1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
4o7 
A FAILURE IN BUTTER. 
What is the matter with a cow I have? 
She is a purebred Jersey, three years old in 
July. She came fresh in February, and is 
fed on cut cornstalks, and given what she 
will eat up clean, besides having roots, bran 
and oatmeal. The milk has no cream on it. 
Last Spring and Summer we made from 10 
to 12 pounds of butter per week, and now 
the butter comes hard and does not seem 
to gather, and is “salvey.” We make hardly 
2% pounds per week. t. c. k. 
Hartlot, N. Y. 
This is one of those most difficult ques¬ 
tions to answer, for the feed seem? to be 
all right. The only change I can suggest 
that might help is to give her a couple 
of pounds daily of linseed meal. If that 
should seem too much in addition to 
what she already has, leave out all or 
part of the bran. I would give her a 
pound of Epsom salts as a physic. It 
may be you have kept her closely con- 
lined ; in that case let her have more ex¬ 
ercise. You do not say what the roots 
are. If potatoes they may be the cause. 
The starch in them is very indigestible in 
a razu state, and sometimes will produce 
a condition of things similar to what you 
mention. If none of the above helps you, 
it may be when the cow gets in grass 
the trouble will disappear. Either there 
is something wrong with her feed or she 
is in an abnormal condition. I have 
known cases, such as you speak of, where 
for no apparent cause a cow’s milk would 
not churn butter, and the only remedy 
was to sell the cow to a milkmqn. 
E. VAN ALSTYNE. 
CARE OF YOUNG BOAR. 
I have just bought a Berkshire boar, 
seven months old, weight about 100 pounds. 
He is not fat, but looks line and thrifty. 
What and how much shall I feed him for 
best development, without fattening? I can 
give but little milk, no roots now but pota¬ 
toes; have clover leaves and heads from 
mow, plenty of green clover coming and 
some rye. I have cracked wheat, ground 
rye, bran, shorts and will have corn later. 
Will have sugar beets, carrots, parsnips and 
turnips, as soon as we can grow them. 
Ought boar to be “snouted?” IIow much of 
a run should he have? w. a. i. 
Ohio. 
The young boar has certainly come to 
a farm of peace and plenty. With all 
these good things that a thrifty pig de¬ 
lights in, and thrives on, it can only be 
the bad judgment of the owner that will 
wreck his future growth and usefulness. 
The advice I can give can only be a help, 
the owner must do the feeding, and if he 
has no experience, “get busy” gathering 
it up. A much valued animal like this, in 
the hands of a novice, is apt to be treated 
too well, and be a failure on that account. 
But grass in abundance will cover up a 
tion, but rather used as condiments. If 
you want to bother with cooking pota¬ 
toes, a few might be mixed with his hay 
and shorts ration, but they will hardly 
pay for the trouble in developing a boar. 
In his work at feeding the feeder must 
be guided by the appetite and appearance 
of the animal. 
Years and years ago I used to snout 
pigs and hogs, or help hold them for 
some one else to do it. Rings relieve us 
of that barbarous and unpleasant work 
mainly now. Then the hog had cause to 
make a noise, now it is mainly a matter 
of habit as the ringing does not hurt long. 
But don’t ring unless necessary to pre¬ 
vent rooting, and as soon as the ground 
settles it will not be required. Don’t ring 
the boar unless it must be done. The 
smaller the number of sows bred to him 
this Spring the better for his future use¬ 
fulness, not more than six or eight this 
Spring and an equal number next Fall, at 
not too short intervals. 
Ross Co., Ohio. joiin m. jamison. 
THE USEFUL RICH. 
Cultivating Foxes. —Mr. C. J. Klnsolv- 
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Long Island about foxes: 
“My family and many of our neighbors 
have been very heavy losers of poultry 
through the depredations of foxes, and, al¬ 
though we have done much in attempting 
to rid ourselves of these animals, it seems 
to be the old story of the struggle of the 
poor against the rich, for our woods are 
restocked for each hunting season, and the 
foxes seem to become constantly more nu¬ 
merous. We have in our possession a wooden 
box with two runways, which we recently 
dug out of the earth in th e woods. This 
box bore unmistakable evidence of having 
been used as an artificial burrow for breed¬ 
ing foxes, and there are probably many 
others like it which we have not yet dis¬ 
covered. This worse than useless fad of 
foxhunting, carried on in this way, gives 
amusement to a few rich men and women, 
members of clubs organized for this pur¬ 
pose, and causes loss to many who keep en¬ 
tirely within their rights as property hold¬ 
ers and good, useful citizens.” 
“To Him that Hath." —A writer in the 
New York Sun shows the injustice done to 
farmers in Westchester Co., N. Y„ where 
the city is Improving the water system: 
“The city is obligated in every instance 
where it disturbs a country road to restore 
it in another place in good condition; but 
tin's obligation is not pretended to be kept, 
nud so in dry weather these roads are blind¬ 
ing with dust, and in rainy weather bogs and 
bottomless quagmires prevail and the con¬ 
tinual use of these roads bv teams hauling 
material for the water works makes them 
worse and worse from day to day. Another 
serious grievance of our country friends is 
tbp inequality of the awards for farm prop¬ 
erty condemned for the water scheme; some 
untillable bog land taken from large holders 
is paid for way up in the thousands, while 
of the finest meadow and cultivated laud of 
some poor man having but a few acres 
enough is appropriated to nearly ruin the 
rest, and only a few hundred dollars allowed 
hi compensation.” 
multitude of errors on the part of the 
feeder. If the boar can have one-fourth 
of an acre pasture lot it will be an abun¬ 
dance with the other feed he will get. 
But I would not confine him to a lot un¬ 
less necessary. Even at this writing, April 
17, he would enjoy a run in the rye field, 
and will very much relish a feed on it. 
Exercise should be a strong factor in se¬ 
curing good development, not the kind 
of exercise that will wear him out to get 
enough to eat, but the kind prompted by 
a well-fed system. Until grass is plenty 
I would use for roughness, clover leaves 
and heads, put in a bucket and well damp¬ 
ened with clean water, rather than dish 
water. Stir in three or four handfuls of 
shorts or middlings; leave the bran out. 
At feeding time, if cold, add a littje warm 
water. Only feed such an amount of this 
as he will eat up clean and be ready for 
his feed next time. The shorts or mid¬ 
dlings are to be preferred to cracked 
wheat or rye. When pasture comes it 
will take the place of the clover chaff and 
leaves, and he can have his daily slop 
ration 'morning and evening made of 
shorts. Don’t make a thin slop, but thor¬ 
oughly wet the shorts. If they make a 
sticky mass, add one-fourth bulk of bran, 
not that the bran is very desirable as pig 
feed, but it cuts the other and doubtless 
makes it more palatable. The roots men¬ 
tioned, when you have them, will be rel¬ 
ished. They must not be the whole ra¬ 
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