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THE RURAL NEW-VORKER 
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USE OF TRUSSES FOR HERNIA. 
I wish to say to H. J. S., page 935j 
that I found it very easy to cure a colt 
of a navel rupture. Some years ago I 
had one so afflicted at birth. .When 
about two months old (after pushing 
the bowels back), I placed a soft leath¬ 
er bandage, six inches wide, around the 
stomach, drawing pretty taut, and fas¬ 
tening. The bandage was kept in place 
by sewing heavy muslin stays to a light 
strap just back of the fore-legs. About 
once each day I attended to tightening 
or loosening as I thought was needed. 
In about three months time the rupture 
was entirely cured, so removed bandage. 
The horse is now 14 years old, has 
done lot of hard work, and as far as I 
can see is perfectly sound. g. b. w. 
Pennsgrove, Pa. 
It is quite a common and perhaps sen¬ 
sible plan to apply a truss to press upon 
a rupture of the navel, and there is no 
doubt that a truss if properly adjusted 
may do some good. It should be remem- 
beied, however, that,- as often stated 
here, all such ruptures in young animals 
tend to disappear without treatment as 
the youngster grows and matures. A 
majority of umbilical and scrotal her- 
nise of colts disappear spontaneously in 
this way and treatment, either medicinal 
or mechanical, is apt to be given the 
credit. The foal treated by application 
of a leather truss would in all probabil¬ 
ity have recovered in the same length of 
time without such a mechanical appli¬ 
ance. The objection to using a truss 
on young colts is that the necessary har¬ 
ness tends to chafe the skin and at the 
same time hamper the freedom of the 
colt in breathing and moving. To obvi¬ 
ate this we have found it an excellent 
and successful plan to use strips of sus¬ 
pender elastic in making the harness, so 
that they will allow the colt free move¬ 
ment in every way, but at the same time 
keep the sole leather truss snugly in 
place. _ A. s. a. 
consistency. ^The -best kinds,, for this 
purpose depend upon the breed ajid con¬ 
dition of your fowls, and its cost should 
also be taken into consideration. Corn- 
meal, wheat bran, wheat middlings, 
ground oats and ground barley are all 
good, or any two or three of them mixed 
together makes a good feed. If your 
stock is old and inclined to lay on too 
much flesh feed less corn and barley 
and more bran, oats and middlings. The 
variation in local prices for the different 
feeding stuffs makes it imperative for 
each person to learn what kinds bf 
grain can be secured most cheaply in 
his locality, and their relative values for 
the purpose required. Corn is the staple' 
whole grain, and can usually be fed in 
liberal quantities without producing any 
bad effects, but wheat, oats, barley or 
buckwheat should be given occasionally 
for variety, and beef scrap should be 
kept before the fowls in a hopper made 
for the purpose. c. s. greene. 
IIorsb Meat. —With all this talk about 
high meat prices and shortage of cattle, 
who thinks of our good friend the horse 
as a food producer? A report from Paris 
to the London Globe states: “The brains 
of horses almost all find their way to 
confectioners, who utilize them in making 
‘timbales financitres,’ tarts and ‘vol-au-vent,’ 
and in these forms they are served up at 
the best tallies. The melted and clarified 
fat is used in making ‘sauce mayonnaise’ of 
an exquisite flavor. It is especially useful 
in preparing fried potatoes. The sex. breed 
and mode of feeding horses modify the 
quality of their flesh, but butchers pay lit¬ 
tle attention to age in making their pur¬ 
chases. The sale of horse flesh is regulated 
by the municipal authorities. In Paris the 
sanitary inspector is very strict, so that 
those who like horse and mule steaks have 
the consolation of knowing that every pre¬ 
caution is taken to see that they receive 
good meat. In 190(! 1,853 carcases were 
confiscated out of 57,734 horses slaught¬ 
ered.” 
Inebriated Citizen: “If nT wife’s 
awake T’ll shay: ‘M’ dear, brought y’ 
some c’sath’mums—chrysthums—chrasy- 
thnms’—hang it! Wish I’d got roses.” 
—Life. 
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Some farmers and dai¬ 
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or other common cream 
separators—use them a 
while— discover they are 
not modern — then out 
they go for Sharpies 
Dairy Tubulars. 
That is paying dear for 
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used in Dairy by tile fact 
Tubular bowls. that Tubu- 
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every yearthan 
any maker of 
such machines 
sells. 
Other farm¬ 
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more care¬ 
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the subject. 
They taik 
withTubu- 
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They con¬ 
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Whitman, Mass. 
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