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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 25. 
CARE OF COLT IN WINTER. 
The Baby or Weanling. —When the 
colt is old enough to wean, that is, from 
four to six months, 1 have practiced the 
following method, for many years, and 
have found it the most satisfactory of any 
I have ever tried. After separating the 
colt and dam I allow the colt to go to the 
mother for a few minutes, morning, noon 
and night, for two or three days; then 
only morning and evening; after this, 
once a day for a few days, then every 
GLORY AND STAR REGIS. 
other day for a week, and the mare will 
then be beyond all danger of injury from 
drying up her milk. If she is a heavy 
milker 1 should advise having her milked 
out once or twice. Now, having weaned 
the colt let us consider the best way to 
care for and feed it. First provide a 
good, warm box stall with plenty of light; 
keep well bedded with sawdust or tan- 
bark for foundation with straw on top. 
Never allow the stall to become filthy, 
which can be guarded against by shaking 
out the straw and cleaning out the refuse 
every day. Care should be taken to keep 
the stall dry. Get a cattle card and 
brush, and use it once a day, at least, to 
keep the youngster's coat clean, and do 
not forget to brush out his mane and 
tail. He will certainly enjoy this brush¬ 
ing. Look to his feet, cleaning them 
twice a week if not oftener, and keep 
them level, toes not too long. 
Feeding. —We take it for granted that 
the youngster has been taught to eat grain 
before weaning; therefore place a box, 
large enough to hold a pail, in a conveni¬ 
ent corner of the stall, securely fastened 
to the same. Feed the grain in the pail, 
which is easily kept clean and sweet. 
Commence by feeding one quart each of 
oats and wheat-bran, sprinkle on a little 
salt, not forgetting a few pieces of apple 
or carr.j't. Clean the pail after each meal. 
After awhile the colt will eat this grain 
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DOROTHY AND TOPSY. 
ration twice or thrice a day without harm. 
As to the hay, have a manger built across 
one corner of the stall ( I build mine by 
boarding from floor up about 2'/ 2 feet, 
which makes a very convenient and easily- 
cleaned manger), and fill it with only 
bright, earlv-cut hay or clover rowen, 
well cured and free from dust or smoke 
caused by heating in the barn. Do not 
expect the little fellow to clean this ration 
all up before he has a fresh one, but let 
him pick out what suits his taste; then 
remove what remains and give him a 
fresh supply. Hay should be kept before 
him all the time. I have made it a prac¬ 
tice to take the chill from the drinking 
water in cold weather. Do not keep him 
hived up in the barn, but give him ever- 
cise for a little while each day except in 
stormy or exceedingly cold weather. Fur¬ 
ther, do not allow your colts to become 
lousy (in fact any stock), for a little sul¬ 
phur scattered from the ears to the tail 
will soon exterminate the pests. Dc not 
think it too much trouble to take good 
care of the colts—or other young stock— 
for with little extra care and work you 
will be well paid in seeing them grow into 
sleek, handsome horses; also you will be 
adding value. c. v. p., jr. 
Claremont, N. H. 
Cactus for Stock.— Many readers have 
read about the cactus or prickly pear which 
grows on the Great American Desert. This 
cactus is protected by sharp, stout thorns, 
which cut like a knife and remain painfully 
in the wound. Cattle are sometimes seen 
with these fearful thorns sticking in their 
lips and tongue, which Indicates that in 
their thirst or hunger they were willing even 
to brave these weapons in order to secure 
tlie cactus. No one could expect them to 
furnish a Thanksgiving dinner for stock. 
The Desert is well covered with them in 
many places, and scientists and practical 
cattle men alike believe that if the spines 
could be removed the plant would offer faii- 
lood for stock. Various plans were tried for 
getting rid of the spines. The latest is 
found in a bulletin issued by the Arizona 
Station. It appears that a special burner 
for singeing the cactus has been invented. It 
uses- gasoline and gives a fierce heat and 
flame. The operator carries the gasoline 
tank on a strap titled over his shoulder. 
The burner is supplied from this tank by 
means of a tube and can be held out at 
arm's length on the end of a rod. This 
appliance is moved over the cactus, so that 
the spines or teeth are singed off, (lie whole 
thing being much like a gasoline torch of'en 
used by plumbers. It was found that from 
7,000 to 11,000 pounds of cactus forage can 
be singed in one day at a cost of about 
$2.In. The cattle ate the fodder greedily 
after the spines weie burned off; in fact 
they devoured the plants down to the ground 
at the -isk of destroying them, so that now 
only half of the plant is singed at one time. 
This leaves half uneaten and the other part 
grows up again. The cactus plant contains 
on an average over 75 per cent of water 
and over six per cent of protein, which latter 
is about half the amount found in a sample 
of wheat bran. It would seem as though 
Nature had placed this food before cattle 
while in her most bountiful mood, and then 
in a moment of caprice has put on tlie spines 
to keep them away from it. This simple 
operation of singeing provides a new and 
excellent forage for range cattle. 
Getting Rid of Ants.— Speaking of 
getting rid of red ants, did you ever try 
ground cloves sprinkled around their haunts? 
Our folks are always on the lookout for the 
pests, and on their first: appearance go for 
the ground cloves. Nothing expensive about 
it, and is fairly clean. j. n. j. 
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