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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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CURES FOR JUMPING COW. 
If O. II., Warren, Ohio., R. N.-Y.. page 
269, will try the following on his jumping 
cow he will have no more trouble with her. 
Put a strong surcingle around cow's body, 
halter her and run a rope from tie ring in 
halter between her fore legs and tie to sur¬ 
cingle tight enough to bring her nose a foot 
or so from the ground. We have made very 
breachy cattle stay put with this arrange¬ 
ment, when all other schemes had failed. 
Ashby, Mass. e. e. L. 
I have a cure for a cow that throws 
fences. I have tried it on several cows and 
oxen, and always with success. Bore a 
small gimlet hole through tip of horn and 
put in a wire and twist up in a loop just 
large enough to put a good strong string 
through then take stiff wire long enough to 
reach from horn to nose. Bend the lower 
end so that it will project into nose 2Vi 
inches with small loop in upper end; then 
tie to small wire in horn. Do not draw up 
too tight, but tight enough so it cannot get 
out of nose. It will trouble the cow only 
at the fence and when she fights. d. s. 
Warren, Conn. 
Put horse shoe on cow’s front foot. This 
Is a sure cure, as no cow can jump unless 
she can spread the hoofs ip jumping. I 
have prevented this bad habit by simply 
giving cow an extra feed of hay just before 
turning out of barn, as very few cows will 
jump or tear down fence if perfectly con¬ 
tented; they are simply looking for more to 
eat. Possibly they have asked for more 
food, but often we are too dumb or careless 
to understand them. A sure cure for tearing 
fences is take a sharp awl, punch a small 
hole through nose and insert a ring. Then 
bore small hole in each horn, take piece of 
small wire; make fast to ring on one side; 
run through both horns, and secure wire to 
other side. Thus the cow can eat all right 
but cannot use her horns. Don't dishorn a 
good cow. Her horns are there for a wise 
purpose, and I believe it is a sin to dishorn 
a full-grown cow, better stop the horn when 
a week old. J- h. 
Bar Harbor, Me. 
COW AND MILK NOTES. 
The dairy cows in this section will go to 
pasture in usual good flesh. Not as much 
grain as formerly is fed here since the use 
of Alfalfa has become general. Desirable 
fresh cows are very scarce and very high, 
$50 to $75 at auction; milk bringing 12 
cents for Syracuse market. G. b. t. 
Fayetteville, N. Y. 
Dairies give normal response to usual 
treatment which has not been forced at all. 
Probably less grain has been used than usual. 
Hay bears moderate price and is changing 
hands freely, but will suffice for this region. 
No silage left to speak of. Cows have been 
high and will now bring $35 to $45, with 
few offered, I think. A private creamery 
here is rushing things. Butter 32-35 cents. 
Milk, retail, six cents. G. w. m. 
Litchfield, Conn. 
The cows in this section are doing well; 
there is plenty of hay, and they are feeding 
as much grain as usual. This is not a dairy 
section; some of the farmers are selling their 
milk to the factory and milkmen of the city. 
Prices are three cents per quart for six 
months, 2V4 cents for six months. There is 
more butter made in this section, selling to 
private family trade, from 25 cents to 28 
cents per pound the year around. I think the 
butter has paid better than milk at the 
prices. I am getting 28 cents the year 
through. I think there are more cows kept 
than three or four years ago. J. K. l. 
Elmira, N. Y. 
Cows are doing very well now in this lo¬ 
cality. About the usual amount of grain 
has been fed the past Winter, farmers in 
general having plenty of roughage to carry 
them to pasture. The milk is delivered to 
Gifford & Sons; the prices are April, $1.25; 
May, $b; June, 85 cents; July, 95 cents; 
August, $1.10; September, $1.25 per 100, 
being five cents less than Borden prices. 
After Anril 1 there will be more milk de¬ 
livered at this station than in some years 
previous. Cows are in good demand and 
bring good prices, ranging from $40 to $50. 
and at auctions choice ones selling as high 
as $70. Farm help very scarce and wages 
high. j. w. H. 
Sidney Center, N. Y. 
Cows are doing very well in this section 
at present; earlier in the season there was 
a good deal of abortion. There is quite a 
strife among buyers of milk in this section, 
Improvements are being added to some plants 
and the Rockdale Creamery Co. are tearing 
down their old building; they are to erect 
a $17,000 plant in place of it. Not quite 
as much grain has been fed; hay, silage, etc., 
was plentiful and all have enough. Good 
cows are worth from $40 to $00, and milk 
prices are better; some stations are paying 
five to 10 cents less than Borden’s, some the 
same. The French cheese factory pays five 
to 10 cents above Borden’s for six months, 
even with them for three months, and be¬ 
low for three months. E. M. p. 
Bainbridge, N. Y. 
Cattle as a whole have wintered very well, 
and milk Is in generous supply. I think 
milk producers have crowded their cows 
fully as much as usual as to feeding of grain 
rations: as the price of cows rises the ten¬ 
dency is to feed heavier and get cost back 
as soon as possible. The price of good cows 
is very high here this Spring, ranging from 
$60 each upward, according to quality, and 
good demand for them at those prices. Sup¬ 
plies of hay and silage about same as usual; 
price of milk about 28 or 30 cents per 8%- 
quart can, according to distance from Lowell, 
Mass. Very few of the farmers about here raise 
their cattle, preferring to buy large beefy 
cows fresh and feed and milk them six or 
eight months and turn them off when they 
shrink below six or eight quarts per day. 
Tyngsboro, Mass. l. c. m’l. 
There is more interest taken in dairying 
in this section than formerly, and In a radius 
of five miles the number of cows kept is on 
the increase. One new skimming station was 
built near here last year and another, I am 
told, is to be built soon. At the time of 
high prices of butter a year or more ago some 
of the patrons of the milk station changed 
to the creamery and some traded their cows 
off, re-stocking with Jerseys. But this last 
Winter the milk station has made the best 
money. Cows are doing well; farmers are 
using more of the “dairy feeds” that are on 
the market, and I believe are more dis¬ 
posed to produce Winter milk than formerly. 
Plenty of coarse fodder. Good fresh cows 
bring about $50; not many for sale. The 
greatest factor in cheap milk production is 
the quality of the hay fed; please the cow’s 
fancy in this matter and she will give you 
at least two quarts per day extra without 
any additional expense to you. If the first 
cutting of clover Is early it improves the 
quality and gives a good second-growth which 
if secured right is much preferred. Milk 
prices at milk station this Winter 3%, 3, 
2%, and at present 2% cents per quart. At 
these prices our cows have earned about $75 
per head in last six months. A. P. 
Trumansburg, N. Y. 
WEIGHTS OF FEEDS. 
We are sometimes asked to repeat the 
table of weights of one quart of various 
stock grains. The table was prepared by II. 
G. Manchester. Here it is: 
Average weight of one quart of each feed 
named. Lbs. 
Cotton-seed meal. 1.5 
Linseed meal, old process. 1.1 
Linseed meal, new process. 0.9 
Gluten meal . 1.7 
Gluten feed . 1.4 
Distillers’ grains . 0.7 
Wheat bran, coarse . 0.5 
Wheat middlings, coarse . 0.8 
Wheat middlings, fine . 1.1 
Mixed wheat feed. 0.6 
Cornmeal. 1.5 
Hominy meal . 1.3 
Provender.1.5 
Oats. 1.2 
Rye bran . 0.6 
H. O. dairy feed. 0.7 
Victor corn and oat feed. 0.7 
Hen Recoup.—As an amateur I take great 
interest in egg records for Winter months. I 
will give mine for January and February: 
Number of hens, 221 ; eggs sold, 5,496; Janu¬ 
ary, February and March, 1906, eggs laid, 
3,220, 3,036, 3,447; total, 9,703 for three 
months. January and February, 1906, 240 
hens; March, 220 hens; less than three 
square feet of floor space to the hen. Almost 
constant housing. The record the past Win¬ 
ter was kept from January 1 to date on an 
open-faced calendar. The number of eggs 
each day was marked on the left of date. 
Nearly 200 were pullets; all were R. I. Reds. 
Maryland. w. mcc. 
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