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Trained male dogs and brood matrons; pups all ages. 
FLEMISH GIANT. NEW ZEALAND AND RUFUS RED BELGIAN 
RABBITS. Send 6c. for large instructive list of what 
you want. W. R. WATSON, Box 1745, Oakland. Iowa 
Collie Puppies Females, $12 
Also poultry, hares and Holstein cattle. Hatching 
Eggs and Breeding stock for sale. Write your wants. 
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It Pays to Raise Hares 
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All Specimen. Illu.lral.il Catalogue 10c. 
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HORSES 
FOR SALE 
Iroquois Brother Alex, 18702, boru April 6, 
1916, bred by F. Ambrose Clark, Coopers, 
town, N. I. For further particulars write 
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SWINE 
HAMPSHIRE Swine 
Spring Boars and Gilts carrying blood lines of 
MAPLEWOOD GIANT and LOOKOUT 
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Berkshire crossed with Yorkshire or Chester 
crossed witii Yorkshire. Avoid inbreeding 
and get a vigorous, thrifty, big-boned pig that 
will make a real hog in 5 or 6 months. 
7 Weeks Old . . $6.00 Each 
8 to 9 Weeks Old . 7.00 Each 
C.O.D. on ReferenceiWaltham 
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Suburban Live Stock Co. 
Waltham, :: :: Mass. 
Big Type Chester Whites 
VICTOR FARMS, Bellvale, N. Y. 
Large Type 0.1. C. CHESTER WHITES 
Growthy spring boars and gilts, not akin. Sired by 
my prize winning boars. Write your needs. 
A. S. CRANE . .Springfield, Mass. 
For Sale— F'if'ty Pigs 
CHESTER WHITES and BERKSHIRES 
six weeks old. 85 each. 
Rouse Bros - Dushore, Pa. 
Registered Chester Whites uoars‘a“ S 
Gilts from Blue Ribbon Winners. Apply to CHARLES 
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Either sex. Matured sows bred to farrow in August and 
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REGISTERED C. W. BOARS 
old enough for service—8*40. Registered six weeks 
piga—820. Grades, sjx weeks—86 each. 
Harry Vail, Jr„ New Milford, Orange Co.. N. Y. 
For Sale-Fine Thoroughbred 0.1. C. BoarK^ 
Registered. “Victory.” Three yrs. old Sept. next. Weight, 
about 650 lbs. Price, $75. 0. E. WARREN, West Camp. .N. Y. 
fihnetnr tf or °- c * 1’IGS. typo prize win- 
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BUSHFIELD FARM C. E. Veak CANANDAIGUA. N. Y, 
ForSale-X>UROC PIGS 
six weeks old, either sex. 0 85 each. 
John P. Bartt.es _-_ Fi.kminqton, N. J. 
Hampshire Boar Pigs. 825 ea. in vonr name. 
Sows Sold. DON McLEAD, ROWLAND, N. C. 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Feeding Show Steer 
I ask your advice on feeding a steer 
for show and beef. We have a registered 
Hereford steer that will be two years old 
in the Fall. He is growing well and 
appears to be in good health. We have 
kept him in good pasture, and lie is in 
good condition, but we cannot make him 
eat any grain to speak of. We have tried 
cornmeal, bran, ground oats, oilmeal. 
whole corn and cracked corn mixed all 
ways and separate, but he only smells 
of them and turns away chewing his cud. 
What we want is to make a fat show 
beef, but they tell us at the county bureau 
that we can never make a winner of him 
unless we finish him on grain. The show 
that we would like to show him at is to 
be held the latter part of September. 
Massachusetts. a. k. p. 
The reason why the Hereford steer 
does not take kindly to the grain ration 
is that he has access during the daytime 
to au abundance of pasture, which takes 
the edge off his appetite. I should sug¬ 
gest that he be confined in the stable dur¬ 
ing the day. in which case he would no 
doubt take some feed in the morning, and 
certainly a good feeding at night. Then 
he might be turned out into the pasture 
to graze at night. This system will af¬ 
ford him protection during the day from 
flies and the heat, and provide him with 
all of the succulence that is necessary. 
You will find that equal parts of ground 
oats and wheat bran, to which you might 
add about 15 per cent of oilmeal. will 
perhaps be the most tempting, and if this 
is fed in small quantities at the outset 
and gradually increased it will not be 
very long until he will take kindly to the 
mixture and eat a generous amount. I 
should gradually include in this mixture 
some shelled corn or cornmeal. and in¬ 
crease this carbohydrate carrier until it 
constitutes perhaps 50 per ceut of the 
mixture. Hence a mixture consisting of 
equal parts of corn. oats. bran, with 10 
per cent of oilmeal added, would combine 
a ration that ough to give results. 
It is evident that this steer has not 
had access to a great deal of grain, that 
he probably has been fed largely on 
l’oughage and pasture grass. Animals 
are creatures of habit, and it requires 
some time and patience to get them fully 
accustomed to eating a grain mixture. If 
this practice is instituted and he still re¬ 
fuses to take kindly to the grain. I would 
deny him all grass until his appetite suf¬ 
ficiently prompted him to take to the 
grain. You must be very careful, when 
once he gets started on the grain, not to 
overfeed him, but bring him gradually to 
full feed. It usually takes from four to 
five weeks to bring a steer from roughage 
and pasture to a full feed of grain. The 
county bureau man lias advised you cor¬ 
rectly ; it is impossible to fatten au ani¬ 
mal exclusively on grass and bring him 
up to such a condition and ripeness of 
flesh as would warrant a judge in placing 
him at the head of a list, provided there 
was any competition. Fat established 
through the agency of grass alone is soft 
and flabby, while that resulting from the 
use of grain is firmer and more lasting. 
Horse with Skin Disease 
I have a horse and mule which have 
some eruption all over their bodies, and 
it seems to be very annoying, as they bite 
and rub themselves almost continually. 
Virginia. N. J. b. 
Your horse and mule are evidently 
afflicted with the mange. If it is present 
the itching is intense. The inflamed 
areas are small at first and scattered over 
the regions of the rump, back and neck. 
After a time the small areas come to¬ 
gether and form large patches, and fur¬ 
ther spreading of the inflammation results 
from grooming, scratching and biting the 
skin. Scattered, elevated eruptions on 
the skin from which the hair has dropped 
out are first noticed. These parts may 
show yellowish scabs. Later the skin is 
thickened, smooth, wrinkled, cracked or 
covered with sores. If this condition pre¬ 
vails the animals should be isolated, or 
the entire herd would become infected. 
In the first place, the animals may be 
washed in a three per cent solution of 
creoliu. Excellent results have beeu re¬ 
ported from the use of tobacco, lime and 
sulphur dips, which should be frequently 
applied. Dr. Craig recommends the fol¬ 
lowing ointment, which should be applied 
after the animal has been washed thor¬ 
oughly with a disinfectant solution. The 
proportions are as follows: Potassium 
sulphide. 10 parts; potassium carbonate, 
two parts, and lard, 300 parts. The oint¬ 
ment should be smeared on. and the horse 
muzzled to avoid further biting and 
scratching. Often the mere washing of 
the hair and skin with a carbolic soap 
will serve a useful purpose. 
Buckwheat for Swine 
Will you tell me about feeding buck¬ 
wheat flour to pigs and brood sows? I 
can buy some flour in 140-lb. sacks (left 
over from last Winter’s pancake material) 
at the same price as wheat middlings, 
and it is next to impossible to get the 
middlings. I intend to mix it with corn 
and oats, ground, and to the sows with 
some extra heavy bran feed, so-called. 
Will it do the sows any harm? F. T. R. 
If you feed the buckwheat flour in the 
proportion suggested no evil results will 
follow its use in feeding swine. It is 
generally recognized that ground buck¬ 
wheat is rather irritating to the intestinal 
tract of swine, and unless it is ground 
very finely the trouble may be serious. 
If you mix the buckwheat, however, with 
corn and oats your ration would be in¬ 
complete. for it would lack protein. The 
addition of 5 per ceut of digester tankage 
or 10 per cent of oilmeal or a generous 
amount of skim-milk would serve your 
purpose. It is not necessary that ready- 
mixed feeds be incorporated in rations 
intended for swine feeding, and from our 
experience we find it unnecessary to include 
any bran in a ration for pigs other thaii 
for broods sows just previous to farrow¬ 
ing. You will find that the buckwheat 
will not produce any injurious effect if 
it does not comprise more than 15 or 20 
per cent of the total ration. It would he 
well to moisten this mixture and feed it 
in the form of a thick slop rather than 
to use it in self-feeders as a dry mash. 
Feeding Young Pigs 
I am contemplating buying three pigs 
six weeks old for home use. What would 
be a good daily ration for them? It will 
be necessary for me to buy all of the feed. 
They are to he confined in a pen 12x14 
feet. J - s - 
A useful ration for pigs six weeks old 
would consist of equal parts of cornmeal. 
wheat middlings, ground oats and oilmeal. 
They should he fed in the form of a thick 
slop', and at the outset the feedings should 
be frequent, say about three hours apart. 
A pig six weeks old ought to weigh from 
25 to 35 pounds. A pig weighing 33 
pounds would require a pound of this 
mixture per day. If one has skiin-uiillv 
or table scrape as a supplement for this 
feed the. amount of grain might be re¬ 
duced. The pig should be kept gaining 
aud growing, aud should bo fed a. thicker 
slop as he increases iu age and .size, and 
fed practically up to his full capacitj 
after he weighs 100 pounds. 
Peanut Meal as Feed 
I am enclosing a sample of peanut meal. 
Can you furnish me with au analysis ot 
what such feed should be? B - f. 
Peanut meal yielded from peanut cake 
resulting from the use of hilled nuts, 
analyzes as follows: The figures repre¬ 
sent the digestible nutrients in 100 Ins. 
Total dry matter . 
Crude protein .^- • > 
Carbohydrates . 
Fat . i J 
Total digestible nutrients in 
100 lbs. 
You are reminded, however, that a 
great deal of the peanut meal now avail¬ 
able on the market contains a much 
smaller percentage of protein, as it is 
taken from peanut waste, and often con 
tains portions of the hull aud kernel. 
During hot. weather this meal is likely to 
become rancid or cut its free oil down, 
and hence its palat ability would be very 
greatly modified. It is gaining iu popu¬ 
larity iu certain sections of the country 
where it can be obtained fresh, and where 
it is obtained from mills of known re¬ 
sponsibility. It is one of those products, 
'however, that valry materially in its 
composition, aud only the better grades 
are worth anything at all. The sample 
that you submitted does contain a very 
substantial proportion of peanut shucks 
and hulls and I dare say would uot ana¬ 
lyze more than 22 per cent protein. On 
this basis it would be worth about $1<> 
a ton. 
