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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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THE COUNTRY'S MILK TRADE. 
At Lebanon, Pa. —Not much to be 
said about the milk business of Leban¬ 
on. The supply mainly comes from 
farmers in the vicinity, but a few resi¬ 
dents keep cows. About 40 farmers are 
in the trade. The farmers take the 
milk about town. There is no official 
inspection to my knowledge. The price 
is five cents per quart. No special breed 
of cattle and they are not kept in any 
special way. A veterinary surgeon con¬ 
demned a few cows of one farmer for 
tuberculosis, but he sells to a creamery. 
Lebanon, Pa. i. r. b. 
At Ravenna, Ohio. —In no other place 
in the world are people served as nicely 
with milk, taking into consideration the 
quality of the milk and manner of de¬ 
livering as at Ravenna. In the first 
place the citizens of Ravenna are just a 
little nicer than in any other place in 
the world. Ravenna has a population of 
less than 5,000 people, and is situated in 
an agricultural country. Besides the 
milk dealers who use wagons there are 
many people who keep one or two cows 
and supply their near neighbors with 
milk, and this is all carried to the door 
of the consumer. This competition be¬ 
ing so sharp the large dealers have to 
deliver in the same manner and all the 
milk delivered in this town is delivered 
at the door. Whenever a customer de¬ 
sires it delivered in bottles it is done so, 
and quality. Large numbers of Jersey 
cattle are found in the dairy herds and 
the remainder are Short-horn grades. 
The price is five cents per quart at de¬ 
pots or from wagons. john r. sage. 
" MOON BLINDNESS " IN WESTERN 
HORSES. 
There is no douot but what many 
horses become unsound in this direction 
in this country from hard usage, over¬ 
driving and overworking in hot days, 
and in overheating horses it will always 
affect the eyes, and usually affects the 
eyes sooner than any part of the system. 
It stands to reason that as soon as a 
horse becomes unsound in this way he 
would be marketed and sent East; such 
a horse would be a boon to the specu¬ 
lator, because he could buy him very 
cheap, and by concealing his defects sell 
him as a sound horse, making more 
profit than on three sound horses, and 
they would naturally claim for defense 
of this that such diseases are hereditary. 
I was born in New York State, and have 
always been in the live stock business, 
and I know that horses raised in east¬ 
ern States become unsound more read¬ 
ily than horses raised here. I have 
learned from experience that in shipping 
eastern horses west they must be han¬ 
dled carefully for a year, and in ship¬ 
ping western horses east they also re¬ 
quire the same careful handling the first 
COCKEREL AND CAPON CONTRASTED. Fig. 230. 
but most consumers prefer to have it 
poured into their dishes. They get bet¬ 
ter measure, as the measuring cups have 
to be filled and rounded up. If any is 
spilled the milkman is requested not to 
let it occur again. This requires a 
steady nerve on the part of the milk¬ 
man, and, with two exceptions, being 
young unmarried men, they have the 
necessary nerve. The farms supplying 
the milk are mostly just outside of the 
corporation limits, and in 10 minutes 
after the milk wagons leave the farm 
the work of delivering begins. None is 
ever shipped in from other points. The 
health officer of the town has a right to 
inspect the milk, but the present in¬ 
cumbent has never done so to my knowl¬ 
edge. The cows kept are mostly Jer¬ 
seys or good Jersey grades, and the 
milk is as good as can be made. No 
brewers’ grains are fed, good pasture be¬ 
ing the feed for Summer and corn fod- 
• der and clover hay for Winter, with a 
proper amount of grain or mill feed to 
make the ration good. The milk is 
thoroughly aerated and cooled before 
leaving the farms. The price is five 
cents per quart the year round, whether 
delivered in bottles or poured, and is 
delivered twice a day during warm 
weather. This manner of handling and 
delivering milk would not be possible in 
the larger cities. k. s. wing. 
At Des Moines, Iowa. —The milk 
supply of this city comes from local 
dairymen and dealers, who buy in near¬ 
by towns and ship in by rail. Families 
are mainly served by wagons. Fre¬ 
quent inspection and analysis of milk 
on sale insures a fair degree of purity 
year. I do not believe that this trouble 
is inherited at all. I consider it the re¬ 
sult of injury done the horse by im¬ 
proper handling. It is possible that 
horses reared here in our low, flat, hot 
counties, that have a wet, soft soil and 
no timber for shade, may have weaker 
constitutions, and their eyes become 
quickly and easily affected from an over¬ 
strain of any kind than horses raised in 
other counties on the rolling prairie 
where mere is timber and shade. 
I do not think that there is very much 
remedy for moon blindness if it is a 
case of very long standing. I have 
tried a great many things for weak eyes, 
and know of but one remedy, which I 
always use and no other, that is Thomp¬ 
son’s Eye Water. Dilute it with about 
four or five parts water and take a 
small syringe and turn up the eyelid and 
squirt it up underneath so that it nils 
the whole eye. I do this once a day, 
and I find it to be a great benefit for 
weak eyes or eyes that are ailing from 
any cause. Nearly every season there is 
a disease goes around the country called 
pink eye; the lids become inflamed and 
the eyes' run and are generally blood¬ 
shot or red; the horse runs at the nose 
and coughs. If the horse is worked 
hard or driven hard or overheated while 
he has this disease, he is liable to be¬ 
come blind; at least, his eyes will al¬ 
ways be weak. w. l. declow. 
The early handling of a sire has much to 
do with his value as a breeder. In no case 
would we recommend breeding to stunted 
sires, no matter how “royally bred” they 
might be. I think this would apply to 
the horse worlu ah well as to Holsteins 
and all other cattle. Right here comes in 
the old error of paying too much attention 
to the breed and too little to the individual. 
Ohio. DELLHURST FARM. 
RESULTS FROM CAPONIZ/NG. 
We frequently receive letters frdm 
readers who ask whether it will pay 
them to buy a set of caponizing instru¬ 
ments and operate on some of their 
young roosters. Great stories have been 
told in the past of the profits in handling 
capons. It is usually claimed that the 
capons grow larger than the roosters, 
and bring twice as much money in the 
market. The capons we have watched 
seemed to grow to a larger size, but we 
have not made accurate weighings to de¬ 
termine the matter. The operation Is 
at best a cruel and delicate one and we 
would not advise an amateur to attempt 
it. At the Utah Experiment Station 
Prof. Dryden caponized several cockerels 
which were a cross between the Light 
Brahma and the Brown Leghorn. Two 
of these were selected for test. On July 
5 they each weighed 1.9 pound. The 
cockerel outweighed the capon until 
April 4, when the capon weighed seven 
pounds and the cockerel 6.4. One month 
before this the cockerel weighed five 
ounces more. There was little advan¬ 
tage therefore in weight, but the flesh of 
the capon was very much superior. 
The picture at Fig. 230 shows the capon 
and the cockerel side by side. It will 
be seen that the comb and wattles on 
the capon are very small. He was also 
quieter than the cockerel, and showed 
little or no disposition to fight. The 
professional caponizers will doubtless 
say that this experiment proves nothing, 
and that they can show far better re¬ 
sults. We think, however, that it is 
pretty close to what the average opera¬ 
tor will obtain. The bulletin from 
which this picture is taken is very in¬ 
structive and valuable. We shall print 
some facts from it next week. 
Wise Hogs. —A few years ago I had 
a small apple orchard, and to benefit my¬ 
self and a pair of hogs I had I fenced it 
and put the two hogs in, a male and fe¬ 
male. One evening I had some callers, 
and one man came to me and said, “Do 
you know your hogs are stealing your 
apples?” Thinking he referred to them 
picking up apples I told him that that 
was what I had them in there for, to 
pick up all the wormy apples. He said, 
“No, they are stealing them; watch.” 
We watched and he was right, they 
would go from one tree to another, pick 
up what was down, and then the male 
would look about and when he found a 
limb with an apple on it he would twist 
his head from one side to the other, ap¬ 
parently taking measurements and then 
stand on his legs, get hold of the limb 
with his teeth, and shake until the apple 
dropped. Instinct, is it? c. r. b. 
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