1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
351 
Ailing Animals. 
ANSWERS BY DR. F. L. KILBORNE. 
Suppuration in Cow’s Udder. 
What, .should T do for n cow with gather¬ 
ing- ill udder; inis runs from three of her 
teats? The other one is gathered and T 
can't get it oiien. She will be fresh in a 
few weeks. w. w. b. 
Reno, Mo. 
Your description indicates extensive sup¬ 
puration in the udder, probably due to lack 
of proper attention in drying off. If such 
is the case she will be worth little or noth¬ 
ing as a milker, and you will do well to 
beef her after calving, 'fhe suppurating 
cavities should be irrigated at least once 
daily with a two-ounce .solution of carboiic 
acid, or other antiseptic, to check the sup- 
iniralion and favor healing. 
Heifer Calf With Large Udder. 
I have a heifer calf dropped January 17 
which has an udder as large as a two- 
year-old when three months with calf. It 
seems to be increasing. What is the rea¬ 
son? A. w. B. 
Clroton, Mass. 
There may be some disea.se of the udder, 
the nature of which can be determined 
only by a personal examination. If there 
is no disease, it is simply a case of un¬ 
usual development of the udder; but why 
this should occur in this case I cannot 
answer any more satisfactorily than I 
could why one cow has larger easy milk¬ 
ing teats, while another's are small and 
hard-milking. 
Cough and Thick Wind in a Horse. 
I have a young horse that had distemper 
a year ago. and was very sick. Since then 
she has coughed, and breathes badly when 
drawing hard or trotting. It is not what 
is called wdi'stling, but thick breathing. 
Can you tell me. what to do for her? 
Ludlow, Vt. H. L. p. 
I would advise taking the hor.se to a 
i-iim|ietent veterinarian for examination, to 
asceriain the nature of the trouble. If 
unable to do so, try a course of arsenic, 
(live one tablespoonful Fowler’s solution 
<»r ar.senic, in the feed once daily for three 
or four days, after which increase the do.se 
to two tablespoonfuls and continue for a 
month or six weeks. Rlister the throat 
from ear to ear with ammonia liniment, 
and repeat after three or four weeks. 
Disinfectants and Their Use. 
A jiel cat had a bad sore, which broke, 
the pus from it falling about the house and 
woodshed. What disinfectant can be used 
to destroy danger of infection? What dis¬ 
infectants can be used to destroy the ba¬ 
cilli of glanders and tuberculosis in ani¬ 
mals? How long does danger of infection 
last, if hor.ses or cattle distribute bacilli 
by coughing or sneezing on the passer-by? 
So. Koyalston, Mass. a. w. l. 
For disinfecting your clothes when soiled 
with pus or nasal discharges, boiling water 
is one of the best. Allowing the clothes 
to remain in the boiling water for five to 
10 minutes will effectually kill all ordinary 
disease germs. If the clothes cannot be 
boiled, sponge off thoroughly with a live-pcr 
cent .solution of carbolic acid, after which 
liang in the sun to dry. For your hands 
and face a l-to-l,0(H) solution of corrosive 
sublimate in water may be used. The cor¬ 
rosive sublimate can be obtained of your 
druggist in compressed tablets that will 
readily enable you to make a solution of 
the desired strength. A corrosive subli¬ 
mate soap can also bo obtained, that is 
made especially for this purpose. For 
hitching posts, stalls or other stable or 
out-of-door woodwork a solution of a half- 
innt of strong commercial sulphuric acid in 
each two gallons of water, and applied 
'vilh a brush or broom, is one of the 
cheapest and most effective. Care must 
be taken not to get the acid or solution on 
tile person and clothes. In the house scrub 
the lloor or other woodwork with boiling 
'vatei-, to which chloride of lime can be 
added to advantage. In all these cases the 
disinfected articles are safe as soon as dry. 
Other modern disinfectants, such as san- 
has, creolin, zenoleum, chloro-naptholeum. 
(-ic., can be obtained of your druggist with 
directions for their use in each case; but 
t lej possess no special advantages except 
I'l special cases, or in the hands of the 
practitioner. 
A PLEA FOR RED POLLED CATTLE. 
In The R. N.-Y. of March 9, page 176, 
I find a plea for Holstein cattle by W. 
M. Benninger, and an article by G. G. 
Gibbs, on page 175, favoring the Dutch 
Belted cattle. Another, Edwin Hoyt, fa¬ 
vors the native polled cattle, and last, 
but not least, the Hope Farm man fa¬ 
vors the woman. Bud, Scions, etc., and 
perhaps the Jersey breed of cattle. Many 
cattlemen and some of our agricultural 
papers claim that a farmer should select 
cattle either for beef or the dairy, if he 
wish to succeed, or derive the greatest 
profit from the money invested. They 
may be right, but I would ask them, are 
there not horses, sheep, chickens, etc., 
classed as general-purpose kinds, that 
give the best of satisfaction and a good 
profit? Then why not a general-pur¬ 
pose breed of cattle? I believe the Red 
Polled cattle are such, and that the aver¬ 
age farmer will succeed with them where 
he would fail with some or any of the 
special-purpose breeds. The Red Polled 
cattle are medium to large in size, com¬ 
pact, very hardy, good milkers, and 
their milk is of good (luality; they are 
very gentle, uniform in color, and when 
crossed with other breeds about 75 per 
cent will show red color, and aliout 90 
per cent will be hornless. With me the 
grade cows have been very good milk¬ 
ers and of good size. 
About 14 or 15 years ago (when I be¬ 
gan looking up their peculiarities) there 
were but about 800 of them in the Uni¬ 
ted States, bulls, cows, heifers and 
calves, registered or eligible to registry, 
and I regret very much that 1 did not 
buy a pair of them at that time. I 
bought a registered bull in March, 1891, 
and was so pleased with his get that in 
May, 1895, I bought another bull and a 
registered cow. Ruby Twin. Lhe cow 
was due to drop calf in about a month, 
and she was about 5)4 years old at that 
time. She has given birth to seven 
calves since then (one at a time), four 
heifers and three biuls; has not been 
dry more than three to eight weeks any 
year. She has given 10,2.39 pounds of 
milk in a year, and when the six years 
are up (June 1, 1901) no doubt will have 
given over 60,000 pounds. The average 
test of her milk is about 5.2 per cent 
butter fat. Some may call her a freak 
or wonder, but w^e have a heifer that 
dropped her first calf when she was 
about 29 months old, that gave over 
5,500 pounds of milk the first year; aver¬ 
age test about 4.6 per cent fat. There 
is a herd of Red Polled cows (mostly 
young) owned near here, 15 or more in 
number, that average over 5,000 pounds 
of milk per year; milk that tests over 
four per cent butter fat. There are 
many good Red Polled cows now in 
Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and oth¬ 
er States, and many in England that 
would make about as good a showing at 
the pail as any of the special dairy 
breeds, and a much better showing for 
beef. For their beef qualities I will re¬ 
fer you to an article in the Breeder's 
Gazette of April 10, page 672, written by 
S. McKelvie, Clay Co., Neb., where he 
says that he just sold a Red Polled bull 
12 months and 14 days old that weighed 
1,275 pounds. §. g. 
Waupaca Co., Wis. 
A Guernsey’s ‘‘ Lost Pedigree.” ■ 
On page 257 of The R. N.-Y., April 6, 
you refer to a grand representative of 
the Guernsey breed, and give her illus¬ 
tration under the heading of a “Lost- 
Pedigree Guernsey,” and state it would 
be interesting to know how the pedi¬ 
gree of so nice an animal was lost. I 
1 If. Points.— 1 have seen in my owi 
whole litters that I won 
se 1 fur breedinK Durposes, but this is 
and I have had litters of 
w 11 c 1 everyone was fit for shipping, 
small litters mature earlier, but I 
out of a 
1 ei. I he best and most prolific i 
ever had in my herd was out of a lit 
H. A. y 
Lamden, O. 
am glad to tell you, because it is an ob¬ 
ject lesson to all those who handle im¬ 
proved stock. The animal was raised 
by a man who had as a foundation some 
purebred registered Guernseys. While 
he liked his cattle he was interested in 
the financial side of his herd and 
thought that it was a needless expense 
to pay the small fee required for record¬ 
ing the animals. Consequently he made 
no record of the births and parentage, 
and the result was that after a few years 
he was unable to place his animals, and 
the consequence is a loss of many times 
more than the registry fee in the value 
of the cattle. In this one instance there 
would undoubtedly be paid enough to 
cover the entry fees of his entire herd 
for a number of years if the ancestry of 
this animal could be traced. It should 
be a warning to all persons who handle 
cattle, especially those who are handling 
purebred animals. The importance of 
registration should not be overlooked. 
While the mere fact of registration can¬ 
not add any stated quarts of milk or 
pounds of butter to the yield of the ani¬ 
mal, it is a guarantee of the ancestry, 
and an index by which the desirability 
of the parentage can be determined. In 
this day of enlightened dairy farming 
no herd of grades or purebreds could be 
managed without a proper set of records, 
for that is the only means of determin¬ 
ing the profitable and unprofitable ani¬ 
mals of a herd, as well as being a breeil- 
ing record. wm. ii. cai.dwei l. 
Peterboro, N. H. 
S().MK Connecticut Hens.—T he following 
ligiii-es will show what our hens have done 
during the year 1900. We commenced with 
a flock of about 150. At the beginning of 
October 71 of this number were sold to 
the butcher; we keep no hens of more than 
two years old. The Hock is a mixture of 
four or five different breeds, something 
like Hope Farm hens. Their eggs are sold 
every week to a grocer in Derby at two 
cents above market price. Every egg is 
warranted to be fresh, and for more than 
two years not a bad egg has been sold: 
January, 145 dozen; February, J34 dozen; 
March, 185 dozen; April, 220 dozen; May, 
280 dozen: June, 163 dozen; July, 105 dozen; 
August, 99 dozen; September, 45 dozen; Oc¬ 
tober, 47 dozen; November, 25 dozen; De¬ 
cember, 76 dozen. Total, 1,334 dozen. These 
are exclusive of eggs used in family or in 
sitting, but merely an account of what 
was sold in market. The statement is made 
not to boast, but to find out whether I am 
keeping along with the procession. 
Connecticut. u. d. c. 
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