1906. 
783 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
LIMBER-NECK IN FOWLS. 
My poultry is dying with a disease of 
which I know nothing; it seems to paralyze 
them more or less, and they get a sort of 
diarrhoea and then almost completely lose 
control of their heads, heads and necks gen¬ 
erally lying stretched out. The disease gen¬ 
erally kills them in from two to 36 hours. 
I have lost all my ducks, a few turkeys, one 
goose and from 30 to 40 chickens. The 
butcher brings his offal to my place, which 
sometimes has a good many maggots in it. 
Do you think that would have anything to do 
with the disease? As the disease has killed 
n good many for other people I consider that 
had nothing to do with it. E. L. E. 
Pennsylvania. 
This man’s trouble is evidently caused 
by the maggots in the meat he feeds. 
The disease is called “limber-neck.” I 
have often heard of it, hut have never 
had a case in my own yards. Many 
people will feed stuff because they can 
get it cheap that is not fit for feeding 
at all, and will only begin to realize that 
there is no economy in doing so when 
so many fowls have died that the loss be¬ 
gins to stir them up to see what is the 
matter. A few maggots will not do a 
hen any hurt, but if allowed to stuff 
themselves with rotten meat—and prob¬ 
ably not fed enough grain because they 
have so much meat—the result can hardly 
be other than disastrous. If the inquirer 
will stop feeding the meat and give his 
fowls plenty of good clean grain, I think 
they will stop dying. In cool weather I 
sometimes buy butchers’ scraps, meat and 
bones, and always cook it until the meat 
is tender and will fall from the bones; 
then it is fed to the poultry, and the 
soup used to stir in ground grain and 
make a “mash.” It is a good thing to 
vary the hens’ feed in this way occasion¬ 
ally, but to feed rotten meat every day is 
very wrong. geo. a. cosgrove. 
WATER SUPPLY FOR BARN. 
R. H. 8., (No Address). —I wish to pipe 
water from spring to barn. Spring has 
capacity of about five gallons per minute, 
with elevation of about 30 feet above ground 
at barn; the distance from spring to barn 
2,000 feet. Between spring and barn is 
small valley or hollow at lower elevation 
of about 30 'feet below level of ground at 
barn. Lowest ground about two-thirds dis¬ 
tance from spring to barn. Should I lay 
oarger pipe at spring and reduce to smaller 
size, or use same size the whole distance? 
Which is cheaper in long run, lead or gal¬ 
vanized iron pipe? Would the water taste 
of either lead or galvanized iron in flowing 
this distance if allowed to flow continually? 
Ans. —If the effective head is fully 30 
feet, as indicated by description, the dis¬ 
charge through 2,000 feet of one-inch 
pipe would be 3.45 gallons per minute; 
through a l*4-inch pipe it would be 6.04 
gallons "er minute, and through a two- 
inch pipe, with sufficient water sunnly it 
might be 19.5 gallons per minute. With 
the capacity of the spring what is stated, 
if inquirer wished to secure five gallons 
per minute at the discharge, it would be 
necessary for him to use lJ 4 - inch pipe 
the whole distance, and he could not 
expect to economize by using l^-inch 
pipe part of the way, and either inch or 
three-quarter inch pipe the remainder. 
The cost of lead pipe of the size he 
would have to use would in all probabil¬ 
ity prohibit its selection, and unless the 
water is very hard it would not be safe 
to use the water for drinking purposes 
if carried through it. The galvanized 
iron would not influence the taste of the 
water. _ f. h. king. 
Moldy Cornstalks. —Mr. Janney’s article 
on pea hay, page 615, arouses the inquiry: 
Should we bid good-bye to “half moldy 
stalks?” For several Winters I have fed 
them once daily to cows and yearlings 
without apparent ill results. Condition, 
milk and actions were closely and care¬ 
fully watched. The cattle preferred them 
to other hay and corn fodder. Last Win¬ 
ter’s pea hay, through some unknown 
cause, was worse molded than in prior 
years—not half, but fully molded—and 
yet was eaten in entirety, consequently I 
am not ready to bid moldy pea hay good¬ 
bye. My land will not grow clover or 
Alfalfa, but it will cow peas and while I 
regret my inability to house them without 
mold on other points I am an enthusiast. 
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