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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 23, 
TROUBLE WITH A COW. 
I have a cow seven years old with a good 
appetite andi looks bright, but very little ma¬ 
nure passes from her. She has had nice, 
bright mixed hay twice a day and well- 
cured corn fodder once a day all Winter, what 
she would eat up clean. When I first noticed 
the trouble I gave one pound of Epsom salts, 
but It did not have any effect. I then stopped 
feeding the hay and corn fodder and gave 
two quarts of bran twice a day and hay tea. 
A week after feeding the bran I gave one pound 
Epsom salts and one quart raw oil at a 
dose, which has not had any effect, Can 
you tell the trouble and what to do. She 
was in good condition when taken. 
New York. F - D> F - 
It is the old story, unbalanced rations. 
The bran ration was proper but a cow 
could not thrive upon two quarts of bran 
twice a day plus the hay tea. 1 he Epsom 
salts and oil were just what she needed 
for immediate relief and of course if 
nothing passed her with a single dose it 
should be repeated untjl the bowels are 
open. Then begin with a ration balanced 
to supply every animal need, protein, ash 
and carbohydrates. Remember that ash 
is as necessary as protein. The corn fod¬ 
der is deficient in ash and we must sup¬ 
ply that in some feed like wheat bran. I 
like a combination approximately as fol¬ 
lows: 150 pounds dried distiller’s grains 
or gluten feed; 100 pounds of wheat mid¬ 
dlings if fed with clover hay, or 100 
pounds of bran if no clover is fed; 50 
pounds of cornmeal, and 50 pounds of 
oil meal when silage is fed, and 75 pounds 
when only dry feed is at hand. If we 
would approximate in composition and 
bowel effect the June pasture feed all of 
these troubles would disappear. Internal 
troubles rarely come in the Summer time, 
when succulent feeds are in abundance. 
Either silage or roots should be provided 
for Winter. If they are not at hand, 
linseed meal will come the nearest to 
meeting the demand. It is possible that 
the stalks may have carried some germ 
disease. Cornstalks are poor feed and 
often unfit for feed when cared for as 
they are in the East. Get the cow in 
order with medicine and then keep her on 
the right track with a balanced ration. 
H. E. COOK. 
bolt to pit wall. Either way will do. I 
have put in several of those and found 
them to give satisfaction; no patent on 
this homemade doorway. O. R. should 
have a doorway in his barn wall at 
least three feet wide so he can go in and 
out with a basket without difficulty. His 
connection to barn should be four feet 
wide for comfort; some I have seen are 
too narrow for a ladder inside. J. s. n. 
Moravia, N. Y. 
Unthkifty Hogs. —Has A. B., (page 190) 
examined Ins sows for lice; just hen lice? 
They not infrequently attack hogs, and con¬ 
sidering his very poor description of the case, 
describes sufficiently to warrant, the guess. 
He does not say whether hen roost is con¬ 
tiguous to hogs’ lodging or not, but lice will 
do for hogs just what he describes. Neither 
does lie say what he gives them for bed¬ 
ding- feeding with buckwheat, and the bed¬ 
ding ' with buckwheat straw irritates some 
hogs’ skins sufficiently to lose hair, but not 
to lose flesh, in my experience. So also, 
throwing horse litter into their yard, and 
hogs like to burrow , and sleep in the fer¬ 
menting heap, but not always resulting in 
loss of hair. Let him feed as .T. M. J. ad¬ 
vises. carefully examine for lice, and with 
the appetite claimed there should lie no more 
difficulty. If lousy, a thorough greasing, well 
rubbed in. washed off a day later with warm 
water and soap, will remove them entirely. 
I saw kerosene tried once; it killed the 
lice, but made the hogs sore. J. F. y. 
Hen Recoup. —Here is the egg record of 
my small flock of R. 1. Reds from November 
1 1906, to March 1. 1907: October 31, 1906, 
put in Winter quarters 30 pullets, four liens; 
November. 454 eggs laid by them, about six 
pullets had commenced to lay; December, 
721 • January, 652. several became broody 
which accounts for fewer eggs^ February. 
532 • total for four months. 2,359, one egg 
short of 59 per hen average. G. o. w. 
Sussex. N. J. 
CONSTRUCTION OF A SILO. 
As I have had eight years’ experience 
in silo construction I do not think Mr. 
Cook has answered O. R., on page 134, 
completely. As I understand it his silo ! 
must stand on a basement or pit wall 
of eight feet. He wants continuous open¬ 
ing down through this wall to level of 
stable floor; leaving a door opening in 
the pit wall two feet 8 inches wide next 
to barn, and in building wall lay into 
the wall two lag bolts on each side of 
door one foot from bottom; 1 foot 
fiom top of wall. Let those project out¬ 
ward 414 inches, and be placed on a line 
three inches outside of the inside line of 
staves. Now take two pieces of 2x4-inch 
over eight feet long, of uneven length, 
and lay them together flatwise, but keep 
one edge one inch from the edge of the 
other, and nail together with 20-penny 
spikes. Make two of those, one right- 
hand and one left. Bore holes two inches 
from edge of this jamb to correspond 
with lag bolts, and put up and bolt fast. 
This operation makes a jamb with a 
1 x 2-inch rabbet. Make enough of this 
jamb to continue on up both sides of 
silo, and spike well to the stave on each 
side of silo. Bore holes for hoops at 
proper places, and cut pieces of 2x4-inch 
stuff two feet long, and nail between 
jambs immediately above the hoop; to 
take the strain of the hoops. When up 
close your opening with matched pine 
5 ^x%x 2 feet 4 inches long; start at bot¬ 
tom, as you fill silo, and put in a few 
boards against the jambs, and as you 
fill continue on up. Pressure of silage 
holds board in place, which makes a 
continuous opening from bottom of pit 
to top of silo two feet wide. Cut those 
short pieces of 2x4 on a bevel of the 
radius of the silo, and make allowance for 
the splice at bottom, or make the jamb 
altogether 38 feet and raise in place and 
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