1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
347 
Ailing Animals. 
Warts on Cow’s Udder. 
I have a Jersey cow with warts grow¬ 
ing on the teats as well as a large part 
of the udder. What can I do to cure the 
trouble? The cow is now dry. w. a. w 
Louisville. Ga. 
As the cow is dry take a sharp knife 
and pare the warts off till they bleed. 
Then paint them with terchloride of an¬ 
timony, which may stop the growth. 
Barbed-Wire Wound. 
I have a yearling colt whose hock joint 
was cut by barbed wire I washed the cut 
with castile soap and greased with vase¬ 
line. The wound healed but left a hard 
bunch, not on the bone. How can I remove 
this bunch? R- e. 
Bliss, N. Y. 
Your colt’s leg in healing was not 
properly handled, or he would have 
healed smooth, but now you will have to 
have a surgical operation. If you have 
the bunch removed call a competent 
veterinary surgeon. You have several 
in Wyoming County who are competent 
to perform the operation. 
Bloody Milk. 
I have a young cow due to calve the sec¬ 
ond time July 1. One day I noticed blood 
in the milk; it was out of one teat only. 
This continued about four days, when it 
apparently ceased. A few days later that 
quarter of the udder was hard and swollen; 
the milk was stringy and udder painful 
to the touch. A neighbor recommended a 
wash of sal ammoniac and vinegar. This 
took the soreness and swelling away, but 
the teat dried up. What was the cause, 
and how can I prevent similar attacks in 
the future? c. f. r. 
No. Tonawanda, N. Y. 
Your heifer must have received some 
injury to that quarter which you will 
probably now lose. A veterinary sur¬ 
geon might have saved this quarter, and 
perhaps he can do something for it when 
the cow freshens by using a teat bis¬ 
toury. 
Bone Spavin. 
I have a mare slightly lame at times in 
right hind foot. When first starting the 
leg is carried outward and upward much 
higher than the left leg. She does not al¬ 
ways show it, nor with every step, and not 
so much on the level as going down hill 
and backing. Can you tell me the cause, 
and is there any cure? She is a spirited 
free driver and otherwise sound. J. c. c. 
Bethany, Conn. 
The symptoms given point strongly to 
some affection of the hock joint, un¬ 
doubtedly bone spavin. If there is a 
qualified veterinary surgeon in your vi¬ 
cinity you would better consult him. If 
not, examine the hock joint of the horse 
and if any heat is found on the inside of 
the joint, or if the joint looks enlarged, 
you might blister with the following: 
Powdered cantharides and red iodide of 
mercury, of each one-half ounce, thor¬ 
oughly mixed with four ounces of vase¬ 
line. Clip the hair off the parts and 
blister thoroughly. After three days 
grease with lard. Wash and grease at 
intervals for two weeks, and after the 
scab is off blister again. You may have 
to repeat this treatment for six months 
before the lameness is cured. 
MILK NOTES. 
McDermot Bouger Dairy Co.’s creamery 
at West Brook is receiving in the neigh¬ 
borhood of 50 cans of milk per day. The 
Northfield Cooperative Creamery is re¬ 
ceiving over 5,000 pounds daily. This 
creamery opened April 1, and the patrons 
are satisfied with the working of the plant. 
There are some F. S. M. P. A. men who 
ought to be carrying their milk to the co¬ 
operative creamery instead of drawing it 
the same distance in the opposite direction 
in order to patronize an Exchange cream¬ 
ery. Cows are looking well. If anything 
the dairies are larger than last Spring. 
Woodford, N. Y. d. j. w. 
The milk situation at this place is about 
the same as usual, except that the Bordens, 
being short of milk owing to their in¬ 
creased trade, are buying daily about 200 
cans of milk from nearby milk creameries. 
At this plant they are receiving 60,000 
pounds daily, and the average price from 
April 1 until October 1 is $1.03 1-3 per 100 
pounds of milk. The cows are in good con¬ 
dition and range in price from $40 to $60. 
Most of the dairymen are preparing to 
raise more oats and corn this season than 
last, so as to be able to put their milk 
money into their pockets next Winter in¬ 
stead of paying it ah out for grain. The 
Bordens have purchased the Anglo-Swiss 
Condensed Milk Company, paying $ 2 , 000,000 
for all of their rights and patents in the 
United States. They have also bought out 
the Michigan Condensed Milk Company 
for $1,000,000. The section of the State road 
that includes this place and north to the 
town line was surveyed last week by a 
corps of surveyors sent on by the State 
Engineer and Surveyor, and now it is rea¬ 
sonably certain that another year we shall 
have good roads for our heavy milk teams. 
Mt. Upton, N. Y. o. R. m. 
Milk is delivered to Seiler Bros., of New¬ 
ark, N. Y.; the price was $1.15 per can of 40 
quarts in March. I am told that they are 
not shipping any milk at present, but are 
making butter for which they charge their 
patrons 27 cents per pound. Feed has been 
high, so cows are not in as good condition 
as usual; gluten, $27; bran. $25; Atlas glu¬ 
ten, $25 per ton. Dairymen mostly have 
silos here, and corn was a good crop so 
that helped out. There are several who 
have gone out of the milk business for a 
while, so the supply will be a little shorter 
here than it usually is. There are no 
creameries around here, so the milk depot 
is the only refuge. g. d. f. 
La Fayette, N. Y. 
The milk supply has been short the past 
Winter, and so far this Spring farmers 
have reduced the dairies from one-quarter 
to one-third in the last two years. On ac¬ 
count of the high price of feed cows have 
not been fed as usual, and will not freshen 
much when they drop their calves, for 
most of the Spring cows are thin in flesh. 
Our station at Union, owned by Standard 
Dairy Co., of New York, has been closed 
since December 1, 1901. They put up no 
ice, so will not open it this season. The 
milk goes to Vestal, Hooper, Binghamton 
and Union Centre cooperative creamery. 
It looks now as though cheap milk was & 
thing of the past; butter from 30 cents to 
35 cents per pound. c. R. 
Union, N. Y. 
The milk shipping station at this place 
conducted by the Greenwich Dairy Co., is 
receiving about 50 cans of milk daily, which 
Is sold at the Exchange price, the pro¬ 
ducer paying one-half cent per quart sta¬ 
tion charges and an additional charge of 
six cents per can called a charge for fer¬ 
riage, leaving the net price to the producer 
94 cents per can since March 6. There are 
no cooperative creameries in this vicinity. 
Cows as a rule have wintered well, as 
farmers are coming to learn that if there 
Is any profit in dairying it is through good 
care and liberal feeding. Cows are selling 
at $25 to $35, according to quality. The de¬ 
mand for Holstelns is increasing and ex¬ 
ceeds the supply. g. e. p. 
Maryland. N. Y. 
The Echo Farm Co. ships all the milk 
sent to New York from Litchfield Station 
No. 1 at present. The amount, I think, is 
much less than years ago, but is probably 
about one-half of that produced here. 
This company has a second creamery and 
bottling establishment at Bantam in this 
town, which handles almost if not all the 
production of the western part of the 
town, which is shipped anywhere, and has 
also brought up from its receiving station 
at Washington Depot during a part of the 
year, as needed, to be bottled and returned 
to New York next day or next train. Two 
years ago a number of the milk producers 
here became so thoroughly disgusted with 
the New York market and the treatment 
of the dealers that we started a creamery 
here in a modest way, but having up-to- 
date equipment, and it has prospered satis¬ 
factorily, having an output of over 1,000 
pounds of butter weekly with ready mar¬ 
ket steadily increasing. Besides, there are 
a number of private dairies which have a 
local business; the best of all, I judge. 
Litchfield. Conn. G. w. m. 
Home Calf Cures.— Here is a cure for 
scours in calves from one to five or 10 days 
old: One-half cupful of pure cider vinegar, 
one cupful of coffee warm. I have had 
ailing calves and done everything I could 
for them, and yet they died, but after I 
used this I never lost one. One dose is 
generally enough. This is for the benefit 
of F. W. C., page 315. d. w. 
Chesanning, Mich. 
My calves were troubled the same as F. 
W. C. reports. A nephew of mine, a dairy¬ 
man, said if it was the white scours I 
should give a teaspoonful of dry sulphur 
put right in the milk. I did so, and in two 
days it was all right; tried it on two of 
the calves and it cured them both. 
Orleans Co., N. Y. e. t. s. 
In your issue of April 26 an inquirer 
asks what to do for scours in calves. My 
husband lost some calves a few years ago, 
and when the next one was sick he doc¬ 
tored it with lime water, etc. At times it 
seemed a little better; then it would be as 
bad as ever. I said to him one day: “That 
calf is worse again!” He answered: “I 
don’t know as I can do anything more for 
it.” So I went out into the pasture and 
gathered a bunch of hardhack. I steeped 
a little and began to give small doses of 
It in a little milk. The calf soon began to 
Improve, and in a short time was well and 
entirely cured by a few doses of hardhack 
tea, given cautiously. It saved our calf, and 
is so simple a remedy that I felt I ought 
to give it for the benefit of others. 
Massachusetts. mbs. monroe morse. 
SHOO-FLY 
Kills every FLY It strikes; keeps off the rest; harmless to man 
and beast. Cures all sores (beware of IMITATIONS that make 
sores). Half cent’s worth saves 2 quarts milk and much flesh. 
Thousands have duplicated 10 to 50 gallons 7 consecutive years. 
If your dealer does not keep it, send us $1.00 for Improved Double 
Tube Sprayer and enough “8hoo-FIy ” to protect 100 cows ; or 
send 25 cents for liquid. Quart FREE— to those naming 
IMITATION they have used, and promising to pay Express; to 
these will send a spray for 60c. 
SHOO-FLY MFG. CO. 1005 Fairmount Ave. Phila. Pa. 
Experience has proven SHOO-FLY to be O. K.— Editob. 
Short Weights Make Short Purses 
“I cannot afford to be without a 
scale any longer,” wrote an Os¬ 
good buyer. Can you? Our prices 
and terms are very reasonable 
for high grade scales. Free 
Catalogue. Osgood Scale Oo.,103Ccntral St., Binghamton, N.Y. 
“Milk^Care” 
A booklet which we mail free. Hoov¬ 
ers the entire subject and is of great¬ 
est value to all milk producers. It tells 
ta *b£5tSS C H AMPI ON 
Milk Cooler and Aerator, 
*\ which takes all odors and disease 
germs out of milk. Makes itkeep 36 
11^ hours longer than ordinary. 
CHAMPION MILIT COOLER CO.. 
17Sauires St.. Cortland, N. I 
Fine Flavor 
in butter, cheese, cream and all 
other milk products means high 
price. That means profit to the 
maker and the man owning cows. 
The Ideal 
_ Milk Cooler 
takes out all odors arising from feed, stabling or hand¬ 
ling. Makes the milk sweet, pure and long-keeping. 
Easy to operate, easy to clean, large cooling surface, 
simple, strong and durable. Circulars and prices free. 
OAKES & BURGER, 36 Main St., Cattaraugus, N.Y 
When You Buy- 
buy the best and 
avoid trouble. 
ENSILAGE 
the' Ross machinery 
is the best, and if you will send for Catalogue No. 45, 
we will tell you why. Send 10c for Prof. Woll’s 
Book on Silage. Address, 
THE E. W. ROSS CO., Springfield, 0. 
A Milk Cooler 
is a device for cooling milk quickly 
just after it is taken from tlie cow. 
>ar- 
ing 
• The object is to expose every pi 
2 tide of it to the air. thuseooli 
fit and driving out all bud odors 
fund germ* which spoil milk very 
•’quickly and reduce its value. 
The Perfection Milk Cooler and Aerator 
does this quicker and better than any other, Send for 
prices and free catalogue of Farm and Dairy supplies. 
L. R. LEWIS. Manfr.. Box 12, Cortland. N. Y. 
The Superior Cream Extractor 
“It gets the Cream.” Twenty per cent 
more than by setting in pans. 
WATER IS NOT MIXED WITH MILK, 
therefore, impure water does not taint 
the cream, and the skimmed milk Is loft 
pure and sweet. We pay the Freight. 
Descriptive circulars, reliable testi¬ 
monials and prices mailed on request. 
Write to-day. Can’t get in touch with 
such a money-maker too quick. 
Superior Fence Machine Co., 
188 Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Mich 
V. ^ 
THE CORRUGATED 
Cream Separator 
The greatest labor-saving machine 
ever used on a farm. Does not mix the 
water with the milk or require power 
to operato it. Every farmer makes 
creamery butter and more of it. It has 
double the cooling surface or that of 
any separator made. Ask your grocer 
for them or write direct to 
Ell, S. CUSHMAN, Solo IHannfnftnror. 
Agents Wanted, p. o. Hot Ufj Centerville, la. 
DID YOU EVER HEAR 
a farmer who uses a cream separator say it was not a good 
investment, unless he was so unfortunate as NOT to have a 
U. S. Separator? 
Are they not always telling how the calves and pigs 
grow fat on the skimmilk, although the separator, 
if it is a U. S., takes out all the butter-fat? Because 
the skimmilk is warm and sweet when it comes from 
the separator, the best possible condition for feeding. 
THAT THE U. S. SEPARATOR 
has proved to its purchasers by the thousands, who are 
using them daily all the year round, that it 
IS THE GREATEST MONEY 
MAKER AND MONEY SAVER 
on the market to-day, is indisputable. 
For full particulars write for free descriptive catalogues 
263 VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., Bellows Falls, Vt. 
300,000 
Machines In Use. 
Ten Times All Other Makes Combined. 
The Standard <f All That’s Best in Dairying 
in Every Country in the World. 
That’s the history of the 
DE LAVAL 
CREAM SEPARATORS 
which possess the patent protected 
“Alpha-Disc” and “Split-Wing” Improvements 
And Are As Much Superior 
to other Cream Separators as such 
other separators are to gravity setting methods. 
Send for new “ 20th Century ” catalogue. 
The De Laval Separator Co, 
Randolph & Canal Sts., 
CHICAGO. 
I 102 Arch Street, 
PHILADELPHIA. 
217-22 1 Drumm St., 
SAN FRANCISCO. 
General Offices: 
74 CORTLANDT STREET, 
NEW YORK. 
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MONTREAL. 
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TORONTO. 
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