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October 25, 1924 
FARMER SHORT—“ Cattle and hogs lived before folks dipped or sprayed 'em." 
FARMER LONG—“ Plenty died, too; disinfectant isn't bad insurance.” 
Happy Stock! 
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than people used to realize! Disinfecting is the easiest, 
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Street, Philadelphia. 
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Sold by seed, feed and poultry 
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Live Stock Notes 
Sheep and Apple Trees 
Can you tell me how to make a yoke 
or brace to put on the head of sheep so 
they cannot reach up and destroy the 
fruit and foliage in an orchard? Unless 
we can have some such head guard we 
cannot safely pasture sheep among low¬ 
headed trees. a. n. f. 
We have applied to many sheep men 
for help in this but no one seems to 
have any practical plan. Here are a few 
comments: 
I opine “it can’t 'be did,” though some 
years ago I had an old ewe that was 
very troublesome, standing on her hind 
legs five minutes at a time if necessary 
in order to reach apples and leaves, and 
any place she could get her head through 
she would push until she had spread the 
wires (if there was half a chance) 
enough to get through the fence. In a 
fit of desperation, I made a square poke, 
perhaps two feet long, of four narrow 
strips and put it astride her neck. It 
seemed so to occupy her attention that she 
forgot both of her tricks, and was law- 
abiding so long as we kept her. It di¬ 
verted her line of thought, so to speak. 
As to the trees and bark, I know noth¬ 
ing unless protected by burlap or some 
ill-tasting compound. I never have been 
troubled. F. E.R. 
I never heard of such a thing as poke 
or harness to put on sheep to keep them 
from eating the leaves off from limbs of 
trees. I wish I had known that there 
was such a thing, as 16 years ago I 
set out an apple orchard, and in August 
I budded the trees to the kind that I 
wished them to be. I had these apples 
set out 20 ft by 40 ft., and I cropped 
them 40 ft. and cultivated the row of 
trees, and the next year after budding 
them I had a fine piece of clover that 
came up after taking the oats off. The 
young clover was up to my knees. At 
that time I raised sheep and they were 
running in an adjoining field. The hired 
man reported that they had got out and 
into my clover. I did not think they 
would do any harm, as they had plenty 
of clover to eat, but a little later I 
found that they had stood up on their 
hing legs and got hold of the new grown 
buds, and had pulled the buds out of the 
trees. 
That Winter I disposed of my sheep; 
I decided they did not belong on a fruit 
farm. Now if I had known that there 
was a poke that would have kept them 
from eating the trees I still might be 
growing sheep. w. P. R. 
Horse and Ox Together 
One of our readers in New York State 
wants to know if there really are cases 
where an ox and a horse have been 
taught to work together as a team. He 
seems to have one horse and a young 
steer growing up, and if it were possible 
to use the combination as a team it 
would suit him. 
Many of our people who have traveled 
in the South have seen this combination 
coming into one of the southern towns 
on a Saturday afternoon for trading. Not 
infrequently a horse or mule will be 
hitched with an ox. In some cases the 
ox will wear a horse collar turned up¬ 
side down, although this is not the best 
way to handle him.- It is not likely that 
a horse and ox would work together un¬ 
der a yoke, but when the ox wears some 
kind of a collar the combination can be 
made. 
As to the way they would work to¬ 
gether it would depend very largely on 
the horse. Some horses lose their spirit 
If they ever had any, and are willing to 
work with almost anything that can pull 
half the load. Others show some sort of 
human nature and appear to feel degrad¬ 
ed when they are hitched up even with a 
mule. We had such a horse once, who 
never would work with a mule, although 
we tried to overcome his prejudice. He 
would bite and kick the moment the 
mule was put alongside of him. The 
combination is or was quite common in 
the South. We remember one political 
campaign in the South where one party 
nominated a ticket containing the names 
of an old aristocrat who had broken down 
following the Civil War and a Northern 
man who had come to the South as a car¬ 
pet-bagger and a small and petty lawyer 
well known to be without principle. The 
rival candidate made a speech in which 
he stated this ticket reminded him of a 
scene quite common in many southern 
towns where a man would hitch to his 
wagon some broken-down and spavined 
thoroughbred stallion alongside a brin¬ 
dled ox with a little dog running under 
the wagon. Such political civilities were 
frequently exchanged 40 years ago. That 
form of argument has largely passed out 
of politics, but the combination of horse 
and ox and dog may still be found. 
Fractious Police Dog 
I have a German police pup eight 
months old. He was seven weeks old 
when I got him. When he was about 
three months old a boy came in and 
while fooling with him, the dog jumped 
back and struck against the stove, strik¬ 
ing his back, injuring the sciatic nerve. 
This made the left hind leg weak and 
somewhat crooked. He seemed to pull 
out of this pretty well until three or 
four months ago when starting to take 
him for a walk in the woods a train 
whistle frightened him and he broke the 
leash and ran wild until he dropped ex¬ 
hausted. This second injury left his 
hind legs paralyzed for two or three 
weeks. The doctor said he was very 
strong to pull through these two in¬ 
juries, but that he should have the best of 
care and not have anything else happen 
to him until he was a year old, as he 
would not pull -through another injury. 
On account of getting hurt and the 
zero weather I kept the dog in the house. 
He is very affectionate and everyone 
that came in would speak to him. When 
it got warm I put him out doors where 
he stays. We have a small orchard and 
until this year small boys have been in 
destroying things. I would like to have 
the dog take care of it and would also 
like him to watch the house and allow 
no one in the yard. Fie is as wild as a 
deer and does not stay quiet a minute. 
We seldom take him out of his yard 
which is large enough for him to run in. 
Can you give me suggestions how to 
train him? R. E. c. 
Vermont. 
It seldom pays to retain and bother 
with a puppy that at eight months has 
not “learned manners” and shown in 
every way that he is a good standard 
specimen of his breed and endowed with 
all of the best attributes of that breed. 
A “spoiled” puppy is difficult to “make 
over” and, indeed, that may prove ab¬ 
solutely impossible. It is quite likely 
that the puppy in question did not in¬ 
herit the sagacious and reliable traits of 
the German police dog breed, but was in¬ 
different stock. Inherited timidity and 
foolishness is difficult or impossible to 
overcome by training and the puppy in 
question, possibly being of that kind, 
may not be worth professional training. 
As to the training, the person w r ho sold 
you the puppy, if a profesional breeder 
of such dogs, no doubt can advise you 
as to the proper party to employ for the 
purpose. 
If the spinal cord, not the sciatic nerve 
was injured at the time of the first ac¬ 
cident, some abnormality of the function 
of the hind legs will be likely to persist 
and prove incurable, but we think that 
the last riming fit or spell was induced 
by excitement and had nothing whatever 
to do with the original injury. It is 
much more likely that the puppy is in¬ 
fested with^ hook worms or tape worms 
and that they are the cause of the excite¬ 
ment fit and possibly of all of the other 
objectionable things about the dog. 
To expel hook worms withhold feed for 
24 hours and give carbon tetrachlorid 
in soft gelatin capsules. The dose for a 
puppy is one drop per pound of body 
weight and for a grown dog is two drops 
per pound. Be careful not to break the 
capsules at time of administration as the 
drug is volatile and dangerous when in¬ 
haled. 
If tape worm segments or joints are 
seen in the feces it would be better to 
give arceoline hydrobromid instead of 
carbon tetrachlorid. It comes in tablet 
form and the dose for your puppy would 
be one-eighth of a grain, given after 
fasting as already advised. Burn drop¬ 
pings. So far as possible avoid undue 
excitement, but have the dog take abund¬ 
ant out-door exercise daily and be well 
fed. 
Judge: “This lady says you tried to 
speak to her at the station.” Salesman : 
“It was a mistake. I was looking for 
my friend’s sister, whom I had never seen 
before, but who’s been described to me as 
a handsome blonde with classic features, 
fine complexion, perfect figure, beautifully 
dressed.” Witness: “I don’t care to 
prosecute the gentleman. Anyone might 
have made the same mistake.”—Credit 
Lost. 
