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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 2 
Live Stockand Dairy 
THE TUNIS BREED OF SHEEP. 
Mr. Clark Allis, of Medina, N. Y., has 
been known as a “Dorset man” from his 
success with the Dorset in producing 
early lambs. He now wants to be known 
as a Tunis man, as the last-named breed 
has finally beaten the Dorsets on his 
farm. Among other things he says: 
“I have about 200 grade ewes, and 
turned a fine Dorset ram, one year old, 
and a Tunis ram, three years old, into 
the fiock in May. The Dorset was boss, 
but when the lambs began to drop most 
all were Tunis. The best day’s work 
was 10 lambs, and seven were Tunis. 
The Tunis lambs, both half and pure 
bloods, are red or spotted, and look like 
Water spaniel dogs. I went to the lot 
one night and in the dark I thought 1 
had found a litter of skunks, but it was 
only six little red Tunis iambs. The 
best lamb I ever saw (and I have seen 
several, for I shipped nearly 800 last 
season) was a spotted Tunis grade we 
killed December 14,1900, and its tail was 
just one chunk of fat after the skin was 
off, and nearly as big as my wrist. This 
lamb brought $1 more than the best 
Dorset. This is the first crop of 
grade Tunis I have ever seen. The 
Tunis, both rams and ewes, are very 
gentle and kind, and at the Brockport 
Fair, where I showed them, a wool ex¬ 
pert said the wool was different from 
anything he had ever seen raised in this 
country, like some of the grades that 
are imported at a stiff price.” 
Mr. Allis sends some pictures of the 
lambs which are, unfortunately, too dim 
to engrave. One picture shows a white 
lamb with a red skin. The red lamb 
died—the skin was put on a white one, 
and the ewe at once accepted the sub¬ 
stitute. ___ 
NORTHERN CATTLE AND TEXAS 
FEVER. 
As to the proposition of a Michigan 
reader of The R. N.-Y., on page 21 , to 
take a herd of Holstein cows into one 
of the Gulf States with the intention 
of doing a dairy business in the South, 
this plan will certainly fail from a busi¬ 
ness point of view, because almost all 
of the adult cattle will probably die of 
Texas fever within the first year. I un¬ 
derstand, however, that some dairies in 
New Orleans are managed successfully 
by stocking them with northern cows 
only, and that these are brought down 
by boat, and never become infected with 
the germs of Texas fever. This method 
should not be attempted by one who has 
not lived some years in the South, and 
who does not know how to avoid the 
cause of fever. It occurs to me that your 
reader’s best plan will be to immunize 
all his animals under two years old, 
while they are on the farm in Michigan. 
To do this he should have a southern- 
raised cow or steer at his farm to sup¬ 
ply the infected blood for inoculation. 
From the jugular vein of this animal 
draw the blood into a hypodermic 
syringe of the ordinary pattern, and im¬ 
mediately inject into each of his young 
cattle one to two cubic centimeters hy¬ 
podermically. This will cause genuine 
Texas fever in the animals in about 10 
days. The danger of death is not great 
if the bowels are kept open. The most 
practical way to do this is to graze the 
animals on young stuff—say young 
wheat. Any tendency toward constipa¬ 
tion should be promptly met with a 
pound of salts dissolved in warm water. 
The attack usually begins about the 
tenth day after inoculation, and ceases 
about the eighteenth to twentieth day. 
Nothing further is noticed until about 
the thirtieth day after inoculation, when 
the fever will rise again, and take a 
course very similar to the first attack. 
The results of these fevers are several, 
viz.: loss of flesh, a deadening of the 
hair, and in some case an arrest in 
growth. 
After some time, say three or four 
months, repeat the inoculations, using 
two to five cubic centimeters of blood. 
This work should be done only when 
there is green feed available. The ani¬ 
mals must be very warmly housed dur¬ 
ing cold weather, because the fever thins 
their blood, and they are likely to suffer 
from severe cold. Having done this, in¬ 
oculate all the young calves every few 
months, and they will probably be rea¬ 
sonably safe against the fever contracted 
in the ordinary way in the South. No 
danger whatever exists in allowing the 
animals to associate together on the 
farm in Michigan. By proceeding in this 
way your reader could in a few years 
build up an immune herd, and then he 
could move South without great inter¬ 
ruption in his business. The old cows 
cannot be moved South to advantage. 
The Texas and Missouri experiment sta¬ 
tions have made a special study of this 
problem, and their experiments embrace 
over 2,0o0 fine cattle, which have been 
subjected to the process, with a mortal¬ 
ity of less than 10 per cent. It is not ad¬ 
vised that one who knows nothing of 
the nature of Texas fever attempt this 
on a large scale, but he should try a few 
animals at a time, say 10, and familiar¬ 
ize himself with the disease before going 
South. M. FRANCIS, 
Veterinarian of the Texas Exp. Station. 
DEATH IN PAINTED SILAGE. 
I inclose a clipping from the Garretts- 
ville (O.,) Journal that will be of in¬ 
terest, and importance to the readers of 
The R. N.-):.: 
The loss to H. B. French from painting: 
the Inside of his silo with lead and oil. 
whereby six of his cows were poisoned and 
died, is considerable, and may amount to 
$1,000. His silos contained the product of 
15 acres of corn, which will probably have 
to be removed and lost; will require a 
largre amount of labor, also in scraping off 
paint. It will be a warning to farmers 
not to paint the inside of their silos with 
lead, as the acid takes off the paint and 
poisons the contents. 
Just think of raising and caring for 
I.*) acres of corn, of harvesting and stor¬ 
ing in a silo, only to kill his own cows. 
Just think also of digging out and cart¬ 
ing off the remainder of the silage. And 
yet this man was hardly blamable. He 
was only using the utmost caution to 
preserve (as he thought) the inside of 
his silo, and make it still more airtight. 
But what a mistake one may make 
when he thinks he is doing right! It 
should be a warning to others. 
Ohio. A. R. PHILLIPS. 
R. N.-Y.—We are sure that the best 
authorities have again and again advised 
farmers not to paint the inside of the 
silo. Some have suggested a smear of 
gas tar, but lead paint has not been sug¬ 
gested by anyone who has really studied 
the matter. 
Feepino Cannery Wastes. —I find the 
by-products of the canning factory of 
considerable value. Hast Summer we 
drew many tons of peavines home, and 
put them in our silo. They tided us over 
the drought. In the Fall we find that 
our cattle give fine results on the fresh 
corncobs and nothing else. We pur¬ 
pose the coming season, if possible, to 
fill our silos with peavines and use 
them in the Winter as a substitute for 
part of the corn silage. We last year 
had 17 acres of sweet corn for the fac¬ 
tory. This brought us $340. We also 
filled our silo with the stalks, which will 
feed our herd of 18 cattle for six months. 
Our crop of corn last year was some¬ 
what shortened by the dry weather. 
Auburn, N. Y. F. h. k. 
Shredded Silage. —Replying to C. R. 
W., regarding the value of cut or shred¬ 
ded corn silage, I find no difference in 
the feeding value. I have had experi¬ 
ence with silos and silage since 1885, 
and the past two years have used the 
shredder in filling, and find that my 
silos will hold more tons of feed than 
they will with the silage cut. A good 
point in favor of the shredder is that 
the silage lies closer and excludes the 
air better. I find, however, it requires 
eight horse-power to a shredder to do 
the same amount of work as six horse¬ 
power to a cutter. j. s. w. 
Whiteford, Md. 
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