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VHE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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DIFFICULT CASE OF LAMENESS. 
I have a horse which slipped and fell 
during the latter part of last Winter. He 
apparently injured his hind leg. A vet¬ 
erinarian was employed, who proceeded to 
blister the horse on his rump. The horse 
has recovered in part but still limps when 
he is drawing a load, and whenever he 
steps on anything hard. I have examined 
tile animal myself, and am satisfied that 
wherever tlie seat of the lameness was, 
it is now in the stifle joint. When draw¬ 
ing a load tlie horse will almost always 
take tlie longest steps with the lame leg, 
then draw the other a little past it, and 
then move tlie lame one again. He can 
bend the leg as well as the other. There is 
no swelling, but there does appear to be a 
sore spot on the inside of his leg at the 
stifle joint. While standing in stable tlie 
horse does not show much if any favor to 
his lame leg. I have seen him standing 
on it and resting the other. To trot the 
horse appears to irritate his lame leg a 
great deal, but when walking on soft earth 
without a load one would scarcely notice 
that he was lame at all. The horse is 
only about eight or nine years old. Will 
you tell me \Yhether there is much hope 
of his coming around all right? There 
i° no perceptible swelling. but I think I 
can discern a little extra heat at the stifle 
joint. What treatment would you recom¬ 
mend? The horse has done almost noth¬ 
ing all Summer. j. a. l. 
Massachusetts. 
There is to be a difference of opinion 
here; but that of the man who has not 
the opportunity of examining the case, 
should be of least weight. Still, we fail 
to recognize symptoms pointing to the 
stifle as the seat of the trouble, nor 
does the veterinarian seem to have been 
correct in assuming the hip to be the 
proper place for the application of his 
blister. To us, it would appear to be a 
case of ringbone, the location of which 
is the pastern, just above the foot or be 
tween that and the fetlock joint. If it 
is there, it will appear as an enlarge¬ 
ment, causing a bulging profile of the 
bone, which otherwise should be straight. 
It usually is easy to detect the presence 
of a ringbone, but if attention has not 
before been directed to the pastern, 
give it a thorough examination, and if 
what we suspect is found to be present, 
then have the part puncture-fired and 
blistered by a veterinarian, and then al¬ 
low six weeks’ rest in stall. We fancy 
it is ringbone, as the horse cannot go 
so well on hard ground and steps long 
with the foot of the lame leg. That is 
highly characteristic of ringbone. In 
stifle lameness, the joint ordinarily is 
found enlarged or dropsical so that 
there is no difficulty in determining that 
it is the exact seat of lameness. In hock 
lameness from spavin, the lameness sub- 
able increase in production, in quantity 
and quality (twice as many Yorkshires 
being registered in Canada as all the 
other breeds together). Yet the fact re¬ 
mains that the Canadian farmer has 
learned which hogs to breed for hams, 
bacon and meat, while in this country 
we have been breeding grease, and try¬ 
ing it out with “hot air.” I believe that 
it would pay to carry on a schoolhouse 
and farmhouse campaign; that one gooa 
practical man could go into a town, and 
by one week of good, practical work, 
bring about such an increase in produc¬ 
tion and such.an improvement in qual¬ 
ity, that the result would more than 
pay a reasonable salary for a year. I 
believe the railways and express com¬ 
panies could afford to expend money in 
this direction. The D. & LI. Railroad 
Company has done something along this 
line, but has not got at it in the right 
way yet. This work cannot be done 
from a central office. It must be done 
by practical men—on the spot. We 
have no Grange in this vicinity, but 
it is easy to see what a vast amount 
of good can be done through the 
Grange. s. c. a. 
Warren Co., N. Y. 
KEEPING DAILY MILK RECORDS. 
When discussing the daily weighing 
of milk from each cow, and keeping 
records, the question is frequently asked 
how it is done to reduce time to a min¬ 
imum. I do not like the practice of 
keeping the daily record sheet as the 
only record, because it does not suffi¬ 
ciently simplify time in getting results. 
We do not keep these daily sheets at all. 
They are made large enough to accom¬ 
modate one-half month on each side, 
and a copy made of the month’s work 
when closed. The daily variation, if any, 
should be studied as we go along; it has 
little value after passing unless most 
elaborate data of cause and effect are 
kept. I prefer to draw conclusions and 
record them, and act if possible. If one 
wishes the daily yield he has only to 
divide mentally the total for the month 
by the number of days. In this way 
the monthly and yearly records are 
quickly observed, also the monthly and 
yearly value of -the milk. I have not 
yet gone far enough, but shall soon in¬ 
stall the same individual expense ac¬ 
count with each cow. While I have not 
done so, I realize my system is only 
half complete. In this way each month 
will give a true balance sheet with each 
individual cow, as follows: 
NAME OF COW. 
Month Lbs. Milk Price Value 
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rods, but returns as soon as he rests. 
In ringbone lameness the lameness per¬ 
sists when the horse is worked and ag¬ 
gravates when he walks or trots on 
hard ground. If a veterinarian cannot 
he employed, blister part repeatedly and 
allow absolute rest for months. 
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FARMING AND FARM EDUCATION. 
I am satisfied that our native stock 
cattle, sheep and swine, are best to 
breed from, and purebred best to breed 
with. Talking with neighbors here who 
have been in Canada in the lumber 
business, they tell me that a few years 
ago you could get little good butter in 
Canada. Now you can get it in very 
nearly every little hut. Men have been 
sent around in different neighborhoods 
to give the farmers practical instruc¬ 
tion. Here we get “hot air” from men 
who have little practical knowledge and 
who may carry as a “side line” scrub 
stock registered as purebred. From the 
fact that export of hog products from 
Canada increased from $(545,360 in 1890 
to $12,803,034 in 1900 (an increase of 
2400 per cent, while exports from the 
United States decreased seven per cent), 
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Canada by educating the farmer. Of 
course, the importation and breeding of 
the large Yorkshire swine in Canada 
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ncreasin^ Y 
Decreasing Feed 
Milk is secreted wholly from food elements given in excess of that re¬ 
quired by nature for physical maintenance. Milk production, therefore, is 
really the result of unnatural feeding. 
Man however, goes yet further and asks the cow to not only consume 
more food than she needs, but to continue the stuffing process for months 
when nature would limit the milk-producing period to the brief infancy of 
the calf. A little thought shows how impossible it is for such conditions to 
long continue without bringing derangement of bodily functions. Indiges¬ 
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Is an Infallible preventive of and remedy for digestive disorders. It is a tonic, the pre¬ 
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