1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
663 
A THIN COW. 
We have a high-grade registered Jersey 
that is poor and gives a poorer quality of 
milk than she used to. She is about eight 
years old. We bought her lately; she runs 
on pasture with other perfectly gentle .Jer¬ 
seys. IIow would you put some flesh on her 
and improve her milk? I do not think she 
is like the A. J. C. C. cows, and do not 
want her to be. a. m. 
It is a sad mistake to turn a new 
bought cow among your “perfectly 
gentle” and doubtless much-liked Jerseys, 
for what evidence is there that she is 
not afflicted with tuberculosis, which is 
surely transmitted by an affected animal 
to those that are healthy? It is quite 
likely that the cow in question is tuber¬ 
culous, and until she is proved free from 
that disease she should be kept away 
from the home cattle. This should be 
the rule in the management of stock. 
Always quarantine the new-bought beast 
until it is proved free from tuberculosis, 
contagious abortion, mange or other 
“catching” disease. After isolating the 
thriftless Jersey grade have her tested 
with tuberculin. This will take but two 
days, and will settle the matter with cer¬ 
tainty, and so prevent contagion from 
spreading, but should she prove to be 
tuberculous we would advise testing the 
cows with which she has gone at pasture, 
lest she may have conveyed the disease 
to them. If she proves to be free from 
the disease, and we trust this may be the 
case, then we would put her in a roomy, 
well-bedded, well ventilated box stall dur¬ 
ing the day and turn her on good grass 
pasture at night. In addition to mixed 
hay, cut green stuff and silage, feed her 
generously upon concentrates such as 
hominy, gluten meal, bran, cornmeal and 
flaxseed meal. Commence lightly and 
gradually; increase the amount of food 
fed until she may take at least one pound 
of concentrate per hundred pounds of 
live weight daily. Give at least one ounce 
of salt daily, but as we are not sure that 
she is sick we shall not prescribe medi¬ 
cine, and the generous feeding may bring 
her into good condition and to secretion 
of her normal quantity of milk. As an 
additional matter of care it would pay 
thoroughly to groom her once daily. 
A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
LIVE STOCK INSURANCE. 
I have seen in a recent issue of The 
R. N.-Y. a question about insurance for 
live stock. One insurance company was 
mentioned, and that I think is too high- 
priced for the average farmer. It seems 
to me there is a way farmers could pro¬ 
tect their live stock from accidental losses. 
Could not the farmers in a section form 
a benefit association among themselves 
and pay to the loser of a head of cattle 
such percentage as would be needed to 
replace the lost head of stock? For in¬ 
stance there might be 50 farmers; each 
owned two cows, the average value of the 
cows $40 each; that would cost each 
farmer 80 cents to replace a lost cow, or 
one per cent of the value of the cow lost. 
Some cows may be worth more and some 
less and perhaps the man with higher 
priced cows would want more protection. 
I think that could be arranged satisfac¬ 
torily by charging a certain percentage on 
the value of the stock. For instance, we 
say 100 cows; 10 of them are worth $30 
each; at l l / 2 per cent premium every time 
a head of cattle is lost would be 45 cents 
a head or $4.50 for the 10; 70 of them 
$40, at l x /2 per cent, 60 cents or $42.20; 
10 of them $50 each, at \ l / 2 per cent, 75 
cents or $7.50; 10 of them $60 each, at 
\ x / 2 per cent, 90 cents or $9; total, $63.20. 
These figures would pay for the highest 
priced cow lost, but we suppose it was a 
$30 cow; there would be $33 left, enough 
to pay for another $30 cow, or if it was 
a $50 cow, collect full percentage and 
save the remainder until there is enough 
to pay for another cow without collecting. 
In my opinion the premiums ought to be 
taken in advance so the loser of the stock 
does not have to wait a month or two. 
Pay one man to do the business, giving 
notice and collecting; could have a com¬ 
mittee to investigate and authorize the 
cashier to pay. Any member that did not 
oay his percentage when notified in a cer¬ 
tain time should be marked off the books, 
and only put on again upon condition that 
his stock is in good health and pay a fine, 
exceeding his percentage. The more stock 
the lower the percentage would be, but, 
of course, pay time may come around 
oftener. In this section horses are mostly 
figured on and now and then there is one 
lost. If it is a poor man’s (supposed to 
be poor), a collection is taken up, but the 
really poor man is as a rule forgotten. 
Now a collection is humiliating to rich 
or poor, and by being a member of some 
such association the loser would only re¬ 
ceive his just dues, dues that he paid for. 
Should any man lose a head of stock 
and get nothing, it would be really his 
own fault, by not being a member of the 
association. This is my idea, and of 
course only a rough draft; but farmers 
could work it out to suit their desire and 
conditions, but something of that kind 
ought to be among the farmers to protect 
them from accidental losses. What does 
The R. N.-Y. or any farmer think about 
it? F. G. K. 
Long Island. 
SILO AND HENHOUSE CONSTRUC¬ 
TION. 
1. If a »ilo is built of wood, what kind of 
lumber do you recommend? 2. If of con¬ 
crete, which I understand you prefer, how 
would you build it? 3. What kind of floor 
do you prefer for a chicken house? Some 
telf me cement is too cold. 4. Do you favor 
the cloth front? g. a. n. 
1. If the silo is to be of staves, much 
better lumber will be required than if it 
is constructed in some other manner. I 
am very sure a cheap stave silo will be a 
poor investment. Cypress is much in use 
for this purpose, and makes a fine silo, 
but it is expensive. Personally, I would 
use good clear yellow pine, and cover 
with Carbolineum Avenarius, a patent 
wood preservative advertised in this 
paper. If the silo is to be constructed 
of boards, with a frame, I would as soon 
use good seasoned hemlock and cover as 
above. 
2. I do prefer concrete, if the lumber 
for the farms can be utilized for an¬ 
other purpose, so that it will not be all 
chargeable to the silo. The most prac¬ 
tical form, all things considered, is square, 
with a foot cut off each corner. I would 
use thq, lime concrete referred to on page 
551. 
3. There is no floor so good, and cheap 
in a chickenhouse, or any farm building 
that needs one, as one of cement. If it 
is kept covered with litter, as any hen¬ 
house floor should, there will be no 
trouble from cold. While adding slightly 
to the cost, for any floor where animals 
are to stand, if a layer of heavy tar paper 
is put between the two courses of cement, 
it will make the floor both dry and warm. 
To make a good job, the lower layer of 
ground and the tar paper from the upper 
layer of cement should be covered with 
tar paint. This costs very little more and 
makes the whole mass adhere. I have put 
in a cow stable floor that way this Sum¬ 
mer, and it is excellent. 
4. Most emphatically I do favor the 
cloth front for a henhouse, as being econ¬ 
omical, easily constructed and above all 
affording perfect ventilation, and at all 
times a dry house, a most necessary con¬ 
dition if the fowls are to thrive. The 
proof of it all is that they do thrive and 
lay eggs. So pleased am I with them 
that I propose putting more cloth win¬ 
dows in a cow stable this Fall. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
Easterner : “A London policeman 
arrests on an average no more than nine 
persons in a year. A Parisian arrests 
twenty-eight.” Westerner: “Pshaw! That’s 
nothing to the number a Chicago police¬ 
man arrests in a year.” “Of course. But 
you must remember that comparatively 
few Chicago people go to London and 
Paris in a year!”—Yonkers Statesman. 
Clean Skimming 
Means Good Living 
The hog trough is no place to put 
butter. 
Wide awake farmers want the 
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est. It means more profit—better 
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different. 
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Prof. J. L. Thomas, instructor in 
dairying at the agricultural college of 
one of tne greatest states in the Union, 
says: "I have just completed a test of 
your separator. The skimming is the 
closest I have ever seen —lust a trace 
of fat. I believe the loss to be no great- 
er than one thousandth of one per 
cent.” 
That is one reason why you should 
insist upon having the Tubular. Tub¬ 
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, othe» separators, and every difference 
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RUTLAND. VT. 
