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1'HfcC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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LIVE STOCK IN NEW ENGLAND. 
A farmer built a good serviceable barn 
and gave the entire use of it to a stage 
man and teamster, in consideration of 
the owner being given the entire manure 
product of the barn. Sometimes inter¬ 
esting bits of information about the 
farms are gleaned in places where no 
one would expect to find them. The 
story outlined in the first paragraph 
was told in the executive department 
of the Chicago postoffice, and it has to 
do with a farm near the Vermont-New 
Hampshire State line. The stage man 
transacts an extensive passenger and 
freight business out of Alstead, Cheshire 
County, N. H., and he stables his stock 
in Alstead. A cousin of the Chicago 
official who tells the story contracted 
with the stage man to build him a good 
barn for the comfortable and convenient 
■shelter of his stock, the only considera¬ 
tion asked being the entire production of 
stable manure from whatever kind of 
stock that was kept about the place. 
The larger animals were stabled on an 
upper floor, and the manure was dropped 
through hatchways into a lower place in 
which hog stock has access, and where 
they contributed their droppings. The 
farmer hauled and still hauls the fer¬ 
tilizer to his farm, several miles distant. 
The Chicago man who tells this story 
believes that in the very near future 
there will be a great rejuvenation of 
the New England farms. There is a 
time coming when the hills of Vermont 
and New Hampshire will range as good 
beef cattle as now are found in the 
Western States and Territories. The 
needs of the country will simply demand 
it and it will have to come. There are 
three million head of cattle less in this 
country than there were three years ago. 
The reason is that the once free ranges 
have been taken up for other purposes, 
and the result is that there is a great 
falling off of the beef production. Cattle 
raising must go to other sections of the 
country, there must be a wider distribu¬ 
tion of the industry else the price of 
meat will so advance that the wage- 
earner will not be able to reach it. Not 
only will cattle be raised extensively in 
the East, according to the prediction of 
this western man, but the crops that go 
to feed and finish for the market will be 
produced from soil replenished by such 
efforts as that outlined in the beginning 
of this story. In other words, the old 
States that contributed their people to 
the farms of the vast regions of the Mis¬ 
sissippi and the Missouri are in great 
measure to get back their old time 
prestige .through increased supply of the 
needs of the American family. 
Illinois. j. L. GRAFF. 
R. N.-Y.—Along with this there should 
come local slaughter houses, such as 
were found 50 years ago. Upper New 
England is now a great playground for 
tourists and boarders in Summer. These 
consume great quantities of meat, which 
ought to be produced and slaughtered 
close to the hotels and boarding houses. 
HEIFER’S FIRST CALF. 
In regard to raising a first calf from a 
heifer, I would say, if the heifer was a 
promising one and her dam and granddam 
were extra good cows, and the sire was 
satisfactory, I should not hesitate to raise 
it. The chief trouble with a first calf is it 
is very apt to be under-sized, and unless 
pushed right along all the time will not 
attain the full maturity we would like. I 
remember my father once got a calf from a 
promising heifer whose mother had a record 
of 20 quarts, and this calf made an extra 
one, good for a full pail at each milking on 
grass alone. I have raised two myself from 
good ancestry, and both were good milkers, 
but somewhat under-sized. One I sold when 
a heifer, and she afterwards sold for $65. 
This was 15 years ago, when cows did not 
bring the prices they bring to-day. The 
other I have in my barn to-day, and she 
has a record of 18 quarts. I have raised 
one or two other first calves from common 
stock and they were nothing to brag of. It 
pays to select calves from extra good cows 
from good ancestry every time, and take 
good care of them until they mature, and 
then continue the good care and you will 
have a herd good to look at, and one that 
will give satisfactory returns. 1 would 
rather raise one extra good one than any 
number of common ones, as the former 
means satisfaction and profit and the lat¬ 
ter disappointment and loss. I know of 
some farmers about hero who keep extra 
cows and make a good profit on their dairy, 
even under the present unsatisfactory con¬ 
ditions. Many others keep cows at a loss 
and try to get their profit from some other 
source, and have mighty hard work to keep 
above water. Education and common sense 
will go a good way toward success in any 
vocation, and farming is no exception to 
this rule. a. e. p. 
Hopkinton, Mass. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Partial Paralysis. 
I have a sow about two years old. About 
seven weeks ago she had seven pigs. They 
got along all right for three weeks, then 
the sow’s milk left her, and she got so she 
could not walk without crossing her hind 
legs one over the other. Although in good 
order, she seems to be unable to walk on 
her hind feet, and does not care to eat any¬ 
thing. She is now getting very thin. We 
fed her on corn and turnips, boiled and 
thickened with cornmeal before she got so. 
What is the matter with her, and did the 
feed have anything to do with her condi¬ 
tion? a. f. w. 
Itosaryville, Md. 
The food was quite unsuitable and would 
be liable to cause the condition described. 
Corn should be kept away from the nursing 
sow and also before farrowing. If you had 
fed her slop containing such foods as mid¬ 
dlings, oatmeal, bran, flaxseed meal and a 
little cornmeal, she would have done better. 
The cornmeal is best added after the pigs 
are getting along nicely; but it is too rich 
at first. Put the sow on such a ration 
now and add limewater freely once a day. 
Allow her free range out of doors. Lack of 
exercise with the corn feeding usually causes 
the trouble described. a. s. a. 
Collar Sore. 
I have a horse that has a sore neck, 
where the top of the collar comes. It some¬ 
times seems to be like a small boil. At 
such times, I am unable to use him. Can 
you suggest a cure? Also would you recom¬ 
mend a cure for the heaves? H. s. 
Ithaca, N. Y. 
Often there is a piece of dead, horny 
skin in such sores. It forms a core around 
which pus burrows. W'hen such a “sit- 
fast” is there it should be cut out and the 
wound treated with antiseptics until it fills 
up. Otherwise painting the part twice a 
day with a mixture of two ounces of 
tincture of iodine and six ounces of extract 
of witch hazel will usually suffice. A 
little oxide of zinc ointment may also be 
applied just before working the horse. 
Heaves is an incurable disease. Remedies 
proposed for it alleviate for a time, but 
they do not cure the disease. It returns 
inevitably when the medicine is withheld 
or much dusty, bulky coarse food is given 
to the horse before working. a. s. a. 
Weak Knees. 
Will you give mo a remedy for a young 
horse affected as follows: His knees are 
bent forward and he trembles badly. I 
have been told that he is “bucked.” He is 
three and half years old. I drove him to a 
light cart when he was 18 months old. For 
six months I have been driving him to a 
buggy, sometimes with two persons in buggy. 
However, I never drove him hard, and have 
taken the best of care of him. He is a 
fine horse, a standard bred trotter. 
Calvary, Ga. l. w. a. 
The condition cannot be cured. It was 
caused by driving the horse too early in 
life. Some improvement may follow if you 
feed all food from the floor level, and let 
the colt pasture grass as much as possible. 
The position assumed when grazing and 
taking food from the floor level helps to 
straighten and strengthen the knees. A 
veterinarian, if employed, may find that 
blistering the tendons would be indicated 
in this particular case; but it does not 
always benefit the condition in question. 
a. s. A. 
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