1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
699 
CUTS FROM BARBED WIRE. 
What to Do for Them. 
1. What is the best treatment for barbed- 
wire wounds upon horses and cattle? 2. 
When badly cut in ily time, should they bo 
turned into the pasture, or will healing 
progress more rapidly in the stable? 3. 
When proud flesh is suspected, what i 3 the 
best thing to put on it? 4. What Is the 
proper proportion of refined carbolic acid 
to water for cleansing wounds; what pro¬ 
portion of crude carbolic to water? 5. 
Which Is best for cleansing such wounds, 
carbolic acid and water, or soap and water, 
or oxide of zinc and water; or, is it better 
to alternate them all? G. Is It better to 
bandage the wound when the cloth must 
necessarily irritate it, or is it allowable to 
leave it uncovered? 7. What do you think 
of the following liniment; One pint tan¬ 
ners’ oil (good fish oil), one pint turpen¬ 
tine and 1V& pl°t chamber lye? An Intel¬ 
ligent and experienced horseman recom¬ 
mends it as the best thing ever put on a 
cut. c. f. c. 
Michigan. 
ANSWERED TtY DR. F. L. KILBORNE. 
1. In barbed-wire cuts, the first con¬ 
sideration is to check the bleeding. 
This can usually be readily accom¬ 
plished by the application of cold water, 
or by a bandage. To bandage a cut, 
bring the edges as nearly together as 
possible, then apply a pad of oakum or 
cotton sprinkled with a five-per-cent so¬ 
lution of carbolic acid, and bandage 
tightly. Stitches are rarely desirable. 
The first bandage should be allowed to 
remain for 24 to 36 hours, when it should 
be carefully removed, and the wound 
washed and dressed. During warm 
weather, the wound should be dressed 
twice daily, but once daily may be suffi¬ 
cient in cold weather. To dress the 
wound, first wash carefully with a two- 
per-cent solution of carbolic acid, or a 
one to two-per-cent solution of creolin, 
chloro-naphtholeum, thymo-cresol or 
other antiseptic wash, then while still 
moist, dust with iodoform, antiseptas or 
other antiseptic powder. Large wounds 
that discharge very copiously may re¬ 
quire a stronger wash, such as the white 
lotion or iodine solution given below. 
GOOD CATTLE IN ILLINOIS. 
For several years, prices received by 
farmers and feeders for finished and un¬ 
finished cattle were below cost of pro¬ 
duction on the high-priced farms in this 
section, and the result was that a large 
number of farmers turned their herds 
into dairy herds, and others almost quit 
raising cattle. A large per cent of the 
calves were sent to Chicago as veals, 
realizing as much money as wellbred 
yearlings were selling for. This made 
the present shortage of feeding cattle. 
Scarcely any calves are shipped as veals 
now, neither have there been for a year 
past, but while in numbers, there will 
be more steers, they will be of very in¬ 
ferior quality for two or three years at 
the least. This increase is made up 
mostly of the product from the indiffer¬ 
ently-bred stuff from dairy herds. 
While a few men have kept their beef 
herds up, the great majority resorted to 
cheap grade and scrub bulls, conse¬ 
quently, the general average quality of 
the cattle is not as good as several 
years past. In my opinion, there will 
be a shortage in good cattle from the 
corn belt for several years. Market 
“toppers” cannot be produced from 
scrub cows, but only by the use of pure¬ 
bred sires from a good grade of cows of 
the beef breeds. 
The prices of good breeding stock have 
advanced to a fairly good paying basis, 
due to the fact that it will again pay to 
raise cattle on our farms, and that 
farmers realize the fact that only good, 
well-bred and well-finished cattle will 
even now pay expenses on farm lands in 
price from $70 to $100 per acre in the 
great corn belt, which necessarily must 
furnish most of the good cattle. With 
the ranges injured, the production of 
beef cannot again exceed the demands 
from an increasing prosperous popula¬ 
tion and strong demand from other out¬ 
side markets. cor.uvs dysart. 
Nachusa, Ill. 
do its duty. The above statement seems 
to cover the case as it stands to-day. 
While the objects of the Association are 
undoubtedly worthy, they cannot, prob¬ 
ably, do anything definite until the legal 
point is settled. 
Running Water and Cream. 
An expert in dairying states that butter 
manufactured in New England and north¬ 
ern New York will command from two to 
three cents more per pound because manu¬ 
factured In well-watered regions. Also, 
that an expert can tell whether butter has 
been manufactured where there Is running 
water, or otherwise. What do you say? 
Shippensburg, Pa. w. n. c. 
Ans.—S o far as we know, such opin¬ 
ions are entirely without foundation. If 
the water is pure, it does not make any 
difference whether it runs or stands still. 
Impure or stagnant water probably 
would show itself in the butter, but 
there is no reason why a running stream 
should make better butter than the 
water from a well that 'is equally pure. 
We might see the dregs of water in the 
butter, but not its legs. 
SCRAPS. 
Mr. Chas. H. Royce, the hustling man¬ 
ager of Ellerslle, has concluded to go 
Into the sheep business. He made his 
first purchase at the State Fair at Syra¬ 
cuse recently. It consisted of a dozen 
ewes and a ram fi'om the Shropshire herd 
of Frank D. Ward, of Batavia, N. Y. 
A new food for cattle was found in the 
sugar-beet pulp. The sugar factories of 
this country make considerable of this 
pulp, and an effort is being made now to 
find a market for It. Thus far, most of 
them have found hard work to give It 
away, but this year there Is a shortage of 
fodder, and efforts will be made to sell this 
pulp to farmers who are close to the fac¬ 
tory. The Wolverine Sugar Company, of 
Michigan, proposes practically to give 
away a portion of Its pulp this year, to 
farmers who will feed It to various kinds 
of stock, and report the results. They 
will load the pulp on the cars at Benton 
Harbor, and all the farmer has to do Is to 
pay the freight and unload it. This ought 
to make an Interesting experiment, and 
wo hope the farmers will try it. 
requests for examinations that the Board 
can reach. 
Colorado has passed a law making It 
illegal to import any horse with a docked 
tail into the State, and a horse owner is 
also forbidden so to mutilate any animal 
in his possession. The penalty Is a fine 
of not less than $100, or 30 days' imprison¬ 
ment. 
— Robber Cow 
cats up the profits of two good cows every 
year. Just so the 
’‘setting system”; or 
some cream separ¬ 
ators may leave 
enough cream in 
your milk to pay for 
two 
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2. As far as the wound is concerned, it 
is usually better to turn the animal out 
on pasture. Flies will trouble a wound 
but little, if kept well dressed; but 
when the flies are very troublesome, 
they worry an animal, so that it would 
be better to keep him in a darkened 
stable during the day, and on pasture at 
night. Horses frequently bite such heal¬ 
ing wounds, when it will be necessary to 
keep them tied up short. 
3. Proud flesh rarely appears in a 
wound that is regularly dressed. Should 
proud flesh or unhealthy granulations 
appear, cauterize with a stick of nitrate 
of silver, or by dusting with finely pow¬ 
dered sulphate of copper, which should 
be allowed to remain for 12 hours, after 
which wash off and dress as before. 
4. For ordinary purposes, use a two- 
per-cent solution of the refined acid 
(about two teaspoonfuls to a pint of 
water). If a slight caustic effect is de¬ 
sired, use a five-per-cent solution. The 
crude carbolic acid is not suitable for 
dressing sores, but may be used in the 
disinfection of stables, etc. 
5. The carbolic acid and water are 
preferable. 
6. Except for the purpose of checking 
the bleeding, it is usually better not to 
bandage. A bandage confines the pus, 
and irritates the wound, and retards, 
rather than favors, healing. 
7. I would not recommend any wash 
or liniment containing a filthy product 
like chamber lye. It would be contrary 
to all the principles of modern surgery; 
a reversion to the age of ignorance and 
quackery. I would hardly expect an in¬ 
telligent horseman to use such remedies, 
which possess no special merit. As a 
stimulating wash, the white lotion (ace¬ 
tate of lead, one ounce; sulphate of zinc, 
six drams; water, 1 quart; mix), or the 
compound solution of iodine (Iodine, 
two drams; potassium iodide, one dram; 
water, six ounces; mix), would be pref¬ 
erable in every way. 
PURE BUTTER PROTECTIVE ASSO¬ 
CIATION. 
Several readers have asked 11 s whether 
the Pure Butter Protective Association 
of Philadelphia is a real association, and 
what it is doing. From the best we can 
learn, this Is a voluntary organization, 
composed largely of dealers who are In¬ 
terested in the suppression of the oleo 
trade. The Association Is seeking to 
raise money from creamery men and 
dairymen In Pennsylvania In order to 
prosecute dealers in bogus butter. They 
claim to be a sort of dairy vigilance 
committee, organized for the purpose of 
seeing that the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture does its duty in oleo prosecution. 
The dairy situation in Pennsylvania 
to-day seems to be this; Cases have been 
brought against several oleo dealers un¬ 
der the new law which forbids the use 
of a yellow color. One test case was 
pending in Pittsburg and one in Phila¬ 
delphia, they having been brought to 
test the constitutionality of the new law. 
Until this point Is decided, any addi¬ 
tional suits would be duplicates of these 
two, and would be without profit, be¬ 
cause until this point of the law Is de¬ 
cided, no one could be finally convicted. 
In case the court decide that the color 
law is constitutional, it will be the busi¬ 
ness of the State Department to prose¬ 
cute all dealers thoy can find selling 
bogus goods. If the court decide against 
the law, all it could do would be to en¬ 
force the other provision, which would 
require dealers to take out a license and 
to brand the goods, thus selling them 
for what they are. When this point is 
settled, the Pure Butter Protective As¬ 
sociation will have an opportunity of 
showing what it can do. 
If the State Department fail to make 
prosecutions or do not show interest 
enough in fighting oleo, an association 
of this sort would, probably, prove very 
effective, for it could make such a noise 
that the Department would be forced to 
Prof. D. H. Otis, of Kansas, says that 
many farmers send milk to bo tested in 
such shape that It Is churned on the way, 
so that it cannot be tested fairly. Here Is 
his advice: 
"The way to send milk for testing; is 
completely to fill the bottle so there Is no 
possible chance for the milk to churn. The 
best way we know is to take a bottle with 
a wooden cork, Insert a hole In the latter, 
thoroughly sLlr the sample of milk to be 
tested, and fill the bottle brim full. Push 
In the cork, which will then cause a little 
of the milk to How out of the opening of 
the cork. Plug up the cork with tooth 
picks or matches, and there will be no 
danger of churning.” 
The wool sales opened In London, Eng¬ 
land, September 19. Very good prices 
ruled, and the competition was keen. The 
Australian drought has shortened the sup¬ 
ply. The shortage In Merinos caused an 
Increase of 10 to 15 per cent over July 
prices. African wools were 7(4 to 10 per 
cent higher. 
Dr. Pearson, the Pennsylvania State 
Veterinarian, stated at the soml-annual 
meeting of the State Veterinarian Medical 
Board at Scranton, Pa., that great pro¬ 
gress has been made In eliminating tuber¬ 
culosis from cattle In that State. Less 
than 11 per cent of the cattle now Inspect¬ 
ed are found to be Infected. He said that 
there are now three times the number of 
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The kind that a fancy private 
trade demands, is colored with 
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the color that does not contain 
any poison. Send for a sample. 
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Calves suck their milk, grow sleok, 
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