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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
June 8, 
COTTON SUED FOR COWS. 
How much cotton seed can I feed a cow 
with impunity? c. b. c. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
The amount of cotton-seed meal that 
can be fed with safety depends on the 
particular cow and the other feed she has. 
If the cow is inclined to take on fat or 
is disposed to garget, much less can be 
fed with “impunity” than with a rather 
thin cow, or one not likely to have trou¬ 
ble with her udder. As a rule, an old 
cow can use more to advantage than a 
young one. It is very rich in blood- 
making material, and it will be readily 
seen that with a cow of “full habit” trou¬ 
ble will result from too much of a good 
thing, where a cow of a different make¬ 
up might take twice the amount to good 
advantage. Cotton-seed meal is consti¬ 
pating, and when it is fed with dry feeds 
alone, or those of like nature, the diges¬ 
tion will not be so perfect as if a succu¬ 
lent food, such as silage, is given, or a 
laxative grain, like linseed meal, or mo¬ 
lasses. It is necessary to make these ex¬ 
planations before naming any amount. 
We might say two pounds daily would 
be a fair and safe amount to feed on 
the average; yet with old or thin healthy 
cattle, when cotton-seed meal is cheap, 
and to-day at $30 per ton it is one of the 
cheapest feeds, fed with pasture or laxa¬ 
tive foods, one could double it with 
safety. For one whole Winter I fed an 
average of five pounds daily per cow 
with very best results. This was fed with 
silage as the bulk of the roughage; the 
other grain was pitted brewers’ grains. 
I never had anything that made me as 
much milk for the money as this ration, 
r.or one that kept my cows in better shape. 
Cotton-seed meal cost $24; grains $2.45 
a ton (75 per cent water) laid in June. It 
is an excellent and safe feed with pas¬ 
ture, particularly after the cows first go 
out, when the grass is watery, and loosens 
the bowels. Care should be exercised to 
see that the meal is not old, indicated 
by its light, bright color, and is not adul¬ 
terated. EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
ABNORMAL BREATHING IN COW. 
I have just beep reading, on page 327 
of The R. N.-Y.. the article entitled “An¬ 
other Coughing Cow,” and it tempts me to 
inquire of you about my own. I have a 
valuable four-year-old cow giving nine quarts 
of milk, farrow, is in good llesh on two 
quarts fine feed (good bran) and two quarts 
cob meal, with good English hay and corn 
fodder (dry), the latter once a day. She 
does not appear sick in any way, yet she 
makes an unusual noise at times in breath¬ 
ing. I can only liken it to a very loud 
snore, at intervals of live to 10 minutes. 
At other times her breathing is natural 
without any noise. Apparently it is located 
in her head or nose; does not draw long 
breaths and swell up ’like a heavy horse, no 
unusual sound in her lungs, no cold or 
mucus as from catarrh, simply a rattle or 
snoring sound in the nose. Site is no worse 
eating dry 'hay or gra'in than when it is 
wet, but sounds louder with head down eat¬ 
ing than when with head up chewing her 
cud. She has been afflicted two or three 
months, and grows no worse. Can you tell 
me (he cause, and give a remedy? Inspector 
passed me a clean certificate last Fall. 
Massachusetts. h. c. b. 
Tuberculosis affecting the glands of the 
throat (retro-pharyngeal) is a most com¬ 
mon cause of snoring sounds in breathing, 
but actinomycosis (lumpy jaw) may also 
affect the same location with a like result. 
In both instances there is likely to be 
some slight enlargement or tenderness of 
the parts to be detected by handling. A 
polypus in the nostril also may be the 
cause, but these are much more common 
in horses than in cattle. We would ad¬ 
vise you to have the cow retested with 
tuberculin, and if she proves free from 
tuberculosis try effects of half a dram 
of iodide of potash given twice daily in 
water for four days a week. 
A. s. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
DORSET AND TUNIS SHEEP. 
On page 329 Mr. Van Alstyne says lie 
would not keep Dorset or Tunis sheep except 
for raising Winter lambs. Will he state 
briefly his objections to those breeds for other 
purposes than raising Winter lambs? As¬ 
suming that the sheep will have good care in 
either case, cannot a farmer make more 
profit raising Winter lambs than he can rais¬ 
ing the later lambs? H. c. H. 
West New Brighton, N. Y. 
P'irst as to your last observation, I cer¬ 
tainly believe that with good care a man 
can make more money raising Winter 
lambs than later ones if he has the right 
kind of sheep. That is why 1 shifted 
from Shropshircs to Tunis. The former 
will not lamb early enough, to bring the 
highest price. It ought not to take a 
philosopher to see that there must be a 
much greater margin of profit in a lamb 
bringing from_ $5 to $12 at say 10 weeks 
old, even with heavy feeding of the ewe 
for a brief time, than from one from four 
to 12 months old at from $4 to $8. I 
have recently sold for $0 net, grade Tunis 
lambs born the middle of February. The 
mothers of the same will now get fat on 
very moderate rations. In fact, with 
good pasture they are liable to get too 
fat to make good breeders. As to why I 
would not keep Dorsets or Tunis except 
to raise Winter lambs; I believe in a 
sheep for a special purpose, just as I be¬ 
lieve in a cow for the same. The special 
purpose of both of these breeds is to 
drop lambs earlier than most breeds. 
Aside from that they have no form or 
comeliness or beauty that I should desire 
them. They are not particularly hardy, 
are light shearers, and while their lambs 
fatten at two or three months, equal to 
any (the Tunis gives the fattest lamb at 
this age of any I ever saw), after that 
they will not compare with those of the 
mutton breeds, being light quartered. A 
year ago I had a bunch from a Tunis 
ram that came too late to bring 
good prices as Spring lambs, so I sum¬ 
mered them over. They dressed fat, hut 
did not weigh within 10 to 20 pounds 
each of what Shropshire lambs would 
have in November under the same con¬ 
ditions. edw’d van alstyne 
Curing a Sucking Cow. —in regard to 
preventing a cow from sucking herself. I have 
tried till the remedies suggested in the articles 
recently published in The R. N.-Y., and found 
all of them inefficient. Finally I tried a 
“calf weaner” which fastened in the nose 
of the cow like a hull ring—only it clamped 
between the nostrils, and made to open and 
shut and clamped the cartilage between the 
two nostrils, and there were some five or 
six spikes extending out in every direction 
about three or four inches long. That pre¬ 
vented my cow from sticking herself after all 
other methods had failed. This will not only 
prevent a cow from sucking herself, but will 
wean a calf. It can be got from almost any 
good hardware merchant, and is extensively 
used in Texas to break calves from sucking 
their mothers. k. p. e. 
Tulsa, Ind. Ter. 
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IlIUll Ml 1 cent more milk if protected 
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cures lameness, splint, curb, thrush* 
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CHAIN HANGING 
CATTLE STANCHION 
The Most Practical 
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Manufactured aud for 
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I. B. Calvin, Vice-Presi¬ 
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Send for BOOKLET. 
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73 Main Street, 
— Eorestville, Conn. 
1,000 CHOICE FEKRKTS for the 
Spring trade. Perfect workers. They clear out 
rats, hunt rabbits. 48 p. illus’d book, 6c. Cir. price 
S. FAUNS WORTH, Middletown, Ohio. 
list free. 
DISPERSAL SALE 
HIGH CLASS REG. HOLSTEINS 
Scarcity of help renders it impossible to retain all 
our herd. Come and take your ehoiee. Male calves 
at almost your own price. 
RIVENBURGH BROS., 
Hilihurst Farm, Oneida, N. Y. 
KALORAMA FARM BERKSHIRES 
We now offer a splendid lot of Young Pigs, sired 
by imported boars of the highest type and out of a 
grand lot of mature sows, both imported and 
American bred. 
They are the best lot ever raised at Kalorama 
Farm Also a few sows bred for .Inly farrow. 
CALVIN J. HUSON, Penn Van. New York. 
BERKSHIRES. 
American and English Breeding. Matings not akin. 
Descriptive catalogue on application. 
WILLOUGHBY FARM, Gettysburg,Pa. 
SPRINGBANK HERD 
LARGE BERKSHIRES 
A fine bunch of Sows coming a year 
old by Grand Premier. No. 80005, bred to Baron Duke 
85th. No. 91215. A son of Premier Longfellow, No. 
68000, Grand Champion at St. Louis in 1904. Booklet 
on application. J. K. WATSON, Marbledale, Conn. 
Berkshire Sow Pigs; Shropshire Rams; Colliepup- 
O pies and W. Holland turkeys; Farmers’ prices; also 
Buff Orpington eggs, 15—750. W. a. lathers, Pern Lack, Pa. 
O. I. C. PIGS. 
Registered Silver Premium Stock. Mated 
akin. 
not 
March, April, and May farrow. 
F. J. SCHWARTZ, East Pharsalia, N. Y. 
JERSEY REDS GET HEAVY FAST 
It’s “Pounds that count.” Buy Jersey Red 
Pigs—the rapid growers. Strong, vigorous, 
small-boned, long-bodied. Nine months 
pigs often dress 350 lbs. Buy a pair now. 
Get quick profits. Circular Free. 
A. J. COLLINS, Box R , Moorestown, N. J. 
PH D CAI CT- Duroc Jersey Red Swine, 
^^ ■““ Scotch Collie Dogs.BronzeTur- 
keys, Partridge Wyandottes, Partridge P. Rocks, Buff 
P. Rocks, Golden Barred P. Rocks, R. C. B.’Bantams, 
Rouen Ducks. J. H. LEWIS & SON,Cameron,W.Va. 
IYCROCS.— Pure bred service boars: choice pigs at 
$(i and $8; pedigree papers furnished; satisfaction 
guaranteed. J. W. CAMPBELL, Fairpoint, Ohio. 
Reg. P, Chinas, Berkshires&G. Whites 
8 wks. and older, mated not akin. 
Service Boars, have stock returned, 
refund money if not satisfactory. 
Reg. Holsteins, Heifers, Bulls and 
HAMILTON & CO.,Oocliranville,Pa 
Cows in Calf. 
CHESHIRES. FARMERS'^HOti; 
Hardy; prolific; strong fine boned: quick growers and 
easy keepers. Y’oung stock for sale. Department of 
Animal Husbandry, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 
CHESTER WHITEST 1 ^ of April. May and 
™ "'ll tO j n ne farrow; pairsortrios 
Route 2. 
pair 
. Pa., 
LAUREL FARM 
not akin. JOS.T. FLEMING, Belleville 
PRIMROSE STOCK FARM^teiSESS?:K 
imported stock. A. A. BRADLEY. Frewsburg, N. Y. 
Pfll I IF PUPS Females and brood bitches. NEL- 
UULLIl ruro SON BltQS., Gro ve City, Pa. 
S COTCH COLLIES, Spayed Females, two to 
eight mos. Oirc. SILAS DECKER, Montrose, Pa. 
CHOICE COLLIE PUPS^S! 
ings. Sired by tiie great “Brookmere Christopher.” 
Genuine workers. Fancy large P. C. Pigs; all ages. 
F. 0. HEASLEY, R. F. D. 4, Mercer, Pa. 
P A T O won’t kill all your Chickens if you 
nil I A have a SCOTTISH TERRIER. Very 
w fine Pups from recorded parents; 
pedigree with sale. W. HARR, Riverside, Iowa. 
JERSEY CATTLE, 
BERKSHIRE HOGS, 
R. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty St., Pittsburg Pa. 
|—registered jerseys 
only. Increase of herd 
for sale. Address 
J. GRANT MORSE, Hamilton, New York. 
THREE GUERNSEY HEIFERS, 
Niue to 18 months. Good Bulls, seven months. 
Breeding quality and prices right. 
W. A. Alexander, Union Springs, New York. 
REMOVAL SALE OF HOLSTEINS 
Having sold one of our large farms at Lacona, 
preparatory to concentrating at Liverpool March 1st, 
we ought to sell at least 130 head before that date. 
We are offering special bargains and just now 
can supply you with anything in high class Holsteins 
at lower prices than ever before quality considered. 
STEVENS BROS,-HASTINGS CO., 
Brookside Herd, Lacuna, New York. 
STAR FARM HOLSTEINS 
Second grand “ Bargain Counter ” Sale J U N E I to 30 
One hundred and twenty registered Holstein 
cons. Sixty registered Holstein service 
bulls. Fifty registered Holstein calves. 
Sweeping reductions on everything. Freight and 
buyers expenses paid on carload lots. For descrip¬ 
tion of stock and cut prices, send for new illustrated 
“Bargain Counter” circular free. Photographs and 
circulars free. Do not miss this greatest sale of 
Holsteins. HORACE L. BRONSON, Dept. D, 
Cortland, N. Y. 
THE BLOOMING DALE HERD OF 
. HOLSTK1N-FRIKSIANS. 
are bred for large production. Good size, Strong 
Constitution, Best Individuality. 
If these are the kind you want write or come to see 
them 125 to select from. Animals of both sexes 
and all ages to offer at prices that will please you. 
A special offer on some nicely bred Bui.i, Cai,vE8. 
A A. CORTELYOU, Somerville, N. J. 
F OR SALE— Pnro bred Holstein Friesian Heifer 
and Bull Calves. The best goods for the least 
money. Write promptly. 
\V. \V. CHENEY, Manlius, New York. 
BULL CALVES ^ YOUNG RULLS 
ready for service, that are of good size and individ¬ 
uality. All are from officially tested dams, and are 
sired by Homestead Girl De Kol’s Sarcastic 
Lad. We have over 40 daughters of this Bull that 
will he kept in the Herd and officially tested. 
Write for description and prices. 
WOODCREST FARM, 
Rifton, Ulster County, New York. 
