1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
357 
HEIFER WITH DEFECTIVE UDDER. 
I have a two-year-old heifer that came 
fresh a short time ago. Previous to coming 
in she had all the appearences of being a 
splendid cow, but she had no milk in the 
front teats, although the udder seemed to 
be fully developed. Is there any probability 
of any change if she raises another calf? 
Jackson Co., Mich. F. f. r. 
It is very doubtful if anything can be 
done to improve the teats. Rubbing the 
quarters, and trying to work milk out 
of the teats is all that can be done. Being 
a heifer it is the more doubtful if she 
will give milk out of those teats at next 
calving. I have had similar cases, and 
never one with a heifer, that the teats 
were restored when she was next fresh, 
although with a mature cow quite often 
by a little care they will come all right. 
For some reason the milk glands in a 
portion of the udder will not perform 
their functions. Why is hard to say. In 
some cases I am sure they have been in¬ 
jured by one calf sucking another after 
they have been fed milk. I once had a 
fine mature cow, that calved all right, 
and made up a fine bag, but never gave 
a drop of milk. She went to the butcher. 
E. VAN ALSTYNE. 
VENTILATING A SHEEP BARN. 
On page 218 J. S. Woodward gave an ac¬ 
count of housing his sheep in basement barn. 
Will he tell how he ventilates his sheep barns, 
also what he feeds? Is the King system of 
barn ventilation suitable for a sheep barn, 
with special reference to having the lambs 
dropped in January and February? j. b. m. 
West Central Indiana. 
Our sheep folds are ventilated by trunks 
or chutes three feet square inside going 
up from basement out through the roof 
of barn, with a special cowl or cupola 
on top having light doors hung on the 
four sides and so connected together that 
no matter from which way the wind blows 
those doors on windward side are closed, 
and those on the opposite side opened, 
nearly wide open, so that wind blowing 
around the cupola causes a very strong 
upward draft which would do much to 
ventilate the fold even were no sheep in 
it to warm the air. By having doors in 
the sides of these chutes we also utilize 
them for throwing down fodder and straw. 
The King system is entirely practical for 
ventilating folds for Winter lamb raising, 
only it should be so constructed that the 
ventilation can be controlled on very cold 
days or nights. But as our barns were 
built before Prof. King published plans of 
his system we put in these large chutes 
and have found no trouble in getting in 
plenty of fresh, pure air if we provide a 
way of getting foul air out. Our barn is 
96 x 160 feet, with 30-foot posts on nine 
foot wall, which, of course, makes a large 
area to be ventilated. This is why we use 
such large chutes, and we have three of 
them in the barn. We feed breeding ewes 
silage twice a day, about four pounds 
to each 100 pounds of sheep, two pounds 
at each feed. Besides this we feed clover 
hay twice, straw at noon and grain twice 
a day. For grain we use a mixture of 
corn, bran, sometimes oats, sometimes 
barley, with water and salt always accessi¬ 
ble. For the lambs we like to have plenty 
of mangels always within their reach, 
and as soon as they will eat cracked 
corn, oats, linseed meal and wheat bran, 
changing feed often and always having 
that in troughs fresh. Always keep lamb- 
racks filled with early-cut, well-cured 
clover hay, and never ask them to eat 
anything but heads and leaves. Give re¬ 
mainder to colts or horses; they will eat 
it all the better for having been in the 
lamb-racks. j. s. woodward. 
CARE OF A COLT'S FEET. 
Will you tell me what! to do, and what not 
to do. In earing for a colt’s feet to Insure 
best results? I wish to avoid contracted 
hoofs or feet. e. m. p. 
Irvington, in. 
If your colt’s feet are in normal condi¬ 
tion, the less you do the better, for there 
is far more danger of doing too much 
than too little. The most important thing 
to do is to get a gun, and a loaded one at 
that, and if you discover a blacksmith 
cutting or paring the frog, or cutting 
away the bars on either side of the frog, 
shoot at sight and investigate afterward. 
The wall of the hoof, that is, the outside 
of the hoof, is the proper resting place 
for the shoe. This will wear away itself, 
and as a rule levels itself when no shoe 
is there, but with the shoe in place this 
cannot occur, and so the smith must cut 
away the growth and see that the hoof 
is kept level—that is all there is to it. 
A well-fitted shoe should cover the out¬ 
side wall of the hoof precisely as the 
sills of a house cover the cellar wall, and 
the shoe wants to bear nowhere else. If 
the shoe exactly covers the wall the feet 
will not contract, because the shoe will 
hold them firmly in place. If, however, 
the shoe is too wide, the hoof will grow 
out of place, as seriously as though too 
narrow, which condition brings about con¬ 
traction. The important thing is to have 
the shoe just right, just the shape of the 
hoof, and be careful not to have it too 
heavy, getting a light shoe always for a 
colt, unless you want to load him down 
with iron forward to develop excessive 
knee action. e. p. mayo. 
Maine. 
I deliver f. o. b. at 
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FLEASE MENTION TUIS FAFEli. 
IMPORTANCE OF BUYING 
CREAM SEPARATORS 
THROUGH LOCAL AGENTS 
This heading voices a most important consideration in the 
purchase of a Cream Separator, and points a most serious 
objection to the purchase of such a machine by the “mail order” 
method even if good separators were sold in that way. 
While the Cream Separator is a simple machine when once 
understood, it is nevertheless of the greatest possible import¬ 
ance that it be set up and started just right, and that the user 
have the brief personal use instx-uction necessary in its handling 
and operation. If not it may mean several years of difference 
in the life of the machine and a good many dollars of difference 
in the results from its use. 
Then, no matter bow carefully used, things do happen even 
to the best of separators. It makes a lot of difference if you 
have a competent man near at hand to tell you just what is 
wrong and how to fix it. It makes even more difference to he 
able to get necessary repair parts right and quickly instead of 
having to send off to some distant concern for them which only 
sells machines somebody else makes and whose employees would 
not know a separator if they saw it and the parts for which are 
more likely to be wrong than right when you do finally get them. 
All this is the business of the local agent for DE LAVAL 
machines. It is just what he is expected to do for users. Of 
course he makes a small commission out of it, hut the user can 
mighty well afford to pay that commission and it would be a 
big mistake to try to save it even in the purchase of a good 
separator. It is still more so in the purchase of the kind which 
is sold in the “mail order” way. 
The buyer of a Cream Separator should never lose sight of 
the big DAILY difference in dollars-and-cents results between 
the good machine and the poor one. A DE LAVAJL catalogue 
to be had for the asking helps to make plain these differences. 
The De Laval Separator Co. 
Randolph Sc Canal Sts., 
CHICAGO. 
1213 Filbert Street, 
PHILADELPHIA. 
9 & I I Drumm St., 
SAN FRANCISCO. 
109-113 YOUVILLESQ. 
MONTREAL. 
General Offices: 
74 Cortlandt Street, 75 & 7 tokontoT reet ’ 
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WINNIPEG, 
1 t A Bushels Ears 
1 JU per Acre on 
BRADLEY’S 
State 
Street 
Weeds, rust and crop-insects are the pests of the farmer. Well-made 
fertilizers contain no weed seeds and they produce a vigorous growth. 
A healthy man withstands disease ; so a healthy, vigorous crop will more 
readily overcome the attack of insects or blights. Bradley’s fertilizer pro¬ 
duces vigorous, healthy crops. One of our customers writes : “A party 
who bought io bags of fertilizer of me last season said that he used a carload 
of manure and nearly all he received from it was weeds. He said he 
received more benefit from the io bags of Bradley’s fertilizer than he did 
from the whole carload of manure.” The accompanying picture shows a 
crop which was free from weeds and smut, and was raised on the Williams 
Farm, Windsor County, Vermont. 
The American Agricultural 
Chemical Co. 
i BRADLEY FERTILIZER WORKS 
BOSTON, MASS. 
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