THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 0, 
828 
WHITEWASHING A STABLE. 
Sweeping the dirt and dust from overhead 
and sides of the cow stable, and applying 
a coat of whitewash is something to lie 
recommended at the dairy farm. We have 
just gone through the experience. The 
process may not be quite so enjoyable as a 
picnic, but the result is slightly comparable 
to it. If you have never tried cleaning up 
the stable and whitewashing it, you can 
hardly realize what a difference it makes. 
Outside the Borden district not one stable 
in a hundred has been thus treated, probably. 
Ours is 40x50 feet and it was nearly a day's 
work to sweep it down. Two men did the 
whitewashing in a half day. It took about 
one dollar’s worth of lime to do the job. 
We figure the entire cost at $4. While 
somewhat unpleasant work, both to sweep 
and to whitewash, It is not so bad as one 
might think. The dread of getting at it is 
the worst part. The old way of using a 
brush to whitewash is now out of date; use 
a spray pump. There is need of care In 
using a pump, as everybody knows who has 
tried it. I^ast year I saw in New Hampshire 
a nice stable, neatly whitewashed, where 
the work had been done by hand. When I 
expressed surprise that the work had not 
been done by means of a pump they told 
me that it was impossible to get a spray 
nozzle that would not clog up. It was 
more bother to clear the nozzle than to do 
the work with a brush. With us the pump 
is a help. It does clog sometimes, and I 
do not claim that we are able to do the 
work without considerable trouble; for all 
that, to do the work with a brush would be 
a most tiresome task. 
The Borden people regard whitewashing 
a stable as of so much importance that they 
require all their patrons to apply a coat of 
whitewash once or twice a year. At each 
of their plants they have a spraying outfit 
which they rent to their patrons at 50 cents 
a day. Our home creamery purchased an 
outfit, costing about $22, and this they loan 
to their patrons free of charge. It seems 
to me that this is a wise move, provided, 
of course, that they can be sure that the 
machine will be well cared for. It is as 
desirable for the creamery people that the 
stables are in fine condition ns it is for the 
farmers themselves. Really, I believe that 
a group of a half dozen farmers ought to 
own an outfit of their own. Not only the 
stable, but the henhouse, needs a treatment 
of lime occasionally. Then the potatoes 
need spraying, and the fruit trees as well. 
Even a good low-priced outfit may be of 
enough benefit to make it a profitable in¬ 
vestment for one farmer alone, Such an 
outfit need not cost more than $10 or $12. 
Some of the flve-dollar pumps are very good, 
I am told. I never used but this one belong¬ 
ing to the creamery, to any extent. A 
well-made pump enn be used for both whltt- 
wash and Bordeaux, if the Bordeaux is care¬ 
fully washed out after using. I know of 
some who are thus doing. One needs to be 
careful to keep sediment out of the machine, 
I am sure. 
There is a difference in spray nozzles; 
there are some that are recommended highly 
for spraying potatoes that do not work well 
for spraying a barn. Perhaps the failure 
to work well Is due to the fact of our 
not fully understanding how to handle the 
spray or the mixture. There is a spray 
nozzle called the Bordeaux that has given 
less trouble in stable work than any others 
we have tried. There is a larger opening, 
and the post can be turned entirely around 
and any stuff that clogs it can be blown 
out from the opposite side. 
As much depends upon the proper prep¬ 
aration of the whitewash as upon the ap¬ 
paratus with which it is applied. Nothing 
but the best and freshest quicklime should 
be used. To use partially slaked lime is to 
Invite failure. Then the lime should bo 
strained, when well slaked and mode as thin 
as needed. We used a strainer made by a 
neighbor, who took an old bucket without a 
bottom and fastened a piece of wire screen 
over the* bottom. The lime was slaked in 
an oil barrel, dipped from the barrel through 
the strainer into a large pail, and then turned 
v Into the barrel to which was attached the 
pump. A good piece of rubber tubing is 
desirable, and an Iron or brass tube of suit¬ 
able length should be provided, to which is 
attached the nozzle. It Is not desirable to 
have a long piece of metal tubing, even if 
the stable Is quite high; 414 feet Is long 
enough. Take pains to have the coarse parti¬ 
cles kept out, and there is small trouble. 
A man to pump and another to handle 
the spray is all that l.s really needed, though 
more help can find work. The spray Is to 
be kept in constant motion. If held until 
the wash begins to drip the job will not be 
so satisfactory. 
The effect of a neat job of spraying upon 
the appearance of a stable is astonishing 
Even if well lighted, a barn becomes dingy 
with age. A coat of whitewash brightens 
it up and makes it light and inviting. At 
night the lantern is able to make the whole 
interior bright. One lantern now makes it 
possible to go to any part of the stable with 
safety. The healthfulness of the stable must 
be improved as well as its light and conve¬ 
nience. I do not wonder that the Borden 
people insist on whitewashing stables, or 
that the boards of health of the cities insist 
that it should be done. Until one tries it 
he does not realize what a difference it 
makes. _ H - L - 
HEAVES. 
1. Will you give the cause and cure of 
heaves in horses? Is it infectious? A large 
percentage of horses in this section have 
this disease. Has the warmness of the barn 
in Winter anything to do with it? 2. Give 
a formula for powder to feed in grain for 
horse that stocks in hind legs. 3. What 
would you recommend as a spavin cure for 
an old case? w. s. 
“Heaves,” (emphysema of the lungs) 
is caused by irritation of the pneu- 
mogastric nerve of the stomach and then of 
its branch which goes to the lungs. Certain 
horses are born with an inherent tendency to 
contract this disease when exposed to the 
conditions and circumstances that are known 
to induce it in such horses. The inherited 
tendency comes from an affected sire or dam 
or from parent or parents possessed of a 
gluttonous appetite which usually is present 
in every “heavey” horse. The disease is in¬ 
duced in the susceptible horse by feeding on 
bulky, coarse, dusty, moldy or otherwise in¬ 
jured fodder, hay or straw, and especially 
where such food is given in large quantities 
at noon through long periods of time and 
the horse is made to work soon after eating 
and while the stomach is distended with food. 
Indigestion is present in all horses affected 
with heaves and this is indicated by passage 
of gas when the horse coughs, or independent¬ 
ly of the coughing act. The disease is not 
infectious or contagious. It is likely that 
clover hay or marsh hay is fed In your dis¬ 
trict, as such hay is particularly liable to in¬ 
duce the disease, which is incurable when 
fully developed. Warmness of barns is injur¬ 
ious’to the health of horses and any aggravat¬ 
ing cause of 111 health tends to bring out heaves 
where a tendency to that disease exists or 
other conditions likely to produce it are pres¬ 
ent, Affected horses should not be used for 
breeding purposes. Stables should be perfect¬ 
ly ventilated. No bulky food should be fed 
at noon to working horses. Water always 
should be given before and not soon after 
a meal. In Winter feed bright oat straw in 
preference to hay for affected horses and al¬ 
low such horses grass in Summer. Wet all 
food with lime water. Give half an ounce of 
Fowler’s solution of arsenic night and morn¬ 
ing for heaves and if cough persists add half 
to one ounce of glyco-heroln. 2. Avoid dop¬ 
ing with medicine unless absolutely necessary. 
Foul, badly ventilated stables, lack of exer¬ 
cise, worms, hard drinking water, overfeeding 
and indigestion lead to stocking of the legs. 
Find the cause and remove It. Bandage legs 
when horse enters stable from work. Remove 
bandages several times daily when horse 
stands idle and then thoroughly rub the legs. 
A tablespoonful of a mixture of equal parts 
dried sulphate of Iron, powdered saltpeter 
and ground gentian and ginger roots given 
night and morning in the feed will help in 
chronic cases of stocking. 3. Any effective 
blister may prove beneficial if applied often 
while horse is kept tied up short in stall so 
that he cannot lie down. At least six weeks’ 
rest should be allowed in case of spavin 
lameness and firing and blistering is preferable 
to blistering alone. a. s. Alexander, v. s. 
Cream in a Well. 
J. C. 8., Penllyn, Pa .—A pail containing 
a small quantity of cream bas been upset 
in a well of fine drinking water, There is 
now an offensive ofior, and the water would 
seem to be unwholesome. Can you offer a 
remedy? 
An§,—'T he introduction of the milk in¬ 
to the water of the well has resulted in 
seeding the well with germs whose action 
in the decomposition of the organic mat¬ 
ter in the water produces the offensive 
odor- If' there is no other source of con¬ 
tamination, leading to the introduction of 
soluble organic matter in the water of 
the well, the pumping of the well dry 
two or three times, at intervals of five-or 
six days, ought so to dilute the water 
of its present contamination as to leave 
it as pure as it was originally. The germs 
introduced with the milk should die out 
when the organic matter has been re¬ 
moved, partly by their own action upon 
it and partly by the withdrawal by pump¬ 
ing. If the offensive odor remains after 
having pumped the well dry two or three 
times as suggested, the indications woulc 
be that there is some serious source of 
contamination for the water which makes 
it possible for the germs now introducec 
to continue their activity, and woplc 
mean that the water, if used for domes¬ 
tic purposes, ought to be carefully exam¬ 
ined as to its suitability for drinking 
purposes. f. h. king. 
OULDN’T you like to get all 
the value out of the manure 
■—the only fertilizer pro¬ 
duced on the farm? 
There’s an alarming waste in the 
way manure is ordinarily handled. It 
is an easy matter to get double the 
value that most farmers are now get¬ 
ting from it. 
Don’t let it lie in piles in the barn¬ 
yard indefinitely, to ferment and burn 
up from a third to a half of its fertil¬ 
izing content. 
Don’t allow the rains to drain and wash 
away into the streams the rich liquids 
that are so valuable for plant food. 
Don’t haul it out and throw it in piles 
in the fields to waste. 
Haul it out as it is produced, when it is 
fresh, while it is in its most valuable 
form, while it contains all its fertilizing 
elements, and distribute it evenly and 
thinly so that the land will receive every 
particle of its fertilizing content. 
The Kemp 20th Century and Corn King 
return apron spreaders and the Clover- 
leaf endless apron spreader are all made 
exceptionally strong and durable. The 
quantity of manure to be spread is regu¬ 
lated and easily controlled, each spreader 
having different speeds, ranging from 
slow to very fast. 
A special feature of the Corn King and 
Cloverleaf spreaders is the vibrating 
rake to level the manure, bringing it up 
square to the beater. 
In the Corn King and Cloverleaf spread¬ 
ers the apron is driven from both sides, 
in the 20th Century, from the center by a 
positive worm drive. In each the apron 
is moved, without binding, friction or 
twisting, and without possibility of break¬ 
age. The 20th Century spreader has ex¬ 
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Corn King and Cloverleaf wheels are 
steel. All have broad tires and on all, the 
front ■wheels cut under to permit short 
turning. The draft is as light as can be 
secured in any spreader which provides 
the necessary strength to sustain the 
proper working apparatus. 
All these spreaders are made in sizes 
to meet the needs of the users, and can 
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farm, or copy of "Farm Science,"which 
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