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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 7 
Live Stock and Dairy 
£•DISINFECTING A DAIRY BARN. 
I have lost my dairy herd through tuber¬ 
culosis. I wish to stock up anew. Can the 
old barn be disinfected to insure future 
immunity? Would it be more advisable to 
build new stables and use the old barn for 
fodder storage? E. p. 
Columbia, N. Y. 
The question of the disinfection of a 
barn infected with tuberculosis is essen¬ 
tially one of the thoroughness of the 
work, and the conditions of each barn 
would demand special treatment. The 
microbe secluded from sunshine and 
free outdoor air survives in virulent 
form much longer than in the opposite 
conditions. Outdoors in the sunshine 
its viability is circumscribed by from a 
few hours to seven days, according to 
immediate surroundings. In some barns 
with much cracked and rotten wood¬ 
work, dust laden and encrusted, and with 
soaked floor resting on filth-sodden 
soil, it may be safest and cheapest to 
remove the old structure, burn the ma¬ 
terials, and build on new soil, or re¬ 
move the old, saturated soil, cover the 
surface with quicklime and fill up with 
clean earth before building anew. The 
yard may have to be treated like it. 
In a compact, solid, well-kept barn, 
not resting on a filth-saturated soil, a 
successive testings. Afterward keep all 
newly acquired cattle in a separate 
quarantined barn until several tests 
have approved them as sound. Barns 
should be airy, clean, well lighted, with¬ 
out cold drafts and with good drainage. 
Until all infection has been eradicated 
each animal should occupy its own 
stall only, and feeding troughs and 
racks should be fenced apart for each 
animal to eat by itself. The open air 
life fortifies the system especially 
against infection and obviates danger 
from infected dust. james law. 
Cornell University. 
PRICES FOR WESTERN CATTLE. 
We westerners think the increase in 
prices of meat is not too much accord¬ 
ing to the prices of feed and feeding cat¬ 
tle, at least the way the market was re¬ 
cently. We pay $4.60 per 100 for feeders, 
63 cents per bushel for corn, $30 per ton 
for cotton-seed meal and $9 per ton for 
clover hay. We must have $7 per 100 for 
our cattle or money lost. The western 
cattle men have been getting a fair share 
of the increase in prices, mans lap.sen. 
Iowa. 
In regard to the meat trust, I am against 
it. If they would pay the farmer or the 
feeder what they ought to, according to 
the price the retailer is selling it for, it 
might make a difference. 1 fed 80 steers 
HOOD FARM JERSEY COW FIGGIS 76106. Fig. 161. 
thorough disinfection should prove suc¬ 
cessful. Empty the barn of all fodder, 
litter, manure and other material; wash 
with hot water, brushes and scrapers to 
remove all encrusted matter; tear out 
all rotten woodwork, and the boards 
from every double wall or partition; 
wash the whole with the following dis¬ 
infectant whitewash: Quicklime re¬ 
cently burned, one bushel; chloride of 
lime (bleaching powder, recently pre¬ 
pared), two pounds; water, eight gal¬ 
lons; leave a thick coating of this on 
every part of the surface (any spot, 
however small, that has escaped will 
instantly show); this may suffice on 
feeding troughs or racks, though disin¬ 
fection is more certain in its results if 
these are broken up, burned and re¬ 
placed by new ones. Dress everything 
in the stable in the same way; forks 
and other implements may be soaked 
in a 10-per-cent solution of carbolic 
acid; the building should be kept empty 
for a week (better for a month), and 
then sound (tested) cattle only should 
be admitted. Even then the tubercu¬ 
losis may be introduced anew in indi¬ 
vidual infected cattle that have failed 
to respond to the test, so that a new 
test in the course of three months, fol¬ 
lowed by the removal of all reacting 
animals and the disinfection of their 
stalls, will be desirable. Repeat the 
testing at similar intervals until no re¬ 
sponse has been obtained at several 
and just shipped them to the Chicago mar¬ 
ket, and they sold for $6 per 100; that is 
not enough according to the way beef is 
retailing. The price of feed is very high 
here, and we can’t make anything at the 
present price of feed and what our cattle 
are selling for. c. h. c. 
Elmore, Minn. 
In our opinion the western cattlemen 
are not getting their equal proportion of 
the raise in meats. Of course they are 
getting some advance in prices, but not in 
proportion to the prices received by slaugh¬ 
terers. Cattle have advanced from 15 to 
25 per cent as extremes; perhaps about 20 
per cent as a mean, while hogs have ad¬ 
vanced about 25 per cent. I think that the 
big packers have taken advantage of the 
situation, and have advanced their prices 
beyond reason. w. j. taylor. 
Stuart, Iowa. 
I think the packers and retailers are sell¬ 
ing these meats on as close a margin as, 
if not closer than for several years past. 
I do not believe that the packers and re¬ 
tailers are asking more than they should. 
I know that they are not in our local 
markets, for they sell their meat to our 
butchers cheaper than they can get it when 
they do their own slaughtering. I think 
the western farmer is getting his share of 
the “good things,” and I believe that if 
the people who are making such a howl 
about the high retail prices of meats would 
see the broad smiles on the faces of the 
farmers who have cattle, hogs or sheep to 
sell, they would not be long in making up 
their minds who are receiving the benefit 
of these high prices. F. f. e. 
Oskaloosa, Iowa. 
Warts on Cow’s Udder.— I see on page 
379 a remedy for warts on cow’s udder. I 
have found a solution of alum water to be 
a very sure remedy, and it keeps the 
udder soft and pliable. h. e. p. 
Stevenson, Conn. 
POULTRY NOTES FROM PLEASANT 
VIEW FARM. 
Big White Leghorns.— We are often 
asked why our White Leghorns are so 
much larger than the average. A chick 
hatched early, well fed, free from lice, 
early matured, means a large bird. We do 
not inbreed, and are careful to have large, 
well-matured roosters and breed from 
large, early-matured hens. The feed and 
the way the birds are managed are large¬ 
ly responsible. A chick, like a calf or a 
colt, must not be stunted, or a small bird 
will be the result. Common sense is need¬ 
ed in taking care of young chicks. First 
they must be well hatched, of good, strong 
well-matured birds that have free range 
and are not overfed. No mash or dough 
should ever be given breeding stock; whole 
grain of almost any kind, with free range, 
is what is needed. 
Feeding Little Chicks.— For the first 
two days after hatching there is nothing 
better than to feed the shells they are 
hatched in. Put the shells in the oven and 
dry them, when they may be finely pul¬ 
verized easily. The chicks need fresh 
water to drink more than they need food. 
Many of the drinking fountains are no 
good, as the chicks fail to find the water 
until they are almost dead, and many 
never find it, but die of thirst. After they 
are two days old and shells are used up 
a little millet seed scattered in clover chaff 
seems to be about the thing needed. 
Cracked wheat and millet seed perhaps 
are about the best grain for the first three 
weeks. Bread moistened with milk is ex¬ 
cellent. Cracked corn will come in later, 
but there is nothing that we know of that 
will just make a whole flock of chicks 
wild and fall over one another to get it 
like curd. Curd, first, last and all the time, 
is what chicks want; it might be possible 
to feed them too much, but the chances 
are that they will not get enough. We 
feed curd once and sometimes twice a day, 
all they will eat. No bowel trouble, no 
droopy chicks, but fat and sleek as mice. 
We don’t know of anything equal to curd 
for chicks or fowls; it seems to balance 
anything else given them. We find, too. 
that for 50 chicks in one brooder in a pen of 
say 10x14 feet, a yard 100 feet long is need¬ 
ed; when they are crowded they droop, 
and we lose many. They must have room 
and fresh air and water to make them grow 
fast. 
Incubator Hatches.— We have pretty 
well proven after a good many years’ ex¬ 
perience that the average incubator, if 
run in cellar (that is where we run ours) 
does not want the ventilators wide open; 
about half closed during the hatch gives 
best results, till the chicks are coming out; 
then open wide. Put in moisture, plenty 
of it, about the fifteenth day, and keep on 
till through hatching. We find too that we 
used to cool our eggs too long and often. 
We turn by taking them out twice each 
day, but don’t leave them out long, say 
from four to five minutes each time, and 
if for any cause the machine has been run¬ 
ning low, as sometimes happens, we turn 
them and put them back at once. We do 
not believe that eggs need cooling or turn¬ 
ing in an incubator oftener or longer than 
a hen turns them. We can hardly im¬ 
prove upon nature. We have hens that 
will sit and hatch every fertile egg, but we 
always have quite a number die in the 
shell; the best we have been able to do. 
Still we cannot get along without incu¬ 
bators, as we want our chicks out early. 
We have just taken out of a 200-egg 
Prairie State 170 chicks, and we often get 
down to 100, 120 or 150 chicks. Then again 
we have set hens that never hatched at 
all, but as a rule the hens, if they tend 
strictly to business, will discount the in¬ 
cubator for a large hatch. a. a. 
Burdett, N. Y. 
Tiie Jersey cow Figgis, shown at Fig. 
161, is owned at Hood Farm, Lowell, 
Mass. She is a good representative of 
the Jersey tribe of Sophie’s Tormentor, 
21 of his 22 daughters having butter rec¬ 
ords of over 14 pounds in seven days. 
Figgis has a record of 19 pounds, 15 
ounces in seven days. This great cow 
will be sold at the coming sale as will 
many other excellent animals. 
For All Lame Horses 
whether they have 
spavins, ringbones 
splints, curbs, or 
other forms of bony 
enlargement, use 
KENDALL’S 
SPAVIN 
CURE 
Cures without a 
blemish as It 
does not blister. 
As a liniment 
for family use, 
it has no equal, 
l'rlco $1, Six fur 
$5. Aslc your 
druggist for 
Kendall’s Spavin Cure, also "A Treatise on the 
Horse,” the book free, or address 
DR. B. J. KENDALL CO.. ENOSBURQ PALLS. VT. 
Breeders’ Directory 
REGISTERED Jersey Bull CALVES 
from Ida Stoke Pogis and Golden Lad at fair prices. 
K. F. SHANNON, 607 Liberty St, Pittsburg, Pa. 
A 
by 
Foundation Herd of 10 or 20 young registered 
HOLSTEIN COWS is offered at a special price 
DKLLHUKST FARM, Mentor, Ohio. 
Cnr In—PUREBRED HOLSTKIN-FRIESIAN8. 
I UI Odlw Bargains In BULL CALVES at the pres¬ 
ent time. Also BERKSHIRE SWINE and SCOTCH 
PHENANGO VALLEY STOCK FARMS, Greene, 
^ N. Y.—Dutch-Belted and Jersey Cattle, Dorset 
and Rambouillet Sheep. Poland-CMna and Jersey 
Red Swine; 15 varieties Land and Water Fowl. 
Eggs cheap In season. 
Young Registered Holstein-Fries- 
ian Bulls for Sale Cheap. 
I have two bulls two years old and several yearling 
bulls for sale cheap. They are large, handsome, per¬ 
fectly marked animals, all sired by Dora De Kol’s 
Oount No. 23757, and from best dams In herd. These 
animals are on McLennan Stock Farm. Ischua, N. Y. 
Inquire of P. B. MCLENNAN, Syracuse, N. Y. 
Of|| I If SHEPHERD DOGS, trained & untrained 
bULL.lL dogs and bitches; also20 pups, beauties 
ready to ship. J. BOYCE. Summitvllle, N. Y. 
Phnohiroo - April pigs. Brown Leghorn breeding 
UUuulllluO stock cheap. S. A.Little, Malcom, N.Y 
IMPROVED URGE YORKSHIRES » 
hog. Pigs of all ages from imported stock for sale. 
MEADOW BROOK STOCK FARM. Rochester, Mich 
Reg, P. Chinas, Berkshires and C. Whites. 
Choice Pigs, 8 weeks old, mated not 
akin. Bred Sows and 8ervlce Boars 
POULTRY. Write for hard tlmai 
prices and free circular. 
HAMILTON & CO., Kosenvick, Chester Co., Pa. 
ANGORA GOATS 
Low prices. Large olr. B. 
are handsome, hardy and 
profitable. Prize stock. 
W. Cole & Co., Kenton, O 
STANDARD OF THE WORLD for eo 
years. Used on 250 millions annually. If local 
Irugglstonnnot supply, send #1.75 for <>2 (lOOgal.i 
pkt. to WM. COOPEU A NEPHEWS, CHICAGO. 
SHOO-FLV ~ 
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 “ Shoo-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.—Editor. 
Rippley’s 
Fly Remover 
instalitly removes all flies 
mosquitos, lice and other 
sects from cattle, horses 
other animals sprayed with it 
it is healing to any sore. Ani 
mals rest easy and feed quietly 
all day. Cows give % more 
milk, which is a big saving. 1 
gal. will protect 50i) cows. En¬ 
dorsed by tire best class of 
people. Order at once and se¬ 
cure agency, you can sell hun¬ 
dreds of gallons. 1 
2 gal., $2.10; 5 
gal., $9.00. 
Special Sprayer for apply- 
ingsame.$1.00; 5 gal. Compressed Air sprayer for ap¬ 
plying same on large herds, $5.60. Money refunded if not as 
represented. Our Breeders' Supply catalog mailed free; 
tells how $8.00 per head can be saved by using Ely 
Remover. Tin Hand Sprayer, 65c. 
Gentlemen:—For three years I have been experimenti ng 
with different things to keep Hies oiTiny cows, but not until 1 
tried your Fly Remover and Compressed Air Sprayer was 1 
successful. 1 used this last year ami found thatitcosts less 
than one cent per week per cow. With your Compressed 
Air Sprayer it takes but a few minutes to put it on. and the 
rcsulthas been that my cows were free from flies, and dur¬ 
ing the year gave 6400 pounds of milk each, which made824 
pounds of butter per cow. 1 can heartily recommend it t,, 
all stock owners.— IOHN ARMSTRONG, President State 
Board of Agriculture, De Smet, S. D., June 4,1901. 
RIPPLEY HARDWARE CO., Box 223, 0RAFT0N, ILL. 
Western Oltlec, Watertown, S. 1>. 
= NO SPAVGNS === 
The worst possible spavin can be cured in 
45 minutes. Ringbones, Curbs and Splints 
just as quick. Not painful and never has 
failed. Detailed information about this 
new method sent free to horse owners. 
Write today. Ask for pamphlet No. 88 
Fleming Bros., Chemists, Union Stock Yds., Chicago. 
Brightwood Silo Coating 
W U: ER ; proof 
ACID I M M W 
Will not scale. Perfect preservative for Inside of 
silos. May be applied to new or old wood. Crane’s 
Prolific Ensilage Corn (20 tons ensilage or 180 
bushels ears per acre). Write for prices. 
THE AGRICULTURAL STOKE, Springfield, Mass. 
The Dana Ear Labels 
are always clean and readable. 
Do not make the ear sore, will not 
pullout or get lost. Stamped with 
owner’s name, address and herd 
or registry numbers. 1 supply 40 rec¬ 
ord associations with oilicial labels. 
Thousands of practical farmers, vet¬ 
erinarians and breeders use my labels 
exclusively. 8auipleFree. 
Agents Wanted. Liberal terms. 
C.H.Dana,74 Main St. ,W.Lebanon, N.H 
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