1913. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1287 
BUILDING UP THE FLOCK. 
Because sheep require no heavy invest¬ 
ment of time or money to establish on a 
farm is no good reason for letting them 
lake care of themselves. A flock, however 
small, ought to lie .a foig addition to the 
farm. The owner (night to pride himself 
on improving It, and not. <m seeing how 
much he can get out of his sheep for 
nothing. A man like that deserves loss, 
and nothing .but loss. 
Having obtained his flock, the owner 
should set about building it up and im¬ 
proving it. ITow is he going at it? Why. 
by picking out a good strong ram to head 
it. The ram needs to be prime stock, 
both in breeding and condition. Even if 
the owner lias no idea of going into pure¬ 
bred sheep, he needs such a ram. He 
wants his lambs uniform in shape aud 
size. He wants them strong and vigor¬ 
ous. He wants them, if lie saves any of 
them, to be a better grade of sheep than 
their mothers. Too often be will leave 
picking out his ram until the season is 
well on. Then be will look about for a 
‘likely" animal. Generally, he finds all 
die first-class purebreds and most of those 
in the second class already sold. Some- 
i ini os he is lucky enough to make a good 
trade. Usually be takes the best grade 
be can get hold of, paying a dollar or so 
unthrifty lambs—lambs that don’t seem 
to care whether they live or die. These 
lambs will not get fat. Neither will they 
sell well. What is the result? We are 
in the market for a new rani. The one 
we have is “no good.” Why? Probably 
because wo never gave him a chance. 
We need to take a few mental tacks 
and nail up a few notices on our brain 
walls when it comes to picking a ram for 
our flock. He should be a purebred. lie 
should be well built. He should bo a good 
feeder. He should be vigorous. Tie should 
be well-matured. He is worth putting 
your money into if you want a better 
grade of lambs and a better flock of 
sheep. r. b. 
A Summer Silo. 
What is a Summer silo? L have seen 
it mentioned in a number of articles 
in other farm papers. What is your 
opinion in regard to it? g. g. n. 
A Summer silo is a silo used in Sum¬ 
mer, as a Summer kitchen is one adapted 
to Summer weather. During recent years 
it has been found that good silage is 
a fine substitute for pasture grass. It 
requires less labor to get the silage out 
of a silo than to cut and haul green 
crops from the field. It was found bet¬ 
ter to have a separate silo for Summer 
feeding, so that it need not be opened 
more for him than he did for his grade 
wes. Do you expect him to have a first- 
lass bunch of uniform lambs—lambs that 
lie is going to be able to make a money¬ 
making flock out of? Not a bit of it. 
He will he lucky if his lambs are vigorous 
and good feeders. Too often the weak 
points of such a ram are all that he gives 
liis lambs. If they have any redeeming 
situ res, they came more than likely from 
;he mother. 
We want to look first for a well-bred 
animal. Because a ram happens to be a 
purebred Dorset or Shropshire is no rea- 
on for bis being the one you want. Plenty 
of purebred rams are mighty poor speci¬ 
mens of mutton and si ill poorer sires. 
Look for a clean-out animal. We don’t 
want a big, overgrown thing that can 
hardly get about with comfort.. Pick one 
that lakes an interest in life, that keeps 
is eye on you. You want him to act as 
If he meant business. When he eats he 
light to chew as if his life depended on 
it. A dreamy kind of a ram taking a 
ort of half interest in things is about of 
as much use as that kind of a man. 
The ram should be well grown. I would 
prefer not to use a ram at least a year 
"Id. If, then, we handle him carefully 
uul do not breed him to too many ewes, 
he will last several seasons as a sure 
breeder. Too often we pick up a young 
■am lamb at a low figure, planning to 
hold him until he is mature. Presently 
we not'd him for breeding. First we use 
him with one or two ewes. Next we got 
eareless and turn him with the rest of 
'he flock. Before we know it our ram 
has bred to half or three-quarters of the 
flock, when he should have been develop¬ 
ing aud growing into a larger animal 
Perhaps this is not the way you do busi¬ 
ness. 1 hope so. Too many of us do just 
'his tiling, however. What do we get for 
; t? Why, next Spring we have a lot of 
until drought spoils the pasture. A Sum¬ 
mer silo is built like any other except 
that it is taller and of smaller diameter, 
so as to expose less of the silage to the 
air while feeding. 
Curing Mange on a Cat. 
I saw under the head of “Ailing Ani¬ 
mals” recently, a letter from a reader 
who wanted a cure for distemper in kit¬ 
tens. We lost one very handsome cat 
with mange a good many years ago. She 
caught the mange from an old tramp cat, 
and the family put her out of the way 
at once. Then about six years ago our 
cat, a beautiful black cat that was the 
pet of the household, caught the mange 
and before we realized his condition the 
fur was gone from his head in several 
spots. It looked as if he would have to 
go, too, but we could not bear to lose 
him and we kept him, although he really 
looked quite moth-eaten. The head of 
the house is a physician and from him I 
got some sulphur ointment. Then I 
wrapped up the cat in an old discarded 
apron so that his head and neck alone 
were visible, and with squares of cheese¬ 
cloth commenced to wash the afflicted 
spots. I used tar soap and warm water, 
and threw each little piece of cheesecloth 
into the fire as soon as used. When 
well washed off around the head and neck 
he got a liberal dose of sulphur ointment 
rubbed into the skin and fur, and then 
was set free, a most disgusted and un¬ 
happy cat. At first this was repeated 
every day, and then done once in two or 
three days. In a short time the mange 
was entirely gone, and in six weeks lie 
was a glossy black cat again, in the pink 
of condition. One of his favorite spots 
was the back porch and we used to hear 
the people who came to the buck door 
stop and talk to him and pet him, for 
he was much admired by the “butcher. 
the baker, and the candlestick-maker.” 
So one day my mother happened to come 
to the back door just as our milkman was 
leaving. He stood playing with the cat 
and when he saw my mother standing 
there, he said, “Well, they’ve always said 
you couldn’t cure mange, but I’ve been tell¬ 
ing the people up our way and along my 
route that you people had done it!” So 
then, that is the reason for this note, to 
tell the owners of pet cats that mange 
can be cured with proper care. I have 
told a few people near ns how we did it, 
but think your paper could reach a good 
many people who have had this same 
trouble with their cats. There is only 
one point on which emphasis must be 
laid, i. e., the greatest care must be exer¬ 
cised to prevent contagion. Every scrap 
of the cloth used for washing the cat’s 
mangy spots must be thrown into the fire 
at once; the soap and sulphur ointment 
kept by themselves for his use; and after 
you .have finished your task yofir hands 
need careful scrubbing with plenty of 
hot water, soap and a nailbrush. Then 
you will find that you need not fear con¬ 
tagion. This may seem like a good deal 
of trouble for a cat, but if you have had 
a pet for a good many years you are 
fond enough of him to spend five minutes 
a day for a few weeks in order to cure 
him of any disease. And I hope this 
may be of benefit to other families with 
pets. CONNECTICUT. 
Verminous Bronchitis. 
After having lost three out of five early 
Spring calves, upon examination I found 
the windpipe and lungs badly infested 
with white worms about one to 2y» 
inches in length. Calves were started 
well, and were put to good pasture at 
about four months of age. Calves lose 
appetite and apparently choke to death 
at last. I would like information as to 
probable cause, and cure if known. 
New York. l. l. s. 
The lung-worms are known as Stron- 
gylas mierurus and infest calves pastured 
on old tainted fields loug used by cattle. 
To avoid infection calves should he kept 
off grass until one year old, on all farms 
where lung worms have given trouble. 
Calves tend to do better if not pastured. 
They should be kept in clean yards and 
airy, light, clean pens where they may be 
stanchioned at time of feeding milk. Here 
meals and fine hay may he fed, the ob¬ 
ject being to make calves develop as per¬ 
fectly as possible. Young calves often 
are irretrievably stunted by pasturing dry 
grass and fighting flies in late Summer 
and Fall. Such calves do not grow to 
make the finest possible cows for the 
dairy. Commence feeding the affected 
calves crushed, screened oats, wheat bran 
and flaxseed meal along with the best of 
clover and Alfalfa hay. Green feed may 
also be given and silage as soon as it is 
fit for feeding. Generous feeding is ab¬ 
solutely necessary to save lung-worm in¬ 
fested calves. Mix together equal parts 
of turpentine and raw linseed oil and 
give two ounces of this shaken up in 
milk two or three times a week, for two 
weeks. A veterinarian should be em¬ 
ployed to inject small doses (two drams) 
of the mixture of oil and turpentine or 
any other mixture he prefers, directly 
into the windpipe by means of a hollow 
needle and hypodermic syringe. This 
treatment may be repeated at intervals 
of two or three days. A simpler plan is 
to fumigate the air passages by pouring 
a little tincture of iodine on a hot brick, 
to be placed in a loose-mesh gunny sack 
into which the head of the affected calf 
is to be held for a few moments, the neck 
of the sack being gathered closely around 
the neck of the calf, while the treatment 
is given. Free the calf the moment 
coughing starts. Repeat the treatment 
two or three times a week. Be careful 
not to suffocate the animal. a. s. a. 
A little girl was watching an elderly 
woman clean a set of artificial teeth in 
a basin of water. So interested did the 
child become in the performance that 
the woman was led to ask, “Do you ever 
clean your teeth?” “No,” was the prompt 
reply, “’cause I can’t take them out.”— 
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