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have  bad  experience  with  a  cow  that  be¬ 
haves  in  this  way.  This  is  not  a  ease  for 
scientific  treatment,  but  plain  horse  sense 
on  the  part  of  practical  men,  and  we 
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such  a  cow. 
Stringy  Milk 
Can  you  tell  me  the  reason  why  cream 
on  the 'milk  allowed  to  stand  over  night, 
in  a  cool  place  is  stringy  in  the  morning? 
We  have  no  iee  and  this  stringy  appear¬ 
ance  usually  appears  just  before  the 
milk  sours,  although  when  like  this  it 
does  nut  curdle  in  coffee,  etc-,  hut  it 
could  not  be  used  in  cooking,  as  it  has 
anything  hut  an  appetizing  appearance.  I 
would  like  to  know  the  cause  and  remedy 
if  there  is  one  known.  N,  .T. 
I  judge  that  the  milk  is  not  ropy  or 
slimy  when  it  is  drawn  from  the  cow. 
Therefore  the  cow  is  apparently  not 
troubled  with  garget,  and  the  ropiness 
which  you  note  in  your  cream  must  he 
due  to  some  bacterial  contamination  after 
it  is  drawn  from  the  cow.  Experiments 
have  shown  that  this  contamination  quite 
frequently  comes  from  surface  water,  and 
from  utensils  which  have  not.  been  prop¬ 
erly  scalded  or  sterilized.  It  is  some¬ 
times  a  difficult  tiling  to  overcome  with¬ 
out  trying  a  few  experiments  on  it.  If  it 
is  true  that  your  milk  is  not  slimy  when 
it  comes  from  the  cow,  then  I  would  sug¬ 
gest  you  bo  careful  in  scalding  and  steril¬ 
izing  utensils,  with  which  the  milk  and 
cream  come  in  contact,  and  see  whether 
this  does  not  overcome  the  trouble. 
H.  F.  J. 
Leaking  Milk 
1.  Will  you  please  tell  me  what  to  do 
for  a  cow  that  leaks  her  milk?  She  is  a 
three-year-old.  Sh*-  has  milked  once  and 
is  to  freshen  again  in  July.  I  have  milked 
her  all  Winter  once  a  day.  1  he  milk 
rims  out  of  her  teats  in  a  stream.  2. 
Have  you  any  way  to  tell  if  a  mare  is 
with  foal?  She  foab'd  last  May.  F.  it. 
New  York. 
1.  Milk  twice  a  day.  If  milk  continues 
to  leak  apply  candle  wax  freely  to  the 
ends  of  the  tips  or  paint  with  flexible 
collodion,  or  put  on  rubber  thimbles  or 
wide  tapes.  2.  The  upper  Hanks  become 
hollow  and  the  abdomen  distended,  and 
when  gestation  is  advanced  the  foal  may 
he  seen  to  move  when  the  mare  drinks 
cold  water.  A  veterinarian  can  decide 
the  matter  by  palpation  of  the  uterus  by 
waj  of  I  he  rectum.  A.  S.  A. 
Feed  one  pound  of  mixture  to  four  or 
five  pounds  milk  produced  daily. 
2.  I  should  say  it  would  he  better  to 
mix  up  say  a  month's  supply  of  grain 
and  hoof  scrap  for  your  poultry  rather 
than  a  six  months’  supply.  it.  f.  .7. 
Peanuts  and  Stock 
To  begin  with,  l  will  say  that  I  am  a 
Northern  man  who  spent  about  20  years 
farming  in  three  Southern  States,  so  I 
know  the  conditions.  I  love  the  South 
and  its  people  and  would  be  glad  to 
help  them.  Perhaps  1  will  he  called  a 
dreamer  hut  let  it  be  so.  Peanut  oil 
is  a  delightful  oil,  good  for  all  kinds  of 
cooking  even  to  cake-making,  it  is  a 
good  salad  oil  and  good  to  use  on  bread 
in  place  of  butter.  We  all  like  it  better 
than  olive  oil,  and  we  are  in  an  olive 
location  where  the  very  best  oil  is  made. 
My  idea  is  this:  Perhaps  it  will  need  the 
bankers  and  business  men  to  start  it,  but 
take  nay  location  in  the  coastal  plain, 
put  in  an  oil  mill,  get  the  farmers  to 
agree  to  raise  a  certain  acreage  for  a 
series  of  years,  also  furnish  them  milch 
cows,  start  a  creamery,  extract  the  oil 
from  the.  nuts,  and  feed  the  peanut  cake 
or  meal  that  is  left  to  the  cows  and 
hogs.  It  is  a  good  food  for  anything; 
everything  on  the  farm  likes  peanuts, 
from  the  children  to  the  hens. 
The  pea u ut  is  a  legume  and  soil  im¬ 
provin';  phosphoric  acid  and  lime  or  marl 
are  the  needed  fertilizers.  The  vines  are 
a  line  cow  feed  and  will  furnish  the 
roughage.  Now  who  can  *  say  that  a 
community  that  will  cut  out  one-half  the 
cotton  and  follow  the  above  scheme  for 
10  years  will  not  he  rich  in  soil  and 
pocket?  A.  F.  A. 
Sores  on  Udder 
Some  of  our  cows  have  sores  on  their 
feats  and  udders  which  we  suppose  is  cow 
pox.  Does  this  sound  like  it.  and  what 
can  he  done  for  it?  First  a  bunch  is  no¬ 
ticed  about  as  large  as  a  beau,  later  it 
comes  to  a  head  and  breaks  and  pus  runs 
out.  It  sometimes  is  slow  in  healing  es¬ 
pecially  if  it  is  where  if  is  disturbed  in 
milking  and  it  makes  milking  difficult. 
Some  of  the  same  cows  hud  it  last.  M  in¬ 
ter.  and  we  supposed  if  it  were  cow  pox 
they  would  not  have  it  a  second  time. 
New  York.  E.  A.  A. 
False  cow  pox  is  common  and  is  a  filth 
disease  from  dirty  floors,  or  wet  milking 
and  other  .sources  of  contamination.  It 
probably  is  present  in  the  cases  in  ques¬ 
tion.  Cleanse  the  affected  udders  and 
then  rub  iodine  ointment  upon  the  sores 
as  often  as  seems  to  he  necessary.  Milk 
affected  cows  last.  .So  far  as  possible 
prevent  causes  mentioned.  A.  s.  A- 
