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Live Stock and Dairy 
SHEEP PULLING THEIR WOOL 
My slicep have been pulling their wool 
during the past Winter. Some have ticks, I 
used a louse killer but could not see that it 
did any good, only made wool as though 
cotted. They were fed on hay, clover and 
Alfalfa mixed with barley and oats two to 
one as grain twice daily. I was short of 
oats. Comfortable basement with yard free 
from drafts, but inot warm nor crowded. 1 
' have had several die since removing wool 
and ticks; found wool-ball in third stomach 
1 of one. Will that cause death? I did not 
i feed as much grain as I would like to, as 
many would not come to eat any, and I was 
afraid of over-feeding those that would. 
Lambs were a little weak and ewes gave very 
little milk. I do not do as most of my 
neighbors, and let them run on fields all Win- 
i ter and Spring, and yet I do not see that they 
do any better than theirs. h. w. 
Gore’s Landing, Ont. 
Your feed and surroundings seem to 
have been ideal for the sheep. I feel 
that the ticks were only an incident, and 
the trouble lies further back. This is 
indicated, in the first place, by the fact 
that many of the sheep did not come free¬ 
ly for their grain. A healthy sheep has 
a good appetite and will eat grain greedily. 
All the feeds are first-class, except that 
there seems to have been a lack of suc¬ 
culence, most vital to the well-being of 
sheep, roots or silage; next, by the state- 
. ment that in spite of such good feed, the 
lambs were weak and the ewes had little 
; milk. Occasionally sheep seem to de-. 
) velop an abnormal appetite for their own 
or the wool of another sheep, evidently 
there is something wrong with their in¬ 
ternal functions. This is the second case 
of the kind that has come to my notice 
within a few weeks. Doubtless the wool 
forming in a ball in the stomach would 
cause death, as twine from silage is said 
to do with cows in rare instances. 
I should expect the trouble was intes¬ 
tinal worms, and would treat the sheep 
now for them. I have had best results 
from gasoline, one tablespoonful with 
three times the amount of sweet oil or 
milk. Give on an empty stomach. Repeat 
the dose after 48 hours and give a third 
after five days or a week. As I have said 
before in these columns, be careful and 
not raise the sheep’s head too high in giv¬ 
ing the dose, or the sheep will strangle. 
Many use and speak highly of Zenolcum, 
one tablespoonful with a pint of milk. 
This is much safer. I have been trying it 
this Spring, but do not find it as effec¬ 
tive as the gasoline. Zenoleum or some 
of the carbolic dips are superior to any 
louse powder, and will surely kill the 
ticks; have no bad effects on the wool, 
and act as a stimulant to the skin. Don’t 
become discouraged because with your 
good feed and care you do not succeed 
better than your neighbors with their 
slack methods. Patient continuance in 
well doing will always bring its reward. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
COW WITH ANEURISM. 
I have a cow which has a reddish growth 
about as large as my little finger and a half 
inch long, extending from the hip near back¬ 
bone. Several times she has rubbed the top 
off, when it bled profusely; indeed was al¬ 
most impossible to stop it. She appears in 
good health, but is slightly lame on that leg. 
Do you think the milk would be safe to use 
if it were boiled? When we first noticed the 
growth it was bleeding, and had the appear¬ 
ance of an open tube somewhat like a large 
quill. x - 
Apparently there is a dilation of a 
blood vessel and it is unlikely that this 
has anything to do with the lameness nor 
would it make it necessary to boil the 
milk for human use. Apart from a sur¬ 
gical operation, which would require an 
expert, little can be done to cure the 
trouble, but the part may be protected 
by first drying the red place thoroughly 
by daily applications of tincture of iron 
and then, when sufficiently dry (clotted) 
so that it no longer is red, daub the part 
with pitch and keep it so covered. If this 
does not succeed careful searing ftiight be 
done by means of a fed-liot iron. Should 
it ever start bleeding again saturate oakum 
in tincture of iron and bind upon part. 
A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
INDIGESTION IN HORSES. 
Is there such a thing as indigestion in a 
horse? I have the care of a bay mare, good 
size, well built. I feed com twice a day and 
bran and oats. She suffers with what the 
doctor calls colic every week; sometimes 
more often. She seems to have worms. Tier 
food passes from her im the same condition 
as she ate it. I work her every time both 
in double and single team. Can you suggest 
a remedy? m. h. h. 
Trenton, N. J. 
Horses certainly do have indigestion 
and “colic” is but an aggravated form 
accompanied by severe pain. The condi¬ 
tion of manure described proves positively 
that the mare is not digesting food prop¬ 
erly, and the first step should be to have 
her teeth put in order by a veterinary 
dentist as, owing to irregularities, she 
may be unable to masticate perfectly. 
Next see to it that she does not bolt her 
food, and prevent such a habit by putting 
feed in an extra wide-bottomed manger, 
and put in with it a few round cobble 
stones. Allow free access to rock salt, 
and always give the drinking water be¬ 
fore feeding or not at all; additional 
drinking water may be allowed after the 
food has been digested—say in two or 
three hours. If she eats her bedding put 
her in a box stall and bed with shavings 
or sawdust. Have her well exercised 
every day, wet or shine. If she has a 
long, coarse coat of hair have her clipped. 
This often serves better than medicine. 
At present stop feeding grain and bran 
and let her live on hay and some grass 
until her manure is normal in consistency 
and color. Then begin to feed whole oats 
again, and gradually increase the amount 
of food, provided she is working steadily 
or getting ample exercise every day. If 
this plan is followed she will get along 
without medicine, but it might be well to 
have the veterinarian give her a physic 
ball to start with. If indigestion persists 
and worms are seen in the manure mix 
in her feed twice daily a tablespoonful of 
a mixture of equal parts powdered Hy¬ 
drastis Canadensis, bicarbonate of soda, 
powdered wood charcoal and ground gin¬ 
ger root. Dried sulphate of iron is ef¬ 
fective for worms, but does not act well 
when indigestion is a marked symptom of 
the trouble. The dose is one dram night 
and morning in the feed. It must not be 
given to mare in foal. 
A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
Hydraulic Ram for Water Supply. 
H. P. T., Rockland Co., N. Y .— I am plan¬ 
ning a water system as follows, and would 
like to know if I have the correct idea, and 
if not, wherein it is faulty. I am damming 
a spring brook with ample flow, so as to get. 
a five-foot head. I shall install hydraulic 
ram to force water 750 feet through three- 
quarter-incli galvanized pipe to an elevation 
of 47 feet, discharging in a stone and con¬ 
crete reservoir in the ground, covered except 
manhole; use one-inch pipe from reservoir 
to house and barn, 300 feet, with fall of 25 
feet. Overflow is to go into a smaller auxil¬ 
iary reservoir and be piped to a fountain in 
front of house, fall about 40 feet. 
Ans. —The general idea of your corre¬ 
spondent is essentially correct. It would 
be well if practicable to increase the head 
fall for the ram to six or seven feet, if 
this can be readily done without more 
than doubling the length of the supply 
pipe. The ram should be set in a pit so as 
to be frostproof, and if there is difficulty 
of increasing the fall to the ram without 
too much increasing the length of the sup¬ 
ply pipe it may be practicable to lay a 
drain to the pit in which the ram stands, 
so that it may discharge farther down¬ 
stream, thus giving the increased fall. It 
would be well to use a 2 T /£-inch drive pipe, 
or at least not smaller than two-inch, and 
in all probability, a No, 6 ram. F. h. king. 
BABY GIRL’S ECZEMA 
Covered With Yellow Sores—Sight of 
Eye Destroyed—Doctors Fail— 
Cured in a Week by 
Cuticura. 
“Our little girl, one year and a half old, 
was taken with eczema. We took her to 
three doctors, but by this time she was 
nothing but a yellow, greenish sore. One 
morning we discovered a little yellow 
pimple on one of her eyes. Doctor No. 
3 said that we had better take her to some 
eye specialist, since it was an ulcer. So 
we went to Oswego to doctor No. 4, and 
he said the eyesight w.as gone, but that 
he could heD it. Well, we were nearly 
discouraged. I thought we would try the 
Cuticura Treatment, so I purchased a set 
of Cuticura Remedies, which cost me $1, 
and in three days our daughter, who had 
been sick about eight months, showed 
great imnrovement, and in one week all 
sores had disappeared. Mr. and Mrs. 
Frank Abbott, R. F. D. No. 9, Fulton, 
Oswego Co., N. Y., Aug. 17, 1906.” 
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Write for description and prices. 
WOODCREST FARM, 
Rifton, Ulster County, New York. 
HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN Bull Galf 
BORN, MARCH 2, 1907. 
Sire: King of the Pontiacs. 
Dam: l’ietertje Mink Lady De Kol, a fine 
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175 head in the herd. Females singly or in car lots. 
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WE OFFER 
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AYRSHIRE BULLS AND HEIFERS. 
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