1870. 



NEW ENGLAND FARRIER. 



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ing which time it should be slighrlj' sprinkled 

 with powered saUpetre, which removes all the 

 surface blood, &c., leaving the meat fresh 

 and clean. Some omit boiling the pickle, and 

 find it to answer well ; though the operation of 

 boiling purities the pickle by throwing oti the 

 dirt alivays to be found in salt and sugar. — 

 Oermardown Telegraph. 



"WHAT AILS THE COWgP"-CO"W-P0X. 



A correspondent at Almont, Mich., writ'es 

 usasfjUowi: — "i have two joung cows ap- 

 parently in good health, except a breaking out 

 of sores on the udder and tets. One cow 

 four )ears old came home one night with one 

 quarter of her udder swollen very badly, and 

 she appeared to^be in great pain for nearly a 

 week. At times the swelling would go down 

 and then it woiild swell again as bad as ever. 

 Previous to this her teats were covered with 

 scabs, whijh did not appear to be very sore, 

 nor an) thing more than mere surface sores. 



''My o hei- cow was troubled wiih the same 

 kind of hiiiaor but it seemed to go away of 

 itself. Oat of twelve or fjurteen cows in this 

 neighborhood, nearly ail were troubled with 

 this huiiior. No'V, my cow la^t mentioned has 

 large sores coming out on her teats and udder 

 which look very bid. Some say that it is the 

 cow-pox. If it is, or whatever it may be, 

 let me know through your valuable paper, and 

 prescribe a remedy, so that I cjin cure them." 



Remahks — The description of the eruption 

 and sores above given, indicates that the 

 disease is cow pox, which appears first in the 

 form of pustules on the teats, which are easily 

 broken in milking, and which if lef . alone, 

 break of themselves, and di?charge a thin, un- 

 healthy fluid. The pustules are surrounded 

 by a broad circle of inflammation, and if neg- 

 lected or roughly handled, sometimes run in- 

 to ulcers, very foul and diffijulc to heal. If 

 the disease is cow-pox, the hinds of the milk- 

 er will be affected by it. Pustules appear on 

 the j )ints of the hands, and the ends of the 

 fingers, and there is sometimes considerable 

 fever. The pustules burst in three or four 

 days, and sometimes become troublesome 

 sores, which are communicated to any part 

 that they touch. 



There is another eruption on the teats of 

 the cow which bears much re-semblance to 

 cow-p x, and is often confounded with it. 

 The pustules are smaller, but are not so round 

 or so deep, and have not the blu^^ color of the 

 true CO V- pox. The following recipe has been 

 freqiiently used with good effect for cow-pox ; 

 Sal ammoniac, a quarter of an ounce ; white 

 wine vinegar, half a pint ; camphoreted spirit 

 of wine, two ounces ; Goulard's extract, an 

 ounce. Mix, and keep the lotion in a bottle 

 for u^e. 



For ordinary sore teats the following oint- 

 ment is a remedy : Elder ointment, six ounces ; 

 bees-wax, ten ounces. Mix, and add an 



ounce each of sugar of lead and aliim, in fine 

 powder — stir them well together until cold. — 

 Western Rural. 



DOES DAIRYING IMPHOVE LAND? 

 In reply to a question as to the t ff.;ct of 

 dairying on the general fertility of the farms 

 in Herkimer County, N. Y., or elsewhere, 

 Mr. X. A. Willard replies as follows in the 

 Rural New Yorker: — 



There is no question but that lands may be 

 kept in fertility and increased in productive- 

 ness with more ease and with less e>p-nse 

 under the dairy thin under a system of g ain 

 growing. The dairy farmer has the mt-ans at 

 his command for making large qumtities of 

 manure. That he is wastef il of this miterial, 

 and injudicious in its application it may be 

 often, and perhaps as a general rule, is 

 charged against him. Still, under all mis- 

 management in this regard, it is JDelieved 

 that dairy lands are steaddy improving in the 

 elements of fertility, and are now in better 

 heart for grain crops than when gr:iin-grow- 

 ing was made the bu^iness of the farm. It is 

 ttua that upon many farms the )ield of grass 

 is much less than it should be, but this is not 

 so much on account of any lack of fertility in 

 the soil as from neglect of prop r culture — al- 

 lowing weeds to creep in, overstoikin^ pis- 

 tures, feeding down the aftermiih ( f mead- 

 ows, cutting grass when over ripe, and other 

 abuses which, *in time, have served to lessen 

 the product. When farms have been properly 

 managed, and have received the I'quid and 

 solid excrement orthe stork, judiciju-iy ap- 

 plied, they have been wonderfully ia proved, 

 and are annually yielding immense crops. 



The dairymen of Central New York, where 

 dairying has for a longtime been fullowed as 

 a specialty, are generally "well off as to 

 worldly goods," and in wealt'a will compare 

 favorably with farmers in any other part of 

 the State. Dairy lands we tl.ink ba^^e in- 

 creased in value more rapidly than the grain 

 lands of the State. 



Herkimer County, the oldest chee?e dairy- 

 ing county in New York, contains about 

 278,000 acres of improved land. This is di- 

 vided up into two thousand firms of fifty 

 acres and over, and a thousand firms running 

 from three to twenty acres ; or in all, say 

 about three thousand firms. The value of 

 products taken from the firms in ISGi, accord- 

 ing to the State census, was as follows : — 



Dairy products fS.IRT.fg 



(JralQ products 1 1P9 7S> 



Soae Ibirteen other products 2.5,!4 8 2 



Total agricultural products fjr one year . $3,791,7^1 



Now, if this sum was equally divided among 

 the 3000 farms, it would give each farm §2263 

 as the average income. But as there are 

 1000 farms that run from three to twenty 



