1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
659 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Cow With Injured Udder. 
We have a Jersey cow that hurt her right 
front teat on a wire fence three weeks ago. 
The cut is about two inches long, and deep 
enough to allow the milk to come out. A 
veterinary sewed up the cut, and it seemed 
to be all right till about 10 days after, when 
the milk began running again, and has con¬ 
tinued to do so ever since. The healing is 
going on all right, but can anything be done 
to cause the opening to close? The cow 
was kept up for 10 daysl and then let into 
pasture, and it is possible that some stitches 
were broken whi'e out. Could it be cut again 
and sewn? Will the flow of milk return? 
She was fresh in May and was giving from 
eight to 10 quarts of milk at a milking, but 
has shrunken to less than a gallon, e. s. l. 
Indiana. 
I think the teat will come out in very 
good shape without cutting it again, but 
many times it is best to fatten such ani¬ 
mals at once and replace them with an 
animal that is giving a good flow of 
milk. 
Injury Following Dishorning. 
We bought a young cow in February, 
1905. She had been dishorned and appeared 
to be healed up all right. Soon after the 
right horn stub commenced to discharge. 
We did nothing for it, and in a few weeks 
it seemed to be all right again, but the lat¬ 
ter part of last Winter she commenced hav¬ 
ing pain in her head, and in a few days 
the same horn started to discharge and has 
ever since. The pus is light color, and has 
no odor. We called a veterinary. He probed 
it but found nothing. Since we have been 
using his medicine the pus is more yellow 
and more of it. The doctor had never seen 
a case like it. We are afraid of tubercu¬ 
losis. What is your opinion on the case? 
Pennsylvania. g. w. h. 
The chances are that this cow was 
dishorned with a pair of clippers, and a 
small piece of bone was split off on the 
inside of the horn and has been grown 
over by the skin. There are three things 
to do; open it and get the piece of bone, 
or let nature take its way, or dispose of 
her; while the chances arc that she will 
come out in good shape, it might be well 
to see if you can get the small piece of 
bone with a pair of forceps if it 
breaks where the horn was cut off, but 
sometime the bone will work its way 
down and come out at the nose, as there 
is an opening from the horn to the nose. 
This will show why a saw is much bet¬ 
ter to use to cut the horns with, as there 
is no crushing and no chance to leave a 
piece of split bone in the head. 
M. D. WILLIAMS, D. V. S. 
A SHEEP MAN TALKS. 
The trade for purebred sheep is slow at 
this season with us. Last year our trade 
was late and active, for which good prices 
were had; I thought it might be a good 
lesson to the purchaser to get in early. 
How the crop has come we know of but 
little, but I think it is not up to the aver¬ 
age. To get a good average, the rams 
should be acclimated and in the best of 
shape. This you cannot get at once. They 
should at least be on hand a month or 
two before use. Our immediate section 
is not up to standard in numbers, although 
a fair price for wool, 25 fine to 22 half- 
blood. A "-ood many ewes are taken back 
to the country in small lots, showing a 
mixed system is more thought of. It will 
help swell the mutton market in a few 
years. But mutton-eating people are more 
than the increase of sheep. Not all sheep 
are mutton, or any way near it. The 
sheep that has the most lean meat to the 
carcass is the one that will take the best 
with the market. There is too much 
gristle to the fine wools. When crossed 
with the coarse wool first, then the closer 
grained rams of the mutton breeds, you 
get a fair piece of meat. This takes time. 
Years a"o, the little Berkshire was the 
only hog, but time cured that feeling, 
and consumers wanted something more 
than lard, and they grew up a coarser 
hog. one of more frame, more lean meat. 
So it is with the sheep; the little South- 
down will have to get away from tallow 
or go with the Merino. We have 55 
lambs to get rid of this Fall from 20 ewes, 
many weighing 100 pounds now. These 
lambs are.all eligible to record, and from 
a lon^- wool ram. I have a well-ventilated 
dark shed for them to run in, kept well 
littered. More than half of the day they 
are in it; no flies. Lambs have about all 
the oats and a little corn mixed they 
want. Are growing nicely. The best 
prevention of disease is care. Plenty of 
salt with sulphur, copperas and- meal be¬ 
fore them, keeps down worms, and a dark 
resting place keeps away flies; good mesh 
fence keeps out dogs and you have con¬ 
quered about all their enemies. 
Geneva, Ill. t. 3. evans. 
NOTES ON SILO BUILDING. 
A very good thing to remember when 
building a silo; always have the height 
three times the diameter. This I have 
found to be a good dimension. Most 
silos are built too wide for their height, 
and the silage is not used fast enough. 
The result is much silage molds. They 
generally blame the silo, when it was the 
fault of the person who planned the size 
of the silo. We built our first silo eight 
years ago. It was the first stave silo 
built in our county of Lancaster. We 
use hemlock scantling 2x4 inch, not sur¬ 
faced, no tongues or grooves, and not 
beveled; it is 16x30,feet, hooped with 10 
round iron rods; the five below are five- 
eighths, the others one-half inch thick. 
The rods are in three lengths, with thread 
and nuts, passing through iron lugs to 
draw the staves together. The hoops 
are much easier put to place when not 
rolling. The staves are set edges togeth¬ 
er. We used staves 14x16 feet long alter¬ 
nately to break joints. Two-inch hoop 
iron was put between the ends of the 
lower and upper staves to make it strong¬ 
er and nearer airtight. We coated the inside 
with coal tar to preserve the wood. This 
was a mistake, as this made the silage 
smell, and the heat of the silage took the 
coating all off the first season. This silo 
has been filled every year since it was 
built, and I see no reason why it should 
not last for 25 years or more. 
The Percentage of spoiled silage is very 
small and would be less were it not so 
wide in area, so it could be taken off 
more rapidly. The second one we built 
five years ago for a Summer silo, 12x32 
feet, 2x4 hemlock. This was surfaced on 
three sides, but not beveled or tongued 
or grooved; hooped the same as the other 
one, with the exception that the hoops are 
, i 
in two parts instead of three. They both 
have been a success, and are economical 
in construction. The two hold about 165 
tons silage, and cost me all told $220; 
would cost a little more now, as lumber is 
higher in price. The base is made of con¬ 
crete, highest in center, sloping out, so 
water could not get in so easily. I see no 
reason why hemlock is not as good as 
pine, which costs more. All a silo can 
do is to keep silage from spoiling, it mat¬ 
ters not what kind of wood it is built of. 
I have seen them built of chestnut, and 
they were equally as good. A stave silo 
should last a long time; when filled the 
moisture from the silage fills the wood 
and it cannot decay, and soon as empty, 
the air dries the moisture out, and the 
staves are just the same as when new. 
This article may not please a silo agent. 
You can build three silos holding 100 tons 
each for the same money you can buy two 
manufactured ones. What more would 
you ask in the line of economy?. 
Pennsylvania. j. aldus herr. 
THE COW PEA PROBLEM. 
I do not know of anyone in this county 
or Hardin County, Ohio, who is growing cow 
peas. We grow small green Soy beans to 
mix with our corn when filling our silos, 
making a mixture of three loads corn and 
one load of Soy beans they gave us excellent 
results last Winter for dairy cows. We fin¬ 
ished putting away second crop of Alfalfa July 
13, one month to a day following first crop, 
1 J A ton to acre each time. geo. w. gill. 
I have had no experience with cow peas, 
only to plow under as a fertilizer. I do not 
know of anyone in this section who raises 
them. I think I can get better hay by seed¬ 
ing from buckwheat and fertilizing the seed¬ 
ing with hen manure. Cow peas are a haz¬ 
ardous crop on account of late frosts in the 
Spring, so I have abandoned the planting of 
them. G . B 
Factoryville, Pa. 
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