694 
September 14, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Live Stock and Dairy 
GROWTH ON COW. 
T have a cow that has a growth about 
three inches in front of the udder, partly on 
the large vein on the right side. It, began 
some time in May. When first noticed we 
supposed it to be a hurt. It will dry nearly 
up for a day or so and then become bloody 
over the entire surface and look something 
like a raw piece of meat. At present it is 
about the size of a small hulled black walnut. 
Cow was fresh April 23, and seems to be in 
perfect health every other way. Can you tell 
what the trouble is and advise remedy? 
West Virginia. a. l. t. 
The fact that the growth apparently 
is connected with the milk vein leads to 
the supposition that a dilation or injury 
of the vein may be present with escape 
of blood into the celjidar tissue under¬ 
lying the skin of part involved. Under 
the circumstances treatment will have to 
be cautious lest severe bleeding take place 
from an attempt to remove the growth. 
Better treat it by painting once daily with 
tincture of iron qnd if this does no good 
then use a mixture of one dram of 
tannic acid in half an ounce of flexible 
collodion applied daily as a paint. It 
would be much better, however, to call 
in a graduate veterinarian and have him 
determine the exact nature of the growth 
so that treatment may proceed with the 
best chance of success. The growth may 
prove to be simply a “blood wart” and 
in that case it would respond best to use 
of the knife or applications of suitable 
caustics. A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
FUMIGATION FOR HEN LICE. 
There has been some discussion about 
the use of hydrocyanic acid gas for 
fumigating hen houses. The chief objec¬ 
tion is that these houses are seldom air¬ 
tight, so that the gas escapes. The 
Transvaal Agricultural Journal prints 
the picture at Fig. 335, which shows how 
a strong canvas or sail is thrown over 
the house to hold the gas. While this 
strong gas killed the lice and other in¬ 
sects it did not destroy the eggs and 
spraying was needed to do this. The 
eggs of a hen were subjected to the gas 
and all the fertile ones hatched. Although 
we have given the method of preparing 
the gas before, we copy the following 
from The Transvaal Journal: 
The following Ingredients are used In 
producing the hydrocyanic acid gas, 1. e., 
cyanide of potassium, sulphuric acid, and 
water. Take a large tin or enameled dish, 
put in the necessary amount of water, add 
the sulphuric acid, and then drop in the 
cyanide of potassium, which must be 
pounded rather fine and placed in a paper 
bag: this allows time enough to withdraw 
from the room. The strength of the gas 
is regulated by the size of the room and 
the kind of insect to be killed. If we take 
100 cubic feet of space as a unit, we find 
that to destroy mosquitoes or flics, one-half 
ounce cyanide of potassium, one-half fluid 
ounce sulphuric acid, two to three ounces 
of water has to be used. Again cock¬ 
roaches, bedbugs, or moths, one ounce 
cyanide of potassium, one ounce sulphuric 
acid, four to six ounces of water, for every 
100 cubic feet, and against fowl ticks, 
more than three times this strength must 
be used, and is, even then, not always 
effective. The best time for fumigation is 
at night, although flies and mosquitoes 
might be killed during the daytime. Most 
of the above-mentioned insects become 
active when it becomes dark, come out of 
their hiding places, and will therefore be 
easier killed by the poisonous fumes. 
Now. let us say a room 1G feet by 12 
feet and 14 feet high has to be fumigated 
against bedbugs. In order to find the cubic 
space, multiply the length by the width and 
height: 16 x 12 x 14. This gives us 2,688 
cubic feet, and this divided by 100 gives 
26.88 units, or to round it off 27 units of 
100 cubic feet. We therefore use 27 ounces 
cyanide of potassium, 27 ounces sulphuric 
acid, and at least 108 ounces of water, to 
fumigate a room of the above size against 
bedbugs and cockroaches, to have any suc¬ 
cess. The same strength of gas will also 
be found serviceable to destroy moths, 
mites in fowl houses, rats and mice. As 
mentioned before, mosquitoes and flies only 
require half this strength, and fowl ticks 
more than three times this strength in 
order to succumb. The latter are very 
difficult to ki.i, and the fumigation should 
be followed up about ten days later with a 
good spray. It is not advisable to gasify 
more than six ounces of cyanide in one 
dish, four ounces is even better, as it will 
be found that the compound boils over, or 
that the cyanide will not all be dissolved 
and gasified. In a room of above size, we 
therefore have to use at least six dishes. 
I’lace one of the dishes in each corner, and 
the other two more or less in the middle 
of the room, perhaps under a bed or ward¬ 
robe, as the case might be. The dishes or 
tins (empty paraffine tins will do) must be 
large enough to avoid spilling, and thus 
spoiling the carpet or floor. Remove all 
fluid and eatables from the room, as the 
hydrocyanic acid gas combines with water, 
and makes a highly poisonous compound; 
even moist walls will retain a small quan¬ 
tity of the gas, and give off a strong smell 
of bitter almond for several days. Should 
this happen in a bedroom it is best to 
ventilate well, and a good way to do this, 
if there is only one window, is to keep a 
fire burning to heat the air in the room for 
a few hours, and then open the doors and 
windows. Any moisture will soon be dried 
up, and the cold fresh air will enter the 
room quicker. _ 
A PASTURE FOR HENS. 
I have a half acre that I want to make 
into a chicken pasture. Will the method on 
page 426 do in my case, or can it he im¬ 
proved for this particular case? 
Pennsylvania. o. b. g. 
The field described on page 426 was in¬ 
tended for a meadow—for hay-making, 
It would give a good run for poultry, but 
would not be as good as a combination 
of different plants like clover, rape and 
grain. We would rather divide the half 
acre into three parts. Sow one this Fall 
to Crimson clover, and the others to 
wheat and rye. In the Spring plow the 
rye part early and sow to Dwarf Essex 
rape, and later the wheat to oats. Let the 
chickens run on the Crimson clover while 
the oats and rape are growing. In June 
work under the clover and sow millet. 
When the oats become too hard plow 
them under and sow Crimson clover and 
cow peas, and in August work under the 
millet and sow Crimson clover, barley and 
rape. While this will require consider¬ 
able work, it will provide good hen pas¬ 
ture. We have found Crimson clover and 
rape better for this purpose than any hay 
or pasture grasses. 
THE POSSIBILITIES IN TRAP NESTS 
We were glad to read an article by 
Franklin Kean in a late issue, in regard 
to the difficulty of always succeeding in 
giving satisfaction in our sales of stock* 
and eggs for hatching. When one who 
is authority in poultry matters finds 
trouble in that direction, amateurs ought 
not to be easily discouraged, nor over- 
'critical of their purchases, and believe that 
now and then there is an honest breeder, 
who prizes his reputation more than the 
money he gets for his sales. We have 
found with trap nests, leg bands and 
carefully-kept records, many difficulties 
can be overcome, but it needs time and an 
infinite amount of patience to merit suc¬ 
cess. For four years we have conscienti¬ 
ously used these helps in our work with 
fairly good results. We find it no more 
trouble to collect the eggs three or four 
times a day, than to hunt for them all 
over the premises, and with the careful 
record kept of each individual fowl, at 
the end of the year’s work you begin to 
know where you are, and have a system 
of selection of the hens for breeding, 
that are most desirable in size, shape, 
number of eggs laid, with careful regard 
to color in plumage and eggs, and the 
qualities of the male. Of course, to many 
this seems a lot of fuss and hardly worth 
while, but the day is past when any kind 
of business can be conducted in an easy 
manner. There is certainly no “soft 
snap” in profitable poultry culture. As 
we practice line breeding there is no other 
way for us to manage at all satisfactorily, 
except by pursuing the best known 
methods. s. B. bowerman. 
Monroe Co., N. Y. 
ITCHING RASH SPREAD 
Lasted for Years—Finally Reached 
Even Face—Specialist Could Not 
Stop It—A Good Example of 
Cuticura’s Great Success. 
“When my daughter was a baby she 
had a breaking out behind the ears. The 
doctor said she would outgrow it. It did 
get somewhat better until she was about 
fifteen years old, and after that we could 
get nothing that would drive it away. She 
was always applying something in the 
way of salves. It troubled her behind the 
knees, opposite the elbows, back of the 
neck and ears, under the chin, and then 
it got on the face. 1 hat was about three 
vears ago. She took treatment with a 
specialist and seemed to get worse all the 
time. We were then advised to try the 
Cuticura Remedies, and now I don’t see 
anv breaking out, and we are well pleased 
with the results. M. Curley, 11-19 Six¬ 
teenth St., Bay City, Mich., May 20, 06. 
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WILLOUGHBY FARM, Gettysburg,Pa. 
SPRINGBANK HERD 
LARGE BERKSHIRES 
A tine bunch of Sows coming a year 
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Rich in the blood of Lord Premier Masterpiece, 
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BERKSHIRES 
Three choice yearling sows, bred to Masters’ 
Chief No. 98466, a son of Masterpiece. . 
Eight very fine boars, June farrow, sired by 
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Correspondence solicited. 
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KALORAMA FARM 
BERKSHIRES. 
We now offer a splendid lot of Young Pigs, sired 
by imported boars of the highest type and out of a 
grand lot of mature sows, both imported and 
American bred. __ , 
They are the best lot ever raised at Kalorama 
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Readers of THE RURAL NEW-YORKER: 
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Feed and labor are high, therefore, 
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MOl-STEIN BULL 
Born last January. A Beautiful, well developed 
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splendid cow and a largo producer, uniting Friesland, 
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right to make an extra good sire. The first order 
with $40.00 takes him, all papers included. Address 
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Brookalde Hord ... Liverpool, N. Y. 
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DUEL CALF—A descendant of “ The Owl,” P. 2195 
C. HEIFER CALF—A descendantof "Flying 
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QA REGISTERED YEARLING RAMS for 
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announcement. Address 
Prof. JAMES LAW, F.R.C.V.S., Director. 
