THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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TREATMENT FOR OAROET. 
Hccently a complaint has attacked niy 
I'ows, in the udder apparently. For a short 
time they act stiff in the hind quarters, 
then follows a thickening^ of milk in one 
teat, somewhat as if pus were mixed in 
the milk, which seems of a slightly pinkish 
color; then the other teats follow, and in 
one case the cow has gone almost dry 
from the first symptom.s—an interval of 
about 12 days. There does not seem to be 
any fever or i>ain to any extent. The cows 
run on a rather damp low pasture, and the 
other feed is i)rincipally bran (ship stuff). 
The cows in question have not been in long 
and were in good order before the attack, 
which I now fear may run through the 
whole dairy. o. i. a. 
Slate Ilill. N. Y. 
I should say this was a case of garget. 
While 1 do not think there is any cure- 
all or garget specific when the case has 
advanced as evidently this one has, yet 
we have more often succeeded with salt¬ 
peter than anything else, giving two 
tahicspoonfuls dissolved in water once 
a day for about three days, then follow 
with a three-fourths-pound dose of Ep¬ 
som salts. Twenty drops tincture of 
aconite root given three or four times 
a day directly on the tongue will aid 
in reducing the fever. Keep the cows 
in a warm dry place where there is no 
chance to take cold. I have effectually 
used the Schmidt treatment; one-half 
ounce iodide of potassium dissolved in 
one pint of hot water and injected into 
the teats, and again thought it was a 
positive damage. I am inclined to think 
where the trouble is local with the ud¬ 
der the treatment will usually be suffi¬ 
cient,, but so often the whole system is 
affected that local treatment alone does 
not suffice. Garget frequently comes in 
damp cool w'eather with good milkers. 
They overwork just like a nervous man, 
indigestion is the sure consequence, and 
a cold, so called, follows. I think such 
cows should not be over stimulated with 
milk-producing foods. Be sure they 
carry a good fair amount of fiesh. The 
thin-sided good milker is easily affect¬ 
ed by sudden climatic changes. Her re¬ 
serve force is exceedingly small, because 
each milking pumps the vitality out of 
the udder. Perhaps I should advise you 
at once to get a veterinary. If this sim¬ 
ple treatment is not effectual certainly 
do so. I think every farmer should keep 
a few simple remedies on hand; Epsom 
salts, saltpeter, raw linseed oil, lauda¬ 
num, tincture of aconite, one-half 
ounce packages of iodide of potassium, 
caibolated vaseline, as well as plain 
vaseline, which is a good remedy for 
caked udder and small sores, wonder¬ 
fully penetrating and the base of all the 
soft ointments. On surface sores the 
air is kept away by its use, which is in 
part its value. Anyone troubled with 
chronic catarrh will find not a cure, 
nothing will cure, in moist climates, but 
a ready relief which in my own case 
amounts to nearly a cure. I might add. 
milk out the udder very frequently dur¬ 
ing the day. It will help much in check¬ 
ing the absorption of this poisonous se¬ 
cretion. I think, however, that we 
should as non-professional men give 
such advice, especially where the case 
is not in sight, with a good deal of cau¬ 
tion. H. E. c. 
SUCCESS WITH BROOD MARES. 
In The R. N.-Y. for July 18 there is 
an article about raising colts. We have 
had a little experience on this farm in 
that line, but can report better success 
than Mr. Morse seems to have had. We 
have two mares which have been bred 
three or four times each. One is a 
strong, steady-going horse used prin¬ 
cipally for a general driving horse, but 
often put to farm work during the busy 
season on the farm. Three days after 
her second colt was born she was taken 
out to cultivate, and was used moderate¬ 
ly from that time on, allowing the coll 
to get Its milk every three hours. She 
is driven usually to within about two 
weeks of the time her colts are born, 
and is never thin. The other mare is 
simply a gentleman’s driving horse. She 
is high spirited and very swift, being 
partly “Wilkes,” and is used scarcely 
any on the farm. She is rather poor 
after her colts are born, but she is 
driven within a month before they are 
born, and I should say within two weeks 
aftei' they are born. Comparing our ex¬ 
perience with that of Mr. Morse I should 
say there is much difference in mares. 
If they all did as well as ours I think 
farmers might easily raise their own 
horses. I think I could give a number 
of instances in this section where farm¬ 
ers have had just as good success as we 
have. E. T. D. 
l^ancaster. Mass. 
MAPES, THE HEN MAN. 
The pictures. Figs. 215 and 216, show 
our plan of' connecting the brooder 
houses with the wire runs. Fig. 215 shows 
shows the connecting box between the 
house and the wire-covered run in place. 
Fig. 216 shows the box lifted out, and 
set upon the top of the runs, so as to 
CONNECTING BOX IN PLACE. Fir,. 21.=i. 
End Your 
Butter Troubles 
with a National Hand Separator 
and make more and better butter from 
same quantity of milk. The 
National will do it easier, 
quicker and pay its cost in 
a very short time. We don’t 
ask you to take our word— 
we send the machine for 
10 Days’ Free Trial 
and let It prove its worth 
right in your own dairy. 
you take no rUk-v/e assume 
it all. If it does not meet 
your expectations, send it 
,back—we pay the coats. 
' Our catalogue tells more 
—write for It, it’a free. 
National Dairy Machine Co., Newark, N. J, 
TUBULAR 
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Buckets, 
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A Multitude 
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Buckets full 
of radish grat¬ 
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buckets full of vanes, 
buckets full of blades, buck¬ 
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separators have these “buck¬ 
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Tubular; a distinct type, an 
improved separator entirely 
different from all others. 
Simple, convenient, safe, 
durable and efficient. Skims closer and re¬ 
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THE SHARPIES CO., P. M. SHARPIES, 
Chicago, Illinois. Wist Chostir, Pa. 
DAIRY DOLLARS 
We claim that tha 
EMPIRE 
Running Cream Separaior 
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fewer parts to get out of order. 
Send for our book, "A Dairy¬ 
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^Empire Cream SeparatorCo. | 
Bloomfield, N. J. 
Western Office, Fisher BWff., 
Chicago. 
THE CHAIN-HANGING 
Cattle Stanchion 
The most practical and humane Fastener ever in¬ 
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Circular and Price free on application. Manufactured 
by O. H. KOBERTSON, Forestville, Cotwi. 
PRESCOTT’S 
WTNGING 
wrvEt. 
TANCHIOM 
KEEPS COWS CLEAN 
Swings forward while get 
ting up or lying down. Locks 
back while standing. Full 
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Beverly St., Boston, Maa*. 
Wilder’s Stanchion 
—being an Improvement 
over Smith's. Lightest, 
strongest, quickest, safest 
Stanchion made. Has steel 
latch and automatic lock. 
Becomes stationary when 
open. Animal cannot turn 
It in backing out. Made of 
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Pins for fasteningwith every 
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DeIaAImL 
CREJUfSEPARATORS 
For twenty years the World’s Standard 
Sent/ for free catalogue. 
Ine De Laval Separator Co., 74 Cortlandt St., N.Y, 
THE LUCKY “4-LEAF CLOVER” 
Plymouth Cream Extract¬ 
or is the CREAM of them all. 
Inner can quickly remova¬ 
ble; water all around and 
under milk; has far greater 
cooling surfa(^e than any 
ot her. No water re(iuired '5 
months in year. Special air 
cliamber with ventilator. 
New and original faucet, 
inipo.ssible l.o leak or sour. 
Kxprextt chti rgex itrepaid. 
Catalogue free. 
Plymouth Cream Separator Company, Plymouth, Ohio. 
give the chicks free range. There is a 
right and a wrong way to do even so 
simple a thing as to let a lot of chicks 
out of a run in which they have been 
confined. If an opening is made at al¬ 
most any other place in the runs for 
them to pass out they are apt to fail to 
find it when they want to return to the 
BOX LIFTED FORTFREE R.ANGE. Flo. 216.u 
brooder. They come back to the point 
nearest their usual entrance, and fail¬ 
ing to find an opening there they hud- ' 
die down in some outside corner. By 
lifting out the box which , forms the 
connecting link between the house and 
the run they pass in and out as usual. 
O. W. MAPES. 
A RETAIL MILK DEALER TALKS. 
Have read Friend Mapes’s article on 
milk situation. I think it O. K. as far 
as I know, but as a retailer in New 
York City with a first-class milk trade 
would like to know how they intend to 
get control of the retail trade in New 
York City, I know some of the difficul¬ 
ties attached to it and would like to be 
enlightened on that part. I have a pros¬ 
pectus from the People’s Pure Milk Co. 
offering to take my business, which has 
been built up by hard work, never less 
than 15 hours a day, and about six 
months In the year as long as 18 hours 
a day, with plenty of self-denial, but am 
very happy to say It Is now paying well, 
in exchange for stock In company, also 
promising to hire me as manager as 
long as It suited them. Now what I 
want to get at is where do I come in, 
and where Is all the hard cash behind 
these people? I trust our hard-working 
dairymen will go slow. retailer. 
THE U. S. EXCELS ON 
ANY TEMPERATURE 
Our “ would-be competitors” the DeLaval Separator 
Co., finding themselves badly beaten in the six weeks’ 
tests of six different makes of Separators at the Kansas 
Agricultural College, as shown by the official Bulletin 
No. 123 issued May 26, 1903, in their efforts to break the 
force of so disastrous a defeat, have compiled a Bulletin of 
their own “ getting up ” purporting to be signed by several 
students, in which they try to make it appear “that the 
DeLaval was not terribly beaten, as the Official Bulletin 
shows it was, as follows : 
Average test of skimmilk of DeLaval Separator .048 
" “ “ U. S, “ 
U. S. excels DeLaval .016 
Showing that the DeLaval Separator left 45 per cent, more 
butter fat in the skimmed milk than the United States. 
Again in this “gotten up” Bulletin, our “would-be 
competitors” state that the U. S. Separator “ choked up” 
on 39 lbs. of milk at 70 degrees of temperature and that the 
DeLaval ran 80 lbs. Every dairyman using a U. S. 
Separator knows that the U."S. will not “choke up” on 
80 lbs. of good milk at 70 degrees, and that such statements 
are made in an attempt to break the rapidly gaining popu¬ 
larity of the 
U. S. SEPARATOR 
We make the following proposition to any dairyman 
wishing to buy a separator, viz.: We will put a U. S. 
Separator into his dairy and agree that it will not “ choke 
up” on 80 lbs. or twice 80 lbs. of milk in good condition at 
70 degrees, provided he will pay for the separator if it 
does not “ choke up.” 
The best authorities do not advocate separating at 70 
degrees, but if Dairymen prefer to, the U. S. will do it 
when properly adjusted. 
The U. S. Separator skims cleaner than any other 
separator on the market at any temperature from 70 degrees 
to 156 degrees at proper adjustment. The Official Bulletin 
No. 123 of Kansas Agricultural College, dated May 26, 1903, 
states that 
TAe U. S. Excelled AH Others in Tests ot Skimmed MHk 
and in Minimum Total Loss. 
THE U. S. SEPARATOR HOLDS WORLD’S RECORD 
Vermont Farm Machine Co., Bellows Falls, Vt. 
