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5THE RURAb NEW-YORKEH 
February 8, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
WHY ONE FLOCK OF SHEEP WAS SOLD. 
In a recent number of The R. N.-Y. 
a writer protested against farmers keep¬ 
ing or encouraging the keeping of dogs. 
It may be well to emphasize this pro¬ 
test. Dogs and sheep are a worse com¬ 
bination than tares and wheat. There 
seems to be a general opinion that if 
better breeds of dogs were kept they 
would not molest sheep. This is only 
partly true. Doubtless there would be 
less damage to the flocks than there is 
where mongrels and night prowlers 
abound, but dogs of the best breeds 
sometimes go wrong. When I was a 
boy my father kept a small flock of 
sheep. When I became his partner and 
later his successor in the farm business 
I did the same. The sheep were pas¬ 
tured with the cows and were driven to 
the barn with them at night. We thought 
this would be full protection against 
dogs. And with one exception the 
plan proved effective for some 35 ’-ears. 
But one morning after the sheep had 
been in the pasture a few hours several 
fine lambs were killed and others were 
injured by a dog which belonged to the 
owner of an adjoining farm. There 
was no possible doubt as to the identity 
of the dog. This owner had him killed 
and offered to pay for the damage he 
had done, but as a dog law was in 
force it seemed better to let the town 
make the payment from its dog fund. 
Two features of this case should be 
specially noted: the damage was done 
in daylight, and it was done by a Shep¬ 
herd dog. 
The experience above noted was dis¬ 
couraging, but it did not drive us out 
of the sheep business. It remained for 
a low fence to do that. The fence be¬ 
longed to neighbor who had owned 
the dog. It separated & £» e mowing 
lot from a rather wide lane irl Whfcix 
the sheep were allowed to feed some¬ 
times, and through which they were 
driven to and from the pasture. One 
morning two or three of the sheep 
jumped over the fence. As the feed 
was much better than it was in the lane, 
they soon formed the habit of getting 
into the mowing. The other sheep fol¬ 
lowed the example of the pioneers. It 
soon became unsafe to leave them in 
the lane at all. So every morning we 
drove them directly to the pasture. But 
the tendency to rove had become so 
strong that this plan did not keep them 
at home. About nine o’clock in the 
morning they would go over, under or 
through the line fence, cross a large 
pasture, get into the highway, go up 
the road for a short distance and then 
get into the pasture of another farm. 
Time after time our pasture fence was 
made closer and higher, but the labor 
was in vain. The higher the fence the 
higher the sheep would jump. It seems 
almost incredible, but I saw a young 
sheep go over a good six-rail fence. 
Shutting up the ones that seemed to be 
the leaders did no good. We had to 
sell the sheep. The poorer ones went 
to the butcher. The pick of the flock 
were sold for about half what they 
would have brought if they would have 
stayed at home, to a man to whom we 
had previously sold breeding stock. He 
had a well-fenced pasture in which he 
was sure he could keep them. But he 
soon found that his confidence was not 
justified. The sheep would not stay in 
the pasture and he was obliged to keep 
them at the barn. These experiences 
speak for themselves. Their lessons lie 
on the surface. There is not the slight¬ 
est need to point the moral or to adorn 
the tale. _ J. e. r. 
A Dairy Partnership. 
G. H.j TIellertoioii. Pa .—I am convinced 
that my farm will profitably support a 
good-sized dairy, but do not have the neces¬ 
sary capital to start the business. A 
friend is willing to furnish the money on 
a partnership basis. Can you assist me by 
giving me some idea of what would consti¬ 
tute an equitable agreement under such 
conditions, i. e., he supplies the cows, and 
I supply the farm. 
Ans.—S uch contracts will always depend 
more or less on local conditions and the 
character of the men who make them. The 
general rule is to consider the farm as one- 
third. the labor another third and the 
capital still another. This is not always 
a safe rule for figuring, but some modifi¬ 
cation of it to fit local or personal condi¬ 
tions will usually be fairest to both parties. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Horse with Corn. 
I have a horse which is bothered with a 
corn on his left front leg; walks a little 
lame. Would you let me know what to do 
for him? L. M., JR. 
New Jersey. 
A corn is located on the sole of the hoof, 
between heel and bar, and not on the 
horse’s leg. It causes lameness; pare 
down the part and remove a small portion 
of the wall of hoof at heel, so that it will 
not come in contact with the shoe; then 
put on a bar shoe. a. s. a. 
Care of Cow at Calving. 
Please inform me what to do for a 
Jersey cow as soon as she calves. Do 
you advise aconite and how many drops, 
also what to do for mare due to foal 
July first? b. p. 
Do not give medicine of any sort to 
cow or mare, unless sickness makes medi¬ 
cine necessary. Parturition is a natural 
event and will be successfully passed 
through if you feed properly. Keep the 
bowels active and make the animals take 
abundant exercise every day. a. s. a. 
Abortion. 
Will you give me the formula of the so- 
called carbolic acid treatment of abortion? 
My cows are troubled with it and having 
taken other precautions, such as disinfec¬ 
tion, etc., desire to further insure calves if 
possible. M. o. B. 
Massachusetts. 
No specific has been found for abortion, 
but many stockmen give carbolic add ac¬ 
cording to the British method, which is as 
follows: Dilute half an ounce of crude 
carbolic acid with water, and mix in soft 
feed for each cow in calf, each other night 
during each alternate fortnight, from end 
of second to end of seventh month. Dis¬ 
infectants should also be used daily on 
rear parts of cow. Crude carbolic acid 
is now used in Great Britain in place of 
pure acid. a. s. a. 
Fistula of Teat. 
I need advice as to a young heifer, which 
has just come in fresh. One of her back 
teats seems normal, but at the part of 
the teat starting from the udder there 
seems to be a place where the milk comes 
out as fast as from the teat itself. Could 
you advise me what to do for this? There 
is no formation of a fifth teat. Also hex- 
navel is considerably swollen. Will this 
disappear? It does not seem to hurt her. 
Also state whether you would milk out a 
fifth teat on another cow which I have; 
she was giving milk this way when. 1 
her. p. s. 
New 
The false duct Jje tfosed by opera¬ 
tion when the cow is dry : tbean-vvilBe paint 
the part with flexible collodion aftS? eaci! 
milking, or put on a bandage of surgeon's 
plaster, to prevent escape of milk from the 
unnatural opening. If much milk comes 
from the supernumerary teat and gland 
milking may be continued; if the amount 
is quite small the gland should be obliter¬ 
ated by use fff the thermocautery. In 
both instances an expert veterinarian will 
have toi be employed to operate', a. s. a. 
Lameness. 
I have a horse weighing 1200 pounds 
which favors his right hind leg; walks on 
his toe and limps badly, especially after 
working or driving. I can find no sore 
spot by pi-essure, and when not working, 
that is, standing in the stall for a few 
days, will stand normally. He has puffs 
on both gambrel joints, which seem to be 
“thoroughpin.” I think it is a spavin, 
but horsemen tell me a spavin is always 
tight, but this horse can get his heel to the 
ground when not working. Can you sug¬ 
gest a remedy? e. g. n. 
Connecticut. 
A spavined horse starts out lame and 
warms out of the lameness with exercise. 
It is possible, however that the lameness 
in the case described is due to synovial 
distensions, constituting bog spavin and 
thoroughpin and if that is so the hock 
joint should be fired and blistered by a 
graduate veterinarian and the horse then 
tied up short in stall for a six-weeks’ rest. 
A. s. A. 
Loss of Hogs. 
Some hogs we lost last Fall lost the use 
of their hind quarters. They were sick 
four or five days and then died. There 
were 20 hogs in the lot, five had the dis¬ 
ease and four died. They run all Summer 
and Fall in the woods and pasture; after 
bringing them in to fatten they were fed 
corn, apples and pumpkins. They would 
break the pumpkins open and devour the 
seed, but seem to care nothing at all for 
the flesh. Every one in the neighborhood 
fed pumpkins to their swine and we have 
never heard of a case like this. We 
stopped feeding the pumpkins after the dis¬ 
ease broke out, and bad no more trouble. 
We would be glad to hear from others 
who may have had similar trouble, what 
to do or what treatment to use in case of 
another attack. w. D. D. 
Ohio. 
Hogs often breakdown from rickets when 
heavily fed corn and deprived of exercise. 
This may have beeu the case with your 
swine; but it should be remembered that 
cholera may cause like symptoms and that 
occasionally it is of mild or chronic form 
and does not kill all of the hogs attacked. 
It seems unlikely, however, that cholera 
has been present in your herd. Make 
the hogs take abundant exercise daily and 
feed mixed rations. It is best to cook 
pumpkins for swine and some feeders re¬ 
move the seeds. Cooked pumpkins open the 
bowels and are admirable for preventing 
the constipationing aud heating effects of 
a corn ration. They tend to prevent break¬ 
ing down, such as you describe. a. s. a. 
Which 
COW 
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The 
MOST? 
This cow cost $100. She pro¬ 
duced 5000 lbs. of milk in a year. 
This cow cost $125. She pro¬ 
duced 6000 lbs. of milk in a year. 
Both cows required the same care and the same amount 
of roughage, but the best cow produced considerably greater 
profit. Considering the cost of these two cows and the fact that it takes the same 
amount of labor and the same amount of roughage, which is the cheapest cow 
to keep? Which cow would you buy? The best one of course. You know 
it would be poor business to buy the poorer one because it is The Extra 
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