1907. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
THE SENATOR FROM NEW JERSEY. 
The situation in New Jersey has 
worked out about as we predicted. There 
are SI members of tile Legislature—one 
Senator for each of 21 counties, and 00 
Assemblymen. Thus with a full attend¬ 
ance 41 votes are needed to elect a Sena¬ 
tor. The Republicans have 44 members 
in both houses, having lost control of 
the House of Representatives through 
their support of Mr. Dryden. Just after 
the election most prominent Republicans 
became discouraged, as it seemed impos¬ 
sible to make headway against the Dry¬ 
den forces. Many prominent men 
thought to make the best of a bad situa¬ 
tion, and expressed themselves in a gen¬ 
eral way as satisfied with the outlook. 
The Dryden people were shrewd enough 
to put these men oil record at once by 
printing what they said in a pamphlet 
entitled, “Some Reasons Why John F. 
Dryden Should Re Elected Senator.” We 
know that some, of these very men who 
have been tied up in this way do not want 
Mr. Dryden elected—in fact they are 
working in a quiet way against him. We 
speak of this to show readers how com¬ 
plicated the situation was when we began 
to urge farmers to make their fight 
against the oleo man. It seemed like a 
hopeless thing, but we felt that the farm¬ 
ers represented the only class in New 
Jersey that could possibly bring about 
Mr. Dryden’s defeat. They have done 
excellent work. Starting with an appar¬ 
ently hopeless task they have made a 
“deadlock” in the Legislature possible. 
Eight Republicans refused to go into 
caucus, and thus pledge themselves to 
vote for the nominee. As a result Mr. 
Dryden has been able to obtain only 36 
votes, or five short of the necessary num¬ 
ber. We are able to state that at least 
K) of his supporters do not want him for 
Senator, but vote for him to carry out 
what they consider to be party pledges. 
Others vote for him “because tlieji. have 
to.” We give the situation just as it js. We 
do not see how Mr. Dryden can be elect¬ 
ed, knowing the character of most of the 
men who stand out against him. . We 
urge our readers in New Jersey to re¬ 
double their efforts to make their mem¬ 
bers of the Legislature understand their 
wishes. They will in this way give new 
support to the brave men who are fight¬ 
ing openly and bring some of the faint 
hearts out of the shadow. Get after them 
at once cheerfully and with courage. 
THE GOAT AS “FAMILY COW.” 
I do not remember ever seeing any¬ 
thing in your paper about the goat as a 
source of milk supply for small families. 
I suppose there are many farmers of your 
paper situated as I am, who want a small 
amount of milk, not more than one or 
two quarts a day, with no convenient sup¬ 
ply available, and who are not situated 
to keep a family cow, or who do not 
wish to do so even if they could. This 
implies all the care of the extra milk, as 
the making of butter from the surplus, 
or peddling out among neighbors, with 
the attendant annoyances. Who among 
The R. N.-Y. readers can tell us about 
the goat as a milch cow, first cost, cost 
of keeping, quality of output, etc.? 
Albany, Ill. c. B. p. 
R. N.-Y.—This seems like a strange 
proposition from the West. We have had 
considerable to say about goats. Send 
to the Department of Agriculture at 
Washington for a pamphlet entitled “The 
Milch Goat.”_ 
TWO OREGON COWS. 
Seeing so many good things in The 
R. N.-Y. I thought I would add my mite. 
The farm papers have been advising for 
months that the farmer should weigh and 
test his milk, so December 15 T com¬ 
menced to weigh the milk of two of my 
cows. They are Jersey grades; one is 
three-quarters and the other seven-eighths, 
seven and eight years old; came in last 
June. They gave 436 pounds of milk in 
the 16 days that I weighed the milk, 59 
pounds of cream, 26 pounds of butter. 
The cream was skimmed the old way. I 
took samples of their milk to the cream¬ 
ery and had it tested, and they went 6.2. 
Their feed was cornstalks, green oats, 
potatoes, pumpkins, clover hay and mill 
feed. I asked them at the creamery to 
tell me how many pounds I had lost by 
not using a separator; the creameryman 
figured a moment and said I had lost 
five pounds. Now, if any of the readers 
can beat this, just send statement to Thf. 
R. N.-Y., so we all can read it. w. s. 
Clackamas, Ore. 
TREATMENT FOR HOG CHOLERA. 
I am glad to say that so far as I know 
there is little hog cholera in this State. 
Formerly, and to a certain extent it Is still 
true, those people who were raising hogs on 
garbage collected from hotels, hoarding 
houses, etc., lost heavily from food poisons. 
In which powdered soap played an import¬ 
ant part. That phase of the subject is re¬ 
ported in Bulletin No. 144 of the Cornell 
Experiment Station. The better class of 
farmers do not as a rule suffer from these 
diseases. In exceptional cases outbreaks may 
occur by the introduction of animals that 
have been infected but still in the period of 
incubation, or by chronic cases. Occasionally 
animals become infected in cars, shipping 
crates, and at fairs, in shows and affairs of 
one kind or another. The more Intelligent 
farmers remove the healthy animals immedi¬ 
ately to new pens or fields, and give them 
food that cannot be infected, and also thor¬ 
oughly disinfect the pens in which the dis¬ 
ease first appeared. As far as I know there 
is no specilic remedy. The protective inocu¬ 
lations as well as tin' Injection of serums for 
therapeutic purposes have been unsatisfac¬ 
tory. i recommend isolation, care in feeding 
and thorough disinfection. v. a. moqre. 
N. Y. Veterinary College. 
So far as I am able to learn the farmers 
In our State, as well as the farmers in other 
States, have not as yet secured any remedy 
which will cure hog cholera. Personally, I 
do not think that such a thing exists as a 
remedy which will cure without fall all 
cases of hog cholera. We have had a little 
experience on 'the College Farm with hog 
cholera, and we always used preventive meas¬ 
ures to overcome the same. I think that 
when hog cholera Is in the neighborhood It Is 
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a very wise policy for every farmer who 
owns hogs to use disinfectants very freely, 
lie should divide up his hogs into small lots, 
and feed mem on rations of a thin, sloppy 
order. Skim-milk is very good at this time, 
or a thin slop made of water and wheat shorts. 
By all means avoid the heavy feeding of corn. 
By following these precautions we have on 
two different occasions when hog cholera 
broke out in our herd managed to pull through 
with but very small loss. w. j. KENNEDY. 
Iowa State College. 
“Seems to me a man of your standing 
in the community ought to drive a better¬ 
looking horse,” remarked the Summer 
boarder. “I wouldn’t trade him for the 
fastest roadster in the hull country,” said 
Farmer Huckleberry. “That boss knows 
just what to do when he meets an autty- 
mobile. He cavorts around an’ topples 
over an’ breaks up a dollar’s wuth o’ 
buggy shaft an’ mebby fifty cents’ wuth 
o’ harness, an’ I’ll bet I’ve collected much 
as ’leven hundred dollars from the autty- 
moble owners. The old boss is all right.” 
—'Cleveland Plain Dealer. 
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Collinsville, Butler Co., Ohio, Jan. 4th, 1900. 
Wilbur Stock Food Co.. Milwaukee. Wis. 
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hog with him and he not only kept well but never refused a 
leed. I owe this to the timely use oi Wilbur's Stock Food. 
A.s to the truth of my statements. I can refer you to respon¬ 
sible citizens of my neighborhood who have seen the hog. 
Sincerely yours, CARL G.. FISHER. 
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N EARLY a quarter of a century’s actual ex¬ 
perience has proven beyond a doubt that 
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—nature’s own way of doing it. There is no argu¬ 
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k enough cost to make the food a money-making in¬ 
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FOR HOGS 
Hogs, you know,are the most 
susceptible animals to 
Alice, Mo.. Aug. 12. 1906. 
Wilbur Stock Food Co.. Milwaukee. Wis. 
Gentlemen;—I recently purchased some of your Stock Food 
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contagious disease. But you know, too, If 
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hogs healthy they can resist contagion, will 
fatten quickly and cheaply. If they get sick and 
refuse to eat you know how quickly they will die. 
Nothing will save them; medicine Is useless, To 
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that is 
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