1905. 
RATION FOR A HORSE. 
A\il! you make me up a ration to feed my 
work horses? They have to do very hard but 
slow work on a road scraper. The weight is 
about 1,200. Following is a list of the feed 
stuffs : Oats, 45 cents; cornmeal, SI.10: hom¬ 
iny, $1.05 ; bran, $1.15 ; middlings, $1.25; old 
process linseed meal. $1.50; cotton seed meal, 
$1.45. I would like to have a ration that 
will keep them in the best of condition. Will 
it he advisable to feed them a handful of the 
following mixture : Linseed meal, 50 pounds, 
10 pounds cornmeal. two pounds sulphur¬ 
ate of antimony, two pounds ginger, 1% 
pounds saltpeter, two pounds sulphur. 
HurleyviHe. N. Y: n. p. s. 
Probably nowhere in the East are 
horses worked as hard as in the Adiron¬ 
dack lumber forests during the Winter. 
1 he loads are not only very heavy but the 
roads are often bad and over the worst 
grades. You will here find corn and oats, 
equal parts, the universal feed in con¬ 
nection with Timothy hay. This feed is 
not for young animals. Rarely are horses 
used under six years of age. It is there¬ 
fore a question of furnishing energy and 
steam with sufficient protein to replace 
worn tissue. Corn and oats do this. The 
amount of bulk is also right. Horses do 
not need bulky feed. I should presume 
your work would not be as hard, and no 
doubt you could modify this to your ad¬ 
vantage: 100 pounds corn, 100 pounds 
oats, 50 pounds wheat bran and 25 pounds 
oil meal. You can tell how much they 
should have,-no one else can. I would 
or.-t “dope” them with drugs. If the 
horses are healthy and work well, why 
fill them with poisons? _If they are sick 
then treat them for their peculiar ail¬ 
ment. Light feed and rest is about the 
best medicine for man or beast. Give 
nature a chance. Sometimes stimulants 
will carry the flesh farther, but in the end 
the vitality of the individual will fix the 
labor performed. Oil meal is of itself 
an excellent regulator, but it is also a 
food, and the system is not taxed to pass 
off materials that of themselves contain 
no nutrients. The greatest menace to the 
human family at the present time is not 
the giant trusts from a money point of 
view, but the vast array of patent medi¬ 
cines that are feeding both upon the 
energy and vitality, nervous and muscu¬ 
lar, and upon the pocketbook as well. 
Until recently the beasts of the field, our 
domestic animals, have been free from 
this contagion, but now every corner 
turned finds patent medicines ready for 
their supposed ills. This talk that the 
animal must have these digestive tablets 
to do full work is all nonsense, and the 
sooner we treat it as such the better. 
There are just two digestive agents that 
may be safely fed, salt, what the individ¬ 
ual requires, and charcoal. Neither one 
is a poison, and if given an opportunity 
without interference the animals will use 
no more than they need. The mixture of 
feed previously mentioned, with a daily 
feed of salt, and occasionally a handful 
of charcoal is all the drug feed you need. 
H. E. COOK. 
SKIN IRRITATION IN SHEEP . 
We have some sheep that are rubbing and 
pulling off their wool. Some appear to have 
a thin, loose scab where the wool is off. Will 
you give cause and remedy? There seem to 
be few ficks. r. s. g. 
Newark, N. Y. 
Sheep often rub and pull off the wool 
at this season, because they are uncom¬ 
fortable from the heat of the fleece, or 
are annoyed by ticks. Then the wool 
will often separate and come off, because 
the sheep have been sick or poorly kept, 
at which time the wool ceases to grow, 
and after recovering or better feeding 
when it starts, there is a break in the 
fiber, when it will easily break. I men¬ 
tion these things because I do not wish 
needlessly to alarm the questioner. The 
“thin loose scab” would indicate the para¬ 
sitical disease known as “scab.” If he 
will loosen up the scab, and look care¬ 
fully, assisted by a good magnifying glass, 
if it is genuine scab, he should see the 
minute insects burrowing in the skin. I 
would shear the sheep at once in any 
event. This will save the wool, and if 
TIIF. RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
the sheep are closely housed they will not 
suffer. ] hey can then be treated much 
more satisfactorily. After shearing dip 
the sheep in one of the crude oil, car¬ 
bolic dips, or if these cannot be obtained, 
a dip can be made of tobacco, 16 pounds, 
oil of tar three pints, soda ash 20 pounds, 
soft soap four pounds, 50 gallons of 
water. • I his should answer for 50 un¬ 
shorn sheep. Boil the tobacco to make 
a strong tea, then dissolve the other in¬ 
gredients, and add water to make the 50 
gallons. Heat the water to 60 or 70 de¬ 
grees. Keep each sheep in the dip three 
minutes. Be careful to loosen up the 
scab, and work the dip into the affected 
parts. After a week rub well into the af¬ 
fected parts the'following mixture: One- 
half pound each of tar and sulphur and 
one pound each of soap and alcohol. This 
is recommended by Dr. Law; but I pre- 
fei the dips, as being just as efficacious 
and much pleasanter to handle. In fact, 
every keeper of live stock should keep 
them on hand, as they are an excellent 
thing for lice of all kinds, galls in horses, 
and fine for disinfecting a stable. It is 
' ( D important thoroughly to spray or 
wash all the pens and fences or places 
where the sheep may rub, or these will 
contaminate the flock again next season. 
I believe it always pays to dip both sheep 
and lambs after shearing, the dips re¬ 
ferred to acting as a stimulant to the 
skin, and destroy ticks and nits. 
E. VAN ALSTYNE. 
345 
Remedy for Mange.— Seeing the articles 
on mange in The U. N.-Y. and knowing the 
nature of this disease pretty well, I would 
like to give you a harmless but sure cure for 
all diseases of this nature that afflict any 
of our domestic animals. I have never yet 
seen it. fail when properly and thoroughly 
applied. Take one quart melted hog's lard, 
add one teacupful of kerosene oil, two cup¬ 
fuls dry flour of sulphur; mix this all to¬ 
gether thoroughly while the lard is warm. 
When nearly cold add one ounce of carbolic 
acid crystals. Melt the crystals and stir 
very thoroughly in the mixture. Apply warm 
bv using a swab and rubbing it in very thor¬ 
oughly twice a week. This remedy is also 
excellent to remove lice on animals; it will 
do it with no harm to the animal if it should 
happen to lick it. When applied for mange 
use freely and rub in very thoroughly. 
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