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DR. DAVID ROBERTS, Wisconsin State Veterinarian, 1906-7-8 
Are You Losing Calves? 
If so, You Should Lose no Time in Stopping Loss. 
recovered from the disease and in every way the treat¬ 
ment has proved to be a success. 
Yours very truly, O. ERF (Signed) 
INCOME FROM A DAIRY. 
The following shows the net receipts 
for my milk for one year from Oc¬ 
tober 1, 1907, to September 30, 1908, 
both days included. The first six 
months the milk was sold at the cream¬ 
ery, and the last six months taken to 
a co-operative cheese factory, made 
into cheese, the cheese sold, and the 
money received divided among the fac¬ 
tory patrons according to the amount 
of milk delivered by each patron. 
1907. Lbs. Milk. 
October . 9,777 $154.95 
November . 5,681 95.49 
December . 3,009 47.24 
1908. 
January . 2,100 29.82 
February . 1,417 18.71 
March . 5,924 69.31 
Average for six months, $1.49 per 
100 pounds, or quite a little less than 
three cents per quart. For the six 
months the milk went to the cheese 
factory the account is as follows: 
April, 1908 8.474 73.2b 
May .12,213 114.80 
June .16.897 163.93 
July .14,986 153.64 
August .10,928 113.98 
September . 8,018 89.91 
It requires 10 pounds of milk to 
make one pound of cheese; therefore 
for the six months the average net 
price received for cheese was 9.92 
cents per pound, or 99.2 cents for 
each 100 pounds of milk. The 
above will answer two questions you 
have asked in late numbers of your 
paper; what part the producer receives, 
and also the amount required to get 
cheese from the producer of the milk 
to the consumer of the cheese. 
Cooperstown, N. Y. e. e. b. 
NOTES BY J. J. H. GREGORY. 
Cornstalks and Horses.— A number 
of years ago all through the Winter 
season I fed my farm horses, eight in 
number, on cornstalks in place of hay. 
It was a variety of flint corn, the 
Longfellow. I had them cut into two 
or three-inch lengths by one of the 
hand cutters common at that day, be¬ 
fore silo time had dawned. The quantity 
fed (of course with grains) was about 
11 pounds to each animal per day. The 
horses, by general assent, came through 
the Winter as well as though fed on 
good English hay, and if my memory 
serves me, there was no complaint of 
sore mouth. I have the impression 
that the stalks were stooked in the open 
field till quite late in the season. The 
smaller varieties of sweet corn, such as 
original Crosby, can be readily cured, 
but the yield is so small that it will not 
pay to handle them. Raising from 
15 to 20 acres of the variety I have at 
times sold the stalks in the field for 
a small sum, but the purchasers did 
not repeat their purchase. It would 
pay the man who raised it to save it for 
his own stock if cut as soon as the ears 
were gathered. 
Raising Crops on Muck Land.—I 
have had considerable experience in this. 
I once took a journey of over 200 
miles to the great reclaimed muck mea¬ 
dows of Orange Co., N. Y., where 
about 500 acres of onions were grown. 
I learned that about a hundred large 
loads of gravelly soil were spread over 
each acre, and worked in so as to keep 
it near the surface, and the water 
was kept about two feet below the sur¬ 
face, for if lower than that the crops 
were likely to suffer from drought. 
Beyond that the treatment was like up¬ 
land. In my own practice I have used 
less nitrogen than on upland, relying 
on more or less of the latent nitrogen 
becoming available. To promote this 
end I fed potash in the form of un¬ 
leached wood ashes to gain the advan¬ 
tage for its caustic quality when in that 
form. If the nitrogen was in reach the 
crop would grow rank and spongy; 
would be of inferior quality and keep 
badly. An enormous crop of red 
onions raised by a neighbor, full 1,100 
bushels to the acre, on a meadow that 
had not been gravelled, rotted so badly 
that they were ultimately almost a total 
loss. In my early experience an acre 
of Hubbard squash on meadow land 
which I heavily manured with night 
soil, yielded a great crop of fine looking 
squashes, but alas for their keeping 
quality! If meadow land suffered at 
all from drought carrots became badly 
Spongy. J. J. H. GREGORY. 
Marblehead, Mass. 
Pea Hay for Horses. 
What value has pea-vine hay compared 
to Timothy hay? Is it considered a safe 
feed for horses? I purchased about three 
tons to feed cows and to bed the horses. 
One horse ate part of her bedding, and 
was taken violently sick with indigestion, 
and I very nearly lost her. We felt sure 
it was from eating the pea hay, as she 
had never been sick before. I would like 
to know what others think about it. 
Hamburg, N. Y. J. E. D. 
YVe consider well-cured pea vines 
worth nearly 20 per cent more than 
Timothy hay, and have fed them to all 
our stock. They do not cure readily, 
and sometimes they are sour or 
mouldy. In that condition they would 
be likely to give some horses colic. 
We have two horses that can apparently 
eat anything short of poison without 
injury, while the others are more or 
less affected by sour fodder. The 
cows are not troubled by it. We 
I 
think the pea hay is sour. 
That Arch Frame Barn. 
J. R. D.j No Address .—How does C. C. E., 
page 864, prevent the arches of his barn 
from springing out? Can a track for hay 
fork be put in such a barn? IIow high is 
the barn? 
Ans. —When an arch is made it needs 
nothing to keep it from springing out. 
It is perfectly safe to fasten hay track 
to the arches. I have both track and 
slings in my barn. A beef could be 
hung to each arch and not affect them 
in the least. The barn is 30 feet high 
above the walls, which in this case are 
four feet. _ c. c. e. 
“Did you tip the waiter?” “Yes, so 
to speak. I turned him down.”—Har¬ 
vard Lampoon. 
“Tain' no use <?' getting mad at a 
man foh bein’ foolish,” said Uncle 
Eben. “He’s gwinter hab trouble 
enough ’thout your botherin’ to give 
him any.”—Washington Star. 
Contagious Abortion can be wiped out of 
your herd with the Dr. Roberts’ Anti-Abor¬ 
tion Treatment. It has never failed, and 
last year alone over 1000 herds comprising 
more than 23,000 head were treated. 
Here is one case among thousands where 
the loss was stopped. 
Lost 1000 Calves in One Year 
De Motte. Indiana. 
Replying to your letter of the ltth, regarding the 
abortion in our cows, and os to the benefits derived 
from your treatment, will say 1 have watched these cows 
very carefully and notice their condition is much im¬ 
proved from last year. Last year, we lost nearly 1000 
calves and some of the cows, while wo have been very 
suecessfulin saving our calves this year, and our cows 
are in much better condition than they were a year ago, 
and we believe that Is due to Dr. David Roberts’ Abor- 
tion treatment. 1 have great confidence and am well 
assured, with Dr. David Roberts’Abortion Treatment 
(bytheuse of the Serum and washing out the genital 
organs) that Abortion can bo entirely cleaned out 
of any herd. NORTHERN INDIANA LAN D CO. 
By C. D. Shook, Supt. 
Wiped out the Disease from 17 Herds 
The following letter from Prof. O. Erf of 
the dairying department of Ohio State Univer¬ 
sity confirms the testimony of private owners. 
Our Guarantee to You 
Where the Dr. Roberts Anti-Abortion treatment 
fails to wipe out the disease of Contagious Abor¬ 
tion we will return the entire cost of the treat¬ 
ment. Or, we will purchase for cash any herd 
from which Dr. Roberts’ Anti-Abortion Treat¬ 
ment fails to wipe the disease. 
Do not wait till you are sure you have 
contagious abortion in your herd. 
MAKE SURE THAT YOUR COWS ARE 
FREE FROM ABORTION NOW 
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Herd Bulls of Northern Indiana Land Co. Dr. Roberts’ treatment stamped out 
Contagious Abortion from this Herd. 
