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THE RURAL* NEW-YORKER 
January 25, 
USES FOR ENGINE ON POULTRY FARM. 
“There is much to recommend the 
‘old style’ steam engine,” says C. W. 
Hall, of Columbiana County, Ohio. “I 
put my engine to many uses which would 
be impossible with the gasoline engine. 
My equipment, which consists of a four- 
horse engine and boiler, cost me second 
hand about $100. I grind feed, saw 
wood and shell my corn with it, and, in 
addition to that, cook my feed for my 
stock and poultry. I have a room for 
sprouting oats for my poultry. This, on 
a scale which I practice it, is only possi¬ 
ble with a steam boiler. My room is 
10 feet square and eight feet in height. 
I have a rack which will hold 75 trays 
three feet long, one foot wide and two 
or three inches deep. I have these filled 
with oats in different stages of germina¬ 
tion. This room is next to my boiler, 
and I have steam pipes running into it. 
They keep it sufficiently warm. The 
walls are double and the two or three 
inch space is filled with slack from the 
coal mine. The room is lined with 
tarred paper. Any farmer or poultry- 
man can duplicate my equipment with¬ 
out having further description. I have 
a door that tightly'- closes, and I keep the 
room dark The expense of keeping up 
the fire in the engine is comparatively 
nothing. I burn slack, which costs prac¬ 
tically only the hauling from the mine 
in this, a coal country. If the fire goes 
/<? inches, . 'front 6 inches 
HANDY POULTRY HOPPER. 
out, the steam boiler will hold heat over 
a cold night. The capacity of my plant 
is sufficient to supply green feed for a 
thousand hens and the expense is small 
compared with other devices. 
“I also have an original poultry hop¬ 
per. This can easily be made. Any 
desired length can be chosen, depending 
on the length of lumber to be used. It 
might be made 16 feet long, the length 
of mine. The back should be 18 inches 
in height, the front about 12 inches in 
height. It should be 12 inches from 
front to back. A sloping cover from 
back to front about 16 inches wide 
can be hinged to the back. This cover 
can be raised so that feed can be put 
in the hopper. The lower half of the 
front should be made of a board or 
boards, and the upper half should be 
made with slats extending up and down 
as far as the cover. - I have a little 
shelf in front extending upward like a 
“Y,” and this catches the waste that 
the hens make while feeding. . These 
slats should be wide enough to admit the 
hen’s head readily. I consider this 
hopper easily built, efficient and econ¬ 
omical and sanitary. 
“I have my box divided in three com¬ 
partments, and have chosen the 16-foot 
length, as it will accommodate 100 
pounds each of bran and beef scrap and 
50 pounds of charcoal.” 
WALTER JACK. 
Calf from Heifer; Warts. 
We have a heifer to freshen in a week 
or 10 days; will it pay to raise calf to 
maturity? We have heard calf will not 
be as good as from an older cow. This 
heifer has bunches on legs and body as 
large as the palm of your hand. What 
are they and can you tell how to cure 
them? They do not seem to affect health 
of cow. C. s. F. 
Ohio. 
You do not state age of heifer; but it is 
the common practice to raise calves from 
heifers, and you will be perfectly safe in 
doing so if the heifer is from a cow that 
was a good profitable milk producer and 
by a purebred sire from a cow of good 
producing capacity. If the sire was a grade 
or scrub animal the calf should not be 
raised, and that is equally the case if the 
dam was a common animal and not a great 
producer. It might be added that should 
the heifer in question prove to be a poor 
producer the calf should not be raised to 
maturity. We suspect that the growths 
are warts; but they may be incurable can¬ 
cerous tumors. Better have an examina¬ 
tion made by a qualified veterinarian. 
a. s. A. 
Tainted Milk. 
What is the cause of my cow's milk 
having a bad smell and taste? My cow 
is to freshen in February. Would this 
make the milk bad? Is there any other 
cause it could come from? T. m. 
New Jersey. 
The milk of a cow nearing calving often 
is bitter or strong tasting, but bad odor 
usually comes from taints taken in by the 
warm milk, in a dirty, badly ventilated 
stable, at milking time. Feeding strong 
cabbage, roots, or such like feed just before 
milking also tends to taint milk. The 
cow should be “dried off” at once; as a 
cow should have six weeks of rest before 
calving. a. s. a. 
Eczema. 
Enclosed find some bunches of hair taken 
from my colt; would like to know the 
cause and cure. Colt feels well and eats 
all right, but seems to want to rub; came 
home from pasture all covered on back and 
hips with the hair all bunches. What 
shall I do to cure it? D. A. s. 
Connecticut. 
Eczema is present and the cause gener¬ 
ally is filthiness of the skin, overfeeding 
or underfeeding, or presence of lice. We 
did not find lice present in the specimen 
sent us; but they may be found by inspec¬ 
tion of the colt. The quickest way to im¬ 
prove matters would be to clip the colt, 
wash affected parts and then blanket the 
animal in a box stall. If you do not care 
to do this groom the animal twice daily 
until skin is clean; then groom two or 
three times a week and keep colt out of 
filth and dust. Feed well on oats, bran, 
Alfalfa or mixed clover hay and roots to 
encourage improvement of bodily condition, 
if thin; reduce the feed if grain, and es¬ 
pecially corn, has been heavily fed. 
A. S. A. 
Fistula. 
I have a young horse with a bad case 
of fistula. This horse is five years old, has 
had this sore oh the shoulder or withers 
for nine months or over, and I have tried 
sevei-al remedies but cannot heal it over. 
It was much worse, and badly swollen, 
but now it is seemingly nearly well, but 
always runs, and will not heal over. The 
horse eats heartily and .does not seem to 
suffer, but we would not like to work him 
in this condition. Is there a certain rem¬ 
edy for that disease, as there are many 
horses hereabouts affected? Most get well, 
but some never; it seems every one here 
has a different remedy but none of them 
will cure this case. g. a. k. 
Kentucky. 
Diseased tissues are present and as long 
as they are there the discharge of pus will 
continue. In such cases it always is ab¬ 
solutely necessary to probe to determine the 
direction of each pipe and pocket and then 
to lay each of them wide open with a 
sharp knife to insure perfect drainage. At 
this operation all diseased tissues, cartilage 
or bone, must be perfectly removed. The 
bleeding will not be dangerous and may be 
readily stopped by light application of hot 
iron, or Monsell's powder or solution. The 
entire wound then should be swabbed with 
tincture of iodine and all cavities packed 
with oakum saturated in a mixture of 
equal parts of turpentine and raw linseed 
oil. Repeat the swabbing with iodine 
twice a week and on all other days renew 
the medicated oakum dressing after wiping 
the wound. In bad cases hypodermic in¬ 
jections of polyvalent bacteriu are also 
given by the veterinarian. a. s. a. 
Goitre. 
A valuable Scotch collie dog one year 
old has a hard lump in his throat about 
as large as a hen’s egg. When first I 
noticed it there came a swelling on his lip, 
then in a few days the swelling seemed to 
attack his throat. The lump is on the 
outside of his windpipe just between the 
hide and the windpipe. He seems to have 
some pain, and lays his head down on the 
floor at times. His appetite is good, though 
he does not* care to run as usual, but lies 
about the house. What is the trouble with 
the dog and what can I do for it? 
New York u. f. 
There is enlargement of the thyroid 
glands and an abscess may form and have 
to be opened for evacuation of purulent 
serum. Clip off the hair and paint the en¬ 
largement with tincture of iodine once 
daily. Stop using iodine tincture for a 
few days, should the skin become sore. If 
the swelling softens and evidently contains 
pus, it should be freely opened at its low¬ 
est part, the fluid squeezed out, the cavity 
syringed out with warm water and then a 
little tincture of iodine injected. Do not 
repeat the injection of iodine tincture; but 
once daily squeeze out fluid and inject per¬ 
oxide of hydrogen until pus ceases to form. 
A. s. A. 
• • v • •• • tv, 
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Roughage 
The 
Extra 
Quart 
IS WHERE 
|[V | u iVlii i'i* 
\ Roughage 
YOU GET YOUR PROFIT 
And the more of them you get the more money you make 
These two milk pails show the actual difference in profit between 
feeding any ordinary dairy feed and feeding LARRO -FEED. In either case the 
cost of the labor is the same and the cost of the roughage is the same. 
The pail at the left shows how little profit there is left for you after you have 
paid for the labor, hay and any other ordinary dairy feed you can buy or mix at home. 
The pail at the right shows how much MORE PROFIT there Is left for 
you after you have paid for the labor, hay and LARKO-FEED even tho’ this high-producing 
feed costs you a trifle more than the ordinary kind. The comparisons we show in the two pails 
are based upon actual results reported from hundreds of dairymen who have already tried 
LARRO-FEED. We tell you frankly that LARKO-FEED coBts a little more per ton than 
ordinary feeds, but we also stand ready to prove to you at our risk that it will produce enough 
more milk from your cows to offset the difference in cost of the feeds several times over. 
Based on results LARRO-FEED is tho CHEAPEST feed you caa buy and wo will prove 
it in your own dairy or no pay. 
A Ready Ration 
for Dairy Cow* v 
is a new and exceptionally high-grade, ready-mixed ration, 
the greatest combination of feeds ever put together in one sack. 
Notice jwhat it contains—Oottonsood Meal. Distillers* Grains, Gluten 
Feed, Wheat Bran, Wheat Middlings and Dried Beet Pnlp. Every 
ingredient a milk and money maker—so why shouldn’t it 
produce results you can't get with any other feed? It con¬ 
tains no weed seeds—oat hulls—oat clippings—screenings— 
mill sweepings—com cobs or other adulterants. It is an 
IONEST feed from top to bottom—guaranteed ALWAYS 
THE SAME—ALWAYS GOOD. Gives you MORE 
REAL FEED for each dollar you pay than yon get 
in any other dairy ration. 
1(14) 
The Only Feed 
That’s Guaranteed" 
*** jHUgrCO** : 
Here is the Proof 
Get as many sacks of LiARRO-FEED as 
you need from your dealer. Feed one sack (100 lbs.) at 
our risk—watch results. If LARRO-FEED doesn’t 
satisfy and please YOU (we tie no strings to our offer) 
take back the unused sacks and get your money back 
in full. Every dealer handling LARRO-FEED la 
authorized to make sales on this broad guarantee. 
The burden of proof is on us: If LARRO-FEED 
wins we both gain, if it does not you are not oat one 
penny. Try it NOW. 
The Larrowe Milling Co. 
314§illespie Bldg. Detroit, Mich. 
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629-544 WatkiiiN Building:, Milwaukee, His. 
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Box 13 Springfield. Ohio 
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COWS FAT with an 
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