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Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Cow with Warts; Dairy Ration 
1. I have a nice Jersey cow with warts 
on teats, which trouble somewhat in milk¬ 
ing. What would you suggest? 2. I have 
seven cows, Jerseys and Ilolsteins, which 
1 am feeding the following ration: They 
have clover hay only for roughage. I mix 
two bags bran, two cottonseed (ou per 
cent), one gluten, one oilmen!, nnci give 
out- quart grain to each 1^2 to two quarts 
milk. I sell whole milk and care more 
for quantity than quality. W ould you 
suggest a ration for me ! F. L. u. 
Hartland, Me. 
1. It is quite impossible to remove 
warts from the teat of a cow during her 
lactation period. If the organ is sore, 
however, the condition is often improved 
by rubbing vaseline on the hands previous 
to milking. The daubing of a little vase¬ 
line on the udder after the milk has been 
drawn is not satisfactory, and if you do 
not use too much on the hands no annoy¬ 
ance will be encountered. When the cow 
I goes ury l would clip off the warts with a 
pair of scissors, searing over the wound 
with caustic potash and rub tlie teat 
daily with carbolized vaseline. The 
chances are, if the warts are simple, that 
this treatment will be satisfactory and 
the cow will have a sound udder when she 
freshens again. If the warts are com¬ 
pound it will he necessary to consult a 
veterinary, who can remove them with a 
simple operation. 
2. Concerning your ration, 1 assume 
that you do not have any silage aud that 
you are feeding only clover hay, wheat 
bran, cottonseed meal, gluten and oilmeal. 
This mixture lacks carbohydrates, or what 
we commonly call energizing foods. I 
would add at least 40 per cent of either 
cornmeal, hominy meal or buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings to this ration. I would feed oue 
pound of this mixture for each three or 
four pounds of milk produced, increasing 
the amount of grain, perhaps, as the 
amount of milk increases, but never sta¬ 
bilizing the ration unless I was sure that 
I was getting enough additional milk to 
pay for the maximum food supplied. You 
cannot regulate the quality of milk, that 
is. the amount of butter fat it contains, 
by any modification in your grain ration. 
A cow in high condition is naturally in 
better physical condition and oftentimes 
her percentage of butter fat will run 
higher than if she was thin in flesh and 
improperly nourished, during the same 
stage of her lactation period. The pro¬ 
duction of quality milk depends upon in¬ 
heritance and breed, and not upon the 
food fed. The Tation I would suggest, as¬ 
suming that your cows are Jerseys, would 
be as follows: 
500 lbs. hominy or cornmeal 
200 lbs. cottonseed meal 
100 lbs. gluten meal 
100 lbs. bran or buckwheat middlings 
50 lbs. oilmeal. 
One hundred pounds of buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings could replace 50 lbs. of cottonseed 
meal in case it could be purchased for 
about .$40 per ton. 
ture per day. I would suggest that the 
100 lbs. of oilmeal that you have on hand 
be witlield ”util the latter part of March, 
at which time I would add from 10 to 15 
per cent of oilmeal to the ration. The 
horses should be given a bran mash once 
a week, which consists of taking 3 lbs. or 
4 lbs. of bran, adding a little salt, and 
pouring over this mixture some boiling 
water, letting it cool down until one can 
bear his hand in it with safety, and then 
giving it to the horses in the form of a 
thick slop. It is not good judgment to 
keep work horses nigh in flesh during the 
Winter months. It is much more desir¬ 
able to increase their feed as their work 
begins in the Spring and permit them t<> 
gain in weight while working, rather than 
to put on loose, soft flesh when they are 
idle. 
The barley should be ground or soaked, 
but the corn can be fed on the ear, and 
whole oats are quite as serviceable for 
horses of this age as they would he if they 
were ground or crushed. I would not give 
them hay more than once a day, and this 
in limited quantities, for there is nothing 
more distressing to an idle horse than to 
permit him to eat all of the hay that he 
will consume, aud as a result harbor in¬ 
digestion and discomfort. Feed the bulk 
of the hay at night and insist that they 
eat generously of the corn fodder during 
the day. 
Caring for 250 Sheep 
Would you give me information about 
the general care of a flock of 250 sheep? 
They are the result of a man who wishes 
to jump into the sheep business at once, 
as part of them were bought at Brighton, 
and there are all kinds of diseases I judge. 
I have had several die and their intestines 
are covered with the small tumors indieat¬ 
ing nodular disease; some are coughing, 
a kind of gagging cough, aud they, I dis¬ 
covered, besides the tumors, had their 
windpipes full of threadlike worms. 
These sheep are not old. as some that 
have these symptoms are last Summer 
lambs. We feed good hay. but mostly 
Timothy, and are commencing to grain 
lightly. I have been a farmer most of 
my life, hut do not know much about 
sheep. h. r. F. 
New Hampshire. 
Nodular disease in sheep is very much 
like tuberculosis in cattle, and is evi¬ 
denced by a hacking cough, accompanied 
by diarrhtea. The afflicted sheep is ema¬ 
ciated and hunched in appearance, and 
while it is impossible to diagnose the dis¬ 
ease with certainty without killing the 
animal, the fact that you found nodules or 
small tumors in the stomach is a good in¬ 
dication of nodular disease. The disease 
is caused by a parasite, and obviously no 
treatment can be given which would affect 
the worm when protected by the mem¬ 
brane of the intestinal walls. It will lx* 
necessary to feed your sheep in a dry lot, 
and the mature animals suffering from 
this disease cannot be safely pastured or 
they will spread the disease very prompt¬ 
ly. If the lambs resulting from this fleck 
are kept in a dry lot it is possible to de- 
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Feeding Farm Team 
Wlmt shall I feed my team (a span of 
mares, five and six years, weight 1.000 
lbs ?) I have more than I can use of 
corn, oats, barley, Timothy hay, a fairly 
good hay of Timothy, Red-top and other 
wild glasses, and corn fodder. No work 
except a little driving for them to do till 
Spring. I would like to use all the corn 
fodder I can consistent with the health 
of team. I have 100 lbs. oil meal and will 
get more. \\ hat quantity of oil meal 
should be fed ? # c - E * 
Coldwater, Mich. 
A team of draft horses weighing ap¬ 
proximately 1,000 lbs. apiece and doing 
irregular work during the Winter months 
can be wintered very economically by us¬ 
ing an intelligent combination of the feeds 
you have on hand. If you have an abun¬ 
dance of corn fodder that is leafy and 
well cured, this material will supply the 
major portion of the necessary roughage. 
It should he fed in the manger in the 
stable, else spread out in the yard and the 
horses turned ii^to this area daily, to pick 
it over. A mixture of equal parts of 
corn, oats and barley should serve as a 
concentrate, and I would limit the grain 
feeding to two feeds daily, and would not 
give them more than 0 lbs. of this mix- 
velop them without infection. 
The thread worm is considerably larger 
than the commonly identified lung worm 
and may easily be observed in the bronchia. 
Its greatest destruction is encountered 
during the Summer and late Fall, and 
usually it releases itself during tlie Win¬ 
ter months. Among the remedies recom¬ 
mended the hypodermic injection of tur¬ 
pentine has given good results. Mix equnl 
parts of turpentine and sweet oil, adding 
10 drops of carbolic acid to a tablespoon 
of this mixture. Inject this hypoder¬ 
mically between the rings of the wind¬ 
pipe so that the injected material will 
pass directly into the windpipe. Two 
parts of olive oil and one part of turpen¬ 
tine have also given good results, the dos¬ 
age being from one to three teaspoons. 
Timothy hay and corn fodder make good 
roughage, but you should feed some grain 
in addition. Equal parts of oats, corn 
and bran make a splendid feed for sheep 
or lambs. 
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