1907 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
8o7 
SILAGE THE YEAR AROUND. 
What do you flunk of feeding cows silage 
the year round? Silage is the cheapest feed 
that a man can raise and do you see any 
objection to feeding a cow say 40 pounds of 
silage 365 days in the year? I stable my 
cows the entire year, allowing them to run 
in an open lot at night and in Winter turn 
them into the same lot during sunny days. 
Some people have told me that silage fed 
constantly every day would destroy the util¬ 
ity of a cow in about three years. r. 
There is no doubt that silage is the 
cheapest food that one can give cows, 
next to good pasture, which is only to be 
had for a brief time under best condi¬ 
tions. At the Buffalo “Model Dairy’’ we 
found silage—and that not in the best 
condition—a cheaper food at $2 per ton 
than the best of green feed at $1.75. The 
notion that continuous feeding of silage 
will destroy cows, “like Banquo’s ghost, 
will not down.” Every now and then it 
comes up in a new form. Sometimes it 
will cause the teeth to drop out; other 
times produces abortion, and I even know 
of one man who said it was the cause of 
tuberculosis. I have cows 13 years old 
that have eaten it, except for a brief 
time in the Summer, from their youth 
up, and “they are still bringing forth fruit 
(milk) in old age.” While in this case, 
the one-third cow peas would increase its 
value, and add to its nutrition, and the. 
grain suggested make an excellent bal¬ 
anced ration; nevertheless, it is a well 
established fact that cows will do best 
on a variety of foods. My own experi¬ 
ence has been that cows relish and do 
better when they have with the silage a 
small amount daily of dry hay. I notice 
that after the first flush of grass is 
gone they gladly eat, and are the better 
for, a small feed of hay at night, and 
when on good pasture. 
they have carried calves (he full period of 
gestation and calved and cleaned. When the 
affected cows have been removed treat the 
remaining animals in calf by once daily giving 
each a dram of pure carbolic acid well diluted 
with water and mixed with a mash or given 
in water as a drench, and continue the use 
of carbolic acid in this way until each cow 
has gone the full time and calved and cleaned. 
Once every day during this period spray or 
sponge the rear parts of each cow with a 
1-1000 solution of chloride of zinc, or 1-2000 
solution of corrosive sublimate or 1-100 solu¬ 
tion of coal tar disinfectant. If the cows 
are on pasture and the carbolic acid cannot 
well be given in feed or as a drench, mix one 
pound of pure carbolic acid with 50 pounds 
of barrel salt and use it freely right along to 
salt the cattle in place of ordinary salt. Pas¬ 
tured cattle also may have carbolic acid in 
water sprayed upon hay which they may 
take in addition to their grass. Examine 
each pregnant cow daily and at the first sign 
of impending abortion place cow in secluded 
box stall and give her three times a day one 
ounce of fluid extract of black haw in water 
adding, as long as she is restless, half an 
ounce to one ounce of laudanum, as found 
necessary, until she becomes quiet. The black 
haw is to be continued, when restlessness sub¬ 
sides, until the other symptoms of threaten¬ 
ing abortion disappear. Burn aborted calves, 
cleanings and soiled litter. Give each aborted 
cow once daily for 10 days an injection of two 
gallons of lukewarm 1-100 solution of coal tar 
disinfectant, the internal treatment with car¬ 
bolic acid right along. Do not breed such 
cows sooner than three months from time of 
aborting. Clean up, disinfect and whitewash 
all stables used by all of the cows. Keep 
unbred heifers away from the adult cows. 
A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
Teacher: A mole eats daily twice as 
much as it weighs. Pupil: But how does 
it know how much it weighs?—Mel¬ 
bourne Leader. 
WHOLE FAMILY CURED 
Of Eczema, Heat Rash, and Falling 
Hair—Different Ones Troubled. 
E. VAN ALSTYNE. 
FEATHER-PICKING HENS. 
Will you give me a remedy for hens pick¬ 
ing feathers from one another? I have 15 
hens, keep them shut up mostly, and some of 
them are almost picked bare and ragged. 
Ashville, N. Y. J. G. 
This old trouble of hens picking fea¬ 
thers from each other is mainly due to 
lack of occupation, to idleness. After 
they have once found out that the feathers 
are good to eat it is almost impossible to 
break them of the habit. J. G. does not 
say what kind of fowls lie keeps, but I 
have found Leghorns when confined to 
be much more liable to form the feather¬ 
eating habit than other breeds. There are 
several possible remedies; one is to fur¬ 
nish occupation by feeding small grain in 
abundant litter, so they will have to 
scratch for their food, and feed plenty of 
beef scrap dry in a dish by itself, so they 
can have all the meat they want, also with 
a sharp knife cut off the end of their 
beaks, shaving off the hard part of both 
upper and lower mandible, but not enough 
to make it bleed. They can still pick up 
food, but cannot pinch a feather hard 
enough to pull it out. If J. G. is so sit¬ 
uated that he can let his fowls run at 
large, that of itself will be one of the 
best remedies. geo. a. cosgrove. 
CONTAGIOUS ABORTION. 
We have 14 cows, mostly Jerseys, about 
eight and 10 years old. They were due to 
freshen from September to January. We are 
selling milk at creamery. Five cows have 
aborted, one at a time and about a week 
apart. Cows in same pasture as heretofore. 
We would like to save the rest if possible. 
We are feeding sowed corn, no grain. Our 
veterinarian can give us no help except to 
whitewash stables; said it was sympathetic 
and could not give anything to prevent the 
others doing the same thing. Is there a rem¬ 
edy? We have never had such experience 
before in 20 years keeping dairy. c. s. 
Instead of being of “sympathetic” 
origin we greatly fear the abortions are 
caused by infective germs which spread from 
one affected animal to the other. Treat the 
disease from the start as if it were positively 
known to be contagious. This is in all similar 
circumstances the only sensible and safe pro¬ 
cedure. At once isolate all cows that have 
aborted and do not allow them to go near the 
other cows until they are again safe with 
calf and well along toward calving. Indeed 
it is best, where it can be done, not to allow 
the aborted cows among the other cows before 
Cuticura Proves Invaluable. 
“My wife had eczema on her face for 
five or six years. We had read so much 
about Cuticura Remedies that we thought 
we would give them a trial. We did so, 
and it has now been about four years, 
and she has never had a sign of eczema 
since. I myself used Cuticura Soap and 
Cuticura Ointment some time ago for 
falling hair. I now have a very heavy 
head of hair, and it does not fall out. 
We used Cuticura Remedies for our 
baby, who was nearly bald when young. 
She has very nice hair now. She is very 
fleshy, and we had so much trouble with 
heat that we would bathe her with Cuti¬ 
cura Soap and then apply Cuticura Oint¬ 
ment, it would dry the heat up so much 
quicker than anything else. Mr. FI. B. 
Springmire, 323 So. Capitol St., Iowa 
Citv, la., July 10, 1905, and Sept. 16, 
1906.” 
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Don’t break your back and kill your 
horses with a high wheel wagon. 
For comfort’s sake get an 
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It. will gave you time and money. A 
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TOXALINE 
A CERTAIN REMEDY 
For Stomach and Lung Worms 
Quart Can, $1.50; for 25 to 30 Animals. 
Catalogue of Stockmen’s Supplies free. 
Cyril Fruucklyn, 72 Beaver St., New York City 
COL. G. W. CRAWFORD’S 
SHARON VALLEY STOCK FARM 
of nearly 1500 acres, and barns holding 300 horses, 
has now on hands over 200 stallions of fine 
BELGIANS, PERCHERONS and GERMAN COACH. 
Running in age from 1 year old to 5 years. Color—bays, blacks and 
grays; weigh from HilJO to 2200 lbs. These stallions are all for sale on 
reasonable terms. Cash or bankable notes running 1,2 and three years. 
Also there is a lot of fine Belgian and Percheron mares for sale. 
Newark is situated 33 miles east of Columbus, and 157 miles west of 
Pittsburgh, on B. & O. and Pan Handle R. R. Trains every hour. 
Customers are invited to visP the farm and see the nice stock. 
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SHARON VALLEY STOCK FARM, Newark. Ohio. 
Citizens Phone 266, Bell Phone 651 W. 
THE LAFAYETTE STOCK FARM, 
LAFAYETTE, INDIANA. 
The Largest Importers and Breeders of German Coach, 
Percheron and Belgian Stallions in America. Have imported 
in the last eighteen weeks over 500 head of stallions and a 
large number of mares of the three breeds. Every horse fully 
guaranteed. Won more prizes in 1907 at the leading state 
fairs and stock shows than all other importers combined. 
Our horses are all from three to five years of age and we 
deliver all horses that we sell to the buyer. Write us for full 
particulars and mention The Rural New-Yorker. 
J. CROUCH & SON, La Fayette, Indiana, U. S. A. 
The undersigned has been instructed by Mr. Geo. Wm. Ballou, 
President of the Ayrshire Breeders Association, to sell 
his entire herd of Ayrshire Cattle at 
PUBLIC AUCTION 
AT 
PINE LANE FARM, 
Middletown, N. Y., 
ON 
TUESDAY, November 12th, 1907. 
The herd numbers about 65 imported and American bred prize winning 
animals of the correct Ayrshire type, combining beauty with utility to a marked 
degree. The herd has an enviable Show Ring Record. This sale offers an 
exceptional opportunity to secure choice specimens of the breed. 
For catalogue address: 
LEANDER F. HERRICK, Auctioneer, 
405 Main Street, Worcester, Mass. 
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Makes Stable Work Lighter, 
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Can go anywhere by curves and switches, 
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