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Get Rid of the Poor Cows 
The greatest menace to the dairy indus¬ 
try today is not the surplus of milk, but 
rather the surplus of low-producing cows, 
improperly fed. Malnutrition is respon¬ 
sible for most animal as well us human 
ills and inefficiencies. Complete feeds 
contribute to health and constitutional 
vigor. The healthiest, strongest, most 
virile and most successful people are 
those whose food from day to day in¬ 
cludes a wide range of animal and vege¬ 
table products; likewise, the most efficient 
animals are those supplied with a feed 
combination chosen from a wide range of 
quality feeds. Mixed farming is more suc¬ 
cessful than a one or two-crop idea. We 
must tie tip our farm practices with out¬ 
live stock activities, rather than attempt 
to run each one as a separate unit. 
I recently heard a successful farmer 
soy that *ho never made any money just 
selling crops, neither did lie ever make 
any money just feeding animals, but when 
he combined the two operations or tied 
them up with each other, both the farm end 
and the cattle-feeding end yielded a sub¬ 
stantial profit. It is my belief that the 
production of milk must be more closely' 
associated with its distribution if tho 
dairy industry as a whole is to pros¬ 
per. Now the dairy farmer in many in¬ 
stances feels that everything that he does 
is all right, and that everything that the 
distributer does is all wrong. Instead of 
working in harmony, each one adds to* the 
other’s problem by introducing the spec¬ 
ulative element into his business. One 
virtually bets (lint there is no surplus, 
that there cannot be such a tiling as too 
much milk, while the other bets that 
there is a surplus, for he is up against a 
fact, rather than a theory. The mere fact 
that all of the milk is got rid of at some 
price by penalizing somebody somewhere 
is no occasion for one producer to congrat¬ 
ulate another producer than he sold his 
milk anyway, in spite of the fact that- he 
failed to get as much for it as it cost 
him to make it. 
Many people are in the milk game that 
ought to be doing something else: for 
sooner or later the unpaid fiddler must 
stop playing. More of the fluid milk 
should be made up into cheese or butter 
at its source rather than be shipped to 
distributing renters and then made up 
into a second- grade by-product. 
If I could persuade every dairy farmer 
to dispose of fully one-third of his herd, 
then prevail upon him to make quite as 
much milk from the remainder of bis herd 
by adopting feeding practices that would 
i-nable him to do this, much would he 
done to simplify existing discouragements. 
Let us get rid of every cow in our herds 
that does not pay now for her feed ; then 
initiate a feeding plan that will make it 
possible for us to supply nil the milk 
needed and that at a living price. 
F. c. M. 
Cows Poisoned by White Hellebore 
Lnrh season sees n number of cases of 
sickness in the dairy herds of Southern 
New York, which tire apparently due to 
poisoning in pasture, Some of these cases 
prove fatal, though most of the cattle af¬ 
fected recover after a period of illness in 
which symptoms of irritant poisoning are 
evident. Local veterinarians ascribe (he 
poisoning to American white hellebore, 
sometimes called swamp hellebore, Indian 
poke, or itch weed. This plant grows 
freely in wet woods and swampy pastures 
from Canada to Georgia, and from Maine 
to Minnesota. It is one of the very first 
to show ils green foliage in the Spring, 
and must offer strong temptations to 
cattle hungry for Spring greens, but ordi¬ 
narily. at least, it remains untouched 
though the grass is cropped closely about 
it. Botanical text books give its name 
as Voratrum viride. or green Vcratrum. 
though popularly it is called white 
hellebore, very possibly from its relation 
to the European white hellebore (Vcr- 
atritm album). Certainly there is noth¬ 
ing white about the American member of 
flu- hellebore family, except tin* root. 
Kvoit the (lowers are of a greenish yellow 
tint. It is from the dried roots of this 
family of plants that the powdered helle¬ 
bore used to destroy currant worms is 
obtained, and from them, too, a liquid 
preparation known as tincture of Vcr- 
atrurn viride is obtained for use in medi¬ 
cine. 
White hellebore is too conspicuous in 
height, and foliage to conceal itself in 
places where it abounds. Its»single stem 
arises from a cluster of oval green leaves 
at its base, reaching a height of from 2 
to 8 ft., and* is surmounted in May or 
dune by a panicle of flowers attached to 
spreading stems. The leaves at the base 
of the stem are broad and long, and grow 
narrower and shorter as '.hey approach 
its summit. The root, which is probably 
the most poisonous part, may be from 1 to 
2 in. thick and 2 to 4 in. in length. Works 
on botany speak of the poisonous nature 
of the root, hilt say little or nothing of 
the character of the rest, of the plant, 
leaving it to be inferred that it is not an 
edible herb, and therefore not to be con¬ 
sidered from the standpoint of whole— 
someness. 'Chat it is sometimes eaten by 
adventurous cattle, or by those with de¬ 
praved nppetities. seems very probable 
however. 1 >r. A. A. Alexander says of 
it that all parts of the plant are consid¬ 
ered poisonous, ami that those above 
ground are most often oaten, and also 
that the fact that cattle in pastures whore 
this plant abounds have died, indicates 
poisoning by it. The symptoms of Ver- 
atrum poisoning are given as salivation, 
or slobbering, purging, attempts at vomit¬ 
ing. trembling with occasional convul¬ 
sions, cold, clammy skin, loss of sight, 
weakness, stupor and finally paralysis 
and death from suffocation. M.,R. I). 
Slimy Milk 
1 have a young cow that gives slimy 
milk. I cannot notice that it is slimy 
when milking, but when run through tlie 
separator it shows in the separator bowl. 
I have had a veterinary call throe times, 
and we have given her fluid extract of 
poke root and other medicine, and her 
milk does not clear up. Her udder is in 
fine condition. All swelling and cake is 
gone. A. n. M. 
Ohio. 
It should not be taken for granted that 
the cow is to blame for the abnormal con¬ 
dition of the milk you describe. Indeed, 
we are not nt all certain that there is 
anything the matter with the cow's udder, 
for very often the slimy or ropy condition 
of milk is caused by bacteria (germs) in 
the milk utensils. The source of tin- 
causal bateria usually is the water in 
which tlu- milk is cooled or that is used 
to wash the utensils, separator, or churn. 
It sometimes happens that the drinking 
water contains the germs and that the 
tents of the cow become wet when -lie is 
drinking. At milking time dust contain¬ 
ing the germs may then drop into the 
milk pail, or dirt, on the udder may have 
conveyed the germs from muddy, contami¬ 
nated water. The first, step in the acces¬ 
sary investigation in the case in question 
should, therefore, be to determine the 
source of the bacteria to ldame for the 
sliminess or ropiness of the milk. To that 
end we should advise you to set a sample 
of milk from each quarter of the udder 
in a separate bottle that has been steril¬ 
ized by boiling. Label each bottle so that 
the source of each sample may be known. 
If all of the milk becomes slimy on stand 
ing. it may be concluded ns certain that 
all of the quarters of the udder are yield¬ 
ing abnormal milk, and if that proves true 
the milk secret ion should be dried ofl' at 
once and the cow lifted for the butcher, 
as chronic garget would he the likely 
cause, and that is incurable, and makes 
the milk unfit for any purpose. If one 
quarter yields abnormal mills, the secre¬ 
tion in that quarter should be dried < fl\ 
or a calf may he allowed to nurse, if that 
is preferred and the veterinarian pro¬ 
nounces the abnormal mills lit for the 
nourishment of a calf. If the udder is 
found tn bo yielding normal milk, which 
does not become slimy in the sterilized 
bottles, again sr-| n number of samples 
of milk in sterilized bottles and Into each 
put some water from a dilToron* source 
and into others dust from the udder and 
teats. COW stable, mills house and other 
places where the mills is handled. Label 
each bottle so Ih.-il track can he kept of 
the foreign matter placed in each. In 
that way the source oi the bacteria can 
he determined and removed. Then the 
mills utensils should be scrupulously 
cleansed, disinfected with a solution of 
hypochlorite of soda and well sun-dried 
each time before use. This system of 
sterilizing the utensils should be stunted 
at once, and should include the separator. 
It would also be well to handle the mills 
in a new. clean, practically’ dustless place. 
