1907. 
THE; RURAL NEW-YORKER 
947 
HORSE WITH NOSE BLEED. 
I have a horse that began bleeding at the 
nose last May, and bled on and off for 
six weeks. Matter now runs from the 
nose. What should I do for him. 
South Dakota. • j. m, f. 
In such a case the first step should be 
to have the horse examined by a quali¬ 
fied or State veterinarian, as such bleed¬ 
ing often is a symptom of glanders, and 
that is more to be suspected now that 
the discharge has become thick and 
chronic. It might he due to nasal 
catarrh or to the presence of a polypus 
in the nostril, or a diseased tooth in 
the upper jaw, but we do not feel justi¬ 
fied in prescribing where -a personal ex¬ 
amination is necessary, and there is 
reason to suspect that the disease may 
be contagious and necessitating destruc¬ 
tion according to State law. 
A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
LENGTH OF COW STALLS. 
IIow long should a cow stall be? I have 
built a barn, but I am not experienced 
enough to know the length the stalls ought 
to be. I believe that mine are too short; 
they are four feet eight inches in length. 
I have had some argument about it, but 
from people who do not know any more 
than I do. tv, k. 
Minnesota. 
I he length of your cow stalls should 
depend entirely on the size of your 
cows. For Jerseys of the ordinary size 
52 inches from the stanchion to the gut¬ 
ter is about right, while Holsteins and 
other large breeds require a longer stall, 
but few cows are too large for a stall 
56 inches long. C. S. G. 
TROUBLE WITH CHURNING. 
We are having trouble in churning, as 
it now takes from one to three hours for 
butter to come. We have always used an 
old Rasher churn. One cow was fresh late 
this Summer, and the other two will he 
in December and January. We salt our 
butter when we work it. We used to get 
it in half an hour, and never over an hour 
before. We are putting the cows in the 
barn now on clover bay and carrots. We 
feed them salt on the carrots. Can you .ell 
why it takes so long to churn? w. r,. h. 
Niles, Mich. 
As you do not state all the conditions 
you are working under in making butter 
it is impossible to tell exactly where 
your trouble lies in churning. However, 
a few suggestions will no doubt aid you 
in locating and remedying the difficulty. 
As you have one fresh cow late in 
85 or 90 degrees should be added occa¬ 
sionally, which will aid the butter in 
gathering. c. s. greene. 
PRICE FOR BUTTER FAT. 
When a creamery company have their 
butter engaged at 28 cents a pound for a 
year, what should they pay the farmer per 
pound for butter fat, the farmer getting the 
separated milk? What is the just com¬ 
pensation, and what is done in different sec¬ 
tions of the country? 
If the 28 cents per pound is net at 
creamery butter fat should be about 30 
cents, although some creameries claim all 
the overrun. The cost of marketing—i. e., 
drawing to station, freight bills, commis¬ 
sion. tubs or boxes, depends a good deal 
on the location of creamery and market 
supplied. T.ast year the butter from our 
creamery was all put in prints and taken 
at tile creamery, boxes returned. Is a flat 
rate by the year good business? Will it not 
tend to give Summer milk when butter is 
low and cost of milk production low? Win¬ 
ter milk is higher in cost and is worth a 
good deal more when you get it. For the 
past year our creamery has paid for butter 
fat as follows: December, 1906, 34% 
cents; January, 1907, 33% cents; Febru¬ 
ary, 33% cents; March, 33 cents; April, 
30 cents; May, 26 cents. June, 29% cents; 
July, 27% cents; August, 28% cents; Sep¬ 
tember, 32 cents; October, 33 cents; No¬ 
vember, 34*% cents. 
Vermont. g. m. hazard. 
RAISING A CALF. 
I don’t see why a better calf can be 
raised at one time than another, provided 
it is properly fed. However, if the Spring 
calf is to be turned out for the flies to feast 
on all Summer the odds are somewhat in 
favor of the one born after the flies are 
gone in the Fall. I prefer to raise a calf 
when I get one I wish to raise, regardless 
of season. Perhaps a Fall calf can be raised 
a little cheaper than a Spring one, as they 
have to be fed about, so long anyway, and 
if dropped in the Fall are about ready for 
pasture in the Spring, while, if dropped in 
the Spring, when old enough for pasture 
we are at the beginning of another feeding 
season, so will have to feed all through the 
first year of its life. As to method of rais¬ 
ing a calf intended for a dairy cow. I feed 
its mother’s milk the first week, gradually 
substituting fresh separator milk, so as to 
have it on a full ration of skim-milk when 
two weeks of age. A little good hay will 
soon be eaten, also a few dry oats, which 
should be increased in quantity so as to keep | 
the animal in a good thrifty condition. A < 
little oil meal jelly may be added to the 
milk, but I prefer the oats as soon as they 
will be eaten. I don’t think there is much 
danger of a calf getting too fat if fed a good . 
muscle and bone-making ration. 
Pennsylvania. george c. wii.cox. 
Summer your milk should be of good 
quality, so your trouble must be in the 
treatment of your cream before or dur¬ 
ing churning. It may be that you are 
keeping the cream too long or at an 
improper temperature. With a small 
dairy a person naturally keeps the cream 
longer to get enough for a churning. 
The cream should never be kept more 
than two or three days at a temperature 
of about 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and 
never mix warm cream with cold. From 
12 to 24 hours before churning the 
cream should be warmed to about 70 de¬ 
grees, and churned when at the proper 
stage of fermentation, or when it is 
“ripe.” The temperature of the cream- 
for churning varies considerably with 
the season of the year and the condi¬ 
tion of the cows and feed. Cream from 
cows that are far advanced in the j 
period of lactation, especially during the 
Fall and early Winter months, is always 
more difficult to churn, and must be 
churned at a higher temperature than 
cream from fresh cows in the Spring. 
It is always best to churn at the lowest 
temperature possible, and get the butter 
in 30 to 45 minutes. The range in 
temperature at which it is proper to 
churn is from 50 to about 66 degrees 
Fahrenheit. When your cream is prop¬ 
erly ripened and the temperature at say 
65 it is ready to churn. Rinse your churn 
out with warm water first to prevent 
cooling the cream, and start churning 
with a moderate motion. If the cream 
becomes expanded with gas a little dry 
salt thrown in the churn will generally 
liberate the gas, making the cream much 
easier to churn. After churning' about 
30 minutes a little water heated to-about 
Refuse as Fertilizer. 
L. .4. /}., London Bridge, Va .—I can pur¬ 
chase refuse from a chandler, which re¬ 
sembles in appearance and odor the animal 
meal prepared for fowls. It has hones mix- j 
ed with it, some as large as a man's fist. 
He has another pile which came out of the [ 
machine in a moist state and has dried in | 
large, hard lumps. What is it worth as a 
fertilizer ? 
Ans. —We often have questions about 
these refuse substances which we can¬ 
not answer. With such materials as 
wood ashes it is possible to give a fair 
average, for such things have been col¬ 
lected and analyzed. Very likely this 
refuse is much like tankage in compo¬ 
sition, hut we could only make a guess 
at its value. The best way is to send a 
fair sample to your experiment station 
and have them analyze it. Then you 
can know just what you are buying. 
LITTLE ONE SUFFERED 
For Over a Year—Itching Skin Like 
Eczema Covered Face and Neck- 
Mother Lost Faith in Medicines 
—Cuticura Remedies 
Cured her. 
“My baby’s face and neck were cov¬ 
ered with itching skin similar to eczema, 
and she suffered terribly for over a year. 
I took her to a number of doctors, and 
also to different colleges to no avail. 
Then Cuticura Remedies were recom¬ 
mended to me by Miss G-, who was 
telling me how they helped her. I did 
not use it at first, as I had tried so many 
other remedies without any favorable 
results. At last I tried Cuticura Soap, 
Cuticura Ointment, and Cuticura Re¬ 
solvent Pills, and to my surprise noticed 
an improvement. After using three 
boxes of the Cuticura Ointment, to¬ 
gether with the Soap and Fills, I am 
pleased to say she is altogether a dif¬ 
ferent child and the picture of health. 
Mrs. A. C. Breslin, 171 X. Lincoln St., 
Chicago, Ill., Oct. 20 and 30, 1906.”’ 
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Saves Hours 
of Gleaning 
Of course your wife would _tr£ to 
wash even the worst cream separator 
bowl properly twice every day. But 
why ask her to slave over a heavy, 
complicated” bucket bowl. ’ ’like either 
12% lbs. Ms 8'Albs. 
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It holds the world's record for clean 
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Sharpies Tubular Cream Separa¬ 
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COL. G. W. CRAWFORD S 
SHARON VALLEY STOCK FARM 
of nearly 1500 acres, and barns holding 300 horses, 
has now on hands over 200 stallions of fine 
BELGIANS, PERCHERONS and GERMAN COACH 
Running in age from 1.year old to 5 years. Color—bays, blacks and 
grays.- weigh from 1600 to 2200lbs. These stallions are all for sale on 
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Newark is situated 33 miles east of Columbus, and 157 miles west 
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SHARON VALLEY STOCK FARM, Newark, Ohio. 
Citizens Phone 266, Bell Phone 651 W. 
