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TUJ-C RURAIi NEW-YORKER 
OLD SALT FOR CATTLE. 
Is salt that has been used to pack meat 
in good for stock? w. s. j. 
Ilolliday, Mo. 
I would not feed salt that has been 
used to pack meat in to stock under 
any conditions, consequently, I have 
had no experience with it. However, 
it is a safe rule to follow never to use 
any feeding stuff which might have a 
harmful effect upon the health of the 
animals. Horses would not eat it un¬ 
less they were starved to it, and I am 
quite sure cattle would much prefer 
fresh clean salt, and would *do better 
Oil it. C. S. GREENE. 
A PROFITABLE AYRSHIRE COW. 
The Ayrshire cow shown in the ac¬ 
companying cut is owned at the Cen¬ 
tral Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Can¬ 
ada. She calved on January 22, 1909, 
and her test was started February 1. 
Her ration during a two-months’ test 
was as follows: Five pounds clover 
hay; 25 pounds corn silage; 55 pounds 
roots (mangels and sugar beets) ; six 
pounds bran; three pounds pea meal; 
three pounds oil meal; two pounds 
gluten meal; one pound oatmeal. She 
is a large cow for an Ayrshire, weigh¬ 
ing. about 1,200 pounds, but the above 
ration was found to be all she would 
consume. The nutritive ratio figures 
out 1.4.5,. or thereabouts, which is con¬ 
sidered by authorities on feeding to be 
rather narrow. However, this cow 
proved herself capable of transforming 
that extra amount of ration into milk, 
and evidently not at the expense of her 
own flesh either. When I saw her 
(April 10) she was in fine condition for 
a milker, and much fatter than a lot 
of the beef killed by local butchers in 
a dairy section. In fact the first re¬ 
mark that many farmers would make 
on seeing this cow would likely be: 
“That cow is good beef.” I have seen 
cows, however, especially heifers, that 
would lose flesh very rapidly when 
milking on so narrow a ration. No 
rule as to the proper nutritive ratio 
can be followed blindly—what might 
prove a wide and unprofitable ration 
for a cow with beefy tendencies might 
be just what the thinner animal would 
require to do her best, and still not in¬ 
jure her constitution. 
This cow gave 427 pounds milk in 
seven days, testing five per cent butter 
fat; 1,735 poinds in 30 days, testing 
4.G, and 3,2S5 pounds in 60 days, test¬ 
ing 4.4. Allowing .8 pound butter fat 
for one pound of butter, her seven- 
days’ record would be 26.7 pounds but¬ 
ter. The figuring, however, was done 
on the basis of .85 fat to one butter. 
The net profit from this cow for two 
months was' $46. Butter sold at that 
time at 35 cents per pound, and 20 
cents per hundred \Vas allowed for the 
skim-milk. The cost of her feed for 
60 days was $18.60, or an average of 
31 cents per day. c. l. m. 
AN UNWISE GRAIN RATION. 
What is the matter with my Jersey cows? 
One of these cows is seven years old, the 
other three years. They Rive a good flow 
of milk; it tasted and looked all right at 
first, but it would not make butter. I have 
churned the cream from four to five hours 
and it would not make butter. The milk 
is ropy and stringy. One of these cows 
calved April 9, 1908, and the other on 
April 30, 1908. They will freshen again 
shortly. Can you tell me the cause? They 
have a good pasture and free access to 
fresh water. I feed them cotton-seed hulls 
and cotton-seed meal twice a day; give one 
peck hulls and one pound cotton-seed 
meal for a feed. After feeding this awhile 
I change the feed to wheat bran, giving 
one peck of this feed to each cow twice a 
day ; give them salt twice a week. 
Louisiana. A. s. 
Your trouble is, no doubt, due to the 
grain ration you are feeding. If you 
would discontinue the cotton-seed hulls 
and feed one of the balanced rations 
which have been published in The R. 
N.-Y. you would have no further trou¬ 
ble, although if your cows are coming 
May 8, 
in within a month you should not be 
using .the milk at all. Cows should 
always go dry from six weeks to two 
months, if possible, and during this 
time and for two weeks after parturi¬ 
tion no rich, heavy food like cotton¬ 
seed or cornmeal should be fed, as it 
is liable to cause a great deal of trou¬ 
ble. _ c. s. G. 
Tumors on Heifer. 
Last week I found a bunch on our 11- 
months heifer. It is on the point of the 
jawbone on the inside, and is about two 
inches in diameter, quite hard and not 
painful; not attached to the bone. The 
following day a smaller one was found be¬ 
tween the jawbones near where they conn- 
together, and a small one about the size of 
a chestnut on the side of the jawbone. 
Can you suggest a remedy? The herd were 
tuberculin tested in December and none re¬ 
sponded. H. A. G- 
Pennsylvania. 
The location of the tumors suggests that 
they may involve the salivary ducts, in 
which case they may l>e small limy calculi 
which could be removed by the veterina¬ 
rian. It is more probable, however, that 
they are glandular enlargements which 
should quickly subside if you rub them 
once daily with iodine ointment and give 
half a dram of iodide of potash in water 
twice daily for a week, and then repeat 
later if found necessary: There is, of 
course, a possibility that the tumors are 
due to actinomycosis (lumpy jaw) but tlie 
disease is somewhat unusual in calves. If 
the- treatment prescribed here does not 
suffice and the tumors keep on growing or 
they soften and contain pus the knife will 
have to be used. a. s. a. 
New Mii.ic axd Cats. —In answer to It. 
G., page 281. disease of cats, a farmer in 
this place had the same trouble with his 
cats around the barn and was told to “cut 
out” the new milk, with the result that 
the cats have been healthy ever since. 
T. H. M. 
IIexs Eating Eggs, Page 434 —-I have 
kept hens for over 50 years and fed them 
on Mr. Rice's principles. Sometimes, in 
the middle of Winter, liens would eat their 
eggs, but for many years since I have con¬ 
structed the nests so that the hens would 
have to lay in the dark, I have had no 
more trouble. Thinking that this system 
might be tried with advantage by some of 
your readers, I submit the idea, which iu 
this place is not new. candiac. 
R gi 'fij isjji m pm f^i m "1^1 
T HIS picture shows how one woman used her 
picket fence to dry the disks from her “bucket 
bowl” cream separator. She realized the 
need for using a separator and the work of thor¬ 
oughly washing a half bushel of disks twice a 
day, but she did not know that the simple Shar¬ 
pies Dairy Tubular would have saved her that 
work and given better service, or she never 
would have let her husband buy a disk machine. 
Two Wrongs Don’t Make a 
“Bucket bowl” manufacturers are wrong, 
in the first place, in using wide mouth, squatty, 
“bucket bowls” fed through the top. That kind 
of bowl is not modern. They are wrong, 
again, in filling their bowls with disks or other 
contraptions, for such parts do not make a steady, 
simple, light, easy to clean, durable bowl. These 
two wrongs don’t make “bucket bowl” separa¬ 
tors desirable or ri^ht. 
The only modern bowl is the light, slender, 
simple Dairy Tubular bowl, hung below its bear¬ 
ing and fed through the lower end. Our pat¬ 
ents prevent imitation, so others still make 
“bucket bowls” out of date years ago. 
Anyone can build disk separators 
cheap, and build them like the “old or¬ 
iginal” disk machine. The maker of 
this “old original” is advertising a suit 
against a catalog house machine that has 
been built like his for a number of 
years. Has he just discovered that other 
disk machines are like his? Or has he 
discovered what is still worse for him-- 
that farmers who want a disk 
KlPllt ma chine are buying cheap 
ones, so they won’t lose so 
much when they replace them with Tu¬ 
bulars? 
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The simple, light 
Sharpies Dairy Tubu¬ 
lar bowl is easily 
washed clean in 3 min¬ 
utes. A few thrusts of 
the brush does it. Bet¬ 
ter than spending 13 
to 30 minutes washing 
a ‘ bucket bowl.” 
a 
Disgusted farmers are trading- 
in to us, for Tubulars, carloads of 
“bucket bowl” separators—new as well as old. Not 
pleasant experience for them. Avoid it by getting a Tubu¬ 
lar. Tubulars are made in the world’s greatest separator fact- 
tory. Branch factories in Canada and Germany. 1908 sales 
way ahead of 1907“-out of sight of most, if not all, com¬ 
petitors combin- rp ri Cl Ci 
ed. 1909 better Ihe Sharpies Separator Lo. 
yet. Get catalog Toronto, Can. West Chester, Pa. Portland, Ore. 
No. 153. 
Winnipeg, Can. 
Chicago, III. 
San Francisco, Cal. 
