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.A Woman’s Hens. 
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mer I do not feed so much corn. The 
pullets usually begin to lay early in 
November and are nicely at it by the 
middle of December. In past years I 
have been greatly bothered with hen 
lice and also red mites; find that if I 
use lice powder in the nest boxes and 
freely enough on the setting hens, lice 
do not need to worry me. As far as 
mites are concerned, eternal vigilance is 
required to keep them under subjection. 
These buildings were overrun with them 
when we came here; we could not pick 
up any old board under cover that did 
not have them in the cracks. By keep¬ 
ing hens, coops, etc., away from the 
barn and sheds for a few years, we 
seem to have starved them out. If 
kerosene is used freely at least every 
two weeks on the roosts, or anywhere 
else that hens roost, mites cannot do 
much damage. There is no use for any 
one to keep hens for profit who will 
not keep them down. An old pail for 
kerosene and a 10 -cent paint brush are 
all the tools needed. 
Massachusetts. A farmer’s wife. 
good many cases you recommend clipping 
hair of belly and hocks. Could that be 
done in Winter without causing cold? 
Pennsylvania. c. l. b. 
Even at this time of the year it is al¬ 
ways well partially to clip a horse when 
the hair seems to be long, coarse and 
“staring.” If all of the hair is removed, 
as is sometimes done, the horse will be 
liable to catch cold, unless kept well 
blanketed; but if given the partial clip, 
no such trouble is apt to follow. As stated 
previously in these columns, we advise 
clipping the hair from the belly to a line 
with breast collar and breeching straps 
and from the legs above the knees and 
hocks. If the weather is severe, a blanket 
may be put on the newly clipped horse for 
a few days, unless the stable is comfortably 
warm, and always the blanket should be 
used when the horse has to stand idle out- 
of-doors. Rough coat, ravenous appetite 
and lack of thrift usually are present in 
all cases of chronic heaves, and in these 
arsenic should be given. It will relieve 
the distress; but the disease when thor¬ 
oughly established is incurable. Wet all 
feed for a heavy horse and do not work 
the animal soon after a meal. When 
work has to be done do not feed bulky 
feed at noon. Always give the drinking 
water before feeding. The “bunches” on 
the shoulders are fibroid tumors, and they 
cannot be removed by external applications. 
They should be cleanly removed by dis¬ 
secting. The wounds will then readily 
heal, if treated daily with antiseptic solu¬ 
tions. A good lotion for use iu such 
cases is a mixture of one ounce of sugar 
of lead, sulphate of zinc, six drams, water 
one pint. Label the bottle “poison” and 
shake well before use, as a heavy sedi¬ 
ment settles to the bottom of the bottle. 
Apply several times a day. This is a good 
solution to apply to all shallow wounds 
of the skin. a, s. a. 
on hoof, seven to eight; cow beef, four to 
six live; best dressed beef, 12.; other grades, 
seven to 10, 
Best horse hay not in heavy supply; 
other grades plentiful; best, $22.50 per 
ton; other grades, $15 to $19. Meal, $1.15 
per 100 pounds ; oats, 40 to 42 per bushel; 
bran, $24 to $25 per ton; mixed feed, 
$25 to $28; cotton-seed meal, $32 per ton. 
A. E. p. 
Feeding Molasses. 
Is there any danger in using molasses 
over dry roughage, moistened with water, 
for a milch cow ? I have seen it stated 
that the use of molasses is liable to pre¬ 
vent a cow from breeding. I used mo¬ 
lasses last Winter and my cow apparently 
failed to breed. The statement about the 
molasses created a doubt as to what was 
the trouble. A. d. e. 
Virginia. 
It is perfectly safe to feed molasses to 
cows and to horses; but not to give very 
large quantities before the animals are 
accustomed to such feed. A safe dose 
would be one quart of black strap (cane 
sugar) molasses diluted with three quarts 
of hot water and then mixed with cut 
hay, corn meal and bran night and morn¬ 
ing. a. s. A. 
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Experience With Wooden Silo. 
I saw an article on wooden or hollow 
block silos, asking for information, on 
page 82. We have a silo 10x20 feet, of 
pine staves, standing on an eight-foot 
stone wall foundation, that has been 
filled three times. The wall was point¬ 
ed out as smooth as possible, then plas¬ 
tered with a one to three mixture of 
cement and sand, followed by a white¬ 
wash of cement and water, and the 
silage always spoils a little around the 
edge of the stone, but I never saw any 
spoiled in the tub. With the extra 
weight on the silage in the bottom one 
would think the air would have to stay 
out, but it seems to get in through the 
sand, and it will be moldy for an inch 
all around. The one objection to the 
wooden tub is that it freezes easily. 
West Rush, N. Y. d. s. n. 
BOSTON MARKETS. 
Selling Dressed Hogs. 
I wonder if many of the readers of this 
paper sell their dressed bogs the way we 
do. By selling the hog whole It would 
only bring 11 cents a pound, but by keep¬ 
ing the head and feet we get 12% cents 
a pound for the rest, the head and feet 
being the hardest parts for the market- 
man to dispose of. We have been able to 
dispose of the feet to private customers 
at 10 cents a pound. The head we use 
ourselves. This is the way my wife uses 
the head. The marketman cuts it off low 
down on the neck, so she gets a nice piece 
of meat to fry. Then she uses a little to 
salt down for beans and the rest she uses 
for lard and headcheese, so there Is no 
waste, and it gives us some of every hog 
we sell, besides getting a higher price for 
the rest of it and of course we have the 
heart and liver. . Our hogs are Chester 
Whites and we like them very much. One 
of the local marketmen takes all our 
dressed liogs, and says they are the nicest 
ones he gets. They are corn-fattened, and 
get no swill of any kind outside of the 
clean scraps from the bouse. We feed 
apples, potatoes, turnips, cabbage and 
pumpkins besides regular feeds of corn, 
cornmeal and middlings, also salt, ashes 
and bone meal. a. n. b. 
The higher price of potatoes caused by the 
railroad strike in Maine brought additional 
supplies to Boston from various points, 
and the market has slumped from $1.75 
per bag to $1.30. The demand for onions 
is not heavy and prices rule low both on 
native and imported stock also. Com¬ 
mon stocks goes at 50 cents to $1 per 100- 
pound bag; Spanish and Cuban, $2.25 to 
$2.75 per large crate. Squash brings good 
prices, 2% cents per pound for Hubbard; 
Southern Summer, $2 per crate. Turnips, 
yellow, $1.25 per barrel; White Egg, 60 to 
75 cents a box; beets, 75; carrots, 50 to 
75; parsnips, 75 cents per box. Hothouse 
tomatoes, 40 cents per pound; Florida, $5 
per carrier. Hothouse lettuce, $1 per box; 
dandelions, $1.50 per box; beet greens, 
$1.25 per box; cucumbers, $8 to $14 per 
box of 100. Native celery, $2.50 per dozen 
bunches; California, $1.50. Cabbage still 
druggy, 60 to 75 cents per barrel. 
Cranberries not plentiful and higher, $10 
per barrel. Bananas, prime, at $2 to $3 
per bunch for large, $1 to $1.50 for small. 
Oranges sell fairiy well at $3 to $4 per 
box; lemons still high; California up to 
$9 per box; European stock about $7; 
however a large shipment just arrived will 
reduce these figures some when sold at 
auction. Strawberries cheaper and more 
plentiful from 25 to 40 cents per box. 
Apples arc in heavy supply both in 
storage and out, and sales are slow and 
unsatisfactory in many cases; no hope of 
much improvement this season. Good 
Baldwins, $2 to $4 per barrel; seconds, 
$1.50; some fancy King and Spy, $4 to 
$4.50; other grades, $2.50 to $3. Western 
box fruit, $2 to $4. 
Eggs hold about the same. 30 to 35 cents 
per dozen for fresh, 22 to 28 for others. 
Butter holds firm at 35 and 37 for fancy; 
other grades, 30 to 34 per pound. Cheese 
more plentiful and slow; cream, 17 to 19; 
sage, 21. 
Live liens. 15 to 16 cents per pound; 
ducks, 18; geese, 16. Dressed poultry, 19 
to 22 ; broilers, 30. Live hogs, eight cents 
is the average; dressed, around 10. Oxen 
Indigestion and Tumor. 
I have a young mare five years old in 
Spring that is not doing well, although 
well fed. Her hair is long and very thick, 
and always looks rough. She is a good 
worker but does not seem to have 
any life; Is a ravenous eater, will 
eat anything, and always looks gaunt. 
She stumbles a good deal when on 
road. She sometimes passes quite large 
worms. I feed her quite a little copperas 
for worms but it does not change her, I 
think she has a touch of heaves; would 
tills cause the trouble with her? Is there 
any cure for heaves? The first Summer I 
worked her she got bunches on point of her 
shoulder where collar comes, but they did 
not get sore; they stayed there all Winter, 
but did not get very large and last Sum¬ 
mer they got larger, but never sore. I was 
told they could be taken off with iodine, 
but have never tried it. What is your 
opinion of it, could they be taken off with¬ 
out making shoulder sore? I notice in a 
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