1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
523 
COLD WATER SETTING MILK. 
What is your opinion as to the best plan 
of setting milk for family use? Would 
you use the Cooley can or plain deep set¬ 
ting? T would like a can with faucet, but 
I do not believe it may be as easily kept 
clean. What kind of trough is best, gal¬ 
vanized iron or wood? w. s. e. 
Casey, Ill. 
W. R. E. does not give the number of 
cows. If eight cows or more I would 
buy a separator. If a less number a 
very cheap and yet satisfactory method 
is to get small tin cans seven inches in 
diameter and 15 to 17 inches deep. Any 
tinsmith can make them; see that good 
tin is used. Provide a tank deep and 
large enough to hold the required num¬ 
ber; use ice cut fine to hold the water 
at a temperature of 40 degrees. Put the. 
milk in at 96 degrees and stir the sur¬ 
rounding ice and water occasionally to 
force rapid cooling. You need not buy 
expensive apparatus for deep setting; it 
is not more effective. Have your tin¬ 
smith make a skimmer open at the top 
and pointed at the bottom, holding 
about one pint; put on a handle perpen¬ 
dicular to the cup, and you have a cheap 
and effective skimmer for deep setting. 
It cannot be expected that the same 
Close skimming will follow that would 
be done by a separator. If the skim- 
milk can he fed to veal calves the com¬ 
bination will be satisfactory for a few 
cows. Galvanized iron makes a very 
good trough or tank for use in protect¬ 
ed places. If stock comes in contact 
with it I would prefer wood or better 
yet, a steel vat. • h. e. cook. 
MILK TROUBLES IN COWS. 
Can you tell me what would cause a 
cow to give thick clotty milk and decrease 
in quantity from 10 quarts to one in 24 
hours, and continue so for a week or more? 
We have had three cows act in this man¬ 
ner. Is it some weed they eat? 
Ellington. N. Y. w. j. m'n. 
We frequently have this same trouble, 
and I must confess that no sure solution 
has presented itself. I call it garget. 
Often, no doubt, it may not be garget at 
all. 1 believe there may be a variety of 
causes. In the first place a tendency to 
teat trouble is constitutional; weak ud¬ 
der tissue susceptible to disease is bred 
into a cow, and probably no more diffi¬ 
cult problem confronts a breeder. The 
best cows are usually the subjects. They 
are the cows that profit us upon full 
feed, and we are therefore inclined to 
work them beyond their udder endur¬ 
ance. They look well and thrifty may¬ 
be, because they are strong bodily. Dis¬ 
ease always attacks the weakest animal, 
and also the weak point of the animal. 
If this cow takes cold in cold, wet 
weather (and a “cold” is nothing more 
than the fever following a weakened 
system) she at once either stops milk 
secretion or the tissue being fevery pro¬ 
duces bloody milk or thick milk of dif¬ 
ferent degrees. These good cows are 
those from which we raise our stock, 
hence we perpetuate udder trouble. I 
know of no quick easy method of chang¬ 
ing it. A slow process of discarding 
heifer calves from such stock is the only 
way, using a bull of known breeding. 
For immediate remedies saltpeier is 
first, although an old remedy. If the 
cow has a high fever give aconite. If 
constipation follows give a mild purga¬ 
tive. Use hot water as a local applica¬ 
tion. We have used the Schmidt treat¬ 
ment for milk fever, and had good re¬ 
sults and none at all. 1 do not think 
there can be any harm from its use; 
one-half ounce iodide of potassium, dis¬ 
solved in a pint of sterilized water in¬ 
jected into the four teats at a tempera¬ 
ture of 98 degrees. 
There seems little proof that these 
udder troubles are caused by weeds, be¬ 
cause we have less trouble in the Sum¬ 
mer when cows are eating weeds if they 
are pastured. 1 doubt whether the kind 
of food fed will have such results. It 
is the indirect result of the food. For 
instance, heavy feeding upon glutens, 
cotton seed, brewers’ grains and mat 
class of milk-forcing foods, promotes 
milk secretion, overtaxing the milk 
glands, and trouble follows. Of course 
the practical result is that the food did 
the mischief. A small quantity of these 
foods, however, would have kept the 
cow in prime healthy milk-giving con¬ 
dition. A wise man knows how to work 
all the time, eat just enough to give 
strength, and not encourage indigestion, 
in other words to conserve energy, so a 
wise feeder only knows how to feed a 
good dairy cow 10 years, maintain a flow 
of milk and organic strength. Nothing 
is more disastrous than forcing a cow to 
her full flow at the expense of bodily 
tissue. I know from experience. 
ir. E. COOK. 
THE OUTLOOK FOR FAT CATTLE. 
I have already put in 41 well-bred 
steers to run on pasture until Fall, then 
place them In my feed lot. They aver¬ 
age around about 700 pounds, and I ex¬ 
pect them by Fall to weigh between 
1,000 and 1,100 pounds. I purchased 
them in Chicago about three weeks ago; 
they cost me five cents a pound deliver¬ 
ed here. I think those who wait until 
Fall, if the corn crop is good West, will 
have to pay a good round price for feed¬ 
ers. We try to get good grade Dur- 
hams, as they give the best results for 
the feed consumed. Our feeders in this 
section are nearly all purchased in the 
Chicago market We find that we can 
get better cattle in the Chicago yards, 
and they seem to do better than the 
same grade of cattle raised in our own 
section. There was some money made 
in feeding cattle this last season, and 
everybody wants cattle to feed this Fall 
if the corn crop is good, so look for 
high-priced cattle. geo. holloway. 
Holloway, Mich. 
Corn-fed cattle are nearly all gone 
from this section, with the exception of 
a few lots in various parts of the coun¬ 
try. Pastures are good and grass cattle 
will be good in the Fall. A number of 
cattle are raised here for feeder pur¬ 
poses, but a large per cent of our feed¬ 
ing cattle comes from the West, that is, 
western Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, 
Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico 
and South Dakota. In regard to the 
best results derived from breeds it would 
be a difficult matter to decide. There 
are what. I would call three leading 
breeds of cattle, which predominate over 
all other breeds—Short-horns or Dur- 
hams, Herefords and Polled Angus or 
Aberdeen. They all have their admir¬ 
ers, and all get first prizes in the differ¬ 
ent rings. We are expecting large re¬ 
ceipts from the West this Fall, and no 
doubt the feeders will get all the cattle 
they may want for feeding purposes. 
We are having a great deal of rain at 
present with very little sunshine; corn 
is doing well, but Spring wheat and oats 
are suffering from the continued wet 
weather. s. g. underwood. 
Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
Most of the cattle fattened in this 
State of late years come from the west¬ 
ern ranges. The supply of native feed¬ 
ers has not been nearly equal to the de¬ 
mand, consequently western branded 
cattle are shipped in and fattened on 
Iowa corn. Owing to shortage of corn 
crop all over the West last year, and 
prevailing high prices of feeders, there 
was a big decrease in number of cattle 
placed on feed. Consequently there is 
a big shrinkage in finished cattle mar¬ 
keted and result is high-priced beef. At 
the present time prospects are favorable 
for a large corn crop. The demand for 
cattle to go into the feed lots this Fall 
will probably use up the available sup¬ 
ply at the present prices. The result 
will probably be a great deal larger 
number of finished cattle marketed dur¬ 
ing the Spring and Summer of 1903, and 
markets will work lower. Until that 
time eastern people need not look for 
any cheaper beef. The Angus, Short¬ 
horn and Hereford are all a good beef 
type, one equally as good as the other. 
Fairmount, Iowa. s. k. churchill. 
It is my opinion that good corn-fed 
steers are very scarce, and will continue 
to be for 90 days, compared with form¬ 
er years; there is not 50 per cent on 
hand. I think good range cattle will be 
moderately plentiful in due time, from 
the fact that a good many were held 
hack last year owing to limited demand 
for feeders, caused by short corn crop. 
Such cattle will be on the market early 
this Fall as beef cattle, and will have a 
tendency to lower prices on all but the 
best corn-fed beeves. I do not expect 
any difficulty in obtaining plenty of 
feeders, but expect prices to be higher 
than usual. Feeders that I have been 
buying on the markets this Summer 
have cost about $5 per head more. In 
regard to the different beef breeds, 
Short-horns, Herefords or Angus do 
well for me. My feeders are usually 
bought on the Kansas City or Omaha 
markets. The Kansas City market is 
supplied with good well-bred native cat¬ 
tle from Missouri mostly, and range cat¬ 
tle from the West and Southwest. The 
Omaha market is not so plentifully sup¬ 
plied with natives, but is well supplied 
all through the Fall with a good grade 
of range cattle from the West and 
Northwest. t. a. bath. 
Brownsville, Neb. 
New Games of the “ Oleo” Men. 
The Philadelphia Record recently 
printed the following note: 
New Castle, Pa., July 2.—The new oleo¬ 
margarine law went into effect yesterday, 
and the grocers of this city are disposing 
of what old product they have on hand. 
The New Castle dealers have formed an 
organization. The manufacturers of oleo 
have discovered a new process to manu¬ 
facture this stuff without coloring ma¬ 
terial, which makes it look like butter. 
Since the new product, which has Just 
been manufactured, was placed on the 
market, it has had a wonderful sale, the 
users preferring it to either the colored 
or the white. 
Wn sent this to one of our readers at 
New Castle and this Is his report: 
“I have investigated the matter re¬ 
ferred to in the enclosed item from the 
Record, by going to the dealers in oleo 
in this city. T find that there is no such 
organization. There are but three or 
four dealers who handle it, or who have 
taken a license to sell. There is no such 
“new process” oleo yet on this market, 
and no such “wonderful sales.” Deal¬ 
ers have only the old stock on hand. 
This is in two grades; the common oleo, 
and a finer grade mixed with cream and 
colored butter. The dealer told me that 
the manufacturers were testing a new 
compound in which palm oil was sub¬ 
stituted for lime-washed lard, and 
which gave promise of a butter-like ar¬ 
ticle; but it has not yet been put on the 
market. This dealer told me that the 
manufacturers proposed using colored 
butter and cream In their product to 
color and flavor it, and they expected to 
be prosecuted for so doing; but while 
such cases were pending they hoped to 
have the Grout law repealed or changed 
by the next Congress. The dealers 
laughed at the ‘organization,’ the ‘new 
process,’ and the ‘wonderful sales’ of the 
Record item.” 
Curb, Splint, 
contracted cord.thrush.grease 
heel and all forms of lameness 
yield readily to 
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“ It gets the Cream.” Twenty por cent 
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Dutton’s 
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Tool 
Grinder 
82.50 each 
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Cntaway Harrow will easily move 
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CLARK'S SULKY 
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