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THE RURA.I> NEW-YORKER 
February 15, 
RHEUMATISM IN SWINE. 
About three months ago we pur¬ 
chased a son of Lord Premier 50001, at 
a long figure. He was a yearling, and 
in breeding rig weighed around 700 
pounds, being very large. His sire 
weighed over 900 pounds, and his dam 
weighed 800 pounds. This fellow was 
big-honed, but not very fat. Soon after 
we got him the weather turned damp 
and rainy and the boar began to show 
signs of rheumatism. His joints were 
swollen and he was lame. Pie would 
hobble around on three legs and his 
joints in legs were sore to touch and 
hot. We treated him as follows: Gave 
him two feeds a day, a warm slop of 
bran, cornmeal, wheat middlings, some 
tankage, and a teacupful of molasses. 
(We feed molasses to all swine). We 
fed him four or five heads of cabbage 
every noon and compelled exercise. We 
got a box of red iodide of mercury and 
rubbed it briskly in the joints and in 
fact from the hoof to above the knee. 
This is a good blister but will not re¬ 
move the hair. The swelling and sore¬ 
ness disappeared. Only once during a 
wet spell has the rheumatism reap¬ 
peared. We blistered again all four legs 
and fed a little more molasses than 
usual for a day or so. It bothered 
none, and now the boar is used heavily 
in service, is walked a long distance 
for exercise every day and is as lim¬ 
ber and lively as can be. He would 
weigh 900 pounds or more in good flesh. 
When we got this boar he was shipped 
here from the South. We had two 
litter mates that we bought when 
young. They both were troubled with 
rheumatism after getting here from 
Alabama, where we got them. None of 
our other stock has been troubled with 
rheumatism, but we thought the rapid 
recovery of the boar spoke well for the 
treatment. h. c. & h. b. harpending. 
Yates County, N. Y. 
UTILIZE THE WATER POWER. 
The article on page 57 by Jared Van 
Wagenen, Jr., on the electric light plant 
run by the farm brook, calls the atten¬ 
tion of your readers to a very interest¬ 
ing subject, in view of the fact that so 
many farms have the brook that can do 
all of that and lots more in many cases. 
If so situated that a fair head and 
something of a pond may be made, a 
comparatively small quantity of water 
will furnish abundant light, for the light 
in a faimhouse is used but a few hours 
at night, so the pond can in most cases 
refill during the hours when not with¬ 
drawn. If the pond can be large enough 
to constitute a small lake, it will be able 
to store a large quantity of freshet 
water that may be available through 
the Summer even if the stream is very 
small. In the Winter the pond will 
supply a quantity of ice for the farmer, 
and perhaps for his neighbors to his 
profit, and in some cases this ice har¬ 
vest might produce a considerable in¬ 
come. In very many cases power 
enough could be developed to run the 
churn, straw cutter, saw and other use¬ 
ful machines about the farm. It may 
be expected in the near future that the 
United States Agricultural Department 
might compile and have issued farmers’ 
bulletins giving instructions for the con¬ 
structions of dams and the development 
of such small water powers suitable to 
many different conclitions. 
In most cases the farmer with his 
team, plow, scraper, stone boat, etc., 
could do most of the construction work 
without much feeling the cost of it. In 
these days of Portland cement and ex¬ 
panded metal, a simple dirt dam may 
have a spill-way constructed over it at 
a comparatively small expense that 
would pass a large quantity of flood 
water and ice in safety. If, however, 
sufficient pondage can be had, it will be 
much more valuable to store the flood 
water for Summer use, when the water 
would otherwise be low. Even in such 
cases it is always wise to have an ade¬ 
quate spill-way in case the pond should 
be filled to its capacity at the time of a 
freshet. As brooks usually are on the 
lowest lands of the farm, the power 
could, in many cases, be brought near 
to where it is wanted by diverting the 
water by a canal from the pond along 
the higher land to a convenient point. 
This is usually the better plan, es¬ 
pecially for turbulent streams, as the 
dam does not have to be built as high to 
secure a good working head of water 
at the point further away from the dam. 
To do this in some cases it might be 
better for two or more farmers on the 
same stream to combine their endeavors 
and all participate in the benefit, for the 
water wheel and dynamo cost propor¬ 
tionately less, the larger they are, as 
also the development of the power in 
other respects. edward r. taylor. 
FEATHER-PULLING HENS; PIG RATION. 
1. What is it that causes hens to eat their, 
own feathers, and also pick from others 
and eat them? What can I give them to 
prevent it? 2. I have a pig 15 weeks old, 
weight 115 pounds. I feed middlings 
scalded as a drink and between I give him 
some potatoes and apples cut up. I have 
no milk at present. What can I give him 
that will grow him faster? I keep him on 
the floor. e. e. p. 
Maine. 
1. The common reasons for hens 
picking feathers are idleness and lack 
of meat in the ration. Some hens are 
naturally quarrelsome. They pick at the 
other hens and start the blood, and then 
the others often attack the injured fowl 
and even kill her at times. If we could 
catch these “starters”, we would take 
them out and kill them. Keep the hens 
a little hungry and feed grain in litter 
where they will have to scratch for 
their food. If you can get a piece of 
lean meat hang it up on a string where 
the hens must jump and peck at it. 
2. We would not feed raw potatoes to 
the pig. Raw apples are good, but cook 
the potatoes. We like a mixture—equal 
parts of middlings, cornmeal and wheat 
bran fed as a thick slop. Give the pig 
all he wants of wood ashes. 
Cement Block Silo. —On page 8 you 
ask for information about cement block 
silo. I have one which so far as I can 
see is a success in every way. It is 
round, 16 feet in diameter; and 30 feet 
high. The blocks were made so as to 
dovetail when put together. No other 
binding was used. The silage is per¬ 
fect; no waste on sides and free from 
frost. It cost $500. JOHN A. OGDEN. 
Wisconsin. 
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and substitutes. Write for Book 
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PAVING COMPANY 
Largest producers of asphalt, and largest manu¬ 
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MANURE SPREADER 
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A straight beater can spread only as 
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must be 7 feet to 9 feet wide—much 
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ONLY the FEARLESS is narrow 
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8PREADS WIDER THAN 
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Box 188 Quincy, III 
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WITH GROOVED TIRES 
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Abenaque Gasoline Enqin 
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