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THE RURA.I> N K W -YORKE R 
Live Stock and Dairy 
CONCRETE SEPARATOR BASE. 
For our separator we have a plank plat¬ 
form about 6x6 feet. The planks are fast¬ 
ened to small beams and the whole rests 
on the cellar bottom. We wish to put in 
a base of concrete for the separator. Will 
you tell us how to construct a base and 
also how to make the cement? R. e. b. 
Horseheads, N, Y. 
Make a box two feet square (inside 
measurements) and six inches deep, 
without top or bottom. Dig down where 
you wish the separator to stand, so 
that the top of the form, or box, will 
just come flush with the cellar bottom. 
Level the form quite carefully. Thor¬ 
oughly mix three parts clean sand and 
one part Portland cement, and wet un¬ 
til quite soft, but not so thin that much 
water will separate from the mixture. 
Fill the form just level full, so that a 
straight edge scraped over the edge of 
the form will touch the concrete all the 
way. Then take bolts long enough that 
the head may be pressed two to three 
inches into the concrete, and leave the 
threaded end protruding enough to go 
through the leg of separator and screw 
on nut. You can measure the distance 
apart of the holes in separator on the 
form and lay a straight edge across to 
get the location of the bolts, but you 
will have to be very careful about it or 
they will not fit. Another way is to 
take L-shaped rods about two by four 
inches, threaded on the long end. Slip 
over the log end a piece of pipe three 
inches long, and twice the diameter of 
the rod. Sink these into the concrete, 
the same as the bolts, then the threaded 
end can be moved a little to fit the holes. 
When the concrete is quite hard put the 
separator in place and screw on nuts. 
Remove the form and fill remaining 
space with concrete. c. L. M. 
GUINEA PIGS. 
In a recent issue reference was made 
to the Guinea pig as an article of food. 
From similar articles in other journals 
it appears that the subject is receiving 
considerable attention, inspired by the 
favorable report made by the United 
States Government. As I am an ex¬ 
tensive breeder of these animals, having 
generally about 500 on hand, I am natu¬ 
rally very much interested. The ques¬ 
tion has been asked me hundreds of 
times whether they were “good to eat.” 
My answer has always been that I knew 
of no reason except prejudice. They 
are the daintiest, cleanest little animals, 
free from vermin and disease, and for 
this reason are preferable to any other 
animals as pets. For the same reason 
they are preferable as articles of food 
to rabbits and squirrels, which also are 
rodents. The rabbit is subject to in¬ 
numerable diseases and is not as cleanly 
in its habits. The guinea pig requires 
but little space, and by proper feeding 
can be made a very edible product. 
By the way, what funny stories you 
hear about the guinea pig. In The R. 
N.-Y. a short time ago was a communi¬ 
cation from one of its folks telling how 
they had cleaned the rats out of their 
chicken house by putting a guinea pig 
in with the chickens. The fact is that 
rats would soon clean out a lot of 
guinea pigs. It costs me a good deal of 
thought and hard work to make my 
guinea pig house rat-proof. A visitor 
in looking over my stock told me that 
they were an infallible cure for rheu¬ 
matism. He said his father-in-law was 
a great sufferer and kept a guinea pig in 
the house, and while the animal lived he 
was free from pain, but just as soon as 
the guinea pig died the rheumatism 
came back. I told him I thought this 
was just about as reliable a cure as 
carrying a horse chestnut in the pocket. 
Through a humorous work of fiction 
published some years ago a mistaken 
idea was given as to their prolific tend¬ 
encies, and there seems to be an idea 
that all you have to do is to get a pair 
and in a couple of weeks you will have 
a million. Since I have been breeding 
these animals I have collected numerous 
and amusing folklore stories about them. 
Like everything else, they require a cer¬ 
tain amount of care and work. They 
are interesting creatures and I know of 
no animal that is so well adapted as an 
object lesson for teaching animal indus¬ 
try to children—and grown-ups, too. 
w. L. PRIZER. 
Westchester Co., N. Y. 
Starting Young Pigs. 
What should be the first feed for young 
pigs, considering milk is scarce? Would 
like to raise two, but have no cow, so 
would have to buy milk. Is there any 
other way but to start them with milk? 
New Jersey. c. l. n. 
While milk is not absolutely necessary 
to start young pigs with it is certainly 
the best feed for them. In the absence 
of milk, however, young pigs will grov 
fairly well when carefully fed on table 
and kitchen refuse together with a small 
amount of wheat middlings. Great care 
must be exercised not to feed too much 
at a time, the better plan being to feed 
little and often. The refuse must also 
be carefully saved for feeding purposes, 
rejecting coffee and tea dregs and all 
decayed or fermented material. 
C. S. G. 
Glanders Not Curable. 
Glanders is incurable and State law re¬ 
quires the disease to be reported at once 
and the animal destroyed, and the stable 
disinfected and whitewashed. It is most 
dangerous to attempt to treat the disease, 
as it is communicable and fatal to man, 
and we have many eases on record where 
such deaths have occurred. Whenever a 
horse shows signs suggestive of glanders a 
graduate veterinarian should be called in 
to make an examination and if necessary 
he will apply the mallein test. Suspect 
the disease when a horse has a chronic 
discharge from the nose, that sticks about 
the edges of the nostrils, and at the same 
time has little grapelike swellings under the 
jaws, swollen hind legs, or bud-like nodes 
on the swellings of hind legs, or side of 
neck or inside of fore leg. In glanders 
there are ulcers on the lining membrane 
of the partition between the nostrils. The 
false reports regarding the curability of 
glanders have come as the result of pro¬ 
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mallein. No doubt many horses have been 
erroneously condemned as glandered, and it 
is quite likely that for a time at least 
the mallein may have retarded the spread 
of glanders. Whatever may be the out¬ 
come of the tests, however, it cannot at 
present be said that glanders is curable, 
by use of mallein or otherwise, and it will 
be highly dangerous for anyone to harbor 
or treat the disease. A. s. a. 
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