1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
399 
Ringworm in Cattle. 
What is v/rong with my cattle? The skin 
around the eyes becomes thick and hair 
comes off leaving the surface rough and 
mangy. From the eyes it spreads to vari¬ 
ous parts of head and neck. The disease is 
not fatal, but causes the victim to lose 
flesh and look bad. It is contagious among 
young cattle. j. h. w. 
W. Va. 
This form of ringworm is a common 
contagious disease of domestic animals, 
especially calves and young cattle. It is 
caused by a vegetable parasite, which 
develops and grows rapidly under suit¬ 
able conditions. It may affect any part 
of the body, but its favorable seat is the 
face, ears and neck of cattle, and some¬ 
times the back and hind quarters. Symp¬ 
toms: There appears a gray crust on the 
skin and the hair drops out. It spreads 
in the form of a ring until the side of 
the face, ears or neck may be covered. 
It appears in the same way on the back, 
hips and inside of the hind legs. It does 
not seem to affect the health of the ani¬ 
mal as it is found in the well-kept as 
well as the unkept. Remove the crust 
by washing the parts with warm water 
in which one ounce of the carbonate of 
potassium has been put to every quart 
of water. A brush should be used in 
washing. Then take iodine, two drams; 
vaseline, two ounces, and ruo a little of 
this on with a gloved hand. Repeat in 
three days or take carbolic acid, one 
ounce; alcohol, two ounces, and apply a 
little of this to the parts with a feather 
once or twice; latter is very effective. 
EASTERN DAIRY CONDITIONS. 
How steadily but surely a reorganization 
is going on in the milk business of New 
York State, and to a more satisfactory 
conclusion! The milk shipping is wholly 
responsible for the change. Farmers 
prefer selling their milk to a system of 
consigning which is in vogue and known 
as the patron plan. When butter or cheese 
is manufactured by the pound and net 
returns made to the patrons it is nothing 
more or less than placing the milk on 
commission. We are now in direct com¬ 
petition with the New York milk buyers, 
and have been almost compelled to re¬ 
adjust. The price paid has not been ma¬ 
terially more or less than could have 
been secured under the old patron plan; 
it has been much more satisfactory; pat¬ 
ronage is increasing and much greater 
satisfaction prevails. I am not obliged 
to do business with so many men. All 
the patrons are interested in is to receive 
their monthly checks and deliver good 
milk, and the quality or rather character 
of the milk is much improved. Under the 
old system the patrons would not willing¬ 
ly keep the night and morning milk sep¬ 
arate. The milk is quite generally de¬ 
livered in large cans. Now they do not 
object; result, a fine condition of milk 
every day. The producing value is there¬ 
fore increased, and there is more net 
profit for the milk. The milk shipper of 
high and low degree is condemned. Such 
concerns as the Bordens are cut right 
and left. But as I have seen the results, 
all this demand for milk has been a boon 
to the eastern dairy farmer, and is re¬ 
sponsible for the impulse given to dairy¬ 
ing. Such condemnation is wrong, and 
comes from a narrow selfish view of the 
case. To be sure they do not pose as 
philanthropists, but take out the buyers 
of milk to-day who use it other than for 
butter and American cheese production, 
and New York, or in fact the whole east¬ 
ern dairy business would collapse. Let 
us use some of the vital force now ex¬ 
pended in waging war, in breeding better 
stock and producing cheaper milk. 
H. E. c. 
ALL SORTS. 
CONUENSERY MiLK PRICES.—The follow¬ 
ing prices are offered this year by the 
Hires Condensed Milk Co., of Malvern, 
Pa.. All milk to be received by weight, 
delivered in the month of April, $1.60 per 
100 pounds; May, $1.35; June. $1.25; July, 
$1.25; August, $1.35; September, $1.40. All 
milk testing in excess of 4.25 per cent 
utter fat will be paid a proportionate 
advance over tlie prices herein specified. 
Among otlier regulations are the follow¬ 
ing: Milk to be sweet, pure, unskimmed, 
unadulterated, clean, without tlie u.se of 
preservatives, without any offensive odor 
nr taste which would injure its qualities 
tor condensation. Milk tainted with gar- 
Jic not accepted. The milk to be passed 
over an aerator and cooled until the ani- 
hia heat is taken therefrom as soon as 
drawn from the cow, and properly aired. 
Evening and morning milk must not be 
mixed until both are thoroughly cooled. 
Milk must be cooled to 60 degrees F. or 
below before time of shipment. ^All milk 
to be delivered in spring wagons and a 
suitable clean covering to be thrown over 
the cans while en route, so that dust oi 
dirt cannot collect thereon, nor the cans 
be exposed to the weather. Wagons must 
be kept in thoroughly clean condition, and 
not used for hauling manure, etc., or any 
substance likely to affect or contaminate 
the odor or flavor of the milk. Party of 
the second part will wash and steam all 
cans thoroughly clean, and place them on 
platform the same day of reception. 
A MARYr..\ND Mii.k Situation.— All the 
milk and cream sold near Sandy Spring, 
Md., is bought by two men, one of whom 
buys all the milk, about 400 gallons per 
day, and pays 90 cents per 100 pounds in 
Summer and $1.50 in Winter. The other 
buys all the cream, about 35 gallons per 
day, and pays 45 cents per gallon in Sum¬ 
mer and 50 cents in Winter. We have no 
railroad. The buyers send the milk and 
cream to Washington, D. C., 18 miles dis¬ 
tant, by wagon. The milk is sold at re¬ 
tail from a store owned and operated by 
the bu.ver. The cream is sold to ice cream 
manufacturers, and brings 75 cents per 
gallon. Nearly all the dairy farmers have 
silos, and also buy large quantities of 
bran, some cotton-seed and gluten meal. 
Price of bran ranges from $20 to $25 per 
ton: cotton-seed meal, $28; gluten, about 
.$25. There is much complaint among the 
farmers, as the price of milk and cream 
is the same as it was when bran was $1? 
per ton. A few have sold their cows anf* 
arc feeding steers. This takes much less 
labor. Pasture promi.se to be good. Manv 
are now sowing Alslke clover, which set 
well here and makes good pasture. Red 
c'over has failed for the last four or five 
years. Clover pasture and hay have been 
very much missed. Fortunately many 
silos were built before the price of feed 
wmnt up, and many have been built since. 
Labor is scarce and very unreliable; com¬ 
petent milkmen almost impossible to find. 
The labor is nearly all colored, a few 
native white; no foreigners. j. h. j. 
Brighton. Md. 
Branding Calves.— The Arizona Experi¬ 
ment Station describes a “branding fluid” 
which was expected to take the place of 
the hot iron. This fluid has not given per 
feet satisfaction. The objection to the ho*^ 
iron is that it hurts the hide for tanning 
In the circular issued by the Station W. C, 
Barnes gives this experience: “In branding 
time on my ranch we usually cut out from 
200 to 300 calves, put them into a lane in thf' 
corral, cutting calves into one pen and 
cows into another. One man grabs the calf 
by the right hind leg, another grabs the 
tail, gives a quick jerk and the calf is on 
his side wdth one man holding his hind legs 
and another on his neck. No sooner does he 
hit the ground than a man is at him w'jth 
the iron while at the .same time another 
man marks and castrates, and this year f 
third man dishorned with a clipper. With 
two pairs of men to throw, one to run the 
irons, one to cut and mark, and one to 
dishorn, making seven men in all, we have 
frequently branded out 90 calves in an hour 
and kept it up at that clip for three or 
four hours. I tried the branding fluid un¬ 
der such conditions: I first put it into a 
milkpan and used a cold iron. It took a 
long time for the fluid to ))f.netr!itc the 
hair, and finally one vigorous calf kicked 
over my pan and spilled the fluid all over 
the legs of the man holding him. That set¬ 
tled the pan system, and I got a brush and 
painted it on. That worked all right bu* 
took time. But the worst feature of all 
was l-hat crowding 300 or 400 calves into a 
small pen that way, they smeared and 
rubbed the stuff all over each other, the 
sides of the corral and the men’s clothes.” 
Bitter Milk. —I read the articles in The 
R. N.-Y. in regard to cows giving bitter 
milk, and would like to in(iuire whether 
the owners have observed the trouble 
to occur shortly before coming in, 
and whether the cow was regularly fed 
and daily salted? Had she a clean man¬ 
ger? 'Fo my mind it is the cow and not 
the milking utensils; I speak from experi- 
GnCG. 
Ansonia, Conn. 
Hens Pulling Feathers. —A remedy for 
hens that pull feathers is to take a piece 
of good fat salt pork, in weight about 
three-fourths of a pound, with a tough 
skin, place it in the side of the building the 
right height for the hens to pick easily, 
and drive a ten-penny nail through it. The 
hens will soon devour it if they are kept 
in confinement, as C. P. B.. on page 366, 
says his are. Hens learn to pull feathers 
by trying to supply a food of which con¬ 
finement deprives them. I kept the pork 
before my flock last Winter and did not 
see a feather pulled, after placing it in their 
reach, but previous to placing it there they 
were all pulling off feathers. d. k. 
Bloomfield, Cornu 
JUBULAI^_ 
If we cannot show you wherein our 
separators are worth at least fifty per 
cent more than other separators, don’t 
buy them. We want you to know that 
you have the best when you buy a Tubu¬ 
lar. You cannot help being convinced if 
you examine a Tubular. You will find it 
entirely different from other separators. 
Write for free catalogue No. 153. 
THE SHARPIES CO., P. M. SHARPLES, 
Chitago, Illinois. West Chester, Pa 
AValMable 
Cow 
r 
Get o.n American 
and you get a money winner. 
A simple practical machine 
that does its work so well we 
can sell it on trial. The ma- j 
chine for you. Price low. 
Guaranteed. Catalogue mailed free, | 
American Separator Co.. 
Boxl06« BalnbrtdKetN.Y. 
tfim M«ial at Pari, in 1900. 
SEND FOR CATALOGUE AND PRICES OF THE 
DIRIQO SILO 
MANUFACTURED BY 
D. B. STEVENS & CO., 
AUBURN, ME, 
AGENTS WANTED. 
Guaranteed 
to be simpler in con¬ 
struction, easier to 
turn, easier to clean 
and keep clean than 
any other separator 
made. That’s the fa¬ 
mous 
EMPIRE 
Cream Separator. 
It is not the oldest separator in the 
world, but it’s the most up-to-date. It’s 
not the biggest, but it is the simplest in 
construction, and it almost never gets 
out of order. Don’t be talked into buy¬ 
ing a separator before you try the Em¬ 
pire. That’s all we ask. Just try it and 
then decide which machine you’d rather 
have. 
Chir Separator Book is Free. 
You can add value to any cow with a 
1 National 
Hand Separator 
because i t will save over 80 per cent, of the loss 
resulting from the old method of setting. It 
will separate warm or cold milk, light or 
heavy cream, and skim clean. We send the 
National and let it prove Its worth right In 
your own home dairy. 
10 DAYS’ USE FREE. 
Costs nothing i f you don’t buy—costa 
nothing If you do, for it pays Its 
cost in whB,t 11 saves. Send 
for catalogue. 
Nstlonal Dairy machine Co. 
Newark, N.4. 
GREEN MOUNTAird 
SILOS, 
SCIENTIFICALLY BUILT 
OF BEST MATERIAL. 
“RIGHT” 
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. 
CATALOOS AND PRICCS ON 
APPLICATION. 
Also Dairy Qoods, Core Planters, 
Qasoline Engines, Ensilage 
Uaebinery. 
Stoddard Mfg. Co. 
RUTLAND, VT. 
ROUND SILO 
The “Philadelphia, 
)» 
The only Perfect Continuous 
Open Front Silo made. See our 
Patent Roof. Ask for catalog. 
E. F. SCHLICHTER, 
331 Vine Street, 
PIIILADKLPHIA, PA. 
Also made in the West by the 
MDUPLEX MFG. CO., South 
r:y Superior, Wis. 
THE ODOR 
of animal and stable and 
all disease germs are re¬ 
moved from milk by using 
the 
CHAMPION 
MilkGooier-Aerator. 
Automatic working. Milk 
keeps much longer and 
gives finer llavored butter 
and cheese. Booklet “Milk 
and It. Care,” free. Writ, for IL 
Champion Milk CoolorCo. 
117Sqalres8t., Con land, N.Y. 
CREAM EXTRACTOR 
EMPIRE CREAM SEPARATOR COMPANY. 
Bloomfield, N. J, 
WESTERN OFFICE.-Fisher Bldg., Chicago. 
FREE 
This is a genuine 
offer made to introduce the Peoples 
Cream Kxtractor in every neighbor¬ 
hood. It is the best and simplest in 
the world. We ask that you show it to 
your neighbors who have cows. Send 
your name and the name of the near¬ 
est freight office. Address 
PEOPLES SUPPLY CO,, 
Dept. 86. Kansas City, IVfo. 
HEY, THERE! JUNK MAN! 
I 'want to know liow much you will giv© me 
for one of those separators that claim to be “iust 
as good” as the 
DE LAVAL CREAM SEPARATORS 
I put in one of them last year because the agent 
claimed it was “just as good” as a DE LAVAL 
machine and was $10.- cheaper. I have looked about 
and gotten some separator experience since then and 
I find now that I could have bought a DE LAVAL 
machine of greater actual capacity for less money in 
the first place, while I have lost money every day 
through the imperfect skimming of this machine, 
^ide from hard running and trouble of all kinds from 
infernally poor construction. 
I am going to have a DE LAVAL machine now 
if 1 liave to “ junk ” this old one for scraji-iron. I 
know it will save its cost the first year of use and 
should be good for twenty years. I find all well- 
informed dairy farmers are using DE LAVAL 
machines and that there are over 400,000 of them. 
A De Laval catalogue viay save this experience. 
aHILADELPHIA inC UC LAVAL StPAKAIUK 
montreal'^^° General Offices: 
TORONTO Y4 CORTLANDT STREET, 
WINNIPEG NEW YORK. 
