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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
CURE OF YOUNG BULL. 
I have a Jersey bull eight mouths old 
which I am pushing along so I can use him 
for my eight cows and some young stock 
about June. Can I do it, and what should 
I feed him? J. F- s. 
Connecticut. 
There should be no difficulty or objec¬ 
tion whatever to using a bull for the serv¬ 
ice of a few cows when he is 10 months 
or a year old, provided only that he is 
naturally vigorous and fairly well grown. 
No special feeding will be necessary be¬ 
yond the always important requisite that 
the rations—more especially for young 
and growing animals—should contain fair¬ 
ly large proportions of protein and ash. 
In a general way, the kind of a ration 
that will be desirable for a milch cow 
will be equally suitable for your young 
bull although, of course, he will not want 
so many pounds of grain per day. Clover 
or mixed hay, good silage, if you have it, 
and four or five pounds a day of oats 
and bran, equal parts, will be all that 
is necessary, and these are feeds to be 
found on most dairy farms. If in addi¬ 
tion he can have a handful of oil meal 
it will be fine for him. Remember that 
palatable and nutritious roughage are 
quite as important factors as are his 
grains. In a general way, fairly light and 
bulky feeds such as bran are to be recom¬ 
mended rather than heavy concentrates 
like cotton-seed meal or the glutens. 
VAN WAGENEN. 
COW REFUSES TO “GIVE DOWN 
Is there any way to force a cow to give 
down her milk? I have an extra good cow 
that is naturally an easy milker, but will not 
give down her milk sometimes for a day or 
two. Will milking tubes answer the purpose? 
Farmington, Del. H. c. 
A cow is enabled to hold up her milk 
more or less completely because she pos¬ 
sesses a so-called “sphincter” muscle at 
the upper part of the teat where it com¬ 
municates with the milk cistern, and if 
she keeps this closed the teat does not 
fill with milk promptly and we say that 
she “holds it up.” Cows possess this 
power in varying degrees, and it is un¬ 
usual to have one habitually exercise it to 
the extent indicated by the inquiry. As 
we all know, it is most apt to occur when 
she is worried or excited or strange to 
her surroundings. I do not believe there 
is any certain way to overcome this bad 
habit, especially if it is a chronic fault 
of oilier years. The best you can do will 
be to see that she is not excited at milk¬ 
ing time, and that she has the same treat¬ 
ment and milker from dav to day. Quite 
possibly a handful of grain just as you 
begin to milk may help her to forget her 
troubles. Don’t let her have anything to 
do with her calf. The use of milking 
tubes is entirely out of the question. It 
would surely aggravate the trouble, and 
besides, unless great care is used to ster¬ 
ilize a milking tube before using it will 
generally soon result in carrying germs 
into the udder, which will set up inflam¬ 
matory troubles there, and the last state 
of that cow will be worse than her 
first. VAN WAGENEN. 
GREEN FORAGE FOR STOCK. 
IT. G. P., Nunda, N. Y .—-We are R. F. D. 
carriers and of course keep two horses. We 
also keep two Jersey cows, and would like 
to inquire of you in regard to soiling for 
the cows. We bave only two acres in all: 
one acre is now a pasture. What green 
crops can we ra'se in succession on the land 
now a pasture so to have green fodder all 
the Summer and keep the cows in the barn¬ 
yard? I have noticed that more can be got 
out of green crops than pasture, and we have 
lots of stable manure. 
Ans. —Oats and peas, Japanese millet 
:atid fodder corn are your best crops. If 
you only had rye or wheat growing on 
part of the land you could do better. As 
nearly as you can work the soil sow oats 
and peas as described elsewhere. We 
would use one-third of the land in this 
crop. Early in May fit one-third more of 
Ithe land well and sow Japanese millet, 
covering with brush or fine harrow. As 
early as the weather permits sow fodder 
corn on the last third. Sow this thickly 
in drills, plowing the manure under. As 
soon as heads begin to form on the oats 
begin to cut and feed. As you cut, put 
more manure on the stubble, plow and 
sow more fodder corn, or you can sow 
millet up to July 15. Follow the millet 
with fodder corn in the same way. After 
July 15 sow sweet corn, like Evergreen or 
Ne Plus Ultra. After August 10 sow rye 
as the other crops come out. Do not let 
the crops stand too long after they are 
ripe. Cut and cure as dry forage. 
STOMACH WORMS IN SHEEP. 
J. E. Wing in the Breeders’ Gazette, some 
lime since, outlined a plan for grazing sheep 
to obviate the danger from the stomach 
worm, which worm he pronounces the 
great enemy of sheep in the corff 
belt. As a boy on the farm in Liv¬ 
ingston County, N. Y., I had much to 
do with sheep, and occasionally beard the 
stomach worm spoken of, but I do not re¬ 
member that there were any serious losses 
from it. My father and uncle kept a dock 
of 3,000 sheep durian* the Civil War, and 
I cannot remember that my father ever 
mentioned losses from the stomach worm. 
Flocks were reduced after the war, but I 
think that came as a result of the decline 
in the price of wool. Western New York, 
of course, is not in the “corn belt,’’ as that 
expression is usually employed and probably 
the stomach worm is less dangerous there 
than in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. In this 
connection I wish to ask anyone who has 
given the subject attention whether, even 
with large flocks, the stomach worm would 
be likely to give any or much trouble In 
Livingston County, N. Y. a. d. m. 
Texas. 
I have not seen the article by Mr. 
Wing referred to. The stomach worm 
certainly did less damage, a generation 
ago, than at present. I am inclined to 
think the Merino sheep so largely kept 
then were less affected by them. Also 
like all insects, they multiply as a con¬ 
genial food product, or host is abundant. 
With the advent of the English mutton 
sheep, stomach worms began to be 
troublesome. Until very recently, nothing 
was done to combat them except by a 
few careful shepherds. Consequently they 
multiplied rapidly, the old sheep dropping 
the eggs in the pastures to be taken in by 
the lambs in whose stomachs they found 
a convenient host. Wherever sheep are 
kept the worms are now found, whether 
in Livingston County or elsewhere, par¬ 
ticularly where they have run for a long 
period in the same pasture that lias be¬ 
come thoroughly infected with them. 
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