1905 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
627 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Horse with Sore Throat. 
1. What will heal up a running sore in 
throat of horse? It broke last January, cause 
distemper. 2. Is rye good to feed horses? 
What proportions should be used? N. e. a. 
Michigan. 
l. Take your horse to a competent vet¬ 
erinarian, and have him use a probe and 
advise you. 2. It will pay you to sell the 
rye and buy oats, as one bushel of rye will 
buy two of oats; and oats are ideal feed 
for the horse. The fact is I would not 
feed rye if you would give it to me, as it 
is an unsafe food for a horse. 
Mange on Calves. 
We have some calves that have something 
like mange, and would like to have some ad¬ 
vice as what to do. It was first noticed on a 
calf that had been stabled part of last Win¬ 
ter in close stall ; the calf broke out on the 
neck in spots which in a short time became 
covered with a dry hard scab, and soon spread 
over the neck and shoulders, taking off part 
of the hair and making the skin dry and hard. 
When placed in a field with other calves they 
broke out with the same. Is mange very con¬ 
tagious? Should the calves be washed in 
sheep and cattle dip? Can a person do a 
thorough job by pouring the dip on and rub¬ 
bing with a cloth? Should the calves be 
washed all over? Iiow should the dip be 
mixed? How often ought the calves to be 
washed, and how long continue treatment? 
Would they retake it if put back in the same 
field? These calves have been running on 
pasture ever since April. Part of them are 
yearlings; the others are from six to eight 
months old. c. f. h. 
West Virginia. 
The trouble is caused by a small insect 
much like the louse only much smaller, 
and as they live under the scurf of the 
skin they arc harder to get at. 1 have 
had the best success by washing them all 
over with a good soapsuds, then applying 
the scab cure with a cloth before they get 
dry, and giving them a good soaking. This 
should be done once a week for two weeks, 
and then once in two weeks for at least 
two months. 
Keeping Flies Off Cows. 
What is the best preparation to keep flies 
off cows, and how used? IIow often must it 
be used? C. F. n. 
On page 579 this question has been quite 
well gone over, and some good hints are 
given, but I see nothing about homemade 
mixtures. It is a good time to request our 
friends to tell us how they make their 
homemade mixtures, and how to apply 
them. M. D. WILLIAMS, D. V. S. 
GARBAGE FEEDING TO HOGS. 
Will Dr. E. M. Santee answer the follow¬ 
ing questions? I have a productive piece of 
land (80 acres) within half a mile of a town 
with a population of 20,000. I have been 
feeding from 50 to 75 hogs some years, but 
would like to increase the number and run 
an up-to-date establishment. Do you think 
it pays better to buy the pigs or breed them? 
Do you conduct your operations both Sum 
mer and Winter? Do you get garbage from 
private families or hotels? The expense of 
gathering it reduces the profit. Is yours a 
farm building cheaply constructed? What 
engine have you. and do you consider it much 
better to warm all your slop? c. B. b. 
Maryland. 
I think it pays better to breed your own 
pigs if you feed garbage. On my Brook- 
side Farm we keep about 25 brood sows, 
all bred there. All promising sow pigs are 
separated from the fattening pigs and 
bred at least twice. If they do not make 
good breeders then they go into the fatten¬ 
ing pens. In that way the time of grow¬ 
ing those that do not make good mothers 
is not entirely lost. The good ones we 
keep so long as they are good. One of our 
best ones now is seven years old. We 
continue operations the year around. We 
get garbage from private families and 
also hotels and boarding houses. The 
people whose garbage we carry away pay 
a little more than the expense of removing 
it. My buildings are cheaply constructed, 
warm wooden buildings on cement floors. 
The brood sow buildings are double 
boarded, with building paper between and 
straw overhead. I have three buildings, 
all built together, in the shape of an L, 
with the feed-room and slaughter room 
at the angle; the fattening pen building is 
25x81, with an alley-way down the center. 
This is five feet wide so, that we drive 
through to clean out. The pens are 8x10; 
the fronts swing upon a pivot at the top, 
so that they can be raised to let stock 
in and out, and also fasten back to keep 
pigs out of the trough while feeding. The 
troughs are of cement, four inches deep 
and one foot wide inside. The first cost 
is less than lumber, and they are inde¬ 
structible. The nests are four inches 
higher than the floor at the back, and 
have wooden floors. The cement floors 
nave a quarter of an inch slant to the 
foot to the back, so as to be always dry. 
I do not have a steam cooker, but cook all 
of the feed in what is known as the 
Farmer’s Favorite. We have a specially 
large size. We have a 12 horse-power 
engine and 15 horse-power boiler for 
wood sawing and feed grinding, also sil¬ 
age cutting; intending also to cook the 
feed with the steam, but find the cooker 
much more economical. In the Winter 
all feed is given hot as they can eat it. 
In Summer it is allowed to cool for the 
morning meal, but the night meal is given 
warm. After years of experimenting I 
find for my purpose a cross between a 
Duroc-Jersey Red and an O. I. C. to be 
the most profitable. I have tried the pure¬ 
bred of all those breeds, and also the 
Berkshire and Yorkshire. I want a pig 
that can be made to dress 150 pounds in 
the shortest possible time, and be always 
fat and ready for market if there is a 
sudden jump in the price of pork. I have 
one contract for three per week the year 
around, but most of them go in February, 
March, July and August, when pork is 
high. The greatest profit in the business 
is in selling the pigs at six weeks of 
age for $3. We never sell one for less. 
We always manage to have a goodly sup¬ 
ply ready for the Christmas trade for little 
roasters. Many prefer them to turkey. 
E. M. SANTEE. 
COTTON-S^ED MEAL 
Feed It Carefully. 
It will be entirely safe to feed one quart 
of cotton-seed meal in the morning to 
cows when first turned out to pasture. 
However, in feeding cattle, the rations 
should be determined by weight and not 
by quarts. I don’t consider it safe to feed 
over two pounds of cotton-seed meal per 
day to a cow, whether in the barn or in 
pasture. 1 his is the most concentrated 
food that we have; it will analyze ordi¬ 
narily 47 per cent protein, nearly double 
that of gluten, which analyzes 27 per cent. 
There are very few farmers who dare to 
feed gluten feed to cows without mixing it 
with some other feed; for instance, one- 
half gluten feed and one-half bran, by- 
weight, makes a fairly well-balanced ra¬ 
tion, and a palatable one, and the cows 
will give perhaps as much milk on that 
ration as any other. You will readily see 
that when a dairyman undertakes to feed 
a cow cotton-seed meal which analyzes 
47 per cent protein, it must be done with 
great caution, else evil effects will result 
to the cow. Cotton-seed meal is extreme¬ 
ly constipating, and tends to create in¬ 
flammation in the udder, and garget will 
ensue. I wouldn’t recommend its use; 
without a feeder is experienced and very 
cautious the results will be most unsatis¬ 
factory. If used at all, it might well be 
when the cow is turned out to grass. As 
a rule, the bowels will then be too loose, 
and a certain amount of this feed would 
undoubtedly operate to regulate the 
bowels. Cotton-seed meal, properly fed, 
will make a good flow of milk, but in com¬ 
parison with other feeds like gluten and 
bran not as much as the analysis would 
indicate. Horace l. bronson. 
New York. 
Bonk-Aii..—O n page 552 W. 0. L. asks 
about cause and cure of “bone-nil” in cattle 
Air. Manchester replies that he never heard 
of it, nor had his veterinarian. Bone disease 
or “bone-ail” was a common term amoii" 
farmers where I was brought up. Its symp¬ 
toms were as W. C. L. describes; bunches on 
outside of hind legs above knee. The old 
remedy was always bones. An animal afflict¬ 
ed with “bone-ail” will devour bone meal 
eagerly, and I believe that generally will 
effect a cure, perhaps aided by some outside 
application. j, b. w. 
Somerville, Mass. 
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