The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-09
field of alfalfa after moving Is de- cidedly beneficial. J. F. Duggar.

| Clueuly Def-eHCldl. J. Y. DuSEar.
 Care and Treatment of Cattle During
 the First Summer Following 1 Inoculation.
 | Feed.-Ground or cracked corn, ground
 oats, ground cowpeas and wheat bran | may be mixed in equal parts or ground | corn may be combined with any one or
 two of the others. in equal parts. The
 mixed ration can be fed regularly two Or | three times per day in quantity, varying | with the size and age of the animal, just | about what the animal will eat up clear and retain good appetite and not get | too fat or too poor A little cotton seed
 may be fed two or three times per week each animal over one year old. Cotton seed meal should not be fed to breeding animals in large quantities or by itself When fed to breeding animals 1t should | nc. be over three pounds per day, and in combination with ground corn and shred | ded fodder or cut hay and pasturage. It | Is best to avoid feeding cotton seed meal | to inoculated animals during the first summer.
 | The hay or forage should be always
 good never moldy. rotton or musty Good reavine hay, Johnson grass hay, crab grass hay, alfalfa hay, shredded fodder and vetch hay are all better than cotton | seed hulls. If possible, breeding cattle should always have plenty of good pastur- age. Bermuda carpet grass and sorghum may be grown in summer. and wheat and vetch, oats and vetch or rye and vetch | or rye, wheat or oats or vetch or burr clover. may be sown early in September | and be ready for pasturing from Decem- bei or January to May. For summer selling plant corn or sorghum thick in the drill on good rich soil near the pas ture and when large enough cut it night and morning and feed 1t green and fresh, | be ginning with small quantity and grad l ually increase the amount fed.
 The water supply .shouldl be of the purest and best. Do not attempt to breed
 and raise pure bred cattle without good
 care, good feed and pure water. It is well to have a mixture of 10 pounds
 or common salt and pounds of sulphur na place or box protected from rain where cattle can get at it at will; or give a small amount of the mixture to each animal two to four times per week Instead of salt alone; this will help to keep off ticks, keep the bowels open and eliminate or prevent parasitic intestinal infestation.
 Cattle Ticks.-In the early spring per-
 init q few ticks (H1out 20 to get on each | inoculatcd animal. Minute young ticks
 are rather hard to find on the animal.
 To prevent excessive tick infestation look clo sely around on the inside of the
 thighs, before and behind the udder, over
 the abdomen, between the front limbs,
 on the dewlap and sides of the neck and
 be dy. Ticks usually try to find hiding places on the skin of cattle. To remove or kill ticks apply any good oil-say crude Beaumont oil, black oil machine
 oil cotton seed oil, fish oil. or lard and
 Ike rosene oil emulsion. And one or
 mixture of two or more of these oils
 may be made more active or efficient by warming them over a slow fire and add ing to 10 pounds of sulphur to every l0 gallons of the oil.
 The lime and sulphur dip will also kill ticks and can be used alternately with any of the above mentioned oils. It is made as follows:
 Put 1 to 1 1-2 pounds of unslaked lime
 into ten gallon kettle; pour over the lime sufficient water to make lime paste" or lime putty" Into this sift Ohrough flour or meal sifteD three times as l many 6 to f 1-2) pounds of flowers of sulphur as pounds of lime used and thor l oughly stir the paste as the sulphur is
 being sifted into it; add to this mixture of lime and sulphur 3 to gallons of wa
 ter and boil the mixture ? to 3 hours, stirring 1t well while boiling. Pour the entire contents of the kettle into a keg that will hold about 10 gallons and into which has been inserted faucet about two inches from the bot tom. Let it stand 2 to hours, until the sediment goes to the bottom; then
 draw off the clear liquid through the
 faucet and strain 1t through a piece
 of bagging into a clean barrel or large
 vessel Now add enough warm water
 to La clear liouid measure l21o
 gallons. The clear liquid of lime and
 sulphur is ready for use. Never use
 the sediment.
 The oil or the lime-sulphur liquid
 may be applied with rags or swabs all
 over the body, or in such places as
 ticks are found. once every 10 or IA
 days. It Is best to apply oil one time
 and the next time Gin 10 to If days)
 apply the lime-sulphur liquid. The
 lime injures the hair slightly and the
 oil prevents loss of body heat by
 checking evaporation of sweat.
 During the hot weather of summer
 and fall it is well to keep nearly all of
 the ticks off of the inoculated cattle
 by the regular application of oil or
 lime and sulphur liquid, or by regu-
 larly dipping the cattle in large dip ping tanks. The Bureau of Animal
 Industry at Washington, D. C., will
 furnish plans for making sheep or cattle dipping tanks upon application
 by letter.