1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
487 
SHEEP FOR MAINE. 
I notice on page 329, that Mr. Van Als- 
tyne answers some questions in regard to 
sheep for New England. I intend to build up 
a flock as soon as possible, and wish gradu¬ 
ally to work into purebred stock. I now have 
a small flock of grade Shropshires, and had 
intended to buy a purebred ram and a few 
ewes this Pall. Would Mr. Van Alstyne 
advise the purchase of Sliropshires or some 
other breed? I do not intend to make a 
specialty of either wool or mutton, although 
bying near Portland, I think mutton and lamb 
would command a good price. Last year 
wool sold in this vicinity for about 30 cents, 
some instances a little higher. I have an 
excellent pasture of about one hundred acres, 
and the necessary buildings. b. m. l. 
West Pownal, Me. 
From such knowledge as I have of 
your conditions, I should think you would 
be wise to carry out your intention and 
buy Shopshires. They are probably the 
most popular sheep in the East to-day. 
They are good shearers, and make fine 
mutton, both as lambs and mature 
sheep. Moreover their increase is in de¬ 
mand to breed from. They are handsome 
sheep, and always make an attractive ap¬ 
pearance on the farm. Being short-legged 
and very docile they are easily kept with 
decent fences. They are as hardy as any 
of the mutton breeds, and with good pas¬ 
ture in Summer, and the right sort of 
feed and enough of it in Winter, with 
good housing, are a very profitable sheep. 
In buying be sure to start right; that 
is, get good sheep, even if you have to 
pay a little more for them, only be sure 
they are good; square bodies, with the 
ham and shoulders well spread down to 
the first joint; wool of good length fibre, 
and covering the abdomen and well over 
the face. Be sure, too, that they have a 
pink skin, which is a sure sign of good 
health; above all, buy young sheep. They 
will cost more, but will be much more 
profitable in the end than old sheep, 
whose mouths are getting poor and whose 
wool begins to come off. They will get 
old fast enough in any case. When the 
ram is put with the ewes keep him up 
during the day, feed him when in the 
stable all the-clover hay and oats he will 
eat. This you will find will give you 
much stronger lambs. Keep the first¬ 
born ewe lambs for breeders, both of the 
purebreds and grades, and save no lamb 
for a breeder simply because it stays on 
earth. Those that fail to come up to the 
standard by Winter let go for slaughter. 
This line followed, accompanied by good 
care and food may be slow, but it will be 
very sure, and in a few years you should 
have a flock that is not only a thing of 
beauty, but a joy forever ( ?) 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
INDIGESTION IN A COW. 
Can anyone prescribe for my cow? She 
was bloated somewhat when I bought her 
April 15, and I thought she might be going 
to give birth to two calves. I had trouble 
driving her home, about 12 miles, as she 
became winded, and I had finally to leave 
her over night, after getting her half way. 
Her droppings were thin and watery when I 
started with her, but after getting her home 
and watching her a day or two 1 found that 
it was scant and full of long bits of hay. 
T gave her some oil and she passed hard 
lumps and seemed to improve. Two weeks 
after I bought her she calved all right, hav¬ 
ing a big strong calf. She is now out at 
grass, and getting besides four quarts mid¬ 
dlings with stock food, but doesn’t eat much. 
Her paunch is distended and her droppings 
of the character afore mentioned. g. k. 
Connecticut. 
The fact that the cow is more or less 
bloated, and that her excrement is some¬ 
times thin and sometimes hard, dry lumps 
with long shreds of hay in it, certainly 
shows chronic indigestion, but it is not 
easy to give the exact cause. It may come 
from faulty or decayed teeth, rendering 
mastication imperfect. It may result 
from poor musty hay, or from grain food 
which has fermented. This has been 
shown to be responsible for wholesale 
epidemics of “scours,” or it may result 
from tuberculosis of the intestines or 
from general debility. In any case, the 
oil was all right. Oil is a half-mechani¬ 
cal purgative, and to rid the system of 
irritating matter is the first step in bowel 
trouble. So far as diet is concerned, pas¬ 
ture grass together with the four quarts 
of middlings now fed should be first- 
class. Some first-class well-cured hay 
and a good warm stall at night is the 
only further improvement that can be 
suggested. _j. v. w., jr. 
FISTULA OF EAR. 
Hove you had experience with a horse 
or mule, the ear of which is running? A 
light ill-smelling discharge runs from the ear 
and does not yield to any treatment. Trouble 
seems to be in the passage. Mule is in good 
condition so far, amd it does not seem to 
hurt him. p. h. 
Snow Hill, Md. 
Make a careful examination and see if 
the discharge does not come from a little 
hole (sinus) at the edge of the base of 
the ear, instead of from the cavity of the 
ear. We often have run across cases of 
chronic discharge of a liquid vaseline¬ 
like fluid from a fistulous tract involving 
the location indicated and connecting 
with the “bursa mucosa” of the part. In 
such cases there is a secreting sac, and 
this must be removed by dissection, and 
even when this is done it is found a very 
difficult matter to stop the discharge per¬ 
manently. Chronic discharge from the 
ear is quite rare, in our experience, and 
in a mule its treatment would be attended 
with so much trouble and difficulty that 
we do not think it would pay, while it 
might also be stated that even skillful at¬ 
tention for some time might absolutely 
fail to stop the discharge, which would in¬ 
dicate disease of the deep-seated tissues 
of the inner ear, if not of the bone. 
A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
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“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
Lost Strayed or 
Stolen—One Cow 
That is about what happens each year 
for the man who owns five cows and 
does not use a Tubular cream sepa¬ 
rator. He loses in cream more than 
the price of a good cow.The more cows 
he owns the greater the loss. This is a 
fact on which Agricultural Colleges, 
Dairy Experts and the best Dairymen 
all agree, and so do you if you use a 
Tubular. If not, it’s high time you 
IT 
did. You can’t afford to lose the price 
Of one or more cows each vear—there’s 
no reason why you should. Get a Tu¬ 
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out of the milk ;savo time and labor and 
have warm sweet skimmed milk for the 
calves. Don’t buy some cheap rattle¬ 
trap thing called a separator; that 
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skimmer that does perfect work,skims 
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West Chester, Pa. 
Toronto, Can. Chicago, III. 
250,000,000, 
Sheep Every Year, 
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Has no equal. One dipping kills ticks, lice 
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of wool. Improves appearance and con- 
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NO LICK In Poultry Jlouse, or any place it is 
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THICK, SWOLLEN GLANDS 
that make a horse Wheeze, 
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- J , Chicago. THIS IS OOB FIFTY-TH1BD YBAB. 
