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August 1?, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Live Stock and Dairy 
CHRONIC BLOATING. 
M.y cow seems to be bloated all the time 
about as full as the skin can hold. I turn 
her in pasture and she eats some and does 
not seem to be losing flesh; will be fresh 
about October 1. I do not milk her now, 
as we did not want to use it, but dried her 
up. The cow has been this way for three 
months or longer. She seems to have pain, 
as she often moans very low, just so she can 
be heard. I do nothing for her now, but 
when it commenced gave her salts and oil. 
The cow is about nine years old. 
Pennsylvania. w. G. G. 
Chronic bloating indicates the presence 
of some specific cause, which may be tu¬ 
berculosis, but much more often is a for¬ 
eign body, such as a needle or pin or nail, 
or a collection of such objects, including 
stones, crockery, leather, bones, hair balls 
or pieces of wood. The first step should 
be to have the cow tested with tuberculin, 
as should she prove to be tuberculous, you 
would not care to keep her as a milch cow. 
Should she fail to react it will be a difficult 
matter to cure her of her chronic indiges¬ 
tion and bloating, and indeed many such 
cases prove incurable as the foreign 
bodies cannot be dissolved or removed. 
Give her twice daily two ounces of hypo¬ 
sulphite of soda dissolved in water to 
which add half a dram of fluid extract 
cf nux vomica and administer as a drench. 
If this does not succeed then try a table¬ 
spoonful of chloride of lime once daily 
dissolved in a pint of milk and given as a 
drench. At times of excessive bloating 
give two ounces of turpentine in a pint 
of raw linseed oil. 1 his will be found a 
sovereign remedy for bloating of the ordi¬ 
nary kind, but should be followed by a 
pound dose of Epsom salts dissolved in 
three pints of warm water, to which add 
half an ounce of ground ginger root, half 
a cupful of salt and a cupful of black¬ 
strap molasses. Incidentally it might be 
mentioned that recently we have found 
out by practice that a good dose of new 
milk is a fine remedy for bloat in sheep. 
Give about three-quarters of a pint at a 
dose and repeat in half an hour or so 
if necessary. We have not tried this on 
cattle, but wonder how it would “work.” 
In conclusion we would advise the free 
use of lime water in all cases of chronic 
bloating. Make the lime water by slaking 
lime shells with water; allowing the lime 
to settle and then straining off the clear 
liquor, which may be used full strength or 
diluted one-third with water. 
A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
HORSES IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY 
A good milch cow is always in demand 
at a good fair price. She must be kept 
until she is four years old to realize her 
full value, but she pays her way after she 
comes in at two years old. A heifer han¬ 
dled right can be sold at four years old 
with her third calf at foot. You should 
have a good yearling, and her first one will 
be two years old and ready to take her 
mother’s place. I had orders to buy three 
Jersey cows recently, and found it rather 
difficult to find just the right kind. As 
to horses, I think it would be a paying 
thing here to raise good ones, as we use 
plenty of them from the West. I own 
a Percheron mare, bred and raised in 
Nebraska, that I bought for a brood 
mare as well as to work on the farm. I 
do not think it would pay anyone to keep 
a band of mares in idleness simply to get 
colts to raise and develop* into horses for 
the city market, but I do think that a man 
who needs from two to five or six horses 
to do his farm work should see to it that 
they were all good mares, and according 
to the way he is situated for raising colts 
keep them busy at it. Another way for 
inquirer on page 615 to do if he wants to 
raise more colts than he would have work 
for mares (and some would not breed 
every year) would be to own a first class 
stallion, of the breed he thinks best, and 
breed him to as many outside mares as he 
can, with an option on the colts at wean¬ 
ing time. He need keep no brood mares 
at all in this way, but make the farm 
work the training of the colts being pre¬ 
pared for market. If I was moving from 
the West to the East and had a bunch of 
good brood mares I would see to it that 
they come along, but I would not keep 
them idle; they should go at farm work. 
The man who sells a colt at weaning time 
at a fair price should make some money 
on him, and the buyer would get him for 
far less than if he kept an idle mare to 
get it. As regards breeds of horses, some 
like one and some another, and each has 
z place. There are too few good ones of 
any kind. Personally I prefer a pure¬ 
bred Percheron sire; the grades make ex¬ 
cellent general purpose animals, and I no¬ 
tice you are surer of what you breed for 
than some others, like trotters and high 
steppers. If he locates anywhere near me, 
and he has a Percheron that weighs a ton, 
I will patronize his horse, if a good one, 
but he will find most farmers in this sec¬ 
tion are afraid of a horse much above 
1,500 pounds in weight. 
EDWARD E. HORTON. 
Morris County, N. J. 
CHRONIC MAMMITIS. 
Can you tell me what is the matter with 
my cow? About every 10 days ropy or 
slimy milk comes from one quarter; each 
quarter is affected, hut only one at a time. 
She is about 10 years old, dropped her last 
calf in April, 1900, and is not with calf 
now to my knowledge. She has been this 
way since I got her in April, 1907. I do 
not know whether she was affected this way 
before. j. d. h. 
Pennsylvania. 
The trouble is chronic mammitis (gar¬ 
get) and as it has been present so long 
and cow is 10 years old it is improbable 
that she will wholly recover, at least not 
before she has had another calf. It also 
should be remembered that tuberculosis of 
the udder sometimes is the cause of such : 
changes in the milk, and a cow affected 
with this disease should not be used for 
milk production. It would be well to have 
her tested with tuberculin, which speedily 
will tell whether or not tuberculosis is 
present. If she proves to be free from 
the disease treatment should consist in 
giving her a full dose of Epsom salts, 
such as we have prescribed several times 
in this department of the paper, to be fol¬ 
lowed by tablespoonful doses of hyposul¬ 
phite of soda twice daily in water until 
the milk is normal in condition. External 
treatment should consist in rubbing the 
udder thoroughly twice a day with a lo¬ 
tion composed of one ounce of colorless 
alcohol and three ounces of wood alcohol 
if there is any hardness to be found in 
the udder. Also clean up, disinfect and 
whitewash the stable and keep milking 
utensils well scalded and aired. 
A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
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THOROUGHBREI) CHESTER WHITE PIGS 
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Breeders’ Directory 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN BULL. 
SIR ORMSBY NUDINE, Born Jan. 20, 1907. 
Sire—Topsy Ormsby Prince, whose two nearest 
dams have A. it. O. 7-day butter records averaging 
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Tliis bull is a beautiful individual, robust and vig¬ 
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THE STEVENS BROS.-HASTINGS CO., 
BrooksWie Herd, - - Liverpool, N. Y’. 
DISPERSAL SALE 
HIGH CLASS REG. HOLSTEINS 
Scarcity of help renders it impossible to retain all 
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RIVENBUKGH BROS., 
Hillliurst Farm, Oneida, N. Y. 
STAR FARM HOLSTEINS. 
Star Farm is selling more registered Holstein cattle 
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from best Importation. Address 
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BERKSHIRES. 
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Descriptive catalogue on application. 
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Reg. P,Chinas, Berkshires&C. Whites 
8 wks. and older, mated not akin. 
Service Boars, have stock returned, 
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LARGE BERKSHIRES 
A fine bunch of Sows coming a year 
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KALORAMAFARM BERKSHIRES 
We now offer a splendid lot of Young Pigs, sired 
by imported boars of the highest type and out of a 
grand lot of mature sows, both imported and 
American bred. 
They are the best lot ever raised at Kalorama 
Farm Also a few sows bred for July farrow. 
CALVIN J. HUSON, Penn Yan, New York. 
