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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 2 
Live Stock and Dairy 
COVERED BARNYARDS OR STRAW SHEDS 
The advantages of a covered barn¬ 
yard or straw shed are claimed to be 
many indeed and there are many advo¬ 
cates of these structures. These sheds, 
as is generally well known, are built 
onto the main barn, and they are dif¬ 
ferent designs, but the ones common in 
this section have long racks through 
them and out from these racks up about 
eight feet is a tight floor. At thrash¬ 
ing time the straw is blown into this 
rack and over the large mow; then 
during the Winter the stock are let 
into the shed for a few hours a part 
of the day, and eat of this straw, and 
are fed rough feed therein. Many have 
hogs running in the shed after the cows. 
The hogs keep this manure and straw 
well worked over and find undigested 
food in the manure, and are said to do 
quite well on the process. But after 
all, the desirability of a covered barn¬ 
yard should not be thought of too 
seriously. Even by the most economical 
means, since lumber is so high in price, 
it costs considerable to build anything 
like a fair-sized straw shed, and the 
upkeep of same should not be lost 
sight of. 
We have no covered barnyard and 
feel that in our operations we do not 
lose manure. All our stock is stabled 
beginning with the first cool nights of 
Fall, and are kept up until late Spring. 
The sheep and cattle are left out a few 
hours each day, depending on the 
weather, for wa^r. The young stock 
and sheep are tulied loose in the stables 
and the enclosures are cleaned several 
times each year. The cow and horse 
stables are cleaned regularly and the 
manure is drawn direct to the fields. 
If possible the manure is put into the 
wheat or ground expected to be put 
into corn in the Spring. The wheat and 
oat straw is baled and placed in the 
barn, and is used to bed the stock 
throughout the year. Sometimes the 
straw is blown into a large mow and 
used out in this way. 
We have four dwellings and necessary 
outbuildings to keep in repair and under 
roof. If we had a large straw shed on 
the list we would need to be replacing 
new roofs at a great expense every 
year. We are trying to have as much 
under one roof as possible, and feel 
with our operations it is not so essen¬ 
tial. Those not keeping any great num¬ 
ber of cattle will not need the covered 
barn so badly, but those who cannot 
arrange stable room for all live stock 
might to good advantage build a straw 
shed. We do not envy the farmer who 
has a covered barnyard, since all our 
stock can be put into stable, and we 
have less roofs to replace. In the 
event the fields and lanes are too soft 
to permit driving over them manure is 
allowed to accumulate in the stables, but 
is piled in the alley back of the horses 
and cows until conditions are again 
favorable for hauling. A straw shed 
is not so essential to success if suffi¬ 
cient stable room can be procured 
otherwise, and we insist that the young 
farmer bale the straw if possible, stable 
all stock and haul manure direct to the 
field. I. G. 
Miami Co., Ohio. 
DOGS AND SHEEP. 
Your present correspondent has writ¬ 
ten on previous occasions in condemna¬ 
tion of the practice of keeping dogs, 
especially by farmers, for the reason 
that such practice makes it unprofitable 
to keep sheep. If it were not for the 
dog habit there can be no doubt that 
mutton could and would be produced to 
sell at much less than now, and with 
rofit to the farmer. No animal now 
ept on the farm returns any larger 
profits than sheep if it were not for the 
likelihood of losing the flock or the best 
portion of it by the attacks of dogs. It 
has been claimed that if it were not for 
dogs wool would be cheaper than cotton, 
and many poor who now have to go ill 
clad could wear wool. This may or 
may not be strictly true, but there is no 
question that but for dogs wool would 
be very much cheaper. Now comes the 
secretary of the Kansas State Board of 
Agriculture and says: “Thirty years 
ago we had 806,000 sheep and 129,000 
dogs. In 1910 we had 175,000 sheep and 
199,000 dogs. The one detriment to 
profitable sheep husbandry in Kansas is 
the dog.” The decrease in sheep is 78 
per cent, and the increase in dogs is 54 
per cent.! 
In view of the above statements the 
spirit moves me to protest again at the 
dog habit, and especially against farm¬ 
ers advocating, advising and encourag¬ 
ing the keeping of dogs. I regret to ob¬ 
serve that farmers write to The R. 
N.-Y. praising this or that breed of dogs, 
so I feel I must raise my feeble voice, 
and possibly one farmer may be influ¬ 
enced not to get a dog which he had in¬ 
tended to do. City dwellers may be ex¬ 
cused, as they might be expected not to 
realize the damage dogs are in the flock, 
but farmers of all classes ought not so 
to reduce their own possible gains. 
Rochester, N. Y. w. l. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Obstructed Teats. 
I have a four-year-old cow that has a 
large bunch iu each of her front teats, 
stopping the milk from coming down. Can 
the teat be opened on the side and bunch 
removed ? She has been giving bloody milk. 
I also have a heifer that has a small teat 
on the side of her large one; can it be 
removed ? j. s. 
In both instances a skilled veterinarian 
could remove the obstructions, but the 
greatest possible care will have to be taken, 
else infection will lead to a spoiled udder. 
The owner or any layman should not at¬ 
tempt to operate. a. s. a. 
Chronic Catarrh. 
Your veterinary recently said that 
chronic catarrh in a horse could be cured. 
Will he give the treatment, the simplest 
and easiest? w. h. w. 
Delaware. 
If it is proved that the nasal discharge 
is not due to glanders, a diseased molar 
tooth or collection of pus in one of the 
sinuses of the head, it may be cured in 
time by giving the horse tonics in his feed 
and by syringing out the nostril once dailv 
with a lukewarm solution of one dram of 
either tannic or gallic acid in a pint of 
water. The internal treatment should con¬ 
sist of a dram of dried sulphate of iron 
mixed in the feed night and hiornin 6 for 
10 days; then change to a like dose of 
sulphate of copper, and at the end of 10 
days to a similar dose of iodide of potash, 
continued for a like period of time. Al¬ 
ternate these treatments until discharge 
ceases. a. a. a. 
Premature Birth, 
I have a Jersey heifer which was due 
to calve at 23 months old, a well grown 
animal, but which has just had a calf, 
seven weeks before its time, which is so 
weak and feeble it will die. The mother's 
udder has not developed well, and she 
gives very little milk two days after birth 
of calf. Is it likely she can be made to 
milk well with this calf? How is she 
likely to turn out eventually? h. c. w. 
The milk flow may gradually increase in 
quantity if you feed the heifer generously 
and if she is free from disease. Milk her 
three times a day and massage the udder 
very thoroughly at each milking time. It 
would be best not to breed her sooner than 
six months from date of birth of her calf. 
Meanwhile let her run out as much as 
possible daily to gain strength and hardy 
constitution. a. s. a. 
Tail Rubbing. 
I have a gelding colt, three years old, 
not broke. When I turn him out to pas¬ 
ture he backs up to the fence and rubs his 
rump on the tvire or post, anything he can 
get to. The colt stands in the stable 
and rubs his rump all the time. I don't 
seem to find any lice at all. He has only 
been this way about three weeks; he has 
rubbed all the hair off his tail. I keep his 
stable clean, give him three quarts of oats 
twice a day and nice Timothy hay to eat. 
What would you advise me to do for the l 
colt? c. s. F. 
New York. 
Scrub the tail clean with soap and hot 
water and when dry pour on and rub Id 
a mixture of one part of kerosene and two 
parts of machine oil. Repeat the treat¬ 
ment in a week. On other days rub in a 
mixture of four ounces of sulphur, half an 
ounces of coal tar dip in sweet oil to make 
one pint. As pin worms in the rectum 
may be causing the irritation inject into the 
rectum every other night for a week a gal¬ 
lon of soap warm water containing a cupful 
of tobacco tea made by steeping tobacco 
stems or leaves in boiling water, a. s. a. 
Weak Horse. 
I have a mare that is about 12 years old ; 
a good dx-iver and a good worker. I notice 
that when I work her she pants very much 
and when I drive her she trots away and 
then walks where she always trotted well 
before. A doctor told me that her heart 
was weak. What do you think of it? 
New Jersey. l. t. 
The mare has been overheated at work 
in hot weather and the heart may well bo 
affected. She may improve if properly 
treated, but it is unlikely that she will ever 
be able to work normally in hot weather. 
Clip the hair from the belly to a line with 
the place where straps of breeching and 
breast collar would come and from legs 
above hocks and knees. Do not feed any 
bulky feed at noon on days when she has 
to work hard. Wet all feed. In Summer 
let her eat grass in place of hay and in 
Winter feed bright oat straw and allow 
some corn fodder. It seems possible that 
she may have heaves, as a complication. If 
so there will be a double bellows-like action 
of the abdominal muscles in breathing and 
she will cough and pass gas. If this is so 
give her half an ounce of Fowler’s solution 
of arsenic night and morning until greatly 
improved, then discontinue the medicine 
gradually. a. s. a. 
Periodic Ophthalmia. 
I have a four-year-old gelding that is 
having trouble with his left eye. He has 
a cold in the head and discharge from the 
nostrils and the left eye will get sore, the 
lids swell and tears run, and there is also 
matter in the eye. The eye side of the 
face below is inflamed. A film covers the 
eyeball. The pupil of the eye remains nor¬ 
mal, is not contracted ; we can see the nupil 
through the film. He has had a number of 
attacks this Fall about four weeks apart 
He will begin snorting (blowing his nose) 
the eye will swell up. I use an eye lotion and 
pretty soon the nose will begin to run and 
the eye will swell. I use an eye lotion and 
give him some medicine I got of our veter¬ 
inarian and the eye will clear up and the 
discharge generally cease till he has an¬ 
other attack. We have four horses, two 
four-year-olds, one middle-aged and one two 
year-old colt; they will have the cold with 
discharging nostrils and will snort the same 
as this one, and at the same time, but their 
eyes are not affected. w. 
Pennsylvania. 
The disease is periodic ophthalmia (moon 
blindness) and it is incurable and will re¬ 
sult in blindness of one or both eyes. As 
the other horses have discharge from nos¬ 
trils, as well as the one affected with eye 
disease, it would be well to have an exam¬ 
ination made by a graduate veterinarian for 
fear glanders is present. a. s. a. 
Indigestion. 
I have a mare 11 years old that I use 
only for driving; she is driven on an aver¬ 
age about 75 miles a week. She is quite 
thin in flesh and seems to be all run 
down ; does not have the life and ambition 
she ought to have. 1 am feeding her when 
driving 12 quarts oats, and when she stands 
in the barn, nine quarts a day, and plenty 
of good Timothy hay. She is very hearty, 
will eat her bedding and all she can get; 
scours a good deal when driving. Please 
advise me what to do for her. j. c. R. 
Vermont. 
Have her teeth attended to by a veter¬ 
inarian, and if the coat is long and rough 
clip it from belly and to where straps of 
breast collar and breeching would come, 
and from legs above knees and hocks. Bed 
with planing mill shavings or sawdust, to 
prevent her from eating bedding. Allow 
free access to rock salt. Give the drink¬ 
ing water before feeding and never let her 
stand a single day idle in the stable. Cut 
the grain ration in half and add one-sixth 
part wheat bran. Dampen the feed. Feed 
may be increased as soon as she picks up 
in flesh and spirits. This she will be likely 
to do when feed is reduced. a. s. a. 
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