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April 15, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
SHEEP NOTES. 
Forage for Sheep. 
What forage plants beside rape are good 
sheep feed? I want something to come in 
before rape. G. u n. 
Elba, N. Y. 
As a forage plant rape stands at the 
head of the list as sheep feed. If G. L. N. 
wants something earlier he doubtless 
means something green before pasture, as 
that usually supplies sufficient feed from 
early May to the middle or last of June. 
I know of nothing that he can sow this 
Spring that he can pasture off earlier than 
grass. If he has a piece of rye, sown 
last Fall, that will supply the lack, and 
make good feed, by the middle or last of 
Aoril, and it can be pastured until well 
into June. Care must be taken, how¬ 
ever, not to give the sheep too much of 
it on the start, or it will scour them, which 
will not only weaken them, but make 
quite a serious loss by soiling the wool. 
The sheep must also be kept off it, when 
the ground is wet, or they will stamp it, 
or pull it out. 
If the pasture is short early in the sea¬ 
son and fodder or green feed is scarce, 
silage will (if obtainable) keep up a fine 
flow of milk in the ewes, almost equal 
to grass. I am feeding largely of it this 
Spring, with excellent results. Malt 
sprouts that are clean and bright, when 
soaked up make an excellent feed, bulky, 
succulent and a good milk producer. I 
have just put in some at $19 a ton, 22 
per cent protein, and I consider them at 
present prices, considering their content, 
cheaper than hay. 
Chilled Lambs. —At this season it 
sometimes happens that a young lamb gets 
chilled soon after birth. The custom is 
to take such in by the stove, with the 
result that the ewe often refuses to own 
it when it is brought back, and the change 
of temperature from 70 to 80 degrees near 
the kitchen stove to 40 or 50 degrees in 
a good stable is so great that the last 
state is worse than the first. A better way 
is to fill a stone jug with hot water. Take 
the jug to the barn and curl the lamb 
around it, right near the mother. This 
will warm it thoroughly, quickly and in 
the same temperature in which it is to 
stay, and if a little of the ewe’s milk can 
be got into its stomach when the lamb 
is warm, it will be quickly assimilated, 
and no further trouble will be experi¬ 
enced. _ E. VA N ALSTYNE. 
TROUBLE WITH A SOW 
I have a sow which had a litter of 
seven strong pigs. She killed the first two. 
I took the other five from her as fast as 
they were born. The five seemed all right 
and readily took cow's milk from a spoon 
up to within an hour before they died which 
was between "SO and 48 hours after they were 
born. Their legs seemed to give out and 
they shook all over, more or less. Can 
there be something given to the sow so she 
will own and not kill her pigs? Will the 
sow own her pigs another time? What and 
how should little pigs be fed when taken 
from sow as I did? How warm should they 
be kept when very young. Please give a 
remedy for calves that have scours. 
Connecticut. M. H. 
When a t w destroys her pigs as soon as 
farrowed she is in an unnatural condition. 
In all cases, it is the result of constipa¬ 
tion, and this is caused by improper feed¬ 
ing and lack of exercise. Usually too 
much corn is fed in corn sections, and 
there is no chance given the sow to wan¬ 
der over a grass sward and gather a lit¬ 
tle grass. And more than this, she gets 
no hay or rough forage of any kind. If 
she can have clover hay, she will relish 
it, and it makes no difference, it seems, 
to her if it is the refuse from the horse 
and cattle mangers, and she must gather 
it out of the manure pile. A friend’s 
sows at farrowing time one Spring failed 
to give satisfactory results, and he 
thought of changing the breed, but the 
next Winter he noticed them eating clover 
chaff where it was thrown from the mow 
before distributing to the horses. Act¬ 
ing on the hint, he steeped leaves over 
night in warm water. At the next far¬ 
rowing time results were all that could 
be desired. When constipated, the teats 
are feverish, and the touch of the pigs’ 
noses to the teats puts the sow in a 
frenzy from pain, and makes her a hyena 
in temper. I once saved a litter of pigs 
by bathing the sow’s teats with hot water, 
and rubbing. She would allow this, and 
lie quietly, but till the pain was eased, if 
a pig’s nose would touch her, it seemed 
to make her wild with pain. 
The bathing was kept up till she would 
allow the pigs to suck, and afterwards 
there was no trouble. A noted veter¬ 
inarian advised a feed of fat side meat, 
to prevent trouble after it is known that 
the sow is going to eat her pigs. But we 
do not want to grow—and cure—pork 
for this purpose. Another remedy ad¬ 
vised is laudanum poured in the ear, 
rendering the sow insensible for a time, 
till the pigs have started the milk to flow, 
and reduced the fever. In all cases pre¬ 
vention along the lines spoken of is far 
ahead of any remedy, after the pigs are 
born. From seventy to one hundred pigs 
have been farrowed on this farm each 
year, for a quarter of a century, and no 
sow has destroyed and eaten her litter. 
It is very doubtful whether pigs can be 
saved on cows’ milk taken from the sow 
so young. It will not pay to undertake 
it, for at least they will only be runts. As 
to how warm they should be kept, let 
their actions indicate; if comfortable they 
will be quiet and sleep except when hun¬ 
gry. If too cold they will be noisy. It 
is said that it is unsafe to retain a sow 
for further use after she has killed and 
eaten a litter of pigs. I am not sure 
about this. It is unnatural for a sow to 
do this, and if she is in proper condition 
when she farrows it is unreasonable to 
think that she will remember the taste of 
young pigs that she ate six months before. 
I would not part with a good sow for 
one offense, when 1 knew she came to the 
offense on account of my carelessness. 
White oak bark, boiled, and the ooze used 
as a cure for calves scouring I have found 
to be an excellent remedy. For lambs and 
young pigs I have found copperas an ex¬ 
cellent remedy. If I had occasion I would 
try on the calves. A teaspoonful for a 
60-pound feeding lamb; a dose for a 
calf, doubtless in something like propor¬ 
tion. But I do not like to prescribe for 
others, because I do not know enough 
about it, and am not a professional in that 
line. JOHN M. JAMISON. 
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