1909. 
THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
506 
A CASE OF GARGET. 
How often should my cows be fed? I am 
feeding bay at 5 a. m. about two-thirds of 
a bushel of corn silagp with grain between 
8 and 9 a. m., hay again at noon ; at 4 
p. m the same amount of silage and grain, 
and hay at 7 p. m. Is it too often? I am 
having a ease of garget quite often. A little 
cake will appear in one quarter of the 
udder ; about the next milking the milk will 
contain chunks, and in a day or two there 
will not be much milk. The cow may 
wholly lose that quarter, or it may con¬ 
tinue to give a small amount. Is there a 
cure for garget? My grain ration consists 
of two-fifths wheat bran and three-fifths 
Continental gluten feed, feeding about one 
pound of grain to three pounds of milk. A 
cow occasionally is constipated. I have one 
such cow now. I gave her 1 Va pound of 
Bpsom salts, which did not seem to operate, 
and the next morning gave her one ounce of 
aloes and three pints of raw linseed oil. and 
114 hours later 1 Vs pound of salts, but now, 
24 hours later she does not eat very much, 
although the medicine seems to have oper¬ 
ated fairly well. My dairy of 22 cows 
averaged 367 pounds of butter per cow last 
year, which I sold at an average price of 
26% cents. e. a. r. 
New York. 
The fact that your cows made 367 
pounds of but-ter each last year shows 
that you know how to feed dairy cows. 
However, there is always something 
for us all to learn, and as I have had 
the same experience with garget that 
you are having I will tell you how the 
trouble has been cured. First, 1 would 
discontinue feeding gluten feed, as that 
is probably the cause of your trouble, 
although rare cases occur from other 
causes, such as feeding too much grain 
soon after parturition. For the af¬ 
fected cows you should have a garget 
outfit and with syringe you can use a 
solution of peroxide of hydrogen, which 
usually effects a cure very quickly if 
the case is not of too long standing. 
There is no cure for garget after the 
udder is spoiled. 
In regard to the time of feeding I 
would omit the 5 a. m. feed of hay 
for two reasons. First, it is not a 
good plan to feed hay just before milk¬ 
ing, as it creates too much dust in 
the stable for the production of sani¬ 
tary milk, and second, cows which have 
good feed during the day, the last feed 
of hay being at 7 p. m., should have 
12 hours rest during the night in order 
to properly masticate their food. There¬ 
fore, if they are milked first earlv in 
the morning and then fed, nothing 
would be gained by feeding before 
milking. For constipation I have found 
it is better to give a pint of molasses 
about two hours before giving the 
salts, and then give only one pound at 
a dose, repeating in 12 hours if neces¬ 
sary. If the molasses is not handy 
an ounce of ginger with the salts ac¬ 
complishes the same results. 
C. S. GREENE. 
THE JERSEY AND THE HOLSTEIN 
I ivad with interest the controversy be¬ 
tween owners of Holstein and Jersey 
breeds. I think the truth lies in this case, 
as in most others, in the middle. Both 
breeds are valuable for their purpose. If 
I had customers to supply with milk I 
want nothing but Holstein cows, and when 
I have to make butter or sell cream the 
Jersey would! be m.v cow, notwithstanding 
some Ilolstein advocates say a Holstein 
cow will give as much butter as a Jersey 
does. This may be true sometimes, but 
at what cost is the question A Holstein 
cow is not only bigger, but her milk sup¬ 
ply so far as it concerns the protein in 
the milk is greater, too. It stands to rea¬ 
son you have to feed for this before your 
profit comes in. My experience is, with 
the same food you can feed three Jersey 
cows profitably you can hardly feed two 
Holsteins to get any profit from them. Of 
course, if a farmer lives far front the rail 
road and has plenty of clover and other 
feed so he cannot sell such profitably, he 
may as well keep Ilolstein cattle, because 
Hie big mill? supply will enable him to 
keep more swine, and at least a fat Ilol- 
slOn cow will get more money from the 
butcher than usually the fat Jersey brings. 
But if anyone can sell bis clover bay at. 
fbc high market price, or must buy bis 
feed to produce butter, a herd of Ilolstein 
rows will eat all his profit, while the .Tor- 
sevs will make money for him. I found 
t'ere is not a general purpose or all- 
around eroaHiro in the world: everything 
J as its special purpose, so a Holstein cow 
is the right thing for the milk dealer and 
Ibo Jersey cow is the right thing for the 
butter maker. p. a. d. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Heavy Potato Imports. —On Saturday, 
April 24, 90,000 buslu Is of potatoes ar¬ 
rived at New York from Europe. These 
were valued at about $71,000. * For the 
firstj three weeks of April importations 
amounted to about $300,000. 
Steel Trade Good. —Construction con¬ 
tracts under way or pending call for large 
quantities of manufactured steel and iron. 
One Philadelphia building, contract for 
which lias just been let, is to require 
15,000 tons of steel. Smaller jobs in sight, 
running from 1,000 to 4,000 tons each are 
noted in Michigan, Missouri, Massachu¬ 
setts, Rhode Island and Texas; and new 
contracts for about 15,000 tons of plates 
and bars have been placed for Isthmian 
Canal work, as well as 20,000 tons for ex¬ 
port to South America. 
Wool Imports. —The amount of foreign 
wool received at the port of Boston during 
the four months ending April 30, was 
70.000.000 pounds, nearly three times the 
imports for the same period last year. The 
cause of this is that domestic supplies have 
been quite Closely used up. and the outlook 
is that the new clip of home-grown wool 
will meet an active market at somewhat in¬ 
creased prices. At the approaching London 
wool auction there will be about 180.000 
hales offered, mainly from Australia, New 
Zealand and South Africa. Some current 
prices for domestic wools are noted below, 
but these run a little above what producers 
or holders of small quantities may expect 
to get: Fine unwashed, 21@22; unwashed 
delaine, 26@28. 
Wheat, like water, seeks its level, and 
the price of this grain is now hut little 
above the current figures before the recent 
market disturbance in Chicago. The chief 
cornerers evidently expected the boom to 
collapse quickly, and got out in time with 
a fat profit balance. The price of bread 
has been advanced in some places, but 
there has been no such general rise as was 
anticipated. It Is becoming increasingly 
difficult to corner food products except in 
years when crop shortage is too evident to 
he disputed, and there are comparatively 
few men sufficiently “long” on business 
foresight and “short” on business morals 
(for which, wo may he thankful) to handle 
such propositions without disaster to them¬ 
selves. There is a large amount, of crop 
and storage misinformation scattered about, 
but there is also increased opportunity to 
get at the facts, and people are becoming 
more skillful in sifting out truth from the 
mass of error. A public educated to think 
and act for itself is on the shortest road 
to ridding itself of such abuses, which be¬ 
come entrenched through lack of reasonahie 
public caution. w. w. n. 
Rheumatism in Horse. 
I have a horse 14 years old which was 
taken about a year ago with what I 
thought was rheumatism. In the Spring 
we turned him out in the pasture and in 
about three months he nearly recovered. 
This Winter he was taken in about the 
same way and can hardly walk. He seems 
to he sore and lame all over. Is not 
foundered, has a good appetite, and seems 
all right only for this soreness. We drove 
him a little almost every day until he was 
so bad lie couldn’t go without seeming to 
suffer. Can you tells us what to do for 
him ? m. M. B. 
New York. 
Possibly the horse is kept in a damp 
stable, and in that ease it will be neces¬ 
sary to give him a roomy box stall with 
well-bedded plank floor, and so lighted that 
the sunlight can enter freely. Give him 
two drams of salol on tongue three times 
daily and reduce dose as he improves. If 
this drug does not prove quickly and mark¬ 
edly beneficial give half ounce doses of sali¬ 
cylate of soda three times daily. If any 
joint is found to lie hot. swollen or pain¬ 
ful, rub it with alcohol night and morning, 
and then cover with coiton batting and 
bandages. a. s. a. 
Garget and Bloody Milk. 
What can he done for a cow which has 
given clotted blood out of one teat for about 
three months? Sometimes we can get some 
milk and sometimes nothing but clots of 
blood. She has been fresh for about five 
months: fed on clover and Timothy hay, 
malt and cob meal and malt sprouts. 
Pennsylvania. h. h. 
If would he best to dry that quarter off 
by rubbing with camphorated oil and fluid 
extract of belladonna leaves.in equal parts. 
Rub this in twice daily after stripping away 
a part of the contents of the affected quar¬ 
ter The quarter is. badly diseased with 
garget, or may even he tuberculous, and in 
any ease we do not believe it likely that it 
will ever resume its normal function of 
milk secretion. In slight cases the presence 
of blood in the milk is a temporary matter, 
and due tc* engorgement of the udder with 
blood during the first period of lactation 
after calving; or it comes from the rupture 
of a small blood vessel and usually sub¬ 
sides in short order. Sponging the udder 
wifli cold water twice daily and mixing a 
dram of dried sulphate of iron in the feed 
night and morning (unless for cows in 
calf) usually suffices to remedy an ordinary 
case of bloody milk. a. s. a. 
REAL AND FAKE 
CREAM 
Separator 
Improvements 
A year ago, in keeping with its policy of ALWAYS 
HOLDING A POSITION FAR IN ADVANCE OF ALL 
ATTEMPTED COMPETITION, the DE LAVAL Company put 
on the market an entire new line of Improved Farm and Dairy 
sizes of cream separators. 
They were brand new in every part, from the supply can 
at the very top to the shape of the base at the very bottom, and 
reflected the result of three years of study, experiment and test 
by the DE LAVAL engineers and experts throughout the 
world, based on thirty years of experience in cream separator 
invention, development and use. 
Every good feature of previous DE LAVAL machines was 
bettered and many new and novel ones added, accomplishing 
greater simplicity of construction, ease of cleaning and replace¬ 
ment yd parts ; less cost of repairs where necessary ; easier hand 
operation; more complete separation under hard conditions ; 
greater capacity, and a material reduction of prices in propor¬ 
tion to capacity. 
A year of practical experience in the actual sale and 
use of 100,000 of the new machines in 1908 but served to 
suggest still greater refinement of manufacture and a few 
finishing touches of perfection in the details of construction 
of the new line of machines as they are now offered to 1909 
buyers. 
The 1908-1909 changes in the I)E LA VAL machines on 
the whole have been SO COMPLETE AND REMARKABLE 
that the man who hasn’t seen and used an Improved 
DE LAVAL really cannot know what the perfect, up-to-date 
cream separator is TODAY. 
The new DE LAVAL machines literally “SWEPT THE 
FIELD” in 1908, and competition was driven to such desperate 
extremity that THIS YEAR most of them have come out with 
all kinds of CLAIMED advertising and catalogue “ improve¬ 
ments.” Nearly everybody has an “IMPROVED” 1909 ma¬ 
chine and is making a PLAY for business on that basis. 
But we make the POSITIVE STATEMENT that there is 
not A SINGLE NEW OR ACTUAL IMPROVEMENT in any 
ot them, and while some features have been llettered it has been 
merely through the appropriation of DE LAVAL ideas from 
TV O TO TV ENTY YEARS OLD, and in most cases long 
since discarded in DE LAVAL construction. 
That's a PLAIN STATEMENT, made in plain words that 
no one can fail to understand. It has the knowledge, exper¬ 
ience, reputation and capital of the DE LAVAL Company 
behind it. Some people won’t heed it; some people won’t 
believe it. That will be their loss. Those who do will profit 
and benefit by it. 
We stand ready to PROVE IT to any one desirous of buy¬ 
ing a separator for the first time or of trading in an old and out- 
of-date machine for a new one. 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO. 
42 E. Madison Strkkt 
CHICAGO 
1213 k 12ir» Fii.bkrt Strkkt 
PHILADELPHIA 
Djium.m A Sacramento Sts. 
_ SAN FRANCISCO. 
General Offices: 
165 Broadway, 
NEW YORK. 
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