THE RURA1, NEW-WPIKER 
January 18, 
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Live Stock and Dairy 
the ease of fattening this quantity would 
have to be cut down along toward the fin¬ 
ishing period. w. e. carroll. 
Utah Agricultural College. 
TREATMENT OF BROOD MARES. 
More consideration than is the gen¬ 
eral rule should be given to the treat¬ 
ment of brood mares. As soon as it 
is known that a mare is safely in foal 
care should be exercised that she re¬ 
ceives no treatment or annoyance that 
would endanger the loss of the foal 
through abortion. Sometimes the teas¬ 
ing or annoyance by a stallion or a 
gelding will cause such trouble. While 
with foal foods that are of a laxative 
and distinctly nutritive character should 
be used. Besides, something more than 
the ordinary amount of grain should 
be given so that the mare’s strength is 
not reduced while supporting the un¬ 
born foal. Oats should be the chief 
and staple article used for grain food 
and the mare should have a fair allow¬ 
ance at least twice a day during the 
Winter months. Along with oats, bran 
should be freely and regularly used by 
every farmer who raises horses. Clover 
hay is preferable to Timothy if free 
from dust. In addition to these, a few 
roots should be fed daily or every 
second day at least. If, however, wheat 
bran is fed liberally roots are not so 
necessary, because bran is laxative and 
cooling to the blood which is the very 
effect of roots. Raw potatoes are good 
and very cooling. Not many should be 
fed in the raw state. I knew one man 
who kept two horses. One was a pretty 
big horse and the other was a small 
horse. Raw potatoes were fed every 
night to these horses, to the big horse 
16, and to the small one, 12. This was 
a fair proportion. 
Brood mares should be kept sharply 
shod in Winter as a struggle to keep 
their feet on ice or slippery roads may 
cause abortion. Cold, icy water is dan¬ 
gerous as it may cause colic and eventu¬ 
ally abortion. Mares in foal, while 
better for being worked moderately, 
should be kept out of deep snow. 
Plunging and struggling in deep snow 
is very dangerous. When there is im¬ 
minent danger of the mare aborting 
through slipping on ice, plunging in 
deep snow, hard driving or otherwise, 
soft feed should be withheld and the 
mare given kiln-dried grain. When 
there is danger of this kind it may 
frequently be prevented by proper care 
in feeding. Whole wheat dried in the 
oven of the kitchen stove is an old 
established preventive feed. It has long 
been a practice with us to feed this 
dried wheat to the mare after a hard 
drive or at any time that abortion is 
apprehended. While I have known our 
mares to abort several times, I never 
knew any of them to abort after getting 
preventive feeds of dried wheat. If 
wheat is not at hand, dried barley is 
good, or even dried oats. 
With care and the exercise of com¬ 
mon sense there should be little danger 
of a mare with foal, doing all kinds of 
work, and even driving if she is a gen¬ 
eral purpose mare. J. A. Macdonald. 
Ontario. 
ALFALFA HAY FOR HOGS. 
I am told that 3n the Far West hogs 
are fed on hay either cut or ground. To 
what extent is this really true? r. s. 
Ground Alfalfa is used to a considerable 
extent by farmers who are fattening hogs 
in this region. Experiments carried on at 
the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Sta¬ 
tion indicate that from 10 to 25 per cent 
of the ration may profitably be made up of 
cut or ground Alfalfa. On the whole, we 
recommend 10 per cent Alfalfa rather than 
a larger amount where the Alfalfa meal 
costs as much as $20 per ton. A good 
many farmers, instead of using ground Al¬ 
falfa, feed Alfalfa hay in racks. This 
makes a cheaper and more profitable ration 
than to feed the Alfalfa ground, although 
there is considerable waste in the process. 
A great deal of Alfalfa is ground in the 
State, and after mixing with a low-grade 
molasses or sometimes with grain it is 
shipped to eastern points as a cattle food. 
Nebraska Exp. Station, e. a. bdrnett. 
Alfalfa meal or crushed Alfalfa is not 
used to any great extent in our State for 
the feeding of hogs. Alfalfa is so cheap 
that the amount saved in grinding or crush¬ 
ing or even chopping is hardly sufficient 
for the cost of the operation. The way 
hay is usually fed to hogs here is either 
picking out the leaves after other stock are 
fed, or picking out some of the finest of the 
hay, which, with us, is usually third crop 
hay, and feeding that to them without any 
further preparation. The hogs pick it over 
and do not waste very much of it when 
fed on a dry feeding floor, or upon snow in 
the Winter time. For animals that are 
merely being wintered over, Alfalfa hay 
and a few roots, with perhaps an occasional 
feed of grain, is about all that is necessary 
for keeping them. Our hay costs us from 
$6 to $12 a ton, so that you can see the 
expense of grinding would bring it up 
sufficiently far that we could perhaps not 
make anything by the operation. The hogs 
will perhaps thrive pretty well with Al¬ 
falfa leaves or fine Alfalfa or Alfalfa meal, 
making up as high as 25 to 30 per cent of 
the ration. Of course it is bulky, and in 
There are probably as many as 10 com¬ 
mercial Alfalfa grinding mills in this State, 
and a considerable quantity of this product 
is marketed. We do not advocate its gen¬ 
eral use in hog feeding, because it ordi¬ 
narily sells at $20 per ton and upwards, 
and we believe that the hog raiser can 
spend his money to better advantage for 
other feeds. The hog’s digestive system is 
not well suited to the digestion of large 
quantities of crude fiber and this is partic¬ 
ularly true of the young pig. While the 
grinding of the Alfalfa does disintegrate 
and tear up the woody part of the plant 
to a great extent it is doubtful if it in¬ 
creases the digestibility of the feed to any 
extent. We are in favor of feeding Alfalfa 
hay, but believe in feeding it whole in racks 
or boxes of such a kind that the hogs can¬ 
not well pull it underfoot. Closed boxes 
with a lid on top and with six or eight 
inch circular openings in the front through 
which the hog can get at the hay we have 
found to be highly satisfactory. We find 
that in feeding our Alfalfa to our work 
horses and mules a high per cent of the 
loaves are left by these animals, and these 
we use for hog feeding as far as they will 
go. I do not believe that it would be ad¬ 
visable to chaff or cut up Alfalfa hay or 
clover in preparation for feeding hogs. 
Oklahoma Station. w. a. linklater. 
Alfalfa hay is being used quite exten¬ 
sively in hog feeding in the West. It does 
not pay ordinarily to put in a machine for 
cutting or grinding it where hogs are the 
only stock to be fed upon it, unless the 
stock of hogs is very large in number. Nor 
does it pay to give the extra price de¬ 
manded for the commercial meal, which is 
usually five dollars above the price of hay, 
and even two and three times the price 
of Alfalfa hay. I have fed both the meal 
and the whole hay, and believe that the 
whole hay is as satisfactory as any. The 
leaves of the hay are the most beneficial 
part of it, because the stem contains so 
much crude fibre. I have found, however, 
that where you have machinery for cutting 
hay for other animals it pays to chop the 
hay for hogs rather than pay the price for 
wheat shorts to be fed with the hay and 
the slop. The little picture on page 26 
shows a suitable rack for hog feeding on 
hay. G. E. MORTON. 
Colorado College. 
Hen Lice; Salt for Stock and Poultry. 
Will you tell me the best remedy to 
kill chicken lice that you find around the 
vent of chickens that immediately crawl 
back on the body when chicken is ex¬ 
amined? I once used lard, coal oil and 
sulphur mixed, but am told that in Winter 
it is too cold, is liable to give chickens 
roup. Should chickens have any salt in 
their food? What is the best salt for 
cows? What is the best salt for spraying 
henhouse? w. v. a. 
Any good lice powder sifted through the 
feathers of the fowls as they are held by 
the legs, head down, will answer your 
purpose, and the use of some grease such 
as you mention rubbed into the feathers 
about the vent and under the wings, will 
also aid in ridding the fowls of the lice 
which congregate in these places. You 
need have no fear of roup or colds from 
this practice. Fowls should have some 
salt in their food, about a half pound 
to the hundred pounds of mash being suf¬ 
ficient. Cows, also, should have salt, either 
constantly before them in the form of 
bricks which they can lick at their pleasure 
or as loose barrel salt which may be given 
them, a handful or two at a time, at 
least twice weekly. Either kerosene or 
carbolineum alone, or kerosene to which 
crude carbolic acid has been added, in the 
proportion of one part of carbolic acid 
to three of kerosene, may be used about 
the perches and nests, while the walls 
should have a coat of whitewash. 
M. B. D. 
At 1 C an acre and up raise 60 bushels 
., y A ** of corn and 3 tons alfalfa per acre. 
Ajuiruiant rainfall (4 inches per month,) rich soil, 
mild winters, good churches, schools and neii’h- 
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farms in sight of Richmond, only $850 each, 
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T« TL. Oniilna The American Rush to 
10 I (IB denier Western Canada is Increasing 
Free Homesteads ln nl e 
Districts of Manitoba. Saskat¬ 
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thousands of Free Homesteads 
left, which to the man making 
entry in 3 years’ time will be 
worth from *20 to *25 per acre. 
These lands are well adapted to 
grain growing and cattle raising. 
Excellent Railway Facilities 
In many cases the railways In 
Canada have been built in ad¬ 
vance of settlement, and In a short time 
there will not be a settler who need bo 
more than ten or twelve miles from a lino 
of railway. Railway Rates are regulated 
by Government Commission. 
SOCIAL CONDITIONS. The Ameri¬ 
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He Is not a stranger In a strange land, 
having nearly a million of his own people 
already settled there. If you desire to 
know why the condition of the Canadian 
Settler Is so prosperous write to any of 
the Canadian Government Agents and 
6end for literature, rates, &C., to 
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301 E. Genesee St. 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
oi address'Supt. of Immigration, 
Ottawa, Canada. 
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Put two of 
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Keep track of their jueld for two weeks, 
and you will be happily surprised — enough so to 
feed 3 r our whole herd with 
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More milk and healthier 
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months pays, not only now but th ughout the whole 
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