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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
785 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Colt Cut By Barb Wire. 
I have a colt two years old the past 
Spring. Last January she was cut very 
badly by a barb wire fence, in her left 
hock. The sore has healed but there is a 
very hard swelling on each side of the 
hock about 2V_> inches in diameter. 1 have 
been blistering it but without much success, 
l’lease give me a remedy if there is any. 
Kentucky. a. e. l. 
About all that you can do at the pres¬ 
ent time is to mix a little powdered char¬ 
coal atid vaseline and use it once a day, 
and let Nature try to assist you. 
Linseed Oil for Horses. 
Will an ounce of raw linseed oil three 
times a day he good for a horse with his 
grain? Will it help to get him ready for 
Spring work? 
When horses are fed on straw, Blue 
grass hay or poor hay a little raw oil is 
good, but three ounces a day is too much, 
as it removes the food before it is prop¬ 
erly digested. A little oil once or twice 
lubricates the interior of the intestines 
and prevents straw colic many times. A 
teaspoonful of oil meal once a day is 
much better. It should be remembered 
that boiled oil should never be given to 
any animal. M. d. williams, d. v. s. 
THE SUPPLY OF DAIRY COWS. 
Nearly all the dairy cows are bred in 
this section; it is safe to say seven-eighths 
of them. The farmers who own Jersey 
dairies buy their bulls from Gut of the 
State: they have them from Massachu¬ 
setts, New York and Canada. There are 
a few herds of Ayrshires, and they get 
their bulls from out of the State. There 
are a few registered Durham bulls, and 
also some registered Holstein dairies. I 
think the farmers have improved their 
dairies in this section 25 per cent in the 
last three years by buying some registered 
stock, I can buy cows from four to six 
years old cheaper than I can raise them. 
I am short of pasture land, and fat calves 
are always in good'demand. Nearly all 
the farmers save their best heifer calves. 
The farmers are striving to get a large 
flow of milk and a high test. This can 
only be done by paying strict attention 
to the dairy, sorting out the .boarders 
and letting them go. There arc some 
dairies in this town that only pay $35 per 
head, while there are others that pay as 
high as $60 for milk taken to the cream¬ 
eries. I think most of the farmers are 
keeping their best cows instead of selling 
them to go to market. The dairy wants 
goed attention and plenty of it; good 
warm barns, plenty of good ventilation. 
Take good care of your calves, be careful 
about selecting a good bull, and do not 
overstock the pastures, and there is 
money in the dairy business. 
Vermont. l. c. avf.ry. 
MILK NOTES FROM SOUTHERN 
NEW YORK. 
Milk-shipping farmers are feeling quite 
encouraged this Fall by the schedule of 
prices that has recently been made public 
by the Bordens. This price is about 
seven cents a hundred better, on an aver¬ 
age, for six months beginning October 1, 
than that of a year before. It is the best 
price that has been made for many years, 
the average being about $1.58 per hun¬ 
dred in the outer zones, and five cents 
better in the inner. The demand for cows 
is correspondingly sharp, and prices are 
ruling much higher. I have little data on 
which to base an estimate, but it seems 
probable that cows are selling at $10 
apiece more than they sold for a year ago. 
The advance may in part be due to bet¬ 
ter cows being offered than formerly, but 
the chief reason is the advance in the 
price of milk. The real cause for the ad¬ 
vanced price is, of course, a shortage of 
milk, and from this end of tTie line it is 
quite apparent that the shortage is due to 
greater consumption of milk in the city. 
1 here is certainly more Winter milk pro¬ 
duced here than formerly, and less is be¬ 
ing made into butter. There seem to be 
only two or three months in the whole 
year when milk is slow of sale. As soon 
as July is over, and even before that, the 
shortage becomes apparent. May and 
June are the months of greatest produc¬ 
tion, and curiously enough, there is only 
one month before the period of lowest 
production, August and September. 
As a whole this has been a remarkable 
season. During the greater part of it 
there, have been frequent showers, though 
the amount of rainfall has not been heavy. 
Almost all crops have grown well, and 
late Fall feed has a good start. This- is 
true not only in southern and central New 
York, but in most parts of New England 
as well, according to reports given while 
on a brief trip through that region. There 
are localities where different conditions 
have prevailed, but that stated above is 
the usual. I cannot discover any short¬ 
age in milk production unless there may 
be a little due to lack of good help to 
care for the cows. Fresh feeds are good 
and barns are well stored with roughage 
for the Winter. The prospect is that 
grain feeds will be rather high, though 
an enormous crop of corn and a good 
one of wheat would seem to supply the 
country very well. h. h. lyon. 
T’se or Milking Tube. —The question is 
asked whether any one “ever knew a cow to 
he hurt by a milking tube.” It had better 
been questioned. “Did anyone ever know a 
milking tube to be used without hurting the 
cow?” It can only be used without injury 
by using the greatest care in having it 
aseptic and the teat aseptic by thoroughly 
boiling the tube (before using) and disin¬ 
fecting the teat. w. H. judge. 
Pennsylvania. 
Milk Prospects. —There is hardly as 
much milk here as a year ago. The Bordens 
have lost some milk in this section on ac¬ 
count of tilling silos. The farmers are not 
feeding much as yet; the pastures are look¬ 
ing fine. The price of milk lias raised 10 
cents per hundred on two months and five 
cents per hundred on four. The price of 
cows is very high as compared with former 
years, ranging anywhere from $50 to $60 per 
head. The outlook for farmers is very good 
compared with former years. Feed is high 
and farmers are not feeding very much in 
consequence of it. although some farmers 
have been feeding nearly all Summer. 
Brisbin, N. Y. M. c. M. 
Aii.ixg Chicks. —Your reader's flock of 
chickens, page 705, must be suffering from 
the roup. Those with swollen nostrils and 
eyes are undoubtedly beyond recovery, and 
the sooner disposed of the better. For the 
remainder of the flock let me advise her to 
put carbolic acid in their drinking water, 
which, of course, should be perfectly fresn, 
using five drops of acid to two quarts of 
water, or eight drops if they seem much 
stopped up. If the water runs off from the 
drinking vessel put a few drops there. Have 
the water in the trough deep enough for 
them to dip the head under which they will 
often do. I tried this remedy last Fall with 
splendid results. Mils', w. f. m. 
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THE “DISC” SYSTEM OF 
CREAM SEPARATION 
Judging outward appearances alone, it might be reasonably assumed 
that one cream separator is as good as another. However, as the outside of 
the machine does not do the separating, we must look deeper for the real 
merits of the separator. Upon the construction of the gearing depends 
durability and operating ease which, of course, should be carefully ex¬ 
amined, but the really important feature is the construction of the bowl. 
This is what does the work be it good or bad. Exhaustive tests have 
proven that the best results can only be obtained 
when the separator bowl contains a series of 
conical shaped, imperforated discs, dividing- the 
milk into strata or thin layers. Bowls which do 
not contain discs of this particular kind do fairly 
good work with warm milk and by running a thin 
cream, but where a heavy cream is desired, or cold 
or thick milk is to be separated, as frequently 
happens in farm use, these separators lose a big 
percentage of the butter fat and consequently the 
profits. The original “disc” system as to day used 
exclusively in building the DE LAVAL cream 
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as the guards are to the sickle bar of a mowing 
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efficiency. That is why over 98 % of the world’s creameries to-day use nothing 
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