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<TME HURAIi NEW-YORKER 
August 17, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
THE HOTHOUSE LAMB. 
The production of Winter Iambs has 
for many years been a profitable busi¬ 
ness in New York, Ohio, Maryland and 
some other parts of the East. Bulletin 
309 of Cornell Experiment Station, 
Ithaca, N. Y., tells how the work is 
done there. 
The flock comprises several breeds, 
both purebreds and grades. Usually 
three purebred rams, Hampshire, South- 
TABLE FOR DRESSING LAMBS. Fig. 376. 
down and Dorset, run with the flock, 
while at pasture. No special method of 
getting the ewes to breed early has 
been followed, the only precautions 
being to see that the rams were young 
and active and the ewes in good condi¬ 
tion when turned to pasture. When the 
pasture gets scarce other green food, 
such as rape, cabbage, beet tops, etc., 
is given, the object being to make good 
dairy sheep of them, as the lamb must 
have plenty of milk to get the necessary 
growth. In Fall the rams are pastured 
by themselves until the next season, and 
the ewes, until lambing, fed on good 
clover hay, no grain being given at this 
time except to any out of condition. 
From 10 to 15 ewes are kept in a pen, 
which is clean, well ventilated and pro¬ 
tected so that the temperature seldom 
goes below 40 degrees. Water is al¬ 
ways at hand and salt is supplied regu¬ 
larly. After the lambs are born the 
THE FINISHED PRODUCT. Fig. 376. 
ewes and lambs are removed to pens 
10x15 feet, each pen containing about 
10 ewes with their lambs, and grain is 
fed. The mixture is 60 per cent, wheat 
bran, 30 of corn meal and 10 of old- 
process oil meal. They are fed lightly 
at first, gradually increasing to two or 
three pounds per ewe per day. The 
roughage is clover hay, and when pos¬ 
sible, sliced turnips or mangels, about 
two pounds each, are given. When 
there are no roots the same weight of 
silage has been fed with good results. 
Great care is taken to avoid scouring 
or any digestive troubles and to keep the 
ewe to the highest point of milk pro¬ 
duction. 
To top the market the hothouse lamb 
must be fat, and, as he grows, should 
have some grain in addition to his 
mother's milk. A creep is provided 
where they have a little trough of their 
own and one or both of the following 
grain mixtures: Fifty pounds each of 
corn meal and wheat middlings and five 
pounds of oil meal; or 25 pounds wheat 
bran, wheat middlings and hominy chop, 
and eight pounds of oil meal. A little 
sugar is sprinkled over the grain when 
put in the trough, and they soon learn 
to like it. This grain is kept before 
them, but the trough cleaned out if it 
becomes fouled. If the lambs grow 
properly they should be ready for 
slaughter in 70 to 75 days from birth, 
weighing from 45 to 48 pounds alive. 
In dressing, great care and cleanliness 
are necessary. The lambs are hog- 
dressed, that is most of the pelt is left 
on, the head and feet are cut off and 
the stomach, spleen, intestines, bladder 
and gall sac are removed. Fasten the 
hind legs together and hang up the lamb. 
Insert the knife close to the backbone 
near angle of the jaw, at the same time 
dislocating the neck. This will stun the 
lamb and prevent spattering the blood. 
With the first stroke of knife cut com¬ 
pletely through under part of neck; 
then sever head completely. After 
bleeding, place the lamb on its back 
on a suitable table, Fig. 375; cut 
through the skin from breast to back 
of udder, to angle of hind leg and 
loosen the skin. Remove the triangu¬ 
lar piece of skin free from wool in 
angle of hind leg. Remove skin around 
rectum on under side of tail for a little 
distance down the tail and on inside of 
hind legs, leaving attached to rectum. 
Then pull rectum straight out. Remove 
a narrow strip from gambrel to pastern, 
cut off hind legs at ankle joint and 
loosen the gambrels. Cut off front legs 
at knee joint nearest the foot, leaving a 
little flap of skin on front of legs to 
fold back over knee joint. Hang up 
the lamb and make an incision from 
in front of udder to breast bone. Re¬ 
move the caul as intestines come out. 
Keep the caul clean to use as covering 
for exposed parts of the carcass when 
dressing is finished and backsets have 
been adjusted. Leave the liver in. Split 
down the breastbone and make an in¬ 
cision into the chest to cool it out. The 
backsets are hard wood inch, 12 
to 15 inches long and each end sharp¬ 
ened to a fine point with shoulder. The 
sharp point of one end is inserted in 
the loose skin near the breastbone, car¬ 
ried back of the body and inserted in 
the turned back flank of the other side. 
The second backset is then put in in the 
same way, crossing the first. The caul 
is then spread over the exposed parts, 
fastened to points of the backsets and 
in the crotch of hind legs. The carcass 
is hung up until thoroughly cooled; 
then wrapped in muslin, Fig. 376, and 
finally in burlap. The records of many 
years show that the best average price 
was for those sold before March 4. 
Precocious Milking. 
1. I have a registered Jersey heifer 15 
months old duo to he fresh October 14, and 
I find in the last few days that a calf which 
was in the pasture with her has been suck¬ 
ing her. I separated them but her udder 
was so hard I had her milked and she 
gives over a quart of milk, twice a day. 
I do not wish to be troubled with her, as-' 
her teats are so small it takes so long to 
milk her. Please advise what to do. 2. I 
also have a mule which has a wart on the 
inside of hind leg near stifie joint. It has 
been on her over a year. It was larger 
than a hen egg and I had it cut out last 
Fall which just seemed to start it growing, 
and a few weeks ago, being as large as a 
man’s two fists, it was pulled out, but does 
not seem to be cured. I have tried blue- 
stone and several other things but nothing 
seems to do any good. Can you help me? 
T. W. 
1. It is a great pity that the calf was 
allowed to suck, for it is about certain that 
the heifer will suffer from garget when she 
freshens. Where calves suck one another : 
garget is a common consequence, therefore ! 
we always advise strongly against allowing 
calves to practice that bad habit. Milk 1 
out a little of the milk twice daily and 
then rub udder thoroughly with a mixture 
of equal parts of fluid extract of belladonna 
leaves, and camphorated oil to stop milk 
secretion. 2. Saturate the wart with gla¬ 
cial acetic acid, drop by drop, once daily. 
If this does not suffice have it cut out again 
and the base well cauterized. a. s. a. 
Shipping Live Stock. 
On page 817 I note what you say con¬ 
cerning express companies and direct 
routes and in regard to shipping in a 
roundabout way so as to make the great¬ 
est charge. In shipping Berkshire hogs for 
breeding stock we run up against that very 
thing every day. An instance; in shipping 
four hogs to Vicksburg. Pa., which is on 
the Adams Express, while we are on the 
U. S. Erpress, our shipments go to Scran¬ 
ton, some 30 miles, north, and then chased 
around the country as far as they can 
chase them, that the United States Ex¬ 
press can carry it to the nearest point on 
their company and then transfer. Now 
Vicksburg, Pa., is directly south from here. 
Direct to Northumberland it is 42.7 miles, 
and from Northumberland to Vicksburg it 
is about 25 miles, making by direct route 
67.7 miles. But 1 dare say that packages, 
etc., from here cover a distance of 125 to 
150 miles. Further, I note what you say 
concerning the amount the express compan¬ 
ies pay to the railroads. Personally 1 know 
that the express companies pay to the sta¬ 
tion agents 10 per cent of at least all that 
they ship out. Keep it up. Let us hear 
from more. kiChaud l. faux, Mgr. 
Pennsylvania. 
Stiffness in Mare. 
I have a mare about 10 years old, 
bought this Spring in Baltimore, where she 
had been used for driving; had been over¬ 
driven, judging by condition of legs and 
feet. She is high spirited and not been 
used at slow work, but is working well. 
She caught a slight cold in shipping, and 
since that is inclined to trouble with her 
breathing, at times with slight watery dis¬ 
charge from nostrils. I used her last week 
working corn and at the end of the day’s 
work turned her to pasture for an hour. 
She was evidently feeling well, as she 
trotted about, rolled, and then went to 
eating. Next morning she was stiff and 
sore, with slight colicky pains, and has 
been growing worse. She seems to be weak 
in her legs, particularly in front, and lies 
down much of the time. On rising she 
stands bunched with front and hind feet 
well under her ; in a few minutes straight¬ 
ens up and stands in normal position, shift¬ 
ing weight from foot to foot. On moving 
her about she improves slightly. The legs 
are not actually stiff, since she raises feet 
normally when chasing flies. This is the 
third attack of similar character. I have 
given oil and aloes, but little else in the 
way of treatment, as I can find no local 
sore spot or swelling as is usually the case 
where the kidneys are affected or where 
there is rheumatism. 1 have been obliged 
to feed corn as grain with grass and wheat 
straw as roughage. What is the trouble? 
Virginia. j. f. e. 
Mare seems to be affected with chronic 
laminitis, which may be of rheumatic origin. 
Give her a roomy box stall and dissolve 
half an ounce of salicylate of soda in her 
drinking water three times a day at time 
of- attack. Do not turn her on grass after 
working hard. Feed oats and bran in pref¬ 
erence to corn in Summer. a. s. a. 
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