Experiences With College Students. 
H AVING used college students for sev¬ 
eral years in my farm and orchard 
work, I find them above the average hired 
man in intelligence and usually willing to 
work, especially along lines they are in¬ 
terested in. The greatest objection to 
this kind of help is that these students 
usually cannot begin work until June, or 
at the end of the school year, and one- 
half of the season’s work is done before 
they begin. If the college could let them 
begin say in March or April, and then 
give them credit for the work done on the 
farm or in the orchard, it would be of 
advantage to all parties concerned. 
Two young men who have helped me at 
different times in the past, who are now 
holding responsible positions as profes¬ 
sors in agricultural and horticultural 
schools, tell me that the practical work 
that they had on the farm and in the 
orchard was of great value to them 
later. Others have returned to college 
and can do better work there on account 
of their experience on the farm. My ex¬ 
perience has been that these college stu¬ 
dents are worth more than the average 
farm hand, but one cannot keep them 
long, for they soon become too valuable 
to others who can afford to pay them 
better wages. c. o. G. 
Iowa. 
R. N.-Y.—Some of the colleges—like 
Ohio—are arranging courses so that the 
boys may have six months of study and 
six months for work—the latter right 
when farm work is most needed. 
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Worms of Sheep. 
313 
The Food Determines Manure Value. 
M UST manure be produced by grain- 
fed horses in order to be effective as 
a fertilizer? A neighbor of mine 
says he understands it must be. but I 
maintain the digestive juices will make 
any manure a fertilizer even if not as 
good as in the case of grain-fed horses. 
Auburn, N. Y. j. d. t. 
Horses or other live stock can add 
nothing whatever to the actual value of 
the food which they consume. Let a 
horse eat a ton of hay; a portion of it 
will be used for nourishing the body of 
the horse; part of the nitrogen, phos¬ 
phoric acid and potash will be taken out 
and stored up in the body; the remainder 
will be passed on as manure. The liquid 
manure contains that part of the ton of 
hay which has become soluble in the body. 
This will contain practically all of the 
potash that is made available, and more 
or less of the nitrogen. The remainder 
of the hay will be passed as manure, and 
will consist of the hay ground up fine and 
softened by the digestive processes. If, 
however, another horse oats a ton of hay, 
and half a ton of grain, the manure from 
that horse would naturally be richer be¬ 
cause the grain and hay together con¬ 
tained more plant food than the hay 
alone, and the manure would contain all 
of this material. The digestive juices, as 
you call them, cannot possibly add plant 
food to the manure. They soften and 
break up the food, and make it more or 
less available, but it is impossible for any 
plant food to pass out of the animal with¬ 
out first passing in through its mouth. A 
moment’s thought will show that the 
grain-fed horses will give more plant food 
in their manure than horses fed on hay 
alone, because the first horses take more 
plant food into their system through the 
grain. 
Green Oats for Pigs. 
O NE and one-tenth cent per pound 
saving in the production of pork 
is the result of seeding oats alone 
as a forage crop for growing pigs. This 
is valuable information from the North 
Dakota Experiment Station. Every 
farmer has oats in his bin, he is familiar 
with every detail in the growth of the 
crop, and it is an easy step for him to 
provide a lot seeded to oats. In com¬ 
parison with dry lot feeding 4.3 pounds 
of grain were required to produce one 
pound of gain, while with oats 3.2 
pounds of grain were sufficient to pro¬ 
duce one pound of gain with pigs forag¬ 
ing on oats. However, th station ad¬ 
vises that rape has been found superior 
to oats as forage for hogs, both as to 
gains made by the pigs and amount of 
feed produced per acre. 
“I want you to understand,” said 
young spender, “that I got my money by 
hard work.” “Why, I thought it was 
left to you by your rich uncle.” “So it 
was; but I had hard work to get it away 
from the lawyers.”—Ladies’ Home Jour- 
i al. 
W ILL you please tell me the symp¬ 
toms of the stomach worm in sheep, 
also those of the nodular disease? 
Do sheep ever die from these two para¬ 
sites? In buying sheep at the stock 
yards or from dealer how should a person 
detect the presence of the above para¬ 
sites? What grade of sheep would be 
proper for feeding? What is your opinion 
of pea silage for sheep? J. M. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
Intestinal parasites, such as stomach 
worms and tapeworms, cause weakness 
and bloodlessness, indicated by pale mem¬ 
branes of the eyelids and mouth and 
white appearing “paper” skin, emaciation, 
scouring and then dropsical swellings un¬ 
der the jaws. Stomach worms mostly 
affect lambs in this way and often cause 
death. Adult sheep are more likely to 
be ill-affected by tapeworms. In buying 
sheep see that the membranes referred 
to are natural pink and healthy appear¬ 
ing, and that the skin also is of right col¬ 
or and “feel” and the animal in good 
flesh. Nodular disease (knotty guts) is 
indicated by little pea-like nodes in the 
walls of the intestines. The nodes are 
filled with grey-yellow or greenish sub¬ 
stance and contain the worms in one 
stage of their existence. One cannot tell if 
such disease is present; but thousands of 
fat sheep, slaughtered at tlie great abba- 
toirs of the country are found affected. 
Well-fed sheep manage to survive the 
effects of the nodular worm (oesophagas- 
toma columbianum). There is no rem¬ 
edy. Treatment has to be given for the 
other worms mentioned. Gasoline is the 
best drug for stomach worms and pow¬ 
dered kamala is effective for tapeworms. 
Good grade Shropshire sheep should suit 
you for feeding, or a cross of Lincoln, Ox¬ 
ford. Cotswold or Leicester may be used 
where larger sheep are wanted. Pea sil¬ 
age, if of good quality and not moldy, is 
an excellent feed for sheep when used 
along with plenty of mixed or clover or 
Alfalfa hay, wheat screenings, or oats 
and bran, etc. Moldy, spoiled pea silage 
is deadly and pea silage fed very heavily 
without enough of other sound feeds may 
injuriously affect the kidneys. We have 
known it to prove deadly to sheep. 
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