1897 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
LIVE STOCK MATTERS. 
(■continued.) 
the womb. Pull gently upon the mem¬ 
branes with the left hand, while with 
the right search for the “ buttons ” or 
cotyledons where the membranes are 
attached to the womb. When a cotyle¬ 
don is found (of which there may be 85 
to 50), carefully separate the membranes 
from it with the thumb and forefinger, 
leaving the cotyledon on the womb. Con¬ 
tinue until all have been separated and 
the membranes all brought away. If 
possible, the operation should be per¬ 
formed by one who is familiar with the 
structure of the parts. Other methods, 
such as tying a pound weight to the 
membranes, or pulling and dragging 
upon them, are less satisfactory, and 
also attended with danger of causing 
eversion of the womb. 
Infectious Garget in Cows. 
0. W. /'., North Greenfield, Wis .—A short time 
ago, a valuable cow was taken with fever in the 
udder, which affected two of the teats. All reme- 
ties such as saltpeter, bathing tne udder with 
hot water with salt in it, liniments, etc., seemed 
to be ineffectual. I milked her, but the milk 
is thin and watery with curds. X now have two 
other cows in about the same condition. What 
is a remedy ? Is it contagious ? 
Garget occasionally becomes epidemic 
or infectious in a dairy, the septic in¬ 
fection being commonly conveyed from 
the diseased to the healthy on the hands 
of the milker. I suspect that the trouble 
has become infectious in your dairy, 
although the inflammation may be due 
to a common cause, such as overfeeding, 
standing in cold drafts of air, lying with 
the udder on cold, wet or frozen ground 
or floor, or confinement in an unhealth¬ 
ful, close stable. In an outbreak so 
serious, you should have employed a 
competent veterinarian at once person¬ 
ally to examine and treat the cases; and 
especially if the cows have a cough or 
are unthrifty, they should be examined 
to make sure that the garget is not due 
to tuberculosis. In the absence of a 
veterinarian, I would advise a very light, 
restricted diet for the affected cows. If 
the cows are in good condition, give to 
each, one pound of Epsom salts with 
two ounces of ginger, to open the bowels 
and lessen the milk secretion. If there 
are signs of suppuration in the udder, 
continue the hot applications until the 
abscesses “ point,” when they should be 
carefully opened and washed out daily 
with a two-per-cent solution of carbolic 
acid until healed. If there are no symp¬ 
toms of suppuration, bathe daily with 
the following wash : tincture of iodine, 
six ounces; tincture of opium, two 
ounces; soap liniment, four ounces ; 
mix, and shake before using. 
What Is Gluten Meal? 
T. R. R., Taunton, Mass .—From what is gluten 
meal made? 
Axs —Gluten meal is a part of corn 
just as bran is a part of the whole wheat 
kernel. In making starch or glucose out 
of corn, the kernels are ground into a 
fine meal and soaked in water. Most of 
the starch sinks, while the bran, gluten 
and other parts are floated away, dried 
and bagged for feeding stock. The gluten 
meal and corn bran contain all the pure 
fat and muscle-makers in the corn. 
kitchen, and I never saw sow and pigs 
do better. The pigs learned to eat arti¬ 
chokes by the time they were three 
weeks old. By running a few furrows 
through the patch, the sheep will find 
all that have been exposed to view. All 
stock soon acquire a liking for them, 
but for cows or horses, it is necessary 
to wash them, as being so rough, the 
dirt sticks to them. They are quite 
difficult to dig, as the tubers are scat¬ 
tered all through the soil. I have never 
had any trouble with them scattering to 
other fields, and do not find them any 
harder to exterminate than Irish pota¬ 
toes. I usually follow with corn, give 
the corn thorough cultivation and keep 
all artichokes cut down until late in the 
season, and that ends them. I have 
carefully examined the ground where I 
raised them three years ago, and fail to 
find an artichoke. The ground has been 
in corn one year and in oats last year. 
I usually raise them in some out-of-the- 
way corner, where I can turn in the 
hogs and let them do their own digging. 
They need about the same preparation 
of soil and cultivation as corn. From 
one to three bushels will seed an acre, 
according to how fine they are cut. I 
usually make the rows 3% feet apart, 
and plant 18 incites apart in the row. I 
find that they do Dot do well the second 
year on the same ground. I think them 
the best and cheapest root we can raise 
here for hog food. c. k. brookhart. 
Tennessee. 
Pumpkins in Virginia —The pumpkin 
“Reader,” page 203, wishes to know “Who 
can beat that ? ” Well, I believe that I 
can, for I fed pumpkins to both hogs 
and cows for a period about two weeks 
later than the date he mentions. I alter¬ 
nated with turnips, that is, I fed turnips 
one day and pumpkins the next. The 
pumpkins were kept in a cellar where 
sulphur was burned occasionally to de¬ 
stroy the lower vegetable organisms and 
prevent rot. When ready to feed pump¬ 
kins, I cut them in two, removed the 
seeds, aDd sliced the pumpkin in halves 
with my root cutter. They were fed in 
clean troughs with a sprinkling of salt. 
It made no difference whether the 
troughs or the pumpkins got the sprink¬ 
ling. Pumpkins showing signs of decay 
were not fed to the cows but to my hogs; 
not that I believe in feeding filth to 
hogs, but no other animal seems so well 
adapted to utilize what would otherwise 
go to waste. But when it comes to milch 
cows, I do not care to feed anything not 
clean enough to put it into my own 
mouth. The food that cows consume 
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For Low Butter Prices. 
Don’t make the mistake of delaying the 
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fear of low butter prices. Butter prices 
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desirable investment. With low prices 
it becomes an absolute necessity. 
JERUSALEM ARTICHOKES. 
I am glad to see, on page 303, that 
The R. N.-Y. invites the discussion of 
Jerusalem artichokes. It has always 
seemed to me that The R. N.-Y. has 
been too sweeping in its condemnation 
of the artichoke. My experience with 
them extends over a period of 15 years, 
and although I cannot indorse all that 
many seed dealers say of them, yet I 
think they have a place on every farm 
where hogs or sheep are raised. Two 
years ago, I had a small patch of arti¬ 
chokes (about one-eighth acre). I had 
a sow that farrowed in February, a very 
trying month for young pigs. Being 
short of grain, I let the sow and pigs 
have the run of the artichoke patch, 
feeding the sow only a very few ears of 
corn daily with'a little slop from the 
enters too soon thereafter the mouths of 
human beings (in a new form, but de¬ 
cidedly partaking of the characteristics 
of the original), to make it a matter of 
no consequence what we feed them. 
Pumpkins seem to be good keepers, and 
where they can be cheaply produced, 
form a factor in the item of succulence 
not to be despised. I wish that I could 
have fed them longer, but I had to stop 
because my supply of pumpkins did the 
same. j c. sknger. 
Not one-half the patients supposed to he suffering 
from Consumption really have that distressing 
disease—though ofttimes the symptoms from which 
they are suffering lead to it. Nearly every case of this 
kind Dr. D. Jayne's Expectorant would cure. 
For constipation take Jayne's Sanatlvo Pills.— Adv. 
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