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THE RURAb NEW-YORKSR 
October 5, 
LIVE STOCK PICTURES. 
Some months ago I saw in The R. 
N.-Y. the picture of a prize-winning 
horse that did not show much but the 
head. I have been looking for some ex¬ 
planation about the picture, as was 
desired by the one who took it. So far 
I have seen none and am sending a 
snapshot I took of my little riding and 
driving mare. See illustration. 
As can easily be seen from looking 
at the picture, my position was about 
A GOOD HORSE PICTURE. 
straight from the middle of the horse’s 
side. This picture may serve as an 
answer to the question. I have recently 
been told by a professional photo¬ 
grapher that this is a very good picture. 
Delaware. Margaret w. conard. 
R. N.-Y.—We printed several criti¬ 
cisms of the former picture. This is 
an important matter, because there 
is more and more of a desire to buy 
and sell live stock by photographs, and 
a fair likeness is needed. 
Stocked Legs. 
I have a mare that came from the West 
in March. Iler hind legs swell from stand¬ 
ing over night. I have fed her stock food 
and condition powder with no results. Can 
you tell me what to do? c. B. A. 
New York. 
Do not feed stock feed or condition 
powder. Work her every day and provide 
a ! big box stall in the stable. Each time 
she comes in hand-rub her legs; then 
swathe them with cotton batting and 
bandage snugly. a. s. a. 
Dog With Itching Skin. 
I have a long-haired dog. Hast Sum¬ 
mer and this he scratches himself all sore. 
I give him a creso dip once a week and 
another flea soap wash, and he still keeps 
on scratching, ile eats well and feels well. 
Will you tell me what I could do for him, 
as he is a good watch dog? e. c. h. 
Long Island. 
Better clip the dog each Summer and 
do not use the wash so strong or so often. 
Keep bed free from fleas. Let the dog 
live an outdoor life and give one small 
meal each evening. Do not feed sweets or 
potatoes. a. s. a. 
Ashes and Charcoal for Pigs. 
In reply to inquiry of F. A. II., you 
recently stated that charcoal, ashes, slaked 
lime and salt should be given to hogs. 
Will you state in what quantities and how 
they should be given? I have tried a 
good many times to give my hogs water, 
and never could get them to drink it, but 
always slop well with feed, which perhaps 
may be the reason. c. l. s. 
Oneonta, N. Y. 
We keep wood ashes and charcoal mixed 
in boxes where the hogs may help them¬ 
selves at will. Small quantities of salt 
and sulphur may be mixed in also or fed 
separately. In some cases the wood ashes, 
salt and sulphur are mixed and charred 
corncobs fed separately. Let the hog help 
himself. In the South we have seen “lick 
balls” made of salt, sulphur and ashes 
mixed with just enough clay to hold them 
all together. These are put where the 
hogs and cattle may come and lick them. 
Most likely your hogs get liquid enough in 
the slop. 
Uneasy Calves. 
I have had several calves that start 
bleating and will eat nothing for about 
two days, and then they start eating feed 
and hay and drink water, but will not 
suckle the cow, and I can not make them 
nurse. They bleat day and night. I fatten 
calves for market. w. M. 
Milton, N Y. 
So far as the experience of the writer 
goes, the only causes for incessant bleat¬ 
ing upon the part of calves are hunger and 
loneliness. In your case I can only surmise 
that these calves were not getting enough 
milk to satisfy their hunger, and after 
starting to eat and drin c they considered 
themselves weaned and refused to again 
patronize the maternal founts. If fat 
enough for the market, such calves should 
be immediately disposed of, as they will 
rapidly lose their attractive plumpness 
upon an artificial diet. If not yet ready 
for the market, however, the fattening may 
be continued by feeding them from a 
bucket, on milk drawn by hand from their 
disowned dams, reinforced, if necessary, by 
contributions from other cows or by some 
one of the prepared calf meals. This extra 
labor will doubtless be compensated for 
by the pleasure jou will derive from back¬ 
ing these calves into a corner of the stable 
and addressing such remarks to them as 
seem appropriate, while you attempt to 
remain astride their necks, and hold a 
bucket of milk in one hand as they chew 
the fingers of the other. Your flow of 
language will be facilitated if you will oc¬ 
casionally defer this little chore until you 
are dressed for church. M. B. D. 
Indigestion. 
In the Spring of 1911 I bought a valu¬ 
able horse, nine years old, 16% hands 
high, weighs 1.250 pounds; is a free driver, 
the fastest walker I ever saw, but is never 
driven fast or overladen ; some days is not 
used at all, and others drives from four 
to 12 miles with small load. One day 
each week he is driven to market with a 
load of from 500 to 700 pounds; distance 
is seven miles each way and from three to 
five miles in city, all State road. He oc¬ 
casionally has sick spells, I call colic, 
usually after the market day, but not al¬ 
ways. The last was so much worse than 
ever before that I ask your advice. I feed 
oats and wheat bran, well cured hay fine 
and some Timothy, water before feeding, 
moisten grain, always has rock salt in 
manger, is well blanketed and has best 
of care. Is the proportion of grain right, 
equal parts of old oats and wheat bran? 
Is the quantity right, two quarts of each 
three times a day, moistened, a good feed 
of hay night and morning, not much at 
noon, ' or would it be better not to feed 
so much when standing in stable? What 
treatment should I use for sudden attacks? 
New York. m. s. v. 
Never let this horse stand a single day 
idle in the stable. When there is no work 
for him to do turn him out in yard and 
greatly reduce rations. You are feeding 
too much bran. One-fifth part of bran 
would be enough, by weight, along with 
the whole oats. Allow a few ears of corn 
at noon, as soon as weather becomes cold. 
Feed one pound each of grain mixture and 
hay per hundred pounds of live weight as 
a day’s ration. Increase grain mixture 
when there is much hard work for horse 
to do. At time of attack give one ounce 
each of turpentine and laudanum in a pint 
of raw linseed oil at one dose. Horses 
subject to attacks of colic finally die in 
one of them, and after death one is apt 
to find that the trouble was due to an 
'aneurism or to an intestinal stone (cal¬ 
culus) or some such cause. a. s. a. 
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