1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
659 
ANOTHER VIEW OF SELLING BUT - 
TER OR MILK. 
On page 610 I read with much interest 
the article “Selling Butter or Milk,” by 
Peter D. Hulst, and as we have at dif¬ 
ferent times made butter, fattened calves 
and sold the milk or cream, I wish to 
outline a few good features on our side 
of the business. As Mr. Hulst is sell¬ 
ing the butter and I am selling the milk, 
I shall classify these two branches of in¬ 
dustry for the point of our strife—the 
most profitable. Mr. Hulst does not quote 
the current creamery prices of butter, but 
quotes his stated price throughout the 
year; therefore, 1 shall not quote the net 
Exchange prices of milk, but shall quote 
my stated price throughout the year. 
My average price for milk is 314 cents. 
I produce about an even number of cans 
each month, Winter and Summer, and de¬ 
liver it four miles to Poughkeepsie. Mr. 
Hulst states that his cows are Jerseys and 
Guernseys and his milk tests 5.2 per cent 
butter fat; this is very near to double 
standard, and is not required in my case, 
hence I keep the Holstein cows, with oc¬ 
casionally a grade Guernsey. I have 25 
cows, and manage to have two fresh 
cows to take the places of two dry ones 
every month; therefore I generally milk 
23 cows the year ’round. I can buy skim- 
milk and buttermilk from a nearby cream¬ 
ery at the rate of two cans (40 quarts) 
for 15 cents for hogs, etc. T consider this 
fully as cheap as regarded with the time 
and care of separating the cream and mak¬ 
ing the butter. Our net proceeds for the 
milk alone from the 23 milkers for the 
year 1904 were $1,745. s. H. d. 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
ABORTION IN COWS. 
I have a ease of abortion in my herd of 24 
dairy cows and heifers and would like your 
advice. I have always kept cows and never 
had a cow lose a calf till last Spring. One 
cow lost a calf about three weeks before calv¬ 
ing time. I thought nothing of it at the time 
and the cow was kept in the stable with the 
others. The rest of the cows are due to 
calve about in October. July 1 we had an¬ 
other case, and others July 20, 23 and Au¬ 
gust 1. The cows were fed silage twice a 
day and hay at noon till January 1. Silage 
giving out, then they were fed hay three times 
a day. For a grain ration they had buck¬ 
wheat feed (the hull and shorts after the 
flour was taken out), with wheat, bran and 
gluten. Toward Spring the buckwheat feed 
was omitted; as soon as they were turned on 
grass the grain ration was taken away. 
About February the water in the barnyard 
was frozen up and they had to go a few rods 
to a spring to drink. What would be the 
best tiling to do with the cows already af¬ 
fected? I am thinking about getting what I 
can out of them this Winter and putting them 
in beef next Spring. IIow soon will the milk 
be fit for market after they abort? What do 
you think was the starting of the disease and 
is there any way of saving the rest of the 
dairy? w. f. c. 
While I am not much of a believer in 
luck, I think W. F. C. very fortunate if 
he has always kept cows, has a herd of 
24, and this is his first experience with 
abortion. It certainly indicates that there 
was nothing lacking in his management, 
and everything recited as to their feed 
and treatment the past Winter and Spring 
would show no cause for the trouble. It 
would have been wiser to have reduced 
the grain ration gradually, after the cows 
went to pasture, thus maintaining full 
vigor- 
I know of few, if any, herds in which 
abortion does not occur. Often one will go 
for a long period entirely free from it, then, 
as with the questioner, without any ap¬ 
parent cause, it will appear and sometimes 
go through almost the entire herd. Again, 
we see it run through an entire neighbor¬ 
hood, then disappear and little trouble 
comes from it again. 
Abortion is most likely to occur after 
five or seven months in calf. The first 
case usually comes from a slip or hook 
from another cow, and sometimes from a 
milk stool or club. If care is not taken 
to remove the foetus- and afterbirth and 
thoroughly disinfect both the animal and 
her stall, from this may develop other 
cases of sporadic, sympathetic, contagious 
abortion, which will run through an en¬ 
tire herd. The writer speaks from costly 
experience. In his case the trouble came 
from a lot of malt sprouts that were 
filled with ergot and ashes. Usually the 
cows standing next the one aborting are 
the next cases, particularly if they are 
within two or four months of calving. 
I would suggest that the inquirer feed 
all his cows a tablespoonful of finely 
ground bone meal daily, for at least six 
months. This can be purchased of al¬ 
most any dealer in fanners’ supplies, es¬ 
pecially prepared for the purpose. See 
that the cows have abundance of stimulat¬ 
ing food and arc comfortably sheltered at 
night and in stormy weather. For any 
that have recently aborted or do so in the 
future, thoroughly wash the stall and sur¬ 
roundings with a tablespoonfu! of car¬ 
bolic acid in a quart of water, and inject 
a solution of a teaspoonful of same to a 
quart of water. Repeat this injection 
every day for a week, longer if there is 
any discharge. The writer uses otic of 
the carbolic sheep dips for both a wash 
and injection, reduced as per directions 
on package, and prefers this to the carbol¬ 
ic. Do not breed any cow that has aborted 
until at least three months after. While 
there will likely be more cases, by such 
treatment most of the cows will again 
breed, carry their calves the full time, 
and if well fed milk with a fair degree of 
profit in the interval- Any that fail to 
do so may then be fattened. It is one 
of the cases where patience will have to 
exercise her perfect work. The milk will 
be good after the fourth day, the same as 
a cow calving natually. 
E. VAN ALSTYNE. 
BEEF CATTLE IN NEW ENGLAND. 
On page 63 I noticed an inquiry regard¬ 
ing beef production on dairy farms. A 
very discouraging answer by H. E. Cook 
is the only reply. Mr. Cook’s conclu¬ 
sions may be correct, provided all feed 
must be purchased, at given rates. But 
cannot those Vermont farms raise some¬ 
thing to fatten “baby beeffor instance, 
millet and Canada peas as hay, or oats 
and pea hay, or King Philip or Squaw 
corn, or Pride of the North, or rutabagas 
or mangels, corn to be either run through 
a feed cutter, or made into silage? It is 
not a question of pasture, for you need 
none for your beef. Short-horn grades 
are the ideals as dams of baby beef. Hol- 
steins are not so desirable, but with a 
blocky, curly-coated Hereford as a sire, 
it hinges on the question, whether you 
can raise the feeds mentioned above. If 
so, separated milk and plenty of the above 
mentioned feeds, will make from 50 to 75 
pounds per month of age up to about 16 
months. This is no haphazard chore, but 
will require as close attention as the dairy 
cow. If one can feed a carload they can 
be put on the great markets of the East; 
if only a few they could be peddled in 
any town of 2,500 people, or more. You 
can tell by looking up the New York, 
or Buffalo market for such quality beef, 
if you can risk the venture or not. With 
Short-horn, Devon, Holstein or “blocky” 
Jerseys as dams, and a Hereford sire, it 
is only a question of feed and attention 
to make the finest quality and most profit¬ 
able beef that can be produced. Can 
those New England farms, that can be 
bought for $25 to $40 per acre raise the 
necessary feed stuff? “Buildings” don’t 
raise potatoes and corn, or clover and 
Alfalfa. It requires soil and water. If 
not, I'he R. N.-Y. would better discon¬ 
tinue that editorial breeze and “come 
West.” I know nothing about the quality 
of those eastern farms; whether they 
will produce a paying crop to be turned 
into either beef or butter, but with corn 
silage, millet and oats and Canada peas, 
clover or Alfalfa, the dairyman, or beef 
or pork raiser need have no fears of the 
price of gluten, or bran, or any other pre¬ 
pared feed. He has no need of them. 
But the “man behind the cow” must wake 
up, study and read up; read the best, 
breed the best, and feed the best. Keep 
only one kind of anything—the best. This 
is not theory, nor absorbed “book farm¬ 
ing,” but the conclusions arrived at by 25 
years’ experience in breeding and feeding 
the cow and calf. geo. purdy. 
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