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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
June 20, 1915. 
Live Stock Notes 
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Rover Talks. 
Here it is past 5 o’clock and Master 
has not shown up yet. Rooster has been 
crowing for over an hour, and old Sally 
Walker De Kol is coining down the lane 
with a swinging bag full of milk. I 
really would start after those lazy heif¬ 
ers without being told if it were not for 
fear of losing that half of Master’s cooky 
that he always gives me the first 
thing in the morning. Well, here he 
comes at last, and I will get my cooky 
and then hustle those heifers up to be 
milked. Funny that a fool cow doesn’t 
know when she needs milking ! Especially 
when she gets a dish of bran every time. 
There is no need to follow those cows 
clear to the barn, so I will just take a 
sneak up along the line fence by the old 
stone wall, and see if I can’t surprise 
Johnnie Chuck while he is getting his 
breakfast. Master said the other day 
that he believed those chucks were get¬ 
ting thicker all the while, but goodness 
knows I catch enough of them, so that 
they have no business to get thicker. 
Whew! But I am hot! And I think 
my lip is nearly split open besides. That 
chuck was certainly a walloper, but all 
the better now he is dead. He will make 
a lot of good eating when he gets good 
and tender. 
Darn this thing around my neck. It 
is so hot these warm days, and that 
shiny, jingling thing is enough to scare 
any chuck. I heard the kid ask Master 
why he couldn’t take it off from me, 
and throw it away, but Master said he 
paid $1.25 for the thing, and that if I 
didn’t wear it the constable would get 
me. The kid said I had never done any¬ 
thing for the cop to take me for. But 
Master said the $1.25 was a tax and the 
money was used to pay for sheep that 
were killed by dogs. Now what do you 
think of that for a fool law? The idea of 
taxing a respectable hard-working dog 
like me to pay for the sheep that some 
old tramp dog kills! Might just as well 
tax Master to raise a fine to pay for the 
tilings that tramp men steal. 
Excuse me a minute while I run 
around back of the house to see if any 
of those hens are trying to get into the 
garden. That Leghorn rooster did get in 
the other day, and you may have noticed 
that he has lost the best half of his 
tail. He pretends that he has shed it. 
But you can bet that he won’t get in 
the garden again. 
Gee! Here comes a tramp. Sure he 
is a tramp. He carries that old bundle 
of umbrella handles along just for a 
bluff, and to make us dogs afraid of him. 
I will lie right down here in the path 
and look him right in the eye, and I 
will bet you a sugar cooky that he doesn’t 
come in the yard. There! What did I 
tell you! Those fellows know when a 
person means business. 
I made a rather bad break a few nights 
ago. Master’s friend came on the late 
train and walked up from the depot. 
When he came in the yard, I scared him 
so that he tried to climb a shade tree, and 
I am afraid that I did fringe the bottoms 
of his pants a little. Master scolded and 
called me a “fool pup.” But I didn’t 
mind a bit. I knew it was just to square 
things with his friend. I know Master 
didn't lay it up against me, for he com¬ 
menced telling about how the neighbors 
had lost a lot of chickens by having them 
stolen, but we never lose any that way. 
This chicken business is a nuisance 
anyhow. I am expected to keep them 
out of the garden, and to keep them from 
getting stolen—both by human skunks 
and the other kind. And then, after I 
have protected her for a year, some fool 
hen with chickens will fly on my back 
and ride me all over the yard. Of course 
I can’t lick a female with children 
around. So I have to run under the 
wood shed to scrape her off. 
You see I am on the job 24 hours 
every day. I don’t mean that I never 
rest or sleep. A good honest fellow with 
a clear conscience can sleep any time 
when there is nothing else to do. But 
it does seem to me that those law-makers 
could find some other way to raise money 
besides taxing an useful fellow, and then 
rubbing it in by making him wear a 
strap and tag so he will never forget 
that he is taxed. J. grant morse. 
Congested Udder. 
I have a cow, calved two months, that 
still has a slight swelling in one quarter 
of udder. She was given grain too soon 
and also took slight cold. The milk in 
this quarter seems good, but, if given any 
grain, swelling increases. I have given 
saltpeter until it seems to have no effect. 
Massachusetts. j. p. h. 
Milk three times a day and each time 
give the udder a thorough massage with 
the palms of the hands; also rub the milk 
veins toward the heart. At night rub the 
udder with warm melted lard. Give a 
tablespoonful of powdered poke and two 
drams of saltpeter in the feed each other 
night. Bed the stall deeply. A. S. A. 
Stiff Hog. 
Will you advise me what to do for a 
stiff pig? It has been fed about one 
quart of middlings three times a day. We 
haven’t any milk. Sometimes we would 
feed some dish-water, but generally clear 
water with the feed. It is about six 
months old. The hind legs are so stiff 
he can hardly stand, and the bowels seem 
bound. f. L. u. 
New York. 
Confinement has no doubt caused the 
stiffness. Allow the hog its freedom on 
grass and feed slop of middlings, corn- 
meal and flaxseed meal made up with hot 
water. Ten per cent of digester tankage 
may be added as the hog improves. Until 
the stiffness subsides mix one ounce of 
limewater with each quart of slop fed. 
A. s. A. 
Weak Horse. 
I have a horse, six years old, in poor 
condition; eats well and feels well, but 
keeps growing thin; cannot stand hard 
work which lie always has before. lie 
has good Timothy hay, 12 quarts ground 
oats, light work ; he had worms in Win¬ 
ter. but I thought I got rid of them. 
T. E. P. 
Feed whole oats, adding one-ninth part 
of wheat bran by weight and wetting the 
feed. A few ears of corn may be allowed 
at noon, if relished by the horse. Have 
his teeth put in order by a trained veter¬ 
inarian. As a tonic give one tablespoon¬ 
ful night and morning of a mixture of 
equal parts of dried sulphate of iron, 
powdered saltpeter, gentian root, nux 
vomica and fenugreek. Continue for ten 
days; then skip ten days and repeat. 
Clip the horse if his coat is long and 
rough. Allow free access to rock salt. 
Give the drinking water before feeding. 
A. S. A. 
Cough; Head-shaking Horse. 
1. My cow pants and blows different 
times through the day, as if it was very 
warm weather. She will try to find 
shade, go under the sheds, and apple 
trees, and dodge all around for shady 
p aces. She acts to me as if the flies 
troubled her. She did have lice. She 
was fresh four weeks ago. She has a 
slight cough; the calf also has a cough. 
2. I have a horse which always com¬ 
mences about this time of year to shake 
his head and throw it up. Can you tell 
me if there is a cure for this? a. b. 
1. Have the cow tested with tuberculin, 
as the symptoms suggest tuberculosis. It 
is not uncommon for a cow to become 
overcome with the heat, and ever after 
the attack to pant in hot weather and to 
feel severely the irritation of flies, but 
cough is uncommon in such cases. That 
makes it the more likely that tuberculosis 
is present in the case described. The 
calf may have the same disease. 2. Ex¬ 
amine the ears for ticks or some other 
cause of irritation. Have the halter and 
bridle fit properly. The cause of irri¬ 
tation must be found and removed. With¬ 
out an examination we cannot decide the 
matter. a. S. A. 
The Department of Agriculture states 
that in Australia there is a system of 
combining pasture and hay-making in Al¬ 
falfa fields: 
“In the management of Australian Al¬ 
falfa fields it is the practice to grow a 
crop of hay early in the Spring and to 
pasture the Alfalfa during the remainder 
of the year. For grazing purposes Al¬ 
falfa is considered very valuable, because 
it responds to Summer rainfall, while the 
native grasses, being annuals, afford no 
late pasturage. In New South Wales 
Alfalfa is handled under this combined 
system of hay and pasturage on some of 
the large ranches, and as high as three 
sheep per acre are carried during the 
Summer, Autumn and Winter months. 
During early September in Australia, 
which is the early Spring season there, 
the sheep are taken off and the Alfalfa 
makes a luxuriant growth, affording a 
cured hay crop of approximately a ton 
per acre. Thus the hay is procured when 
the weather is cool and the amount of 
moisture given up by the plant and soil is 
small.” 
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