The Monmouth inquirer., 1889-09-19
FARM, FIELD AND GARDEN.
TOPICS OF INTEREST TO FARMERS
AND STOCK BREEDERS.

AND STOCK BREEDERS.
Care of Lambs During the Late Summer
short-Preventives for Dfarrhea. Dysen-
terry and other Fall Ailments.
August and September are critical
months for the lambs. Very likely they
have been somewhat neglected during
the hurry and heat of July. Certainly
now the pastures are dried and short,
water scant, and there are heat, flies and
the attacks of parasites. Only the best
of care will prevent the death of enough
lambs to reduce largely the profit of the
season. Even with it there are likely to
be sick lambs, and it will be necessary to
provide hospital for them. A cool,
dark, clean pen is the best hospital, and,
to it every sick one of the flock should
be brought during the warm weather.
Diarrhea is apt to prevail and in twen--
ty-four hours it will become dysentery,
and the lamb will be found dead in a.
corner unless close watch is kept. This
diarrhea, explains American Agricul-
tslrfst, is thought to be rather of the ma
ture of blood disease, and to be pro-
duced by heat, scant or unwholsome
drink, nervous depression, and the foul
ness of the out of the way places the ami
mails seek. Preventives are, shelter frow
the heat, abundance of good water, aud
the Reinforcement by palatable, succu-
lent feeds of the exhausted pastures.
The filth in the region of the tail and
the strong odor of the abdomen of the
wethers is apt to attract the blow fly,
Sarcophaga carnaria, one of which may
be responsible for 1000 larve in sea-
son. A 'sfy blown" lamb is soon dead
one, unless effective measures are taken.
Crude petroleum is fatal 20 the larvsa
while healing to the lamb, and is the
best remedy. But prevention is better
watch the lambs and clean thoroughly
any foul or strongly odorous ones.
An all round preventive for fall all
ments, including paper skin" is full
feeding-not the feeding of dry, oily
grains, but largely of green, succulent
food. Putting the lambs in the corn
fields Is very beneficial. The lambs get
shade and additional green food they
do not injure the corn, as they remove
only the lower blades. They are bene-
fit to the corn, as they will keep down
any weeds that may have been over
looked in cultivation, and if the removal
of the lower blades has any effect it is to
hasten the maturing of the corn and get
it out of the way of frost. Sheep much
enjoy having to exercise somewhat for
their food, and the lambs will be all the
better for having their nibbling along
the row. They may well be given also
little bran. rye and oats. 1t is always
risky when they drink from streams
with grassy or weedy banks, and espe-
cially so at this season, concludes the
authority quoted.
Chicken Gapes.
The gapes is an exceedingly common
disease among chickens and there are
numerous SO called remedies Among
these are: Inserting small feather just
moistened with turpentine into the
sharply previous to withdrawing it; car
bolic fumes, mixing garlic and asa
| fetida in the birds food aud little
salicylic acid in the drinking water.
Beale recommends placing the chicks in
box and dusting them well with fine
lime, which gets into the throat and
makes the birds cough, thus bringing
out the worms which occasion the gapes.
This treatment must not be continued
long enough to suffocate the birds.
Rural New Yorker says that a sisnn8
method Of curing the gapes in chicks,
and one that is successful ia the hands
of some persons, is to pinch the wind
pipe. With the left hand hold the head
Of the bird up and the neck straight,
and with the thumb and finger of the
right hand pinch the windpipe smartly,
slightly rolling it. Begin as low down
az possible and follow it upward to the
mouth. Be careful to release it fre-
quently to give the bird a chance to
cough up the crushed parasites
When to Sell Fattened Cows. i
One difficulty in selling fatteped cows
arises from trying to dispose of them at
the time of year when the market Is
glutted with beef. Butchers, as rule,
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