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THE FRANK MILLER CO 
ESTABLISHED 1836 
349-351 West 26th St., New York City 
1910. 
four years old of 13.232.1 pounds of milk, 
Red Bird, 11.462 pounds; Lady Clare 3d, 
10,103.3 pounds, and Jennie Lee. 10,484.9 
pounds, were bred at Glenside Farm, and 
all are of a good dual-purpose type, and 
this farm has recorded in the Milking 
Appendix of the Short-horn Herd Book 
44 cows with records of 8,000 pounds 
and over of milk. When Mr. Innis im¬ 
ported the bull Duke Buttercup from 
one of the best dairy Short-horn herds 
in England, he made a move in the right 
direction, and has built up a reputation 
as a successful breeder of the dairy 
Short-horn that will endure for genera¬ 
tions to come. If it were not for the 
insane idea the Short-horn Record As¬ 
sociation has of charging a recording 
fee of $100 for imported animals, there 
would be more of the same sort brought 
over. At the last New York State Fair at 
Syracuse there was a two days’ butter- 
fat test (open to all breeds), conducted 
by Prof. Wing, of Cornell University, in 
which Juliet, a two-year-old milking 
Short-horn, gave in the two days 78.1 
pounds of milk and 3.206 pounds of 
butter fat She stood second in the test, 
lacking only 0.03 pounds fat of being 
at the top. She was entered in the class 
for those under three years, and while 
her competitors were close to the limit 
she was but little past two years old, 
being a late April calf (and this in the 
Holsteins’ own county). One of my 
own young cows (Barbara, shown at 
big. i75) dropped first calf when-three 
years old, and in the month of June gave 
1,085 pounds of milk. In one week she 
gave 276 pounds milk and made 14 
pounds of butter on grass alone, no grain 
feed whatever, and she weighs when in 
good flesh nearly 1,500 pounds. My pre¬ 
diction is that the dairy Short-horn cow 
will continue to gain rapidly in popu¬ 
larity, and we shall hear more of her 
in the future than we have in the past. 
Schuyler Co., N. Y. a. h. prince. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Weak Sheep. 
What is the trouble with my sheep? I 
have lost eight or 10 since beginning of 
Winter. They seem to waste away and 
become so weak they can hardly walk, and 
finally get so they cannot stand, and get 
down and die in a few days, but seem to 
have fairly good appetite until one or 
two days before they die. It appears as 
though they are very weak in the legs, 
and 1 have often seen them a few days 
before they get down, trip and fall from 
the slightest obstruction, from a running 
briar getting caught in the leg or wool, 
and then would very often have to go and 
stand them up on their feet, and then 
they would go along eating until getting 
caught or stumble over something else, 
I have some scab in my sheep, but do not 
believe this is the cause of this extreme 
weakness. 1 notice they also have quite 
a good many ticks. Do you think they 
have stomach worms? j. e. a. 
Maryland. 
You do not say how you have been 
feeding the sheep or what you have fed. 
That is all important. If they have been 
living on Timothy hay or corn fodder that 
is the likely cause. They have simply 
starved and become constipated and af¬ 
fected with disease of the liver from over 
much bulky and somewhat innutritions 
food. Worms of any kiud would aggravate 
and make fatal the lack of nutritious food. 
At once feed generously on whole oats, bran 
and oil meal, and give plenty of clover hay 
or mixed clover and Timothy hay or nicely 
saved Alfalfa. A little sweet silage may 
be given with advantage. If another sheep 
dies make a post-mortem examination for 
worms, etc., and report findings to us. 
A. S. A. 
Nodular Disease. 
I have lost two ewes, one a nine-months- 
old lamb and the other a four-year-old, due 
to lamb May 1. The trouble seems to be 
what is known among sheep men as stretch¬ 
es. The veterinary here calls it impaction, 
and recommended doses of oil and cold water 
injections, which did no good. The symp¬ 
toms are loss of appetite and a stretching 
of the whole body with the bind legs ex¬ 
tended back as far as possible. I have 
examined intestines and stomach, but do 
not find any stoppage in them. What can 
I do to save the next one? I am feeding 
good mixed hay, mostly clover, with whole 
oats in the morning and mangel beets at 
night. My sheep are all in first-class con¬ 
dition and are having good, strong lambs. 
Water and salt are both kept in yard 
where they can help themselves. I find 
small hard bunches on the small intestines, 
that seem to contain a gritty substance 
when cut opeti. or. l. b. 
New York. 
The “bunches” indicate the presence of 
“nodular disease of the intestines - ’ (knotty 
guts), due to the worm known as “cesopha- 
gastoa columbianum.” This worm does not 
prove fatal, if sheep are well fed and the 
bowels are kept open. In cases such as 
you describe the intestines or stomachs or 
liver usually are affected, and too much 
rich food, too much bulky food and too 
little exercise are common causes. We find 
that sweet spirits of nitre given in half 
ounce dose in water as required will gen¬ 
erally stop the stretching. Afterward a 
physic may be given and the bulky food 
lessened. Add bran in equal quantity to 
the whole oats now being fed. a. s. a. 
WANT TO KNOW. 
I wish to build a combination chicken 
house and shop, about 50 by 20 feet. My 
idea is to have the south side, long way, 
for poultry, and the other for shop, with 
stone wall partition lengthwise, as I have 
plenty of stones suitable for wall. I would 
like opinions regarding this plan, and sug¬ 
gestions as to best arrangement of gasoline 
engine, forge and other necessities of a first- 
class farm shop. C. X.. K. 
Connecticut. 
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