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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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UMBILICAL HERNIA, 
Would the treatment for umbilical hernia 
in colt (blistering or use of clamps) given 
in a former number of The R. N.-Y., be cor¬ 
rect for a colt five or six months old? I 
have come into possession of a colt in this 
condition, the protruding parts being about 
the size of a hen’s egg, and would like some 
reliable advice. s. m. n. 
Blistering would not be so likely to 
prove effective in a colt of six months as 
in one of a few weeks old. The rupture 
may, however, be successfully treated by 
application of wooden clamps, such as we 
have suggested in previous answers. An¬ 
other plan is to place the colt on its back, 
return the bowel by manipulating with 
the fingers, then pull up the slack skin 
and sac of hernia and pass two new 
clean steel skewers through the skin and 
sac to form an x with the breech as g. 
center. A fine cord then should be wound 
tightly around the skewers next to skin 
so as to choke off circulation from the 
included tissues, which will slough away 
in about 20 days. The greatest possible 
care must be taken not to pierce or in¬ 
clude the bowel, and the skewers must be 
sterilized to free them of germs. After 
the operation a piece of leather or canvas 
should be stuck over the part to keep the 
colt from biting at the clamps or skewers. 
A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
A FEEDING QUESTION. 
With butter fat at 29 cents per pound 
and cream of 18 per cent test, would it pay 
to buy grain to feed cows now while at 
pasture with hominy at $27 per ton, bran 
at $20, eornmeal at $27, and cheap mixed 
feeds at $25? What is the best grain feed 
to be fed with cows at pasture? 
I believe it will pay to feed grain unless 
there is more than the usual abundance of 
good pasture and soiling crops The above 
price probably represents about $1.40 per :j 
hundred for milk of usual richness, and 
that is what we are getting. Our feeds 
cost about as those mentioned. While the 
immediate return may or may not be 
equal to the expense incurred, the later 
returns from the cow will be materially 
improved by present feeding. This refers 
to cows that are not already too nearly 
dry. The best grain to be fed in any 
particular instance would depend some¬ 
what upon other feeds, and their selection 
would also depend upon the price. With 
us dry distillers’ grains seem to be about 
as cheap as anything, considering their 
content. I like to use wheat bran, but be¬ 
lieve that its present price is pretty high. 
We are feeding it to some extent, how¬ 
ever. Cornmeal is usually thought tO' be 
best with fresh pasture. We are feeding 
it to only one cow now, and that one 
we expect to milk for a time and then 
beef her. At present prices, with dry 
pasture, I would hardly advise cornmeal. 
H. H. L. 
Will it pay to get up the morning at 
five o’clock or half-past eight? It would 
be just as easy to answer this question as 
the one submitted. There are a dozen 
questions that would have to be an¬ 
swered before one could say, even with 
half-way intelligence. I should judge by 
the question that the cows had not been 
fed up to the present time. If that is the 
case, you might as well turn the grain 
into a knot hole as to turn it into those 
cows expecting profitable returns, no mat¬ 
ter how much the price of butter fat 
may be. If the cows are of the 300 or 
400 pound butter sort, it not only pays to 
feed, Lut you cannot afford not to feed. 
And again, the same kind of cows would 
respond liberally or not, as they have 
been educated to take feed. Questions of 
this sort, and they come from every side, 
while they bear upon only one side of 
the dairy question, just show that most 
of us haven’t as yet the true dairy in¬ 
stinct, and fail to grasp the science of 
dairying. How does anyone expect to 
raise up a dairy herd, and get milk, and 
not feed them, no matter whether butter 
fat is worth 29 or 99 cents a pound? 
My own ration, at present, is 100 pounds 
cotton-seed meal, 100 pounds cornmeal, 
and 160 pounds dry distillers’ grains. I 
consider that a good ration for my own 
case. It might not fit another. 
_H. E. COOK. 
Paper Milk Bottles. 
II. A. O., Rockville, Coniu —Can you give 
me any Information about paper milk bot¬ 
tles? I read an account of them, I think 
in 'the Scientific American, which stated 
that the bottles were made in the form of a 
tube and baked in paraffin. I have never seen 
them advertised and would like to ascertain 
where they are made. 
Ans. —Two years ago these paper 
bottles were reported, but we have never 
been able to find them in practical use, 
any more than the paper strawberry boxes 
reported from time to time. If any reader 
can tell about these paper bottles we would 
like to hear from him. 
Fine Belgian Stallion. —The cut shows 
the Belgian stallion Rival 32742, owned by 
Col. Geo. W. Crawford, Newark, O. Rival is 
a dark chestnut in color, stands 16.3 hands 
high and weighs 2,000 pounds. He is four 
years old. On October 17 Col. Crawford 
will have an auction sale of imported Bel¬ 
gians and Percherons, which will be an event 
worthy of note for all interested in draft 
horses. 
Killing Poison Ivy. —I saw in a recent 
issue of your paper an item on poison ivy, 
and having had a somewhat similar experience 
I became interested in the same. We have 
a place about the size of a small room just 
above the kitchen garden where the ivy has 
spread so fast for the past three years or 
more that the ground was well carpeted with 
it, and it was getting rooted on the border of 
the plowed land. I did not dare to work 
where it was and could not find anything 
powerful enough to kill it, until a short time 
since I had occasion to use some Red Seal lye 
and found just a speck of it would burn my 
band if it came in contact with it, so I re¬ 
solved to use it freely on the ivy and watch 
the result. It soon burned the top of it, but 
I do not know yet whether it has killed the 
roots or not. I open a can with a can opener 
and empty it into a shallow tin wash basin ; 
then go as near as I dare to and throw it on 
the ivy. It soon begins a destructive work, 
but does more when followed by rain. At one 
time I put the lye in a pail and poured some 
boilling water over it, and threw it over the 
ivy, but do not know that it did any better, 
and it is more work. h. a. w. 
Boylston, Mass. 
Saves Hours 
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matter even another month. Buy it NOW, and it will 
have more than half paid for itself by Spring. 
Butter prices at present are unusually high, and it is 
being predicted that first-class butter will retail at 50 cents 
per pound in the large cities this coming Winter. With 
butter values so high, can you afford to waste from one- 
third to one-half your butter fat, as you are surely doing 
without a separator ? A separator will save the very last 
bit of butter fat, double your dairy profits, and cut your 
work in half. 
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PUBLIC SALE 
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SYRACUSE, N. Y., October 16th, 1907. 
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the sale and look over the best breed of Dairy Cows 
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THE LAFAYETTE STOCK FARM, 
LAFAYETTE. INDIANA. 
The Largest Importers and Breeders of German Coach. 
Pereheron and Belgian Stallions in America. Have imported 
in the last eighteen weeks over 500 head of stallions and a 
large number of mares of the three breeds. Every horse fully 
guaranteed. Won more prizes in 1907 at the leading state 
tairs and stock shows than all other importers combined. 
Our horses are all from three to five years of age and we 
deliver all horses that we sell to the buyer. Write us for full 
particulars and mention The Bubal New-Vokkek. 
J. CROUCH G? SON, La Fayette, Indiana, U. S. A. 
136 BELGIAN, PERGHERON and GERMAN COACH 
Stallions and Mares have just arrived at the 
SHARON VALLEY STOCK FARM, Newark, Ohio. 
80 bead of mares, Belgians and Percherons, running in age from two 
to four years old, many of t^em in foal—will be sold at the Sharon 
Valley Stock Farm by Public Auction on Thursday, October 17, 1907 
Sale to commence at 10 o’clock sharp. The farm is iq miles west of 
the court house. Newark, O., is situated 182k> miles west of Pittsburg 
Pa., on B. & O. and Pan Pandle R. R.; 33 miles east of Columbus, 0 
Passengers can arrive at Newark any hour in the day. Write for 
Catalogue. Address 
COL. G. W. 
Citizens Phone 266. 
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CRAWFORD, Prop. 
Bell Phone 651 W. 
