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THE O. S. KELLY CO., 
Box 157 Springfield, Ohio. 
1908. 
CONVALESCING LAMENESS CASE. 
I wrote you a while ago about my mare 
that got caught on a barb-wire fence and 
you answered on page 646. Your treatment 
was successful; her foot is ail right and all 
over her lameness. I put the last blister on 
about three weeks. I have not worked 
her yet. ITer foot is large up to above her 
ankle. Is there any way I can make it 
smaller, and would it be all right to work 
her? I keep her in a box stall and lead 
her out once a day for exercise. c. c. 
Now York. 
The swelling will subside gradually, 
unless it happens that a ringbone forms, 
and that is scarcely probable. When she 
conies in from work or exercise band¬ 
age the parts from foot to knee with a 
derby bandage. Hand-rubbing also will 
help, but medicine need not be used. 
Light work will be good for her. Feed 
light rations and such as will keep the 
bowels responding naturally. A few car¬ 
rots daily would prove beneficial. 
A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
SOME HEN FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
The Montana poultry problem, page 
928, is complex. Why does the in¬ 
quirer keep slaked lime before his hens, 
and how does he know his gravel is 
limestone? In a reednt interesting ex¬ 
periment by Prof. Rice of Cornell, hens 
given only cubical spar grit, which looks 
as if it contains lots of lime (but on 
analysis contains none) starved for lime, 
and their bones broke under light pres¬ 
sure. Crushed oyster shell costs only 
$8 per ton in Baltimore, and should be 
available in Montana at a comparatively. 
reasonable price. The thin shells are due 
to lack of lime, or his hens are too fat, 
the lime secreting cells becoming fatty 
and not properly secreting. Fat meat 
of any kind is extremely harmful to 
poultry, giving them diarrhoea and mak¬ 
ing them excessively fat. It also, by 
increasing the percentage of fat in the 
yolk, has a tendency to make eggs pale. 
The best coloring matter for yolks in 
Winter is chopped clover hay, and Al¬ 
falfa should, I think, be as good, and 
sprouted oats or barley. To digress a 
moment, before attempting to balance a 
ration for him with the material at his 
command, I must for the benefit of your 
readers again call attention to sprouted 
oats or barley as the greatest health-giv¬ 
ing and egg-making food for poultry 
from November until March; in fact, 
all the year, unless they have a pasture 
run. Their preparation is very simple. 
In cold freezing weather, soak say two 
bushels of oats or barley in warm water 
for 48 hours in a tub or box; cover 
them well with the water, so that they 
are all thoroughly soaked, then spread 
them out about six inches thick in a box 
that has cracks in the bottom so that 
the surplus water can drain off. Rake 
them over well twice a day, and wet 
them with warm water in vesy cold 
weather, and cover with bags or an old 
blanket. Do not let them heat too 
much; i. e., enough to kill the germs. 
Turning and wetting will prevent this. 
When the sprouts are about one-eighth 
inch long spread them out about two 
inches thick, and sprinkle them night 
and morning, but do not rake them; in 
five days the green sprouts will be an 
inch long. Then cut your mat of green 
food in cakes and lay before your hens, 
and they will do the rest. It is a pretty 
sight to see 12 slabs of bright green 
about 18 inches by two feet laid out on 
the snow before 2,000 pullets, and 
watch them disappear. You here get 
your green food, coloring matter, high 
protein value, and bulk or roughage— 
and your two bushels of oats makes 10 
bushels of feed. 
To balance the ration given I should 
grind oats, barley, wheat and some corn 
together fine; add 20 pounds salt to the 
ton, 100 pounds fine charcoal, 10 per 
cent beef scrap or ground cracklings, and 
keep before them all the time in the 
troughs described by me in TheR. N.-Y. 
last Spring, and feed wheat in the 
litter . Lwicq a, ;d^y, This with, ; shell 
stipqld gi\; 9 ( bim %althy ^tack .and, eggs., , 
More hens are ruined by starvation than 
THE RUR. .A.L 
ever were hurt by overfeeding. The 
“feed only what they will eat up clean” 
theory was born from the idea that a 
hen could get too fat. A hen is like a 
cow; she runs either to eggs or meat, as 
a cow runs to milk or beef. In either 
case the butcher is the destiny of the 
latter type, and starving will not only 
not make eggs, but will make poor meat. 
There is no more reason why a hen in 
the full flush of laying should have to 
hustle and scratch for all her food than 
there is for a large milk-yielding cow to 
be kept in the plow all day, or driven 
five miles. Exercise for health and 
pleasure is excellent, but let them take it 
because they want it for enjoyment, and 
not from necessity. Not only is the 
tallow grease and offal bad for the 
poultry both for eggs and general 
health, but it is very likely to cause an 
epidemic of limber neck—which is usual¬ 
ly fatal. BUCHANAN BURR. 
Maryland. 
RACK FOR HOG FEEDING. 
The New Mexico Experiment Station 
at Agricultural College issues a bulletin 
on feeding Alfalfa hay to hogs. The 
hay was fed in racks such as is shown 
RACK FOR FEEDING ALFALFA HAY. 
FlO. 14. 
at Fig. 14. This rack is described as fol¬ 
lows : 
The feeding racks consisted of a V- 
shaped frame five feet long, three feet 
high, and 1.5 feet wide at the top. The 
frames of these racks were made of 
two-inch by four-inch pine lumber, and 
the sides were made with one-inch by 
four-inch slats, placed two and one-half 
inches apart. This rack was then set in 
a trough two feet wide at the bottom, 
two and one-half feet wide at the top 
and four inches deep, made of 2x6 inch 
pine lumber. The spaces between the 
slats should not exceed two and one-half 
inches, and the trough should extend at 
least eighteen inches beyond the rack in 
every direction. The coarse stems of 
Alfalfa which the hogs leave should be 
scraped out and fed to cattle. 
The experiments indicate that Alfalfa 
hay is excellent pig feed when combined 
with grain, but that Afalfa alone is poor 
food for fattening pigs, though it may 
answer for wintering stock. 
CANNIBALISTIC SOWS. 
Can you tell me why mother pigs kill 
their young? a. m. 
New York. 
Irritable sows being in a highly ner¬ 
vous condition, largely as a result of 
pampering and lack of exercise, are most 
apt to eat their pigs, and the bad habit is : 
also practiced by sows having depraved 
appetites or a longing for some lacking 
element of food. The favorite preven¬ 
tive among farmers is to feed salt pork 
to the sow when she shows a tendency 
to eat her pigs, or it may he given as a 
preventive where a sow has shown the 
bad habit at a previous farrowing. It 
would seem more sensible to do away 
with the supposed causes of the trouble. 
Toward this end the sow should live an 
outdoor life as much as possible, and 
have mixed rations instead of corn, corn, 
corn and still more corn, which makes 
fat and forms heat, but does not sup¬ 
ply all of the requirements of the body. 
Also it is necessary to keep the bowels 
freely moving by feeding succulent food 
or giving small doses of Epsom salts in 
slop. Roots fed freely along with Al¬ 
falfa bay are good foods for the breed¬ 
ing sow, and she should be very lightly 
fed a sloppy mfxt'ure of middlings, bran 
;fuidilj?uaseed mealiform Wieek or so after 
the pigs arrive, a. s. Alexander, v. s. 
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