1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Ailing Animals. 
ANSWERS BY DR. F. L. KILBORNE. 
Spavin in a Young Horse. 
How can I cure spavin in a young horse? 
Pennsylvania. J. o. h. 
I suppose it is a bone spavin. If so, 
firing with the hot iron is the most re¬ 
liable method of killing and removing 
it. Repeated severe blistering will some¬ 
times cure a small recent spavin, but it 
requires more time, and is not as sure. 
The firing should be undertaken only by 
a competent veterinary surgeon. 
Young Cow Off Feed. 
I have a three-year-old heifer that calved 
December 21. She seemed all right for 10 
days, and then began to lose her appetite. 
1 gave her some beets and sweet apples; am 
now giving her condition powders, some 
sour apples and a little oat meal, and after 
milking two quarts of potatoes. She gets 
no better. What would you advise? 
Petersham, Mass. c. m. o. 
Try one teaspoonful each of powdered 
nnx vomica and dry sulphate of iron t 
and two teaspoonfuls each gentian and 
sulphate of soda, given in the feed twice 
daily. If she refuses to eat the powder 
in her feed, give by drench in one-half 
pint warm water. 
Cure for Colic in Horses. 
The following remedy has been given me 
as a cure for colic in horses: Give one 
ounce of chloral hydrate in half a pint of 
water in a drench. If not relieved in one 
hour, repeat. Please advise me whether 
you think it a perfectly safe medicine; if 
not, could you give me a better one? 
East Madison, Me. t. r. 
The chloral hydrate is a safe remedy 
for colic, and is sometimes given by 
veterinarians, but usually conjoined 
with opium or belladonna. One-half 
ounce each chloral and laudanum (tinc¬ 
ture of opium) would be better than the 
chloral alone. Another good colic reme¬ 
dy for the horse is given on page 15 of 
The R. N.-Y. of January 6. 
Heifers Fail to Come in Heat. 
Is there any way of causing heifers or 
cows to come in heat? I have some large 
fat heifers that ought to be giving milk, 
and they are not with calf now. w. s. G. 
Castorland, N. Y. 
I know of no method of causing heifers 
to come in heat, except to allow regular 
exercise, and feed moderately on a nu¬ 
tritious diet, sufficient to keep them in 
good thrifty condition, but not too fat. 
Overfeeding and idleness are two of the 
most common causes of the failure of 
heifers or young cows to come in heat. 
Reduce the grain ration, or withdraw it 
altogether, if the condition of the ani¬ 
mals and the quality of your coarse fod¬ 
der will warrant it. Give salted bran 
mashes, roots, silage or other succulent 
food to keep the bowels open. Cause the 
animals to take daily out-of-door exer¬ 
cise when the weather is at all suitable. 
It would also be well to allow the bull 
to run with them a little while each day. 
If they fail to come in heat this Winter, 
they will probably do so soon after going 
to pasture in the Spring, which is the 
most natural season of the year. 
FARM LEGISLATION. 
Last week we gave a synopsis of the 
report of the committee appointed by 
the New York Legislature to investigate 
the subject of tuberculosis. Mr. Witter, 
chairman of this committee, has intro¬ 
duced a bill for the control and suppres¬ 
sion of this disease among cattle, 't here 
is likely to be strong opposition to this 
bill, chiefly from tne Board of Health 
and office holders, who would like to 
handle the appropriation. For some 
years these people have tried to stamp 
out various diseases, but about all they 
have ever stamped out have been sev¬ 
eral of the fat appropriations. They will 
fight hard to retain their pocket money. 
There are politicians in the towns and 
cities who work on the fears of milk 
consumers with wild reports about the 
dangers that lurk in the good old cow. 
The result is that the consumption of 
milk is seriously reduced, and farmers 
suffer in consequence. The New York 
State breeders have placed themselves 
squarely behind Mr. Witter’s bill, and 
will attempt to push it through the 
Legislature. They will meet with 
stx-ong opposition, but their cause is 
just, and if they are fairly supported by 
the stock breeders of the State they will 
succeed in their efforts. The stockmen 
oi the State might well get together and 
help the Breeders’ Association. Funds 
are needed for legitimate expenses, and 
every man who owns or breeds a cow 
will do well to join the Association, and 
pay $1 to the treasurer. This money 
can be sent to Frank A. Converse, 
Woodville, N. Y. Now is the time to 
put shoulder against shoulder, and 
stand up for the rights of the dairyman. 
We said shoulder against shoulder, but 
that is a figure of speech—dollar against 
dollar is a more practical statement, and 
that is what should come first of all. 
Congressman Sherman, of New York, 
has introduced uie following bill at 
Washington: 
A BILL. 
To prevent a false branding or marking of 
food and dairy products as to the State or 
Territory in which they are made or pro¬ 
duced. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of 
Representatives of the United States of 
America in Congress assembled. That no 
person or persons in any State or Territory 
of the United States, or in the District of 
Columbia, shall falsely brand or label any 
dairy or food products which are intended 
to become articles of foreign or interstate 
commerce or commerce with Indian tribes 
as to the State or Territory in which they 
are made, produced or grown, or cause or 
procure the same to be done by another or 
others. 
Section 2. That if any persons violate the 
provisions of this Act, either in person or 
through another, lie shall be guilty of a 
misdemeanor and shall be punished by a 
fine of not less than five hundred nor more 
than two thousand dollars; and that the 
jurisdiction for the prosecution of said mis¬ 
demeanor shall be within the district of the 
United States court in which it is com¬ 
mitted. 
ACID TEST FOR CREAM. 
IIow is Mann’s acid test for cream used? 
Is it used to any extent in commercial but¬ 
ter making? Is it possible, by the use of 
these acid tests, to secure more uniformly 
ripe cream at different churnings than by 
the old, well-known methods? R. c. 
Kidd’s Store, Ky. 
Mann’s acid test is not used practic¬ 
ally at all in any creamery work, be¬ 
cause it is too expensive and compli¬ 
cated, and because a more simple and 
cheap method has been devised. Prof. 
E. H. Farrington, of the Wisconsin Uni¬ 
versity, has invented a method by which 
any person of ordinary intelligence may 
determine the acidity of milk or cream. 
The apparatus necessary is an ordinary 
Babcock pipette, holding 17.6 cubic 
centimeters, a glass graduate cylinder 
with a capacity of 100 cubic centimeters, 
a white cup and a supply of the Farring¬ 
ton alkaline tablets. These latter cost 
?2 per 1,000, which number will make 
about 400 tests. All of the apparatus 
may be purchased of any dairy supply 
house. To use the test, dissolve five of 
the Farrington tablets, whicn are of a 
pink color, in 97 cubic centimeters of 
water in the glass graduate. With the 
pipette measure 17.6 cubic centimeters 
of cream into the cup; fill the pipette 
with water to rinse out what cream 
sticks to the glass, and put the rinsings 
also into the cup. Then pour the pink 
tablet solution slowly 'into the cream, 
keeping the latter constantly stirred. 
At first the pink solution will turn white 
as soon as it is mixed in the cream, be¬ 
cause the acid in the cream has such 
effect upon colored alkaline solutions. 
But at tne same time the acid is being 
neutralized by the alkali, anu as soon as 
the cream becomes of a permanently 
pink color, then the acid is all neutral¬ 
ized, and no more of the pink solution 
should be poured in. Read from the 
graduated cylinder the number of cubic 
centimeters of solution which were re¬ 
quired to turn the cream pink. This 
number expressed in one-hundredths is 
the per cent of acid in the cream. For 
example, if 45 cubic centimeters of alka¬ 
line solution were requireu, tnen there 
is .45 of one per cent of acid in the 
cream. The proper amount of acid in 
cream for churning is from .5 to .6 of 
one per cent. By the use of this acid 
test a more uniform degree of ripeness 
may be obtained in tne cream. If, how¬ 
ever, the operator has tester his cream 
several times, ana subjects it always to 
the same conditions from the time the 
milk is received until the cream is 
churned, he may thereafter dispense 
with the test in most cases. As a check 
to over-ripeness, the test should be in 
every creamery, and its use understood. 
_ L. A. 
OAT HAY AND SILAGE. 
What is the feeding value of one acre of 
oats, cut green and cured for hay, com¬ 
pared with one acre of corn put in a silo 
for feeding milch cows, giving the differ¬ 
ence in cost of raising the oats and corn? 
I have no silo; 1 have always fed oats, but 
am anxious to change to silage if there 
is enough difference to pay. w. p. s. 
Tupper Lake, N. Y. 
Ans.—T he best way to compare the 
oat hay and the silage is to see what 
they contain. Take one ton of each: 
Pounds in one ton. 
• Muscle Fat Pure 
makers. formers. fat. 
Oat hay .101 873 20 
Silage . 18 220 14 
We have found oat hay cut when the 
heads were in the milk state very good 
feed for all kinds of stock. With us 2 Yi 
tons per acre is a good yield for the 
oats. About 12 tons per acre would be 
a fair yield of silage. The oats will thus 
compare well in the amount of protein 
from the acre, but the silage will give 
more of the other food elements. The 
great advantage of the silage is that it 
provides succulent Winter food—the 
best substitute for pasture grass. This 
is a great advantage, and the oat hay 
cannot compare with it in this respect. 
PROFITABLE FEEDING EXPERIMENT 
When we put our cows in the stable 
for the Winter we feed them a daily ra¬ 
tion as follows:—25 pounds corn silage, 
five pounds clover hay, five pounds 
stover, five pounds wheat bran, five 
pounds corn-and-cob meal. According 
to the analysis of Jenkins and Winton, 
this has a ration of l:xv. As this is too 
wide, I began figuring on a different 
daily feed for each cow, assuming that 
the cows each weighed 950 pounds. I 
therefore conduced to feed the follow¬ 
ing, which would cost me nearly one 
cent a day less per cow. xnis ration has 
a ratio of 1:6.5, if my calculation is 
correct. Now as to the result, my 21 
cows increased about 12 quarts a day, 
and I think the cheaper ration and.the 
increased flow of milk are very strong 
arguments in favor of greater attention 
to scientific feeding. For several years 
113 
I have given the subject thought, but 
failed to put all my knowledge into 
practice. 
DAILY RATION. 
25 lbs. silage . 
Dry 
matter. 
.. 7.50 
Pro¬ 
tein. 
.27 
Car- 
bohyd. Fat. 
4.55 .27 
5 lbs. corn stover. 
.. 3.00 
.10 
1.72 
.03 
5 lbs. clover hay.. 
.. 4.00 
.32 
1.74 
.08 
3 lbs. wheat bran. 
.. 2.80 
.36 
1.16 
.08 
2 lbs. cotton-seed 
meal . 1.84 
.74 
.30 
.25 
3 lbs. corn-and-cob 
meal . 2.55 
.13 
1.99 
.10 
Total . 
..21.69 
1.92 
11.46 
•SI 
Multiplying .81 
by 214, adding it 
to 
11.46, and dividing the sum by 1.92, I 
have a ratio of 1:6.9, still a little wide. 
If I should adopt the analysis guaran¬ 
teed by the company whose cotton seed 
I use, the ration would figure out 1:6.5. 
Chester Co., Pa. 
J. E. 
Pigs in the Manure. —It is our cus¬ 
tom during the Winter to corral a bunch 
of shotes in the portion of the barnyard 
where the manure of the horse stable is 
thrown, giving them good shelter from 
storms. The corn they eat is thrown to 
them on this manure heap, and plenty of 
straw scattered every few days to ab¬ 
sorb moisture and increase the bulk of 
manure. The heat that is generated 
more or less in the manure seems to be a 
source of great pleasure to those shotes, 
and they work most of the time in it, 
hunting for the last grains of corn, 
which from the heat and moisture have 
become softened, thus making most ex¬ 
cellent food, it 'is simply astonishing 
liow fast those porkers grow, and how 
contented they appear to be while kept 
closed in this pen. They never have 
that drawn-up, contracted appearance 
that hogs have, that have to run out 
much of the time exposed to cold wind 
and bare ground. To us this plan gives 
almost double returns over any other 
way we can employ. Instead of throw¬ 
ing rich concentrated feed into some 
isolated lot to be lost almost entirely, 
when March comes these fellows are 
ready to market at fair prices, and we 
have twice as much manure to haul on to 
our clover turf as we would otherwise 
have, and that manure in the very best 
condition to apply, completely broken up 
by the constant agitation that the shotes 
have given it for several months. When 
Spring comes we have the money for the 
pigs in our pocket, and the manure in 
the soil ready to make more corn to 
grow the next lot of pigs. o. e. s. 
Ohio. 
The Breeder’s Gazette tells of a law re¬ 
cently enacted in New Zealand in the in¬ 
terest of honest dairy products. This pro¬ 
vides that in every case where dairy pro¬ 
duce has been condemned by an inspector, 
he shall, at the expense of the owner, cause 
the stuff to be removed to boiling-down 
works, soap works or some other place 
where it shall be so treated as to be abso¬ 
lutely unfit for human consumption. Evi¬ 
dently New Zealand does not believe in 
making renovated or process butter out of 
this vile stuff, as Is done in this country. 
Want to Earn 
$100.00 Weekly 
Men and Women Agents wanted to sell the 
“Fai.ous Maryland” Carpets, 
Rugs, Art Squares, Draper¬ 
ies and lied Sets in every 
section of the country. 
We pay freight, sew car¬ 
pets free, and furnish wadd¬ 
ed lining without charge. 
Some agents have made as 
high as SS3UO in one week. 
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