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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 5, 
STOCKING OF COLTS LEGS. 
I have a very fine three-year-old colt; It 
is city broken and it is speedy. In having it 
trained the hind ankles swell while standing 
in stable. After a little use swelling goes 
down. Ankles are bony and very fine limbs. 
Can you give me some remedy for this 
trouble? s - A - B - 
Ixindon Bridge, Va. 
The term “stocking” is applied to this 
dropsical swelling of the hind legs, which 
usually indicates poor circulation and 
want of tone of the system, together with 
lack of tone of the parts affected. In 
many instances we find that the animal 
affected is standing in a badly ventilated, 
dirty stable, receivng too little exercise 
and grooming, or suffering from indiges¬ 
tion caused by poor food, irregularities of 
the molar teeth preventing perfect masti¬ 
cation, contaminated or excessively hard 
drinking water, intestinal parasites or 
swollen and painful gums and palate asso¬ 
ciated with cutting through of teeth. As 
the colt in question is but three years of 
age be is cutting a number of large molar 
teeth and two incisor teeth above and be¬ 
low in front of mouth, so that the gmns 
are swollen and painful, and during such 
conditions stocking of the hind le~s '.s 
common and especially so if the horse is 
worked beyond his strength. Under the 
circumstances we would advise lancing the 
gums over cutting teeth if found inflamed; 
allowing colt to chew on a few old hard 
ears of corn daily; swabbing the mouth 
night and morning with a solution of half 
an ounce of alum or borax in a quart of 
cold water if the palate is found swollen 
just back of tbe upper incisor teeth, con¬ 
stituting the condition commonly known 
as “lampas”; seeing to the sanitation of 
the stable; substituting soft for hard 
water; providing the colt with a roomy 
box stall when in stable and being sure to 
exercise him thoroughly every day as 
well as frequently grooming his skin. 
Then as to local treatment rub the legs 
dry when he comes in from work or train¬ 
ing, and then apply flannel or derby band¬ 
ages from hoofs to hocks, but remove 
them at least twice a day for a thorough 
hand rubbing. As a tonic mix in feed 
night and morning for a week a table¬ 
spoonful of a mixture of equal parts dried 
sulphate of iron, saltpeter and ground 
gentian and ginger roots. Allow free 
access to rock salt. Repeat powders in 
feed at intervals of ten days if found 
necessary. A. s. Alexander, v. s. 
FALL FEEDING DAIRY COWS. 
As the Fall advances tbe problem of prop¬ 
erly feeding the dairy cows so as to keep 
up a full flow of milk becomes more com¬ 
plicated. Many dairymen make a practice 
of turning cows into the meadows some¬ 
times soon after haying. This practice of 
early feeding is not to be commended, what¬ 
ever may be said of it later. With those 
who approve pasturing meadows the late 
September and October feeding becomes 
easier, provided the season is such as to 
give a full growth. Whenever the growth 
is scant or the dairyman does not approve 
of the plan of pasturing the mowing land, 
It is a tough proposition to keep up the 
flow through this season until Winter. This 
year the growth has been retarded, partly 
because haying was so late and partly on 
account of the dry weather. As soon as the 
sowed corn, millet, and oats and peas are 
gone, or the fear of frost has cut them off 
from the list of fresh feeds and put them 
with the dry, something must be added to the 
ration. There are many farmers now who 
hesitate about feeding grain. It will not 
do to let the production fall off much if 
profit is to be made later. Grain feeds seem 
to be 20 to 25 per cent higher than last year, 
and milk is only 10 per cent higher. For 
all this discrepancy in comparative price there 
seems little reason for withholding the grain, 
prices of milk will advance, and even without 
an advance there will be money lost, by let¬ 
ting the flow decrease except where unavoid¬ 
able. The ordinary dry grain will hardly 
keep up the best results. Now is the time 
to open the Summer silo.if it has not been 
done before. The trouble is that not one 
man In a hundred has a Summer silo, and 
what is more, few are likely to build them, 
because there Is such a lack of help to raise 
crop and to fill tbe silo. To provide the re¬ 
quired laxative effect in the ration some use 
oil meal in the grain ration. This takes 
the place of green feed or silage to some 
extent as a laxative. There are other feeds, 
such as the molasses feeds, that may answer 
the purpose with other grain, or brewers’ 
grains wet with considerable water, that may 
give the required results. At any rate it 
seems best to provide something of the sort. 
Of other grains there are many sorts that 
are offered; wheat feeds, gluten, distiller’s 
grains, cotton-seed meal, etc. We began feed¬ 
ing feeds in August. In September we 
added distillers’ grains, and when Oc¬ 
tober comes and the fresh corn and clover 
are things of tbe past we shall add oil meal 
to the grain ration. H. H. lyon. 
Chain With Pasture. —Very few farmers 
around here feed grain to cows while at 
pasture, unless pasture is short and they 
have no green crop to help out with. Ask 
them if it pays to feed grain on full pasture 
and they will say they don't know, but they 
don't do it. A few years ago when bran 
could be bought at from $12 to $15 a ton, a 
good many would feed it as soon as tbe milk 
began to shrink, but now most, if not all, 
farmers try to have something growing on 
the farm to feed green, or have silage held 
over from the year before. G. m. h. 
Charlotte, Vt. 
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Collinsville. Butler Co.. Ohio. J*n. 4th. 1908. 
Wilbur Stock Food Co.. Milwaukee. Wis. 
Gentlemen:—Wilbur's Stock Food not only develops an ani¬ 
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the same quarters, drink Irom the same troughs with a sick 
hog with him and he not only kept well but never refused a 
feed. I owe this to the timely use of Wilbur’s Stock Food. 
As to the truth of my statements. I can refer >ou to respon* 
sible citizens of my neighborhood who have seen the hog. 
Sincerely yours. CARL G. FISHER. 
Alice. Mo.. Aug. 12. 1906. 
Wilbur Stock Food Co.. Milwaukee, Wis. 
Gentlemen;—I recently purchased some of your Stock Food 
and must say, it is the best Stock Food I ever used. I fed it to a 
cow that 1 thought was going to Oie. I waited until she was 
very bad and seemed to be very near death before I began 
feeding your Stock Food to her. She began to mend and was 
soon in good health again. . I will never be without your 
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Yours truly. 
J. M. OSBOURN. 
WHAT WILBUR’S STOCK TONIC IS 
N EARLY a quarter of a century’s actual ex¬ 
perience has proven beyond a doubt that 
Wilbur’s Tonic is a money-maker for feeders. We 
KNOW THIS. It has been PROVEN to us thous¬ 
ands upon thousands of times in the most force¬ 
ful manner. We want to convince YOU and we 
are willing to do it AT OUR OWN RISK. 
You know the value of pasture for any kind of 
stock; how it keeps the animals in good condition 
—nature's own way of doing it. There is no argu¬ 
ment about the value of the pasture, but it does not 
last the year ’round. We prepare a tonic, which 
mixed with grain and fed to stock, furnishes in stall 
or feed box in the proper proportions, the ingredients 
of pasture diet, invigorates and fattens stock at small 
enough cost to make the tonic a money-making in- 
vesiment for the owner of one cow, horse, hog or 
sheep, and a proportionately larger one for 
the owner of thousands of head. 
FOR COWS 
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to contagious disease. But you know, too, if they 
escape contagion, they are kept cheaper than any 
other stock. If you keep your hogs healthy they 
can resist contagion, will fatten quickly and 
cheaply. If they get sick and refuse to eat you 
know how quickly they will die. Nothing will 
save them; medicine is useless. To keep them 
healthy you must feed them something they will eat, 
and something that will satisfy the demands Of their 
systems. We believe that there is only one thing in 
the world that will do this, and that is 
WILBUR'S TONIC 
It is not medicine. It is a pure vegetable condi¬ 
tioner, made from pure barks, roots and seeds. For 
calves you are raising, or ones you are fattening for 
veal, you can obtain the most wonderful results by using 
one-half measure of Wilbur’s Tonic, mixed with one 
pint of ground oats or corn meal. 
PREVENTS ABORTION 
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You know when the pasturage goes down in the fall the milk I 
goes, the butter goes, the flavor goes, until all are short- | 
est when the price is highest. Wilbur’s Tonic invig¬ 
orates cows; it supplies the needed roots, barks and 
leaves of the pasture, sustains the flow of milk 
and color, quantity and flavor of the butter. 
Take a cow right off the pasture, feed her 
Wilbur’s Tonic in the stall and she will 
show very little loss of milk, and one 
cent’s worth of Tonic per day saves one 
dollar’s worth of grain per month. 
FOR HOGS 
Hogs, you know, are the 
most susceptible animals 
By counteracting colds and soothing the nerves while the mother is in a 
delicate Condition, Wilbur’s Stock Tonic PREVENTS ABORTION and saves 
for the breeder at least one-half more of his increase. Wilbur’s Stock Tonic 
fed in small quantities to young animals will make them grow large, strong 
and fat. 
OUR RESPONSIBILITY 
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Nearly a quarter of a century in successful business has given us a very 
enviable position in the business world. Any banker can tell you weather 
we are responsible, and the publishers of any large agricultural paper can 
tell you if we do as we agree. Further than this, we refer you to any bank 
or wholesale house in Milwaukee, or to R. G. Dun & Co., Bradstreet, or any 
other commercial agency, and the First National Bank of Milwaukee in par¬ 
ticular. Ask your local banker. 
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