1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
8o7 
HEREFORD CATTLE FOR VIRGINIA. 
Southwest Virginia is as fine grass 
country as any in United States. It is a 
limestone country, covered with a rich 
heavy sod of Blue grass, and while it is 
a little steep in sections, yet it is rolling 
enough to make on grass alone 1,400 to 
1,600 pound steers for export. Making 
beef being our business, of course one of 
the beef breeds, or rather all of them, are 
used; the Short-horns being first intro¬ 
duced, are still dominant, yet the Here¬ 
ford is fast making inroads in the erst¬ 
while sole territory of the red, white 
and roan. Some Angus and Galloways 
arc also being introduced and I have bred 
and fed a few in the past 10 years of all 
except the Galloways, and while I am 
breeding only the Herefords now, I feed 
and graze a considerable number of the 
other breeds, grades of course. I selected 
the Hereford because my experience and 
observation lead me to believe that I could 
make more prime beef at the least cost 
out of them than either of the other 
breeds and I still maintain that to he 
true. The reason for it is easily stated. 
The Hereford matures.earlier and there¬ 
fore you get rid of him sooner. He win¬ 
ters much better on same feed and same 
treatment than either of the other breeds 
I have handled; he will therefore go out 
to grass in the Spring stronger and carry¬ 
ing more flesh, which is a great advan¬ 
tage. When it comes to making beef 
on grass alone it is an admitted fact in 
the range country that no breed will equal 
the Hereford, and that is my experience. 
The white-faced cattle in my bunch arc 
always the fattest and bring better re¬ 
turns for their keep than any others in 
the Fall, when they are sold off the 
pastures and weighed up; I have been 
speaking of grade cattle, of course, and 
the more Hereford blood the better. A 
steer sired by a registered Hereford bull 
and out of a good common cow makes as 
fine a feeder as I care to handle. No cattle 
do better in this section of Virginia than 
the Hereford. I cannot speak for other 
Southern States, but a Hereford will do 
as well as or better in any section than any 
of the other beef breeds. I keep only a 
few saddle horses and farm mules, no 
sheep, and very few hogs, so have not 
much idea as to what breed is best 
adapted to this country among this class 
of stock. 
Saltville, Va. h. l. Morgan. 
INFECTIOUS KERATITIS. 
I would like your advice as to what seems 
to be an epidemic among cattle in this sec¬ 
tion. The complaint is quite widely spread 
through portions of Oneida and Oswego coun¬ 
ties. The first that is noticed the milk 
shrinks, in many cases nearly drying up. The 
cow refuses to eat. The milk becomes thick 
in one quarter of the udder. In every case 
which I have seen It has been the same part, 
the back left hand quarter. In the course of 
a few hours the bowels become extremely 
loose. This lasts for from one to five days, 
according to the severity of (he case. After 
this the cow begins to eat and in course of a 
week the milk becomes all right again, but 
the flow does not entirely mend. Cows which 
are afflicted become thin very fast and mend 
slowly. One neighbor of mine gave one of 
his cows which had this complaint a quan¬ 
tity of poke root. In a day or two there ap¬ 
peared on either stifle joint a large swelling; 
one of these in a few days became soft and 
appeared to be a sort of gathering. We lanced 
it and got a lot of bloody matter and a large 
core. The other one gradually went away. 
This was the only one that I know of that 
was treated in this way or which had such 
swellings. In all other ways she appeared 
the same as others. The complaint seems to 
be general in tTiis section. Some dairies have 
only one or two: others are all more or less 
affected. In some cases there have been signs 
of chilliness, but in most cases not. I have 
heard of only one or two cases with young 
stock. It seems to affect milking cows most. 
I have heard of only one or two dying with 
this complaint. There seems to be very little 
fever in any case which I have seen. 
Camuen, N. Y. j. h. g. 
Your description of the disease prevail 
ing in your locality resembles a mild case 
of infectious keratitis or pink eye of cat¬ 
tle that has become prevalent throughout 
the United States during the past few 
years. The treatment is very simple and 
when applied in time will cure most cases. 
Give at once an active purgative such as 
one pound of Epsom salts in one or two 
quarts of warm water, not hot water. 
If the eyes are affected they may be 
washed out with a one per cent solution 
of boracic acid, and then place a little 
salt butter on the upper lid of the eye. 
One dose of salts and otic application to 
the eyes if they are affected is often suf-« 
ficent to check the disease. Poke root is 
one of the old time purgatives and not 
used at the present time by the practicing 
veterinarian on account of its narcotic ef¬ 
fects, as it may cause, when given in 
large doses, ulceration of the intestines, 
stupor, coma, or death. It was one of the 
old time remedies for mammitis. caked 
udder or garget. At the present time 
Epsom salts takes its place, as it is more 
prompt as a purgative, thins and cools 
the blood, and produces no bad results. 
At least one or two pounds should be kept 
on hand at all times in a fruit can, prop¬ 
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nothing but the best lead one-ineh pipe. 
Costly and vexatious experience brought me 
to this conclusion. We had on our Hudson 
place several hundred feet of heavy iron 
pipe—not steel. It had been laid down a few 
years when it began to leak badly—eaten 
through by rust in many places. We had 
to have plumbers up from the nearest city 
and take out the entire lengths of pipe where 
the leaks were found and insert new lengths. 
The digging was costly, the subsoil being a 
tenacious clay. Usually the breaks occurred 
in the midst of our busiest seasons, and too 
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About four weeks ago one of my cows 
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will not breed. Is this correct? w. r. p. 
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Such heifers are known as “freemartins,” 
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