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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 17, 1!>21 
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Animal 
FOR HORSES .CATTU. 
H0GS.AN0 SHEEP 
Tonic 
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—nothing but the best satisfies us. And that is why a Barker 
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that you 11 see the improvement in a week’s time. 
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A Tonic, Appetizer and Stimulator—not a feed—and particularly good in 
the Fall when the moulting season is on. 
From 20 cent Packages to $10 Bags 
Roup Remedy, 30 cents Gape Remedy, 30 cents 
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PHILADELPHIA. PA. 
Maker. of the famous BAR¬ 
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The first remedy for 
Lump Jaw was 
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Price $2.60 (War Tax Paid) 
and it remains today the standard treatment, 
with years of success back of it, known to 
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Most complete veterinary book ever printed to 
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a big knee like this, but your horse 
may have a bunch or bruise on hit 
ankle, hock, etifle, knee or throat. 
ABSORBiNE 
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will clean it off without laying up 
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Disease 
usually starts in unclean buildings, 
and in such quarters lice and mites 
always are more plentiful. Protect 
your poultry and livestock—they 
represent real money. Help make 
their living quarters clean, bright and 
sanitary, save yourself time, labor 
and money, all in one operation. Use 
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a white paint and powerful disinfectant 
combined i n powder form. Just mix with 
water and apply with brush or spray pump 
—that’s all. No waiting or straining. No 
clogging sprayer. No peeling off. No dis¬ 
agreeable odor. One gallon covers 200 sq. ft. 
Use It Instead of Whitewash 
The dry Carbola is an excellent louse pow¬ 
der, and costs about one-third as much as 
many others. Endorsed by agricultural col¬ 
leges and thousands of farms. 
Your hardware, paint, seed or drug dealer 
has Carbola, or can get it. If not, order di¬ 
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10 lbs. (10 gals.) $1.25 & postage 
20 lbs. (20 gals.) $2.50 delivered 
50 lbs. (50 gals.) $5.00 delivered 
200 lbs. (200 gals.) $18.00 delivered 
Trial package and booklet 30c. 
Add 26% for Texas and Rocky Mt. States. 
CARBOLA 
Dept R 
CHEMICAL CO., Inc. 
Long Island City, N. Y. 
{ Cajrbola 
LOUSE-CHASE 
Kills all the lice on 
your animals; quick¬ 
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it does not cost you 
a cent. Liberal package #1 at your dealer, or write 
GRAYLAWN FARMS,Inc., Box No. 9, Newport, Vt. 
The Henyard 
Red Mites; Linseed for Horse 
.1. I have a large space under my stable 
used for horse. It is badly infested with 
red mites. Can you help in any way? 
2. Give an idea of the value of linseed 
meal for horses, and how it should be fed. 
Maine. s. 
1. These mites may he destroyed by any 
kind of oil that can he sprayed over their 
haunts. Crude oil or kerosene may be 
used, and either is made more effective 
by the addition of about one-fourth part 
crude carbolic acid. A strong solution 
of one of the commonly used coal-tar dips 
and stable disinfectants is frequently used, 
and carbolineum. though somewhat expen¬ 
sive, is very efficient. The difficulty found 
is not in killing the mites, hut in getting 
at them. A thorough job must he done, 
and it must be repeated once or oftener at 
several days’ intervals to catch those that 
escaped the first dose. Persistent work, 
however, will rid any premises of these 
pests. 
2. Linseed meal is an excellent addition 
to the ration of any horse. It is fed in 
varying quantities, according to the size 
of the horse and the work that the animal 
is doing. It is a highly concentrated pro¬ 
tein food, and should be used with other 
grains ordinarily fed. From a pound 
to a pound and a half per day of the oil- 
meal may ordinarily be fed, though a 
smaller quantity will act as a “con¬ 
ditioner” when a rough coat shows the 
need of something of the kind. The meal 
may be mixed with any other ground feed 
used or fed alone. m. b. p. 
White Diarrhoea 
White diarrhoea appears in little chicks 
every year. We have a large incubator 
and use coal-burning brooders in brooder 
house, 10x12 ft., dirt floor, with 2-in. sand. 
We have used different feeds at different 
times to start, and result is the same. A 
now building this year is the same; eggs 
from some hens and hatched in the same 
incubator for neighbors do not have it. 
Is there a preventive? I disinfect thor¬ 
oughly. e. L. K. 
Delaware. 
Diarrhoeas in little chicks are perhaps 
caused most often by improper feeding, 
and if the discharge is white, these diar¬ 
rhoeas are called white diarrhoeas. The 
remedy, of course, is proper feeding and 
brooding, avoidance of exposure, chilling, 
etc. Hard grains, cracked sufficiently 
email, with an ample supply of milk until 
the chicks get past the age of greatest 
danger, about four weeks, is the best pre¬ 
ventive that I can suggest. You may 
think that baby chicks cannot thrive upon 
hard grains alone: no mashes, wet or 
dry, no soft food of any kind, but try it 
out on a hatch. Milk, sweet, or sour, 
skim,, whole or butter, fed from the start 
and in as large quantity as the chicks 
will drink—no water being given—i« the 
next, requisite. Keep utensils clean and 
sweet, of course. For food, finely cracked 
corn, cracked wheat, pinhead oatmeal or 
rolled, oats. For both food and drink, 
milk, in some form. Chick grit and char¬ 
coal. if you like. Add dry mash after 
three or four weeks. Try it. 
If you have true bacillary white diar¬ 
rhoea, you have more of a problem. This 
is a germ disease, transmitted often 
through the eggs of infected hens; also 
by contact of infected stock very early in 
life. The only reriiedy is to get rid of 
hens carrying the infection and trans¬ 
mitting it to their offspring. This some¬ 
times means to get rid of everything and 
start with new. uninfected stock. From 
your neighbors’ experience with your 
stock, however, I judge that your trouble 
lies rather in methods of feeding. M. n. n. 
Hatching from Pullets 
We have Plymouth Rocks and Rhode 
Island Reds in separate coops; last 
Spring’s hatch. All the neighbors told 
us we could not set pullets nor use their 
eggs this year. We could not think that 
logic, so bought a few sittings and then 
said we would take a chance on our own 
eggs. Every pullet sat like a lady, no 
trouble, and hatched every egg but one or 
two; only one was not fertile. Now for 
your old-fashioned theory; is it not ex¬ 
ploded? One of the neighbors bought 
special sittings of R. I. Reds, and con¬ 
sidered herself lucky to ge.t five out of 15. 
One pullet, a nervous R. I. Red, just 
hatched 12 out of 13. mbs. T. S. 
Long Branch, N. J. 
Old timers’ advice is not always good. 
We arc all creatures of prejudice and 
think that we know a lot of things that 
we only think we know. Life is too short 
to try out everything, however; we must 
take the results of others’ experience and 
observation for most of our knowledge, 
and these results are not always correctly 
interpreted, by any means. Neither, for 
that matter, do we always correctly in¬ 
terpret our own observations. .Tumping 
at conclusions is easy, a lot easier than 
working a thing out logically and con¬ 
clusively; so the most of us will continue 
to jump. 
As to hatching with and from pullets, 
that is easy. Pullets of the heavier breeds 
are likely to make good sitters, though 
that is to their discredit, and an effort 
should be made to breed the trait out by 
discarding early and peristent sitters from 
the breeding pens. Chicks from well-de¬ 
veloped pullets' eggs should be vigorous 
and desirable, though they will have the 
disadvantage of being smaller than chicks 
from the larger eggs of old fowls, and also 
of being the descendants of fowls that 
have not lived long enough to prove their 
desirability as persistent layers and able 
to stand up under modern forcing methods 
in egg production. Old fowls of known 
performance and vigor are the best in the 
breeding pen. though pullets are not 
necessarily to be condemned. M. b. d. 
Salt in Mash; Wood Ashes and Hen 
Manure 
1. We often see in Tiie It. N.-Y. the 
poultry mash formulas given by M. B. D., 
hut he does not include salt in his formu¬ 
las. We always like a little salt in the 
mash. Is it better not to use salt in the 
mash. 2. Is it good to use wood ashes 
in the chicken manure to be used for fer¬ 
tilizer, or will the wood ashes take the 
good' out of the chicken manure? ~w.it. 
Mangansville, Md. 
1. The Cornell formulas for laying 
mash includes_salt in the proportion of 
• > lbs. to each 500 lbs. of mash. Whether 
or not it is of any distinct value I am 
unable to say. It is a pecuhar thing that 
salt in any large quantity is actively 
poisonous to fowls, while other animals 
eat it with impunity. This does not indi¬ 
cate that, in small amounts, it may not 
be helpful, however, but I am inclined to 
think that it is added “on general prin¬ 
ciples” rather than upon any very definite 
evidence of its value. You say that you 
“like a little salt in the mash.” ‘ .Tust why 
do you like it? Have you observed any 
difference in appetite, digestion or health 
between fowls having it and those that 
did not? 
2. It is not a good plan to mix wood 
ashes with poultry manure before cover¬ 
ing the latter with earth. If the two are 
allowed to stand together there will he 
a chemical combination which will release 
some of the nitrogen in the poultry ma¬ 
nure and permit it to escape as ammonia 
m the form of gas. and this nitrogen is 
the most expensive ingredient of fertiliz¬ 
ers when purchased. The lime in the 
wood ashes is responsible for the chemical 
action induced. m. b. d. 
Shrunken Eggs 
I keep a strain of White Leghorn fowls ; 
they seem to be in the best of health, ex¬ 
cept once in a while they get diarrhoea. 
My birds are pullets of' last May and 
June, 70 in number. I get 50 to 60 eggs 
per day. On shipping my eggs to a 
wholesale dealer he reports they are 
shrunken and watery. MRS. w. E. 
Shrunken eggs are eggs that have been 
kept long enough to permit of evapora¬ 
tion of part of their contents, while 
watery eggs are those that, through rough 
handling or other cause, have had the 
lining of the air cell broken, thus permit¬ 
ting the mixing of the air with the egg 
contents and giving them a frothy, watery 
appearance. 
With your small flock you are very 
likely keeping the eggs too long before 
shipping. Gather the eggs once or twice 
daily and store them in a clean, cool place 
while holding them. A Rouse cellar is 
the best place usually available. The 
length of time that they may he held de¬ 
pends upon weather conditions and the 
facilities for keeping the eggs cool, hut 
with small flocks it is difficult to ship 
sufficiently frequently in warm weather 
to market a first-class product. 
This may he a good place to say that 
while initials only are printed in these 
columns, a direct reply by mail cannot be 
made unless name and full address are 
given. Direct replies are given in ad¬ 
dition to those printed here when pos¬ 
sible. but this is possible only when the 
inquirer gives his name and address. It 
is not possible to print anwer in “next 
edition” after receiving question. 
Bisulphide of Carbon on Feed Grain 
Will wheat that has been treated with 
carbon bisulphide poison chickens? I 
will not put the carbon bisulphide liquid 
directly on the wheat: would only let 
the fumes pass through the grain. I can¬ 
not see that it would hurt the wheat, but 
am told that wheat would poison chickens 
if fed to them. f. b. it. 
Avondale, Pa. 
I can tell you nothing from actual trial 
in feeding wheat that has been treated 
with carbon bisulphide to poultry, but I 
can see no reason why it should be poison¬ 
ous. Carbon bisulphide is a very volatile 
liquid, and it is its fumes that are de¬ 
structive to animal life. These, of course, 
are readily dissipated in the own air, and 
do not remain in the grain. If I had been 
told by anyone who had tried it. or who 
had seen it tried, that such treated wheat 
was poisonous to fowls, I certainly should 
experiment a little before using it in a 
wholesale way. Otherwise, I should be 
from Missouri and have to be shown. 
M. B. t). 
Or.n Gentleman : “Well, my lad, are 
you going fishing, or are you going to 
school?” Little Lad: “I duuuo yet.. 
I’m just a-wrestliug with me conscience.” 
—‘New York Sun. 
