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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 18, 1924 
EASYNOWTOOWNTHE 
FAMOUSWITTEENGINE 
Plan of Only $5.69 for a Few Months 
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The rugged, dependable Witte Throttling 
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How Wolves Drink 
Please answer these questions to settle 
a dispute: Does a wolf drink water and 
not lap it as a dog does? Is there any 
breed of dogs that drink instead of lap? 
Columbia Co., N. Y. j. AV. S. 
Wolves are not much different from 
dogs in their habits and drink in the 
same way. The question mentioned above 
is one of the “unnatural history” stories 
that pass in the talk around the camp 
fire and around the stove in the grocery 
or the barber shop. The one about the 
porcupine shooting its quills is on the 
same basis. The story about the Avolf 
driuking like a man may have arisen 
from the “man-wolf” superstitions of our 
Germanic ancestors. Alfred c. weep. 
Illinois. 
Wild Animals and Salt 
We have discussed many times the 
question whether wild animals in the 
New England States have the same de¬ 
sire for salt as domestic animals and 
those using the salt licks in the West. 
This was brought up again recently, 
when a neighbor’s cow was pastured near 
us. The cow shoAved every indication of 
distress. She Avould put her head over 
the Avire and call almost all day, and 
kept returning every few hours, appar¬ 
ently trying to secure our attention. 
Finally as an experiment I gave her a 
piece of salt as large as my hand and 
she turned it over and over in her mouth, 
dropping it and picking it up again until 
she had eaten it all and then she was 
not satisfied. Then the owner kept salt 
before her constantly, and she stopped 
calling. I wish you would ask some 
scientist if our wild animals find salt 
necessary, and if so how they obtain it. 
Maine. f. c. c. 
Another Bird Bath 
Your contributions on bird baths inter¬ 
ested me. May I tell you about ours. We 
formerly had a large shallow galvanized 
iron pan partly filled with fine gravel 
which was hollowed into a shallow basin 
form, thus giving the gently sloping bath¬ 
ing-beach effect so enjoyed by the birds. 
Possibly the birds had liked it better on 
a post, or pedestal, as that Avould have 
made it. cat-proof; but they got much 
good of it, as it was in a quiet secluded 
part of the end of the garden farthest 
from the house. 
That one was provided with constant- 
feed water pipe, set to slowly renew the 
Avater at all times; but the AA'ater pipe 
was removed and a cement basin, made 
in about five minutes with no outlay for 
material now takes the place of the pan. 
That came by way of other cement Avork 
for Avhich an excess of two .pailsful of 
cement had been mixed. The mixer ex¬ 
pressed his regrets that good cement 
should be wasted. lie was told to carry 
it to the foot of the garden where a shal¬ 
low depression was scooped and the ce¬ 
ment dumped into it; the trowel used to 
form the cement, and all the work of 
making was done. This was done in the 
evening and water put in it the follow¬ 
ing morning to keep the cement from 
drying too rapidly. In hot dry weather 
water is renewed each day but in cloudy 
rainy weather not so often. It may not 
be so decorative, but I fancy serves the 
birds as well as a more expensive one. 
One could easily elaborate the design; 
adding pedestal, and so forth; but I would 
suggest that in such designs the form 
should be left on so long that its removal 
would not endanger the soundness of the 
structure. Unless the form is specially 
constructed for easy remoA’al the cement 
is likely to be cracked in knocking it off. 
In this locality an approach to whiteness 
is obtained by mixing the surface coat 
Avith “Ligonier-dust” instead of sand. 
Pennsylvania. av. s. u. 
Sense of Direction 
A very remarkable case of this sense 
came to my knowledge not long ago. 
EdAvard Wraight, then gamekeeper for 
the Tunxis Club in Western Massachus¬ 
etts, had an old dog, a little fox terrier, 
12 years old, partly deaf and half blind. 
He Avanted to send the old dog to his 
brother George, here in Willington, Avho 
now owns the farm I owned for 20 years. 
The old dog Avas nailed up in a box and 
put in an express car at Winsted, Conn. 
He had to travel about 60 miles to the 
Southeast, then be transferred to the 
Vermont Central Railroad and * be car¬ 
ried north 14 miles. George Wraight 
was at the West Willington station to 
meet the dog. He took him out of the 
box, put him in his buggy and drove six 
miles north to Stafford to do some trad¬ 
ing, then 8% miles south to his farm. 
There was another fox terrier on the 
farm, a sou of this old dog. 
After three days on the farm the old 
dog disappeared. A week afterward he 
appeared at the Tunxis Club. EdAvard 
said the dog Avas not footsore or hungry. 
He had probably rested nights and stole 
or hunted sufficient food. But how could 
a dog. carried more than 70 miles in a 
box where he could see nothing, and in 
different directions, how could that dog 
know which way to go to find the master 
that he loved? He couldn’t, like a carrier 
pigeon, make great circles until he saw 
some landmark that he knew. That sense 
of direction was in this case surely mar¬ 
velous. 
But Edward was just coming down to 
see his brother; so he put the old dog 
into the auto and brought him back to 
the farm again. This time the old dog 
stayed a week, then he was gone again. 
He knew the A\ r ay now, but Avhen he 
reached the Tunxis Club there was no 
master there. Edward had become game- 
keeper for a man who owned some 6,000 
acres in the Litchfield hills. So the old 
dog wearily traveled those 70 miles back 
here to the farm, and there he stayed un¬ 
til he died. This is not a story, every 
statement is literally true. Sometimes I 
wonder if there is anything in this round 
world that equals the love of a dog for 
his master. george a. cosgrove. 
Four Little Pheasants 
When cutting a piece of hay recently 
they disturbed a pheasant on her nest. 
The mother bird was not hurt aud ran 
away. There were four little eggs that 
were not broken, and they Avere put un¬ 
der a hen. In two weeks the little pheas¬ 
ants were hatched. They are about half 
as large as a Brown Leghorn chicken, 
with four yellow r stripes down their 
backs, and long yellow legs, with toenails 
about a quarter of an inch long. The old 
hen Avas perfectly willing to own the lit¬ 
tle things and mother them, but they 
Avould not. In order to keep them any- 
A\ r here where they could be found they 
Avere put into a barrel with the old hen. 
Some hay was put in for a nest, and so 
light and active are they that they actual¬ 
ly seem to run up a spear of hay. 
BOSINA. 
No Feathers on the Canary 
Will you inform us Avhat to do for a 
canary that has grown no new feathers 
since it molted this Spring, so that it is 
nearly naked? It is a singing female and 
she has laid 16 eggs since Spring. We 
find no mites on her, the cages is kept 
very clean and the usual food, Avith a 
bit of green stuff aud suet, is provided. 
New York. s. H. N. 
This is an unusually interesting prob¬ 
lem because the bird is a singing female 
and has laid so many eggs since Spring 
but has produced few new feathers. The 
age of the bird is not given. That might 
have something to do with the trouble, 
or it may be that the bird has not vitality 
enough to lay all those eggs and also 
groAV feathers. The process of molting is 
a drain on any bird. 
One authority says that “bare places 
on a canary come from one of three 
causes, mites, unfinished molting or the 
blood being out of order. Mites are sel¬ 
dom found on the bird or in the cage 
during the daytime unless it is a very 
bad case. A white cloth may be slightly 
dampened and thrown over the- cage at 
night. If mites are present they will be 
found on this cloth in the morning. They 
may be destroyed by plunging the cloth 
into boiling water. The cage should be 
immersed in boiling water or cleaned Avitli 
a solution of carbolic acid in case mites 
are found. 
Unfinished or incomplete molting may 
be caused by old age, lack of vitality or 
a sudden chill. I should imagine lack 
of vitality was the cause in this case 
from the facts given me. All one can 
do, then is to build up the bird’s health 
in every way possible. • 
Birds are as individual as human be¬ 
ings in their food tastes, and what helps 
one bird may do little for another. I 
have never known a canary that did not 
respond to the use of “song restorer.” It 
may be had at any dealer’s and probably 
it would be safe to give this bird nearly 
one-half teaspoonful a day. 
I suppose the bird has access to 
gravel and has a bit of cuttle bandy all 
the time and bathes regularly. Egg food 
could be given once or tw r ice a week. A 
very slight quantity of sulphur might be 
added to the egg food. Egg food is made 
by “mincing an entire hard-boiled egg 
and adding to it an equal quantity of 
bread or unsalted cracker crumbs.” It 
should be used only when fresh. 
The government bulletin has this to 
slay* where old age causes incomplete 
molting: “Old birds Aveak in physical 
vigor often fail to renew their entire 
feather coA r ering, and ordinarily there is 
no remedy for it. A supply of nutritious, 
easily assimilated food and careful pro¬ 
tection during the next molt may result 
in improvement. Usually this incomplete 
molt is a sign of extreme age or break¬ 
down. and the bird does not live long.” 
Very weak saffron tea may be given the 
bird instead of pure drinking water if the 
sulphur in the egg food does no good. 
EDNA S. KNAPP. 
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