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THE; RURAl) NEW-YORKER 
May 11. 
Live Stock and Dairy 
THE BREEDING MARE. 
There are two kinds of horses which 
are in demand. They are the heavy 
horse weighing 1200 pounds or more, 
and the light road horse weighing from 
900 to 1200 pounds. We breed no mare 
which lias a heavy body and the legs of 
a road horse for heavy colts. We 
breed for good legs and feet. No mare 
should be bred whose legs (as some 
say) come out of one hole. As the 
heavy colt as a rule is put at work 
hauling heavy loads on hard dry pave¬ 
ments, the colts from st|ch a mare 
would prove worthless. We breed for 
a deep and broad shoulder. We never 
breed a mare with a flat or contracted 
foot. All these faults, instead of breed¬ 
ing out as some hope, will only prove 
hereditary. The horse with the best of 
feet is only too liable to get lame. In 
the other class (the road horse), we 
breed for speed and beauty. Here, as 
in the heavy horse, we never breed a 
mare with poor feet or a contracted 
chest. The colts from a light mare of 
poor build naturally find favor in no 
buyer’s eye. A great many colts are 
raised around here which are small, lazy 
and homely. The raising of such colts 
is a loss of valuable time and much 
money. 
We never let a suckling colt out of 
the stable to the mercy of the sun and 
flies. This only stunts the growth. We 
keep the colts in box stalls. The mare 
is with them at night, and is let in and 
fed at the noon hour, and fed when 
working. Of course the stalls must be 
cleaned out often. I have seen a mare 
and colt in a stall without a bit of bed¬ 
ding and manure hoof deep. The owner 
wondered why his colt didn't do well. 
We wean at the age of six months. 
Then the partition which has during 
this time been nailed up at one side, 
is shoved over to the middle and nailed 
to the rafters above and the floor be¬ 
low, shutting the mare and colt apart. 
The colt is given all the hay it will eat 
and about a pint of oats which we in¬ 
crease gradually to about a quart by 
Spring. We tie them up with chains, 
as they will chew up ropes about as 
fast as you can put them on. The 
mares and colts run in the barnyard 
every pleasant day in Winter. 
When it is about a month before the 
time for the mare to foal the partition 
is again nailed up at the siding and 
the mare given the whole stall. The 
colts are put by themselves. We keep 
no more mares than can be worked to 
an advantage on the farm. We lose 
about two weeks’ work on them after 
foaling. We then start them in mod¬ 
erately, taking care not to overheat 
them, as they are often very nervous. 
There are two ages at which we prefer 
to sell the colts. We make the most 
money by selling just after weaning. 
Others we sell when three years old 
and broken. wavne e. rector. 
Montgomery Co., N. Y. 
BEEF FROM SILAGE IN DELAWARE. 
I am cultivating over 300 acres of 
land. This land is what is called “black- 
gum swamp land,” and is adapted to 
the growing of corn, potatoes, rye and 
buckwheat. I grow mostly corn and 
rotate with rye or buckwheat. I have 
a considerable surplus of dry feed, 
mostly fodder, which I sell every year. 
T am thinking of buying cattle in the 
Fall and feeding them through the 
Winter and using the dry feed on the 
farm. I understand the cheapest way 
to feed cattle is with silage. I would 
like to have your and your readers’ 
or,inion as to the profit of feeding cat¬ 
tle during the Winter and what it costs 
to feed them with corn silage. I am 
thinking of buying two carloads of 
western oxen, which would be about 50 
head, weighing about <800 pounds each. 
How many acres of corn would it take 
to make silage enough to feed these 50 
oxen during the months of December, 
January, February and March? How 
large a silo would it take to hold silage : 
enough to feed these 50 oxen four 
months? What kind of corn should be 
planted for silage? Should the corn be 
planted in hills or drilled, and how far 
apart ? When should the corn be planted 
and when should it be cut and put in the 
silo? What will it cost to feed these 
50 oxen four months on corn silage? 
J will also have plenty of fodder and 
short corn or nubbins to feed with the 
silage if that is necessary. What make 
or kind of silo would you prefer? 
Delaware. w. r. m’c. 
R. N.-Y.—This question cannot well 
be answered by any single opinion. We 
want a full discussion. Here is a 
large problem. In theory the Middle 
South with its ability to grow large 
crops of fodder and its mild climate 
ought to be a fine beef-producing sec¬ 
tion. In theory, too, silage properly 
fed, ought to be cheap and good feed 
for beef cattle. Yet we do not under¬ 
stand that either theory has been 
worked into successful practice. Why 
not? We would like to hear from ex¬ 
perienced feeders. 
The Cattle Grub. 
Some of my cows have lumps on the back 
the size of a half walnut. Would you let 
me know the cause of this and also what 1 
can do for the lumps. c. G. 
Highland, N. Y. 
We have had at least 25 questions like 
the above during the past month. No 
doubt many of our readers are handling 
their first cows. All farmers who have kept 
cattle recognize the lumps on the cow’s 
back as “cattle grubs,” warbles, Oestrus 
bovis. We have taken over a dozen from 
our own cow by squeezing them out. The 
life history of the insect is somewhat in 
dispute. Many farmers claim the egg is 
laid by a fly directly upon or into the hide. 
The entomologists say the eggs are laid on 
the hair along the flanks or lower part of 
the legs. The cattle lick them off. The 
eggs hatch in the back of the throat, work 
through and pass along the spine and settle 
finally under the hide on the back where 
they develop and grow. Whenever we have 
mentioned this insect there has been a long 
argument over this supposed life history. 
At any rate the “grubs” grow under the 
hide on the back and form the “lumps.” 
They do considerable damage by puncturing 
the hide and greatly annoy the stock. We 
squeeze them out through the little hole 
which they make, and kill them. We have 
known farmers to squirt kerosene oil 
through the hide, but squeezing out suits 
us better. 
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It is more important than a certificate of registry. You can’t tell by the appearance of 
the herd. They may be the very picture of health and yet the tubercle germ may be 
present doing its deadly work. In a few months the State may order them 
killed, entailing great loss to you. Have the test made now. You can easily 
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“The Reliable Test** 
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Tells how to prevent spread of the 
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Blackleg and Anthrax Vaccines, Hog 
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Don’t BuyTuDercular Cattle 
Demand a Veterinarian's Certificate 
A DIP THAT DOES THE WORK 
WITHOUT INJURY 
TO THE ANIMAL OR FLEECE 
NO BURNING OF THE FIBRES: 
NO STAINING: NO POISONING; 
NO SICKENING. 
WHY USE DIPS THAT HAVE THESE DESTRUCTIVE 
AND DANGEROUS QUALITIES? WHY EXPERIMENT 
WITH UNKNOWN PREPARATIONS? 
INEXPENSIVE, EASY TO USE 
PERMITTED BY THE U.S DEPARTMENT OF 
AGRICULTURE FOR THE OFFICIAL DIPPING 
OF SHEEP FOR SCAB 
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS 
WE HAVE BOOKLETS GIVING TULL DIRECTIONS 
FOR USE ALSO MANY VALUABLE HINTS ON 
HANDLING SHEEP. WRITE FOR FREE COPIES. 
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Don’t Cut Out HOCKor 
/IBSORBINE 
will remove them aid leave no 
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Veins, Varicosities. Allays Pain. 
Price 81 and 82 a bottle at druggists or delivered. 
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Stock Clean 
And clean stock is the only kind 
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Dip and Disinfectant is a deadly 
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meets the government requirements as 
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Here’s the sure J 
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SX \yn ur horse of spavin or/ 
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