RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Live Stock Notes 
Harmonious Sheep Bells 
Whei'e can I get loud-sounding sheep 
hells? What combination of musical 
notes in such bells would give the most 
Jiarmonious results? I would like to use 
such bells, in order that I may hear 
them at a distance, and in order that the 
sound of the bells may be pleasing to 
the ear. n. s. 
(’olumbia Co., N. Y. 
We sent this to a manufacturer of hells 
wlio writes that they make a line of one- 
piece steel cow and sheep bells. From 
tliis outfit they can select a fairly correct 
vhord from a musical scale. This would 
include three, five or eight bells. Of 
course these bells would not be tuned ex¬ 
actly, but they would be musical in tone, 
and when hung on a flock of livOy sheep 
they would give a very jdeasant sound 
from a distant hillside. It surely is a 
pleasant thing to have the sheep carry a 
little music in this way. 
Hogs in a New England Pasture 
On page 408 you print a letter from 
.T. M., New .Tersey, I'elative to the hog 
question for Eastern fai-mers, and a very 
good article by Prof. F. C. Minkler in 
answer to this letter. There is another 
pha.se of this question that seems to me 
to be worthy of attention that I have not 
seen brought out in any di.scussiou, viz.: 
the raising of hogs on our rough Eastern 
lauds. There are thousands of acres in 
the East very near to the farm buildings, 
too rough for cultivation, generally in¬ 
cluded in the term “pasture,” yet grow¬ 
ing so little feed among the stones and 
l)rush that 10 acres would not feed a 
cow through the Summer, and such land 
might well be utilized for hogs. 
I have a small farm in the mountains 
of Vermont, 2,(K)0 feet above the sea. 
Three years ago I took ji corner of a five- 
acre lot. rough, A-ery stony iind overgrown 
with hardback and Avillotvs, built a small 
hoghouse, fenced in about 100 feet .square 
and put in two shotes for about three 
months. They overturned lots of the 
lirush and iiiA’cstigated the under side of 
every sttuie they could turn over. No i 
seed Avas soAvn on this plot and no more ( 
get 10 to 12 pounds of grain. Feed grain 
twice a day with silage; add 1 per cent 
salt to grain mixture when mixing it up. 
II. F. J. 
Lameness 
Two years ago I purchased a black 
trotting-bred mare. Aveight about 800 lbs., 
sound in every respect. The next March 
I droA’e her about 12 miles one cold day 
.and stabled her at the end of my journey. 
rnknoAvn to me the Avind poured in on 
her through cracks at the head of the 
stall. Being soft and not driven much 
the mare Avas Aa'ry Avarm. After a few 
hours Avhen I took her from the stall 
she hopped on her right hind leg for a 
fcAA’’ steps, then she Avas all right. She 
continued this hoppiu" after standing for 
.several months; then I could .see she was 
gradually becoming lame. I had already 
taken her to a competent A’cterinarian and 
he said there Avas nothing to be done; 
that she Avould outgroAv it in time. lie 
said the trouble Avas in the hip. Last 
Summer (the second Summer of her lame¬ 
ness) she Avas but slightly lame, Avith no 
severe attacks, but Avhen cold Aveather 
i-ame last Fall her lame attacks returned. 
This Winter she does not hop after 
standing in her stall as previously. She 
is* driven but little in cold weather, not 
more than once a Aveek on the average. 
She is in fair flesh, but not in as good con¬ 
dition as she has been. She has a very 
long coat in Wintei’, and although she is 
blanketed she is not A’^ery smooth. 1 lately 
had a Avolf tooth extracted; her teeth 
boated. Is there anything I can do for 
her. or do you think she will outgroAv it? 
Ncav York. E. K. 
It is greatly to be feared that the mare 
has an occult (hidden) spavin, and, if so, 
chances of recovery are extremely poor 
even if you have the joint fired and blis¬ 
tered by a qualified veterinarian, Avhich is 
the usual treatment in such cases, and to 
be folloAved by a prolonged rest. To test 
for spavin have the mare led out to halter. 
Pick up the foot of the affected hind leg 
and lift the leg forward and upAvard to 
tightly flex (.slmt) the hock joint. Hold 
the leg up for tAA-o or three minutes and 
have the mare trotted foi’Avard the instant 
you drop the foot. If spaA’in is present 
the lameness Avill be far greater than be¬ 
fore the test, and indeed the mare Avill 
be likely to hold up the foot for a few 
steps at starting. Wolf teeth are harm¬ 
less. never affect the eyes, and need not 
he extracted unless they happen to inter¬ 
fere Avith the bit of the overhead check 
line. A. s. A. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
shotes until the next .Tune, Avheu there 
Avas Timothy tAvice as high and much 
thicker than any haylield I had. Rather 
late in the Spring of 1917 a part of this 
Avas fenced in and soavu Avith a “hog pas¬ 
ture” mixture. Rain prevented covering 
the seed as I Avi.shed to do it, but it Avas 
soon covered Avith a heavy groAvth of peas, 
oats, spelt, barley, vetch, rai)e. Soy heans, 
turnijis, clovers and grasse.s, that made a 
splendid feed for the hog.s Avhen they Avere 
given access to it. ! 
The Avhole field is iioav ready to seed in 
the same Avay for this Spring, and I Avant 
to add a larger strip of the Avild land. I 
believe New England could groAV many 
thousand hogs on such land at a profit, 
and in three* yeais’ time have pasture that 
Avould carry five coavs that iioav Avould he 
scant for one, and be better Avorth 
per acre than noAV ,$10. Our food admin¬ 
istration is shouting for more pork. Why 
not get busy and try this plan? 0. M. L. 
Windsor Co., Vt. 
Dairy Ration 
Will you suggest a proper feed for my 
COAVS? At present I have no silo, but ex¬ 
pect to build one this Summer and the 
next Winter will have about 40 Holstein 
COAVS milking. w. A. B. 
Connecticut. 
The grain ration best adapted for your 
COAVS depends on the kind of hay you Avill 
haA'e available. Feed the coaa’S 40 lbs. of 
corn silage daily in two feed.s. Give them 
all the hay they will clean up in two or 
three feeds. Clover or Alfalfa is best, 
but the amount of either of these you are 
I April 29—.Terseys. Burr Oak Farm, 
MorristoAvn. N. ,T. 
A May 2—.Terseys. Mount Kisco, N, Y., 
by Edmond Butler. 
^ May 6, 7, 8—Ilolstf'ins. West Point, 
Miss., by C. W. Ellis, .Tr., Cortland, 
N. Y. • 
i May 14, 15—Holsteins. Se(“ond East¬ 
ern Breeders’ sale, Syracus(>. N. Y., hy 
Lh'erpool Live Stock & Pedigree Co., 
l.iverpool, N. Y. 
' May TO, 17—Holsteins. Binniugham, 
N. Y., by Liven)ool lave Stock «& Pedi¬ 
gree Co., Liverpool, N. Y. 
{ May 18—Holsteins. Sydney, N. Y., 
hy the Tri-Co. Holstein Broeder.s’ Asso., 
E. E. Risley, secretary. 
' May 22—Holsteins. Carlisle, Pa., by 
Cumberland (h>. Breeders, 
s May 28—.Terseys. Brattlehoro, A't., by 
Pure Bred Live Stock Sales Co., Brat- 
tleburo, Vt. 
) .lune 4, 5 —TIolstein.s. Brattlel)oro, Vt., 
hy IMirelu’cd lave Stock Sales Co., lirat- 
leboro, A't. 
Better Than Whitewash 
“We did not have to pro to town for lime, wait 
for it to slack or strain it. We just nnixed the 
Carbola with cold water. In less than hve nain- 
utesit was ready—and it went through the spray¬ 
er without any clogging. It went on fine with the 
brush too. The next day it rains we will use what 
is left to paint the chicken houses and cellars.” 
Carbolakeeps—doenn't enoil byetandfng. Make your 
stable sanitary and bright, clean and attractive with 
1 -aising is doubtless limited. Therefore, 
in figuring on a grain ration I have fig¬ 
ured on the nse of hay from mixed grass¬ 
es. It is hard to say iioav Avhat the most 
economical grain ration Avill he next 
Fall. lloAvever, the general nature of 
the ration must be high protein, and 
!*;inoe our high protein feeds are limited in 
numbers it Avould necessarily be some¬ 
thing like the folloAAung: Two parts cot¬ 
tonseed meal, one part oilmeal, one part 
gluten feed, one part dried hreAvers’ 
grains and tAVO parts bran or ground oats. 
Feed grain at rate of a pound to about 
four pounds of milk produced daily; that 
is, a cow giving 40 pounds of milk should 
A FINELY POWDERED mineral plementcomblnedwHb 
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Will not blister, flake orpeel. No odor to taint milk. 
Killa infectious disease sernia, lice, mites, flyeersre.oic. 
10 lbs. <10 gals.). $ 1.00 and postage. 
20 lbs. <20 gals.). $2.00 delivered. 
SO lbs. (SO gals.}, $4.00 delivered. 
Trial package, that covers 260 square feet, and deecrip* 
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Get some from your dealer* Jf he has Tionc. send your 
order direct with his name. 
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7 East 42nd St. Dept. R, New York City 
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