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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March .30, 
STEER WITH EYE TROUBLE. 
I liave a steer which lias a film over his 
eyes. One of the neighbors said to put 
burnt alum in them. Will this take the 
film off and leave the eye in good condition? 
lie has been running with some other stock 
in a field where there was a straw stack and 
I thought maybe it was caused by the dirt. 
I have put some lard in them. a. w. 
Your steer has probably an oat hull 
on the ball of the eye, or in thrusting 
liis head into the stack his eyeball came 
in contact with the sharp end of a straw 
which set up an inflammation which may 
become serious if it is not attended to 
properly. You would do wrong in putting 
burnt alum in it; that is an old and 
barbarous treatment. The eye is some¬ 
thing very tender and should be treated 
with medicines that are soothing instead 
of irritating. Put your steer in a good 
warm stable and bathe the eye well with 
warm water three times a day and then 
apply the following after each bathing: 
Tincture of belladonna, one ounce; acet¬ 
ate of lead, one dram; water, six ounces, 
First put the acetate of lead in the water 
and after it dissolves put in the belladonna, 
and after each bathing pour a little of 
this solution into eye. c. e. hatch, v. s. 
HEATING A BROODER. 
The single coil from a Bramhall Dean 
heater is enclosed in a sawdust-packed 
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HEATER PIT. 
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box, the bottom of which is light wool 
carpeting about eight inches from floor 
to allow a platform, adjustable as to 
height, to be slipped under. Each three- 
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foot section of brooder takes care of 150 
chicks, and the smaller size of heater is 
ample to brood 1,000 or 2,000. It is as 
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.ff/NGED COVER 
REMOVABLE MONT AIEX7TOA11EV 
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much ahead of lamp brooders as they 
were ahead of bens. The expanding and 
contracting of pipe coil is made to control 
fire by lifting and closing stove cover, 
which acts as check draft. 
Greene Co., N. Y. fred. b. skinner. 
bring in $150. Thus it will be readily 
seen it is a case where each must work 
out his own salvation. A good ration is 
plenty of good pasture in Summer, sup¬ 
plemented by enough grain feed to keep 
up both flesh and milk; possibly it may 
pay to give her a couple of pounds of 
cornmeal a day at that time. After frost 
cuts the grass, give her, at night, all the 
nice, bright early-cut hay she will eat, 
with from two to four pounds of grain 
with it. As the pastures get poorer, 
feed her also, in the morning, a ration 
of the hay or bright stalks, and increase 
the grain. How much, will depend on 
if she is fresh or not. Leaving the cost 
out of account, there is no better grain 
ration than one made up of equal parts 
by weight, of cornmeal, wheat bran and 
oats, and one quart in addition of linseed 
meal daily. If you can give her a half 
bushel of roots in addition that will help 
materially. Keep salt before her all the 
time. E. VAN ALSTYNE. 
WHAT ABOUT A SUCKING COW ? 
I bought a pretty good cow for milk, and 
find she will milk herself and will also milk 
another cow if they run together. I almost 
have to keep her till I can dry her in Fall 
and fatten. Can any of your readers tell 
me of some device to prevent her sucking 
herself? J. b. s. 
Portage, O. 
If you must keep the cow you can try 
various remedies. One is to put a halter 
on her with a “bit” of wood in her mouth 
about like the bit used on a horse. Pull 
this tight to the back of her mouth and 
long enough so it will stick out at each 
side. This will not interfere with swallow¬ 
ing but she cannot get much suction as 
the bit will keep her mouth partly open. 
Another plan is to make a little gate or 
door of hard wood which will hang down 
over her mouth. It is hung either from 
a ring in her nose or by cutting the 
upper part of the board so it will fit 
in the nose and swing up and down. 
When she holds her head down the board 
drops in front of her mouth. Another 
plan is to put a strap full of sharp nails 
or spikes around the cow’s nose so that 
when she tries to reach her teats she 
pricks herself. No remedy is sure in the 
case of a confirmed sucker. Better beef 
the cow as soon as you can. 
Lady (to new milkman) : “Now, Mr. 
Jones, I hope I can rely on the purity of 
your milk. I had to give up Mr. Smith 
because his milk became two-thirds water.” 
Mr. Jones: “You can rely on this, mum, 
It’s been paralyzed by the public anar¬ 
chist.”—Punch. 
THE “AVERAGE” OF A JERSEY COW 
What Is the average cost, yearly, to feed 
a Jersey cow, the average profit and a good 
daily feed ration? a.- h. 
The above is a good deal like trying to 
tel! the length of a string, or the size of 
a piece of chalk, so much depends on the 
particular cow, and just where the man 
lives who owns her, as to the cost of 
her feed. The amount and quality of 
milk she gives, and the price obtained for 
her product, must determine the profit. 
The cost to keep a 1,000-pound cow, will 
run from $35 to $50; depending on the 
cheapness and abundance of her food; 
the former, where she has pasture and 
no grain in Summer, with coarse fodder 
and some grain" in Winter; the latter 
where she bad grain at present rather 
high prices all the year around. Then to 
this must be added the interest on the 
money invested in her, which to allow 
for depreciation will not be less than 10 
per cent or $5 on a $50 cow. I figure 
the cost of milking a herd of cows to be 
$10 each. One cow alone, might cost 
three times that to feed and care for. 
Tier manure if it is all saved—liquid and 
solid—is worth $20 as a fertilizer. If 
she makes 300 pounds of butter in a year 
and it is sold for 25 cents per pound, her 
gross sales will be $75. If this product 
is put in cream it would probably 
bring $100. If her milk was retailed at 
the door for five cents a quart she might 
SORES BIG AS A PENNY 
Covered Head and Neck — Hair All 
Came Out -Suffered 6 Months— 
Used Cuticura Costing $1.50 
—Cured in Three Weeks. 
“After having the measles my whole 
head and neck were covered with scaly 
sores about as large as a penny. They 
were just as thick as they could be. My 
hair all came out. I let the trouble run 
along, taking the doctor’s blood remedies 
and rubbing on salve, but it did not seem 
to get any better. It stayed that way for 
about six months; then 1 got a set of the 
Cuticura Remedies, and in about a week 
I noticed a big difference, and in three 
weeks it was well entirely and I have not 
bad the trouble any more, and as this was 
seven years ago, I consider myself cured. 
I used one bottle of Cuticura Resolvent, 
one box of Cuticura Ointment, and two 
cakes of Cuticura Soap. Mrs. Henry Por¬ 
ter, Albion, Neb., Aug. 25, 1906.” 
k LaCy can hold him. 
of the BEERY BIT 
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Days' Trial and circular showing 
the four distinct ways of using it. 
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Send for booklet of endorsements. 
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