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GOAT AND SHEEP—COTTON. 
Seeing at times complaints of dogs 
among ■sheep 1 write to say I had 240 
head of sheep and goats; about 40 goats, 
wethers, and have seen dogs go near 
the sheep but they always go as fast as 
possible for protection to the goats. The 
only objection is, the goats will stay in 
the brush and the sheep keep with them. 
There is a farmer near me who sold 
his crop of Sea Island cotton at 65 cents 
per pound and made 430 pounds per 
acre, netting him about fifteen thousand 
dollars on the 70 acres, and I think he 
will do it again this season. 1 enclose 
you a sample of a 29-cent cotton that 
season before last sold at 40 cents per 
pound. This Island and Edisto Island 
produce the finest cotton in the world. 
We are under bond not to sell any seed 
to other States. The farmers have just 
completed an oil mill to manipulate the 
cotton-seed. Tel] the sheep men that 
goats will sure keep dogs from sheep 
and a few will do it. h. b. g. 
St. James Island, S. C. 
THE Ki; KA Is NEW-YORKER 
November 6, 
WHY THE CHICKS LIVE. 
I have read O. W. Mapcs’s article on 
“Why the Chicks Die,” page 901. I am 
not an expert in chicken raising, until 
after they are cooked. Mr. Mapes says 
the Deacon does thinking and solves 
problems for him, I think I can say 
“the Deaconess” does the thinking here, 
as Mrs. Gaitskill does all of the think¬ 
ing, and I merely see that she has the 
feed, and, quite frequently she does not 
have the kind she wants, but that is 
my fault. Reading Mr. Mapes’s story, 
I could not help but think that some¬ 
thing must be wrong somewhere, as I 
have known Mrs. Gaitskill to get above 
a 90 per cent hatch frequently, and have 
known her to get 95 per cent, and she 
has a very old, out-of-date, incubator. 
It needs careful watching, as it is not 
self-regulating. Once hatched, she seems 
to have but little trouble getting them to 
grow, and but few die, provided she 
can keep me out of the chicken yard. 
She says I feed them too much, and I 
think she starves her chickens, but they 
live and grow, and “nothing succeeds 
like success.” Therefore I must be 
wrong. For brooder we often use a 
cracker box, with a jug of hot water, 
and a frame with strips of cloth lying 
down for the little chicks to hover un¬ 
der. We do not need tight houses here, 
and are now setting some hens. Chicks 
hatched from eggs 'set now, make fine 
broilers, about the time the tourist ho¬ 
tels are willing to pay a good price for 
them. As to Mr. Mapes’s trouble, Mrs. 
Gaitskill says if young chicks get chilled, 
or are fed too much, they will have 
bowel trouble. Possibly Mr. Mapes’s 
ground is unhealthy, and I started this 
letter simply to suggest that he disinfect 
his ground. Let him try carbon bisul¬ 
phide*, and he will destroy any germ life 
that may be in his ground. I spray the 
house, roosts, etc., with a solution of 
arsenic that I make to kill the ticks on 
my cattle, and I think it will kill all 
insocts by contact. 
Florida. s. h. gaitskill. 
the hogs to be pastured and the crop 
of rye. I have pastured all the way 
from four to six hogs to the acre with 
the addition of a little corn or mill feed, 
say something like half rations of the 
latter, and they have made very rapid 
gains. I can usually get them to gain 
from one-half to 1J4 pound per day per 
head, and by doing this with the greater 
part of the feed being rye, and saving 
the manure consider that I am making 
it very cheaply, as the improvement of 
the land is, I think, just about worth 
what I am out for the lack of corn or 
concentrated feed. 
I always think that in making pork 
or anything else that requires feed from 
the land that the land should be con¬ 
sidered first. Can it be done and the 
land at the same time be improved, 
or is the land robbed of its fer¬ 
tility in the operation? If pork can 
be produced on rye as the principal 
feed, and the land improved at the same 
time, I think then that it is profitable to 
feed some other feed to balance the 
ration. But if in the feeding this con¬ 
centrated feed the cost is greater in 
dollars and cents than the land is im¬ 
proved in productive capacity, then I 
consider it not profitable. I can take a 
bunch of hogs on a good rye pasture, 
with the addition of about one-half ra¬ 
tion of corn, and make a growth which 
I think is very profitable. Just try the 
experiment this Fall if you have never 
tried it, and learn a surprising lesson. 
Illinois. R. B. RUSHING. 
Cribbing. 
I have a black gelding eight years of 
age, and last Winter he started cribbing. 
This cribbing is accompanied by ravenous 
eating, and the horse has not the activity 
that he should at his age and work. What 
advice can you give me? n. a. e. 
New York. 
Keep him in a box stall from which 
everything has been removed upon which 
lie could fix or rest teeth or chin to crib 
and suck wind. Feed him his grain 
from a very large feed box, so that the 
grain will be thin spread over the bottom, 
lie then will lx? unable to grab a large 
mouthful at a time and bolt liis feed. A 
few cobblestones placed in the feed box 
also help to prevent bolting of food. He 
has indigestion from sucking wind and 
improperly masticating bolted food. To 
check cribbing and wind-sucking take a 
three-eighths-incli cord and tie to ring in 
halter, then pass under upper lip over 
incisor teeth, draw fairly tight and tie 
other end to the other ring in halter. Give 
him half an ounce of Fowler's solution of 
arsenic night and morning if lie keeps thin 
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