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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 27, 
SUBSTITUTES FOR HORSE HAY. 
I iind that there will not be enough 
Timothy hay for four horses. In your 
opinion, what is the best seed to sow this 
Spring to help out for a year? c. n. 
Altoona, Pa. 
The way we did in a similar case was 
make a confident diagnosis of tlie disease 
present. “Sores and pimples' about the 
fore legs and belly may come from sleep¬ 
ing in filthy, wet beds, and the ailment 
then is known as “pitch mange,” but it 
does not prove fatal. The sores and pim¬ 
ples may therefore be merely incidental to 
. . some other fatal disease, the character of 
to sow oats and peas early in Spring, which could only be determined by making 
Follow the advice given recently in The a post-mortem examination, it is a good 
R. N.-Y. and use plenty of manure or l )liln to open and thoroughly examine an 
r .... n t i ai animal when it dies, as this gives the 
fertilizer. Cut when the oats are soft „ „ * 
. owner an “inside” knowledge of the mat- 
and cure as you would clover hay. As ter, and lie may be able to understand the 
soon as this crop is off plow and sow trouble from the lesions seen after death. 
fodder corn thickly in drills. Use more 
manure or fertilizer. Cut this at frost 
and sow rye for a Winter cover. 
BIG CORN FOR THE SILO. 
In one of the Hope Farm man’s letters 
In Tub It. N.-Y. describing what he saw 
while on a trip up the State he described 
a piece of silage corn of immense growth, 
which you and the grower thought would 
not pay as well as smaller corn better 
eared. Or in other words the best corn 
for the man with a silo is that which will 
mature a heavy crop of ears. I am satis¬ 
fied in my own mind that it pays best 
to use the large Southern corn for silo 
filling, and I think the Eureka is the 
largest and best. We filled our first silos 
nine years ago, with corn raised from our 
home-grown seed, on 18 acres of ground, 
filling two silos, each holding 00 tons, and 
that is quite a fair crop. Five years later 
(with corn on the same lot every year but 
one) we secured 450 tons from the same 
We would advise you to clean up, disin¬ 
fect and whitewash the places used by 
hogs, and then use disinfectants freely for 
fear the disease may 'prove to be cholera. 
As soon as possible have an expert ex¬ 
amination made should oilier hogs sicken. 
A. s. A. 
A FAMILY FRIEND. 
18 acres. The first year we raised the 
large corn we only planted five acres, not 
having a great amount of faith in it. That 
Fall we filled one silo part way up with 
home-grown corn, which by actual test, 
husked 150 bushel baskets per acre, and 
finished it with the large corn, and I must 
say it was the first time I ever enjoyed 
filling a silo, for I saw at once it would 
not need the whole farm to fill a silo. We 
were milking 40 cows at the time, and 
although they did well on the new kind of 
corn I could not help thinking that when 
we got down to the heavy matured eared 
home-grown silage 1 would get a marked 
increase in milk. But there I was mis¬ 
taken, for our cows made a good shrink 
in the quantity of milk, and we fed them 
as near as possible the same amount as of 
the large corn. Since then we have always 
planted Eureka. Twice we have not had 
quite enough seed, and have finished up 
with other corn, and I have sometimes 
thought that I might as well have left the 
Indigestion in Mare. 
I have a mare, nine years old. She has 
a ravenous appetite, is thin in flesh, rough 
coat, and dull in spirit. She is naturally 
of good life. When I work her she has 
boils on her neck as large as walnuts to 
pimples. I am feeding her mixed hay 
morning and night and four quarts of 
grain three times a day consisting of one 
bag of ears of corn and two bags of oats 
ground together. She does little work,’ is 
driven three or four miles a day some 
days, sometimes not any. Can you tell me 
what ails her and what to do for her? 
New York. z. f. W. 
The manner of feeding and managing 
the mare is a'l wrong. Every horse should 
chew its food thoroughly, and this be¬ 
comes comparatively unnecessary and is 
imperfectly performed when ground grain 
is fed. Feed the horse on ear corn and 
whole oats; do not grind the feed unless 
the animal's teeth are so worn or Irregular 
that mastication is imperfect or impossible. 
Have her clipped; then see that she is 
worked every day, or is exercised thor¬ 
oughly every day in the open air. It is 
poor management to give her a little work 
some days and none on other days, unless 
it be that she runs out when there is no 
work for her to do. Worms may have 
something to do with the thin condition 
and the appearance of boils, so give her 
half an ounce of Fowler’s solution of ar¬ 
senic until a quart has been given, if she 
happens to be in foal, but if not then 
she may have worm powders as follows: 
Equal parts dried sulphate of iron, flowers 
of sulphur, ground gentian root and com¬ 
mon salt. Dose for an adult horse: One 
tablespoonful mixed in dampened food 
night and morning for a week; then skip 
10 days and repeat the treatment to kill 
worms hatched out from eggs remaining in 
tlie intestines when the first adult worms 
are destroyed. The boils should always 
be considered suggestive of farcy (the skin 
form of glanders) if they happen to come 
in chains at th e side of the neck or inside 
of hind legs. In such cases a qualified 
veterinarian should be called in to make 
an examination, as farcy-glanders has to be 
dealt with by the State authorities. 
a. s. A. 
Water Glass Solution for Eggs. 
A T . M., Connecticut. —I kept some eggs in 
water glass, using nine parts of water to 
one of glass. The eggs kept well but a 
jelly-like substance formed at the bottom 
of the solution. What is it, and is it 
harmful ? 
Ans. —The jellylike substance that 
forms in water glass solution used for 
preserving eggs is chiefly made up of 
ground bare when it came to comparing hydrate silica, and is caused by the ac- 
the two at harvest time. Last tall, when tion of the lime of the egg shells on 
we had got down to the last six acres of , , , 
T . . the solution. It is entirely harmless, 
the Eureka, I marked it so as to be able J ' 
to tell how much feed it made, as I had ancl does not greatly impair the pre- 
this article in mind at the time, and it fed serving efficiency of the liquid. Our 
the equal of SO cows, 40 pounds each per experiments show that it may be 
day for 90 days, one-quarter of a year. . . . 
As I know the exact cost of all other stra,ned ' the dear llc l«id heated in 
feeds fed during that time, also the other orc * er to sterilize it and used again 
expenses connected with our business, I after cooling for preserving eggs with 
k™' V J USt h0 ' V much , con!d be credIted t0 about as good results as the fresh solu¬ 
tion, but we do not know how far this 
practice may be carried out. There is 
that six acres, but it might sound impos¬ 
sible to some people. c. j. axgevine. 
Michigan. 
Fatal Disease of Swine. 
We are losing our hogs in a peculiar 
manner; how they act is somewhat puz¬ 
zling to us. I have lost two shotes in 
the course of a few weeks; my neighbor 
really no way to prevent this jellylike 
precipitate, as it is a natural chemical 
action harmless in its character. 
Lice and Chicks.— .1. C. R. asks about 
keeping young chicks free from lice if 
lost one and other people In our district hatched in incubator and always kept awav 
are losing them the same The hogs seem from other poultry. Mr. Cosgrove thinks 
well and eat well to the last. My hogs such a thing possible, and thinking other 
ate supper in their usual way; in the readers might be put to some expense trv- 
morning I found one was dead. A few ’i 1 !? accorr >plish the same thing, advise 
weeks later I lost another the same way. robin ^n^Vsky"^ 
They began to get sore and pimply about thing of the past, it is absolutely impos- 
the front legs and under the belly. Can s ’ ,de ! r tl)is I learned from experience years 
you tell me what this might be or what we s P. ai A’ ows '. n particular will find 
might do for it? G. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
There is nothing in, your description of 
these cases which would enable one to 
their way into enclosures where young 
chicks are. and the work is soon done; not 
only will they carry body lice but head lice 
as well to your chicks before they are a 
week old. w j 
Washington, Pa. 
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