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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 8% 
FODDER CROPS FOR HOGS. 
I have been raising a good many hogs 
from grazing crops, and would like to hear 
the experience of others so that I can im¬ 
prove on my methods. I raise cow peas, 
clover. Soy beans and corn for them. Could 
I raise snap beans to come in early In a 
paying way for them to graze? I now have 
26 shotes, and will have sows to farrow by 
June. I.et me know all you can on the 
subject. R. M. J. 
Gloucester, Va. 
All that we know is that hogs will eat 
the vines and pods of snap beans. We 
have never grown them for hog feed. 
For earliest feed we would rather sow 
Canada field peas, which can be put in 
very early and will make good pasture. 
We should think the snap beans would 
cost too much. Early turnips or Dwarf 
Essex rape can be put in early. Who can 
tell definitely? We all want information. 
LIVE STOCK QUESTIONS. 
Fattening Veal Calves. 
I have had good results in raising dairy 
calves on a small quantity of skim-milk sup¬ 
plemented by a mixture of bran and cornmeal, 
equal parts by weight. I wish now to raise 
calves to be butchered at about 8 to 10 
months old, starting them about March 1 to 
15. Should these calves be fed during Spring 
and Summer just like the dairy calves, or 
should I feed more fattening food from the 
first? If so, about what quantities, and by 
what method for average calves, and is there 
anything better than cornmeal? Would It 
do to keep a mixture of bran and cornmeal 
before them all the time after they learn 
to eat it? s. s. c. 
Hardwick, Vt. 
The questioner evidently is a careful 
man, for he raises good dairy calves on a 
small quantity of skim-milk, with corn¬ 
meal and bran. It is always a difficult 
thing to raise a first-class calf, without 
plenty of skim-milk. I do not regard 
cornmeal as a good food for a dairy calf, 
for there is not enough bone material in 
it. For dairy calves, he will get much 
better results if he will substitute for 
the cornmeal two parts by weight of 
ground oats and one part of old process 
oil meal. As to the calves to be butchered, 
I would keep them in a stable, if I wanted 
to get the greatest possible growth for 
my food in the least time. The gain in 
quality and weight will more than pay 
for the increased labor, but the stable 
where they lie must be kept dry. Give 
on the start all the skim-milk that can be 
spared. If a little grain is put in the 
bottom of the .milk bucket after they are 
done drinking, they will learn to eat the 
sooner. Then give what clover or fine 
hay, silage or grass they will eat up clean. 
A good mixture to start them on is, one 
pound ground oats, one pound wheat mid¬ 
dling, one pound cornmeal, one-half 
pound old process oil meal. Give three 
times a day what they will eat up clean, 
and be hungry for the next meal. The 
amount will be gauged entirely by their 
appetite and digestion. After the second 
month double the proportion of cornmeal. 
This should make a healthful, as well as a 
growthy ration; for such calves must 
grow a large amount of bone and muscle 
as well as fat. To keep feed before them 
all the time is not a good plan. Be careful 
not to overfeed; watch the condition of 
their bowels. See that their feed boxes 
or troughs are kept very clean. When the 
cornmeal is increased both appetite and 
digestion will be promoted if a teaspoonful 
or two, is daily put in the feed of the 
mixture given on page 206. 
Trouble With the Sheep. 
Can you tell me what ails my sheep? 
They act dumpish for one or two days, then 
thev roll, stretch and tumble around as if in 
pain. They have stoppage of bowels, and no 
amount of salts or castor oil will start them. 
They do not live more than a week at most 
after they are first taken. We are now feed¬ 
ing roots and mangels, with a few shorts. It 
appears to attack the best sheep in the flock. 
They have plenty of salt. The disease ap¬ 
peared before we commenced feeding roots. 
Northeast Harbor, Me. b. c. g. 
It is pretty hard, not being much of a 
Christian Scientist, to give “absent treat¬ 
ment” in cases like the above. A sheep 
is a peculiar creature, and subject to 
divers disorders; the symptoms of many 
of them are not dissimilar. The most 
common troubles are indigestion, caused 
by improper feeding; and internal par¬ 
asites. In this case the food, etc., seems 
to be all right, but the inference is, that 
these sheep did not have succulent food 
until very lately. There seems to be 
much trouble along this line, this Winter, 
I believe often due to the fact that dur¬ 
ing the mild, open weather that prevailed 
through November and December the 
sheep were allowed to run out and fill 
themselves with frozen grass until their 
digestive apparatus was in the worst pos¬ 
sible shape. When this grass was out of 
them, and they showed up gaunt and 
thin, a heavy grain ration was given, too 
often with no succulence, and those 
troubles follow. In most cases, at this 
season, no remedies will do much good. 
Keep these facts in mind and avoid such 
a course in the future. 
Constipation is more a symptom of a 
disease, than a disease itself. The best I 
can suggest, is to give two ounces of 
linseed oil, and inject into the bowels 
warm water, with enough soap in it to 
make a good suds. Then once a day give 
a teaspoonful of flowers of sulphur, with 
a small quantity of molasses, which should 
be put on the sheep’s tongue to be swal¬ 
lowed. If there is a weakness and red¬ 
ness of the eyes, and failure to chew the 
cud, with the other symptoms mentioned, 
it is an indication of inflammation of the 
bowels. In this case after the bowels 
have been made to move as above, give 
with every six pounds of salt an ounce 
each of sulphate of iron, powdered gen¬ 
tian and powdered ginger. Also for a 
couple of days give one dram of sulphite 
of soda twice a day. If the eyes are 
yellow, and on examination after death 
there is a yellow reaction about the kid¬ 
neys and liver, if is doubtless congestion 
of the liver. Work on the bowels as 
before, and give three grains calomel and 
one ounce of Epsom salts with a little 
warm water. Repeat the dose the third 
day. The writer used this a few years 
ago with marked success, but not after 
sheep began to go down. I think in such 
cases there is only one thing to do; skin 
and bury them. By opening them im¬ 
mediately after death one can often learn 
what is the trouble. Should a post¬ 
mortem show small tumors in the intes¬ 
tines, filled with a greenish cheesy sub¬ 
stance, they have the “nodular disease” 
for which I know of no cure. Fortu¬ 
nately this disease is not common. In 
any case examine the different stomachs, 
the lungs and liver, of those sheep that 
die, using a good magnifying glass. If 
worms are found in any case, write again, 
then I will be better able to give an 
intelligent answer and not “as one who 
beateth the air.” e. van alstyne. 
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