1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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TO WHAT BASE USES DO THESE MILK CANS FALL. Fig. 117. See Page 267. 
CARING FOR THE CALF. 
A well-born calf needs no finger to 
teach it to drink, neither will it drink if 
grabbed by the head and jerked, jammed, 
and its nose crowded half way through 
the bottom of the pail by an angry man. 
It should not suck even the first meal, 
as it is thus taught to look up, and take 
its food in a different way from drink¬ 
ing. Since the cows have been selected 
for rich milk, many of them give too 
rich milk, and the calf would better be 
fed from a cow longer in milk. When 
ready for its meal, the little fellow 
should be approached gently, and will 
soon be trying hard to get food from any 
quarter. A gentle pushing back will 
only incite it to renewed energy, and 
then it is in a proper frame of mind to 
be taught. A little milk dashed on its 
nose tastes good, and sets it crazy for 
more. By holding the pail between the 
feeder and its nose, it will soon get its 
mouth in contact with the milk without 
coercion, and in a few minutes will draw 
in a mouthful with its breath. It is not 
natural for a calf to drink, and if al¬ 
lowed to suck its first meal naturally, it 
will be much harder to break in. Great 
care should be taken to keep the pail 
clean and sweet; it should be rinsed out 
after each feeding, and not used for any¬ 
thing else. The stomach of any young 
animal is delicate. A sour pail has 
ruined many a fine calf. 
The amount a calf should be fed varies 
from all the new fresh milk just drawn 
from the cow, to only enough warm 
skim-milk to fill out its sides even. Too 
much causes scours, indigestion, bloat¬ 
ing, and loss of appetite. Overfeeding is 
worse than underfeeding, in its effects 
on the system. The milk should be of 
the same temperature as that of the 
mother, when fed, not when it starts 
from the house. Try it with a thermom¬ 
eter, and it will seem almost hot instead 
of warm. It cools quickly, and cold 
draughts of rnilk in large amounts never 
made a good calf. Secure a sweet pail, 
test the temperature with a thermome¬ 
ter, and do not feed enough to cause the 
calf’s sides to bulge. This method will 
give good veals in a short time. Good 
wheat middlings, well boiled, added in 
small quantities, will soon take the place 
of a part of the milk, and cause rapid 
growth. As they get older, a lock of 
early-cut clover hay every day, aids to 
increase the capacity of the stomach, and 
fit for future work. c. e. chapman. 
THE QUACK DOCTOR ABROAD. 
A Case or “ Hollow Horn.’’—A reader in New 
York State sends the following note: “Please 
don’t publish my address,” he says, “ for I do not 
want your readers to know that such men live in 
my community. A few weeks ago, a man came 
to me and wanted me to go and see his sick cow; 
from his description, I judged that she had oph¬ 
thalmia. I asked him whether she was very sick, 
and he said that she was. He said, ‘I cut off 
the end of her tail, rubbed turpentine on her 
head, and poured vinegar and pepper into her 
ear, and she doesn’t seem to be a bit better. Do 
you think she has got the holler horn?’ I did 
not faint, but when I recovered my breath, I ad¬ 
vised him to bathe her eyes with diluted extract 
of witch hazel. Is there any better simple 
remedy ?” 
“ Stretches ” in Sheep.— Another New York 
State reader gives the following account of a 
home treatment for sheep: “Old sleep, when 
their teeth get poor, if they don’t have roots, will 
get the stretches, which, I think, is caused by 
the coarse fodder becoming compacted in the 
stomach from not being properly masticated. It 
was some time before I found a remedy: four 
years ago, there were a number of old ewes in 
the flock and I saw one that was badly affected. 
I told my (then) boss, and he, being a sheep man, 
knew just what to do. ‘It’s a worm in her 
stomach,’ he said, ‘ and if we don’t fix her, it will 
kill her.’ We proceeded to ‘fix her’; first, he 
wanted to hang her across a picket fence, but 
was afraid that the pickets might hurt her, so we 
compromised matters by using a partition be¬ 
tween two horse stalls. He took the legs on one 
end, and I the legs on the other end of the sheep. 
‘ Now pull down ’ he said. He pulled the hardest, 
for I was doubtful how the sheep would like it. 
‘Now once more, you’, meaning me, the hired 
man, ‘ pull harder ’; so I pulled harder. ‘ There ’, 
he said, ‘ that’ll fix her’, and I think it did, for I 
buried herdwo days after, in the manure pile. I 
did not tell the boss the next time a sheep had 
the stretches, but looked through a few back 
volumes of The R. N.-Y., and found a remedy, 
the only one I ever saw. It is: ‘Give two ounces 
each of castor oil and (raw) linseed oil, followed 
with occasional injections of warm soap suds. 
Repeat the dose of oils every 24 hours until the 
bowels move. Do not give any hay or straw dur¬ 
ing treatment, but feed only roots (or potatoes), 
and bran mashes’. I have had to use this but 
once in four years, and did not have to repeat it, 
and have one ewe now in the flock that I know is 
at least five years old, and a $5 gold piece would 
not buy her either. She is not a full blood.” 
It is stated that a French firm has entered into 
a contract to supply large quantities of milk to 
England. The milk is conveyed across the Chan¬ 
nel in large, iron-bound drums, each containing 
450 liters, a liter being 2.13 pints, American 
measure. The exporters say that they will fur¬ 
nish 100,000 liters a day. This industry has been 
invited by the fact that Australian butter com¬ 
petes seriously with that from Brittany, thus 
leaving a surplus of milk on the French side of 
the Channel. English dairymen urge that both the 
milk and its source of supply be carefully in¬ 
spected, for the protection of the public health. 
There Is 
implanted in 
every man a 
love of life 
strong enough 
to make him 
tremble and 
kneel before 
death when he 
thoroughly rec¬ 
ognizes its ap¬ 
proach. The 
trouble with 
men is that 
they do not rec¬ 
ognize death 
unless it comes 
in some violent 
or rapid form. 
Consumpti on 
kills more men 
than wars, fam¬ 
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and accidents, 
. , but its approach 
is insidious, and men do not realize that 
they are in its clutch. While consumption 
is a germ disease, the bacilli will not in¬ 
vade sound and healthy lungs. The lungs 
must first be in a diseased condition. 
First a man feels a little out of sorts. 
Probably he is overworked and has given 
too little time to eating, sleeping and rest¬ 
ing. His appetite falls off. His digestion 
gets out of order and his blood does not 
receive the proper amount of life-giving 
nutriment.. The liver becomes torpid and 
the blood is filled with impurities. These 
are pumped into every organ of the body, 
building up unhealthy, half-dead tissues. 
The most harm is done at the weakest spot, 
and most frequently that spot is in the 
lungs. A slight cold leads to inflamma¬ 
tion, the bacilli invade the lungs and we 
have a case of consumption. 
Ninety-eight per cent, of all cases of 
consumption are cured by Dr. Pierce’s 
Golden Medical Discovery. It is the great 
blood-maker and flesh-builder. It restoret 
the lost appetite, makes the digestion per¬ 
fect, invigorates the liver, purifies the 
blood, builds new and healthy flesh and 
drives out all impurities and disease germs. 
It cures weak lungs, spitting of blood, obsti¬ 
nate coughs and kindred ailments. No hon¬ 
est druggist will recommend a substitute. 
* Mrs. Ursula Dunham, of Sistersville, Tyler Co. 
W. Va., writes: “ I had a pain in my side all the 
time, had but little appetite and grew very thin. 
The ' Golden Medical Discovery ’ promptly 
cured the pain, restoied my appetite and in¬ 
creased my weight.” 
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