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rilE RURAL NKW-YORKER 
August 24 
Live Stockand Dairy 
Ailing Animals. 
AN8WKH8 UY DR. F. L. KILBORNE, 
Colic Mixture for a Horse. 
Will you advise a good safe remedy to 
keep handy in the barn In ca.se of colic in 
a horse? We had a liorse die last Sum¬ 
mer from colic, and we have one now 
that I think is subject to it. A. m. h. 
Flernington, N. J. 
One ounce each of sweet spirits of 
niter, sulphuric ether and extract Ja¬ 
maica ginger, to be given in a pint of 
cold water, and repeated hourly until 
relieved, or the veterinarian arrives. 
Cow Suspected of Tuberculosis. 
I have a cow that coughs a good deal; 
one side of udder cakes sometime.s. She 
has a good appetite and is in good flesli. 
What can I do for her? t. j. b. 
iteverly, W. Va. 
The brief symptoms you describe are 
strongly suspicious of tuberculosis. 
Have the cow examined by a qualified 
veterinarian, and if necessary, sub¬ 
mitted to the tuberculin test for tuber¬ 
culosis. 
Lice on Pigs. 
I have two sows (one with pigs) running 
in an orchard, and they are covered with 
lice or ticks. Tlie insects are round flat 
things, and very lively. 1 have tried in¬ 
sect powder, but it did no good; also tried 
alcohol, which killed some, but does not 
seem to clean them out. What can I do 
to get rid of them? c. b. h. 
New Haven, N. Y. 
Sponge the pigs all over with a mix¬ 
ture of kerosene emulsion, or of kero¬ 
sene in six to eight parts of water. The 
emulsion is preferable to the kerosene 
alone, on account of its mixing more 
readily with the water. However, when 
you have but a few animals and do not 
wish to go to the trouble of making the 
emulsion, the kerosene can be used, if 
it is kept well mixed with the water. 
Repeat the application every five or six 
days until the lice disappear. Two or 
three applications should be sufficient. 
Warts on a Heifer. 
I have a Holstein heifer that will be 
two years old this Fall. She has a great 
many warts on her body, also a large one 
on the udder that may interfere with her 
being milked. Is there any remedy for 
them? She is in fine condition and a 
hearty feeder; not a wart on her dam. 
Ancram, N. Y. c. L. b. 
Rub the warts freely twice daily with 
pure vegetable castor oil (to be obtained 
of your druggist) and continue for at 
least four weeks. Any large warts that 
have a well-marked neck can be more 
quickly removed by tying an elastic 
band tightly around the base of the wart 
and allowing it to slough off. As soon 
as the wart drops off cauterize the raw 
surface with a stick of nitrate of silver, 
after which dust daily with iodoform, 
oxide of zinc or other antiseptic powder 
until healed. 
Calomel for Lice on Caines. 
Last Spring a druggist recommended 
me to use calomel to remove lice on 
calves. It was dusted on the two calves, 
and in a few weeks one died bleeding at 
the nose—feces like tar. In a few weeks 
more the other one died and its internal 
organs were examined. Its stomach and 
bowels were ulcerated. I asked the druggist 
whether the calomel could have caused 
the deaths, but he said it could not pos¬ 
sibly have done so. The only directions 
he gave were: "Dust this on them and 
w'ork it well into the hair.” What is your 
opinion? If the calomel caused the loss, 
would the druggist be responsible? 
Pennsylvania. h. c. y. 
The mercurous chloride or calomel 
is a powerful drug, and not a safe rem¬ 
edy to use freely on calves for lice. They 
would be liable to lick off too muen 
of the drug, and might become poisoned. 
If the calves died within two or three 
weeks after the use of the calomel, or 
« 
if they were sick within this time and 
died later, it is quite probable that the 
calomel may have been the cause of 
death. But if they died later, without 
being ill in the meantime, death was 
probably due to some other cause. Even 
if the calves were poisoned by the calo¬ 
mel, it w’ould be very difficult to prove 
it so as to make out a case for damages, 
unless the organs were submitted to a 
chemical examination, showing the pres¬ 
ence of the calomel in poisonous quan¬ 
tities. Your experience shows the ne¬ 
cessity of using or administering pow¬ 
erful medicines only under tne direction 
of a competent practitioner. It was 
either inexcusable ignorance or gross 
carelessness on the part of a drug clerk 
to prescribe the use of calomel on 
calves for lice, without advising you of 
the danger of using it too freely. 
BETTER QUALITY OF MILK. 
Win If Pay the Farmer? 
There seems to be a growing demand, 
at a slightly increased price to the pro¬ 
ducer, for a milk richer in butter fat. 
This tendency is felt most in those 
places producing milk for retail trade, 
but is by no means confined to that part 
of the business. Our correspondence, 
which is mainly with milk producers, 
clearly indicates that something beside 
the satisfaction incident to owning a 
purebred bull is impelling farmers to 
buy that sort of animal to head their 
herds. Indeed, we have sold a great 
many of our best bull calves to farmers 
and creamery men to grade up their 
herds. ciias. n. royce. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
Nearly all of the creameries in this 
State are buying milk on the basis of 
the per cent of butter fat, and the pro¬ 
ducers of milk are therefore paid accord¬ 
ing to its value. The policy of recogniz¬ 
ing the distinction between good and in¬ 
ferior milk has become almost univer¬ 
sal. At the college creamery, where we 
purchase between 15,000 to 25,u00 pounds 
of milk daily, the price is governed nott 
only by percentage of butter fat, but by 
its condition as to wholesomeness, free¬ 
dom from taint, and other qualities as 
well. There is then every encourage¬ 
ment to the milk producer to select, 
breed and feed for good milk; at the 
same time keeping economy of produc¬ 
tion prominently in mind. 
[Prof.] C. F. CURTISS. 
Iowa Exp. Station. 
“Farmers and dairymen are advised 
to grade up their herds of cows in order 
to produce a better quality of milk.” I 
hold that this is good advice. I believe 
it is the universal custom of all cream¬ 
eries to purchase milk on the basis of 
the butter fat contained. The general 
proposition is, whether a farmer sells 
his milk direct to consumers or to the 
creameries, or makes butter for sale, 
that it is good policy to produce his 
milk from purebred dairy cattle, for the 
reason that he gets a larger product 
with the greatest economy of feed, and 
by reason of the increased secretion of 
butter fat gets a higher price for his 
milk. I believe the time is rapidly ap¬ 
proaching when no dairy farmer can 
succeed with scrub cows in combination 
with purebreds. guy c. babton. 
Nebraska. 
We do not think that dealers are will¬ 
ing to pay a fair price for rich milk, but 
have found that the consumer is willing 
to pay a better price for milk of a su¬ 
perior quality. We have had frequent 
remarks made about the sweetness of 
our Jersey milk over ordinary milk, as 
well as commendation for improved 
quality of cream as well as the richness. 
A bottle of my milk taken out of that 
which had been prepared for morning 
delivery without selection for quality, 
showed by analysis (of our State Col¬ 
lege) butter fat 4.8 per cent and solids 
of nearly 14% per cent. We believe that 
if milk is properly handled, aerated and 
cooled, customers will pay more money 
for rich milk than they will for milk of 
poorer quality. Personally, we believe 
tha.t there is not enough attention paid 
to the percentage of solids in milk, and 
also to the feeding of the cattle for di- 
ge.stibility of milk. Certainly milk can 
be changed to a certain ex^tent in that 
pai'iticular. r. f. shannon. 
Pennsylvania. 
Is it practicable for dairymen to sell 
rich milk at an improved price? Yes 
if the price is enough in advance over 
the ordinary to repay for the extra qual¬ 
ity of cattle kept and extra cost of the 
best feeds to insure the best quality of 
milk. Eight cents per quart at least 
should be received for a better quality 
of milk than the present standard de¬ 
mands. As to whether milk dealers are 
inclined to pay for milk on the basis of 
per cent of butter fat, when the milk is 
flush they drop the milk of the one fur¬ 
nishing the poorest quality. In this 
way the producer of the best milk has 
the best of it. The question is asked 
whether there is practical inducement 
for the average milk farmer to Improve 
his herd by the use of good Jersey or 
Guernsey bulls. If he is peddling milk 
direct from his own farm there is, as he 
is brought in direct contact with the 
consumers, some of whom are willing 
to pay for quality, and he can in time 
pick a route of such, but it takes time 
and costs money. Milk buyers are 
recognizing the fact that there is a great 
difference in the quality of milk, but 
they are not going to pay for it if it can 
bo avoided, preferring to force it by 
State laws, and pay as little as possible. 
The wholesale milk dealer will not offer 
cash or pi’actical inducements for an im¬ 
proved quality of milk if he can avoid 
it. J. B. B. 
Massachusetts. 
A Talk About Milk Handling. 
We who ship our milk to New York 
ai’e very careful and cleanly in our milk¬ 
ing, and strain through patent strainers 
that are set in the top of our tO-quari 
shipping can, and to insure thorough 
straining we put on the bottom of 
strainer, fastened by rim made for the 
puriKise, three thicknesses of fine cheese¬ 
cloth, which takes out every particle of 
sediment. A simple wire strainer, no 
matter how fine the wire, will not re¬ 
move all of the dirt. As soon as a can 
is full we place the can in ice water, 
each and every one, and keep it as low 
a temperature as ice will make it until 
the hour for daily shipment arrives. 
Milk should be stirred at intervals three 
times, say 10 minutes apart, to take 
out animal heat as soon as possible, 
which makes it sweeter and better. 
Most farmers keep 16 to 20-quart cool¬ 
ers in addition to their cans, enough to 
use for one or two milkings, but these 
are seldom used, only as temporary re¬ 
ceptacles for milk in case cans are held 
back, as sometimes happens by delay of 
trains. Regarding your question wheth¬ 
er the Milk Producers’ Association had 
any effect in the methods of milk hand¬ 
ling, I think not, only as in their ad¬ 
vised judgment that all milk can be bet¬ 
ter handled and cared for through co¬ 
operative creameries where every facil¬ 
ity is used to make a superior article. 
Each and every farmer who ships milk 
has a milk room fitted up inside barn 
or adjacent thereto, with water vats and 
ice tanks. Some do not have to use ice, 
as water that stands at 42 to 44 degrees 
Fahrenheit is cool enough for shipment. 
Water that stands at 42 to 44 degrees is 
better than a lower temperature made 
with ice, unless milk is submerged in 
ice water in transit to New York. Train 
hands who handle our milk are not al¬ 
ways careful to keep it well iced in 
transit. All cars that haul milk to our 
cities should be fitted with tanks in 
which the cans be placed and kept sub¬ 
merged to the necks in ice water. Many 
thousands of dollars could be saved to 
the farmers of the five States shipping 
milk to New York if their milk could 
be kept at an even temperature of cold 
until it arrives at its destination, 
through having refrigerator cars for 
the purpose, as every farmer loses by 
sour milk all because it is not properly 
seen to on trains and kept iced as it 
should be. I should think that liquid 
air would come in play for refrigerating 
purposes on trains handling milk, but¬ 
ter and all perishable products sent by 
shipment to our cities. a. b. m. 
Grand Gorge, N. Y. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you wili get a quick reply and 
“a .squarodcal.” Seeour guarantee 8th page. 
Breeders’ Directory 
JERSEY BULL 
Tearllng—refristered, from a preat show cow; ai. 
most faultless, bv a prodncInR sire Farmer’s price 
K. F. 8UANNON, 907 Liberty 8t., Pittsburg, Pa. 
123 HOLSTEINSirs 
DKLLHURST FARMS. Mentor. Ohio. 
V*. W. ^Jj.JbXNJbi, 
Holstein-Friesian Bull 
ready for service, and a tine lot of Bull Calves. Best 
of breeding, and from deep producing families. 
C. K. KKCOBD, Peterboro, N. T. 
F or SALE—Thoroughbred 
HOL8XKIN-FKIB8IAN OATTLK 
of the best families. Also, 30 high-bred BnUs at 
reasonable prices. Write the MAPLES STOCK 
FARM, Binghamton, N. Y., Wm. Rood, Prop 
R egistered Holstein-Friesian Buli 
Calves for sale cheap. From seven to one 
month old. Large, haiid.sonie, nicely marked 
Individuals. Sire Dora DeKol’s Count 23757, bred by 
Stevens & Sons, of Lacona, N. Y. Selected from 
choicest dams. Inquire P. B. MCLENNAN. 
Ischua, Cattaraugus County, N. Y. 
ORDER 
Dutch Belted Calves 
of G. G. GIBBS, Vail, N. J. 
DCDlfCIlIpCC— Best quality and breeding. 
DCniVOIIIIlkO Imported sire. Ohio Farm, 
Le Roy, Ohio. M. L. & H. H. BENHAM. 
Peg. P. Chinas, Berkahirea 
and O. fVMU$, Choice Pigs, 
8 weeks old, mated not akin. 
Bred Sows and Service Boars. 
Poultry- Write for hard Umu 
prices and free oiroular. 
HAKILTOH h CO., Boeenvlck, Chester Co., Pa. 
Qflflfl FKKRKTB. First-class stock. Borne 
CllwU Trained. New price-list free. 
N. A. KNAPP, Rochester, Lorain Co., 0 
fingora Goats 
We have 5.000 head 
including the whoie 
_ of the John Hamlet 
flock, which took the Sweepstakes Prize at Kansas 
City Show. October, 1900. THE NATIONAL ANGORA 
GOAT AND CATTLE COMPANY, Wellsboro, Pa. 
SHROPSHIRES 
Either sex. Sired by England's prize 
winners. CHESTER WHITE SWINE. 
Descriptive circulars. 
S. SPRAGUE, Falconer, New York. 
Best Gall Cure on Earth 
Mailed anywhere for 50 cents. 
MOORE BROS., Veterinary Surgeons, Albany, N. Y 
LUMP JAW 
Easily and thoroughly exuod. 
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and. when all other treatment 
and resources fail 
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Hopple Chafes, Galls, Old Sores, Inflam¬ 
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Heel of years’ standing. Speed Cracks, 
Hoof Rot, Cow Pox and Mange. Use 
this pure, soothing and vital effective 
cure on wounds and sores. Money back 
if it fails. 
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