1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
331 
PRIMER SCIENCE. 
(CONTINUED.) 
She gets her nitrogen and fat from the 
grass and insects, and then corn comes 
in and makes the balance, and offsets 
the loosening qualities of the pasturage. 
The need of bulk and unconcentrated 
food for little chicks and, especially, for 
ducks and goslings, is too little under¬ 
stood. Late teachings cause beginners 
to err in the opposite direction. They 
may do well on rich food for a while, 
but later become worthless. Finely 
ground whole oats furnish bulk, are not 
so loosening as bran, and we use a good 
proportion of the Quaker oat feed (that 
which is discarded in the preparation of 
the Quaker rolled oats) in feeding breed¬ 
ing geese before grass is plenty, and in¬ 
tend to give it to goslings this season as 
a part of their feed. Hens, when con¬ 
fined, must receive much thought and 
attention, that they may be supplied 
with everything that they need. 
Mashes and Meat —Some breeds of 
fowls require different food from others. 
Active breeds should be fed differently 
from the sluggish breeds. Games and 
other firm, closely built fowls, are not 
so liable to looseness as are Dorkings, 
Brahmas and loosely-built fowls. A 
skillful feeder will watch the droppings 
so closely, and head off any tendency to 
undue looseness so quickly, by the use 
of certain foods, that medical treatment 
for this trouble is hardly ever required. 
Long continued looseness, brings on 
diarrhea, and makes them easy victims 
of fowl cholera. Corn seems to have a 
drying, astringent or tonic effect on the 
digestive organs, but if it be fed exclus¬ 
ively or too long, a reaction takes place, 
and the bowels become relaxed. 
A few days’ fasting after a feed of 
hard grain, with free range, will often 
bring a flock that has been fed high, and 
has loose bowels, around all right. Fast¬ 
ing after a feed of soft mess, would be 
undesirable, unless the birds were in 
very restricted quarters. Sedentary 
hens, so to speak, unable to forage, do 
not thrive well on whole grain alone. 
Warm messes, as well as watery messes, 
make hens more sensitive to colds. We 
have a horror of soft droppings, but 
most modern poultrymen who feed high 
and get great yields of eggs, cannot feed 
as they do, a rich, soft mess in the morn¬ 
ing, hard grain twice a day, and keep 
the droppings so that they will roll off 
a board. Fowls kept in this way, are 
more susceptible to all kinds of disease, 
and especially to colds, and the care 
they require is much greater. There is 
more profit, but more risk in this way of 
feeding. 
I prefer good meat scraps coarsely 
ground, so that I can see how much good, 
lean meat there is in them. I do not 
want fine ground stuff that may be half 
bone, and thus contain an excess of 
lime, which oyster shells will furnish 
just about as well and cheaper. The 
finely ground animal meal can be more 
thoroughly dried or steam cooked, and 
is not so liable to cake or spoil. A good 
test of beef scraps is to see how much of 
a tea you can make from them. Horse 
meat, I understand, figures in the best 
brands of beef scraps, and furnishes an 
abundance of lean meat. Pork scraps 
are not so desirable as meat scraps. 
Palatability or flavor of food plays a 
part that should not be overlooked. It 
means a good appetite and good diges¬ 
tion in one case, while its absence may 
cause the refusal of the food, or but a 
small amount be digested. Two rations 
containing the same chemical constitu¬ 
ents, one having a bad or objectionable 
flavor, and the other a wholesome flavor, 
are not to be compared in feeding value. 
Remove the beef tea from meat and 
what is left is unpalatable to many 
stomachs, although easily dissolved and 
rich in certain food elements. Salt and 
pepper would supply part of what is 
lacking, and make it more acceptable. 
Probably the flavor and the easy digest¬ 
ibility of raw bone or green bone and of 
raw meat, is of more benefit to the fowl 
than the nutritive constituents ; it stim¬ 
ulates the digestive organs, and aids 
them to digest the grain food more 
readily. 
Feeding Fish. —On Long Island, the 
duck business was greatly injured at one 
time, on account of the fish flavor given 
to the young ducks by feeding Menhaden 
and other fish, and the raisers, when 
taking them to market, have to tag 
them, “ Warranted not Fish Fed” to in¬ 
sure their bringing anywhere near what 
Eastern ducks would be sold at in New 
York markets. These duck raisers tell 
us that it was all right to feed little 
ducks fish, but it should be discontinued 
long before they are to be marketed. 
Cooking the fish and removing the oil, 
made them less objectionable for this 
purpose. 
When the fish-fed ducks have been 
kept awhile and then cooked, there is 
such a strong, fishy taste and odor that 
they are objectionable. One New York 
dealer told me that he would rather have 
lost $1,000 cash than to have had one or 
two of his best customers get such ducks 
from him. Feeding fish, it was said, had 
set back the sale of green ducks very 
much, and injured the business on Long 
Island to a great extent; but this was a 
number of years ago. The dessieated 
fish people say that their fish have all of 
the oil removed, and being steam-cooked, 
will not give any fishy taste to ducks, 
chickens or eggs. Most duck raisers 
now prefer, I believe, to feed good beef 
scraps. 
The “ white night cap,” mentioned by 
Mr. Truslow, is composed of urates, and 
is the same as what is passed off in the 
urine of animals. They are projected 
into the cloaca with the feces, and when 
the bowels are not too loose, or their 
contents do not pass too often, the urates 
accumulate sufficiently to give this white 
appearance to a part of the droppings. 
SAMUEL CUSHMAN. 
Lameness Cured 
Used and Endorsed 
by Adams Ex. Co. 
a few applications. If 
yonr horse is lame and 
you cannot locate it. ap¬ 
ply the Elixir, which lo¬ 
cates lameness by re¬ 
maining moist on the 
part alTected, the rest 
drying out. A few more 
applications will effect a 
cure. Never scars or 
changes the hair. 
is the standard remedy for Colic, Curbs, Splints, 
1 Contracted and Knotted Cords, Shoe Boils, 
t Callous of all kinds, Spavins, Ringbone, Cockle 
l Joints, etc. It is warranted to give satisfaction. 
Most highly endorsed by prominent horsemen. 
TUTTLE’S ELIXIR 
Tuttle's Family Elixir cures Rheumatism, 
Sprains, Bruises, Pains, etc. Samples of either 
Elixir free for three 2-eent, stamps for postage. 
Fifty cents buys either Elixir of any druggist, 
or it will be sent direct on receipt of price. 
I)R. S. A. TUTTLE, Sole Proprietor, 
27 Beverly Street, - BOSTON, MASS f 
Reduces MILK & FLESH K FLIES 
NO FLIES, VERMIN or SORES on HORSE 
or COW (X more milk.) 
ISHOO-FLY! 
The ORIGINAL STOCK PROTECTOR 1885. 
Thousands of testimonials from 37 States. If your 
dealer offers a substitute, send 60c. and our agent in 
your State will express one quart. $1.6(1 per gal. 1 gal¬ 
lon lasts 3 animals a season. Agents wanted. 
SHOO-KLY UFO. CO., 1006 Fall-mount Are., i’bllnileljihla. 
COOPER 
Will 
make 
wool 
grow 
Book on dipping mailed free, by 
Cooper & Nephews, Galveston, Tex. 
100 gal. pkt. $2, 25 gal. pkt. 50c 
Kills and 
Prevents 
Ticks, 
Lice 
and 
Scab 
DIP 
The “Lakeside” Herd. 
CLOTHILDE H. H. B. 1308. 
Milk record 26,021 pounds 2 ounces In a year. But¬ 
ter record, 28 pounds 2X ounces In a week. 
We have 100 of this cow's descendants for sale. If 
this Is the class of cattle you want, write to 
SMITHS & POWELL CO., Syracuse, N.Y. 
HIGHEST CLASS REGISTERED 
JERSEY CATTLE 
R F. SHANNON, PITTSBURGH, PA. 
rnR C II C— IS A. J. C. C. .Jerseys, 1 to 15 
lUn wNLC months old, solid fawns, St. Lam¬ 
bert and Pedro strains; very choice. Write for what 
you want. EDWARD WALTER, West Chester, Pa. 
FINELY BRED 
50 Holstein-Friesian Bulls 50 
OF VARYING AGES. 
Will sell for the next 30 days at reduced prices in 
Order to Close Them Out, 
ADDRESS 
THE MAPLES STOCK FARM. Binghamton, N.Y. 
HARRY REEDER & CO i of Imported stock, 
cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, house and hunting dogs. 
Ulustrated catalog free. Thokndale, Chester Co.,Pa 
A HOT WAVE brought Spring, but the BERK¬ 
SHIRE CYCLONE swept away opposing breeds. 
Order young stock at once. 
Willswood Herd 
Recorded Berkshire Swine. 
WILLS A. SEWARD, 207 Broadway. New York City. 
To secure results, correspond with me in reference 
to Purchasing and Selling Thoroughbred Live Stock. 
Eloquence fob the Cow.—In the de¬ 
bate in Congress over the “Filled Cheese 
Bill,” Representative Dolliver of Iowa, 
ended a speech in favor of the measure 
as follows : 
I say, give the American cow a fair chance. 
She has been the faithful servant of man. She 
landed with our ancestors at Plymouth Rock, 
and, tied behind the old weather-beaten emigrant 
wagon, she has marched, with the household 
goods of the pioneers who have taken possession 
of this country, from ocean to ocean. She has in¬ 
creased and multiplied and replenished theeartb, 
until to-day, the industries which she has made 
possible, contribute annually to the wealth of the 
world more money than the great combinations 
of modern capital—more than iron and steel, 
more than lumber and coal, more than cotton 
and wheat, more than all the looms of New Eng¬ 
land, more than all the mysterious riches of gold 
and silver. Yet there are men in this House 
whom I have beard to-day sneering at this bill, 
who spend most of their time trying to get pro¬ 
tection for some insignificant local enterprise, or 
“ talking through their hats” in the silver debate. 
I say, give the American cow a fair chance. 
For myself, I am in favor, Mi-. Brumm, of her 
monopoly—a monopoly that God gave her—in the 
production of butter and cheese. That is one 
monopoly that I am in favor of. And if every 
man in this House who in the days of liis boy¬ 
hood got up at daylight to feed the cows, and 
stayed up after dark in order to milk them ; 
if every man who has churned actual cream 
with a reliable upright churn, and has watched 
with a boy’s enthusiasm, the old-fashioned pro¬ 
cess of making cheese in the days of its 
honor and repute, will stand by this bill, we 
will drive from the American barnyard the horde 
of counterfeiters and cheats at common law, and 
keep them out ‘‘till the cows come home.” 
Mr, Dolliver makes one little mistake. 
The cow did not “land at Plymouth 
Rock” with the Pilgrims. The first of 
their cattle came two years after the 
Mayflower landed. 
Give Attention to the first symptoms of a Lung 
’Complaint, and check the dreaded disease in its in- 
cipiency by using Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant, a safe, 
old-fashioned remedy for all affections of the Lungs 
and Bronchia. The best family Pill, Jayne's Painless 
Sanative.— Adr. 
Horse Owners! Use 
GOMBAULT’S 
Caustic 
Balsam 
A Safe Speedy and Positive l 
The Safest, Beat BLISTER ever used. Tai 
the place of all liniments for mild or severe actr 
Removes all Bunches or Blemishes from Hor« 
and Cattle. SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTEF 
OR FIRINC Impossible to produce scar or blemi 
Every bottle sold is warranted to give satlsfactl 
Price $ | ,50 per bottle. Sold by druggists, 
sent by express charges paid, with full directk 
lor its use. Send for descriptive circulars, 
THE LAWRENCE-W1LLIAMS CO.. Cleveland 
A SOLID 
LINIMENT 
FOR MAN 
OR BEAST 
Heals fresh cuts without a scar, 
and cures old sores and lameness 
Inflamed Udder (Garget) cured in 
12 hrs. Also, cures Rheumatism 
in pigs and other animals. Nobad 
smell or stain; fully guaranteed 
50c. a box, postpaid. PASTE UR A 
MEDICINE CO., Chittenango.N-Y, 
If druggist cannot supply, send $1.75 for $2 pkt. to 
CYRIL FBANCKLYN. Cotton Exchange, N. Y. City. 
Feeders of Stock 
Kindly Stop a Minute. 
We wish to remind you of the 
Importance of using liberally 
OUR LINSEED OIL MEAL. 
Never before has linseed oil meal been anything 
like as low in price as now, and as prevailing prices 
are not remunerative to the manufacturer, feeders 
can readily reason that prices must soon be higher. 
Address 
DETROIT LINSEED OIL WORKS, 
DETROIT MICH. 
N OW READY. The finest 
Chester Whites I ever bred, 
2 to 6 months old, at reduced 
prices, in keeping with the 
times. Breeding stock all reg. 
in Nat’l Chester White Rec¬ 
ord. Send two-cent stamp 
for circular and price list. 
Also two litters of SCOTCH COLLIE PUPS. 
Edw’d Walter. Eureka Stock Farm, W. Chester, Pa. 
Sir Francis2969. 
Choice Poland-Chinas 
Berkshires, Chester Whites 
and Poultry. Our spring pigs 
and prices will please you; 
taking orders now. to be filled 
when pigs are eight weeks, 
mated not akin. Berkshire Boars all ages. 
HAMILTON & CO., Cochranvllle, Chester Co., Pa. 
—Purebred POLAND- 
CHINA PIGS. 
Ef?KS for Hatching. 
SEND FOR CATALOGUE. 
F. H. GATES 2Cs SONS, Chittenango, N. Y 
OIL 
MEAL. 
(Our old) 
V Process/ 
LINSEED 
For Horses. Cows, 
Sheep, Hogs, Fowls, etc. 
Health, Strength, Produc¬ 
tive Pmver to animals. For 
Pure Linseed Oil, or Meal 
OIL 
and White Lead' 
Makes paint last for years 
on House, Barn, Fence,Ac 
“Ready Mixed” paints 
are doubtful quality. 
andWhlteLead ask for‘*Thompson’s,”or address mfrs. 
17 W. Diamond 8t.,Allegheny, Pa., THOMPSON & CO. 
Pfll AND fiHINA^~ Large strains - reg’d stock. 
■ wLMIlU U II1 1" Hu Young stock a specialty. 
Price right. ALISON BAKER, Smyrna, Lane. Co.,Pa. 
B erkshire, cheater whHw, 
Jersey Red and Poland China 
'PIGS. Jersey, Guernsey and 
Holstein Cattle. Thoroughbred 
Sheep. Fancy Poultry. Hunting 
_ __and House Dogs. Catalogue. 
8. W. 8AllTII, Cochran ville* Cheater Co.*, Penes* 
SOMETHING NEW ! 
CANNED MEAT FOR POULTRY 
This food is nice, fresh meat, carefully cooked, 
ground fine, seasoned, and hermetically sealed. Will 
keep an unlimited time until opened. Conveniently 
put up in eight-pound cans. Especially adapted for 
chickens and moulting fowl. 
Being ground fine, it can be readily mixed with the 
soft food, and fed so as to give each fowl an equal 
share. Price, 30 cents per can; $3 per dozen. 
ADDRESS 
HOLLIS DRESSED MEAT AND WOOL CO„ 
20 North Street, Boston, Mass. 
S. G. Brown Leghorns. 
The best egg producers; eggs, $1 per 13. 
R. S. COL E, Harmans, MU. 
GOLDEN WYANDOTTES SSS2 t .,T: 
from healthy and vigorous stock of fine breeding, at 
$1 per 13. O. N. BRAINARD, Painesville, Ohio. 
W. and Buff P. Rock and W. Wyan- 
dottes. Circulars free. 
DR. H. J. ASHLEY, Machias, N. Y 
R ARE BIRDS FOR SALE.-Show Birds. Breeding 
8 tock. Eggs for hatching. Represent years of 
careful breeding. Strains well known from Canada to 
Texas. Knob Mountain Poultry Farm. Orangeville,Pa 
J. D. Souder, Telford, Pa. All var. Poultry. Pigeons, 
Eggs, $1 18 15, $3 V 52. Fine col. cat. 4c.. cir. free. 
GRANULATED DONE FOR POULTRY. 
Bone Meal, Crushed Oyster Shells, Calcite, Crushed 
Flint, Ground Beef Scraps. Send for Price List. 
YORK CHEMICAL WORKS, York, Pa. 
O RR’S Clear Grit Quarterly. Free to any ad¬ 
dress. A postal brings it. Box 13, Orr’s Mills, N. Y. 
INCUBATORS, 
BROODERS, VEG ETA BLE and 
CLOVER CUTTERS. 
BONE and GRAIN MILLS. 
A complete line of poultry supplies at 
lowest prices .Green 
cut bone will | 
MAKE HENS LAY 
inWinter and produce 
,«■ fertile eggs for hatch- 
ug. Send 4c.for catalog and valu- 
blo information on poultry raisin 
Im 
lablo information on poultry raisingt" 
IPKERLESS INCUBATOR Ac BROODER to., Absolut.-ff 
i «•.<»«* »".«™ ..... Self-Regulating, 
613 II Ohio St., (JUI.VUY, ILL. 
CCftjn STAMP for Illustrated Catalogue of BROOK- 
0LIUI SIDE POULTRY FARM, Columbus, N. J. 
R. C. B. Leghorn, choice breeding 
stock. $1 per sitting. A few Light 
Brahma, W. and B. X*. Rock Cockerels, 
at $1.50; Leghorn Cockerels, $1 each. 
> exchange a breeding pen of either 
Light Brahma or White Plymouth Rocks for a first- 
class 1D0 Egg Incubator in good working order. 
Golden Dent Corn ripens in 100 days: 75 cents for 
50 pounds. S. A. LITTLE. Malcom, Seneca Co., N. Y. 
B ROWN I.EGIIORNS, best layers cm earth ! R.-C., 
15 eggs, $1.50. MYRA Y. NOKYS, Cranford, N. J. 
SCOTCH COLLIE PUPS 
by son of Champ Christopher. Other 
sires and dams from Reg. and Imp. 
stock. Pups shipped safely to dis¬ 
tant points. FRED. G. BOWMAN, 
Springboro, Pa. 
EGGS 
Should like t 
Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Swine. 
Geo. W. Curtis, M. S. A. Origin, History, 
Improvement, Description, Characteristics, 
Merits, Objections, Adaptability South, etc., 
of each of the Different Breeds, with Hints on 
Selection, Care and Management. Methods of 
practical breeders of the United States and 
Canada. Superbly illustrated. About 100 full- 
page cuts. Cloth, $2. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New Yobk. 
ELLIOT’S PARCHMENT BUTTER PAPER. SSi* CDEC 
To dairymen or others w no will use It, we will send half a ream, 8x11, free, If they I lm Hh El 
will forward 30 cents to pay postage. Why not try the Best Butter Wrapper ? 
A. G. ELLIOT & CO., Paper Manufacturers, Philadelphia, Pa. 
