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It Makes Your Feed Bill Smaller 
and Your Milk Check Larger 
If you want to get two extra quarts of milk daily from every 
cow in your herd, use International Special Dairy Feed. 
Many dairymen report even larger increases. 
Look Into This 
When dairymen from all over the’Country write us saying they 
have never found any ration to equal International Special 
Dairy Feed—that they are saving money on feed—and get¬ 
ting more milk, it is time for you to investigate. Find out 
about the ingredients — scientifically blended grains, grain 
products, cottonseed meal, feeding molasses, etc.— every one 
a milk-maker. Then try it on your cows. If you do this, you 
will never change to any other feed. 
See Your Dealer N - O • W 
Don’t say “This feed looks good to me, but I’ll wait until to¬ 
morrow.” Tomorrow never comes. A promise never increased 
the milk flow yet. See your dealer today and order a trial ton. 
It is guaranteed to make good for you. If there is no Inter¬ 
national dealer near you, write to us. 
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Poultry and Livestock 
If Hens Could Talk 
THE LATER 
I can sing and I can lay, 
I like to scratch and work all day. 
If you’ll feed me right and clean my coop, 
I’ll pay my board and some to boot. 
The city may not like my looks. 
I’m too ragged and dirty to suit the cooks. 
My feathers I keep for my Winter’s bed. 
For you know I haven’t the time to shed. 
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I know I get pale and loose in behind. 
But this, everyone knows, is a very good 
sign. 
My eyes are clear and my comb always 
bright, 
For I lay eggs both day and night. 
When my time is up in the laying pen, 
I will be called a good breeding hen. 
When my chicks get hatched so the farm¬ 
er can see. 
He'll always be glad he didn’t sell me. 
THE NON-LAYER 
I can squawk but I can’t lay, 
So my board you’ll have to pay. 
My legs are yellow my eyes are dull. 
Yes, I am what they call a cull. 
I shed my feathers every one, 
While loafing under the Summer sun. 
You can see that, this is so, 
For I’m yellow from head to toe. 
That I am fat there is no doubt, 
Just feel of my abdomen and find out. 
On me I know you’ll have no pity, 
No doubt you’ll ship me to the city. 
Hens that go there and that are able, 
Have a good place on the rich man’s table. 
So here I go to win the day, 
For this is one place I know I‘ll pay. 
—D. W. Witter. 
State School of Agriculture, Delhi, N. Y. 
Hens Going Light 
M. B. B. complains of hens going light 
about molting time. This is just about 
early thrashing time, and in my opinion 
the trouble may be caused by the hens 
inhaling fine particles of straw, which 
puncture the tissue of the luugs and af¬ 
ford a lodgment for the germs of tuber¬ 
culosis. I used to have some of this 
trouble, but not since I quit using straw 
as a litter. I do use it sometimes, but 
only a little at a time, and then give 
plenty of ventilation and sometimes 
sprinkle the litter to lay the dust. I have 
found dust more hurtful than dampness. 
Nevertheless I keep a good dry house and 
sprinkle to allay the dust, often adding 
sulphate of iron to the sprinkling water 
as a disinfectant. J. w. G. 
Stelton, N. J. 
Probably few poultrymen find any dif¬ 
ficulty in keeping litter sufficiently moist; 
the great trouble in most poultry houses 
is to keep the interior sufficiently dry dur¬ 
ing the period of the year when cold 
winds and blowing snow make open win¬ 
dows seem like punishment of the fowls. 
There are disease germs found in con¬ 
nection with moldy litter, however, that 
do induce some of the conditions known 
as “going light.” Just what influence 
upon the health of the birds the dust from 
straw and other litter may have I do not 
know. It is quite possible that it is 
greater than is generally thought and that 
the dampness which poultrymen fight is 
not an uumixed evil after all. M. B. D. 
Crossing Breeds of Geese 
In the late Summer I bought five 
goose eggs, four hatched and 1 raised 
three. I feel very proud of them. Will 
you tell m^ how I should out-cross them? 
Old goose raisers tell me I should not 
mix the colors. H. G. 
We believe iu purebred stock. There 
is already a prevalent idea with some, 
that barnyard or mongrel stock is good 
enough. Why instruct people, to camou¬ 
flage poultry? EDWIN A. SOUDER. 
Pennsylvania. 
The inquirer wishes to cross the breed 
he has from the eggs purchased, with 
another breed. There is no difficulty 
about that, and the geese will very 
naturally cross unless kept separate. We 
then have mongrels. They are for mar¬ 
ket purposes, dressed, just as good. If 
the breeder ever wishes to sell live stock 
to other breeders from these crosses, only 
(hose will buy who do not care about 
breeds. The offspring is just as fertile 
as the true breeds. This holds good with 
crosses from any of the domestic va¬ 
rieties ; Toulouse, Embden, African and 
China geese. WM. J. MACKENSEN. 
Pennsylvania. 
It is not advisable to breed from young 
geese. They should be at least two years 
old before their eggs are used for in¬ 
cubation. Yearling gauders are some¬ 
times mated to old geese, but older males 
are preferable. The cheapest thing for 
the inquirer to do would be to buy more 
eggs of the same variety next season from 
some other breeder, so that in due time 
he might have a gauder to mate one or 
more of the geese resulting from this 
season's hatches. It Is not advisable to 
mix colors or breeds, although in Rhode 
Island some breeders cross the Toulouse 
and Embden geese with the Canada or 
wild gander. The goslings are used for 
market purposes while the originals are 
kept from year to year for breeders. I 
would prefer four or five-year-old geese 
to those only two years, especially if 
they had been kept well mated for two 
or three seasons. D. J. Lambert. 
Rhode Island. 
If the inquirer bought five goose eggs, 
had four hatch and raised three, I should 
say he did very well. I do not under- * 
stand what his object could be to mix 
the colors, as it would make his flock 
worth so much less. There is nothing 
more beautiful than a purebred flock of 
geese, chickens or even cattle, all one 
color. Purely a man with purebred cattle, 
say Guernseys, would not think of de¬ 
creasing the value of his herd by cross¬ 
ing it with a Holstein, unless he had a 
most excellent reason. If this inquirer, 
who wishes to out-cross his geese, would 
give his reason I could perhaps better 
answer him. As to its being possible to 
mate Embden geese with a Touloufte gan¬ 
der, or one of the Chinese breeds, it can 
of course be done. I have, myself, had 
such an experience, and in my neighbor¬ 
hood there are several such mixed flocks. 
Eggs hatch as well and goslings grow as 
strong, but of course are mixed colors. 
I would advise inquirer, however, if he 
has geese of a color not to his fancy, to 
dispose of them aud buy purebred’s of 
the color he prefers. No matter what 
breed or what color he has he should use 
a gauder not related to his females. Also 
if his females are this year’s hatch not 
to expect, their eggs to hatch very well 
next Spring, no matter what color or 
kind of a gander he has. Some will 
hatch, but most of the egg., will not. 
The second year, however, he can expect 
such results as he had from the five eggs 
Maryland. MRS. o. D. van alstixe. 
Lien for Service Fee 
I bought a mare at auction that was 
due to foal two weeks later. Would I 
have to pay the service of the stallion? 
This stallion is not registered, and they 
tell me owner cannot charge for the ser¬ 
vice? ^ , J.l.r. 
New York. 
A person owning a stallion or bull shall 
have a lien on each mare or cow served, 
together with the foal or calf, for the 
amount agreed on at the time of service, 
if he has (1) first filed with the countv 
clerk /a written statement giving the 
name, age. description and pedigree, or, if 
no pedigree, stating that the same is un¬ 
known, and the terms and conditions on 
which he will serve. (2) and has posted 
in a conspicuous place in the locality 
where the animal is offered for service a 
copy of the statement certified by the 
county clerk that it has been recorded, 
(3) and has filed a notice of the lien in 
the town clerk’s office within 15 months 
after the service. In your case if vhe 
owner of the stallion has complied with 
these three requirements he could prob¬ 
ably hold you for the service fee, and the 
contrary if he has not. It. does not make 
any difference as to whether the stallion 
is.registered or not if the owner complies 
with these requirements. 
Damage by Sheep 
A man owns, a farm adjoining mine. 
The line fence is divided, he maintaining 
one part and I the other. He rents for 
sheep pasture the part of his land extend¬ 
ing along his part of the line fence. He 
is responsible for the fence the same as 
though he pastured his own sheep in the 
fields, as is evident from the fact that 
he repaired the fence iu the Spring and 
several times later iu the season. I had 
a field planted to potatoes and grain along 
this (his) part of the line fence, and the 
sheep pasturing in his fields, got over his 
fence repeatedly until they had destroyed 
my grain and damaged the potatoes and 
caused me a lot of trouble. Who is re¬ 
sponsible for the damage, the owner of 
the land or the one who owns the sheep? 
I am trying to get the matter adjusted iu 
a peaceful way, but each party claims the 
other is the one to settle for the damage. 
New York. g. s. s. 
The responsible party is the one who 
owns the laud, and whose duty it is to 
maintain the fence. It could, of course, 
be made the subject of agreement between 
the parties as to tJie responsibility if the 
sheep got out, but inasmuch as your neigh¬ 
bor has repaired the fence it is evident 
that he has assumed the responsibility of 
keeping the sheep in. and you may hold 
him responsible for the damage. 
N. Y. State Dairyman’s Association 
The forty-third annual meeting will be 
held at Jordan Hall, Experiment Station, 
Geneva. N. Y.. Nov. 1S-20. The first ses¬ 
sion will commence at S p. m. November 
IS. There will be morning and afternoon 
sessions Wednesday and Thursday, aud a 
banquet Wednesday at t> p. m. The pro¬ 
gram will consist of addresses by well- 
known dairymen aud round table discus- 
sious of subjects of interest. 
