1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
! 795 
Oil Meal for Live Stock. 
(CONTINUED.) 
meal to a pailful of milk. It is made a 
part of the warm mash fed to the hens 
in the morning—one to two quarts to 
each 100 hens—and seems to take the 
place of meat, or nearly so. It is cheaper 
and more convenient than most forms 
of meat. A single handful mixed in the 
milk or grain of very young calves, will 
do wonders for them. I have fed as 
high as two quarts per day to milch 
cows, and find that it softens the hard, 
crumbly Jersey butter a little in winter, 
which pleases some customers. I feed 
small doses at first, gradually increasing 
until I see the animal is gaining and 
putting on a glossy coat. 
I cannot tell how much it is safe to 
feed, as I never yet fed enough to make 
an animal sick, and do not think that 
any amount within reason would harm 
an animal accustomed to it providing it 
were sweet and had not baked in the 
bag. I would feed it with wheat bran, 
oats and buckwheat, one or all, for cows, 
with bran for horses, with fine middlings 
for pigs and with boiled potatoes, ground 
oats and wheat bran for hens. It will 
take the place of corn in a good many 
cases. It is said to have a manurial 
value of $18 or more per ton. 
A few years ago, when grain was much 
higher, it was a cheap feed, but at the 
present time, the use of more than 
enough to act as a tonic may not be 
profitable, unless one lives near the fac¬ 
tory and can save freight. 
New York. c. E. chapman. 
“SOUTHERN CATTLE FEVER.” 
CAN IT HE PREVENTED ? 
Is there any real preventive for murrain or 
acclimation fever in northern cattle? Which 
would be the safest time in the year to ship cattle 
from Pennsylvania to Virginia, or vice versa ? 
Killing Off the Ticks. 
It has been pretty conclusively shown 
that the Southern Cattle tick (Boophilus 
bo vis), is the “carrier” of the germ that 
causes this disease. Dr. Cooper Curtice 
of the Bureau of Animal Industry, has 
made most extensive investigations of 
the disease, and is now engaged in locat¬ 
ing the “ quarantine” line, south of 
which the country is found to be infested 
with the ticks, etc. The Secretary of 
Agriculture has inaugurated a system 
of rigid inspection and quarantine. The 
State of Virginia has enacted a quaran¬ 
tine law. The general conclusions that 
have been reached are : Cattle brought 
to the south of the quarantine line at 
any time between March 1 and Novem¬ 
ber 1, are liable to become infested with 
the ticks, and to contract the fever. If 
brought south after November 1, and 
before March 1, the cattle will, probably, 
have a mild attack of the disease in 
April or May, from which they will 
generally recover. This recovery is 
especially predicated of young cattle. 
The theory of this is that such cattle, 
brought south in the winter, will get a 
few ticks on them early in the season, 
sufficient to produce a mild type of the 
fever, but not usually fatal. The ticks 
do not survive the winter, but a few of 
their eggs do survive. 
This station received, on August 27, 
1895, two adult cows from northern 
Maryland. These cows had never been 
exposed to ticks, never had the Texas 
fever, therefore, were not “ immune.” 
On the day of arrival, the animals were 
placed in a pasture from which the ticks 
had been carefully destroyed, but in 
constant association with native cattle 
running in the same pasture. The re¬ 
sult has been that neither has had any 
disease whatever, although they have 
passed two summers in the same pas¬ 
ture. Therefore, we safely conclude 
that the only precaution necessary in 
moving cattle from the North to the 
South, at any time, is to prevent ticks 
getting on them. 
The Bureau has made some elaborate 
experiments in inoculation, with a view 
to discover whether the disease may not 
be prevented, or attacks greatly modified 
in severity, by inoculating subjects with 
attenuated virus cultures, etc. 
I am satisfied that there is nothing in 
the climate, the water, or the pastures 
of the South, excepting the cattle ticks, 
that is calculated to produce sickness in 
cattle brought here from the North, at 
any season whatever. The Texas fever 
is the only disease to which such cattle 
become subject, and this may be pre¬ 
vented, or modified in severity, as I have 
suggested. After an animal has once 
had the disease, even in very mild form, 
it is ever after “ immune ”. Even our 
native cattle must take precisely the 
same risk, and are just as likely to die 
of Texas fever, as are northern cattle, if 
exposed in the same way. It is no un¬ 
common thing for an adult native to con¬ 
tract the fever from being exposed to 
tick-infested pasture after having been 
kept free from ticks up to the time of 
such exposure. 
Ticks are almost everywhere through¬ 
out the South. As a matter of fact, our 
cattle, probably, take the disease in mild 
form while calves, getting a very few 
ticks on them in the early spring, and 
thereafter are “immune”. This fact 
amounts to practical immunity from the 
disease. In the matter of ridding a 
pasture of ticks, we find no difficulty at 
all. It is only necessary carefully to 
pick off the ticks from the herd of cattle, 
say once or twice a week, throughout 
one season, not permitting any females 
to reach maturity, and the job is accom¬ 
plished. We have done this on the Sta¬ 
tion farm, and also on an adjoining farm 
(above referred to). 
The danger in moving cattle from Vir¬ 
ginia to Pennsylvania relates not to the 
cattle so removed, but to the cattle that 
may be associated, or herded with, the 
newcomers. In such case, it is only 
necessary to quarantine the southern 
immigrant cow for a week or two, or 
until every tick has developed to view 
and been removed and destroyed. 
Georgia Ex. Station, r. j. redding. 
Ticks in Virginia. 
Years ago, I stated that the cattle 
ticks abound only in some States, only 
in some sections of those States, and 
more so in some localities of those sec¬ 
tions than in others. All that I said 
then and since about the so-called Texas 
fever has been more than corroborated 
by a recent protracted trip. In those 
sections where the cattle ticks abound, 
cattle' are less numerous and their ap¬ 
pearance would indicate that they do not 
receive proper attention. But the truth 
is that they really receive more care, and 
are a greater expense to their owners 
than the cattle ip sections naturally 
more favorable to their well-being. The 
home of the tick is a poor home for the 
cattle. Sometimes a large stream marks 
the difference between successful cattle 
raising and the reverse. A strict quar¬ 
antine is maintained by some counties 
separated from others only by a river. 
Up in Botetourt County, for example, I 
saw some of the finest cattle I ever laid 
eyes on. This was not the exception, 
but the rule. Into such sections, I 
would not hesitate to ship cattle from 
non-tick infested regions at almost any 
time, but the safer plan would be to 
ship between December 1 and March 1. 
There is no such thing as a preventive 
for murrain, or tick fever, with the pos¬ 
sible exception of keeping the cattle 
from ticks in such sections where the 
disease abounds. Even this exception 
will, in practice, be found to be an 
impossibility. To such sections, mature 
cattle should never be shipped unless 
one has plenty of money to afford the 
risk. A cow, in 99 cases out of 100, 
would prove a dead loss. A good bull 
at a moderate price and used at once 
with a number of acclimated cows, 
might prove a profitable investment in 
his progeny, even though he might not 
survive himself. Calves shipped where 
ticks abound stand a fair show when 
shipped during the winter months. Per¬ 
sonally, 1 have never lost an animal 
with which these precautions were 
taken, although it is more than I can 
economically do to keep the ticks con¬ 
stantly from their skins. 
Summing up, then, my advice in gen¬ 
eral would be never to ship mature cat¬ 
tle into counties where the cattle tick is 
known to abound. Calves should be 
shipped only after cold weather sets in. 
Even with these there is a risk to run, 
but the possible profits induced me years 
ago to take the chances, and I have 
never regretted having done so. As re¬ 
gards the counties where the ticks do 
not exist, and where native murrain is 
no more to be dreaded than in Penn¬ 
sylvania. I can see no valid objection to 
introducing healthv cattle at any time 
when the authorities of those counties 
will permit it. The thing for the in¬ 
tending shipper to do is first to ascertain 
whether a given locality is safe as re¬ 
gards murrain, and next, when he will 
be at liberty to ship in case there are 
anv restrictions. J. c. senger. 
Virginia. 
JERSEY 
CATTLE 
First-Class Dairy Stocks 
Registered CALVES, 
BULLS and COWS. 
R. F. SHANNON,] 
907 Liberty st, Pittsburgh. Pa. 
Farm, Edgeworth,P.F.W.&C.R.R 
GUERNSEYS. 
Fifty head choice Cows, Heifers 
and Bulls for Sale. 
ELLERSLIE STOCK FARM, 
RH1NECI.IKF, N. Y. 
INCREASE the BUTTER FAT, by using a Bull 
Calf from 
Willswood Herd 
Registered Cuernsey Cattle. 
WILLS A. SEWARD, Budd’s Lake, N. J. 
Our only daughter had a severe Cough. It con¬ 
tinued to grow worse for over a year. We thought 
she was going into consumption and were very 
anxious about her. Jayne's Expectorant was recom¬ 
mended. After the first two doses, we saw a change, 
and in a very little time, she fully recovered.—A. H. 
MASSEY. Shieldsville. Minn.. Nov. 8 , 1895. 
For constipation take Jayne’s Sanative Pills.— Aclv. 
HORSEMEN 
RECOMMEND 
TUTTLE’S ELIXIR 
Used and Endorsed 
by Adams Ex. Co. 
As a sure, safe and 
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Cu rb, Splint#, Contracted 
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tons of all kinds. Shoe , 
Boils, when first started. 
etc. For Ringbone,i 
Spavins. Cockle Joints, 
etc., nothing else will 
give surer or quicker re¬ 
lief. It will locate lame¬ 
ness when applied by re¬ 
maining moist on part 
affected. The rest dries 
out. A few more appli¬ 
cations will cure. 
READ WIT AT OTHERS SAY: 
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liniment I have ever used, and I would recom¬ 
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1 on his shoulder, caused by wearinga new collar. 
Less than one bottle of your Elixir cured itafter 
six mouths’standing. L. W. Fisher, Wolcott,V i. 
Tuttle’s Family Elixir cures Rheumatism, 1 
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Elixir sent free for three 2-cent stamps to pay 
postage. SOcentsbuyseltherElixirofanydrug¬ 
gist, or it will be sent direct on receipt of price. 
DR. S. A. TUTTLE, Sole Proprietor, 
27 R Beverly Street, BOSTON, MASS 
WHEN A COW 
Forgets to Breed 
it. Is no sign she is ready to 
die - but a symptom of 
something wrong, which 
Injectio Vaginae 
BOOK OF HINTS FHKE, 
MOORE BROS., Albany, N. Y. 
OIREGT-UM BIT 
Best Combination Bit made 
Severe or Easy 
as you want it. 
Sample mailed,XC $1.00. 
Nickel $1.50. 
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CHENANGO VALLEY 
ourgh, Jr., Proprietor. Dorset Horn, Shropshire and 
Rambonlllet Sheep, Dutch Belted and Jersey cattle: 
also Poland-China, Jersey Red and Suffolk Pigs. 
^YORKSHIRES 
Excel them all for Bacon and Family 
Pork. Pigs, young Boars and Sows 
and Yearlings for sale. Write for what 
you want. A few Cheshires for sale. 
B. J. HURLBUT, CLYMER, N. Y. 
Yorkshire and Berkshire and eligible, at 
prices that will get orders. 
FRANK A. VAN NESS, Baldwinsville, N. Y. 
□ C D V C U I D C Pigs, $8.50 to $5 each; six weeks old, 
□ LnlxOnlnL American Dominique Cockerels, $1. 
Mothers—three pullets—laid 80 eggs in 31 days. 
J. B. MILLER, Grantsville, Md. 
Hegr. Poland-Cliinas, 
Berkshires & Chester Whites 
Choice Strains: 8 -week Pigs; 
Boars and Sows, all ages, not 
— M — , akin. Send ytrnr address for 
description and hard times 
prices. Hamilton & Co. Cochranville, Chester Co., Pa. 
YOU 
CAN 
MAKE MONEY 
BY BUYING 
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F. H. GATES & SONS. CHITTENANGO, N. Y, 
Duroc-Jcrseys and Poultry ‘llrTZ '"SS 
fashionable breeding. C. C Brawley, New Madison.O 
WolLDfOrl Duroc-Jersey Pigs and 
vll U IvU White Holland Turkeys 
at farmers’ prices. G. 0. BEARD, Fairland, N. Y. 
TRUE TYPE CHESTER WHITES 
ever asked I am the only Breeder with enough faith 
in the quality of his stock to guarantee to refund 
money and pay freight both ways on any stock re¬ 
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riineli!rne _Service b01rs ’ sows bred ana 
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CHESHIRES FROM FOUNDATION HERD 
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BEFORE BUYING A NEW HARNESS 
Sendyouraddress with 2cstamp for Ulus. 
.Catalog, giving full description of Single 
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BRONZE TURKEYS 
‘—100 for sale, at $2 
each; also. Lang- 
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H. A. BUMPUS, DeRuyter. N. Y. 
C ockerels, Pekin Ducks and Ground Beef Scraps. 
BKOOKSIDE POULTRY FARM, Columbus, N. J 
For a knife that will cut a horn without l 
crushing, because it cuts from four 
- - - sj.lcs at once pet 
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It is humane, rapid and durable. Fully » | 
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Crushed Oyster Shells, Calcito, Crushed Flint, Granu¬ 
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