The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-04-04

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ears Of corn three times a day full feed foi
q calf from three TO six months old and that
would weigh between three aud four hundred
pounds A calf raised and wintered the fret
winter In this way will make AZ good an anI.
NAL as II would II allowed TO run with the
COW and suck for the same length OF time
and would do better when weaned. as the
change Of diet would not be SO radical.
D1ARHHHA OR soouRs In CALVES
IL generally brought on by overfeeding, OF
by changing the feed. Sometimes 1t is very
simple and can be checked by withholding
a part Of their regular allowance of feed for
a dav or two: and In fact, this should be
done, no matter what treatment ls used
We have used fresh laid eggs with good
effect, giving the calf one three times day,
either mixed IN Its milk, or broken and put
In lts mouth, compelling 1t TO swaliowit. The
eggs being very nourishing assist greatly In
restoring the calfs lost strength, One oil
the best remedies for seours is calfs rennet
the stomach OF the calf soaked In warm
water and given in the feed. Our rule ,s to
get good rennet, shake the salt out OF IL,
and soak about one-thlrd Of 1t In o pint Of
warm water, and give b tablespoonful three
times a day This will cure any ordinary
case. But II these seours continue and run
Into regular or malignant diarrhea, the best
remedy we have found is one and one-half
grains Dover's powders, and the same guam
tity Of pulveilSed rhubarb, making three
graiLs, which is TO be given at dose, and
these doses should be given three times a
day until the calf is relieved. For. collie IN
horses or colts, we use the third decimal
attenuation of oolocynth, In doses of from
three TO ten drops every fifteen minutes.
This is a purely homeopathic remedy, and
we administer it strictly In accordance with
homeopathic principles.
CURE FOR MILK FEVER.
DR.. Robert jennings, Of Detroit, gives n
few suggestions about milk fever In cows. IL
thuf a.
tacks tho best cows, aud is too often fatal on
account OF improper treatment DO not. un-
der any circumstances, purge or bleed your
animals II you would have them live. We
advise the following remedies, which can be
obtained IN any drug store-hy. proper uae
and nursing you will save two animals where
you now save one: Sulphate OF magnesla,
one pound; Jamaica ginger, pulveri8ed, two
ounces mix we'll and divide into six powders.
one TO be given three times day. dissolved
In half pint of tepid water. alternating
every six hours with one OF the following
powders Chloride of potasea. one ounce: |:
digltalis folio, pulveriSed, one-half ounce;
tartaric antimony, one-half ounce; mix and
divide into six powders. Place the cow IN .
large. well-vnntiltted box etal, we'll supplied
with clean, dry etFaw and kept clean. II the
weather Ia cold protect i,er with warm cloth
ing. The milk ahouId he frequently drawn
Off, and, when unable tn rise, she should be
turned ocoaei ,nnlty, which will afford her
temporary relief,
EWES MILK.
Too much caution oanuut be taken that tho
young lanb should not take bad milk from
its mother. Many q lamb has died from
taking the fret seeretions In the ewes teats.
Sometimes II is watery fluid. at other times
1t is olotted, umpY and stiff, and again ropy,
oily and pasty. Ihia, as In any other case of
bad milk, is inadequate and s.lre death to the
lamb. In case Of q doubt as to the Efficiency
OF the milk resort to a teapot with q rubber
nipper and cows milk In email quantities
Draw the teats gently and often unti better
milk comes, and II II does not you will have
to find a foster mother or raise the lamb as
cosset,
THE FIRST CALF.
Cows are largely the creatures OF habit, and
with their first calf everything ts new and
strange to them, and they readily submit to
being milked and think 1t is all right; but
suffer them to run with the calf the first sea-
sou and vcioue habit is established that
they will hardly forget In lifetime II they
ever submit to be MIXED quietly il s evident
ly under protect. But there is a greater OBJ
lection than thls-the calf running with the
cow draws the milk every hour or two, 80
that the milk vessels are not at any time dis-
tended with milk, though the quantity se-
oreted In given time may be large. But
this Ia the natural time to diatend the milk
ducts and expand the udder TO good capaci.
ty for holding milk. When, with her next
twelve hours the udder becomes hard and
painful. aud the milk leaks from the teats. or,
more likely. nature accommodates the quan-
tity of milk seoreted to the capacity to retain
1t, and the COW becomes permanently a small
mixer, Much of the future character OF
cow, therefore, depends on her treatment
with her first calf.
FOOD FOR CALVES.
The best substitutes for milk Tor young
calves are: Take one pound each OF sifted oat-
meal wheat shorts and linseed meal; boil
these In two gallons OF water In which hand
full OF good, sweet hay ut may be- clover or not /:
any good, aweet hay will answer) has been
boiled for an hour: add four ounces
of sugar, one ounce OF salt, and two ounces
fine hnckwheat flour. After these have been
boiled for an hour or 40, the mixture may be
set away to cool. Give one-fourth of this
slightly warmed. twice day, and gradually
increasing the quantity as the calf grows
older, until 1t has gallon Mt each feed. In
the meantime have the calf learn to eat hay.
bran. OATS etc.
THE PROPER KIND OF FOWLS TO BREED.
II a person Wishes to breed fowls for size.
TO be sold in the market by the pound, let him
choose one of the varieties of Brahmas or
Cochins. OF these the light Brahma and
partridge Cochin are the best the hardest
and handsomest. Ii he wishes fowls for eggs
let him choose the brown and white Leg
horns. These are the size Of ordinary barn
yard fowls-very active, SNOWY and attractive,
and most persistent layers. Pullets hatched
In March or April begin laying early In the
fall, and, under proper treatment, lay
Through the winter. TO insure a
supply of eggs In winter fowls
should be comfortably housed In very cold
weather, and fed two or three times week
with warm cooked food, well seasoned with
red pepper. A warm musb. made by boiling
scraps OF meat, table scraps and bones and
with wheat, bran, and meal. sea-
soned with red pepper, is the very best winter
feed. Feed this In the morning and grain In
the evening, and your fowls, II comfortably
housed, will give you an ample return In eggs.
FOOD FOR SPRING CHICKENS.
This season we cut off the water supply en-
tirely from the chicks, and substituted sweet
milk slightly scalded. This Is about the only
change In the IL anagement from former years,
and TO this l attribute the decrease In the
list. Out of several hundred chicks.
some Of which are at this writing March 12l,
larger than quails, the loss has been but six
teen. They are fed five times per day. viz:
1. Feed corn and oatmeal mixed with scalded
sweet milk; q. Feed chopped raw vegetables,
with little cooked meat; 8. Feed wheat
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