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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 13, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
BEEF CATTLE FOR THE EAST. 
I T is quite surprising how many farm¬ 
ers in the Eastern States are consid¬ 
ering the plan of breeding and raising 
beef cattle. Some of these men are 
dairymen who for one reason or another 
have concluded that beef might pay them 
better than milk or butter, so they are 
looking about and studying the beef 
question as best they can. We are not 
sure (hat such a change would pay and 
we should advise a man to be very care¬ 
ful before making a change from dairy¬ 
ing. At the same time it is well to study 
the various beef breeds and get a fair 
idea as to their value. It is not entire¬ 
ly a matter of breeding beef calves and 
turning them out to pasture through the 
Summer and feeding them through the 
Winter, for there are about as many 
points to the business as there are in 
dairying, and no man can make a profit 
at beef raising unless he understands the 
Mix with it two tablespoonfuls of lime- 
water and two teaspoonfuls of granu¬ 
lated sugar per pint. Feed it blood 
warm. At first allow the foal a cupful 
once an hour; then gradually lengthen 
the feeding periods and increase the 
amount of milk allowed. Give the milk 
from a sterilized nursing bottle and rub¬ 
ber teat, or from a small teapot having 
the thumb of an old kid glove drawn over 
its spout and pierced with several holes 
by means of a darning needle. Give the 
foal free access to rolled oats in a box. 
When it eats oats well, add wheat bran 
gradually. In three or four weeks sweet 
skim-milk may form a part of the ration 
and then be gradually substituted for 
new milk. If the foal scours withhold 
milk and give warm water and lime- 
water, sweetened, after a dose of two 
ounces of castor oil shaken up in milk. 
Give the foal a calf or other foal as 
companion, and soon let it run on new, 
clean grass, near the house, but not with 
adult stock. Better relegate the work of 
raising an orphan foal to some kindly 
A lllGII-CLASS ANGUS. Fig. 32S. 
principles of feeding and knows how to 
handle the animals. One great drawback 
will be our long cold Winters which will 
mean a long continued season of barn 
feeding which would be expensive and 
make it difficult to compete under present 
conditions with the beef produced in the 
South and Southwest where the pasture 
season is longer. In some parts of New 
England, certain farmers are considering 
the plan of using the black Scotch cat¬ 
tle, either the Angus or Galloway, for 
crossing upon large native cows. The 
grades from this cross are usually large 
blocky animals not of much value for the 
dairy but of good shape and size for 
beef. They are very hardy and can be 
kept well in herds. Another value from 
this cross is found in the thick, black 
hide; now that the fur-bearing animals 
are diminishing in numbers, the hide of 
the black Scotch cattle has an increasing 
value and makes an excellent substitute 
for buffalo and the larger hides used for 
robes or coats. Thus a grade of the 
black Scotch animal has a double value 
both for beef and for Ls hides, and the 
chances are that the business of produc¬ 
ing such cattle could be made to pay 
well with good management. Fig. 32S 
shows a high-class Angus bull. This 
animal was imported from Scotland and 
was used in the herd of Dr. II. N. Brown 
of Highland County, Ohio. 
woman. It is a tedious chore, and needs 
the mo.herly instinct and patience of a 
woman, who should be presented with the 
colt for her pains. a. s. a. 
Raising an Orphan Foal. 
W ILL you tell how to feed a young 
colt in case the dam will not own 
it? Is there anything one can do 
to induce the dam to own the colt? I 
have a mare that had a colt two years 
ago, and would not own it. a. r. 
When a mare does not own her foal, 
or if she proves vicious and will not let 
it suck, pen her in a corner of a box 
stall, by means of a gate or hurdle 
through the bars of which the foal can 
get at the udder. If necessary use a 
twitch a few times to keep the mare 
quiet while the foal sucks. She some¬ 
times will own the foal when it has 
sucked a number of times. Do not retain 
such a mare for breeding. A foal may 
be raised on cows’ milk, if one chooses 
milk poor in butterfat, but from a fresh 
cow. Dilute the milk with hot water. 
The “ Eye Test” for Tuberculosis. 
TT7TIAT do you know about the eye 
W test for tuberculosis? I tested my 
cow ; she did not react. My neigh¬ 
bors tell me the test is not worth anything. 
Warren, Ohio. j. b. j. 
There is no absolutely infallible test 
for tuberculosis in cattle, but those in 
which tuberculin is used are the most 
satisfactory and are sufficiently reliable 
for all practical purposes. The eye, or 
ophthalmic, test is a good one when prop¬ 
erly made and when the condition which 
may vitiate it are guarded against. It 
is essential that reliable and properly 
prepared tuberculin be used and best that 
cattle being tested should be confined un¬ 
der shelter. Exposure to rain, bright 
sunlight, or strong winds that would ir¬ 
ritate the eyes, or opportunity to wipe 
them off against hay or other substances 
might make it difficult to judge of the 
effect of the tuberculin. The method of 
using this test is to put one or two 
drops of tuberculin directly into the eye 
while someone holds the animal’s head 
elevated and the eyelids apart. The re¬ 
action, if there is to be any, is usually 
apparent by the eighth hour, though it 
is sometimes delayed as long as 24 hours. 
It is shown by watering and reddening 
of the eye and by swelling of the lid; 
later “matter” forms at the inner angle 
of the eye, and may run down the face. 
Like all tuberculin tests, this one is most 
satisfactory when made by one whose 
experience enables him to judge of the 
certainty of the reaction and whether 
there may have been conditions present 
which could have interferred with it. 
The ophthalmic is the most simple of the 
tuberculin tests, and in the hands of the 
inexpert layman, probably the most sat¬ 
isfactory ; it is questionable, however, 
whether it would be wise for an inexper¬ 
ienced owner to condemn a valuable cow 
on the strength of his own unaided ob- 
torvation of this test. m. b. d. 
“Now, Thomas, tell me in what battle 
King Richard III was mortally wound¬ 
ed.” “His last one, mum.”—Credit Lost. 
SANITATION 
would have saved a great many 
of the 7,420,912 hogs valued 
at $59,455,700.00 lost in 
United States during 1913 from 
HOG CHOLERA 
You can make your hog 
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