THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1125 
1909. 
AGE FOR HEIFER TO FRESHEN. 
Which will pay the better from start 
to finish, to have a cow fresh when she 
is two years old or three? a. o. h. 
Pennsylvania. 
Large, thrifty heifers, well fed from 
the start, should be bred to freshen at 
two or 2]/ 2 years old. If given plenty 
of good, nourishing food at all times 
they will continue to grow and develop, 
although it is possible that they may 
not become quite as large as they 
would had they not been allowed to 
freshen until another year. Many 
heifers, if not allowed to freshen at 
two years old, become beefy at the ex¬ 
pense of their dairy qualities. That is, 
there is a tendency to put on flesh 
rather than turn their food into milk. 
Another point which must be taken 
into consideration is the loss of time. 
The heifer which calves at two years 
old is paying a dividend during the 
third year of her life, while her sister 
who is idle until three years old must 
be an expense up to that time. Our 
own plan is as follows: Spring calves 
are bred to freshen in July or August 
of the third year. They are milked 
for about 15 months, and bred to 
freshen again in February or March, 
when about four years old. This 
method develops their milking qualities 
and at the same time gives them a 
chance to grow. Heifers especially 
should be fed plenty of good, nourish¬ 
ing food at all times, even if the im¬ 
mediate returns in the milk-pail do not 
always seem to justify such an outlay. 
c. s. M. 
A NEW STYLE HENHOUSE. 
Our good friend Cosgrove told the right 
sort of a story on page 30. We don’t 
want a ceiling 40 feet high, and a hen 
wants a cozy place 18 inches to two feet in 
height. Some of my colony houses are 
that high, and are attended to from the 
top. the roof being detachable, hut in bad 
weather they are uncomfortable for the 
attendant. I have used several times houses 
with an alley six feet high, but three-story 
apartments for the birds two feet high. 
These are somewhat inconvenient to at¬ 
tend to. Now I I am intending to build 
a house like a lettuce-forcing house with 
a three-foot depressed walk through it 18 
inches wide and a three-foot house cover- 
ing—like the sketch. I advise your read¬ 
ers to try this and report. 
Long Island. elbekt wakexian. 
Bloody Milk. 
T have a young cow that gives bloody 
milk out of two teats. Sometimes she 
seems to be nearly well and the milk wilj 
lie all right for a couple of milkings and 
then the trouble returns. She has both¬ 
ered me about six weeks in this way. 
Sometin.es there will be clots of blood to 
milk out. I cannot detect any bunches. 
New York. A - S. F. 
Sometimes in such cases the udder is 
being bruised upon a cement stall floor or 
other insufficiently bedded floor or over the 
edge of a deep gutter of a stall floor that 
is too short. In other cases there is over¬ 
congestion of the udder with milk, and 
especially so during the few weeks after 
freshening; or there is garget, or a rup¬ 
tured blood vessel, or the udder has been 
injured by bruising between the thighs or 
from the neighbor cow in the stall step¬ 
ping upon the udder. Try to find and re¬ 
move the cause. Milk three times daily. 
Rathe the udder with cold water twice 
daily and then sponge with a solution of 
two drams each of powdered alum and di¬ 
lute sulphuric acid in a pint of cold water. 
.Mix two drams of the dilute acid in drink¬ 
ing water twice daily. Milk gently. It 
always is well to have the cow tested with 
tuberculin when udder troubles persist or 
roue and go without apparent cause, as 
tuberculosis of the udder then is to be sus¬ 
pected. a. s. A. 
Garget. 
I have a Jersey cow that will calve in 
April, i find there is a bunch about as 
largo as a hen’s egg on the left side and 
the back teat on that side does not give 
any milk, only a sort of yellow fluid. I 
have been washing it in a hot solution and 
think it is not as large as it was but is 
very hard. She was giving about six or 
seven quarts of milk, and in one or two 
days dropped down to three or four quarts. 
My man said she had a chill (I have 
since discharged him for drunkenness) but 
I do not know. Is there anything I can 
give her to take away that bunch and save 
that quarter of the udder? b. b. 
Massachusetts. 
As one quarter of the udder gives whey 
or serum instead of milk it is evident that 
garget is present, but ns the tumor is in 
front of the fore-quarter of the udder on 
that side we scarcely consider the tumor 
the cause of the garget. A kick may, of 
course, have caused both tumor and the 
garget of the hind quarter of udder, but 
an expert examination by a graduate vet¬ 
erinarian would be advisable to determine 
the exact condition present and he may 
think it well to test her with tiiljorculin. 
Meanwhile foment the udder with hot 
water twice daily and then rub the affected 
quarter well with a mixture of equal parts 
of olive oil and fluid extracts of poke 
root and belladonna leaves. Rub the tumor 
with mercurial ointment each other day, 
giving at the same time a thorough mas¬ 
saging. If it softens it may have to be 
lanced for evacuation of pus. There is a 
possibility that there is a rupture present, 
although in that case the enlargement or¬ 
dinarily would be soft. a. s. a. 
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$7,500 for Five Fowls Paid 
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Not long ago, Madame Paderewski, wife of the 
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Madame Paderewski’s $7,500 fowls were hatched 
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