1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
543 
Live Stock Matters 
A TARIFF ON HIDES. 
WILL IT BENEFIT THE PRODUCER ? 
What, in your opinion, will be the effect of the 
new tariff on hides ? Do you think that this will 
add anything to the value of ordinary cattle ? If 
so, how much ? Do you think that the cattle men 
themselves will receive more for their cattle in 
consequence of this tariff ? 
I don’t think it will have any effect 
whatever. jas. a funkuouser. 
Missouri. 
I do not think that the tariff on hides 
will increase the price of cattle, but 
think the packers are the men who will 
reap the harvest. j k innes. 
Pennsylvania. 
On the producers’ side of the question, 
it will, we think, be a benefit resulting 
in favor of the grower, but more so for 
the dresser. j. b cottingham & son. 
Peoria County, Ill. 
In our opinion, the proposed tariff on 
hides will add to the value of ordinary 
cattle, and the cattlemen who produce 
the cattle will be benefited thereby. 
Iowa. SHERMAN & WARD. 
It may make common cattle bring 50 
cents a head more, but we doubt it very 
much. We think that this country has 
too much tariff now for the good of the 
common people, but it is a good thing 
for the trusts and combines. 
Illinois. ABN SR ROYCE A SON. 
I cannot see wherein the new tariff on 
hides will materially affect our cattle, 
but would favor the ranch men of the 
West, and be detrimental to Argentina 
and the southern countries. If the cattle 
men themselves could control this tariff, 
instead of its going into the pockets of 
the middlemen, it would certainly be a 
good thing, and would encourage the 
breeding and handling of more cattle in 
this country. f. a. Murray. 
Illinois. 
Possibly the first effect would be to 
stimulate the price of hides, which 
might react on price of live ca,ttle ; if it 
do, the cattle raiser will derive the 
benefit from any such advance. I have 
seen hides double in price without caus¬ 
ing any advance in cattle ; on the other 
hand,I have seen very sharp advances 
in cattle when hides were a drug on the 
market, so that it is difficult to form any 
decided opinion as to what will be the 
effect the new tariff on hides will have 
on the price of live cattle, k b armour. 
Missouri. 
It would seem that, as there is a duty 
on hides, we who grow them here should 
receive some more for our cattle ; but I 
rather think that the hide and leather 
dealers will derive more benefit than the 
cattle growers. However, it might help 
growers some, in time, and it will, prob¬ 
ably, benefit us more in the years to 
come than for the first few. I would be 
pleased to see any legislation that would 
tend to encourage the growing of good 
cattle, which I think is one of the most 
important, if not the greatest, indus¬ 
tries of this country. w. b. seeley. 
Iowa. 
The value of hides in the market is, 
at no time, governed by the price of 
cattle. The market shows often when 
cattle are the highest, or bring the best 
prices in the market, that the hides are 
the lowest, and at Ihe times when the 
prices of cattle in the market are low¬ 
est, that the hides are bringing the high¬ 
est of market prices. These are the 
facts in connection with the sale of 
hides in the large packing houses and 
with butchers, and if this is true, and I 
assume no ODe acquainted with the facts 
will dispute it, the tariff then is of no 
benefit to the breeders or producers of 
cattle. It neither adds a mill to or takes 
a mill from the price of cattle when 
sold in the open market. Another ob¬ 
jection to the tariff on hides is this : It 
will be taken advantage of by manufac¬ 
turers to increase the price of leather, 
especially boots and shoes, and.will add 
a tax upon the consumers who>haveJto 
buy the coarser and cheaper class of 
goods made out of the poorer quality of 
leather, and add, perhaps. 25 or 50 cents 
to the prices of boots and shoes. The 
experience of the people of the West has 
been that tariff taxes never benefit the 
consumer. They benefit only the man¬ 
ufacturers who are controlling particu¬ 
lar branches of trade, which are gener¬ 
ally in a trust, so that the consumer has 
vary little, if any, discretion that he 
can exercise in the purchase of com¬ 
modities. He has to take the articles at 
the trust price or do without them. 
Kansas. a w. glick . 
Its effects are somewhat obscure to 
my mind. I understand that it is some¬ 
thing new, as hides have always been 
on the free list, and there have been 
times when the cattle business was 
flourishing. Of course, if the tariff 
raises the price of American hides, it 
will necessarily help the profit of the 
slaughterer, and to a certain degree, raise 
the price of live cattle ; but the greater 
part of the profit does not come to the 
producer of cattle, but to the slaught¬ 
erer. The farmers and ranchmen will 
be the last to feel the effect if it should 
produce a marked effect anywhere. At 
present, the country cannot supply its 
own hides in sufficient quantity; and 
hides will come from abroad at about 
the same profit to foreigners as formerly. 
In the long run, it may help the cattle 
market. I fear that, like a large per 
cent of the tariffs, it will be a benefit to 
other branches of trade rather than to 
the producer of the raw material. 
Illinois. A E BURLEIGH. 
I have never considered the eff ect on 
the value of cattle of the new tariff on 
hides, further than to accept the proposi¬ 
tion as self-evident that any additional 
value to the hides of cattle, will increase 
the value of the cattle themselves. This 
country imports hides and leather, which 
enter into competition with the native 
product. If a tariff duty increases the 
cost of these articles, our own hides 
must have a better market at somewhat 
advanced prices, which must add to the 
value of cattle. The marketing of cattle 
in this country is now largely done 
through the great packing and dressed 
beef establishments, where every possi¬ 
ble item of product is utilized—it being 
humorously said, that nothing of the 
hog is wasted but the last squeal. It is 
clear to me that the stock raiser receives 
some benefit from these economies, as 
the packer has nearly everywhere driven 
the local butcher out of competition by 
being able to pay better prices for stock, 
and to place the product on the market 
at less cost in handling. A very small 
sum per head profit on the stock killed 
by these establishments, makes a lucra¬ 
tive business. It does not seem to me 
to be possible that a better price for 
hides can result in any other way than 
more money being paid for cattle, as 
there is strong competition among the 
dressed beef men for the stock that goes 
to market, notwithstanding the belief 
held by some that prices of the live 
stock of the country, when it comes to 
be marketed, are controlled by a ring. 
I never market any fat stock, but that 
of my own feeding, but learned long ago 
that the law of supply and demand is, at 
least, the largest factor in determining 
prices. cha.s, g comstock. 
Missouri. 
KEEPING OFF MILK FEVER. 
What is the best treatment before and after 
calving to prevent milk fever and similar troubles 
n cows ? 
Starve the Cow. 
I have found that the safest way to 
prevent milk fever is to keep the cow on 
very short diet for about 10 days before 
calving, and for the last two or three 
days before calving, to give her but 
very little to eat, and after calving, 
gradually get her back on her feed. The 
cow has too much blood at the time of 
calving if she is a large milker and in 
fine condition, and Nature cannot change 
the working of the system quickly 
enough to prevent derangement of the 
system. Reducing it a little at that time 
is a help, and I like a natural way better 
than to give salts as the veterinarians 
do If a doctor did not give medicine, 
his occupation would be gone But either 
will accomplish the same result, only I 
think taking away the food is a more 
natural way, and leaves the animal in 
better condition. c m. winslow. 
Vermont. 
Turn Them Loose in Summer. 
Though we have kept cows for many 
years, we have never, so far as I can re¬ 
member, had a case of milk fever or any 
other trouble at calving time except re¬ 
tention of the afterbirth which, I sup¬ 
pose, can hardly be called a disease. As 
to the treatment, we simply have not 
fed them any meal or grain except bran, 
neither before nor after calving, for two 
or three weeks. 
The ideal treatment of a cow soon 
coming in is to turn her into a pasture 
where^there is plenty of feed and water, 
with sheltered and secluded nooks in 
bushes. Then the cow can take care of 
herself far better than any number of 
men. Many times, when our cows were 
coming in in September and later, a 
cow would be missing at night and in 
the morning would appear with a fine 
calf. There is no treatment about it. 
Of course, when it is cold or wet, the 
cows should be kept in a warm stable, 
and when such was the case, we always 
gave plenty of warm water to the cow, 
but no medicine of any kind. I have 
immense faith in Nature, or rather, in 
Nature’s God, and very little faith in 
medicines. Our cows were always 
strong, vigorous and healthy, and such 
cows will ordinarily do well at calving 
Albany Co., N. Y. j. w. newton 
Low Diet; Plenty of Water. 
Milk fever results as a penalty for 
developing the cow’s productive capacity 
beyond the point Nature intended. It 
is, usually, the best cows that suffer 
and, generally, when in a fleshy and 
plethoric condition. With such cows, I 
find it safer to use preventive measures 
against milk fever than to risk its devel¬ 
opment until parturition. If milk fever 
is feared, I put the cow on a low diet 
for two weeks before she is expected to 
calve, keeping from her food that would 
tend to enrich or thicken the blood and 
retard its free circulation. During this 
time, she is induced to take all the water 
she will. About 10 days before calving, 
I give 1 to IX pound of Epsom salts, 
and as often afterwards as is necessary 
to keep her bowels lax. This, together 
with spare feeding, is continued for 
three or four days after calving. If the 
udder is much engorged, she is milked 
frequently before calving, and her calf 
is allowed to assist in softening the 
udder afterwards. 
This starving treatment has a ten¬ 
dency to diminish the flow of milk for 
a time, after which liberal feeding may 
be safely resumed. To lose one of the 
best cows, however, would much more 
disconcert the dairyman than this tem¬ 
porary diminution on quite a number 
of his cows. If garget or congestion of 
the udder follows parturition, I give the 
udder a good rubbing, twice a day, with 
linseed oil and camphor, milk two or 
three times a day and, if a hungry calf 
is handy, give it a chance. 
Virginia albert r. bki.lwood 
When there is frequent ” hawktDg ” of mucus, 
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such obstructions and effect a permanent cure. 
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