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THE 
RURAL 
NEW-YORKER 
November 20, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
ALFALFA FOR WINTERING HORSES. 
In reply to your question as to the 
cheapest way to winter a farm horse 
and keep him in good condition, will 
say; 20 years ago, while living in Illinois 
where corn was plentiful and cheap, I 
fed each of my horses 10 large ears of 
corn three times a day, with all the 
Timothy hay they would eat clean. As 
a matter of course they were, in the 
Spring, sleek and fat. Since coming 
west of the Mississippi, where corn is 
not so sure a crop, 1 have changed my 
method of feeding, but get as good re¬ 
sults by feeding one-fourth the corn and 
a limited amount of Alfalfa hay. I do 
not feed all the Alfalfa they will eat, 
as the best results are had from limiting 
the amount. To feed all they would 
eat would be something like feeding a 
thrashing machine. To illustrate the 
point I will relate an incident of last 
Summer’s hay making: Saturday night 
caught me with a load of Alfalfa on 
the wagon. The night being hot and op¬ 
pressive I tied a horse on either side 
of the load and left them for the night. 
I awoke about midnight and becoming 
uneasy lest they would eat too much 
and become colicky I went out to where 
they were tranquilly and industriously 
chewing away. I decided to let them 
stay with their hay. About sun-up I 
again interviewed them, d hey were just 
as busy as at midnight, but not quite so 
energetically, rather busy in a desultory 
way. About six o’clock I watered them. 
They drank copiously. I again tied them 
to the wagon, and they appeared to be 
just as hungry as the flight before. I 
observed them occasionally from that 
time till noon. At noon they gave evi¬ 
dence of their jaws being tired, but 
were still eating. I judged by observa¬ 
tion that the amount of well-cured Al¬ 
falfa hay a horse will eat is only limited 
by time. I saw no bad results from the 
large quantity of Alfalfa hay devoured. 
My experience is that seven or eight 
cars of corn a day with a reasonable 
amount of Alfalfa hay per head will 
give as good results as 20 ears of corn 
will with all the Timothy hay they will 
eat. To be brief and to the point, the 
cheapest way to winter a farm horse 
and keep him in good condition is an¬ 
swered in one word, Alfalfa. 
Kansas. J- 9. taylor. 
HOW TO SAVE THE CHICKS. 
On pages 901-2 Mr. Mapes has an 
article on “Why the Chicks Die, that 
would lead one to suppose he and the 
“Deacon” had been so lost in the con¬ 
templation of the “Hen Barn for the 
last two years that they have not kept 
in touch with discovered facts in re¬ 
gard to white diarrhoea and brooder 
pneumonia. Two years ago Dr. Moise 
of the Department of Agriculture iso¬ 
lated the coccydium, the germ that is 
the cause of white diarrhoea, gave its 
life history and methods of prevention. 
The Rhode Island Experiment Station 
has issued a bulletin, covering experi¬ 
ments with feeding chicks, the eggs of 
this germ showing that its presence is 
the cause of the trouble. Chas. A. 
Cyphers, myself and others, while agree¬ 
ing with this germ theory, believe that 
even if the germ is present in small 
quantities, as it probably is in all chicks, 
proper brooding and feeding will enable 
the chick to fight off the disease; in 
other words, while the germ is the spe¬ 
cific cause of white diarrhoea, if the 
chicks are kept warm, well nourished, 
free from indigestion, the germ is prac¬ 
tically innocuous. 
The mortality of the Mapes chicks 
was entirely preventable in the follow¬ 
ing way: Not crowding; no more than 
50 chicks should ever be put in one 
compartment because when they snuggle 
at bed time, the animal weight of the 
extra 50 causes a struggle to become a 
huddle, and the best chicks, going to 
bed last, pile into the centre of the 
mass by sheer, strength, and the weaker 
ones pile on top of them, and they 
smother or come out limp and listless. 
Two or three nights of huddling will 
ruin a perfectly healthy bunch of cMcks. 
When two chicks learn that by pushing 
against each other they can generate 
heat the whole flock is doomed. In the 
second place, he has not run his 
brooders hot enough. It is acknowl¬ 
edged now that the fault of the pipe 
system, where it has been abandoned, 
has been too few pipes, too near the 
floor, and not hot enough; the same is 
true of lamp brooders. The sleeping 
chamber should be 95 on the floor, 100 
three inches from the floor, with plenty 
of ventilation. Then the chicks get 
warmed quickly and instead of huddling 
at bed time cuddle together and spread 
out. I run my pipes now from 120 to 
140 degrees 14 inches above the chicks, 
with slashed flannel down to 
within two inches of the floor, and have 
not had any trouble in years. 
The incubators should be washed out 
with a strong solution of cretol in any 
of its forms (I use creocide) after each 
hatch, and the burlap bottoms thoroughly 
cleaned and washed with the same after 
each hatch. The brooders should be 
scraped clean, washed thoroughly with 
creocide solution after each lot has been 
taken out. The floors and walls are 
best treated with half crude oil and 
half creocide. In small brooders and in 
brooder houses after cleaning thorough¬ 
ly, 1 apply hot whitewash strongly creo- 
cided with a pump and brush to walls, 
pipes, partitions, floors and all. Yards 
should be spaded twice yearly and 
seeded to rape, well limed with each 
spading. 
If the chicks are taken from machine 
as soon as dried off, and put in brooder 
pens under the hover with boards close 
to the flannel, on a clean sanded floor, 
and kept there for forty-eight hours, 
they are better off than in the incubator. 
No food or light allowed them; they 
doze in a temperature of 100 degrees, 
absorb the yolk quietly and are ready 
for business at the end of that time, 
when the boards are removed and they 
have the run of the brooder. Any of 
the chick feeds that do not contain mil¬ 
let are good, but fine cracked corn, 
cracked wheat, rolled oats, with clean 
sand, grit and chick shell before them 
all the time are better. 
Remember that the chick needs lime 
for his bones and grit for his feathers 
from the time he is born, not after his 
feathers get rusty and his bones soft, 
but before. Keep this grain mixture be¬ 
fore them all the time, and in another 
trough a dry mash with 15 per cent 
sweet beef scrap and 10 per cent granu¬ 
lated charcoal, and they will keep hust¬ 
ling. The advantage of the continuous 
feeding is that all chicks get enough to 
eat all the time, and do not gorge two 
or three times a day, where the larger 
ones eat too much and the smaller 
(these usually your best pullets) do not 
get their share. I know nothing that 
takes the place of sprouted oats the year 
around for growing chicks, and the pep¬ 
pery flavor of green rape, when it can 
be had, seems to agree with them better 
than any other green feed. I have an 
idea, that rape kills some of the in¬ 
testinal worms, but it may only aid di¬ 
gestion and help in that way. If Mr. 
Mapes will try creocide, more heat in 
his brooders, not over 50 in a flock, 
plenty of feed, with grit, shell and green 
feed, 1 think he will join those of us to 
whom white diarrhoea and brooder pneu¬ 
monia are no longer a bugbear. 
_ RUCK AN AN BURR. 
.^l^Young’s Fever & 
Cough Remedy 
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the most successful herbs growing in the United States. 
Mild and prompt in its action and leaves no bad after¬ 
effects. Will benefit the wind of race horses, stallions 
and brood mares. Should lie given to horses that are 
being shipped, so ns to fortify them against colds, fever, 
influenza and similar troubles, if your horse has thick 
wind, runs at the nose, cold in the eyes or head is in¬ 
clined to have the heaves, or has them good and hard, 
try this remedy as directed on the bottle and you will 
not lie disappointed. Hook 10-I> free. Price $1, 4 oz. 
bottle; $2, 12 oz. bottle delivered. 
W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., 88 Temple St., Springfield, Mass 
Beat the Sharpers 
You ought to know how to protect yourself 
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They make a business of fixing up broken- 
down horses that would be dear at half the 
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You can protect yourself from being landed 
as a sucker, and be horsewise to such decep¬ 
tions as plugging, bishopiug, gingeritig and the 
score or more tricks that are worked to trap 
the unwary. 
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Horse Troubles. 
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RIVERLAND FARM 
OFFERS 20 HEAD OK HIGH CLASS 
HEGISTEKED 
PERCHERONS 
Mostly mares in foal from Two to Five years. A 
few young Stallions, all priced at their real worth. 
JAY GELDER, Kanona, N. Y. 
Highest Qua-lity and Best Color 
at the Pan-American Breed Test and Other Impartial Trials 
<Ihe MONTHLY GUERNSEY BULLETIN and information 
regarding the breed free by addressing 
GUERNSEY CLUB, BOX R . PETERBORO, N. H. 
SHROPSHIRES SYLXjE 
25 CHOICE, YOUNG REGISTERED EWES. 
THORNDALE STOCK FARM MILLBROOK, N. Y. 
CURflPSUIRCS-XEARLING RAMS, RAM LAMBS, EWES 
OnnUroninLO ANO EWE LAMBS from Choice Im¬ 
ported Stock. FRED VAN VLEET, Lodi, N. Y. 
WANTED 
-30 GHADK SHROPSHIRE 
EWES. 1 or2 years old. Lowest 
cash price f. o. b. Addross 
EOWIN BEEKMAN, Middletown, N. J. 
F OR SALE— Keglstercrl Kaixibonillet Hams and O.l.C. 
Swine. C. W. Hali.iday, North Chatham, N.Y. 
SHROPSHIRES 
r Good yearlings at prices you can afford to buy. 
Address J. C. DUNCAN, Mgr., Lewiston, N. Y. 
n||Df|flC TIIE RIG DEEP FELLOWS, 
UUllUUw that grow and mature quickly. 
Pigs and Gilts for sale at all times. Address 
SHKNANGO RIVER FARMS, Transfer, Pa. 
L arge: bkuksiiikes at iiigiiwooo— short, 
broad henilK. Mature animals weigh from 700 tot)00lba. 
Special offering or bred aows. Sows averaged eleven to the 
litter thin Bering. Write for booklet. 
H. C. A II. B. HAKPKNDING, Dundee, N. Y. 
SPRINGBANK HERD OF BIG 
BERKSHIRES. 
Ant sold out of sows to farrow earlier than Juno 
10th. All stock registered and bred in fashionable 
lines. My hogs are the correct typo of present day 
Berkshires, combining size, symmetry, grand feed¬ 
ing quality anil prolificacy. Send for booklet. 
J. K. WATSON, Proprietor, Marbledale, Conn. 
BROOKSIDE BERKSHIRES 
Have a choice lot of young stock ready for ship¬ 
ment, sired by Hopeful Masterpiece tlio 2nd and 
also a grandson of Lord Premier, and out of 
Daughters of Lord Premier and Premier Long¬ 
fellow. Also have a few yearling sows sired by 
Hopeful Masterpiece the 2nd. 
,1. P. O’HARA, Moravia, New York. 
Large Berkshires 
Premier Longfellow,Lord Premier and Masterpiece 
breeding. Matings not akin. Catalog on applica¬ 
tion. WILLOUGHBY FARM,Gettysburg:,Pa. 
CHESTER WHITE ANO LARGE YORKSHIRE 
YOUNG BOARS AND SOW PIOS FOR SALE 
SIX MONTHS OLD 
Only the best animals of these two broods sold for 
breeding purposes. Yorkshire and Oliestor White 
Boars old enough for service. Prices Reasonable. 
Our Motto is : To Please Our Customers At Any Cost. 
HEART’S DELIGHT FARM, -:- CHAZY. NEW YORK 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal." See guarantee page 10. 
Hill View Ayrshires 
FOR SALE. 
BULL CALF, sired by Dairy King of Avon; dam 
Mayflower Monklnnd, who is the dam of the cham¬ 
pion 4-year-old Ayrshire cow of the world. 
Also other animals of all ages for sale from my 
great herd of producing and show animals. All 
tuberculin tested. 
For prices and further particulars, address 
W. W. BLAKE AHKCOLL, Paoli, Pa. 
HILL TOP FARM AYRSHIRES 
One of the Good Herds of the Breed 
Tho home of the Champion two-year-old heifer and 
the ex-Champion two and three year old heifers. 
Herd headed by tho great A. R. sire Noxemall, 7312. 
Young Bulls for snlo, of approved type and 
backed by official records. Herd tuberculin tested. 
L. A. BEAM ANN, WHEELING, VV. A a. 
THE WOODLAWN SHORT-HORN FARM 
OFFERS FOR SALE MILKING SHORT-HORNS 
We are at present offering for sale at reasonable prices a 
number or good young: bulls from milking Short Horn 
Cows. Hose of Sharon, ltuhy’s Brig'ht Eyes, Young Mary, 
Peerless, Nonpareil, and other well known strains repre¬ 
sented. All these hulls are sired by Orange Sultan 263 d 22. 
son of the champion Whitehall Sultan 163578, and first 
prize two year old bull at Ohio State Fair in 1908. The 
bulls range from four to eight months old. 
For particulars and prices, address 
C. P. WE8T A'. SON, Box 86$ llloomliigbiirg, O. 
BULL CALVES-YOUNG BULLS 
ready for service, that are of good size and individ¬ 
uality. All are from officially tested dams, and are 
sired by Hitinesleaii Girl I)e Kill's Sarcastic 
L;ui. Wo have sixty daughters of this Bull that 
will lie kept in the Herd ami officially tested. 
5 [Write for description and prices. 
WOODCREST FARM, 
Rif ton, Ulster County, New York. 
The BLOOMING DALE HERD OF 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS 
are bred for largo production. Good size, Strong 
Constitution, Best Individuality. 
If these aro tho kind you want write or come to 
seo them. 125 to solcct from. Animals of both sexes 
and all ages to offer at prices that will please you. 
A special offer on some nicely bred Bum. Cai.ves. 
A. A. CORTKLYOU, Somerville, N. J. 
REGISTERED HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN BULLS 
FOR SALE AT FARMERS’ PRICES. 
Have two yearling hulls, ready for immediate 
service, and four bull calves, from six to ten 
months old ; all huge, handsome, well-grown 
animals. Address P. B. McLENNAN, Syracuse, N. Y. 
HOLSTEIN BULL CALVES 
FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT. 
Finely bred bull calves at reasonable prices. 
Write for lint which will please you. 
W. W. CHENEY, -:- Manlius, N. Y. 
_OHIO HOLSTEINS__ 
THE HAWNDALE STOCK FARM 
Reuistered Holstein-Friesians Herd Founded in 1880 
Offers yearling hoifers and bull calves of tho 
host milking strains. Has bred and raised two 
cows which made over 32 lbs. butter, official 
test. Herd numbers 90 head. Address 
CHAS. W. HORR, 
Wellington, Ohio. 
Laurel Farm Jerseys 
For Sale at present: A Son of Fkkn’s 
Jubilee, lit for service. Also younger bull 
and heifer calves. 
J. GRANT MORSE, - Hamilton, N. Y. 
J E R S E Y S 
FOR SALE—REGISTERED JERSEY HULL 
Eleven months old. Dam’s test 542 lbs. butter in 
328 days: Also 3 two year old heifers due in Janu¬ 
ary and 10 yearling heifers. Satisfaction guaran¬ 
teed. Write for what you want. Address 
E. W. MOSHER, -:- “ BRIGHTSIDE,” -:- AURORA, N. Y. 
Vrm PonH Affnrrl A Grade, when I can sell 
I UU Udll I MIIUIU you a 1 -eg. Jersey hull, best 
dairy stock, ready for service at farmer’s price. 
R. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty St., Pittsburg, Pa. 
DAIRY SHORT HORNS 
Will sell the entire herd or any number, 
to close up the G. H. Bell estate. 
F. S. BELL, Rome, N. Y. 
IVYILK PRODUCERS for New York City market 
desiring information how to form branches 
of tho Dairymen’s League, write to the Secretary, 
ALBERT MANNING, Otisville, N. V. 
Kalorama Farm 
Has a Splendid Crop of Young 
BERKSHIRE PIGS 
ready for shipment at reasonable prices. They 
were sired by imported boars and are out of large, 
mature, prolific dams. Would be pleased to price 
thorn to you. 
CALVIN J. HUSON, Penn Yan, N.Y. 
IIIDfinTATinil <>f tho best; largo improved 
IITIr Ull I A IIUI1 English Yorkshires for sale. 
A. A. BRADLEY, Frewsburg, N. Y. 
World’s Best 
Hog 
—Reg. O. I. C. Rigs. 
September farrow. Gilts 
will lie bred for Marc); farrowing. 
CEDAR LAWN FARM, Ludlowville, N. Y. 
S COTCH COLLIES, Spayed Females, two to 
eight mos. Circ. SILAS DECKER, Montrose Pa. 
S OME good coon and fox dogs for sale; pedigreed: 
Birdsong and Walker strains. Sent on III days’ 
trial. H. F. JOHNSON. Assumption, Illinois. 
COLLIE PUPS 
—From imported stock. Females 
cheap. Nelson Bros., Grove City, Pa- 
