1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
63 
Ailing Animals. 
* ANSWERS BY DE. F. L. KILBORNE. 
Wart on Cow’s Udder. 
Will you give a simple remedy for a large 
wart on the front of a cow’s udder? It Is 
one or two Inches across, grows very fast, 
and has a number of smaller ones coming 
outside of it. SUBSCRIBER. 
Judson, Mass. 
Get a one-fourth-inch rubber band, 
m to two inches in length; It can be 
obtained at almost any book or drug 
store. Wrap the band quite tightly 
around the base of the wart, as close as 
possible to the udder, and allow it to 
remain until the wart drops off. Then 
thoroughly cauterize the raw surface 
with a stick of nitrate of silver, after 
which dress night and morning with 
benzoated oxide of zinc ointment (or 
other good healing ointment) until the 
wound heals. 
Chronic Inflammation or Suppuration in a 
Cow’s Udder. 
I wrote you a few months ago In regard 
to my Jersey cow. She still gives poor 
milk in one quarter of her udder. It is 
now seven months or more since she com¬ 
menced giving bloody milk In one quarter, 
which soon changed to a dark yellow with 
an occasional bloody appearance, and large 
lumps formed that were very difficult to 
get through the teat. This commenced 
about three weeks after she came In. You 
wrote me to apply Iodine ointment. I have 
done so, with no beneficial results. The 
flow is not as thick as It was, but looks 
like corruption. There is no odor. The 
lumps do not come out now as formerly, 
but seem to be hard kernels, which pre¬ 
vents a free flow from that quarter. I 
have to push those kernels up in the udder 
to milk. Some of them are as large as 
marbles; the veins are thickened and are 
now thickening down into the teat. Would 
you advise drying up* that quarter, or would 
it extend to another If I do so? What do 
you think it Is? Do you think that she 
will ever get over it? She appears well, 
eats heartily, but only gives about five 
quarts of milk a day. She is a valuable 
cow, and I wish to cure her if possible. 
Savannah, N. Y. b. n. h. 
This appears to be an unusual case of 
disease of the udder. Whether due to 
local or constitutional causes I am un¬ 
able to give an opinion from your de¬ 
scription. In either case, it is of so long 
standing that the affected quarter will 
probably never give good milk. I would 
advise drying it off at once. Drying 
it off will not increase its liability to ex¬ 
tend to the other quarters. While in¬ 
flammation of one quarter is always 
liable to extend to adjacent quarters, in 
chronic forms of this kind, it is not very 
liable to do so, unless the trouble is of a 
constitutional nature. 
KEEPING COWS IN SHED. 
In an article on J. T. Polk’s dairy, in the 
issue of December 16, 1899, it is stated that 
he feeds in sheds. Are the cattle kept in 
pens and not tied? Would it be good prac¬ 
tice to keep cattle not used for dairy pur¬ 
poses that way? Would It be more eco¬ 
nomical? Would it not be better for pre¬ 
serving the manure? f. l. f. 
Manistee, Mich. 
In order to make my communication 
on Polk’s dairy a little clearer, I will 
state that, excepting during milking 
time, the cows are kept under a large 
covered shed all the time. This shed 
covers nearly an acre of land. It is di¬ 
vided up into three or four pens by the 
use of fencing, and the young animals 
are kept from the older ones, and the 
dry cows from those that are in milk. 
There are also some box stalls under the 
cover of this shed, in which the bulls 
or some cows may be kept, and these 
have small runs outside into the open 
air for exercise, but all the herd, except¬ 
ing the bulls, are kept under this one 
big shed. All their coarse feed is given 
them here, and teams drive under the 
shed and unload silage in racks placed 
here and there. The cattle are not in 
any way tied while under the shed. 
When the cows are brought in to be 
milked at morning and night, they are 
fed grain in the stalls, as I have com¬ 
municated, but excepting during milk¬ 
ing, the 167 stalls in the milking barn 
are entirely unoccupied. I regard this 
as one of the very best possible methods 
of handling dairy cattle, and especially 
as relates to Winter care. It is the most 
economical system, and there is no bet¬ 
ter way known of preserving the ma¬ 
nure. _c. s. PLUMB. 
RATION FOR ItllLCH COWS. 
Give me a balanced ration for milch 
cows of about 1,000 pounds weight each 
from the following foods: Corn fodder, oat 
hay, corn-and-cob meal, bran, linseed meal 
and cotton-seed meal. I have an abund¬ 
ance of corn and corn fodder, and desire 
to feed as much as possible of both. 
R. c. 
From the foods given the following 
daily ration is suggested: 
Digestible 
nutrients. 
Carbohy- 
Dry Pro- drates 
Pounds. Matter, tein. & fat. 
Corn fodder . 
14 
8.40 
.35 
5.22 
Oat hay . 
5 
4.55 
.22 
2.49 
Corn-and-cob meal 
5 
4.25 
.22 
3.33 
Cotton-seed meal . 
3 
2.76 
1.12 
1.33 
Wheat bran . 
2 
1.76 
.24 
.91 
Linseed meal . 
1 
.91 
.29 
.49 
Total .22.63 2.44 13.77 
This ration is slightly lower in total 
dry matter than the standard usually 
given, which is 24 pounds daily for a 
1,000-pound cow. But my experience 
has been that, as a rule, cows do not 
consume 24 pounds of dry matter per 
day per 1,000 pounds live weight, i. e., 
if the analyses of dry matter in fodders 
be correct, which there Is no reason to 
doubt. The corn products are highly 
carbonaceous, and thus more of the con¬ 
centrates are necessary to make a bal¬ 
anced ration. The nutritive ratio is 
1 : 6 . 6 . 
RATION FOR FATTENING STEERS. 
I am feeding 10 two-year-old steers, 
weighing about 1,150 pounds. I feed pure 
corn meal, six pounds, and best wheat 
bran, pound, twice a day, mixed, with 
cut corn fodder, as much as they will eat, 
wetted 10 hours before feeding. Could I 
Improve this ration, and In what way? The 
meal cost me 84 cents per 100 pounds, and 
the bran $1 per 100 pounds. I do not ex¬ 
pect to get over 5!4 cents per pound for 
the cattle till April 1. Should I feed more 
or less for the most profitable results? 
Grantsvllle, Md. s. h. 
There is but one change that I would 
suggest in this ration, and this Is the 
addition of one pound of cotton-seed 
meal at each feeding. This suggestion 
is made with the provision that cotton¬ 
seed meal can be purchased as cheaply 
as bran, and better, if no higher, than 
the corn meal. The addition of cotton 
seed will make the ration more appe¬ 
tizing, make a finer flesh, and tend to 
bring the animals sooner to a good ripe 
condition. The ration, as it stands, is 
rather highly carbonaceous, and the in¬ 
troduction of the nitrogenous cotton¬ 
seed meal will give it a better balance. 
In the West, where corn is so cheap, 
feeders cannot afford to feed a balanced 
ration, even though the latter may make 
a higher class of beef, selling at higher 
prices. The extra cost of nitrogenous 
foods like bran, cotton seed and oil 
meals more than overbalances the in¬ 
creased return. But in the East, where 
corn is higher and some of the nitro¬ 
genous foods lower than in the West, it 
may pay to feed more nearly a balanced 
ration. S. H. would be interested in 
reding Bulletins Nos. 22 and 36 of the 
Maryland Experiment Station. He can, 
probably, secure them by addressing 
the Station at College Park, Md. The 
addition of one pound of cotton-seed 
meal at each feeding matt.es a grain feed 
of 17 pounds per day, which may be 
sufficient. However, the aim in fatten¬ 
ing is to give all the animals will eat 
readily, and have a good appetite at 
next meal. Feed the grain dry, placed 
on the wet fodder at time of feeding. 
_ L. A. 
An Idaho sheepman recently sold his en¬ 
tire clip, 200,000 pounds of wool, for 20 cents 
a pound. An Oregon man who was offered 
six cents for his wool three years ago has 
held on to It until this Winter, when he 
sold his three-years’ clip for 15 cents a 
pound. The wool gained enough in weight, 
by absorption of moisture, to cover ware¬ 
house charges. 
Bitter Milk. —Keep the milk warm 
enough to sour In from 36 to 48 hours, 
then skim; the temperature should not be 
below 45 degrees, nor above 75 F. Stand a 
thermometer beside the milk, and note the 
temperature; the cream should be about 60. 
McGrowville, N. Y. l. d. a. 
The largest python in the new Zoological 
Gardens in this city, having recently laid 
67 eggs, has developed the proverbial sit¬ 
ting hen’s disposition. She has usually 
been quiet, but, when the keepers attempt¬ 
ed to get her to move so that they could 
count the eggs, she became very angry. 
This is her second attempt to raise a fam¬ 
ily, but it is not thought that she will be 
successful, as it is said that sand and tropi¬ 
cal heat are required to make the eggs 
hatch. The eggs are pear-shaped, four 
inches long and 10 in circumference, and 
weigh about a pound each. 
The Fat Hen.— If a corn-fed hen gets se 
fat that she can’t lay I should change, and 
restrict her diet until she was reduced t* 
"good running order," then feed her a bal¬ 
anced ration, making her work for all the 
grain she got. If a hen fed a balanced 
ration gets so fat that she can’t lay there 
is something wrong with the hen, or with 
the manner of feeding. If fowls are 
heavily fed on balanced ration, and not 
compelled to work for any part of It, some 
of them may become too fat to lay, but If 
made to work for the whole-grain part of 
their food they usually will keep in good 
condition. I do not think a normal hen 
will ever become too fat to lay when prop¬ 
erly fed on a balanced ration. I do not 
like a thin hen. neither do I believe in the 
"corn-before-her-all-the-time” way of feed¬ 
ing. Our White Leghorns have a scant 
ration of whole corn, oats, wheat, and 
buckwheat in the morning and have to 
work for it. At noon they are given a 
warm mash of ground oats, corn meal, 
wheat bran, oil meal, and meat meal. To¬ 
ward night they have a generous feed of 
the mixed grains scattered In the straw on 
the floor, and I do not know that any of 
them ever get too fat to lay. There is no 
doubt that some individuals and some 
breeds are more Inclined to lay on fat than 
others. h. j. Blanchard. 
My Light Brahma hen. The Duchess, 
made a record of 202 eggs, in a year from 
her seventeenth month, no record havin" 
been kept during her first nine months of 
laying. Duchess 2d, hatched May 14, 1898 
laid her first egg December 29, and gave m~ 
251 eggs in one year. Her record in 
months was as follows: 
December . 3 August . ]9 
January . 25 September . 17 
February. 3 October . 1 % 
March . 23 November . 22 
April . 25 December . is 
May . 21 _ 
June . 26 Total . 251 
July . 31 
Trap nests were used, 
carefully kept. 
Hazardville, Conn. 
and the record 
a. j. a. 
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Sharon, Vt. Mrs. A. F. Freeman 
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