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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 9 
LIVE STOCK? 
AND DAIRY. 
W hen a spot of tin is rusted or broken 
off a milk can, the soft iron beneath it 
gives just the needed place for germs and 
decayed matter, because it is harder to 
scour them out of the iron. The sooner 
cans are rinsed after the milk is poured 
out, the better. Lukewarm water is best 
for this rinsing. Cold water does not 
unite with the milk readily, while very 
hot water may cause the milk to “ cook 
on” by coagulating the albumin. Then 
wash in hot water with soap or alkali, 
rinse and, if possible, steam from one to 
two minutes. Then sun for several hours. 
Handled in this way, a can will never 
become a boarding house for bacteria. 
At the New Jersey Experiment Sta¬ 
tion, every cow in the herd was tested 
carefully with records for a complete 
year. The result shows the great differ¬ 
ence in cows fed on equal amounts of 
food. The best cow gave 8,303 pounds 
of milk, and the poorest cow only 4,413 
pounds. The best cow produced fat 
equal to 405 pounds of butter, and the 
poorest cow 202 pounds. Here is a state¬ 
ment that will interest all: 
At le. At3e. Cost 
per lb. perqt. Feed. 
Value of milk of best cow.$83.03 $114.26 $42.34 
Value of milk of poorest cow.. 44.13 60.74 42.34 
Value of milk of average cow. 63.14 86 89 42.34 
What a margin between the best and the 
poorest! One paid a little profit, even 
with milk at two cents a quart; the 
other hardly paid for her food, to say 
nothing of other expenses. Here is a 
clear case of robber cow, and there are 
thousands like her. 
Wisconsin is the original home of the 
Babcock test, which is said to have 
earned enough for dairymen to pay twice 
over the cost of all the American exper¬ 
iment stations up to date. Of course, 
then, all dairymen in Wisconsin receive 
benefit from the test ? Hardly. Out of 
2,837 creamery patrons interviewed by 
the station, only 21 own testers. Ten 
factories out of 104 had no tests. Only 
229 patrons had their milk tested at the 
94 factories where public tests were 
made. In one of these factories, the 
lowest milk test was 2.6 per cent, the 
highest 5 per cent, and the average 3.2 
per cent. Suppose the milk at such a 
factory is “ pooled,” that is, the maker 
pays a fixed rate per 100 pounds to all 
patrons ! What a present the five per 
cent man makes to the 2.6 per cent man ! 
The Babcock test is the only thing that 
can show Mr. Five Per Cent how benev¬ 
olent he is. 
With wild animals or animals like the 
horse, sheep, or pig, that have not been 
bred or handled for dairy purposes, 
females secrete only milk enough to 
nourish the young. At maternity, the 
blood that went to nourish the fetus is 
turned to the arteries of the udder. The 
pressure of this blood is what stimulates 
the secreting cells to great activity. 
They first produce “colostrum”, and 
afterwards, normal milk. In the virgin 
or “ dry ” animal, the udder contains no 
true milk, but a watery and salty fluid. 
In many cases, a systematic “milking 
out” of this fluid, or rubbing the udder, 
wfill induce the secretion of milk, even 
in a virgin animal. The old-time wild 
cow gave only milk enough to nourish 
her calf. Her modern descendant gives 
8,000 pounds per year, with a milk flow 
lasting through 10 months. This increase 
is due to domestication, which has re¬ 
sulted in a better development of the 
digestive organs and udder. 
We often speak of sows as “ good 
milkers,” and some enthusiastic swine 
breeders have claimed that a good sow 
will give as much milk as a cow. At the 
Wisconsin Station, Prof. W. A. Henry 
obtained the weight of a sow’s milk by 
weighing the little pigs before and after 
they suckled the sow. The increase in 
weight represented the weight of the 
sow’s milk. In this way, it was found 
that four sows averaged about five 
pounds of milk per day—one sow giving 
over 8 % pounds in one day. As to the 
composition of sow’s milk, Prof. Woll 
found as an average of seven samples, 
7.06 per cent fat, 6.20 per cent casein, 
4.75 per cent milk sugar, with over 19 
per cent total solids. This is much rich¬ 
er in fat and total solids than average 
cow’s milk, though lower in milk sugar. 
A fair-sized sow will make over one- 
third of a pound of butter fat per day ! 
If the sow’s milking qualities were de¬ 
veloped by breeder and feeder as care¬ 
fully as those of the Jersey cow, she 
might even take rank as a dairy animal ! 
Speaking of milking machines, there 
will not be many of our readers who 
will care to encourage the use of the 
four-legged machine shown on our first 
page. This pig is having a glorious good 
time, and the old cow herself isn't find¬ 
ing any fault with life. The farmer has 
the worst end of the bargain. Such an 
occurrence is said to be not uncommon. 
Mr. J. S. Woodward says : 
We ha v e had both pigs and lambs suck cows. 
I have seen cows lying down and pigs sucking, 
and the cow seemed to enjoy it. We have raised 
pet lambs, and suckled them on some low-down, 
gentle cow, and had them get so used to it, on 
both sides, that the lamb would help itself, even 
when it got to be pretty nearly grown. 
At the Vermont State Fair, several years 
ago, two lambs were exhibited which 
sucked a young Jersey heifer—causing 
much interest and comment. The cow 
is a motherly animal, but she ought to 
let the children in the house come first, 
and let the pig wait for the skim-milk. 
Young pigs are smart, and they would, 
probably,learn such bad habits as quickly 
as any other farm animal. 
It seems that English milk producers 
have troubles of their own. In Derby¬ 
shire, the dairy farmers recently met 
and agreed to start a bounty system to 
regulate the supply. According to the 
Mark Lane Express: 
The scheme is an arrangement by which each 
tenant farmer will contribute to a fund the sum 
of one shilling per annum for each milch cow 
that he keeps, that his landlord will be asked 
to take the same course, and that in conse¬ 
quence, there will be a fund which will be avail¬ 
able as a bounty on milk. Each member is re¬ 
quired to bind himself not to sell his new milk at 
a less price than 14 pence per barn gallon of 17 
pints during the Summer, and 19 pence for the 
same quantity during the Winter. 
The fund obtained from the shilling tax 
will pay the expenses of the organiza¬ 
tion and help take care of the surplus 
milk. While the theory of such attempts 
at cooperation is perfect, the practice 
usually fails, for the reason that farmers 
are not able or willing to hold together 
when there is a prospect of temporary 
loss by doing so. Denmark and Sweden 
seem to be the countries where real 
cooperation among dairy farmers is 
possible. 
THE USE OF 
Thatcher’s Orange 
Butter Color 
conveys no terror to the public, no 
dread of the courts, no fear of 
legislation, no doubt of the market, 
contains no Coal Tar. It is purely 
vegetable and harmless. 
TRUE DAIRY SUPPLY CD., 
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS OF 
Butter and Cheese Factories, 
AND MANUFACTURERS OF 
Machinery, Apparatus and Supplies for 
Cheese and Butter Factories, 
Creameries and Dairies. 
303,305,307 and 309 Lock St, Syracuse, N. Y. 
References: First Nat. Bank of Syracuse; State Bank 
of Syracuse; R. G. Dun & Co.’s Mercantile Agency; 
The Bradstreet Co.’s Mercantile Agency, or any Bank 
or Business House in Syracuse and adjacent towns. 
SADLER’S COB FETTER 
Is warranted to make the worst 
kicking cow gentle to milk in two 
days. There is nothing equal to 
it for breaking nervous heifers. 
Agents wanted in everytown. Illus¬ 
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MACHINES 
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SLEPT LIKE A CHILD. 
Gained Twenty-Seven Pounds in Four 
Weeks- The Story of a Soldier, 
From the Transcript, Peoria, III. 
No man is better known and liked in that rich 
tier of Illinois counties, of which Peoria is the 
centre, than genial Chester S. Harrington, of 
Princeville, III. For many years Mr. Harrington 
has traveled through the country on profitable 
journeys as an itinerant merchant, and every¬ 
where he goes he is given a hearty welcome by 
the people who depend upon his visits for the 
purchase of the necessaries, and some of the 
luxuries, of life. 
Mr. Harrington is a veteran of the war, and 
from this fact is made the remarkable experience 
which he related at the Transcript office recently’. 
His story, telling of the evils of which the Civil 
War was but the beginning in his own, and in 
thousands of other cases, was as follows : 
“ I served three years in the 124th Illinois, en¬ 
listing at Kewanee, Ill. I was in Libby Prison, 
and suffered, like many another Northern soldier. 
Until recently I was a member of the Princeville 
Post, of the G. A. R. 
“The strain of army life did its work in under¬ 
mining my health, although the collapse did not 
come for years. For some time I suffered from 
general debility’ and nervousness, so badly that I 
could not sleep. For fifteen years my sleep was 
completely broken up. Indigestion resulted, and 
my misery increased. My eyes began to fall, and 
as my body lost vitality, my mind seemed to give 
way also. I could scarcely remember events that 
happened but a few weeks before. 
“ For two years I was unfitted for business. I 
was just able to creep around during the greater 
part of this time, and there were times when I 
could not get up at all. My brother is a doctor, 
but all his efforts to help me failed to give me 
any relief. 
“I tried a number of remedies, without avail. 
Finally, having read articles regarding cures that 
had been effected by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for 
Pale People, I decided to try them. That was in 
1896. I bought a box and took the pills according 
to irstructions. Just four days later I had the 
happiest hours I had known for years. That 
night I went to sleep easily and slept soundly as a 
child, and awoke refreshed. Three or four weeks 
after beginning the treatment, when I had taken 
four boxes of the pills, I found I had increased in 
weight, from 119 pounds to 146 pounds. This 
greatly surprised my friends, who thought my 
case was a hopeless one. I began my work on 
the road again, and have continued it right along 
ever since in excellent health. 
“ Let me tell you a remarkable thing that was 
a side issue, but a valuable gain to me. I found 
that while I was taking Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, 
I had been cured of the smoking habit, which 
had been formed when I was a boy, six years old, 
and which had clung to me all these years. The 
craving for tobacco left me, and I have never ex¬ 
perienced it since. I have recommended the 
pills to many.” 
(Signed) Chester S. Harrington. 
Chester S. Harrington, being duly sworn, de 
poses and says, that the matters contained in the 
above statement by him signed are true. 
Chester S. Harrington. 
Subscribed and sworn to before me, a notary 
public, this 15th day of July, 1897. 
Lincoln M. Coy, Notary Public. 
All the elements necessary to give new life and 
richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves 
are contained, in a condensed form, in Dr. Wil¬ 
liams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. They are also 
a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such 
as suppressions, irregularities and all forms of 
weakness. In men they effect a radical cure in 
all cases arising from mental worry, overwork 
or excesses of whatever nature. Dr. Williams’ 
Pink Pills are sold in boxes (never in loose bulk) 
at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, and may 
be had of all druggists, or direct by mail from 
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, 
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THE FENCE MAN 
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