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FEEDING SHEEP IN CORN. 
It Is a very common practice hero to 
sow Dwarf Essex rape in the corn at the 
last cultivation and then pasture it off in 
the Fall with sheep. Unless the sheep are 
very large or very hungry, or the corn 
very .small and close to the ground, the 
ears of the corn will not be molested at all. 
The sheep will clean up the rape and lower 
blades of the corn in good shape, leaving 
the corn for husking later. Of course, If 
the feed gets (bin and the sheep got hun¬ 
gry, they will break down the stalks and 
get the ears of corn; but many farmers 
allow them to do this, as It finishes the 
sheep off in good shape. I know one man 
who handled 80 acres of corn In just this 
way. lie turned In, I think, about one thou¬ 
sand sheep, let them eat the rape out first, 
and when they got that out, which was 
along in October, he let them go ahead and 
finish up the corn. It fattened them up 
just right, and they were as nicely fattened 
a bunch of sheep as I ever saw. They 
wasted none of the corn and seemed to save 
every grain of It. It is also a common 
practice here to grow and fatten hogs In 
the same way, letting them cat the rape 
and the com itself, and most farmers 
agree that they get more nearly the full 
value of the corn in that way than In any 
other way. jikniiv field. 
hnva. 
PENNSYLVANIA CREAMERY BUTTER. 
The butter made at the Granville Summit 
Creamery by 11. W. Saxton for the third bi¬ 
monthly Pennsylvania scoring contest at the 
Agricultural College and which with others 
received second highest score, was made 
about as follows: 
Part of the milk was skimmed at home 
creamery, and about one-third at skimming 
Btation, and we also receive some hand- 
separator cream. This was thoroughly 
mixed and ripened with O. Douglass starter 
at 66 per cent for eight to nine hours, 
then cooled to 54 degrees and churned in 
the morning, temperature 57 degrees, acid¬ 
ity 5.6 per cent, and came in granules 
slightly larger than wheat kernels in 35 
minutes. The weather was cool, and both 
milk and cream came in fair condition. 
It might be of special interest to your read¬ 
ers to note that the farmer largely deter¬ 
mines the score which his buttermaker re¬ 
ceives. A perfect score card reads as follows : 
Flavor, 45; body, 25; color, 15; salt, ,10; 
package, 5. Of these you will notice 55 
points are under the direct control of the 
maker, and 45 (points on llavor), are largely 
determined by the condition of milk or 
cream on its arrival at the factory. It 
has been a long time since we have been 
cut on anything except llavor, and Judge’s 
criticism would indicate this was due to 
old milk or cream, or milk improperly cared 
for. Two things nre of utmost importance 
in butter making, cleanliness and tem¬ 
perature. These two things carefully at¬ 
tended to in the care of milk upon the 
farm would greatly improve our butter. 
H. w. s. 
PUREBRED BULLS. 
IIow many in your neighborhood? Why 
are they not used and what is the objec¬ 
tion to them ? 
In this immediate neighborhood I know 
of but three, where they make butter. Near¬ 
ly everyone ships milk and does not raise 
any or but few calves, and consequently 
they have a mixed herd, and do not set any 
extra value on a purebred animal, if general 
makeup is equal. i. a. p. 
Chester Co., Pa. 
There are no purebred bulls kept in this 
neighborhood to my knowledge. The farm¬ 
ers may believe purebred stock is better, 
but I believe that the drawback is in the 
supposed very high price. I know of no 
objection other than this. j. k. s. 
Lancaster Co., Pa. 
I believe it is not customary among the 
farmers here to keep them. In this sec¬ 
tion, which might be contained within a 
circle of seven or eight miles in diameter, 
I can think of but two farmers who make 
a practice of owning them. Others may oc¬ 
casionally have them, but. it is not their 
persistent policy. I believe that purebred 
animals are considered better, the only 
objection to them being the extra price and 
the proportionate risk in owning them. The 
farmers seem satisfied with the results 
they get from a careful selection of grade 
animals. n. k. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
In this section everyone is in favor of 
purebred stock. The dairy business is still 
in its infancy in this section, but is com¬ 
mencing to come to the front. We started 
a creamery here last October; since then 
about 15 separators have been put in and 
more to follow. w. J. r. 
Onrbondale. Col. 
The breed of dairy cattle in this section 
Is very ordinary. Only a few of us have 
purebred Jerseys for our own use. Near 
Wilmington, N. C., where they run dairy 
herds to some extent, they usually head the 
herd with a purebred bull. In this sec¬ 
tion there is no fence law, and the stock 
is turned out on the commons, rarely fed, 
and when full grown the stock seldom 
weighs over five or six hundred pounds. 
They sell for from $15 to $25 per head, 
where a Jersey brings from $50 to $100, but 
they seldom like to pay over $50 to $75. 
There is no objection to the purebred stock 
in this section. n. s. P. 
Watha, N. C. 
I do not know of a purebred bull in this 
vicinity and of but very few purebred cows. 
I think the reason is tHat farmers do not 
believe them worth the extra price over 
common stock. There arc about half a 
dozen farmers here who keep from 10 to 20 
cows, shipping their milk to Iluffalo. The 
remainder keep from two to six cows, mak¬ 
ing the milk into butter at home. Those 
shipping milk raise but few of their calves, 
preferring to buy as needed from neighbors. 
Alabama, N. Y. a. a. n. 
EYE DISEASE IN MARE. 
We have a mare that has sore eyes. She 
is fat, is well used and does not do much. 
She is quite old. We thought her blood 
was bad and treated her, but her eyes are 
the same. There is matter that comes out 
and sometimes she cannot open them. They 
are red inside, and when she cannot open 
them they nre swollen. Please tell me what 
to do for her. J. M. 
Massachusetts. 
Darken the stable and have the mare eat 
her hay from the floor level instead of 
an overhead rack. This will keep the dust 
from Irritating the eyes, and care also 
should be taken to keep the stable clean 
and well ventilated, to prevent noxious 
gases, which are a common cause of sore 
eyes. Bathe the eyes twice daily with a 
10 per cent solution of boracic acid, and 
every morning rub the eyelids thoroughly 
with a very little of a mixture of one part 
citrine ointment and two parts lanolin. 
Make the ointment weaker should it prove 
too strong. At times of most severe pain, 
when eyes are closed from swelling, keep 
them covered with a soft cloth to be kept 
saturated with a lotion composed of half 
a dram each of sulphate of zinc and fluid 
extract of belladonna leaves with 16 grains 
of morphine in a quart of cold water. Mare 
possibly lias periodic ophthalmia (moon 
blindness), which is incurable, and usually 
ends in blindness of one or both eyes. 
A. s. A. 
LAMINITIS. 
Last April I bought a mare eight years 
old. On the way home I noticed she was 
lame or footsore forward in both feet. It 
took me three days to get: home, and by that 
time she wns very lame, would lie down as 
soon ns the harness was off. Looking at her 
feet I noticed the shoes were not on straight, 
the end of the shoe being very close to the 
frog. I had the shoes fixed up, and for 
three weeks everything wns well. Then she 
began to favor the left forward foot again. 
I took the shoes off, put in the pasture with 
one quart of oats per day, and she is still 
lame. She has taken on more flesh and is 
in good order. There is no fever or tender¬ 
ness that I can find. Would you advise 
what to do to effect a cure? a. l. c. 
Michigan. 
We four that you have bought a per¬ 
manently unsound mare, and that chronic 
laminttls (founder) is the cause of the 
lameness, in that case you will find that 
she will flinch if with a hammer you lightly 
tap the sole just in front of the frog, and 
you may find the sole convex at that point, 
whereas it: ought to be concave. If the sole 
is much “dropped” there is no cure, but she 
may be able to work on the land if you 
have her shod with a wide-webbed, bar 
shoe, without calkins, put on over a dress¬ 
ing of tar and oakum and a thick leather 
sole. Have the shoes reset once a month. 
Clip the hair from the hoof-heads and blis¬ 
ter every two or three weeks with a mix¬ 
ture of one dram of binlodide of mercury in 
two ounces of cerate of cantharides until 
she is able to go sufficiently well. The blis¬ 
ters also stimulate growth of now hoof. It 
is quite possible, of course, that there may 
be some other catise of lameness, but found¬ 
er strikes us as most probably being present. 
a. s. A. 
FISTULOUS WITHERS. 
Will you give me some advice regarding 
a horse that: I have been caring for for sev¬ 
eral weeks past with thiselow or fistula of 
the shoulder? I had a veterinarian twice to 
open the abscess, but as lie lives at another 
place I could not afford to have him treat 
tlie animal; also he has the name of not 
being very successful with this complaint. It 
has suppurated for weeks. This veterinarian 
put in something when lie cut it to eat It 
out I think. I have washed it out with a 
fountain syringe hung up high. Sometimes 
used sulplio-napthol in the water, sometimes 
borax and other times tar soap. I have 
had proud flesh and pus to contend with, 
and at times it has been a very disagreeable 
task, but I have done it faithfully, hoping 
to save him. The place that runs the most 
is rather low on his shoulder, nnd I can 
run the rubber part of the syringe in (with¬ 
out the tube) eight inches. Is there any 
way to stop these pipes forming, nnd make 
it heal up? I have been using a guaranteed 
remedy, Balsam of Myrrh, but it hasn't 
helped the case. The horse is well at heart, 
and gets around quite spry, but it hurts his 
shoulder to graze around too long at a time. 
New York. M. w. 
When some rabbits have been drowned in 
a well and the water consequently has be¬ 
come contaminated there is just one sensi¬ 
ble way to treat the trouble, and fhat is 
to uncover the well, remove the water nnd 
the dead rabbits nnd then clean up the well. 
It is the same with fistula of the withers, 
nnd all the syringing possible won’t cure 
the trouble until the dead tissues have 
be. a removed. The flow of pus indicates 
the presence of such dead tissues, and ns 
there rarely is free drainage from such 
abscesses the pus burrows and makes the 
condition worse and worse. Under 'the 
circumstances it is necessary to clip away 
the hnir, wasli the parts with an antiseptic 
solution and then probe to determine the 
direction of each sinus (pipe) and at once 
split it wide open right down to its end, 
so as to do away with each pocket. At the 
same time the dead tissues should be cut 
away, and when all this has been done there 
will be a large common wound to deal with, 
and It will heal rapidly, provided no pipe 
runs down back of the shoulder blade. 
When the cutting has been done the wound 
should be swabbed with full strength tinc¬ 
ture of iodine once daily, nnd then packed 
with oakum saturated in a mixture of equal 
parts of turpentine and raw linseed oil, 
and as soon as the wound is doing nicely 
the enlargement should be blistered every 
10 days or so with cerate of cantharides. 
No matter what medicines are used after¬ 
ward, the operation, such as we have sug¬ 
gested, is imperative in all bad cases of 
fistula, and unless It is performed freely and 
well there will be little hope of recovery. 
At the outset of an abscess of the withers 
simple opening, draining away the pus and 
injection of caustic antiseptics may prove 
sufficient, but In the case you describe such 
simple treatment will no longer suffice. 
_ A. s. A. 
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