T1IH RURAL NEW-YORKER 
CM. 
CREAM THAT FOAMS IN CHURN. 
If C. c., page 89, will test his cows 
separately he will find that the trouble 
lies in the milk of one or two of his herd. 
In the Fall of 1899 wc had exactly the 
same case. We milked four cows, none 
of whichTwas fresh at that time. We used 
the home creamer process' and had no 
trouble, till all at once, the churn was 
full of foam in about 10 minutes’ churn¬ 
ing. My wife tried to remedy it, but of 
no avail. The next week it was the same 
thing. We commenced then to ship our 
milk to a nearby creamery. They exam¬ 
ined it and found it all right; it tested 4J4 
per cent butter fat. In the meantime we 
milked each cow separately and put the 
milk through the same process. We had 
no trouble with the first two cows, but 
when we put the cream from the third 
cow, which only gave three quarts of milk 
at one milking, in a quart jar, and shook 
it, it became like whipped cream, and no 
butter came. The fourth cow was then 
tried the same way, and butter came in a 
short time. The three cows were then 
tested together and we had butter in due 
time. The cream of that third cow, which 
was a Dutch Belted, was nearly as white 
as the milk. We sold that cow to a 
butcher and have had no trouble ever 
since. C- L- 
Pennsylvania, 
I notice that C. C. had to throw the 
foamy cream to the pigs. That was very 
wasteful, for just think of the cream 
biscuit and cream cookies it would have 
made, not to mention a spoonful in griddle 
cakes and Johnny cakes. About three years 
ago I had a similar experience with cream 
enough for 10 pounds of butter. My 
husband said: “You’ll have to boil it as 
we used to do whey cream to get the but¬ 
ter.” So putting three or four quarts in 
an old milkpan I let it boil on the back of 
the range for three or four hours, till the 
kitchen fire went down. Next morning 
I found over an inch depth of clear, 
good-looking butter, which had no bad 
taste, and was as good as any for frying 
steaks or baking cake, except the lack 
of salt. Thinking there might be more 
butter in the cream I added two quarts 
of water and repeated the process twice, 
getting a small quantity each time. We 
think the trouble arises from the stage of 
the milk yield, it always being within a 
short time of the cow’s going dry. 
Others about here have had the same 
trouble at the same time. v. G. s. 
New York. 
FEEDING AND BREEDING PROBLEMS 
I am keeping between ,300 and 400 hens. 
Mornings I am feeding one part bran; one 
part middlings: one part cobmeal. I take 
about seven pounds of this and put about 
two pounds animal meal into it for 100 hens, 
fed mornings, with, corn and oats mixed af¬ 
ternoons. I have bought a bone mill and 
made arrangements with a butcher to supply 
me with bone at 50 cents per 100 (animal 
meal $2.50 per 100). I wish to take the 
animal meal away and substitute bone. IIow 
much bone would it be wise to feed? The 
man from whom I buy the meal keeps chick¬ 
ens, and lie says that if I feed much cut bone 
tlie eggs will not hatch. Is that true? If a 
man is keeping purebred poultry should he 
renew his breeding stock from the same fam¬ 
ily or strain of the same breed, or should he 
gels eggs or roosters from another strain if 
lie wants to show his birds, or if he wants 
to keep them for poultry and eggs? A. T. 
Chester, N. J. 
If A. T. is making his hens lay well 
feeding the ration given I would think it 
a cheap ration. The cut bone would seem 
to he worth about half as much as the beef 
scrap; from analysis of food stuffs would 
be worth more if much meat were left on 
tlie bones. The cost of grinding, etc., 
would have to be considered. The beef 
scrap is considered less trouble here, and 
it is used in the mash. I would feed the 
cut bone in place of beef scrap two or 
three times a week, about one or two ta¬ 
blespoonfuls for each hen. Watch results 
feed what is needed. I have heard that 
cut bone tends to make the membrane of 
the egg tougher, and it might be harder 
for the young chicks to break the shell, 
•loo much bone, or any other rich food. ‘ 
159 
would affect the hens’ health, and eggs 
would not be likely to hatch well. If you 
have a fine strain of purebred stock, I 
think it is generally considered best to 
breed from the same strain, introducing 
new blood very carefully, and only for 
good reason, to increase vigor, or 
strengthen some weak point. Generally 
do not put cock bird of another strain 
with flock, but mate with a few hens, and 
their offspring again, so that the new 
blood will be a small part of the whole. 
It would be the same with laying stock. 
If you had hens that had made a fine lay¬ 
ing record you would not want to risk 
losing all you had gained by crossing. 'Poo 
close inbreeding may weaken the stock, 
but you will not need much new stock if 
you practice careful selection and will be 
surer of the results if you breed from the 
same strain. H. s. e. 
Rhode Island Poultry School. 
WART ON HORSE 
I have a horse with what seems to he a 
large Hat wart on top of neck where collar 
comes. It gets sore in Summer, and we can¬ 
not heal it while working her hard in warm 
weather, hut in Winter it will heal, but 
looks like a wart, and seems to itch. When 
in harness she wants to rub collar, twist her 
head and lift collar from bottom. I have 
tried several kinds of gall cures. What would 
you advise? w. I. H. 
If you had given me some idea of the 
size of the wart I would have been in a 
better position to answer your request. 
Take a large needle filled with a number 
of strands of heavy linen thread and run 
the needle into the skin about one-half 
inch from the wart, and then under the 
same and come out on the other side, 
and then tie as tight as you can at one 
side of the wart, and then run the needle 
through the same hole and tie on the 
other side. At the end of four or five 
days clip the wart out with a pair of 
scissors and then wash once a day with 
a little sugar of lead water. 
M. L>. WILLIAMS, D. V. S. 
Ropy Milk. In regard to ropy milk, my 
father had a cow that gave a little ropy milk 
last Fall in tlie front teat nearest milker. 
There was something like a kernel of corn in 
the teat. It grew so it almost tilled the 
teat, hut did not hinder the (low of milk. 
I rubbed some lard on it at milking time, 
and after a while I used a milking tube. 
After a time the kernel diminished and now 
you can hardly feel it : tlie teat seems all 
right exceiit being slightly smaller, and the 
milk is as good as ever. m. p. c. 
Starksboro, Vt. 
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