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‘Ibe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February IS, 1922 
ABSORBINE 
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SAVED THREE COWS 
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Jacob Germann. of Farmincdale, Ill., tella of 
his experience with cow ailments much the 
same as hundreds of others who take the 
trouble to write us every year. He says: 
“I had three cows this Spring, one had 
garget and one had milk fever, and one 
was done up completely from calving and 
could not get up or walk and I had a vet¬ 
erinarian with no good results. I began 
feeding Kow-Kare and she is able to go to 
pasture with the other cows now. I just 
know I would have lost the three if I had 
not had your medicine." 
T). B. Thomas of Knightville, Utah, had an 
experience with a barren cow that is just 
like scores of others who have kept cows on a 
paying basis with the aid of Kow-Kare. He 
writes: 
"Had a valuable Jersey cow eight years 
old that had had seven calves. Something 
went wrong with her after her last calf 
came, so that for two years she failed to 
become with calf. Fed her some of your 
Kow-Kare last January and she was all 
right the first serving, and long before I 
had given her the whole package of your 
Kow-Kare that I purchased." 
For the prevention or successful treatment 
of Barrenness, Abortion. Retained Afterbirth, 
Scouring. Bunches, Milk Fever, Loss^of Ap¬ 
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of constant successes as Kow-Kare, Every 
cow owner should keep it on hand. Sold by 
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the new reduced prices—65c and $1.25 
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Ration With Silage 
I have mixed hay (Alsike and Timothy, 
extra good), silage and corn fodder. What 
grain ration do you suggest? We have 
our own corn. a. c. m. 
Michigan. 
With first-class roughage such as you 
have identified, and with silage, it ought 
to be a simple matter to provide a mixed 
ration that would be satisfactory. 1 pre- 
for a basic ration carrying 24 or 25 per 
cent of* protein. Sly experience leads me 
to believe that beet pulp should be mois¬ 
tened 12 hours before being used. For a 
straight shovel mixture a composition of 
200 lbs. of brewers’ grains. 200 lbs, of 
corutncal or hominy meal. 200 lbs. of 
bran. 100 lbs. of cottonseed meal, 200 
lbs. of gluten feed and 50 lbs. of oilmoul 
would serve. 
Choosing a Dairy Breed 
I think of starting a dairy with IF own 
Swiss cattle. What do you think of them 
as just an ordinary farmers' breed to have 
on the farm? Do you think that one can 
get more for the amount invested than if 
mal that combines olficicm milk produc¬ 
tion with economical meat production. 
Select one type or the other, but do not 
try to balance yourself on a rope unless 
you aim to be a real circus performer. 
Stick to the dairy cow if you want to 
achieve results and prosper in your milk¬ 
making venture. 
In Switzerland these cattle were de¬ 
veloped to withstand severe climates, and 
to do hard work in the fields. Little at¬ 
tention is given to developing milk or 
meat making functions. Forage being 
scant and coarse, they were subjected l<> 
grief and hardship of every sort. When 
the foundation stock was brought into 
this country and developed under corn 
belt conditions, it naturally responded 
promptly to the changed conditions, and 
marked improvements in type and individ¬ 
uality were noted. Many successful and 
practical dairymen hold that life is too 
short to undertake to develop either milk 
or beef making functions from an animal 
developed for working purposes, and look 
he went into a more common breed, like 
Jersey, Ayrshire, Holstein or Guernsey? 
In those breeds you have to pay long 
prices for good cows with a backing, and 
then it is hard for a small breeder to sell, 
as he is not up in the front seat. What 
do you think of the future of the Brown 
Swiss? H. F. P. 
New York. 
The Brown Swiss breed of cattle are 
commonly rated as dual purpose animals. 
That is. they give less milk than repre¬ 
sentatives of the dairy breeds, and pro¬ 
duce an inferior quality of beef less effi¬ 
ciently than strictly beef-making ani¬ 
mals. There is an honest difference of 
opinion its to the future of the breed in 
this country. So far there has been a 
great variation in type, and it is difficult 
to conceive of conditions that would jus¬ 
tify a dairy farmer in the selection of this 
type of animal if he operates in*u section 
where milk production is a profitable en¬ 
terprise. lie could scarcely afford to 
maintain animals of this type for this 
purpose, and if he chooses to produce beef 
he might better select a representative 
breed of animals that have been developed 
primarily for economical beef production. 
If I were you 1 should choose some one of 
the dairy breeds and not attempt to de¬ 
velop an economical dairy animal from 
representatives of the Brown Swiss breed. 
It is a difficult problem to advise some¬ 
one else as to the particular breed of cat¬ 
tle that he should select. Each of the 
breeds have their admirers. 
The modern dairy cow represents gen¬ 
erations of careful selection, and it. is ad¬ 
mitted on every hand that she is by far 
the most economical Agency for convert¬ 
ing foods into edible solids. A dairy 
farmer will prosper where a meat-making 
farmer would literally starve t<> death. It 
is absolutely impossible to combine in any 
one animal both milk-making and meal- 
making functions and, in my opinion, it 
is foolish for anyone to start with an ele¬ 
phant and hope to wind up with a dairy 
animal. It is difficult to select a horse 
that has the speed of a rncehourse com¬ 
bined with the strength and power of a 
draft horse, and it is equally as difficult 
and impossible to find a dual purpose ani- 
upon this breed as a cold-blooded prop¬ 
osition. However, it is every man for 
bis own choice of breed or type of farm 
animal. My advise to you is. purchase 
some good grade milk cows of Holstein, 
Guernsey, Ayrshire or Jersey origin if 
you want to succeed in your milk making 
practices. 
Lice oil Cattle 
Some time ago I saw in Trns R. N.-Y. 
directions for the use of linseed oil, or 
some kind of oil. for lice on cattle. Will 
you repeat the instructions? N. D. B. 
West Rupert. Yt. 
If your cattle arc infested with lice, a 
concoction consisting of eight parts of 
raw linseed oil and two parts of gasoline 
can be used generously in combating 
them. The materials may be applied with 
a brush or a flannel cloth. It is con¬ 
tended that lice sooner or later will as¬ 
semble near the line of the vertebra; 
hence it is important to saturate the hair 
thoroughly along the top line. Of course, 
if the oil can lie spread over the entire 
body, so uiiioli the better. It is possible 
to use the oil without dilution, and some 
breeders claim that the gasoline is very 
apt to cause the animals to lose their 
hair. The application should be repeated 
in seven days, in order to destroy any 
nits that might have survived the first 
treatment. 
Leaking of Milk 
Will you tell me whether there is a 
remedy for a cow that leaks milk. E. K. 
Massachusetts. 
Leaking of milk may sometimes be 
stopped by immersing the teats twice 
daily for five minutes of more in water 
containing nil the .alum it will dissolve 
when hot. H that treatment does no good, 
apply melted wax or paraffin to the tips 
of the teats after each milking, and if 
that fails use flexible collodion in the 
same way. Some owners put u wide, 
weak rubber band around the leaking 
tent, but that is liable to cause injury by 
interfering with the circulation of blood. 
A little blistering ointment inserted in 
the openings of the teats when the cow is 
dry causes swelling and strengthening of 
the sphincter muscle fibers surrounding 
the opening, so that the cow will be less 
likely to leak milk at a subsequent calv¬ 
ing. A, S, A. 
