1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
LIVE STOCK MATTERS. 
(CONTINUED.) 
feeding- about two-thirds as much as 
Timothy hay, and one-half as much as 
clover hay, although for market pur¬ 
poses, these values would, probably, be 
reversed. jared van wagenen jr. 
No Faith in Straw. 
I have never had any experience with 
buckwheat straw, and have Dot much 
faith in straw of any kind, as a cow 
feed. I have sometimes spliced out with 
' wheat and oat straw, when short of hay; 
but notwithstanding its formula value, 
the results have not been satisfactory. 
There is still time to raise a crop of 
millet or Hungarian grass, and with the 
present low price of bran, it should not 
be very difficult to make up a ration of 
corn fodder, millet, wheat bran, cob 
meal, linseed or cotton-seed meal (the 
latter preferred), and turnips if desired ; 
but the latter are of small value, like¬ 
wise sowed corn fodder if thickly sown. 
Fully-grown, well-ripened corn fodder 
is cheaper at 3 to 3% cents per bundle, 
than sown corn at half that value. 
Pennsylvania. T. s. 
Shredded Corn Fodder and Bran. 
I have had no experience with buck¬ 
wheat bran, but with good corn stalks 
(preferably shredded), and the variety 
of grains mentioned, there should be no 
difficulty in getting a good milk flow. 
Corn fodder should be sold by the ton. 
Shredded corn fodder sold here for $8 
per ton last winter. I would lay by a 
good store of wheat bran now, when it 
can be bought in Chicago for less than 
$7 per ton. It may be very largely used 
in the place of hay. Were I short of 
hay, I would feed the wheat bran in 
larger amounts than the balanced ration 
would seem to call for ; it would give 
bulk, and in excess can do no harm. 
The meals are mixed in this proportion : 
Wheat bran (coarse), 200 pounds; corn 
meal, 100 pounds; linseed meal, 25 
pounds. The feeding amounts are pro¬ 
portioned to the size of the animals. 
Ohio. j. K. WING. 
ARE BLACK GERMAN HARES PURE ? 
I have bought German hares from four parties. 
They all guaranteed thoroughbred stock, but the 
hares all look like the wild ones in the old country. 
The first pair has young ones, and strange to say, 
there is one black one among them, although the 
old ones are gray. I did not have any black ones 
near. The hares from the second party have 
young ones and there were two black ones 
among seven. The old ones are of rufus red color, 
and an entirely different strain from the first 
pair. They also came from different places. The 
others have no young ones yet. I am anxious to 
have pure stock, and paid a good price for these. 
But does the fact I stated make any difference, 
and prove that they are not purebred ? a. k. 
New Hampshire. 
It is nothing against the strain or the 
purity of it for the hares to throw black 
young occasionally ; on the contrary, it 
is much to be desired, and breeders so 
doing are highly prized, as the black 
ticking is indispensable in a well-marked 
Belgian or Flemish Giant; the blood 
strong enough to give it will throw some 
pure black young ones. In a rabbitry 
that is a little weak in color, a black doe 
is a Godsend. I inclose clipping from 
Fur and Feathers, handed me by E. M. 
Hughes, who is undoubtedly the best 
posted rabbit fancier in America, which 
appeared in the Poultry Monthly for 
May, 1895 : 
The value of Black Belgian hares for stud pur¬ 
poses is very imperfectly understood. As you 
are aware, the old breeders made very successful 
use of them. In my remarks, I do not accept the 
principle of mating common black rabbits with 
Belgians, which is a foolish and disastrous thing 
to do. I also utterly condemn the use of blacks 
obtained from dark and smutty parents. But as 
black is part of the color of a Belgian, at times 
they are likely to throw a black, however pure¬ 
bred they may be. For many reasons, they are 
invaluable. They are very useful for does lack¬ 
ing tone and too light in color ; and they also 
infuse richer blood into their offspring, which 
grow like wood. They are always the most 
healthy, the strongest and the finest in the litter ; 
who ever knew one poorly ? Why are they black ? 
My answer is that .Nature seems to have had all 
its orce, energy and vitality concentrated, and 
thus produces a black. Why not work with 
Nature by using those charged and surcharged 
with such force and energy ? In our ignorance, 
we have used the weaklings and destroyed the 
strong ones. What can be better than a pure 
black from a doe full of deep color and a highly 
colored buck ? To me, such a brood doe or stock 
buck is of the highest service. 
A. R. probably has the Belgian hare 
and the Flemish Giant, the rufus red 
being the former and the gray the latter. 
German hares are merely a mixture of 
the two, and are not a pure breed of 
themselves, as I understand it. There is 
great ignorance among our breeders of 
rabbits concerning these. A rufus red, 
with the proper markings of black tick¬ 
ing, if not over large, say, 10 or 11 pounds, 
is a Belgian ; the gray, with the black 
ticking and weighing above 11 pounds, 
are, probably, Flemish or strongly of 
their blood. The Belgian and Flemish 
are entirely different in form and build, 
the former being small boned, delicate, 
lean head and flank tucked up, no sign 
of potbelly unless with young or after 
years of breeding. The Flemish have 
heavy bodies, round, heavy heads, big¬ 
boned, weighing 12 to 17 pounds each. 
B. HOLMES, JR. 
NOTES ON MOULTING HENS. 
When forced with rich food for egg 
production for some time, hens become 
exhausted, and when hot weather comes, 
they feel its effects very much, especial¬ 
ly if yarded and unable to make them¬ 
selves comfortable by getting in the 
shade, or to secure insects and succulent 
green food. Grain food becomes dis¬ 
tasteful to them, and if forced to eat it 
or nothing, they are likely to have in¬ 
digestion. If moulting takes place at 
this time, they are not well nourished, 
cannot meet the demand caused by the 
growth of new feathers, and exist 
miserably. If they do not become dis¬ 
eased, they are a long time growing the 
new plumage. Some individuals and 
some breeds moult better than others. 
The greatest layers get the most run 
down, if they suffer hardship. Vigor 
and vitality have much to do with it. 
Very old turkeys, pigeons and other 
birds are longer in moulting or growing 
new feathers than young ones. 
At moultiDg time, hens, if confined 
and neglected, can not digest the quan¬ 
tity and kind of food that was possible 
in cooler weather or earlier in the 
season. After hens stop laying, or dur¬ 
ing hot weather, some raisers feed them 
but little and mostly hard grain, usually 
oats and wheat. A hen ought to be as 
well nourished when moulting as when 
laying; otherwise, she is unfitted to 
meet the tax. To shorten the period, I 
would keep them in the best possible 
condition after the laying season is over, 
and give food that is more easily di¬ 
gested, like meat, milk, etc., and free 
range where grass and insects abound. 
Thus provided for, I would value corn 
as food more than wheat or oats. Meat, 
both fat and lean, is appreciated by 
fowls at this period as well as at any 
other, and the craving that induces 
feather eating is appeased and feather 
picking prevented by such food. 
Succulent food, pure air, and quarters 
that are cool as well as fresh and clean, 
are as grateful to fowls, and contribute 
as much to tlieir welfare as to that of 
human beings. I would not take this 
pains for the eggs that might be secured 
during the moult, but in order to keep 
the hens in good condition all the time 
If the breed is superior, and everything 
is favorable, there may be a surplus for 
both egg production and feather growth. 
I believe that a quick-moulting habit 
can be influenced by selection and breed¬ 
ing, but would expect that it would also 
lessen the egg production. I think that 
it will be found that, age, breed and 
everything else being equal, the great¬ 
est layers will be the longest in moult¬ 
ing, and hens that have spent some time 
sitting, will moult easier than those that 
have not. samukl cushman. 
49 i 
What Causes Bad Milk ?—While I 
have no proof—only a belief in the mat¬ 
ter—I have a strong suspicion that im¬ 
perfect digestion in a cow, may have 
much to do with odors in milk, and that 
in the case of those heifers mentioned 
on page 430, something along this line 
would account for the disagreeable taste. 
It is a well-known fact that a cow turned 
into fresh clover and allowed to eat at 
l’roteet Your Stock From Flies. 
Myself and patrons have been so delighted with the 
otTeetof “Shoo-Fly,” manufactured in Philadelphia, 
I’a., that I made duplicate orders in May. aggregating 
250 quarts. J. W. BUSHEK. 
Kansas City. Mo. 
1 have used Shoo-Fly two years on my cows. It 
pays. Send me Twenty-live (25) gallons. 
Fallsington. Bucks Co., I*a. II. W. COMFORT. 
CDCnifil Send 20c.: will return 1 pint Shoo-Fly. 
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will, gives a milk for a few days that 
has a very rank taste, and then as the 
animal gets accustomed to the food, the 
milk returns to its normal state. It may 
be that it is overeating, although pas¬ 
ture grass, that causes the trouble. Of 
course, the trouble has remedied itself by 
this time, but if not, I would restrict the 
grass rations of the heifers to some ex¬ 
tent, and give them the old western rem¬ 
edy to promote appetite—salt and ashes. 
I know of only one or two remedies or, 
rather, agents to neutralize these odors 
in the milk—heat and aeration. As a 
trial, I would heat the milk to 160 de¬ 
grees in a water-jacketed can, aerate it 
at the same time and afterwards, and 
then cool it down to a normal shipping 
temperature. If it could be run through 
a separator with the gate wide open, and 
the cream returned and mixed, it would 
be another help. If cream alone is 
wanted for customers, it could be diluted 
in three times its bulk of water at 85 
degrees, allowed to rise the second time, 
and the thorough incorporation of the 
cream and water, would enable the water 
to take up these flavors. I know of only 
three remedies, entire change of rations 
for a time, the employment of heat to 
150 degrees and above, and thorough 
aeration, either singly or in combination. 
Ohio. .JOHN GOULD. 
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Dr. D. Jayne's Expectorant. It may cost you a dol¬ 
lar, but may also save you many more dollars, to¬ 
gether with much danger and suffering, for you will 
then have tne surest known remedy. The best family 
Pill, Jayne’s Painless Sanative — Adv. 
A Perfect Butter Package for preserving 
butter, fresh and sweet, without ice, has been 
placed on the market by the Noblestown Manu¬ 
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package for preserving butter has long been 
wanted by dairymen; now that such a preserving 
vessel is on the market, low summer prices may 
be avoided, the butter properly packed and held 
for advanced prices in fall or winter. Bursou’s 
Preserving Vessel is illustrated and fully de¬ 
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readers who write to the Noblestown Manufac¬ 
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ra 
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There is a TIME for ALL. and NOW is that TIME 
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One-year Breeding Hens. $1; six for $5. 
One-year Cocks. $2. Eggs, 75c. per sitting. 
_ _ Stock and Eggs guaranteed pure. 
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and 
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