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THE) RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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RATION FOR FRESH COW. 
Would the following be a good balanced 
ration for cow fresh in milk : four pounds 
wheat bran, two pounds gluten; two pounds 
cornmeal, or would you substitute one pound 
linseed meal for one pound of cornmeal? 
I have no silage, just good mixed hay, some 
clover. I am feeding now four pounds 
wheat bran and three pounds cornmeal. 
Cows are not giving a very big flow of milk. 
IIow long should I be in changing to a full 
balanced ration? a. q. a. 
New York. 
The ration you are feeding is not well 
balanced, consequently you are wasting 
feed. Wheat bran, cornmeal and hay 
are all right for a maintenance ration, 
and for putting on flesh, but they do not 
contain protein enough for the profit¬ 
able production of milk. The ration you 
propose to feed, 20 pounds mixed hay 
with clover, two pounds gluten feed, 
four pounds wheat bran, one pound 
cornmeal and one pound linseed meal 
O. P. is a great improvement, and makes 
a well-balanced ration with a nutritive 
ratio of 1 :5.5. The only thing this ra¬ 
tion lacks is some succulent feed like 
silage, roots or green feed of some kind, 
but this is partly made up by the linseed 
meal, which is a very important part 
of the ration. You should be from one 
to two weeks making the change of 
feed. Do not change more than one- 
half pound a day and see what effect 
that has on the cows before another 
change is made. c. s. greene. 
TRAINING A COLT. 
I notice the article on training the colt 
in a recent number. I am interested in 
that line and have trained several colts. 
In the first lesson teach the colt when turn¬ 
ing corners or reining out on roads to turn 
body with the head. How often have you 
driven horses when one of the two if not 
both would turn the head (when being 
reined) almost to his or her side before 
moving the body, then perhaps it would re¬ 
quire the whip before they would move 
body. In my experience I have found 
firmness and kindness the only right way 
to train the colt. Use the whip when 
necessary. If your colt is frightened at 
some object and refuses to go near it when 
you wish, use kindness and common sense. 
It is bad enough for both colt and your¬ 
self to have it afraid of anv object but 
when he is afraid of you also by your rash¬ 
ness and foolishness and will only obey, 
through fear of you, you break your colt 
but you have not trained it; you break the 
spirit and gentleness it had, and it fears 
and dislikes you. Some time ago I over¬ 
took a team stuck in snow drift with load 
of logs. The driver was a man considered 
to be a good teamster by many. He was 
whipping and slashing, filling the air full 
of curses. And what good did it do? That 
team would not pull. Being well ac¬ 
quainted with both horses and driver, I 
asked permission to take the lines, but re¬ 
fused the whip when offered to me. First 
I went to their heads, patted them, talked 
to them, got the mane from under the 
collars, then picked up the lines and after 
a few attempts the horses got in their 
collars and pulled every pound there was 
in them. Did they pull the load? No, 
they could not, but by kindness they did 
their best. By the whip they would not 
try and they knew they could not puli the 
load, but because I treated them as a 
friend they were willing to please me by 
doing their best. Don't think the horse a 
thing without feelings, without intelligence, 
for if you do you make a mistake. In 
training the colt be firm, kind and patient; 
leave off the over-check; see your harness 
fits well; reward your colt with a lump of 
sugar or an apple. Two years old is young 
enough for his first lesson. Let his work 
be light at even three years, and if you 
want the horse’s friendship, be a friend to 
llim - SCOTT P. GIBSON. 
Osceola Co., Mich. 
ARSENIC FOR HORSES. 
I bought a team of horses, 12 years old, 
and paid $350 for them. They were nice 
and fleshy. I have had them about four 
weeks, and the last two weeks they came 
down in flesh considerably, and I am 
afraid if I do not do something for them 
they will probably die. Last week the man 
who worked for the man I bought the team 
from told me that his boss had been in the 
habit of giving his horses (the ones I have 
now), arsenic for the last four years, and 
he told me that if I did not feed it to them 
I would probably lose them ; he said he did 
not know how much he used to give them. 
1 would like you to help me out if possible. 
( ould you probably tell me how much to 
frod them (arsenic), and also how I must 
'ake care of them; just how I should go 
about it, as I would not like to lose so much 
if I could possibly help it. I generally feed 
my horses cut feed, that is, cut hay, damp¬ 
ened, and four quarts of feed mixed with 
the hay, three times a day. Do you think 
you can give me any advice on this matter? 
Woodstock, N. Y. p. i. m. 
Horses that have been plumped up on 
arsenic “go all to pieces" when it is sud¬ 
denly withheld. Give each horse half an 
ounce of Fowler’s solution of arsenic night 
and moruing until they are in good shape; 
then very gradually diminish the! doses 
daily until in 10 days or two weeks they 
are doing without. Feed long hay night 
and morning; no hay at noon; and as grain 
ration feed four quarts of whole oats and a 
pint of bran three times daily. Allow free 
access to rock salt. Work or exercise the 
horses daily. Increase the oats but not 
the bran if needed to keep the horses up. 
The feeding of arsenic in any form is very 
poor policy. Only the sick horses should 
have medicine of any kind. a. s. a. 
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A continuous solid wall was made by using 
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solid. The outside, which is above the level 
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to nearly the top of the walls. On top of 
walls is placed a two by four plate frame 
on which the sash rests. The beauty of a 
concrete hotbed is there are never any de¬ 
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