1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER] 
763 
Ailing Animals. 
ANSWERS BY DR. F. L. KIRBORNE. 
Warts on Cow’s Teat. 
I have a Jersey heifer, two years old last 
April. She dropped a calf about the end 
of April, and now her teats have a number 
of small warts on them, about the size of 
a No. 3 shot. Is there any way to remove 
them? s. c. 
Zaza, Va. 
Bathe the warts freely night and 
morning, after milking, with castor oil, 
and continue the application for four to 
six weeks, if necessary. If this fail to 
drive them away, wait until the cow is 
dry. Then, with a small pair of sharp 
scissors snip each wart close to the teat, 
and thoroughly cauterize the cut sur¬ 
face with a stick of nitrate of silver, or 
with nitric acid.applied with a glass rod 
or pointed stick. The nitric acid is the 
more effective, but if used, it must be 
applied cautiously and not allowed to 
spread beyond the cut surfaces. 
Collar Call on Neck. 
My young horse has been laid up for two 
months because of a swollen gland on the 
neck, near shoulder. I think the gland be¬ 
came sore and swollen because of poorly- 
fitting collar. The gland is as large as the 
fist, quite hard and sore upon pressure; 
there does not seem to be any tendency 
to suppurate. J. h. l. 
Benton Harbor, Mich. 
The tumor should be dissected out, 
and the wound treated as a simple cut. 
Employ a qualified veterinary surgeon 
to perform the operation. If there he 
no veterinarian near you, ask your 
family physician to remove the tumor. . 
Direct him to excise it and dress the 
wound, as he would !if the tumor were 
on man. Care must be taken to avoid 
the jugular vein, near which such tu¬ 
mors are commonly located. 
Cow Fails in Mi Ik. 
I have a cow which causes me concern; 
she is a Jersey, nine years old, and milks 
up to within a short time of calving. Last 
year she milked to within six weeks; this 
year on being out to pasture, I found it 
impossible to dry her off until within about 
a week. She calved recently and gives 
hardly a quart of milk a day. What is 
the trouble and what can I do? I. R. f. 
Tolland Co., Conn. 
Cases of this kind not infrequently 
occur, where there is no apparent cause 
for the failure of the cow to come to her 
milk after calving. The cow may ap¬ 
pear to be in perfect health and good 
condition, and be well fed, yet she will 
not give more than one-third or one- 
fourth of her normal flow of milk. If 
the cow were sick, out of condition, or 
poorly fed, I could advise treatment; 
but for cases of this kind I know of no 
remedy. I can only suggest that you 
continue to give the cow the best of 
care and feed, with the hope that she 
may yet come to her milk. If she do 
not come to her milk this season, she 
will probably do so after the next calv¬ 
ing. If she is a desirable cow it might 
be well to keep her over; otherwise, I 
would advise fattening for the butcher 
if she do not come to her milk in six 
or eight weeks. 
THE MOTHER’S SIDE. 
New Blood Through the Hen. 
Most poultry breeders recommend the 
introduction of new blood into their flocks, 
by securing .suitable mal§s, from time to 
time. Do you not think that it is de¬ 
sirable to attempt to introduce improved 
blood in this way through the other side; 
that is, by occasionally buying a pen of 
first-class hens? What is your own prac¬ 
tice in this respect? Do you rely upon the 
purchase of new blood in the male entirely, 
or do you believe in the purchase of first- 
class hens and pullets? 
Is “New Blood” Necessary? 
If new blood is to be introduced I 
can see no argument in favor of pur¬ 
chasing females rather than males. The 
argument of economy and convenience 
is a strong one in favor of buying males. 
Personally, I am decidedly skeptical as 
to the necessity or advantage of chang¬ 
ing males. If the new blood is of a 
better strain than the flock into which 
it is introduced, it will be an advantage. 
If not, I am skeptical as to the advan¬ 
tage to be gained by a mere change of 
blood. Suppose you and I each have a 
flock of equal merit, and we wish to in¬ 
termingle the blood. I purchase a male 
from you to mate with my dozen fe¬ 
males, and you purchase a dozen 
females of me to mate with your male. 
Do we not get identically the same com¬ 
bination on each farm? 
Now, suppose that you have a better 
flock than mine. By this change I get 
improved blood in the male, and you 
get inferior blood in the male. Whether 
or not I shall he benefited, and you in¬ 
jured, as much as we would have been 
if we had exchanged, effecting the 
change through the females instead of 
the males, is a fine question, which I am 
not prepared to answer. If anybody can 
tell what traits are dominant in the 
heredity of the male, and what in the 
female, we may get a little light on the 
subject. In a large flock, where a num¬ 
ber of males are kept, I should expect to 
strike a case of close inbreeding very 
rarely. Consequently, I pay little atten¬ 
tion to getting new blood, and do not 
find my flock deteriorating. 
New York. o. w. mapes. 
“Half the Flock.” 
The most economical way seems to be 
to procure new blood through the male 
bird, as the male bird is half the flock 
in that respect. One could soon grade 
up a flock of common hens by procuring 
good male birds each year, so that they 
would make excellent market poultry. 
To my eyes, a flock of purebred poultry 
looks and is much better, and this could 
be obtained on most farms at small ex¬ 
pense by procuring a pen of pullets or 
hens properly mated, and setting and 
raising the stock from them exclusively. 
In almost any neighborhood, the surplus 
males would easily sell for more than 
the market price, so that at the end of 
the first year one could have (accidents 
excepted) quite a flock of nice poultry, 
with but very little expense. The com¬ 
mon stock could be kept the first year, 
and the hens used as egg producers and 
mothers for the purebred chicks, and at 
the end of the season they could be mar¬ 
keted, and only the purebred stock kept, 
which would always be a source of more 
profit to their owner. d. a. mount. 
New Jersey. 
What is Animal Meal? 
F. C. S., Cuernavaca, Mexico .—How is “an¬ 
imal meal” made, and what is the whole¬ 
sale price in New York? 
Ans. —Bowker’s animal meal is made 
of thoroughly cooked meat and bone, 
dried and ground to a fine, sweet pow¬ 
der, containing as a general thing not 
less than three per cent of moisture, 
and from 40 to 46 per cent of protein, 
and 10 to 14 per cent of fat. It is made 
from selected material, being a by-prod¬ 
uct in the manufacture of soups, canned 
meats, etc. The retail price in New 
York is $2.25 per 100 pounds, or $40 per 
ton. 
There is a great amount of scrub timber 
in parts of Iowa and Minnesota, and Wal¬ 
lace’s Farmer suggests the Angora goat as 
a means of clearing it up. Its value as a 
grubber has been proved on many farms in 
Iowa. Three or four years with goats will 
clear out the underbrush, and the land will 
then be valuable for sheep pasture. 
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