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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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ROUP OR CANKER. 
1. What is the best cure for chickens start¬ 
ed with roup or yellow-mouth; some call it 
canker-mouth? 2 . I am about to build a 
chicken house 20x50, two stories high, and 
expect to put about six windows in on the 
sunny side. The lower story will be in .the 
ground ; on north and west side I am going 
to make the walls of coal ashes and cement, 
and have a cement bottom to board floor in 
middle, with a sheathed roof covered with 
three-ply tar-felt roofing. W r hat is the best 
way to ventilate it. and how many chickens 
can I house in it profitably? w. c. m. 
Catawissa, Pa. 
1. Canker or any other form of roup 
would better be wiped out with the ax 
in order that the flock may be kept 
healthy. However, some, with only a 
few chickens, can keep the trouble in 
check by scraping the canker off with a 
small stick and applying some of the roup 
cures or creolin to the affected parts, and 
some used in their drinking water also. 
2. I do not know that I understand the 
plans mentioned here, but we use cement 
floors wherever we can make them, and 
prefer them to boards. Six windows are 
not enough for a building of this size, 
and if I were building would put at least 
six more windows made of muslin, which 
would solve the question of ventilation. 
A house like this should house 400 hens 
nicely. * floyd q. white. 
SHEEP WITH SORE EYES. 
I have some sheep which were attacked 
with sore eyes, some became perfectly blind 
by a kind of white skin over the eyes which 
in some cases lasts two or three weeks. 
They have sore mouths, get a scab all 
around the' lips, such as fever blisters and 
cold sores, and when the lambs are about 
two to three days old they get the same 
sore eyes and scab on their mouths. 
Pennsylvania. reader. 
From the symptoms I judge that these 
sheep are suffering with enzootic ophthal¬ 
mia. This sometimes attacks the flocks 
in an entire neighborhood and without 
apparent cause. It is not easy to treat 
the sheep for the eye difficulty. Give each 
sheep from two to three ounces of Epsom 
salts. This may be dissolved in warm 
water and put down their throats from 
a long-neck bottle, care being taken not 
to strangle the sheep. The day follow¬ 
ing give one-half dram of nitre. Keep 
the sheep in a dark place, not damp. If 
a cloth can be kept over the eyes—a dif¬ 
ficult but not impossible task—it will be 
found to help materially if such is satu¬ 
rated with a solution of a dram each of 
nitrate of silver and carbolic acid and 10 
grains of morphia to one quart of dis¬ 
tilled water. In any case wash the eyes 
with above. The cough may be nothing 
more than a cold. The nourishing food 
and shelter are the very best things to 
give. The noses may, however, be 
smeared with tar, which will likely help 
them. The cough may be produced by 
internal parasites, but it is not wise to 
doctor too many things at once. A little 
turpentine sprinkled in their salt will do 
no harm, and may do good. 
E. VAN ALSTYNE. 
THE HEN vs. THE COW. 
The Cow's Side. —The Otsego Journal 
recently printed the following note: 
Much is being said these days about the 
hen as a money maker, often to the discredit 
of the old cow that has stood by us so long 
and faithfully in the past. Please allow 
me to lead out old Jersey and give her rec¬ 
ord for 11 months. She is 15 years old, a 
grade Jersey of respectable parentage and 
had a fairly good bringing up. She fresh¬ 
ened March 1, 1906, and I will give her record 
up to February 1, 1907. She has made 350 
pounds of butter, raised her ow r n calf to the 
age of six weeks and furnished 25 quarts 
of cream to other parties. Making a fair 
estimate of the milk fed to the calf at 40 
pounds of butter, cream furnished at 20 
pounds of butter, would swell the amount 
to 410 pounds of butter. Nothing is al¬ 
lowed in this reckoning of the milk and 
cream used in the family. The cash received 
from this product is $123.15. How much 
have I fed the old cow? Weil, now don’t 
ask that question. That kind o’ spoils the 
picture. On the principle that it is better 
to keep a record of what others do for us 
and forget what we do for others, we will 
let that matter pass, suffice it to say, we 
fed her well. Great is the hen, but greater 
Is the cow. 
The Hen's Account. —It has been a 
subject of much discussion which is the 
more profitable, 50 hens or a cow? Now, 
as there is a great difference in cows as 
well as hens, we have made the experi¬ 
ment with an ordinary flock of hens, in 
ordinary houses, and find they match up 
pretty well with the old Jersey cow re¬ 
cently mentioned in the Otsego Journal. 
We live neighbors with that same cow, 
and can certify that the amount of money 
invested is about the same in each par¬ 
ticular. We started in January 1 , 1906, 
with 50 hens, three roosters. We raised 
quite a lot of chickens, sent the young 
roosters to market at fair prices, had a 
good market for eggs in our own town. 
January 1 , 1907, we reckoned up our care¬ 
fully kept account, and the following re¬ 
sults were obtained : 50 pullets we were 
offered 75 cents apiece for, $30; sales 
made, $123; three extra roosters, $1.50; 
total, $154.50; feed had cost, $49.82; profit' 
$104.68. If the unknown cost of old Jer¬ 
sey’s feed could be deducted from her 
sales, we leave our readers to decide 
which was the more profitable. Great is 
the cow, but greater is the hen. 
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