make the best 
ration I have yet found for lambs or 
sheep. My experience has been with 
ensilage cut about one-half inch, and 
with small ears or large. I find the 
sheep or lambs will consume nearly, and 
many times entirely, the contents of the 
feed. I find no difference in the kind of 
corn, so long as it is corn in good con¬ 
dition and properly secured in the silo. 
My silos are eight or nine years old, an d 
have not smelled of paint or tar; only 
tar paper used for lining between the 
ceiling inside my barn. They are built 
of hemlock, and are entirely sound yet. 
When ensilage is plentiful, I feed twice 
a day, and less if not so plentiful. I 
think I never had sheep or cattle hurt 
by eating it. I have had horses scour. 
I would rather have corn ripe than green. 
Rain will not hurt, and I hear of men 
who run a stream of water into the car¬ 
rier when the corn gets dry. I shall put 
10 barrels on top of my silos to-morrow, 
as I finished cutting on Saturday, and 
the corn leaves were frosted and very 
dry. I shall wet the top and tramp it 
as a protection from the air. I have 
covered with boards and stones for 
weight, but it’s lots of trouble, and I 
think tramping and wetting cheaper. I 
do not call myself high authority in this 
field of science, but I have learned by 
my own experience the most I know of 
feeding sheep on ensilage, because I 
could not hear of a single instance of 
the experiment until I tried it. 
Michigan. jerry Spaulding. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
New Plan of Butter Maker —A 
patent has recently been taken out in 
France for a new process for the pro¬ 
duction of butter from cream. The fresh 
cream is submitted to natural lactic fer¬ 
mentation, whereby the fat globules 
become covered with an albuminous 
covering. It is then heated, aerated 
without churning, and submitted to 
alcoholic fermentation. This fermenta¬ 
tion changes the character of the cream 
and completely destroys its viscosity, 
the fat globules rising to the surface, 
while the other solids remain at the 
bottom. The fat layer is then separated 
and washed with water to remove ad¬ 
hering particles of casein. 
A Poultry Record. —In the fall of 
1895, we bought four pure Brown Leg¬ 
horn chickens, two pullets and two 
roosters, and killed our other roosters 
In the spring of 1896, we chose the eggs 
from our best layers to put with those 
of the Leghorn pullets From 191 eggs. 
158 chickens were hatched. The hawks 
killed some of them, and a sudden storm 
of wind and rain overtook the young 
chickens and killed a great many more 
before they could reach shelter. Last 
fall, there were 46 pullets, and we kept 
three old hens. We disposed of 10 of 
these, three had young chickens, and one 
is sitting. We now (May, 1897) average 24 
eggs a day. Our hens have a full feed 
of corn in the morning, fresh water in 
abundance, and unlimited range. 
Wisconsin. mrs leyi h. niles. 
Tuberculosis Experience. —If it was 
not so serious a matter, the first two res¬ 
olutions of the Board of Regents of the 
Kansas Agricultural College regarding 
the outbreak of tuberculosis in the cattle 
at the college would be laughable. While 
the resolutions in themselves are all 
right and, undoubtedly, in the line of 
good common-sense sanitary precau¬ 
tions, it strikes me as of little use to at¬ 
tempt to stamp out or even prevent the 
spread of the disease so long as public 
sentiment permits of human subjects in 
the last stages of the disease in its pul¬ 
monary form, traveling about through 
the country in close sleeping cars, drink¬ 
ing at public fountains, and in many 
other ways, sowing disease germs right 
and left. Prof. Low tells us tnat 
carefully conducted experiments have 
showed that the germs of the disease, 
when exposed to the direct rays of sun¬ 
light, are killed in a very short time, 
and that indirect light will soon destroy 
their vitality, but that the germs of the 
disease will survive for a long time in 
water at ordinary temperature. It 
would seem, by this, that one of the 
most dangerous sources of infections can 
be the water supply, especially when all 
drink from the common trough or foun¬ 
tain, while the poorest resident in the 
country can readily have the air of his 
whole premises disinfected ' every fair 
day by giving free access to God’s life- 
giving sunlight. Undoubtedly, the sus¬ 
ceptibility of the germs of tuberculosis 
to sunlight is the principal reason why 
the disease has not depopulated the 
earlh before this time, f. a. putnam. 
Massachusetts. 
Almost everybody knows somebody whose stub¬ 
born Cough or Lung trouble was cured by Dr. D. 
Jayne's Expectorant. 
For constipation take Jayne’s Sanative Pills.— Ado. 
Oak=tanned leather Harness 
Send your address with 2-cent stamp for Illustrated Catalogue, 
all kinds of Single and Double Custom-Made Harness, sold direct to 
the consumer at wholesale prices. WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY. 
KING HARNESS CO., No 9 Church St., Owego, N.Y. 
Cows barren 3 years 
MADE TO BREED. 
£ree k MOOre Brothers, Albany, N. Y. 
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More Than He Expected. 
Granite State Evaporator Co. Alda. Neb., June 19 . 1897 . 
Gentlemen:—I am well pleased with the Cooker I purchased of you last fall, and 
find it to be more than I expected for the money. It takes less fuel than any other I 
have ever seen. I think if more farmers in this part of the country cooked their hog 
feed, we would have less of what is called Hog Cholera when we commence to feed 
green corn in the Fall. Yours truly, S. W. SPENCER. 
25 gallon, $12; 50 gallon, $17; 100 gallon, $24. 
GRANITE STATE EVAPORATOR CO., 560 Templf Court.N Y City 
IT IS A FACT 
tbe FARMER has MONEY to BURN. We have buvers for JERSEY 
HEIFERS, six to ten months old ; a GUERNSEY HERD closing out 
near Ohio. GUERNSEY HEIFERS and BULLS, LONG WOOL EWES, 
SHORT-HORN BULLS and (100) SOUTH DOWN EWES. HOLSTEIN GRADES. 
We have Jersey Bulls for sale cheap; also Cleveland Bays and Jersey Cows. All inquiries cheer¬ 
fully answered. AMERICAN LIVE STOCK COMPANY, 24 State Street, New York City. 
Refers by permission to Tub Rural New-Yorker. 
p T T A TDl\/r A AT’C Prime, Premium, 
O nl PrH-es Proportionate. 
Pigs Pay. Peruville, N. Y. 
CHESHIRES 
Prepare for Winter. 
There is money in winter dairying 
when a Little Giant Separator does the 
skimming. Some¬ 
times the roads that 
lead to the creamery 
are impassable, and 
then you find the ad¬ 
vantage of having a 
separator at home. 
Then creameries 
often close down dur¬ 
ing cold weather just 
when there is the 
most profit in the cows. Provide for 
such contingencies. 
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P. M. 
Elgin, Ill. 
Dubuque, la. 
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West Chester, Pa. 
Horse Owners Should. TJse 
QOMB ATJLT’S 
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Balsam 
Th# GREAT FRENCH VETERINARY REMEDY 
A Safe, Speedy and 
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beet BLISTER ever used. Takes tho place of all lini¬ 
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or Blemishes from Horse, or Cattle. 
As a HUMAN REMEDY for Rheumatism, 
Sprains, Sore Throat, Etc., it Is invaluable. 
WE GUARANTEE caustic 
produoe more actual results than a whole bottle of 
any liniment or spavin cure mixture ever made. 
Every bottle of Caustic Balsam sold Is Warran. 
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by Druggists, or sent by express, charges paid, with full 
directions for its use. Send for descriptive circulars, 
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Horse Ice Calks. 
Medal awarded at 
World’s Fair. 
Prices to Agents reduced. 
'For particulars address 
S. W. KENT, Meriden, Conn. 
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Guernseys. 
225 purebred Guernseys of the best American and 
Island breeding. Butter average, whole herd, 318 
pounds per head. No catalogue. Come and make 
your own selection. 
ELLERSLIE STOCK FARM. 
At ±11JN AG GLUT IT. M. Y. 
Put FAT In your MILK by using 
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Guernsey Cattle. 
Offers a few cows, heifers In calf, bull and heifer 
calves. WILLS A. SHWARD, Budd’s Lake, N. J. 
Six Registered Guernsey Cows. 
Five Registered Guernsey Heifers, bred. 
One Registered Guernsey Bull, 10 months. 
A. J. SNYDER, Plumsteadville, Pa. 
JERSEY CATTLE FOR SALE. 
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QftTlth finwilQ both sexes, all ages, for sale. Prices 
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Reg. P. Chinas, Berkshires 
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CHESHIRES 
-IOO Eight-weeks’-old 
Pigs, In pairs and trios 
not akin A fine lot of 
young Sows and Service Boars, farrowed last March. 
Write for circulars and prices. W. E. MANDKV1LLK , 
Brookton, Tompkins County. N. Y. 
CHESHIRE PICS. 
B. M LINDSLEY, Monticello N. Y., has a lot of fine 
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