1909. 
ANOTHER JERSEY MAIL CARRIER. 
Your letter from “A Jersey M,ail Car¬ 
rier.” on page 134, was all to the good. 
He brought out many facts concerning fat 
salaries of rural mail carriers and how 
much some of the patrons appreciate the 
service. Such letters as that of W. H. Y. 
published in agricultural papers will be of 
incalculable value to the rural service, by 
showing the folks who have rural service 
just how they should improve in many 
ways to quicken the service, make it more 
valuable to themselves and to the Post Office 
Department. I have been a carrier for over 
five years, and can see a little of what 
such a privilege means to the rural popula¬ 
tion of this country. Taken on the average, 
however, from observation during five years 
1 would say that only 50 per cent of rural 
mail box owners fully realize what rural 
free delivery means, or should mean to 
them. To start with, many fear that the 
cost of an approved mail box will about 
break them, and will want to put up some 
old wooden or tin affair, and that in some 
outlandish place. I have in mind one 
parly who for five years has failed to see 
that a mail box in front of his property 
would mark him as a man of progress. In 
every other way he sems to be such a man. 
While property below and above him has 
advanced in value because of this service, 
he has considered the price of a box more 
than he could afford. Occasionally a farmer 
will say, “Why, I consider that this place 
of mine is worth $500 more now than it 
was six years ago.’ In fact it is so. They 
seem to fail to consider that Uncle Sam 
is giving them a great deal, and that they 
should cooperate to bring it to a full suc¬ 
cess. 
Such a Winter as we are having in Jer¬ 
sey this year means a late mail because 
the roads in places are almost impassable, 
owing to neglect of drainage, etc. This 
seemingly has no terror for the farmer, in 
fact, he rather likes it. The road commit¬ 
tees waste money and time fixing roads 
without any consideration of season. The 
only solution of good roads, it seems to me, 
would be for the township or county to 
give out a certain mileage under bonded 
contract, for improvement and repair. It 
might possibly cost a litle more on the 
start, but in the end would be far cheaper 
than under the present way, where funds 
are wasted through ignorance and neglect. 
Cotter roads mean quicker service, quicker 
service means more mail, and more mail 
means more returns to the Department. 
Take the box question alone. Suppose that 
owing to the slipshod way that boxes are 
arranged one-half minute is lost on an 
average at each box, and a carrier has 100 
boxes, it would mean a loss of 50 minutes 
in valuable time for the whole route. Rural 
delivery needs many tilings. It needs par¬ 
cels post, better roads, better interest in 
placing the boxes, better way of placing 
bunches of pennies in the boxes, and a bet¬ 
ter waking and shaking up among the 
rural population as to what rural free 
delivery means on both sides. cakiuer. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Garget. 
Can some one tell me what is the matter 
with my Holstein cow? She was giving a 
good mess of milk, and all at once it got 
thick and stringy, and she almost dried up. 
She eats well and drinks well and seems to 
feel well, and no fever about her. 
New York. R. K. w. 
The trouble is mammitis, commonly 
termed garget, and we are unable to say 
what caused it, as it may be induced by 
any one of a great many different causes. 
She will not be likely to resume milking 
normally before another calving. Give her 
at one dose one pound of Epsom salts, half 
an ounce of ground ginger root and a cup¬ 
ful of blackstrap molasses in three pints 
of warm water slowly and carefully from a 
long-necked bottle. Follow with half an 
ounce of powdered saltpeter in her drink¬ 
ing water once daily. Twice a day foment 
the udder thoroughly with hot water and 
then rub well with a mixture of equal 
parts of olive oil and fluid extracts of bella¬ 
donna leaves and pokeroot. If this does 
not bring back the milk flow it will at 
least tend to prevent loss of the milk 
producing function. Repeat the treatment 
if found necessary when her next calf Is 
dropped. a. s. a. 
Chronic Indigestion. 
What is the matter with my four-year- 
old steer? When he lies down he bloats; 
goes away after standing up a few min¬ 
utes; sometimes vomits up hay; is in good 
condition. Home veterinarian said it was 
liver trouble; he does not show liver spots; 
breathes fast after getting up. k. d. f. 
Connecticut. 
You describe the symptoms of chronic in¬ 
digestion, and as the steer is in good con¬ 
dition and four years old he should be 
slaughtered for meat. It does not pay to 
keep steers of such an age, unless you work 
him. in such cases a common cause is the 
presence of foreign bodies, such as nails, 
crockery, etc., in the second stomach, and 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
this cause cannot be removed by medicinal 
treatment. Another cause is tuberculosis, 
and if you must keep this steer we would 
advise you to have him tested with tuber¬ 
culin. If he proves free from the disease 
starve him for 24 hours, during which time 
administer a full dose of Epsom salts as a 
physic. Afterward give him two ounces 
twice daily of a mixture of two parts each 
of powdered wood chaycoal and hyposul¬ 
phite of soda and one part each of pow¬ 
dered nux vomica, gentian and ginger roots. 
Feed lightly. a. s. a. 
Horse with Weak Back. 
I have a horse, I do not know what age, 
but quite old, but a good worker until about 
three weeks ago it fell in the stall, and 
has fallen several times since. I have to 
help it up every time; does not seem at all 
sick and eats well. He trembles in his 
hind quarters when he gets up. We think 
it is his kidneys; have not done anything 
for him yet. Chn you tell me what is the 
matter and what I can give him? 
Pennsylvania. h. l. a. 
Give the horse a roomy box stall when 
in the stable, but have him lightly worked 
or fully exercised out of doors every day. 
If horse has been heavily fed and idle 
that might well explain the symptoms 
which might indicate azoturia, but more 
probably “staggers” from indigestion. Old 
horses sometimes persist in standing, and 
should they fall are unable to rise on ac¬ 
count of weak back or ossification (an¬ 
chylosis) of the vertebrae of the loins. The 
kidneys are not probably implicated in the 
weakness. A. s. a. 
Disease of Cats. 
I have been interested in the correspond¬ 
ence relative to the value of a good cat, 
and while I am a lover of a good cat and 
appreciate their value in and around farm 
buildings have bad hard luck ever since 
living where I do now. I have had eight 
or 10 nice cats die in four years, all of 
them young and in their prime. They lose 
their appetites and lie around till they 
grow weak and die. We feed our cats at 
the cow stable new milk at milking time 
regularly, and do not have them around 
the house fire. I have heard of a few other 
farms on which their cats have died in 
the same manner, and some call it distem¬ 
per. If I could get any information in 
regard to treatment of cats I would be 
thankful as I would like to stock up, but 
hate to bring cats here to die. r. g. 
New York. 
The only way in which you can deter¬ 
mine the nature of the trouble killing your 
cats will be to have a post-mortem exam¬ 
ination made by a graduate veterinarian 
who will also take into consideration all of 
the circumstances of the case. Distemper 
does kill cats, and they also may carry 
diphtheria to children and may suffer from 
tuberculosis, possibly contracted from cow’s 
milk, but more often from eating broken 
food left on the plates of consumptive pa¬ 
tients. On general principles it would be 
well to provide a new clean place for the 
cats away from places possibly infected. It 
also should he understood that carbolic or 
creosote dip solutions used on cats as a 
treatment for fleas or skin trouble often 
cause death. a. s. a. 
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