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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 24, 
MOTHERLESS FARM BABIES. 
I low lo care for motherless young animals 
on the farm is oflen quite a puzzle to trie 
uninitiated. The sheep feeder, no doubt, 
has a greater proportion of these helpless 
infants to manage than the breeder in any 
other branch of animal industry. Sheep 
which will not own their lambs, or owning 
one of a pair of twins, will disown the 
other, are very common. Where the ewe has 
plenty of milk it is practicable to hold her 
so the hungry lamb may get its food, until 
the little fellow gets strong enough to fend 
for himself, but in the majority of cases 
cow’s milk must be used. An ordinary nursing 
bottle may be used to feed the lamb, or it 
may be taught to drink from a basin. The 
latter method is less trouble as the lamb 
grows older. The milk should be blood warm 
when fed, and it is better if it can be fresh 
from the cow for the first few days. It 
must be given in small quantities once in two 
hours. If the milk is spilled on the lamb's 
wool it should be wiped off, as the odor of 
stale milk is at once unwholesome and dis¬ 
agreeable. Young lambs must be kept warm. 
If the weather is cold a jug of hot water, 
well wrapped in old carpet or sacking, will 
keep their nest warm. It may be necessary 
to keep the wee baby near the kitchen stove 
for a few days, but as soon as he is strong 
enough he is better off if placed with the 
other lambs. A pet lamb reared away from 
the flock becomes a great nuisance in time. 
As the Iamb grows stronger the interval be¬ 
tween feeding times may be lengthened, but 
Master Lambie will grow much better if he 
gets milk at least twice a day all Summer. 
I taught a pet lamb to suck a young cow 
when I was a child, and the cow cared for 
it as though it was her own. It took the 
greater part of her milk by Pall, followed 
her to pasture like a calf, and cared nothing 
for the sheep. 
Motherless pigs are not so common; occa- 
that the poor thing is half starved, or the 
calf may be put into pasture and eaten by 
flies before it is strong enough to endure such 
treatment. I like to raise Fall calves. Tbev 
rarely fail to get milk till they arc six 
months old, and then they go out to fresh 
young pasture and get a nice start before 
the flies get troublesome. I have found 
whole oats a satisfactory grain feed for 
young calves, a handful in a box where they 
may teach themselves to eat it. A little 
bran with the oats is good, but I fear to use 
wheat middlings till calves are pretty well 
grown. I never use new milk for them for 
more than a week, then skim-milk is sub¬ 
stituted. I do not use a separator, so the 
milk is not skimmed to blueness. I should 
add a teaspoonful of flaxseed jelly increased 
to half a teacupful at the end of the second 
month if I used separator milk. The only 
objection to its use* at all times is that its 
preparation adds one more task where an¬ 
other is hardly needed, and milk set in cans 
surrounded by water is not blue in 12 hours. 
A “motherless colt” is the proverbial em¬ 
blem of forlornness. I have one in mind, the 
offspring of a lame old mother who showed 
her good sense by declaring that life was 
burden enough already without the care of 
that helpless bit of horseflesh. For weeks 
poor coltie would hardly cast a shadow, a 
victim of too much dilution of cow’s milk. 
Then her adopted mother began feeding more 
generously, and the little waif is growing 
round and a real credit to the care she has 
received. I have no experience in rearing 
colts by hand, but I believe that about one- 
third water should be added to cow’s milk 
and a little sugar or molasses, as mare’s 
milk is quite sweet. Perhaps a teaspoonful 
to each pint of prepared milk, governing the 
amount by the state of the colt’s bowels, a 
colt will begin eating a little grain very 
young, and it will nibble grass or nice sweet 
clover hay with pleasure and profit. Great 
care must be taken lest the colt acquire bad 
habits. So much petting as he is sure to re¬ 
ceive may make him naughty if the petting 
gets into any form of teasing. It is easier 
to teach young animals bad habits than it Is 
to break them of them when they are ac¬ 
quired, as we often learn to our sorrow. 
Rearing young animals by hand is very 
interesting, and one dislikes to let a poor 
little motherless animal die, but if the new 
milk which is consumed, in the case of lambs 
and pigs especially, were counted at any sort 
I Have Talked to Many 
Stockmen About— 
Dr. David Roberts, D.V. 
Cattle Specialist 
using Anti-Abortion Serum. This Serum of mine is indorsed and 
used by the leading Experiment Stations of the country and by 
foremost breeders and dairymen. Positively cleans up your herd. 
My Anti-Abortion Serum easily® b“ ppH o e u 
under my very plain instructions and advice, and costs you noth¬ 
ing if it does not bring the results I claim it will. See my Guar¬ 
antee rates here atthe right. Certainly low enough for the work. 
I fiu-ic-iulcc my treatment, because I know what it 
dllltitJ will do, and can afford to for thnt rea¬ 
son. I also know that you'll be satisfied, because it will save you 
many dollars and much trouble. Loading authorities claim that 
Abortion in cattle costs from $12to $25 a head annually in deaths, 
lost calves, lost milk and barren cows. You need not share in 
such a loss if you will act now. 
ABORTION 
IN COWS 
A ND I have always found that Abortion, the pre¬ 
mature birth disease, was the thing that they 
had had the greatest trouble with in raising stock. 
They all admitted that Abortion was what kept many 
of their cows barren most of the time and caused 
sickly calves that could neither be raised nor fatted 
for veal. Most of them had never known how to get 
rid of Abortion until they took my advice. 
My advice to them, and my advice to you, is based on a 
lifetime of success in killing the germs of this dread cattle 
disease. And the right way is to begin by treating the whole 
herd at one time, because one of your cows or your bull may 
be infected in the worst form without its being apparent right 
now. It will spread if you don’t kill the germs of Abortion by 
$1 a Head 
for 25 or more 
5 head for $10 00 
10 head for 15 00 
15 head for 18 00 
20 head for 23 00 
Your Money Back if 
My Treatment does 
not Produce Results 
or calf to see whether 
U nw f« TT*»11 The best possible way to examine a cow, heifer < 
1.AOW IU tell they are infected is to have your helper hold aside the tail and then 
with your two hands open the lips of the vulva. If you see small red pimples, the animal is in¬ 
fected with abortion and is in condition to spread the disease to other animals or infect the 
herd bull. If you find a gathering of white matter, very prompt action is necessary, ns the ani¬ 
mal is badly infected. Swelling of the udder and vulva are symptoms of approaching Abortion. 
1 advise this kind of examination every 80 days. 
Now, whether you are sure your cows have got Abortion or not, it will pay you to drop me 
a line and let me write you more fully about Abortion. I know that I can help you or any man 
in the country to make a herd of cows pay very much better in dollars. Writing to me now 
doesn’t commit you to anything. No obligation at all. Write today, as this is the time of year 
to act. In winter. Abortion spreads rapidly. Yours truly, Dr. David Roberts, Cattle Specialist, 
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FEEDING THE MOTHERLESS LAMB. A BOTTLE BABY. 
sionally a sow dies, leaving a litter of 
healthy pigs, but more oflen the pigs par- 
lake of their mother’s disease and do not 
long survive. At rare intervals a sow dis¬ 
owns her pigs, or what is more common, kills 
and devours them. When this tendency is 
discovered in time the litter may sometimes 
he saved by hand feeding. There is not the 
least difficulty in teaching a hungry pig to 
drink. lie will just put his little nose into 
the nice warm milk and drink gratefully if 
piggishly. I was much interested in a fam¬ 
ily of three wee piggies last Winter, rescued 
from a cannibal mother. The weather was 
cold, and it was necessary to bring the babies 
into the house. Two boxes were provided, 
each a yard or more long by 18 inches wide, 
and about three feet deep. A nice bed of 
soft hay was put into the boxes. Great care 
was taken to keep the boxes free from any 
ill smell. Each pig was taken from the box 
separately, fed his allowance of warm milk 
from a nursing bottle. If any milk was spilled 
on him it was carefully wiped off, and piggy 
was returned to his hay nest. When the 
nest seemed in the least dirty the pigs were 
removed to the other box, the litter thrown 
out and the box cleansed and aired and sup¬ 
plied with fresh litter. 1 saw these little 
fellows a great many times, and I do not 
remember that.there was ever a disagreeable 
smell from their abiding place. If cow's 
milk does not quite agree with young pigs, 
I have heard an expert pig raiser say that 
a small half teaspoonful of magnesia to each 
quart of milk fed wo’-ld correct all evils. A 
little sulphur thoroughly wetted and mixed 
with their milk is also good for pigs, and 
charcoal should he kept where they can find 
it easily as soon as they will eat solid food. 
A grassy enclosure should be provided for 
the little fellows in which they may exercise, 
as soon as they are strong enough to creep 
out of their nest. If the weather is warm 
they may he loft out for an hour, hut if cold 
they should be watched, and before they are 
chilly they should he returned to their nest." 
which must he kept dry and warm, else riieu- 
matism is almost sure to attack them. Shelled 
corn soaked in milk and scattered for the 
pigs to find is a good first grain food, and 
wheat middlings mixed with their milk when 
they 4ire old enough makes pigs grow like 
weeds. The amount must he small at first, 
and gradually increased. 
Rearing calves by hand is so much prac¬ 
ticed that the process is generally under¬ 
stood, hut many a nice calf is spoiled 
by injudicious feeding. The milk may he 
wanted for the pigs and the calf deprived of 
it loo soon or the quantity may he so small 
of value, it would he worth more than the 
animal when reared, not mentioning the 
hours of care. Cold milk is unsafe for young 
animals except in really warm weather and 
then it should not come from an iced cream¬ 
ery to the youngster without some warming. 
It is hardly safe to feed cold milk to a calf 
till It is two or three months old. It is easy 
enough to warm the milk while the kitchen 
fire is a comfort, but when the weather gets 
so warm that a tire is a burden, warming 
milk for colt or pigs or lambs is a good deal 
of trouble. It is well to count the cost be¬ 
fore embarking in the care of a pig or a 
lamb. Of course one would hardly stop to 
think were the waif a colt or a calf. Stev¬ 
ens in his great play “Unknown” says: ”To 
be kind to the earth’s unfortunate is to be 
one of God's own.” May we claim a little of 
this praise when the “unfortunate” is only 
a small friendless animal? 
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