62 
January 25 
THB RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Live Stock and Dairy 
DAIRY AND FARM NOTES. 
We are almost daily asked the ques¬ 
tion: “Is there a cure for abortion?” I 
wish there was. I should apply at once 
for a patent, sell out to a syndicate and 
retire. No! there is nothing absolutely 
a preventive on the market to my knowl¬ 
edge. We had our first experience 22 
years ago, and a severe one it was, too. 
For three years it was contagious, fin¬ 
ally nearly disappearing without really 
doing anything which would seem of 
any value. We fed quite liberally of 
finely ground bone meal, but I am not 
sure it had any specific value. This 
trouble was the beginning of a more 
sensible and rational system of feeding, 
but such a system seems to have no ef¬ 
fect upon results. A herd that I have 
closely watched for many years has 
never, to my knowledge, been judicious¬ 
ly fed, never bordering on full feed 
either Summer or Winter, yet they have 
never suffered from abortion, and so we 
might enumerate numberless conditions 
where abortion has followed, and simi¬ 
lar conditions where it has not. Is it 
not a sensible conclusion therefore that 
the question of sanitation and not of 
foods is the vital one? This problem of 
farm sanitation, not unlike city sani¬ 
tation, becomes each year more press¬ 
ing in its necessity. Supposing our city 
fathers should disregard cleanliness and 
depend upon a “cure-all” for disease. 
The result would quickly and surely be 
told. Sanitary measures that would 
have been scoffed at 25, yes, 10 years 
ago, are to-day accepted; notably the 
notice posted in street cars and many 
railroad coaches: “$500 fine or one year 
imprisonment for spitting on the floor,’ 
and no one takes exception. If it is 
necessary to make these precautions and 
to look severely at dirt in our streets, 
saying nothing about sewage contamin¬ 
ation, is it not also as much our bounden 
duty to increase and perfect the sanita¬ 
tion for the animals that feed our chil¬ 
dren and furnish food, both milk and 
its products, as well as meat to mature 
humanity? 
Henry Van Dreser, so well-known as 
a judge of dairy stock and now in the 
front rank' as a poultry and egg pro¬ 
ducer, makes sanitation his first and 
basic plan, and I believe he is doing his 
most effective institute work along these 
lines. His very presence shows that 
dirt is objectionable and not to be toler¬ 
ated. I confess to a weakness that needs 
touching up occasionally, anu when I 
see a clean cow stable or pens or houses 
where animals are kept, I think at once: 
“Are we doing as well at home?” The 
trouble seems to be that our standard of 
cleanliness is not high enough. Our 
stables, platforms and mangers are daily 
swept, mangers twice, and often thrice 
a day, and it pays, now about the cob¬ 
webs, dirty walls, etc., are they also 
cleaned? Is a disinfectant used? Well, 
what has all of this to do with abortion? 
Maybe nothing. The reader will have 
to draw his own conclusions when he 
reads. 
I am indebted to Dr. C. D. Smead for 
much that is valuable along these lines, 
because he usually looks at things from 
a sensible and natural standpoint. I 
have not failed to appropriate any sug¬ 
gestion at home or abroad that would 
throw new light upon this complex prob¬ 
lem. In fact, our system has been en¬ 
tirely suggested, and is in no particular 
original, and since following it no seri¬ 
ous trouble has occurred. Not a year 
passes but isolated cases appear in Sum¬ 
mer and Winter, but three to five cows 
a year out of 100 do not seem serious. 
As soon as a case occurs, the animal is 
at once isolated until she appears nor¬ 
mal again, and is treated with some of 
the carbolic preparations, of which there 
are many upon the market. The car¬ 
bolic sheep dips furnish an example. 
The pen or stall is thoroughly disinfect¬ 
ed each day, as is also the stable where 
the dairy is kept. How much signifi¬ 
cance we may safely attach to nervous 
or sympathetic abortion I am not pre¬ 
pared to say; in fact, I suppose one out¬ 
side the veterinary profession ought not 
to discuss the question, but I have ob¬ 
served frequently that the first case had 
none of the foul smelling decomposed 
appearance found in contagious abor¬ 
tion. May we not therefore infer that 
isolation is the first factor in the treat¬ 
ment? 
Certain remedies prescribed are not 
guaranteed unless isolation is strictly 
followed, and they show good judgment 
in the demand. Are we justified in a 
conclusion that trouble first arises from 
an accident in a herd, and subsequently 
either sympathetic disease or contagion 
through germ contact follows? More 
complaint is usually heard in localities 
where cows are shipped in from distant 
markets than in the butter and cheese 
sections, where stock is more generally 
reared upon the farm where it is to be 
milked. Should some one dispute this 
claim I should not attempt further to 
substantiate my position, Decause it is 
one not absolutely to be proven by any 
figures at hand, but I feel quite safe in 
making the statement that anyone hav¬ 
ing an opportunity to observe and famil¬ 
iarize himself would not dispute it. 
Does not this then drive another nail, 
clinched, in favor of the accident theory 
as first cause? 
Is it possible to prevent? Very doubt¬ 
ful. It would seem that dishorning, 
careful driving and handling; a platform 
long enough to prevent the hind quar¬ 
ters from hanging over the gutter, and 
so constructed as to reduce slipping to 
a minimum; stock raised upon the farm, 
fed a rational combination for growth 
and development, would reduce the 
trouble to a point where it might be 
compared in its effect on the total dairy 
loss as the chemist does with the pos¬ 
sible “error of analysis.” Then, when it 
does come, use the previous method, to 
which should be added the use only of 
warm water for drinking for at least a 
week, and better still for two weeks. I 
must say that I am not skilled enough 
to remove the placenta as successfully 
as to allow nature to take us course, 
with the warm stall, warm water and a 
ration laxative in its make-up, and an 
occasional dose of one-half pound Epsom 
salts. Keeping the bowels open is essen¬ 
tial in the bovine at all times when the 
system is obliged to carry off foul pois¬ 
onous matter. Sanitation inside the ani¬ 
mal, ana sanitation for the surroundings 
means increased profits through better 
health. It will repay one to heed every 
opportunity to read or listen to any¬ 
thing having cleanliness on its title 
page. h. e. cook. 
Keep off the Horns.— Nearly all breed¬ 
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reason that they do better, as they do not 
worry and hook each other, and in cold 
weather they bunch together and keep each 
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on them if not dishorned, and if sold for 
breeding purposes they sell for quite a large 
per cent more. In a sale made by Judge 
Jones, of Delaware, O., in October, 1899, 
where he sold 51 heifers, all of the same age 
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that the Polled Durham bull failed to dis¬ 
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