1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
567 
BARRELS OF MILK FROM THIS 
COW. 
The record of my Holstein cow Nep- 
hele Mercedes, No. 64,680, may be of in¬ 
terest. She was dropped May 28, 1902, a 
large vigorous cow, color more white 
than black. She made the following rec¬ 
ord during these months and came fresh 
Nov. 28, 1905: 972 pounds in 25 days in 
November at $1.35 per can, $15.55 ; De¬ 
cember, 1,2S5 pounds at $1.45 per can, 
$21.91; January, 1,400 pounds at $1.45 per 
can, $23.88; February, 1,126 pounds at 
$1.35 per can, $17.88; March, 1,207 pounds 
at $1.25 per can, $17.75; April, 1,203 
pounds at $1.25 per can, $17.69 ; May, 
1,180 pounds at $1.05 per can, $14.57; 
June, 1,151 pounds at 95 cents per can, 
$12.86 —total pounds milk, 9,524, $141.99. 
In addition to what this cow has done 
I want to say a little about the care and 
the feed, as any good dairyman well 
knows the care and the feed has a great 
deal to do with their milk producing. 
Her feed ration didn’t exceed any day 
over twelve pounds of the following: 
Gluten and bran, mixed, three pounds 
gluten and three pounds bran, at each 
feeding, twice every day. She was treat¬ 
ed the same as the rest of my cows and 
would have given half more if forced and 
is now giving 35 pounds of milk daily 
on short pasture. This makes one think 
that the Holstein Friesian cow is the 
cow for the dairyman, as she is a large 
producer and is rugged, of good size and 
shape. I have 14 head of cattle, six pure¬ 
bred and eight grades. The Holsteins 
far excel the Jerseys in both butter and 
milk. A. L. M. 
New York._ 
BLOATING; WORMS. 
1. When I first began to turn our cows 
out we turned them in a small lot a half 
day at a time, then turned them into the 
big pasture. After about three days I had 
a young cow come up to the bam bloated 
badly ; could get nothing to pass her bowels, 
so I tapped her and she soon seemed easier, 
began chewing her cud. After a time the 
bowels moved freely and after baiting her 
for three or four days turned her back in tho 
big pasture. In about a week she was taken 
In the same way. I did not tap her until it 
became difficult for her to breathe and she 
got apparently better. I baited her around a 
week, turned her back in the lot and in three 
days she was taken again, and I had to tap 
her. I began giving her a quart of oil meal 
and a peck of little potatoes; this morning 
she is bloating again. Since she was taken 
I have given her a quart of raw oil, five 
pounds of salts and nearly a pound of ginger, 
and boneset tea. When she Is not bloated 
and the bowels move, she seems hearty and 
well, and gives her usual amount of milk. 
Since the second time she was taken I have 
kept here in a lot where feed is short. Can 
you tell me what to do? 2. I also have-a 
young horse that has pin worms. Is there 
anything about worms or the teeth that would 
cause him to cough? c. b. 
Berkshire, N. Y. 
1. The cow in question suffers from 
acute indigestion and will have to be kept 
out of rank pasture until she is entirely 
well. Where there is a tendency to bloat¬ 
ing upon rich pasture always feed dry 
hay before the cows are turned in and 
allow free access to a mixture of equal 
parts slaked lime and salt. The adminis¬ 
tration of salts and oil was correct treat¬ 
ment to clear irritants out of the stom¬ 
achs and bowels, but the first medicine 
given in a case of bloating should be two 
ounces of turpentine in a pint of raw lin¬ 
seed oil. This, as a rule, will reduce the 
distension, but if not it may be repeated 
in half an hour, or give one ounce of aro¬ 
matic spirits of ammonia, four ounces of 
hyposulphite of soda and a dram of fluid 
extract of nux vomica in a quart of flax¬ 
seed tea. Instead of tapping first try ef¬ 
fects of putting a stick bitwise in the 
mouth and holding it in place by tying a 
string from each end of the gag to the 
horn. Also walk the cow about after in¬ 
jecting into rectum a couple of quarts of 
warm water containing two ounces of gly¬ 
cerine. Repeat the injection every three 
hours. Where it is necessary to tap a 
cow for bloat medicine may be injected 
into the paunch through the cannula, a 
suitable mixture being a tablespoonful of 
chloride of lime in a quart of water or 
four ounces of hyposulphite of soda in a 
like amount of water. The physic should 
follow the other medicines as soon as 
the bloating subsides. In a chronic case 
such as the one in question give two 
ounces of hyposulphite of soda and a dram 
of fluid extract of nux vomica twice daily. 
Do not feed potatoes; no food is much 
more unsuitable in this trouble. 2. 
Cough is a symptom of indigestion in some 
horses and especially in colts. It is a 
prominent symptom of heaves. Worms 
may and often do set up the indigestion 
characterized by cough. As the young 
horse is cutting a number of large teeth 
the irritation due to this cause may ex¬ 
plain the cough. For the cough give half 
to one ounce of glyco-heroin three times 
daily. For pin worms give an ounce of 
turpentine in a half pint of raw linseed 
oil and repeat in 10 days. In feed night 
and morning mix a tablespoonful of a 
mixture of equal parts powdered wood 
charcoal, ground gentian and ginger roots 
and one-half part dried sulphate of iron. 
Continue the powder for a week; then 
skip 10 days and repeat. Avoid feeding 
hay from low, wet land and keep colt from 
pasturing such land. 
A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
A SANITARY COW BARN. 
I should like your opinion on the building 
of m.v cow barn, 52x36 feet. My mason says 
It would be better to lay the wall all the 
way around, dry, and then point it inside and 
out, than to build it half wall and half 
boards. What I am after is’the most sanitary 
stable I can get, for I have been having much 
bad luck with my cattle. j. c. s. 
No matter what the mason might say to 
me I should not lay up a dry wall and 
point it after it was up if I wanted a good 
job. If it was a low wall, and one upon 
which there would be little strain and 
one did not care for permanency, all 
might go well, but if you are building a 
good barn don’t make any mistake and 
put a cheap foundation under it. Whether 
you want a half wall or a full basement 
wall is a matter that you alone can de¬ 
cide. You will, no doubt, build a half 
wall cheaper than a full wall, but if you 
have plenty of flat stone at hand the ex¬ 
pense might not be so very much more. 
It is an impossibility to give accurate 
figures of cost in work of this sort be¬ 
cause one does not know the expense of 
material delivered on the spot. You can 
usually figure the expense of laying the 
foundation wall at 50 cents a perch. Now 
the stone may cost you nothing but the 
hauling of them, or, they may cost you 
75 cents a perch according to the loca¬ 
tion of the material. In regard to the 
healthful stable, neither a full wall, a 
half wall, a dry wall, or any other sort 
of a wall, will materially govern in the 
case. The reason stables are not health¬ 
ful is primarily due to improper ventila¬ 
tion. If you will look after the ventila¬ 
tion, either the King system or the cloth 
curtains (both systems have been repeat¬ 
edly described in these columns), you will 
have a stable, all other things being 
equal and right, that will be a safe place 
for cattle. The wall can be laid up with 
an air chamber if the mason understands 
his business, leaving air spaces in the cen¬ 
ter, made so by not filling the centers full 
of mortar. If he takes pains and breaks 
joints with good-sized flat stone this wall 
will stand. Another way, and just as sat¬ 
isfactory to get an air chamber, will be to 
lay up a solid wall, furrow on the inside 
and lath and plaster. If you lay a half 
wall it would be so short a distance above 
ground that you may not need to take this 
precaution of insulation. The board wall 
above the stone wall should be solid in¬ 
side and outside of the studs and filled 
in with planer shavings. The ceiling 
overhead should also be perfectly tight to 
prevent warm air and moisture escaping 
into the loft of the building. Put in a 
eement floor and ventilation, and I guar¬ 
antee this stable to be healthful if you 
will use ordinary care in keeping it clean. 
H. E. COOK. 
TROUBLE WITH COW. 
Early in January one of my cows calved. 
Three days later the milk came hard from 
one section of her udder, also showed slight 
inflammation. Called veterinary and upon 
close examination he found a small growth 
like a piece of skin in the opening of the 
teat, which he promptly cut out, after which 
the section showed considerable inflammation 
for a week or 10 days, and eventually became 
dry. On the 20th of May another section on 
the opposite side of the udder became af¬ 
fected in the same way, went through the 
same course and is now dry, the small growth 
showing the same as in the first instance. 
This cow is four years old, a heavy, rich 
milker, and was not sick a day in her life, 
and seems to be at the present time in per¬ 
fect health, the trouble being apparently en¬ 
tirely local. She is now giving about 10 
quarts from the two well sections. The 
veterinary states he never saw a case like it, 
has no idea of the cause of it, does not know 
whether she will come right when she again 
comes fresh, and seems to be absolutely “at 
sea,’’ and non-committal. Can you help me 
out in this matter, as she is too good a cow 
to fatten if there is any chance of her again 
coming right? I have other cows fed in the 
same way and milked by the same man, who 
is a quick, strong, clean milker. Could the 
milker have caused the trouble by using too 
much pressure, and if so, why would he not 
cause it in the others he milks? s. s. 
New York. 
I do not believe that the milker is in any 
way to blame for the condition described 
nor that he will injure any of the cows 
because of his strong milking. The gar¬ 
get alluded to was due to a growth of 
warty character or possibly to infection of 
the teat. In the former case it is an easy 
matter to infect the udder by cutting out 
the small growth referred to unless the 
greatest possible care is taken to prevent 
infection by use of antiseptics and the 
cleanest of instruments. It also may be 
stated that there is a form of contagious 
mammitis which starts in each case by 
the appearance of a small sore at the end 
of the teat and from this gradually the 
entire quarter becomes affected, especially 
so if a milking tube is used, as this carries 
the infective germs into the udder. It 
possibly was a mistake to cut out the 
growths; it would perhaps have been suffi¬ 
cient to slit through them by use of a teat 
bistoury, but ordinarily the veterinarian 
if experienced in cow practice should be 
able to perform the excision operation 
without having infection follow. We 
fear that the function of the two affected 
quarters has been lost and that the' udder 
will give more trouble when the cow next 
freshens, but as she is such a good animal 
and had so little systemic disturbance dur¬ 
ing the trouble already experienced it 
might be well to give her another trial. 
A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
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