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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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LIVE STOCK MATTERS. 
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their food as faithfully as a horse does, 
and allowing no nibbling between meals, 
except to growing children, at the end 
of a 3 r ear , s time, there would not be a 
dyspeptic from the Atlantic to the Pa¬ 
cific ; and doctors would have to turn 
farmers in order to make a living, j. s. 
St. Andrew’s Bay, Fla. 
What Hens Need. —I have a flock of 
50 hens, and a good tight two-story hen¬ 
house warmed by a stove on cold days. 
I find by observation and experience 
that three things are necessary to get 
eggs in winter ; all this vast amount of 
talk and comment may be summed up 
in a very few words : First, a fairly 
warm house ; second, freedom from lice 
or odor ; third and most important, 
plenty of highly nitrogenous food. We 
get eggs in winter if we feed meat—no 
meat, no eggs ; any other nitrogenous 
food, 1 suppose, would do just as well. 
I like Mr. Mapes's pot-cheese, m. b. s. 
Centreville, N. Y. 
Bolton Gray Poultry. —Twenty years 
ago, when I was a resident of New York 
State, where 1 was born and reared, 
there was a brood of hens called Bolton 
Grays. Do .you know whether such a 
breed of hens is still in existence ? If 
so, w here can I get them pure ? s. w. H. 
Ohio. 
K. N.-Y.—The Silver Penciled Ham¬ 
burg of to-day, is the “ Bolton Gray ” of 
old, improved (?) by having been bred to 
feather and points by our fanciers. How 
they compare in egg yield, I do not 
know. The Hamburgs are all good lay¬ 
ers, of rather small eggs, however. The 
advertisements of breeders can be found 
in The R. N.-Y. b. h. 
Feed Bone Meal. --We have no trouble 
in this county in stopping cows from 
eating the barnyard fences, shingles 
from the barn, old boots, etc. We simply 
feed them bone meal. Such cows usu¬ 
ally are found on rocky pastures, where 
the phosphoric acid has been taken out 
by the continued selling of milk or 
butter. w. B. k. 
Bowdoinham, Me. 
Feed wood ashes along with the salt 
to cattle and hogs. The wood ashes also 
prevent young cattle taking the “black 
leg.” I think that green-wood ashes are 
the best. I have seen men make a fire 
of brush in the pasture where calves 
were grazing, and they would lick up 
the coal and ashes clean. s. L. 
Virginia. 
A Horse for Hens. —1 have had ex¬ 
perience with feeding fresh beef bones 
from the markets, and with whole car¬ 
casses. I use a Webster & Uannum 
No. 12 green bone mill, and last winter 
depended on fresh beef bones from the 
markets, for which I paid 2% cents per 
pound. There were so many here that 
have bone mills that it was impossible 
to get what meat and bones I needed, 
but this fall I laid in a supply of old 
horses, and as they have kept frozen, I 
have had no trouble to get plenty of 
meat. As to grinding up whole car¬ 
casses, one must take care and keep the 
mill where it will not get frosty, as the 
castings break easily when frosty. 1 do 
not grind the leg bones below the knees, 
or hock joints, but have had no trouble 
in working up the rest of the carcass 
when the meat is frozen, for I find that 
the bones of a horse have a thin shell 
with abundance of marrow and, there¬ 
fore, work up quite easily. But the 
knives must be kept sharp. The meat 
grinds fine when frozen, but when fresh 
the big cords will clog and bunch up 
and come from the machine in big 
pieces which the hens cannot swallow. 
This difficulty, of course, will not be 
met with when grinding trimmed bones 
from the butchers. 
This winter I am feeding my hens 
green bone and meat at noon every day, 
and give them what they will eat up 
clean in about 15 minutes. If they 
leave any, it is taken away. 1 give them 
a warm mash mornings, and a ration of 
corn, oats, buckwheat, sunflower seeds 
and wheat, keep apples before them all 
the time and get as many eggs as in 
summer. 
I also keep a fire in my henhouse and 
would like to know why so many people 
are against artificial heat in a henhouse. 
I have kept a fire in mine the past two 
years, and do not know what a sick fowl 
is. I try to keep the temperature at 50 
degrees, and the hens appreciate the 
warmth by keeping me well supplied 
with eggs. g. j. f. 
Waterville, N. Y. 
Safe Railroading for Figs. -Through 
a friend, I got a fine, thoroughbred 
Foland-China sow from Nebraska, one 
of his finest breeding sows. In the field 
with her, was a young imported boar— 
too young for service, he thought ; but 
he was surprised to find that she was 
served, and as the time for farrowing 
would be in mid-winter, he would have 
no use for the pigs. It was said that a 
sow would not have live pigs after being 
on the cars for so long a distance, but I 
took my chances. I got her here Novem¬ 
ber 1 . Just before Christmas, she had 
eight pigs—one dead—as fine a lot as I 
ever saw, and they are, at this writing, 
a third larger than other common pigs 
of the same age. These will furnish 
new blood not akin to anything in this 
locality. g. l. a. q 
Olean, N. Y. 
Leather Chewers and Cats. — In 
answer to J. R. E., page 19, kerosene oil, 
rubbed on the hitching strap and reins, 
will cure the chewing habit in nine cases 
out of ten, and capsicum (red pepper) 
will cure the tenth case. The above is 
just as reliable to prevent gnawing the 
manger or pulling a blanket. A. A. H. 
Kensington, Conn. 
I have had two bad cases of leather 
chewers,one a three-year-old thatcliewed 
up two half-inch ropes and two strong 
hitching straps. I found a sure cure in 
both cases by soaking the straps in coal 
oil. I keep them soaked for three or 
four weeks, or until the animal is cured. 
Youngstown, O. f. e. s. 
To cure the leather-chewing habit in 
horses, smear a piece of leather strap 
with grease in which asafetida has been 
mixed. Nail it in front of the manger 
within easy reach, and let the horse try 
this for a “chew.” The habit will be 
cured in short meter. At least, I have 
never known it to fail. 
I kill rats with cats and poison They 
used to trouble me greatly, but I took a 
cat in the granary once, and she killed 
nine in less than five minutes. I keep 
four cats. In places inaccessible to cats, 
I use “Rough on Rats.” The omnifa¬ 
rious rodents die or run away, and leave 
no bad odor behind I have not seen 
any, or the effects of any, for year's. 
c. a. w. 
Ik You Have a Worrying Cough, or any Lung 
or Throat trouble, use at once Dr. D. Jayne’s Expec¬ 
torant, and don’t parley with what may prove to be a 
dangerous condition.— Ado. 
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SMITHS & POWELL CO., Syracuse, N.TT. 
Makes hens lay. 
Makes chickens grow. 
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GRANULATED BONE FOR POULTRY, 
Bone Meal, Crushed Oyster Shells, Calcite, Crushed 
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YORK CHEMICAL WORKS, York, Pa. 
G round Bone, Shells, Charcoal and Limestone 
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Manufactured by J. H. SLACK, Bloomsbury, N. J. 
G HUSHED OYSTER Shells for Poultry. 
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