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THE) RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 18, 
STARTING LITTLE CHICKS. 
It i.q rather late in the season to talk 
about the rearing of chicks, but I am 
tempted to say a few words for publica¬ 
tion in the hope that the reader will lay 
up the information in the back of the bead 
for use when the time comes for its 
practical application. It is useless to talk 
to the old farm wife, who will persist in 
feeding slops, as she and her mother and 
grandmother before her persisted in doing, 
and with good success, too, because the 
chicks have the range of the farm, but for 
the person who is compelled to confine the 
little fellows, the directions I shall give 
must l>e followed or the infant mortality 
will be ruinous. When a chick is hatched, 
either in an Incubator or under a hen, it 
should not be fed anything but dry sand 
and water for at least 48 hours from the 
moment it is dry. At the expiration of 
this time feed commercial chick feed in 
the sand, with a little three-section 
hopper kept supplied with sea shell, char¬ 
coal and wheat bran, or dry mash, or bran 
and mash mixed. - A little beef scrap in 
the bran is necessary. If with a hen, add 
enough scratch feed for her use. The 
chicks will only touch the iiucst of it. At 
•four weeks the chick feed may be with¬ 
drawn, and scratch feed substituted if 
with a hen, because they will take the 
finer and she the coarser of it, but if in 
a brooder, switch off to commercial grow¬ 
ing feed. If bran or dry mash or both 
mixed are fed from the start, they will 
always like it. If these directions are fol¬ 
lowed and everything In the line of boiled 
egg or wet feed is kept from them entire¬ 
ly, bowel trouble will never occur. I 
have not had such a case in three years. 
Before that I lost 50 per cent of chicks, at 
least. J. H. LIVINGSTON. 
Vermont. 
Locomotor Ataxia; Percheron Horses. 
l.I would like a little light on the ailment 
of a valuable mule. He is six years old, 
and has been unusually well and fat, with 
steady work and feed composed of wild 
grass, Alfalfa hay and cracked corn and 
a little bran, lie suddenly lost his appe- 
Franee to the improvement of these horses. 
Black is the prevailing color of the Fer- 
< heron of to-day, but gray is the original 
<olor, and still may be considered an evi¬ 
dence of purity of blood. The gray color 
was largely sacritied in breeding for 
greater weight and size, and to establish 
the color better liked by the American 
buyer. All things being equal as to suita- 
bilily of size, shape, color, disposition and 
quality we would prefer the l’ercheron in 
selecting a French draft stallion for the 
production of draft horses' for farm work. 
Tiie Percheron is best established in uni¬ 
formity of color, character and prepotency, 
hence preferable to the more mixed-bred 
French draft stallion, not eligible to regis¬ 
try as a Percheron. a. s. a. 
An Alfalfa Boy.— Everything seems 
to thrive on Alfalfa—the soil, the crops, 
the stock and the farmer. Wherever 
this wonderful crop sets its roots and 
finds plant food and bacteria—there a 
new period, of history begins. This is 
AN ALFALFA FARM BOY. Fig. 409. 
tlte, had some fever, pulse ran up to 94, 
and partly lost; control of his hind parts'; 
would wobble about on them and occasion¬ 
ally jerk up a hind foot and seem to have 
trouble to got it down; had some trouble 
to urinate and urine was scanty and dark 
1 he first day or two; appeared to he all 
right after that time. We turned him out 
on good grass, gave aconite and nitre, put 
hot application on kidneys and bathed and 
rubbed with liniment all affected parts. Wo 
could not find that the hack was at all 
tender; in fact could not make him Hindi 
by pinching him anywhere. Stifle appeared 
to be all right. He is much better and 
handles' 1)is parts all right now (two weeks 
later), hut does not eat very well, and is 
thin compared to what lie was; pulse is 
still rather high, about 60. Wc are working 
him carefully. Possibly lie may have had 
a strain, as the morning of the last day he 
worked lie pulled a heavy load in the mud. 
but hardly think so, as be did not show 
anything until next day. and then no swell¬ 
ing or soreness could be found. 2. Would 
you give your opinon of the qualities in 
comparison of Norman and Percheron 
horses, for heavy farm purposes—color, 
weight, hardiness, intelligence, etc.? 
New Mexico. n. p. w. 
1. An injury to the spinal cord might 
bring on the symptoms described, but often 
they follow a lightning stroke, or the feed¬ 
ing" of some damaged or moldy food. 
Toxic poisoning from molds or fungi in 
the food produces the disease known as 
cerebrospinal meningitis, and your mule 
shows symptoms suggestive of that ail¬ 
ment. We cannot determine just which 
trouble is present, but would advise you, 
on general principles, to give one dram of 
iodide of potash in the drinking water 
twice daily for five successive days, and 
a dram each of powdered mix vomica and 
ground gentian root in the feed night and 
morning, right along until he is compara¬ 
tively well, should the malady prove cura¬ 
ble. " 2. There is a distinct breed of French 
draft horses known as the “Percheron;” but 
there is no “Norman” breed. The latter 
was an erroneous term applied years ago to 
all draft horses imported from France. At 
first the stud hook for the recording of the 
pedigrees of these imported horses in 
America was called the “Norman Stud 
Book.” it was later changed to “l’erclieron- 
Norman Stud Book” and later still, after a 
great dispute, two pedigree registry asso¬ 
ciations formed, one taking the name of 
“American Percheron Association” and the 
other “National Register of Norman Horses.” 
To-day the old “Norman” association is 
known as the “National Register of French 
Draft Horses,” and in addition to the orig¬ 
inal Percheron Association still existent, 
two other Percheron pedigree registry asso¬ 
ciations are recognized by the Department 
of Agriculture at Washington. There is no 
“Norman” stud book in France, neither has 
the term “Norman” ever been generally ap¬ 
plied as a generic term in France to the 
draft horses of that country. The term 
arose from the fact that many of the im¬ 
ported draft horses came from “Normandy.” 
The official draft stud hook of France is 
known as the stud hook of the “Soeiete 
I-Iippique Percheronne de France.” Only 
horses recorded in that book can he re¬ 
corded in the old American Percheron Stud 
Book on arrival here. The French draft 
hook, however, will record either Perch- 
erons or any other draft breeds brought 
here from France. There is little differ¬ 
ence in the early history and origin of the 
Percheron and the other draft breeds of 
France, but of late years the Percheron 
lias been kept comparatively pure, and a 
great deal of attention has been paid by 
the French government and the breeders of 
true of the region around Syracuse, N. 
Y. This is probably the largest section 
in the Eastern States where Alfalfa 
may be called a great success. Fig.469 
shows a farm boy grown in this section. 
There are plenty more like him in this 
land where the Alfalfa grows. 
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Departmentur Agriculture 
RAYMOND A. PEARSON. COMMISSIONER. 
NOTICE 
TUBERCULOUS CATTLE 
Examination Required lor Tuberculosis of 
Neat Cattle Entering New York State 
for Breeding or Dairy Purposes. 
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