1909. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
4«7 
THE INTEREST IN SHEEP. 
Can you tell me where I ean buy from 
50 to 100 Shropshire ewes or more, ac¬ 
cording to price? I should say a man in 
western Massachusetts or New York State 
would he as near to me any. I do not care 
for fancy registered stock but want a good 
even well-bred lot. It is probably too early 
in the season yet, but I would like to 
know of some sellers, so as to sec the 
flocks and be ready for purchase at the 
proper time. s. H. 
North Tisbury, Mass. 
R. I.-Y.—We print this as evidence 
of the increased interest in sheep on 
eastern farms. We find many farmers 
who are becoming convinced that a 
good flock of sheep will pay. They are 
hunting for both information and sheep. 
The animals are hard to get except at 
a good price. Better get good ones to 
start with. 
DIPPING SHEEP. 
Will readers give their method of dipping 
sheep and lambs to kill ticks, stating what 
dips they have found satisfactory and what 
kind of tanks to use? Also, whether it is 
customary to immerse heads in dip or 
would it injure eyes? We have about 35 
sheep and 20 lambs which have become 
excessively covered with ticks. j. s. s. 
New York. 
The best sheep dips are the carbolic- 
petroleum ones. I have used them all 
with equally good results. They cost 
about $1.50 per gallon, and can be di¬ 
luted from 50 to 100 times. Full di¬ 
rections are on the package. Any drug¬ 
gist would get you a can from his sup¬ 
ply house, if there is no near-by agent. 
They are non-poisonous, do not open 
the pores of the skin, thus making the 
animal susceptible to cold and do not 
injure the wool. They are also a fine 
disinfectant. Never immerse the sheep’s 
head. It is unnecessary, and the liquid 
in the eyes, nostrils and mouth will be 
undesirable, to say the least. The best 
kind of a dipping vat, for a small flock, 
is a tight box, about 2(4 feet wide, two 
feet high and 4(4 or five feet long, ac¬ 
cording to the size of the sheep. Have 
one end made on a slant, so that as the 
sheep are taken out, the liquid can be 
drained out of them. Place a tight door 
or platform with strips nailed on either 
side at an angle, so as to run the dip 
back in the vat at the end of this 
slant and work them as dry as pos¬ 
sible. Such a tank will be found 
convenient for scalding hogs. You 
can do very satisfactory work by 
using an ordinary half - barrel dip, 
and placing a door against it as 
above. The writer has dipped many 
that way. Put the large sheep in first 
(they will require more liquid to cover 
them), then the lambs last, when there 
is less left in the vat. It will be safe 
to shear the sheep at any time, if you 
keep them well sheltered. Select a 
mild day for both shearing and dip¬ 
ping. Take the chill off the dip with 
hot water. edward van alstyne. 
LITTLE CHICKS WITH ROUP. 
My litle chicks arc getting a disease new 
to me. A cheesy matter forms in the eye, 
which on pressure pops out like matter in 
a boil, but it is so hard it can be lifted 
on a pin and keep its shape. The nose 
runs at the kme time. I think it is a bad 
form of sore-head, for it seems very deadly. 
I have tried all the different sore-head and 
roup remedies, but they seem useless. It 
has only broken out in one batch now four 
weeks old. I had 200 eggs, Brown Leg¬ 
horns, White Leghorns, White Wyandottes 
and some mixed. The White Leghorns took 
it first and then the mixed. Strange to 
any the Brown Leghorns and White Wyan¬ 
dottes are free from it. We bought the 
White Leghorn and mixed eggs at the same 
place. Could the germs have been in the 
pggs? I saw a sure cure for sore-head was 
to dip the chicks’ heads in kerosene. I tried 
it on 10, and by night I had 10 dead 
chicks. The kerosene seemed to have 
killed them. h. e. 
r St. Petersburg, Fla. 
From the symptoms would judge the 
disease to be roup. All the very sick 
birds should be killed and burned and 
the milder cases should be isolated 
from the others, to prevent the dis¬ 
ease from spreading. The quarters 
should be thoroughly disinfected with 
creolin, and should be kept dry and 
well ventilated. The cheesy matter 
should be picked out gently with a 
sharp stick and then the heads of the 
birds dipped in a solution of one tea¬ 
spoonful of permanganate of potash to 
a pint of water. This dipping may be 
repeated daily until cured. Mr. Hun¬ 
ter recommends the following: A ta¬ 
blespoonful clean lard, one-half ta¬ 
blespoonful each of vinegar, cayenne 
pepper and mustard, mix well to¬ 
gether; add flour until the whole has 
the consistency of dough, roll into 
slugs about the size of the top joint of 
the little finger, and put one down the 
patient’s throat. Repeat this dose in 
12 hours, if necessary. c. F. b. 
HENS AS INCUBATORS. 
Regarding Mr. Sherman’s article on 
sitting hens, page 326, perhaps my ex¬ 
perience along this line might help 
some busy man who had not time 
to give the close attention neces¬ 
sary under his system. During five 
years I have hatched and raised 
about 500 or 600 chicks each season, 
part with incubators and part with B. P. 
Rocks. I am selling my artificial hatch¬ 
ing and brooding appliances, though 
just as good results were obtained, be¬ 
cause they are idle and require stor¬ 
age room most of the time, while hens 
give a profit the year round and raise 
chicks with less care. I place eight 
betas on spoiled eggs in a pen by 
themselves, slightly darkened. The next 
day they scold and fuss all they want 
to, and by night all but one or two, 
which are replaced by others, have set¬ 
tled down to business. Sometimes two 
hens choose the same nest. Then two 
nests are placed side by side. At night 
of second day, if all is running 
smoothly, good eggs are put in the 
nests and there is nothing to do till 
the nineteenth day, but keep the corn 
measure and water bucket replenished, 
and clean nests and eggs when neces¬ 
sary. I always have my sitting pens, 
however, in the nearest end of the 
henhouse, so that I pass through three 
times a day in caring for the laying 
stock, and if anything were wrong I 
would discover it before the eggs were 
FEEDING A YOUNG CALF. 
On page 376 D. F. G. tells how he 
feeds calves, and possibly my Illinois 
way of feeding may help out calf feed¬ 
ers. I let the calf suckle its mother one 
day, feed it whole milk three days and 
the fifth day give it separated milk. I 
feed about three quarts of milk right 
from the separator twice a day. The 
fifth or sixth day I take a little bran 
in my hand and put it in the calf's 
mouth and the next two days put a lit¬ 
tle bran and shelled corn in its mouth 
at feeding time; by this time the calf 
has tasted the corn; it likes it and 
when eight or 10 days old will walk up 
to its box and eat shelled corn “like 
a major.” I feed shelled corn three 
times a day, as much as it will eat up 
clean, and always before feeding milk. 
The calf is turned out in a warm lot 
when three days old; a little bright 
fod.der or hay is put in a low rack and 
about the same time it begins to eat 
shelled corn it is eating hay and fod¬ 
der. I never feed enough milk to make 
the calf pot-bellied. At not over three 
months I wean the calves and feed to 
each three times a day a mixture of 
one quart of corn, one pint of bran 
and one gill of oil meal, and more 
mixed in the same proportion if it will 
be eaten clean, together with all the 
fodder or hay it will eat. I have never 
failed to,have thrifty, growing, and if 
necessary, fat calves. The calf stable 
is cleaned out every day, so that no 
matter what number is in the stable it 
is always warm and dry. There is al¬ 
ways a trough of fresh water and a 
box of salt in the barn lot for the use 
of the youngsters, and they enjoy both. 
c. z. 
“The tariff is a wonderful institu¬ 
tion.” said the earnest citizen. “Yep,” 
answered Farmer Corntossel. “It’s 
more than wonderful. It’s an unpre¬ 
cedented marvel. It’s the only thing I 
ever heard of that our Congressman 
was afraid to talk about.”—Washing¬ 
ton Star. 
“I see that Enos Hand has just got 
his high-toned eight-day clock from 
that big Chicago store. Enos' says 
that clock will run eight days with¬ 
out winding.” “How long will it run 
if it’s wound?”—Judge. 
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“a square deal.’’ See guarantee, page 10. 
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Enosburg Falls, Vt., 
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spoiled. 
When the chicks begin to hatch one 
or two hens will get excited. Take 
their eggs and distribute them among 
the sensible hens, whose nests will 
have room because of infertile eggs 
tested out. 
I never cover hens up. They are 
individuals and must be so treated. 
None of them likes to be covered up, 
and many will not stand it. Some 
advocate a small outdoor yard in con¬ 
nection with the sitting pen. It did 
not work well with my hens. By this 
method it is less work than caring for 
an incubator. No hen who will not 
cheerfully permit an examination of 
her nest should be retained as a sitter. 
After hatching, Mr. Sherman’s method 
could not be improved upon. 
Oswego Co., N. Y. • geo. m. coe. 
A Moping Pullet. 
I have a pullet that is old enough to 
lay, hut I cannot tell If she ever has. 
Three or four weeks ago I discovered that 
she did not eat when I feed the other hens, 
but left them and went off picking some¬ 
where else. She does not act sick or very 
mopish, goes around singing a little and 
eats very little, hardly anything in its 
craw nights. I have seen nothing in 
chicken ailments that fit the case. Can 
you diagnose this case? J. c. B. 
Massachusetts. 
The hen may have something in her 
gizzard she cannot digest—see that she 
has plenty of grit if the fowls are 
confined. If they have plenty of grit, 
charcoal and shells, then shut up the 
hen and give her a dose of physic and 
keep her confined with plenty to drink 
but nothing to eat for two or three 
days. Probably she will have appetite 
enough when you let her out. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
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