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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 27,. 
Hope Farm Notes 
The following letter came from 
Maine just while I had a cow in much 
the same condition: 
Twelve days ago my cow got loose in 
field, ale sour apples and perhaps sweet 
corn. 1 noticed nothing unusual that night 
except that she gave only half the usual 
quantity of milk. The next morning I 
found her lying in stall in a sort of stupor. 
1 was advised 1o leave her alone, which 1 
did until fourth day. All this time she ate 
and drank nothing, and all hough brighter, 
would not try to get on her feet. The 
fourth day 1 called in a local veterinarian. 
He said at first he did not think lie could 
do anything, she had been down so long. 
Her temperature was then 104 degrees. He 
gave her medicine and three swallows of 
water every ten minutes for two or three 
da vs and gruel a few times with medicine 
in it. All this time she was eager for 
water. Her temperature is now nearly 
normal. She will now lap the cooked shorts 
in the water and do it stronger, but will 
not eat anything else, and still refuses to 
try to get on her feet, although she draws 
up and straightens her legs when lying 
down. To-day the veterinarian examined 
her and said he did not think she would 
ever stand on her feet, lie said a cow after 
lying down a few days loses the use of hind 
legs between ankle and hoof through lack 
of circulation, and said that was what he 
had feared first time he came. 
a. o. 
My cow broke out of pasture and 
filled on apples, and then seems to have 
filled again with ear corn. I was away 
at the time and did not see her until 
she was down. I have had such cases 
before. We used to say the cow was 
“drunk,” but this unhappy word stirs 
up such a fierce discussion that I drop 
the name, but hold the same opinion. 
We never had the ear-corn combination 
before. We usually settle such cases 
"with our homeopathic remedies. The 
cow usually recovers after a few days, 
but seldom comes back to her full milk 
flow. After the usual course this cow 
regained the use of about three-quarters 
of her body. Her eyes grew bright, she 
raised her head and began to eat, but 
she had lost control of her hind legs, 
and could not get up. Our local veter¬ 
inarian gave her injections of strychnine 
and purgatives, but she would not and 
could not get on her feet. She struggled 
so that I thought she had thrown one 
leg out of joint, but it proved to be a 
case of paralysis. It took two men to 
bend that leg at the joint so we could 
turn the poor thing over. 
Dr. Alexander says it is quite common 
for cows to go down paralyzed in this 
way. Most cattlemen know what to do 
at first, but when after a week the cow 
will eat and still refuse to get up you 
have a serious case. Dr. Alexander ad¬ 
vised the following singular treatment: 
When a cow otherwise has recovered but 
refuses to get up and apparently cannot 
rise, we often have succeeded iu getting 
her upon her feet by placing her calf at 
her head and then bringing up a dog and 
throwing it upon her back. Instinct teaches 
her to be afraid that the dog will hurt 
tin' calf and fear makes her “Wat,” strug¬ 
gle, get up and sometimes run across a 
60-acre field before remembering to look if 
the calf has been devoured. 1 have had 
this happen in quite a number of cases 
where a cow, having been down for some 
time, had apparently become impressed with 
the idea that she could not rise or walk. 
The dog changed the opinion promptly, and 
this plan always is well worth trying when 
a cow persists in staying down when able 
to eat and chew the cud. a. s. a. 
This would not work in our case be¬ 
cause this cow had no calf and is on 
perfectly friendly terms with the dog. 
We were then advised to give hypoder¬ 
mic injections of strychnine and after 
two days three or four doses of eserine 
as a cathartic and stimulant. In the 
meantime we rigged a sort of harness 
under the cow, hung a tackle on a beam 
over her and pulled her up. My hope 
was that once on her feet in this way 
she might struggle and get her legs 
going. Instead of that she lay like a 
sack of grain in the harness with 
never an ambition even to kick. A horse 
under such conditions would have put 
up a struggle, but a cow seems to have 
no courage or nerve. I used to know 
an old country doctor who said some of 
his patients did not have the courage 
of an old cow. I now understand what 
he meant. 
The poor thing continued to eat and 
drink quite well, but grew weaker. In her 
struggles to get up she grew sore and 
raw, and we finally decided to put her . 
out of her misery. She might have been 
saved, yet she was in such a xondition 
that it seemed cruel to hold her longer. 
The moral of all this is— get at the 
sick animal at once. This is the first 
serious case we have had in five years, 
and this cow could have been saved if 
we had gone right at her. 
The weather is still dry, and this 
gives us a great chance to get our corn 
husked and the ditching done. One of 
our lower fields is now thick as a carpet 
with fine Crimson clover, after giving 
us the heaviest yield of corn we ever 
grew. Yet four years ago this same 
field was a boggy swamp, so sour and so 
wet that we could not get into it for 
work except during the driest seasons. 
We took this as our second experiment 
in real drainage. Ditches were cut so 
as to give a good grade. At the bottom 
of each • ditch we made a good-sized 
“throat” by putting two stones at the 
sides and a flat one across. The ditch 
was then filled with stones up to 18 
inches of the top. These drains have 
been running freely ever since, and thev 
have changed the character of that field. 
The crops show that several small spots 
still need drainage and we shall attend 
to them. When this is done we can, if 
we wish, plant strawberries in that field 
with a fair chance of picking 8,000 
quarts or more of Marshalls per acre. 
At 15 cents a quart that means a pretty 
good acre! Are such things possible? 
Entirely so, but you must know how to 
do it and have just the right kind of 
soil. Our strawberry business has 
taught me to hunt for the proper soil 
and to handle it after we find it. It hap¬ 
pens that our best strawberry land is to 
begin with too wet and sour to grow 
anything but the meanest kind of weeds 
and grass. When this soil is drained 
and opened it becomes ideal berry so 1. 
The very fact that it has been standing 
soggy and barren is an advantage 
after it is made fit. All this has con¬ 
vinced me of the great value of drain¬ 
age. The theory of it is all right, but it 
cannot comrince a farmer as this field of 
mine would. The change in a few years 
from a worthless bog to a field capable 
of producing $1,000 per acre is an eye 
opener to anyone. At this moment I 
can hardly think of a farm that does 
not contain some land that would be im¬ 
proved by drainage. After the crops are 
out and the Fall work done a farmer 
can find no more profitable work than 
ditching. Let him use judgment and 
begin on the worst fields and he will 
find his work with the spade the most 
profitable he can do. 
During the past month I have b_en 
talking with two men of about the same 
age—I should judge 65 years. One of 
them has done nothing for nearly half a 
century but write figures in a book. lie 
has lived in town, never had a garden or 
kept a hen, and could hardly drive a 
nail straight. Now he is out of a job. 
A young woman can make neater fig¬ 
ures than he ever could at a quarter his 
price and a machine can add them with 
greater accuracy. He cannot find work. 
As he puts it: “My brain never was 
clearer than now, my experience never 
was worth more, and my habits never 
were steadier, yet people look at my 
gray hair and shake their heads!” This 
man has saved nothing, for it cost all 
he could earn to raise his family in 
town. Not one of his children has a 
trade or profession, or owns a home or 
piece of land! A hard outlook that! 
The other man some 30 years ago was 
induced to put his little property into 
a mortgage on a farm. He had saved a 
little and had received a small, legacy. 
Through failure and death this, farm 
was given up, and to save his invest¬ 
ment our friend foreclosed the mort¬ 
gage and got the farm. No one else 
would take it. It looked like dead capi¬ 
tal. There was little income from it, and 
no chance to sell. Our friend finally 
lost his job, and gray hair and failing 
sight barred him from another. As <i 
last, desperate move he thought of that 
old farm in which his savings were 
sunk, and with what was left of his 
family they moved to it. There was a 
hard struggle, but to-day this man is 
happy and independent. He has better 
food, more comfortable shelter, greater 
contentment and peace and far more 
net money than he ever had before. 
His home is secure, he has a good busi¬ 
ness of his own, and his property is 
growing in value. Best of all is the sat¬ 
isfaction of knowing that his own labor 
is responsible for it. I believe the time 
is coming when the man who cannot 
leave a piece of land to those who fol¬ 
low him will be regarded as unfortu¬ 
nate. I have seen so many men of mid¬ 
dle age who have nothing but a most 
precarious “job” , that the first advice I 
would give a young man would to be to 
get a piece of waste land somewhere and 
try to improve it within his means. 
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