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THE RURAI* NEW-YORKER 
February 10, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
New Hampshire Ayrshires. 
The group of purebred Ayrshires 
shown at Fig. 48 consists of Yensie’s 
Best 15138, and her three daughters, 
aged one, two and three years. One of 
these daughters and a granddaughter 
are in the advanced registry for special 
merit at the milk pail. S. E. Roberts, 
the owner, says that, beginning with a 
cow and calf six years ago, he now has 
nine registered animals. 
The Sheep or the Cow. 
Which will pay better, sheep or cows, on 
an investment equal to that required to 
start a good 12-cow dairy? 
Replying to your question as to the 
relative profits to be gained from sheep 
and an equal investment in cows, will 
say that very much depends upon mar¬ 
kets, location and equipment of farm, as 
well as upon the individuality of the 
animals to be compared. Sheep may 
easily be more profitable through a 
series of years—not at prices of the 
past year—under certain conditions, 
while cows would be more profitable 
under others. 
Sheep are for the man who has land 
best adapted to grazing, either from its 
contour, distance from market, state of 
fertility or lack of man equipment. You 
can let a farm go to grass, stock it with 
sheep and with very little labor secure 
a fair return, how much per acre can¬ 
not be accurately stated. Pasture land 
will support two to five sheep per acre 
for seven months. I know of a 30- 
acre field that has each season for sev¬ 
eral years supported 90 ewes and their 
lambs up to weaning time, and the ewes 
alone for the balance of the season. The 
ewes’ fleeces will just about pay for 
their Winter feed and the cost of shear¬ 
ing. The manure should offset the 
labor of Winter care, except at yean¬ 
ing time. Twenty per cent, of the lambs 
should be reserved to maintain the flock. 
Supposing the shepherding was good 
enough to secure 100 per cent, of lambs, 
which is above the average, and esti¬ 
mating the lambs at $2.50 each, you 
have as near the basis for estimating 
income from land through sheep as can 
be given. The income can be increased 
by producing higher priced lambs. Such 
are lambs ready for slaughter at three 
to five months of age. The younger a 
lamb is marketed, and the earlier in the 
calendar year, the higher the price it 
will bring. The hot-house or Winter 
lamb is a high priced product and yields 
profits, under good management, com¬ 
parable to that from other types of high 
tension farming. It is quite possible to 
produce two to three lambs of this class 
to the acre, giving a gross income of 
$15 to $25 per acre. The proportion of 
this that would be profit would depend 
upon the amount of skill and labor ex¬ 
pended by the owner. The sheep hence¬ 
forth must be thought of primarily as a 
meat-producing animal and handled with 
the view of providing mutton. With the 
advancing price of meats that are in¬ 
evitable, unless admitted free from 
South America, sheep may be made as 
profitable as any other meat producing 
animal, or, not making comparisons, it 
is safe to say that sheep farming under 
suitable conditions will yield fair re¬ 
turns for land and labor devoted to it. 
Ohio. M. A. BLAKE. 
Sweeny. 
Last Spring I bought a four-year-old 
colt, about the middle of April 1 noticed he 
was getting sweenied. I stopped working 
him and let him run on pasture all Sum¬ 
mer and in the barnyard. I used 3% pints 
of liniment on his shoulder after a good 
bathing of hot water. lie never took a 
lame step with either front leg : his shoul¬ 
ders shrunk away, but I kept the hot water 
and liniment on ’him morning, noon and 
night. The skin on both shoulders never 
stuck to the flesh or bone, the skin is 
just as loose and pliable as it ever was. His 
front legs and feet sprawled badly then, 
but now he does not sprawl very much, 
lie is not lame. His shoulder has not all 
filled out in flesh yet. Will that ever all fill 
out on the shoulder like it was at first? 
I have driven him some since it happened, 
but he has done no work, would he go lame 
now if I was to work him some? What 
kind of medicine or liniment does he need 
now? Would you work him before next 
Spring or not? s. A. B. 
New Jersey. 
Put the colt to light, regular work in 
harness, but do not use him for plowing. 
Do not apply any medicine, but continue 
to hand ruh the wasted parts briskly three 
times a day. Never use hot water before 
applying a sweeny liniment; fortunately 
the liniment was very weak, else it would 
have taken the hair off “slick and clean.” 
A suitable liniment for use in sweeny is 
made by mixing together equal parts of tur¬ 
pentine and aqua ammonia and three parts 
of raw linseed oil. Rub in once daily 
until skin becomes irritated, then stop for 
awhile, but repeat later when state of 
skin will allow. In bad. chronic cases of 
sweeny equal parts of turpentine and raw 
linseed oil may be used as a liniment. 
A. s. A. 
Rickets. 
My pigs came the last of March, were 
very thrifty and grew well for about three 
months ; then the mother got lame and one 
after another until it went through the 
whole drove. The mother and one pig got 
entirely over it, but the remaining five 
pigs did not, but grew worse. There is a 
growth or lump on the knee joints, both 
front and hind legs, and the joint is anchy- 
losed. It is evidently painful when in 
use, for they refuse to move only as they 
must, and if made to get up will squeal. 
All the organs inside are perfectly healthy 
in appearance. We killed one to see. If 
these pigs fatten are they fit for food? Is 
there any remedy? a. m. m. 
Pennsylvania. 
Rheumatism sometimes is the cause, but 
more often rickets, from malnutrition is 
present. Affected pigs may be slaughtered 
for meat as soon as lameness starts, but 
are unfit for such purpose when run down 
from pain and feverish condition. Blister 
the joints with cerate of cantharides. Let 
the pigs run out as much as possible. Feed 
light rations without much corn and add 
limewater to the slop once daily at rate of 
one ounce to the quart. a. s. a. 
Ergotism. 
I have a cow which had a bunch come 
on one hind leg just above the hoof similar 
to a ringbone on a horse, on the inside. 
She is very lame, can scarcely step on it, 
only does when she cannot avoid it. She 
has been so for three months. I have blis¬ 
tered it. but it does no good. I have an¬ 
other cow that has trouble with her tail; 
the brush has come off and the whole tail 
seems scabby and sore in places. What is 
the cause and can you give me remedies? 
New York. T. A. a. 
We suspect that both cows have ergotism 
from eating ergot present in rye or hay. 
This fungus (claviceps purpurea) commonly 
is found in late-cut June grass or in Tim¬ 
othy, or wild grasses such as couch, wild 
rye, etc. Sometimes it is found in rye 
straw and chaff. The trouble mostly comes 
from eating affected hay. Make a close 
examination for such a cause and remove it 
at once. Keep affected cattle indoors and 
they may recover if fed sound feed. Apply 
sulphur ointment freely to the tail and Gou¬ 
lard’s extract and water, equal parts, to 
ankle. a. s. a. 
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