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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 6, 
PENNSYLVANIA STALLION LAWS. 
It is a fact that the owner of a stallion 
used for public service in this State must 
have a State license certificate based on 
veterinary inspection? HEADER. 
Pennsylvania. 
Yes, a law went into effect January 
1, 1908, providing that every stallion 
for public use must have a certificate 
from the State Live Stock Sanitary 
Board, setting forth the pedigree of the 
animal, his soundness and general fit¬ 
ness as a breeder. To get this certifi¬ 
cate the owner must make affidavit 
with regard to these facts and forward 
same with the veterinarian’s certificate 
to the Board. The object of this regu¬ 
lation, which is similar to those now 
in force in several other States, is the 
protection of horse breeders by remov¬ 
ing animals that are unsound or other¬ 
wise unfit for use. 
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A CHICKEN THIEF DETECTIVE. 
On page 957 the “Hope Farm man” asks 
for a sure device to prevent chicken thiev¬ 
ing. Here is a plan I have used for nearly 
15 years, and I know it is a successful 
one, as I have saved my chickens twice 
during that time. Once the ringing of 
bell scared the thieves away, and once I 
caught the fellow “dead to rights” sack¬ 
ing up the chicks; besides those who know 
I have it keep away. Procure from an elec¬ 
tric supply company one open-circuit door 
spring for each door in the house, two dry 
cell batteries, one two-point switch, one 
small electric bell and sufficient wire to 
cover twice the distance needed to be wired 
—this you can easily determine, as the 
wire I use, No. 18 annunciator wire, runs 
from 130 to 150 feet to the pound. Also 
secure enough window springs, one for each 
window. The store man will show you 
how to connect the wires correctly to the 
springs, as they are a puzzle to the unin¬ 
itiated. The whole expense of above should 
not exceed $2, if bnly one door and one 
window is to be fitted and the coop and 
house are not more than 100 or' 125 feet 
apart, riaee the door spring in the jamb 
of tlie door on the hinge side of the frame. 
Set it so that the holt on spring will be 
pushed in when the door is shut and spring 
out as door is opened. Two wires are at¬ 
tached to this, and extend to the residence, 
where the end of one is fastened to one 
of the posts on the bell, and the end of 
the other to one of the posts on ;e bat¬ 
tery, Which have previously been con¬ 
nected together from opposite poles by a 
short wire; then take a short piece of 
wire, attach it to the remaining post on 
the bell, then connect the other end of 
wire with one pole of the switch (you will 
find small screws on hack of switch for 
this purpose), then use another piece of 
wire to connect the other pole of the switch 
with the pole of the battery. Close the 
switch and open the chicken house door 
slightly, and if you have been careful to 
remove all insulating material and thor¬ 
oughly scraped the ends of the wires where 
connections are made, you will have noise 
enough to awake the dead, and if you are 
spry you can catch the thief before he 
can grab a biddy. You can attach any 
number of connections for doors or win¬ 
dows to the main line, using the same plan 
used for attaching telephones to main line 
on party wires. wm. h. ristine. 
Ohio. _ 
EFFECT OF FOOD ON BONES. 
Bulletin 107 of the Nebraska Experi¬ 
ment Station gives the details of an in¬ 
teresting experiment showing how various 
A NEBRASKA PORKER. . Fig. 51. 
foods affect the breaking strength of bones. 
On August 2. 1907, 20 pigs, averaging 120 
pounds, were divided into five lots, and 
fed 22 weeks before slaughtering. The first 
lot had no grain but eornmeal; the second, 
75 per cent eornmeal and 25 per cent 
wheat shorts: third, 25 per cent eornmeal 
and 75 per cent skim-milk ; fourth, 90 per 
cent eornmeal and 10 per cent tankage; 
fifth, 90 per cent eornmeal and 10 per cent 
bone meal. Two days after butchering, the 
leg bones <?f these hogs were removed, 
cleaned and subjected to a careful break¬ 
ing test in a machine made for such pur¬ 
poses. As shown in Fig. 52, the bones 
were supported at the ends and pressure 
applied in the center. The bones of those 
fed clear eornmeal broke easiest, and those 
with the 10 per cent bone meal hardest. 
The least pressure required for breaking 
one of these leg bones was 400 pounds, and 
the one breaking hardest required 2,280 
pounds. The average breaking strength of 
all leg-bones in the first lot, fed on corn- 
meal, was 702 pounds; second, eornmeal 
and shorts, 867 pounds; third, eornmeal and 
skim-milk, 1.279 pounds; fourth, eornmeal 
and tankage, 1,361 pounds; fifth, eornmeal 
BREAKING A BONE. Fig. 52. 
and bone meal. 1.505 pounds. The extreme 
difference in breaking strength of bones in 
the different lots shows that the skim-milk, 
tankage and ground bone each contained 
some substance for bone building in which 
corn was deficient. As the increased min¬ 
eral matter in the bones is largely phos¬ 
phate of lime, and as skim-milk, tankage 
and ground bone are all rich in this sub¬ 
stance, it is fair to consider the phos¬ 
phates in these foods as the determining 
factor in the building up of bones in pig 
growth. The pig shown in Fig. 51, and 
the breaking bone in Fig. 52, are repro¬ 
duced from this bulletin. 
DISINFECTING COW STABLE. 
Exactly what measures and means should 
be used to disinfect a tuberculosis-infected 
cow stable ? D . C- 
Norwich, Conn. 
The first thing to do with a stable in¬ 
fected with the germs of tuberculosis is 
thoroughly to clean the whole interior, and 
remove everything movable. The walls, 
stanchions, mangers and floor should be 
washed and scrubbed with boiling water, 
not warm water, but that which is as near 
the boiling point as possible. This requires 
a lot of hard work, but it pays if the stable 
is to be used again for cattle. After the 
whole stable and everything used in the 
stable has been washed with boiling water, 
the whole interior of the stable should be 
covered with a good coat of whitewash 
containing four parts of formalin, which is 
a 40 per cent solution of formaldehyde) to 
100 parts of the whitewash, or five ounces 
of the formalin to each gallon of the 
whitewash. If the infected animals remain 
in the herd the disease will spread no 
matter how much disinfecting is done, so 
the only way to keep the herd free from 
disease is to remove all reacting animals 
before disinfecting the stable. No animals 
should then be admitted into the herd un¬ 
til they have successfully passed the tuber¬ 
culin test. c. s. g. 
[ A WELL-BALANCED DAIRY RATION. 
Dairy cows weighing from 1,000 to 1,300 
pounds each are fed 10 pounds per day 
grain ration composed of 180 pounds dried 
brewers’ grains, 105 pounds wheat bran, 
100 pounds corn and oats equal parts by 
weight, 40 pounds linseed meal, old pro¬ 
cess; 30 pounds cotton-seed meal, 45 
pounds gluten, five pounds salt. Coarse 
feed consists of 30 pounds per day fairly 
rich corn silage, together with all. the 
clover hay and corn stover they will eat 
up clean. From 11 cows we are getting 
150 to 100 quarts of milk per day. Can 
you suggest any ration that will reduce the 
cost of production? l. f. a. 
Maced on, N. Y. 
You are feeding a well-balanced ration 
which can scarcely be improved upon for 
the production of milk. It seems to be 
rather expensive, however, judging from 
the market values of the different grains. 
It is impossible for me to give the exact 
figures, not knowing the prices of the dif¬ 
ferent grains in your locality, but I will 
give you a ration which contains practi¬ 
cally the same nutritive elements, and 
would save me about three cents per cow 
every day. It may be more or less in 
your case, depending upon the local prices 
you have to pay. The ration follows: 
Silage and hay the same as you are feed¬ 
ing, two pounds wheat middlings, four 
pounds distillers’ dry grains, two pounds 
cotton-seed meal. You can compare the 
cost of this ration with the one yoir are 
feeding, and I think it will save you about 
89 a cow in a year, or $180 per year if 
you have 20 cows. c. s. g. 
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Manure S 
Here is a Manure 
Spreader which 
spreads wider than 
any other spreader, 
yet is built narrow 
euough to passover 
farm lanes and 
through farm gates 
as easily as an ordinary 
farm wagon. 
THE CIRCULAR BEATER DOES IT. 
Look at the cut below showing 
the “Fearless” Circular beater which 
spreads six and a half feet wide from 
a box three feet wide. 
Other spreaders cover a strip only 
their own width—hence must be wide 
and heavy. The “Fearless” spreads 
outside its wheels—therefore can be 
built narrow and light. That means 
less horse power to operate ; more trips 
to the field per day, and no driving over 
manure already spread. 
Other advantages — an endless 
apron, doing away with dangerous 
automatic return mechanisms, and a 
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