1900 . 
COLT RAISED BY HAND. 
The colt shown on the first page, Fig. 
18, was raised by M. L. Perry, of Sodus, 
N. Y. Mr. Perry gives us the following 
account of the colt: 
“The colt was foaled June 13 last. When 
he was four weeks old his mother was 
taken very suddenly sick with spinal men¬ 
ingitis, and lived about 36 hours. While 
the mother was sick we had to commence 
feeding the colt; we took a quart basin 
half full of good cow’s milk and a table¬ 
spoonful of molasses, and he was so hun¬ 
gry that he drank the first time we tried 
to feed him. We had to feed every two 
hours during the day and once during the 
night until he was two months old; then 
we only fed in the day. We also fed 
about a tablespoonful of stock food three 
times a day with his milk, and once a day 
an egg beaten up with the milk. He 
would eat a little grass or clover hay. 
We commenced feeding about three 
quarts of milk a day (lukewarm), and as 
he grew older increased the amount, and 
the last month we fed six quarts per day. 
He has been kept in the barn almost all 
the time except when he was lead out to 
eat grass and exercise. When he was 
four months old we began to feed whole 
oats, about two quarts a day, some skim- 
milk and water to drink. Mrs. Perry has 
taken almost all the care of him. and he is 
looking very fine, as good as almost any 
cold of his age.” 
BREED FOR HOTHOUSE LAMBS. 
I now have 10.") hot house lambs. I expect 
to begin to dress them next week. This 
year I had two full blood Dorset rams and 
one Dorset-Kambouillet. One of the Dorsets 
last Summer fought and became overheated 
and died. I need another ram as 1 shall 
have about 140 or 150 ewes next year. I 
want to get a Spring lamb that will lie fit 
for service next season. M.v ewes are mostly 
Delaine and Delaine-Ramhouillet. hut I have 
40 grade Dorset (Dorset-Merino) ewe lambs to 
breed next year. Within a few miles of us 
lives W. 1. Wood, who has Short-horn cattle 
and Tunis sheep. I can secure a ram from 
him more easily and at a less price than 
1 can buy a Dorset. I do not like the looks 
of the Tunis sheep, but if they will produce 
better early lambs than the Dorset I would 
I'ke to try a ram. From your experience 
which do you consider the better breed for 
getting hothouse lambs? I have thought the 
Tunis might be easier to get fat. Last week 
I talked with Mr. Wilbur of Maysville, O., 
and he says he thinks tlie Dorset lamb is too 
coarse. lie likes a Shropshire-Merino cross, 
or he likes a Dorset-Shropshire ram to use 
on Merino ewes. I want to purchase a ram 
soon, and desire your advice. M. L. r. 
Frankfort, O. 
From the number of lambs now fit for 
market I think he needs little outside 
advice. Evidently he has an excellent 
foundation flock, from which to raise early 
lambs, in which the Dorset blood predom¬ 
inates. For that reason I should stick to 
that breed. Better results are always ob¬ 
tained by breeding in a straight line. Even 
if he should divide the flock, putting those 
with little or no Dorset blood by them¬ 
selves >md using a Tunis ram with them, 
he would have two distinct types of lambs 
going to market at the same time, and un¬ 
less he shipped to two different parties 
they would not be likely to sell as well. 
1 hen there is always the danger of the 
sheep getting (nixed, and then follows an 
uneven lot of lambs. It is true the Dor- 
sets are inclined to be a little coarse, 
but they give a verv satisfactory lamb 
for early market. The Tunis undoubt¬ 
edly gives a fatter lamb that will open 
better. They are not. as a rule, the most 
prepossessing sheep at first glance. The 
first I ever saw I thought about the mean¬ 
est sheep I ever did see, and I have not 
changed my mind. I have since found 
there are Tunis and Tunis, as well as 
Dorset and Dorset. I should much pre¬ 
fer, under ordinary circumstances, to buy 
a sheep or anything else near home, where 
I could see it. provided those I saw were 
good. In any c"se. one runs a risk in 
buying from a distance without seeing. 
Better spend a little more and see. or have 
some one select who is disinterested and a 
good judge. 
In no case would T use a cross-bred 
ram of any kind. Instead of getting the 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
49 
desirable qualities of both breeds, one is 
more likely to get the undesirable ones 
in the characteristics of some remote an¬ 
cestor who had no qualities at all. It 
means lack of uniformity and general un¬ 
certainty. Neither would I buy a lamb. 
The strongest stock of any kind always 
comes from mature parents. This is most 
necessary in Winter lambs. Three rams 
are enough with 150 ewes, if they are 
mature, strong, healthy, well fed and not 
allowed to run promiscuously with the 
ewes. If this is done, many ewes will 
not lamb till late in the season, and the 
last lambs will be weak. If the ram is 
kept from the flock except at night and 
fed a good oat diet during the day, the 
results at lambing ti ne will pay many 
time's where there are a large number of 
ewes for each male. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
CALVES WITH WHITE SCOURS. 
We are very much troubled over a destruc¬ 
tive calf disease. The calves stand with 
drooping head, on the least exertion give a 
husky cough and breathe with difficulty. 
They lie down most of the time. They 
grate their teeth, water runs from their 
eyes, and in severe cases the discharge 
becomes like matter and the eye runs out 
entirely. Often a tumor will occur under 
the jaw reaching considerable size if not 
checked. In some cases they die in two or 
three weeks; in others they will live long, 
hut fail to gain any flesh. In a few instances 
they recover hut these are very rare cases. 
The calves that 1 refer to are from one to 
four weeks old, kept together in the same pen 
and are allowed to take tiie milk from the 
cow. In a pen of six, one was affected had 
ly, and on putting two more four weeks old, 
very vigorous, in the same pen, they soon 
showed signs of disease and began to fail. 
No one in this vicinity seems to know any¬ 
thing about the disease and yet I find that 
the same tiling occurs to some extent among 
others in this locality. j. vv. c. 
New York. 
You have given a very good description 
of the disease known as indigestion, gas- 
tro intestinal catarrh, diarrhoea or white 
scours of calves. All I wish to add in 
speaking of the symptoms is that the back 
is arched, the droppings light colored, and 
later may contain mucus and gas bubbles. 
It has been my experience to find this dis¬ 
ease where cows are fed on watery or 
damaged foods, or where the calves are 
kept in pens where the bedding becomes 
damp and the steam or ammonia comes 
up and the calves are compelled to breathe 
this bad air. This will cause gastric indi¬ 
gestion. The same disease may occur in 
calves that are fed on cold milk or milk 
from dirty cans or pails, or skim-milk 
from a dirty creamery. I have had very 
good results from giving one ounce of cas¬ 
tor oil and then following two or three 
times a day with the following mixture: 
One cup of strong coffee, one or two raw 
eggs and one-half teaspoonful or one tea¬ 
spoonful of Jamaica ginger, and mix. If 
the case is bad it may be a good idea to 
give 20 grains of subnitrate of bismuth or 
20 grains of tannic acid in a little flaxseed 
tea every four hours. The feeding of 
about one-half teaspoonful of dried beef 
blood once a day to each calf has been 
very highly recommended by the agricul¬ 
tural experiment stations, but first see 
that the food the cow receives is good 
and wholesome, and that the calves are 
fed in the same way, and see that they are 
kept in a dry, clean pen. 
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