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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
July 14, 
Live Stockand Dairy 
TROUBLE WITH COW'S UDDER. 
What is the proper treatment for m.v cow? 
The milk canal in one of the udders was 
severed from the inside of said udder at the 
time of purchase. I have used a catheter 
daily for the past two months hut find that 
the insertion of catheter is gradually tearing 
the milk canal from the inside of udder, 
thus causing pain to cow and loss 
of time to myself in getting instru¬ 
ment into section affected. Matter gathers 
between the end of udder and the 
congestion of milk canal. This I drain off 
twice daily.* At one milking of section in 
question, the milk was like whey, but lately 
it appears to be the same as is taken from 
the three other sections. Is there a German 
silver or silver catheter made which could be 
inserted and left in the cow without any 
danger of corrosion or gangrene setting in? 
J. H. O. 
I am not quite clear from the terms 
used by the inquirer just how his cow is 
affected. When we speak of the udder 
we generally refer to what is commonly 
called the “bag” and I am not sure 
whether he means one of the teats was cut 
off, or partly so, or that the difficulty is 
in one quarter of the udder or “bag.” 
He has certainly had a good deal of pa¬ 
tience, and excellent success if he has 
drawn the milk with a tube for two 
months, and the cow is giving any milk 
at all. The continual insertion of a tube 
is very likely to set up an inflammation, 
particularly when there is an injury to 
the teat. Great care should always be 
taken that the milk tube is dipped in car¬ 
bolic acid to disinfect it before it is in¬ 
serted in the teat, and then the fingers 
should be kept off that part that comes 
in contact with the inside of teat. Such 
tube should always be of silver. If disin¬ 
fected as above it can be left in the teat 
without danger to the cow and a little 
wax put in the end to hold back the 
milk; but it will be very difficult to keep 
it there. It seems a pity, after such per¬ 
sistent efforts, to be advised to abandon 
the case. Nevertheless, I am of the opin¬ 
ion that the cow will eventually lose the 
use of that quarter of the udder, and 
should there be a constant irritation, it 
may communicate itself to other sections 
of the udder. I should inject into the 
quarter, after each milking, a small syringe 
full of a mixture made of 10 parts of pure 
linseed oil, to one of crude carbolic acid. 
This is a cleanser, disinfectant and heal¬ 
er. It will do more to set things right 
than anything I ever tried. If perchance, 
the healing is complete and the quarter is 
saved, “thank God, and takes courage.” 
E. VAN ALSTYNE. 
BUCKWHEAT HURTS CHICKS. 
What can I do for my chickens? I have 
one pen five or six weeks old that have passed 
blood for a week or so; they do not seem to 
he physicked, but the stools look like chunks 
of blood. They have been the liveliest hearti¬ 
est chickens I ever had, and have grown very 
fast until now for a day or two they have 
acted dumpish and sleepy; some of them act 
as if they could scarcely move. The chicks 
were hatched under a hen, fed oat flake and 
bread crumbs until large enough to eat buck¬ 
wheat, which they seem to prefer to any¬ 
thing else. I have kept it before them most 
of the time. I also feed some boiled potatoes 
and buckwheat cakes from the table once 
a day, and now for a week or so I have 
given them a little wheat bran and cracked 
corn. A few times 1 have fed the mother 
hens some whole barley, and the chicks ate 
some with them. Do you think the bran or 
barley had anything to do with the trouble? 
They have had no animal food except angle- 
worms which I dig for them ; have plenty of 
tender grass, grit, charcoal and pure water. 
Of course, the yard is damp after a rain, 
but they have had shelter to go under during 
showers, so have not bepn wet. The coops 
are placed on the sod, I like them better that 
way, as the hen digs it over every day and 
prevents it from becoming filthy. I grease 
the chickens with lard or butter, to which I 
add a little kerosene, a few drops of carbolic 
acid and a little sulphur. Would that hurt 
them ? M. a. 
Lawrenceville, Pa. 
I would say without hesitation that the 
whole buckwheat was the cause of the 
trouble in this case. I would never think 
of feeding it to voung chicks. It makes 
one feel bad to think how these little 
things must suffer. I would recommend 
giving a couple of drops of castor oil, 
both for its healing effect as well as its 
helping to void the sharp buckwheat hulls. 
The boiled potatoes will not do any harm 
if fed in small amounts. They should 
never exceed in bulk one-sixth of the 
amount of the mash or other food they 
are mixed with. If fed in excess they 
are physicking. Buckwheat cakes are all 
right fed not oftener than once a day. 
I do not think what barley they got with 
the hens was sufficient to do any harm. 
I should feed the chicks soft food, bran, 
middlings, and cornmeal, wetted with 
milk if convenient, for a week or so, until 
their digestive organs got healed. Angle- 
worms are excellent for chicks, the very 
best meat, because the tenderest, that can 
be fed them. Besides it is living food; 
it contains that mysterious principle that 
we call life , and the chick that can ob¬ 
tain plenty of bugs and insects,—living 
food—will thrive beyond those that can¬ 
not. GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
WANTS TO BE A MILKMAN. 
I am an office man who lias spent the last 
five years on a suburban place of about half 
an acre, where I have grown 11 kinds of fruit, 
12 kinds of vegetables, various flowers and 
shrubs and kept from 20 to 40 hens. Most 
of the work is done between five and eight 
A. M. and six and seven I’. M., which takes 
all my spare time outside of office hours, 
but it is a pleasant occupation and very in¬ 
teresting. I now wish to go farther into the 
country and devote all my time to produc¬ 
ing milk for wholesale delivery in a city re¬ 
quiring 12 per cent, standard, and wish to 
ask for advice through your columns as fol¬ 
lows : 1. Breed of cattle best suited for the 
purpose. 2. Average production of grade cat¬ 
tle of this breed. 3. Number necessary to in¬ 
sure even production to return net profit of 
$100 per month. All hay and field corn 
(to be ground into meal) sufficient for all 
requirements to be grown on farm. Corn, 30 
bushels per acre, and hay, one ton per acre. 
I can obtain 35 cents per 10-quart can in 
Summer and 45 cents in Winter. 4. How and 
what to feed. s. F. w. 
Rhode Island. 
INDIANA HOG NOTES. 
Keeping hogs free from lice is a vexing 
proposition among swine breeders. Of all 
the remedies I have tried crude petroleum is 
the most satisfactory with me. We some¬ 
times bunch the hogs up in as small inclosure 
as we can get them. We use a sprinkling 
can and sprinkle them thoroughly with the 
pure oil. This also loosens the eggs, and 
in the hogs’ rubbing they rub a great many 
off, but you must keep this process up. for 
three or four weeks by sprinkling once a 
week. I sometimes put water in small basins 
in the ground, and then pour the oil on the 
water; then let the hogs help themselves. 
They love to roll and tumble in this. They 
also drink this oil. which, I think, is benefi¬ 
cial to them in aiding nature in casting off 
any disease germs they might chance to 
pick up. I also throw the pure oil in their 
sleeping places, which kills the lice that are 
in their beds. It also is a fine thing in 
keeping down the dust. The oil keeps the 
skin nice and clean. 
I have had quite a bit of experience with 
rape as a forage plant for swine, and we 
find it most excellent. It is almost equal to 
clover in flesh and bone-forming elements, so 
where clovers are not available I recom¬ 
mend Dwarf Essex rape as a most valuable 
substitute. As to its cultivation, it can be 
sown from early Spring up to August 1 in 
my State (Indiana). After the leaves are 
eaten off they will grow out again if given 
a chance, and will continue so until hard 
freezing weather. My experience is that the 
richer the soil the better it likes it; in fact, 
here rich clay soils are better than the best 
black land. Where it is suitable I sow the 
seed among the corn at last cultivation. As 
to sorghum, I have had no experience, or tur¬ 
nips either, as forage for swine. We think 
rape is the cheapest and handiest forage for 
the hogs. We are now growing Alfalfa for 
our hogs, which we think is superior to all. 
Indiana. i. v. l. gakrett. 
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“My brother bought a motor here last 
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“Oh, yes, sir-,” answered the butler; “I 
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