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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 29, 1917 
HORSES 
Adirondack Chieftain 
7390-THOROUGHBRED 
KENTUCKY SADDLE STALLION 
For Sale at ALCROFT FARM 
R. F. D. No. 1 FAYETTEVILLE, N. Y. 
Live Slock and Dairy 
FOR SAL E 
Three Percheron Horses 
registered In P. S. 9. B. One pair Bix-year-old mares j 
weight. 1,700 each. Sure breeders. One two-year-old filly- 
a prize winner at N. Y. State Fair last year. Ohe Stallion 
three years old, a Son of the $.'>0,000 Carnot. Won first 
prize last year for the best two-year-old in N. Y. State 
Also first at Middletown, N. Y. These horses are all sound 
and right in every way and can win in any show ring. 
ARDMORE FARM, Glen Spey, Sullivan Co., N.Y, 
FOR SALF AT FARMER’S PRICES 
Two Very ChoiceReg^istered Percheron Stud Colts 
foaled May 18th andillst, 1917. Write for particulars. 
Satisfaction guaranteed. TARBELL FARMS. Smilhville Flits, N T. 
For Sale-Pure-Bred, Black Percheron STALLION 
age, 6 years; sound and a good breeder. Price, right 
O. V. REAMS, Kox !}64, Eau Claire, Mich) 
SHETLAND PONIES 
200 head to select from. Special prices on colts for 
Angus* and September. Write Dept. L, 
The “Shadyside” Farms, North Kenton, Oliio 
A Bay Stallion Shetland Pony For Sale 
Fifteen monthfi old; good size and style. Also a 
pure br^ Irish Dexter Bull calf, four months old. 
ROBERT R. STREET, . Falconer, N. Y. 
DOGS and FERRETS 
For Sale-HOUND PUPPIES 
Fox and Bloodhound crossed. Will make excellent 
hunters. Females, $2 to $4. 
ROBERT W. SOHALLENBERG, Westernvilte, N, Y, 
Airedales for S ale Also onenine-montlis-^ld 
FRANK MEAD 
female. Pedigreed stock. 
ligr_ 
Amenia, New York 
AIRFHAT young stock; spayed bitches and 
breeders; Irish bitch and puppies; 
fuiest breeding. Allstone, Bound Brook, N. J. 
Black, White and Tan Shepherd Pups wiftritrspay 
them. Satisfaction guaranteed. W.W.Ntrtan.Sa.HammtRil.N.T. 
rnllip Pnn« AND GUINEA PIGs! 
Lome raps kelson bros,, gkovk City, pa, 
EXTERMINATE 
YOUR RATS. 
Write for catalogue; it’s free. 
C. H. KEEFER & CO, Ctreenwicb, Ohio 
2 AAA Cai>ha 4» Either color; small. Mated 
■ vVU ICl I tala pairs or dozen lots. Pamph* 
—' - let and price list free. 
LEVI FARNSJYORTH, New London, Ohio 
Either color; any size. 
Mated Pairs or dozen 
Iota. Catalogue free. JNO. F. MURRAY, New London, 0. 
JperretsFor Sale~"'’ 
Angora Kittens. 
Also Fox Terriers and 
C. JEWELL, Spencer, O. 
SHEEP 
Tl INI<? R AM<? CHOICE LOT. STRONG 
1 OROSS BREEDERS 
The leading breed for hot house lambs. Write for 
literature and prices to J. N. McPherson, Scottsville.N.Y. 
Shropshlreand Southdown Rams itj. aVrealonaTie 
prices. L. M. Colbert & Sons, East Chatham, N. Y. 
F AIRHObllR H.4I1IP8HIKE RAllIS for sale. Exceptionally 
flue individuals. Earl I>. Brown, R. 8, lllon, N.Y, 
F or SaLE—Reg. llumpelilre Rreediiig Eweeand Jtam 
Laiuba. Best stock. C- BRUN 0 A 6 E, Salnkurj Mills, Niw Tor* 
SAf F*—Registered Hampshire and 
Oxford Rams. Moderate 
prices. E. J. COLBERT, East Chatham, N.Y. 
For Sale-Reg. Hampshire Yearling Lmb ^ims,?we 
lambs and few ewes. HASLETT BROS., Seneca, N. Y. 
Things that are Not Commonly Known 
about Horses 
Part IT. 
Look closely into the wide-open pupil 
of the eye and possibly some rounded 
masses of black substance will be seen. 
These are “soot balls” or “nigra cor¬ 
puscles,” banging from the back of the 
iris and composed of excessive black 
pigment (uvea) lining the posterior 
chamber of the eye. Tliey rarely inter¬ 
fere with sight, but must be considered 
objectionable. 
In the inner corner (canthus) of each 
eye will be seen the “third eyelid,” 
“handkerchief,” or “haw,” technically 
termed the memhrana nictitans. It is a 
rosy pink membrane and may be exposed 
so that it partially covers the eye, by 
compressing the eyeball by pressing in¬ 
ward and forward with the index finger 
on the upper eyelid and the thumb up¬ 
on the lower one. The veterinarian does 
this to note the appearance of the mucous 
membrane, as that is an indication of its 
condition throughout the body. It becomes 
dark red or “injected” in fever, yellow 
if the liver is deranged, or shows other 
changes, the meaning of which the expert 
is able to interpret. This membrane is 
used by the horse to clear foreign objects 
from the eye and at other times is prac¬ 
tically out of sight. Remember that if a 
horse is afflicted with tetanus {lockjaw), 
the ‘memhrana nictitans protrudes and 
partially covers the eyeball, especially 
iohen the head suddenly is raised. In 
years gone by quacks called the protrud¬ 
ing membranes “the hooks,” considered 
them evidences of disease and cut them 
out, a cruel, useless operation adding to 
the suffering of the horse. 
.lust about the true nostril which is 
lined with pink mucous membrane W'ill be 
found the “false nostril,” a pouch of fine, 
thin, pliant skin into which the thumb 
may be thrust. The student should locate 
the false nostrils in this way, and in doing 
so w’ill have acquired knowledge possessed 
by few farmers and horsemen. 
Looking at the teeth, understand that 
the “wolf teeth,” so >nuch spoken of by 
horsemen, are little, plain, short-rooted 
teeth sometimes found one on each side, 
just in front of the fir.st grinding tooth 
(premolar) of the upper jaw. The wolf 
tooth is merely a vestige of thei seventh 
grinder, or anterior premolar of the 
prehistoric horse. They have no influence 
whatever upon the eyes, coniinou er¬ 
roneous belief to the contrary, and, 
therefore, are not the cause of “moon 
blindness” (periodic ophthalmia), and 
need not he removed. Often they are 
shed” by the time a horse is eight or 10 
years old. It is well, however, to remove 
them, if they interfere with the bit of 
of horn like that of the frog, and it does 
not bleed when cut. The chestnut has 
no known function, hut in some long pas- 
terned running horses the ergots possibly 
protect the fetlocks, if they happen to 
come in contact with the ground. Any¬ 
how, they have been found bleeding after 
the horse has run a hard race. The ergot 
takes its name from its likeness in shape 
to the purple-black fungus -spur of ergot 
of rye (claviceps purpurea). 
A. S. ALEXANDER, M. D. C. 
Adopting Western Feeding Methods 
It used to be said that the West must 
learn intensive methods of farming from 
the East. Those who talked that way 
seemed to think the East had little to 
learn from the West. The fact is that 
many Western methods, formerly called 
wasteful, are now being taken up by 
Eastern farmers. These farmers find 
themselves driven to it by the high cost 
of labor. Many of these things are along 
the line of saving labor ‘by making the 
live stock wait on themselves. 
For example, most Eastern farmers felt 
that hogs must be kept in close pens with 
all their food laborously carried to them. 
No one can teU how much time has been 
lost through this w’asted labor. The West 
lias taught us that the hog is a grazing 
animal—-as capable of helping himself in 
a pasture or clover field as a steer or a 
sheep. Then came the plan of self-feed¬ 
ing, which means trusting the hog with 
an unlimited supply of food ever before 
him so that he can help himself. That 
works well, and the hog proves that he 
can be trusted with his food, and that he 
does not need it to have it laboriously 
mixed with a slop or soup. 
When the plan of “hogging down” coi’n 
fields was first talked about it was voted 
a shiftless and lazy-man's method. When 
the corn was ripe the hogs Avere turned 
right in to help themselves. They smashed 
down the stalks, chewed up the corn and 
then chew’ed up the stalk itself—or most 
of it. At the eud of the season there 
was nothing left in the field except the 
butts of the stalks, while the hogs walked 
off to market with the corn packed firmly 
on their hones. Tliey did a cleaner job 
of busking than any hired man, charged 
no wages and got off the earth before 
Winter. No prejudice can long endure 
against utility, and the hog proved his 
value as a corn busker. Now this plan 
will be, followed on hundreds of Eastern 
farms where labor is scarce. It will be 
one way of meeting t!ie draft. 
Now comes another Western plan 
which has long been called “wasteful”: 
Farm Sanitation 
Will Increase Your Profits 
by Keeping Live Stock 
and Poultry Healthy. 
Kreso Dip No. 1 
Easy to Use. Efficient. Cconomica;. 
Kills Sheep Ticks, Lice, Mfe end Fleas. 
Helps Heal Cuts, Serstches and 
Skin Diseases. 
Prevents Hog Ctiolera. 
Experiments on Ore boea prove that 
a dilution of No. 1 will 
kill virulent Hog: Chelem Virus in 6 
minutes by contact. 
We Will Send Free Beolciets on 
The treatment of Bumge, eczema or 
pitch mange, artliritiAaoceJDOuth, etc. ; 
How to build a bog wsBow which 
will keep bogs clean and bealthy; 
How to keep yotir hogs free from 
insect parasites and dbwtse. 
WRITE FOR VHEM. 
Kreso Dip No. 1 in OflglBal Packages. 
FOB SALS BY AU, DBUdOISTS. 
PARKE, DAVIS & CO. 
Department Anli m l iiJs stry. 
DETROIT. • • MICH. 
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• Y. 
Shropshire YEARLING RAMS^ b^coyert, udijM 
FINE WOOL YEARLING 
AN D OLDER 
Sliropshireram Lambs andYearlings. Atreasonable 
prices. L. M. ADAMS, Locust Hill Farm, Eagle Bridge, N.Y. 
RAMS 
ForSale- 
REGISTERED 
YEARLING 
ShropshireRams 
GOATS 
Milch Goafs high-grade 1 oggenbur*buck kids. 
XT J . Lowmiced owing to flaws in marking. 
No does for sale. £. N. Barrett, Amherst, Va. 
Pair Angora Goafs-;ir,rS«?ri: 
Beds or offers, FRANK KNOWLES. Little Hocking. Ohio 
niialifv I the overhead cheek 
yuailiy and fjelalne KEG. RAMS FOR SALE 1 uvtrneaa cnecK. 
Co OePATTKiPGEy B ox 46yBto 3, Perry, | Ijampas Of ^‘laiupers/’ tho name given 
to .a swelling of the hard palate causing 
it to project below the level of the upper 
incisor teeth is not a disease, need not 
cause alarm, should not be cut or burned, 
and readily isi remedied by attention to 
the teeth, giving treatment for indiges¬ 
tion or worms, allowing a colt to eat old 
Ewes .all «gM. Shipped ^ approval. Pncos right. I hard ear corn, and rubbing the swelling 
twice daily with a block of alum. 
Space will not permit us to mention 
many other items of interest, hut before 
closing attention should be directed to 
the fact that the horse lias four chestnuts 
and four erf/ols. These are horn callosi¬ 
ties of the skin, a chestnut being found 
on the inner side of the forearm well 
above the knee of each fore leg and upon 
the lower, inner rear aspect of each hock 
joint. The ergot is a horny spur found 
projecting from the rear of each fetlock 
and covered by the long hair or footlock 
of the joint. Chestnuts are by some re¬ 
garded as vestiges of the thumb nails or 
big toe nails of the feet of the prehistoric 
five-toed horse, or as vestigial footpads, 
and by others as vestigial scent glands or 
“castors.” Chestnuts are missing from 
the hind legs of the zebra, ass, and some 
mules (hybrids). In coarse horses they 
are very large. In some horses of fine 
quality and breed the ergots are missing. 
These callosities safely may be trimmed 
with a sharp knife. They are formed 
SWIS^ Fresh Milkers. 
Sharpies, Centre Square. Pa 
Grade Bucks, *10; - Pure Bucks, «30 
jE have books on 
all subjects of 
farming by rec¬ 
ognized authorities. 
Write us and we will 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th Street, New York 
“The New Jersey ^tate Agricultural 
College advises that where the ainont of 
livestock is not sufiicient to consume all 
the fodder and where the land is in need 
of humus and potash, the stalks had much 
better be left on the ground and plowed 
under in the Spring or disked down for 
a Fall-sown cover crop of rye. The corn 
will cure as well or better on the stand¬ 
ing stalks and. can be husked out any 
time dui-ing the Fall months. It may be 
thrown into a wagon driven through the 
field by the buskers, as is generally done 
in the. West, thus reducing hand labor to 
a niuimum. 
This would not pay on dairy farms, 
or where much stock is kept, hut on 
hundreds of fruit or general-purpose 
farms this plan is sensible. It will save 
labor and give more to the soil. When 
these stalks are hauled away from the 
field, fed out, and then the manure 
hauled back there will surely be some loss 
of plant food. Under the plan here sug¬ 
gested all the plant-food value in the 
stalks will be saved. It will seem like 
a radical plan to most Easteim farmers, 
but these are radical times and we must 
meet the new conditions. 
‘Good to the Ccwt Drop” 
C ALVES relish ftnd thrive upon 
Blatchford's Calf Meal, tha milk sub¬ 
stitute. They increase inUize and weight 
rapidly: are healthy and Vigorous, no indiges¬ 
tion— no scouring. 
Blatchford's 
Calf Meal 
should be used to push the calfforwardto a grain diet, 
is moreassentiaTi 
This important move i 
now than e\’er. 
‘How to Raise 
ihe Largest 
c „ .... Jalves at the 
oinRliest Cost. If you raiM scy^BUvcs write for 
the booklet. It is mailed without cost. 
Blatchlord Calf Meal Factory. Papt. M. Waukegan, III. 
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Why 
Unicorn 
Is Best 
Unicorn contains only ingredients 
recommended by Cornell College and 
nothing else. The present Cornell 
Ration is calculated to test 74.9 lbs. 
total nutrients. 
Unicorn officially teste82.3 lbs. and 
80 contains 10% more food, showing 
we give good measure and save you 
10% on the cost of feed. There is uo 
other feed made that teste so high. 
Why not use the best—Write for free 
Cow Testers’ Manual. Ask your 
dealer or write us. 
Chapin & Co., R-19, Chicago, III. 
IMrs. NewriCHE ( patronizingly) : 
“Were any of your ancestors men of note, 
Mr. Cynic?” Mr. Cynic: “Yes, madam, 
I should say so. One of them was the 
most famous admiral of his day. and com¬ 
manded the allied forces of the world.” 
Mrs. Newriehe (with altered tone of deep 
respect) : “Is it possible? And what was 
his name?” Mr. Cynic—“Noah, madam.” 
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